CNR 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 1pm in either a Lecture Theatre in the Chancellors building or the Wellcome auditorium at the Queens Medical Research Institute (QMRI), both situated at Little France Crescent . Synaptic organisation of neural circuits for encoding location Speaker: Dr Matthew Nolan, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh Monday 13 May 2013, 1.00pm Monday 13 May 2013, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Modelling and Gene-Based Therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases - CANCELLED Speaker: Prof. Mimoun Azzouz, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Monday 6 May 2013, 1.00pm Monday 6 May 2013, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Living a life of Stress: Consequences on affective and cognitive behaviours Speaker: Prof. Megan Holmes, University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Edinburgh. Monday 29 April 2013, 1.00pm Monday 29 April 2013, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Seeing what the brain sees: functional imaging in the zebrafish visual system Speaker: Dr Martin Meyer, King's College London. Monday 15 April 2013, 1.00pm Monday 15 April 2013, 2.00pm Seminar Room 2, Chancellors Building A novel partner for GluN2A containing NMDA receptors, RNF10: a spine to nucleus signal Speaker: Prof. Monica Di Luca, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan. Monday 25 March 2013, 2.00pm Monday 25 March 2013, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Optogenetic dissection of spinal circuits Speaker: Dr Andrew Jackson, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Monday 11 March 2013, 2.00pm Monday 11 March 2013, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building The Na pump as an activity-dependent memory device embedded in spinal motor networks Speaker: Prof. Keith Sillar, Professor of Neuroscience, University of St Andrews. Monday 25 February 2013, 2.00pm Monday 25 February 2013, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Development and function of Brain commissures Speaker: Dr. Alain Chedotal, Institute of Vision, Paris. Monday 11 February 2013, 2.00pm Monday 11 February 2013, 3.00pm Seminar Room 2, Chancellors Building A murine myelin reporter system reveals dynamic refinement of sheath length following spinal cord injury Speaker: Dr. Phil Horner, Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington Monday 28 January 2013, 2.00pm Monday 28 January 2013, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Frontotemporal Dementia: from fibs to FUS Speaker: Prof. John Hodges, Professor of Cognitive Neurology, University of New South Wales Monday 14 January 2013, 2.00pm Monday 14 January 2013, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Origin, properties and homeostasis of adult neural stem cells in the adult zebrafish telencephalon Speaker: Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif Monday 17 December 2012, 2.00pm Monday 17 December 2012, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Glia, axons and injury Speaker: Prof. Robert Fern Monday 3 December 2012, 2.00pm Monday 3 December 2012, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Gene-environment interactions and experience-dependent plasticity in mouse models of brain disorders Speaker: Dr Anthony Hannan Monday 12 November 2012, 2.00pm Monday 12 November 2012, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Inherited neuropathies: from molecular biology to therapy Speaker: Dr. Angelo Schenone, University of Genoa Monday 5 November 2012, 2.00pm Monday 5 November 2012, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Genetic considerations for clinical application of human iPS cells Speaker: Dr Kosuke Yusa, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge Tuesday 30 October 2012, 2.00pm Tuesday 30 October 2012, 3.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Mechanism of protein secretion: conventional and unconventional Speaker: Prof. Vivek Malhotra, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Monday 22 October 2012, 1.00pm Monday 22 October 2012, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Optogenetic dissection of spinal circuits Speaker: Dr. Claire Wyart, Brain & Spine Institute (ICM), Paris Monday 24 September 2012, 1.00pm Monday 24 September 2012, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building Synapse Molecular Diversity: Why It Matters and How to Measure It Speaker: Prof. Stephen Smith, Stanford University Monday 17 September 2012, 1.00pm Monday 17 September 2012, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre A, Chancellors Building **** Further dates and speakers to be confirmed soon **** For more information about the seminar series and directions, please use the following links: Centre for Neuroregeneration - Neuroscience Seminars Centre for Neuroregentation - Contacts Map of the Little France Campus Directions to the Chancellor's Building Publication date 18 Jun, 2015
