MRC/AMED UK-Japan Neuroscience Symposium 2020

We are delighted to announce that the third “UK-Japan Neuroscience Symposium” will be held in Edinburgh at the John McIntyre Conference Centre on 3-5 February 2020. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). 

Building on the success of the London 2018 and Chiba 2019 meetings of the two Neuroscience communities, the Edinburgh 2020 meeting aims to further establish collaborative links and exchange of ideas between our two countries. The Symposium will comprise two days of talks (20 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion each) and poster sessions from UK and Japanese Neuroscience scientists. We will cover a wide range of topics including “Advanced imaging methods for understanding brain function”, “Strategies and synaptopathy of neurodegenerative conditions”, and “Synapse and circuit development in relation to neuropsychiatric conditions”.

Confirmed speakers:

Richard Morris (University of Edinburgh) - Title to be confirmed  

Takaomi Saido (RIKEN Centre for Brain Sciences) - “Modeling Alzheimer’s disease: from mice to non-human primates”  

Anne Bertolotti (University of Cambridge) - Title to be confirmed  

Koji Yamanaka (Nagoya University) - “Molecular pathomechanism of motor neuron disease”  

Marc Aurel Busche (University College London) - “What happens to neural circuits in Alzheimer’s Disease?”  

Soyong Song (University College London) - “Microglia, the synaptic scavengers”  

Adrian Bird (University of Edinburgh) - “DNA methylation and the origin of Rett Syndrome”  

Yasunori Hayashi (Kyoto University) - “A novel role of CaMKII in synaptic plasticity”  

Juan Burrone (King’s College London) - “Plasticity of axo-axonic synapse at the axon initial segment”  

Yukiko Gotoh (Tokyo University) - “Regulation of neural progenitor cell fate during development”  

Aleks Domanski (University of Bristol) - “From cortical circuits to simulated touch: Exploring strategies to overcome distorted sensory processing in Autism”  

Rie Kimura (National Institute for Physiological Sciences) - “Activity of low contrast-preferring neurons in rat primary visual cortex during an orientation discrimination task”  

Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir (University of Cambridge) - Title to be confirmed  

Aya Ishida (Keio University) - “Regulation of neuronal heterochromatin structure by MeCP2”  

Thomas Chater (RIKEN Centre for Brain Sciences) - “Heterosynaptic spine structural plasticity across dendritic branches”  

Hideji Murakoshi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences) - “Optogenetic manipulation and imaging of signaling molecules in dendritic spines of neurons”  

Tom Mrsic Flogel (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre) - Title to be confirmed  

Keisuke Ohta (RIKEN Centre for Brain Sciences) - “In vivo calcium imaging with a single-cell resolution using "COSMOSCOPE", a new wide-field two-photon microscope”  

Mick Hastings (University of Cambridge) - “Dissecting circadian pacemaking in the suprachiasmatic nucleus using translational switching of clock proteins”  

Kenichi Ohki (Tokyo University) - Title to be confirmed

Registration will be shortly available via our Eventbrite site.

Registration costs £10, with the option of attending the conference social (hog roast at the Rowantree) on Monday 3 February for a further £10.