External Event - 11th to 12th Apr 2018
This two-day meeting will mark the launch of the UK Dementia Research Institute at Edinburgh It will bring together speakers from throughout Scotland, and beyond. Please use the hyperlink options below to access the programme, to register, and to submit a poster abstract.
1.00pm Registration
1.15pm Welcome from Professor Giles Hardingham, Associate Director UK DRI @ University of Edinburgh
1.20pm Professor Bart de Strooper, Director UK DRI, Scientific vision of the UK DRI
1.30pm Official opening by Professor Jonathan Seckl, Vice Principal Planning, Resources & Research
Session I (Chair: Professor David Lyons)
1.40pm Keynote speaker: Professor Betse Zlokovic, University of Southern California, The blood-brain barrier: Structure, Function and Pathology – Implications for Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease,
2.25pm Professor Joanna Wardlaw, Vascular sources of neurodegeneration
2.45pm Dr David Hunt, Title TBC
3.00pm Tea/coffee break
Session II (Chair: Professor Catherina Becker)
3.30pm Professor Siddharthan Chandran, Title TBC
3.50pm Professor Giles Hardingham, Signaling pathways to degeneration and resilience in the brain
4.10pm Keynote speaker: Prof Maiken Nedergaard, Universities of Copenhagen/Rochester, The glymphatic system
4.55pm Thanks and invitation to drinks reception from Professor Giles Hardingham
5.00pm Drinks reception and posters
6.30pm Close of day 1
8.30am Registration
Session III (Chair: Professor Charles ffrench-Constant)
9.00am Professor Tara Spires-Jones, Title TBC
9.20am Dr Barry McColl, Microglial diversity and mechanisms of resilience and susceptibility to neurodegenerative disease
9.40am Professor Josef Priller, Heterogeneity of CNS myeloid cells and their roles in neurodegeneration
10.00am Professor Karen Horsburgh, Title TBC
10.20pm Dr Mathew Horrocks, PAINTing a clearer picture: Super resolution methods for characterising aggregates
10.35am Tea/coffee break
Session IV (Chair: Professor David Wyllie)
11.00am Professor Craig Ritchie, The Centre for Dementia Prevention: Synergies and collaboration with the DRI for improved brain health
11.25am Professor Ian Deary, A top ten from a decade of CCACE-studies
Invitees from Scottish Universities
11.50am Professor Frank Gunn-Moore, University of St Andrews, Linking mitochondrial and synaptic dysfunction in dementia
12.15pm Dr Sophie Bradley, University of Glasgow, From cognition to seizures: Defining the therapeutic potential of M1 muscarinic receptors in neurodegeneration
12.40pm Professor Dario Alessi, University of Dundee, The LRRK2 protein kinase in Parkinson’s Disease
1.05pm Professor Bettina Platt, University of Aberdeen, Title TBC
1.30pm Lunch and posters
Session V (Chair: Professor Tara Spires-Jones)
Junior academic short presentations
2.20pm Dr Bhuvaneish Selvaraj, Title TBC
2.30pm Dr Philip Hasel, Neuron-to-astrocyte signalling in health and disease
2.40pm Dr Laura McCulloch, Understanding and preventing stroke-associated immune dysfunction and infectious complications: Relevance to dementia
2.50pm Dr Chris Henstridge, Synapse loss in the prefrontal cortex is associated with cognitive change in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
3.00pm Dr Jon Moss, Title TBC
3.10pm Dr Veronique Miron, Microglia regulate central nervous repair
3.20pm Keynote speaker: Professor Beth Stevens, Harvard University, Title TBC
4.05pm Closing remarks from Professor Richard Morris, Chair UK DRI @ UoE Scientific Advisory Board
4.15pm Meeting close
Registration fees for our launch symposium are:
* We have a limited number of poster boards. Poster allocation will be on a first come first served basis, but all willing to give a poster can pay the reduced fee.
For more information please visit http://www.edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk/events/uk-dri-edinburgh-launch-symposium
