Tuesday 16th April
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TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: PLENARY 08:30 - 09:30
P5: Ileana Hanganu-Opatz, University of Hamburg, Germany
Prefrontal cortex: the developmental hub of cognitive ontogeny in health and disease
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SESSIONS 09.30 - 11.10
W4: Workshop by and for Early Career Researchers: Opening up peer review
The workshop aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding publication and peer review process. Expected a spirited discussion on reviewers' comments (the good, the bad and the ugly), the editorial decision making process, the evolution of a paper from submission to publication, and the role of pre-registration in helping to improve reproducibility.
Prof Julian Mercer, University of Aberdeen and Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Neuroendocrinology
Professor Stafford Lightman, University of Bristol and co-founder of the Journal of Neuroendocrinology
Dr Pia Rothstein, University of Birmingham, expert on pre-registration and Registered Reports
SsB: The BSN Alison Douglas Lecture
Convened by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology
Dr Jane Robinson, University of Glasgow
S21: Mitochondria in neurodegeneration and aging: transport, intracellular interactions and bioenergetic function
Susan Chalmers, University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair) - Mitochondrial morphology & motility alterations with age, hyperglycaemia and amyloid
Ana Cristina Rego, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) - Mitochondrial deregulation in Huntington's disease - role of SIRT3
Kurt De Vos, University of Sheffield, UK - Axonal transport defects in neurodegeneration: mitochondria and beyond
Maria Ankaarcrona, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden - ER-mitochondria interplay in Alzheimer's Disease
S22: New directions in epilepsy research
Convened by Epilepsy Research UK
Gabriele Lignani, University College London, UK (co-chair) - Modulating promoter activity to treat intractable genetic and acquired epilepsy
Sukhvir Wright, Aston University, UK (co-chair) - Autoimmune epilepsy: from symptoms to synapse
Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser, University of Edinburgh, UK - GABAergic Medial Septal Neurones and their role in models of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Andrei Ilie, University of Oxford, UK - Phasic and tonic GABAergic signalling combine with membrane potential dynamics to regulate intracellular chloride during seizures
S23: Neuromuscular disorders – cutting edge of translation
Convened by the Association of British Neurologists
Mary Reilly, Association of British Neurologists, UK (co-chair) - Inherited neuropathies: The first treatable neurodegenerative diseases
Orla Hardiman, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - MND – A model neurodegeneration
Michael Hanna, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London, UK (co-chair) - Channelopathies 2019: exciting new phenotypes, mechanisms and therapies
Hugh Willison, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK - The sweet side of inflammatory neuropathy
S24: Impact factor: Concussion and brain health
John Kealy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - The neurovascular unit following traumatic brain injury
David Loane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Chronic pathologies following severe TBI: NOXious neuroinflammation as a therapeutic target
Niamh Lynch, Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, Ireland (co-chair) - Concussion - A paediatrics perspective
Ann McKee, Boston University, US - Updates in CTE: 2019
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: TRADE EXHIBITION AND POSTER SESSION 3 PREVIEW 11:10 - 11:50
Exhibition hall, CCD
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: PLENARY 11:50 - 12:50
P6: Uta Frith, University College London, UK
The new three Rs and what they mean for neuroscientists: reproducibility, replicability and reliability of research
The EMBO Keynote Lecture
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: TRADE EXHIBITION AND LUNCH 12.50 - 13.50
Exhibition hall, CCD
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SPEED DATING FOR ALTERNATIVE CAREERS 12.50 - 13.50
Level 5 atrium, CCD - pre-registered delegates only
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: POSTER SESSION 3 13.50 - 15.30
Exhibition hall, CCD
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SESSIONS 15.30 - 17.10
SsC: Early Career Researcher Prizewinners' session
Nitzan Censor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel - Rapid perceptual learning and its implications across memory domains (The Sieratzki UK-Israel Prize for Advances in Neuroscience prize: ECR category)
Ella Striem-Amit, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA -The action system in people born without hands.(The Sieratzki UK-Israel Prize for Advances in Neuroscience prize: Young Researcher's category)
Kathy Ruddy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - A different state of mind ; Regulating motor cortical excitability using TMS-based neurofeedback (NSI Early Career Investigator award winner)
Guiseppe D'Agostino - Hindbrain Circuits Controlling Appetite (The BSN Mick Harbuz prize winner)
S25: How stress affects endocrine systems and vice-versa: A brain-hormone crosstalk
Convened by Society for Endocrinology
Francesca Spiga, University of Bristol, UK (co-chair) - How does stress affect the adrenal gland activity
Karen Chapman, University of Edinburgh, UK - Stress, glucocorticoids, inflammation and brain metabolism
Marie-Pierre Moisan, University of Bordeaux, France - Influence of circadian rhythms on high fat diet - induced memory alterations
Stefan Reber, University of Ulm, Germany - How does stress affect somatic and affective disorders?
