Spotlight on Neuroscience: Explore new ways to light up your research
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Join us this October and explore new ways to light up your research with our live digital events and latest on-demand webinars.
Participate in dynamic talks and discussions with key leaders in the field of adult neurogenesis, brain development and repair, and neuroepigenetics. Hear about the new approaches being discovered in neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease from experts in our on-demand webinars. Don’t miss out!
Individual registrations are required for each live session.
Live session: Adult Neurogenesis
October 6, 2020
7:00am PST | 10:00am EST | 3:00pm BST | 4:00pm CEST
Confirmed speakers
- Luca Bonfanti (University of Turin and Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi, Italy)
Is there adult neurogenesis in the mammalian neocortex? - Marlen Knobloch (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Metabolic control of neural stem cells - Maria Llorens-Martin (Centre for Molecular Biology "Severo Ochoa", Spain)
Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans - Hongjun Song (University of Pennsylvania, US)
Analysis of human hippocampal neurogenesis using brain organoid
Organizer
- Gerd Kempermann (Center for Regenerative Therapies TU Dresden, Germany)
Registration
Register for the Adult Neurogenesis session
- Registration confirmation emails will be sent from no-reply@zoom.us.
Live session: Building and Repairing the Brain
7:00am PST | 10:00am EST | 3:00pm BST | 4:00pm CEST
Confirmed speakers
- Silvia Cappello (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany)
Following neuronal trajectories in the developing brain - Vincenzo De Paola (Imperial College London, UK)
In vivo modelling of human cortical circuit wiring and dysfunction - Agnete Kirkeby (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Modelling and repairing the human brain with stem cells - Christophe Heinrich (SBRI - INSERM, France)
In vivo reprogramming of glial cells into induced neuron: A new avenue for brain repair
Organizers
- Benedikt Berninger (King's College London, UK and University of Mainz, Germany)
- Abcam
Registration
Register for the Building and Repairing the Brain session
- Registration confirmation emails will be sent from no-reply@zoom.us.
Live session: Epigenetics in the Nervous System
October 14, 2020
7:00am PST | 10:00am EST | 3:00pm BST | 4:00pm CEST
Confirmed speakers
- Marek Bartosovic (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Single-cell profiling of histone modifications in the mouse brain - Philip De Jager (Columbia University, US)
Identifying suppressors of APOEe4 risk for Alzheimer’s disease using a methylome-wide screen: a microglial transcriptional program is implicated - Nada Jabado (McGill University, Canada)
Histone H3.3 G34-mutant high-grade gliomas: A case of mistaken identity - Ian Maze (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, US)
Protein monoaminylation in the central nervous system: novel mechanisms of neural development, plasticity and disease - Jennifer Phillips-Cremins (University of Pennsylvania, US)
3D genome restructuring across timescales of activity-induced neuronal gene expression - Dominik Szabo (Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Germany)
ASD-associated 16p11.2 deletion leads to disruption of chromatin organization and dysregulation of synaptic genes in neuronal precursor cells
Organizers
- Gonçalo Castelo-Branco (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
- Ana Pombo (MDC Berlin, Germany)
Registration
Register for the Epigenetics in the Nervous System session
- Registration confirmation emails will be sent from no-reply@zoom.us.
On-demand webinars:
Role of chronic inflammation in risk for neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer’s disease
Video release date: October 12, 2020
Speaker
- Malú Tansey (University of Florida, US)
Webinar summary
Join Dr. Malú Tansey, Professor of neuroscience and Director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, as she talks us through a new, alternative pathologic model for Alzheimer's disease, details how genetic and environmental risk factors combine to increase disease risk and her research demonstrating how this new approach could lead to therapeutic developments in this field.
Autophagy and Neurodegeneration
Video release date: October 26, 2020
Speaker
- David Rubinsztein (University of Cambridge, UK)
Webinar summary
Join Dr. David Rubinsztein, Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge, UK, as he talks us through the association between autophagy and neurodegeneration. Dr Rubinsztein, who is also a UK Dementia Research Institute Professor, will discuss the role of autophagy in the clearance of misfolded proteins common to neurodegenerative disorders and how genetic evidence implicates this pathway in disease pathogenesis. He will further highlight how his research is helping advance our understanding of this molecular process and identify potential therapeutic intervention points.
* More webinars to be announced shortly.