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Public lecture: The autophagy signaling network, c-‐myc and pathology: don't mess with the cell cycle!
You are invited to a public lecture by Francesco Cecconi, an eminent scientist in the field of autophagy and neurodegeneration, on Thursday the 25th of April at 17:00, in the lecture theatre of 33 Queen Square, University College Hospital London, WC1N. The lecture will be followed by a general discussion with drinks and food. More...
Video: Brain Disease Research - Keeping You You
Have you ever wondered how scientists research the brain?
Have you wondered who digs through that beautiful mass of grey matter between
our ears to understand how it works and why it stops working? Meet the
Neurodegenerative Diseases Initiative. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and MRC, this
team of scientists from around the globe investigates Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
and Motor Neuron Diseases. The team is on the hunt for understanding and
treatments for brain diseases. More...
Video: Degenerating Brains public symposium
The "Degenerating Brains" public symposium was held on the 13th March 2013, as part of Brain Awareness Week. Around 250 people showed up to hear Professors John Hardy (UCL), Chris Shaw (KCL) and David Rubinsztein (Cambridge) discuss new discoveries in neurodegenerative diseases and how they might impact drug treatment. More...
Mutations in VCP gene implicated in a number of neurodegenerative diseases
New research, published in Neuron, gives insight into how single mutations in the VCP gene cause a range of neurological conditions including a form of dementia called Inclusion Body Myopathy, Paget’s Disease of the Bone and Frontotemporal Dementia (IBMPFD), and the motor neuron disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). More...
Public lectures: new research into Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron Disease
You are invited to an evening (13th March 2013) exploring the very latest in cutting edge research into neurodegenerative diseases. Supported by the Wellcome Trust, scientists investigating Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron disease will explain how our understanding of these disorders is changing in the light of new discoveries in genetics and cell biology, and how these discoveries impact on developing new drugs for these diseases.
18.00 Welcome and introduction
18.10 Lectures commence
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Raquel Duran Ogalla
(Former Clinical Research Fellow)
I graduated in Biochemistry at University of Granada
(Spain)
in 2003. During the last year I became interested in the molecular pathways
underlie the neurodegenerative diseases. After I finished my B.Sc., I got the Certificate
of Educational Aptitude in 2004, and I joined the department of Physiology in
the Faculty of Medicine of Granada, within the research group “Study of the
Neurodegenerative diseases in Andalusia” lead by Professor Francisco Vives.
For my PhD project I worked analysing blood markers of oxidative stress
and protein impairment as well as their association with the clinical features
in patients with Parkinson’s disease. To enlarge my knowledge in this field I attended
a M.S. degree in Neuroscience
at the Institute of Neurosciences, engaging this research work with my work thesis
and getting the PhD in December 2008. Then, I continued
working at the Institute of Neurosciences
in the Biomedical Research Centre of the University of Granada as associate
research fellow until August 2010. During this time, I focused on the role of
several proteases in the pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease. In September
2010 I joined the Department of Molecular Neuroscience at the UCL as a postdoctoral
research fellow under the supervision of Professor John Hardy, working on the study
of new genetic variants confer risk to develop Parkinson’s disease.
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