LWENC PhD Showcase

Final Presentations from Leonard Wolfson 4 Year PhD Programme in Neurodegeneration, 2013 intake
Date: Monday, 31 July, 14.00 – 17.00

The LWENC Education Board invite you to our PhD Showcase celebrating the completion of our first intake of 4 Year PhD students. Each of the students will be summarising the fantastic research they’ve accomplished over the past four years, followed by a drinks reception.

As you can see from the talk titles, our students have truly worked across neurodegenerative research at UCL. As such, we hope to have an equally representative slice of UCL in the audience and all are welcome.

14.00: Nick Wood, Welcome

14.15: Ross Nortley, The role of capillary pericytes in cerebral blood flow changes in early Alzheimer’s disease (David Attwell)

14.35: Henny Wellington, Identification and Validation of Novel Synaptic Markers (Henrik Zetterberg)

14.55: Rubika Balendra, Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies in C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (Adrian Isaacs, Linda Partridge)  

15.15: Tea and Coffee break (Winter Garden)

15.30: Stephen Mullin, Glucocerebrosidase mutations in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease: opportunities for drug intervention (Tony Schapira)

15.50: David Lynch, Next generation sequencing in rare neurodegenerative disorders (Henry Houlden, Helene Plun-Favreau)

16.10: Nick Fox, Closing remarks

With drinks reception to follow in Winter Garden

Please RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lwenc-phd-showcase-tickets-35171106727

Further information: e.halton@ucl.ac.uk