Programme Over 300 neuroscientists from students to professors, from basic researchers to clinicians and psychologists 08.30 Arrival and registrationSession 1Chaired by: Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Director, Edinburgh Neuroscience09.00 Welcome, Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Director, Edinburgh Neuroscience and Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences09.10 The ECAS: Measuring cognition and behaviour in Motor Neurone Disease, Prof Sharon Abrahams, Psychology09.35 The ins and outs of glucocorticoid action, Prof Brian Walker, Centre for Cardiovascular Science10.00 Synaptic dysfunction and neurodevelopmental disorders, Prof David Wyllie, Centre for Integrative Physiology10.25 Coffee/tea and posters Over 60 posters each year - from development to old age! Session 2Chaired by: Professor Jean Manson, The Roslin Institute11.00 Fellows Session Cognitive control in children: Making sense of the environment to behave adaptively, Dr Nicholas Chevalier, Chancellor's Fellow, Psychology Prions: Bench towards Bedside, Dr Abi Diack, Tenure-Track Fellow, The Roslin Institute “Self-Eating” in the survival and treatment of brain tumours, Dr Noor Gammoh, Chancellor's Fellow, Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre Computational model-based analysis of learning and memory: stress, genes and prediction, Dr Gedi Luksys, Edinburhg-Zhejiang Fellow, Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems12.15 Regional heterogeneity in the ageing synaptic proteome, Dr Tom Wishart, The Roslin Institute12.40 Lunch and posters13.00 and 13.30 - Demonstration by University of Edinburgh Research Data Services of DataShare, the university open access repository, for storing data. At their stand in the concourse area. Our 2016 PhD student 3 minute talk winners - Katie Marwick and Angela de Bruin Session 3Chaired by: Professor Cathie Sudlow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences14.00 PhD Student 3 Minute talks Ubiquitin pathways link spinal muscular atrophy and Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, Hanah Shorrock, Centre for Integrative Physiology What causes Parkinson's Disease - a Systems Biological View, Katharina Heil, Informatics Cognitive performance in Major Depressive Disorder: combining multiple datatypes, Joeri Meijsen, Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine Chondrolectin in Motor Axon Development and Motor Neuron Disease Screening in Zebrafish, Hannah Smith, Centre for Neuroregeneration Maternal Care in the domestic chicken is associated with increased mesotocin in the hypothalamus, Yana Aleksandrova, The Roslin Institute14.30 Bilingualism, music and cognitive reserve: magic or logic?, Dr Thomas Bak, Psychology14.55 Lets take a closer look at immune cells in the brain, Prof Joseph Priller, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences15.20 Coffee/tea and posters A fantastic opportunity to meet colleagues, make new friends, and start new collaborations Session 4Chaired by: Professor Joanna Wardlaw, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences15.50 Announcement of the Poster and 3 minute talk competition winners16.00 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience 2017The Nightlife of the Brain, Professor Maiken Nedergaard, Co-Director, Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, and Head of Centre for Basic and Translational Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen17.00 Close of meeting19.00 Speakers dinner at The Old Bell (hosted by the Honours Neuroscience students) This article was published on 2024-12-17
