Leeds Neuroscience Symposium 2023

Programme:

09:15-09:50: Coffee and Registration

09:50-10:00: Introduction/Welcome

Session 1

10:00-10:20: Ronaldo Ichiyama - Spinal Cord Injuries: Neural Plasticity and Functional Repair

10:20-10:40: Emmanuele Tidoni - Exploring Human-Robot Interactions through the Lens of Social Neuroscience

10:40-11:00: Samit Chakrabarty - TBC

11:00-11:20: Faisal Mustaq - City-Scale Neuroscience: Tracking Adolescent Brain Development in the Born in Bradford Longitudinal Study

11:20-11:40: James Poulter – Neur@L and the British Neuroscience Association

11:40-12:00: Ali Quale & Sally-Anne Whiteman – Impact for REF2029

12:00-13:00: Lunch

Session 2

13:00-13:20: Marine Krzisch – Investigating the role of microglia in familial Parkinson's disease using human stem cell-based models.

13:20-13:40: Helen Ford - New platform trials in MS and MND

13:40-14:00: Pablo Blanco Martinez de Morentin - Anorectic brainstem neuronal circuits

14:00-14:20: David Brockwell - Single residue aggregation switches in synucleins

14:20-14:40: Christopher Akhunbay-Fudge - Automated real time tracking of glioblastoma cell cycle transitions in tumour assembloids links G2 cells to infiltration

15:00-15:40: Tea/Coffee Break

Session 3

15:40-16:00: Jamie Johnston - Scents and Sensibility: How the brain learns perceptual constancy

16:00-16:20: Viktor Lukacs - Feeling cold?: An artificial evolution approach to identify molecular receptors.

Crisp Lecture

16:25-16:30: Introduction of Crisp Lecture

16:30-17:30: Crisp Lecture, Prof Stephanie Schorge, UCL - Brain hacking with viruses: Bringing gene therapy for epilepsy out of science fiction and in to clinical trials.

17:30-19:00: Drinks reception