Neuroscience Seminars
Seminar Format | 2011/12 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 3.45pm in either Lecture Theatre B of the Chancellors building or the Wellcome auditorium at the Queens Medical Research Institute (QMRI), both situated at Little France Crescent (day, venue, time occasionally vary - check each seminar for details) . Map and directions can be found on our Contact Us page.
The 2011/2012 series is listed below.
**** Further dates and speakers to be confirmed **** - contact Ann Ross with any queries2011/12 Seminar Schedule
Neuromodulation of spinal motor networks: beyond putting the best foot forward
Dr. Gareth Miles, University of St Andrews
19th September 2011, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Richard Ribchester
Organization and recruitment of microcircuits for locomotion in zebrafish
Prof. Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institut, Sweden
17th October 2011, Wellcome Auditorium, Queens Medical Research Institute, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. Catherina Becker
c-Jun reprogrammes Schwann cells of injured nerves to generate a repair cell essential for nerve regeneration
Prof. Kristjan R Jessen, University College London Neuroscience
31st October 2011 Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. David Lyons
A novel epigenetic mechanism in developing neurons
Dr. Antonella Riccio, University College London
28 November 2011, Lecture Theatre A, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm - **CANCELLED**
Host: Dr. Liliana Minichiello
Neuregulin and secretases in myelination: an “old story” with new flavors.
Dr. Carla Taveggia, Vita Salute San Raffaele University
12 December 2011, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Charles ffrench Constant
Consequences of mitochondrial amyloid in Alzheimer's Disease.
Prof. Frank Gunn-Moore, University of St Andrews
09 January 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. David Lyons
**CANCELLED - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED**
Dr. Claire Wyart, Brain & Spine Institute (ICM), Paris
23 January 2012, Wellcome Auditorium, Queens Medical Research Institute, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. David Lyons
The value of neuroimaging in ALS
Dr. Martin Turner, University of Oxford
6th February 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. Sharon Abrahams
Signal failure: Molecular mechanisms underlying motor neuropathy
Dr. Zameel Cader, University of Oxford
20th February 2012, Wellcome Auditorium, Queens Medical Research Institute, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Tom Gillingwater
**CANCELLED - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED**
Prof. Vivek Malhotra, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona
05 March 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Peter Brophy
**CANCELLED - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED**
Dr. Angelo Schenone, University of Genoa
19 March 2012, Wellcome Auditorium, Queens Medical Research Institute, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Peter Brophy
Oligodendroglial support of axon function and survival
Prof. Klaus-Armin Nave, Max Planck Institute, Gottingen
26th March 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Peter Brophy
AAV gene therapy strategies for Motor Neuron Diseases
Dr. Martine Barkats, Institut de Myologie, Paris
02 April 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. Simon Parson
Axon branch dynmaics during neuronal remodelling
Prof. Thomas Misgeld, Institute of Neuroscience, Munich
09 April 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Peter Brophy
The neuronal K-Cl transporter KCC2 at cortical excitatory synapses: Why and How?
Dr. Jean Christophe Poncer, Institut du Fer a Moulin (IFM), Paris
16 April 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Prof. Peter Brophy
Genetic analysis of myelination in zebrafish and mice
Dr. Kelly Monk, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
27 April 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 12.30pm
Host: Dr. David Lyons
Long term consequences of vascular injury and delayed dementia in elderly stroke survivors
Prof. Raj Kalaria, Newcastle University
30 April 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building,1.00pm
Host: Dr. Karen Horsburgh
Neural stem and progenitor cells and the evolution of the cerebral cortex
Prof. Wieland B. Huttner, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
14 May 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. Catherina Becker
Role of Lgi proteins in peripheral nervous system myelination and axonal polarization
Dr. Dies Meijer, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam
Friday 18 May 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 2.30pm
Host: Prof. Peter Brophy
Insulation and inflammation: genetic analysis of myelin and microglia in zebrafish
Prof. William Talbot, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
21st May 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 12.30pm
Host: Dr. David Lyons
Title To Be Confirmed
Prof. James Nicoll, Southampton University
11 June 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. Karen Horsburgh
A novel epigenetic mechanism in developing neurons
Dr. Antonella Riccio, University College London
25 June 2012, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, 3.45pm
Host: Dr. Liliana Minichiello
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 "
Host: Prof. Richard Ribchester
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"
Host: Prof. Siddharthan Chandran
27 September 2010
Prof. Chris Shaw, Kings College London
"Gene hunting in ALS: you wait 15 years and two come along at once!"
Host: Prof. Siddharthan Chandran
15 October 2010
Prof. William Talbot, Stanford University
"Glial development and myelination in zebrafish"
Host: Dr. David Lyons
16 December 2010
Prof. Bruce Carter, Vanderbilt University
"Glial precursors in the developing PNS: Mechanisms of their differentiation and their odd eating habits"
Host: Dr. Liliana Minichiello
21 February 2011
Prof. Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
"Balancing self-renewal and differentiation during nervous system development"
Host: Prof. Charles ffrench Constant
23 May 2011
Prof. Alison Lloyd, University College London
"Regeneration of the peripheral nervous system- links to tumourigenesis"
Host: Prof. Charles ffrench Constant and Dr. Marie Harrisingh