Seminar Series

LUNCHTIME Seminars

Lent term 2013

usually take place on alternate Wednesdays between 12.00 and 13.00 in the BRC Library

Jan 30  Professor Jo Poulton, Nuffield Dept Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oxford

A role for mitophagy in neurodegeneration caused by mitochondrial diseases?

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Feb 20 Prof Giovanna Mallucci, MRC Toxicology Unit University of Leicester

Preventing neurodegeneration through control of proteostasis

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Feb 27  Dr Susan Jones, PDN, Cambridge

Assessing glutamatergic dysfunction and its potential relevance to neurological disorders

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Mar 13 Dr Alessandro Priogione, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

Metabolic reprogramming in iPS cells and neuronal derivatives

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April 10  Prof Vilma Borutaite, Institute for Biomedical Research Kaunas, University of Medicine Lithuania

Provisional: Studies on Abeta(1-42) toxicity

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April 24 Dr Lisa Saksida, Dept Psychology, Cambridge

Provisional: Behavioural paradigms in neurodegeneration

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May 8 Prof Erich Wanker, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

Provisional: Neurodegenerative protein misfolding modifiers

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May 28 Dr Takao Hensch, Center for Brain Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Provisional: CNS plasticity

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June 19  Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh

title: tba.

12-1 pm in the BRC Library