Neuroscience Seminars
Seminar Format | 2010/11 Seminar Schedule | Past SeminarsSeminar Format
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 4.00pm in Lecture Theatre B of the Chancellors building - unless otherwise specified. Map and directions can be found on our Contact Us page.
The 2010/2011 series is listed below.
2010/11 Seminar Schedule
23 August 2010
Prof. Daniel Schümperli, Institut für Zellbiologie, Switzerland
SEMINAR ROOM 1, Chancellors Building, 4pm
"Spinal Muscular Atrophy: U7 snRNA-based correction of SMN2 splicing and investigations into the pathogenic mechanism"
Host: Prof. Tom Gillingwater
27 September 2010
SEMINAR ROOM 7, Chancellors Building, 11.30am
Professor Chris Shaw, King's College London
"Gene hunting in ALS: you wait 15 years and two come along at once!"
Host:Prof. Siddharthan Chandran
15 October 2010
Special Friday Seminar - Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors, 4pm
Professor William Talbot, Stanford University
"Glial development and myelination in zebrafish"
Host:Dr. David Lyons
20 October 2010
Centre for Regenerative Medicine Special Seminar
Roger Land Building Seminar Room, Kings Buildings at 1500 (new time)
Dr. Marius Wernig , Stanford University School of Medicine
"Direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons by defined factors"
Host:Prof. Sir Ian Wilmut
25 October 2010
Professor Michael Brand, Biotechnology Centre TU Dresden
"Multiple CNS progenitor cell types during homeostasis and regeneration of the adult zebrafish brain"
Host:Dr. Catherina Becker
08 November 2010
Professor Michael Sendtner, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, Wurzburg
"Axonal mRNA Transport: Role in Motor Neuron Function and Degeneration"
22 November 2010
Dr. Colm Cunningham , Trinity College Dublin
"Good cop, bad cop: microglia in chronic neurodegeneration and delirium"
Host: Dr. Joyce Yau
06 December 2010
Professor Mikael Simons, University of Gottingen
"Title To Be Confirmed"
Host:Prof. Charles ffrench Constant
16 December 2010
Special Thursday Seminar - Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors, 4pm
Professor Bruce Carter, Vanderbilt University
"Title To Be Confirmed"
10 January 2011
Dr. Juan Burrone, King's College London
"Title To Be Confirmed"
Host:Prof. Peter Brophy
24 January 2011
Dr. Dies Meijer, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
"Title To Be Confirmed"
Host:Prof. Peter Brophy
07 February 2011
Dr. Anthony Isles, Cardiff University
"Role of the snoRNA snord115 in regulating serotonin 2C receptor function by post-transcriptional modification: behavioural and molecular analyses"
Host:Prof. Megan Holmes
07 March 2011
Dr. Nicholas Tricaud, Institute of Cell Biology, Zurich
"Title To Be Confirmed"
Host:Dr. David Lyons
23 May 2011
Prof. Alison Lloyd , University College London
"Title To Be Confirmed"
Host:Prof. Charles ffrench Constant and Dr. Marie Harrisingh
**** Further dates and speakers to be confirmed soon ****
Contact Denise Cranley with any queries
Past Seminars
14 September 2009
David Atwell, UCL
"Brain Power: How the brain's energy supply determines it's function"
Host:Dr. David Lyons
28 September 2009
Prof. Siddharthan Chandran, Prof. Anura Rambukkana, Dr. Liliana Minichiello,
Dr. David Lyons, University of Edinburgh
"Introduction to research programmes"
Host:Dr. Tom Gillingwater
12 October 2009
Michael Coleman, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge
"From fusion to fission: WldS protein and the trigger for Wallerian degeneration "
26 October 2009
João Relvas, Universidade do Porto
"Key roles for the IPP complex of proteins in myelination"
This seminar is co-funded by Edinburgh Neuroscience BNA
Host:Prof. Peter Brophy
9 November 2009
Rudolf Martini, Wuerzburg University
"Neuroinflammatory components in myelin mutants"
This seminar is co-funded by Edinburgh Neuroscience BNA
Host:Prof. Peter Brophy
23 November 2009
Bénédicte Dargent, Institut Jean Roche,
Université de la Méditerranée
""Organizing ion channels at the axonal initial segment""
Host:Prof. Peter Brophy
14 January 2010
Judith Grinspan, University of Pennsylvania
"Dorsal signaling factors regulate oligodendrocyte maturation during development and disease"
Note: This seminar will take place on Thursday 14 January in Seminar Room 2 of Chancellors Building, Little France Crescent
Host:Prof. Peter Brophy
18 January 2010
Philip Young, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
"Molecular Analysis of the Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) neuronal complex: is Spinal Muscular Atrophy caused by a break down in neurite transport?
1 February 2010
Gonzalo Blanco, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit
"Molecular pathogenesis of three neuromuscular disorders in the mouse: ky,
ariel and ostes"
1 March 2010
Kevin Talbot, Clinicial Neurology, Oxford University
"The role of splicing dysregulation in the pathogenesis of motor neuron degeneration"
22 March 2010
John Hardy, Institute of Neurology, UCL
"Genetic analysis of neurodegeneration"
29 March 2010
19 April 2010
Don Mahad, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
"Mitochondrial defects in oligodendrocyte lineage cells and implications for multiple sclerosis"