Programme Over 300 neuroscientists from students to professors, from basic researchers to clinicans and psychologists Click here to return to the main meeting page08.30 Arrival and RegistrationSession 1Chaired by: Professor Siddharthan Chandran, Director, Edinburgh Neuroscience09.00 Welcome, Professor Siddharthan Chandran, Director, Edinburgh Neuroscience and Director, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences09.05 The genetics of depression, Professor Andrew McIntosh, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences09.30 Vision in action: contextual signals in visual cortex , Dr Nathalie Rochefort, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences09.55 Using zebrafish to study myelinated axons in vivo, Professor David Lyons, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences10.20 Coffee & Posters Poster presentations from across the life course Session 2Chaired by: Professor Tara Spires-Jones, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences10.50 Fellows SessionNeural circuits for long-term memory storage, Dr Gülşen Sürmeli, Wellcome Trust Sir Henry-Dale Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain SciencesFacilitating memory persistence in young, ageing and dementia, Dr Szu-Han Wang, Alzheimer's Research UK Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain SciencesDeveloping new clinical decision support tools for frequent longitudinal monitoring of chronic disorders: applications in Parkinson’s disease and mental disorders, Dr Thanasis Tsanas, Chancellor’s Fellow, Usher InstituteSeeking to increase the experimental validity and utility of preclinical stroke research, Dr Emily Sena, Stroke Association Kirby Laing Foundation Senior Lecturer, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences11.50 Functional Neurological Disorders: merging brain and mind, Professor Jon Stone, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences12.15 An overview of neuroscience research at McGill University, Canada, Professor Edward Fon, Professor Derek Bowie and Professor Stefano Stifan, McGill University, Canada 12.40 Lunch & Posters Meet colleagues, make new friends, and start new collaborations Session 3Chaired by: Dr Heather Whalley, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences14.00 Student data blitz sessionWhat mediates the transmission of prenatal stress signals from mother to foetus? Ms Sze Ying, Centre for Discovery Brain SciencesAstrocytes regulate cortical neuronal Kir expression during development to increase cell excitability, Ms Alison Todd, Centre for Discovery Brain SciencesGABAA Receptor mediated inhibition… without GABA (?!) Mr Nathanael O'Neill, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences Exploring the effects of CNS hypomyelination on circuit function and behaviour, Ms Megan Madden, Centre for Discovery Brain SciencesBilingualism and Cognitive Functions, Ms Lihua (Helen) Xia, Psychology14.30 Cognitive offloading: Why digital memory is bad for your brain, Professor Robert Logie, Psychology14.55 The UK Dementia Research Institute in Edinburgh, Professor Giles Hardingham, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Associate Director, UK Dementia Research Institute15.20 Tea and Posters Our Annual Distinguished Lecture is supported by the British Neuroscience Association (the voice of UK neuroscience) Session 4 Chaired by: Professor David Wyllie, Director, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences16.00 Annual Distinguished Lecture 2019Neuronal calcium ion channels in the pain pathway from gene to function, Professor Diane Lipscombe, Professor of Neuroscience, Director of the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, USA, and President of Society for Neuroscience 2018/19. Supported by the British Neuroscience Association - this talk is open to all to attend, no registration required.17.00 Drinks reception in Great Hall18.00 Close of Meeting This article was published on 2024-12-17
