Neuroscience Seminar Schedule 2010/11

The Centre for Neuroregeneration presents a fortnightly seminar series which is co-sponsored by the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease research and the Centre for Multiple Sclerosis research in Edinburgh.

These seminars offer a wide range of internal and external speakers, from postgraduate students to internationally-renowned scientists.

Seminars take place on Monday afternoons at 4.00pm in Lecture Theatre B of the Chancellors building - unless otherwise specified.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy: U7 snRNA-based correction of SMN2 splicing and investigations into the pathogenic mechanism

 

Monday 23 August 2010, 3.00pm

Monday 23 August 2010, 4.00pm

Seminar Room 1, Chancellor's building

Email host: Prof. Tom Gillingwater

Gene hunting in ALS: you wait 15 years and two come along at once!

Speaker: Professor Chris Shaw, King's College London

Monday 27 September 2010, 3.00pm

Monday 27 September 2010, 4.00pm

Seminar Room 7, Chancellor's building

Email host: Prof. Siddharthan Chandran

Glial development and myelination in zebrafish

SPECIAL FRIDAY SEMINAR. Speaker: Professor William Talbot, Stanford University

Friday 15 October 2010, 3.00pm

Friday 15 October 2010, 4.00pm

Email host: Dr. David Lyons

Multiple CNS progenitor cell types during homeostasis and regeneration of the adult zebrafish brain

Speaker: Professor Michael Brand, Biotechnology Centre TU Dresden

Monday 25 October 2010, 3.00pm

Monday 25 October 2010, 4.00pm

Email host: Dr. Catherina Becker

Axonal mRNA Transport: Role in Motor Neuron Function and Degeneration

Speaker: Professor Michael Sendtner, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, Wurzburg

Monday 8 November 2010, 4.00pm

Monday 8 November 2010, 5.00pm

Email host: Prof. Tom Gillingwater

Good cop, bad cop: microglia in chronic neurodegeneration and delirium

Speaker: Dr. Colm Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin

Monday 22 November 2010, 4.00pm

Monday 22 November 2010, 5.00pm

Email host: Dr. Joyce Yau

Mechanisms of myelin-membrane sheet biogenesis

Speaker: Professor Mikael Simons, University of Gottingen

Monday 6 December 2010, 4.00pm

Monday 6 December 2010, 5.00pm

Email host: Prof. Charles ffrench Constant

Glial precursors in the developing PNS: Mechanisms of their differentiation and their odd eating habits

SPECIAL THURSDAY SEMINAR. Speaker: Professor Bruce Carter, Vanderbilt University

Thursday 16 December 2010, 4.00pm

Thursday 16 December 2010, 5.00pm

Email host: Dr. Liliana Minichiello

Homeostatic plasticity: from synapses to the axon initial segment

Speaker: Dr. Juan Burrone, King's College London

Monday 10 January 2011, 4.00pm

Monday 10 January 2011, 5.00pm

Email host: Prof. Peter Brophy

Claw Paw meets the Adams family: control of peripheral nerve development

Speaker: Dr. Dies Meijer, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Monday 24 January 2011, 4.00pm

Monday 24 January 2011, 5.00pm

Email host: Prof. Peter Brophy

Role of the snoRNA snord115 in regulating serotonin 2C receptor function by post-transcriptional modification: behavioural and molecular analyses

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Isles, Cardiff University

Monday 7 February 2011, 4.00pm

Monday 7 February 2011, 5.00pm

Email host: Prof. Megan Holmes

Balancing self-renewal and differentiation during nervous system development

Speaker: Prof. Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge

Monday 21 February 2011, 4.00pm

Monday 21 February 2011, 5.00pm

Email host: Prof. Charles ffrench-Constant

Schwann cell polarization during myelination: molecular basis and relevance

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Tricaud, Institute of Cell Biology, Zurich

Monday 7 March 2011, 4.00pm

Monday 7 March 2011, 5.00pm

Email host: Dr. David Lyons

White matter changes in myelin disease: lessons from genetic mouse models

Speaker: Dr. Julia Edgar, University of Glasgow

Monday 21 March 2011, 4.00pm

Monday 21 March 2011, 5.00pm

Email host: Prof. Tom Gillingwater

Regeneration of the peripheral nervous system - links to tumourigenesis

Speaker: Prof. Alison Lloyd, University College London

Monday 23 May 2011, 3.00pm

Monday 23 May 2011, 4.00pm

Email host: Prof. Charles ffrench Constant

Spinal muscular atrophy: from gene and modifiers to therapy

Speaker: Prof. Brunhilde Wirth, Institute of Human Genetics, Cologne

Monday 6 June 2011, 3.00pm

Monday 6 June 2011, 4.00pm

Email host: Prof. Tom Gillingwater

**** Further dates and speakers to be confirmed soon ****

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