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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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Rohan de Silva
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Born in Sri Lanka, Rohan obtained
his degree in Biochemistry in 1987 (Universität Bern,
Switzerland) and a D.Phil. in Molecular Biology, 1991 (Oxford University). From 1991-1995
he worked at Duke University Medical Center,
North Carolina (genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease), where he was involved with
the first identification of mutations in the presenilin-1 gene and, in collaboration with the
late Dr Tsunao Saitoh (UCSD) first identified promoter variants of the
alpha-synuclein gene (SNCA) that are now associated with Parkinson’s disease risk.
In 1995-1996, he briefly worked at the Marie Curie
Research Institute in Oxted, Surrey (genetics of bladder
cancer) and 1996-1999 at Imperial College
School of Medicine (investigation of role of cytokines in amyloid
precursor protein gene expression and splicing). Since 1999 he has been at the
RLWI where he has been working on the genetics, biochemistry and
cell biology of Parkinson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and related
disorders. His primary interests are the investigation of the tau (MAPT) and
SNCA genes and their roles in neurodegeneration.
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