Leeds Neuroscience Symposium

Registration, Coffee/Tea from 9:15-9:45.

09:45-09:50: Introduction and welcome by Dr Viktor Lukács

Session chaired by Viktor Lukács

09:50-10:10: Dr Pablo Blanco Martinez De Morentin (School Biomedical Sciences). 'A brainstem to thalamus circuit modulates interaction with food'.

10:10-10:30: Prof Graham Finlayson (School of Psychology). 'Wanting vs. Liking: unravelling food reward mechanisms to understand human appetite and overconsumption'.

10:30-10:50: Dr Steve Clapcote (School of Biomedical Sciences). 'Two wrongs can make a right: rescue of a mouse model of alternating hemiplegia of childhood by second-site mutation'

10:50-11:10: Coffee/Tea break

11:10-11:30: Dr Jon Lippiat (School of Biomedical Sciences). 'Old drugs, new tricks: revealing hidden ion channel modulators with anti-seizure potential'.

11:30-11:50: Dr Shihab Shah (School of Biomedical Sciences). 'Interfaces of Agony: The Role of ER-PM Junctions in Pain Signalling'.

11:50-12:10: Dr Marine Krzisch (School of Biomedical Sciences). 'Investigating microglial dysfunction in neurological disease using human pluripotent stem cells in vitro and in vivo'.

12:10-12:20: Steven Pollock (Faculty of Medicine/Leeds NHS Teaching Hospitals). 'Leeds Neuro Research Tissue Bank'.

12:20-14:00: Lunch, Poster and Exhibitor Session

Session chaired by Dr. René Frank

14:00-14:20: Prof Ione Fine (School of Biomedical Sciences). 'Binocular interactions in neurotypical vision and amblyopia '.

14:20-14:40: Dr Holly Brown (School of Psychology). 'Assessing the structure of the posterior visual pathway in macular disease'.

14:40-15:00: . Dr Francesca Nannetti (School of Psychology). 'Rhythms of Attention: Neural Oscillations in Top-Down Visuospatial Control'.

15:00-15:20: Coffee/Tea break

15:20-15:40: Dr Emily Reader-Harris (School of Biomedical Sciences). 'Balancing Act: Neural circuits for balance control'

15:40-16:00: Prof Heiko Wurdak (School of Medicine). 'How Dynamic Is the Surgical Margin Zone During Glioma Recurrence? Interrogating the Black Box of Residual Tumour Biology'.

16:00-16:20: Dr Jonathan Cornford (School of Computing). 'Artificial Neural Networks as multi-level models of brain-like learning'.

16:20-16:30: Poster prize awards, short break

16:30-17:30: Crisp Lecture by Prof Tomás Ryan (Trinity College Dublin) 'Information Storage in Memory Engrams'.

17:30-19:00: Drinks reception