S26: The microbiome: A Key regulator of the impact of diet on brain function
Convened by Neuroscience Ireland
John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland (co-chair) - Dietary targeting of the microbiome for the stressed, and ageing brain
Carlos Ribiero, Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal - Commensal bacteria control food choice behavior
Marion Rincel, University Bordeaux, France (co-chair) - Interactions between diet, early-life stress & behaviour: Role of the microbiome & gut barrier function
Philip Burnet, University of Oxford, UK - Prebiotic effects on brain and behaviour in rodents and humans
S27: Neural stem cells and brain cancer
Convened by the British Neuro-Oncology Society
Simona Parrinello, University College London, UK (co-chair) - The niche in neurogenesis and brain cancer
Steven Pollard, University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) - Transcriptional regulation of neural stem cell self-renewal as a target for glioblastoma
Richard Gilbertson, University of Cambridge, UK - Developing new models of brain tumours
Lene Uhrbom, Uppsala University, Sweden - Identifying the cell of origin of globlastoma
S28: Let’s stick together - neurodegeneration an expanding disease spectrum
Convened by the Association of British Neurologists
Timothy Lynch, University College Dublin, Ireland - Subtypes of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in Ireland (co-chair) - Subtypes of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in Ireland
Jonathan Schott, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK (co-chair) - Determining the prevalence and causes of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular disease – results from a British Birth Cohort
Matthew Jones, University of Manchester, UK - Unravelling FTD – syndromes, proteins, genes and treatments
Paola Piccini, Imperial College London, UK - Advances in Neuroimaging in PD
S29: Within and beyond the medial temporal lobe: Brain circuits for place and recognition memory
Sponsored by TOCRIS, a Bio-Techne Brand
Tobias Bast, University of Nottingham, UK (co-chair) - Prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens: relevance for the hippocampal learning-behaviour translation and for the cognitive impact of hippocampal dysfunction
Lisa Genzel, Donders Institute, The Netherlands - Hippocampal-prefrontal cortex interactions in sleep for memory consolidation: from rats to humans
Lisa Kinnavane, University of Bristol, UK (co-chair) - Mapping anatomically verified activity patterns for recognition memory processing within and beyond the medial temporal lobe
James Ainge, University of St Andrews, UK - Hippocampal-entorhinal circuits underlying associative recognition memory
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: PLENARY 17:10 - 18:10
P7: Michael J. Meaney, McGill University, Canada
The genetic architecture of individual differences in susceptibility to stress reveals candidate biological mechanisms
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: PUBLIC LECTURE 18:30 - 19:30
PbL2: Ed Bullmore, University of Cambridge
Inflamed Depression
The Anne Silk Lecture 2019, held in association with the Silk Trust and the Royal Society of Medicine.
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: STUDENT AND ECR SOCIAL 20:00 - LATE
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: DINNER FOR SPEAKERS AND GUESTS 20:30 - LATE
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