UK DRI stream
Sessions in this stream have been convened by the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), Festival Partner for BNA2021. They are timetabled so that delegates can attend all UK DRI sessions over the four days of the Festival.
In addition to sessions supported by UK DRI, we have also listed other sessions in the programme which we believe will be of interest to delegates studying the neuroscience of dementia. Please explore the full programme to see more details about these other sessions.
Monday 12th April 2021
09:00 - 10:20 BST- Brain resilience to pathology
Convened and supported by the UK Dementia Research Institute
Tara Spires-Jones, UK DRI at University of Edinburgh, UK - non-speaking co-chair
Karen Duff, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, UK - Mechanisms of vulnerability to pathology in Alzheimer's disease
David A.Bennett (co-chair), Rush University, Chicago, USA - Identifying Novel Therapeutic Targets for Resilience to AD/ADRD Neuropathologies
Carol Brayne, Cambridge University, UK - Lived lives, dementia and biology: insights from population studies
Declan King, UK Dementia Research Institute at University of Edinburgh, UK - Synaptic resilience in Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 participants is associated with maintained cognition during ageing
10:20-11:20 BST - Rapid fire poster talks
12:20-13:00 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
13:00-14:00 BST - Exhibition and Poster session one
14:00-14:40 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
14:40-16:00 BST - Living with.... dementia - discussion and Q&A with Nick Fox and guest
Tuesday 13th April 2021
09:00 - 10:20 BST - Neurovascular coupling in health and disease - check full programme
10:20-11:20 BST - Exhibition and Poster session two
12:20-13:00 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
14:00-14:40 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
14:40 - 16:00 BST - Sleep and circadian rhythms in dementia research
Convened and supported by the UK Dementia Research Institute
Derk-Jan Dijk (co-chair), UK Dementia Research Institute Care Research and Technology and Surrey Sleep Research Centre, UK - Why and how to target sleep and circadian rhythms in dementia
Erik Musiek,The Hope Center, Washington University in St. Louis, USA - Circadian clock genes in neurodegenerative diseases
Raphaelle Winsky-Sommerer (co-chair), University of Surrey, UK - Targeting sleep in mouse models of dementia
Berta Anuncibay-Soto, UK Dementia Research Institute at imperial College London, UK - Does insomnia enhance onset of dementia? Novel mouse models of insomnia
Wednesday 14th April 2021
09:00 - 10:20 BST - Protein aggregation in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease: from mechanisms to targets for therapies - check full programme
10:20-11:20 BST- Exhibition and Poster session three
| 11:20 - 12:20 BST - UK DRI Plenary Lecturer Professor Bart De Strooper  |
12:20-13:00 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
14:00-14:40 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
14:40 - 16:00 BST - Non-neuronal cells in neurological disease
Convened and supported by the UK Dementia Research Institute
Soyon Hong, UK Dementia Research Institute, London, UK - non-speaking co-chair
Blanca Diaz-Castro (co-chair), UK Dementia Research Institute at University of Edinburgh, UK - Astrocytes in the interface of brain and periphery
Cagla Eroglu, Duke University School of Medicine, USA - How do astrocytes sculpt neuronal circuits?
Christer Betsholtz, Karolinska Institute and Dept of Immunology, Sweden - Single-cell analysis of neurovascular biology reveals novel cell types and their roles
Sebastiaan De Schepper, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, UK - Microglia-Synapse Interaction in Alzheimer's Disease
Thursday 15th April 2021
09:00 - 10:20 BST - Dementia, sports & traumatic brain injury
Convened and supported by the UK Dementia Research Institute
David Sharp (co-chair), UK Dementia Research Institute Care Research & Technology at Imperial College London, UK - What is the link between TBI and neurodegenerative disorders?
William Stewart, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, UK - Do sports increase the risk of dementia?
Elisa Zanier (co-chair), Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy - Transmissable Tau pathology induced by TBI
Neil Graham, UK Dementia Research Institute Care Research & Technology at Imperial College London, UK, Diffuse axonal injury as a trigger for progressive neurodegeneration
10:20-11:20 BST - Exhibition and Poster session four
12:20-13:00 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
13:00 - 14:00 BST - Association of British Neurologists Plenary Lecturer, Professor Sarah Tabrizi
14:00-14:40 BST - Exhibition, Discussion forums, Careers
14:40 - 16:00 BST - WORKSHOP: Multi-omics analysis of the brain at single cell resolution
Carlo Sala Frigerio, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, non-speaking co-chair
Viola Volpato, UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff, UK - A deep single cell atlas of the human substantia nigra to study Parkinson's Disease progression
Sarah Marzi, UK Dementia Research Institute at Imperial, UK - Epigenetic regulation in neurodegenerative disease
Jo Anne Stratton, McGill University, Montreal, Canada- Interpretation of sequencing data in brain tissue
Seth Grant, University of Edinburgh, UK - Synapse proteome complexity and the architecture of synapse diversity
Kenneth Harris, University College London, UK - Identifying fine cellular subtypes in situ with multiplexed in situ RNA sequencing
Johanna Jackson, UK Dementia Research Institute at Imperial, UK - non-speaking co-chair
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