Skip to main content
Navigate back to homepage
Open search bar.
Open main navigation menu

Main navigation

  • Study
    UCL Portico statue
    Study at UCL

    Being a student at UCL is about so much more than just acquiring knowledge. Studying here gives you the opportunity to realise your potential as an individual, and the skills and tools to thrive.

    • Undergraduate courses
    • Graduate courses
    • Short courses
    • Study abroad
    • Centre for Languages & International Education
  • Research
    Tree-of-Life-MehmetDavrandi-UCL-EastmanDentalInstitute-042_2017-18-800x500-withborder (1)
    Research at UCL

    Find out more about what makes UCL research world-leading, how to access UCL expertise, and teams in the Office of the Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation and Global Engagement).

    • Engage with us
    • Explore our Research
    • Initiatives and networks
    • Research news
  • Engage
    UCL Print room
    Engage with UCL

    Discover the many ways you can connect with UCL, and how we work with industry, government and not-for-profit organisations to tackle tough challenges.

    • Alumni
    • Business partnerships and collaboration
    • Global engagement
    • News and Media relations
    • Public Policy
    • Schools and priority groups
    • Visit us
  • About
    UCL welcome quad
    About UCL

    Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 16,000 staff and 50,000 students from 150 different countries.

    • Who we are
    • Faculties
    • Governance
    • President and Provost
    • Strategy

2025 Prion Unit at UCL seminars

DateSpeakerTitle of TalkZoom Log inHost
     
Wednesday
16th April
1pm - 2pm

Professor Andy Hill
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Impact,
Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Extracellular vesicles and their role in neurodegenerative disease

 Jon Wadsworth
Wednesday
9th April
1pm - 2pm
Professor Diana Arseni
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Cambridge, UK

The ABC of TDP-43

 Tom Cunningham
Wednesday
26th March
1pm - 2pm
Professor Helen Saibil
Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology,
Birkbeck College
London
Protein unfolding, folding and disaggregation by Hsp60 and Hsp70 molecular chaperones John Collinge
Wednesday
29th January
1pm - 2pm
Professor Janne Johansson
Department of Medicine Huddinge
Karolinska Instituet
Stockholm Sweden
The BRICHOS domain - mechanism against amyloid toxicity and treatment potential for Alzheimer´s disease Peter Kloehn
     

2025 Events

DateEventProgrammeContact
Tuesday 8th April 2025
9.30am - 4pm
MRC Prion Unit at UCL Open Day 202509.30 - Registration & refreshments
10.00 - Welcome - Rachel Williams, Lead Nurse at National Prion Clinic
10.10 - Introduction and update PRN100 - Professor John Collinge
11.10 - Break
11.30 - Q&A with Professor John Collinge - questions to be submitted in advance
11.40 - Biomarkers - What have we learned from your samples? - Dr Thomas Coysh
11.55 - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Dr Edgar Chan
12:05 - Cure CJD- Nicola Carnie & John Camidge
12:25 - CJD Support Network- Beth Marsh
12.30 - Lunch 5th Floor, Clarkey’s; Laboratory Tours
14.00 - Group discussions - Young person's resources development (Dr Edgar Chan, Kirsty McNiven, Beth Marsh) Treatments (Professor Simon Mead) Biomarkers (Dr TzeHow Mok)
16.00 - Finish

If you would like to attend the Open Day, please click here to view our agenda for the day and to fill out our registration form.

UCL seminars/events

  • Brain Sciences
  • Institute of Neurology
  • Neuroscience

 Prion Unit at UCL seminars/events archive

2024

DateSpeakerTitle of TalkZoom Log inHost
Wednesday
11th December
1pm - 2pm
Professor Michel Goedert
Medical Research Council
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Cryo-EM structures of amyloid filaments from the human brain Wenjuan Zhang
Wednesday
30th October
1pm - 2pm
Professor Ivan Gout
Structural & Molecular Biology
UCL Division of Biosciences
Coenzyme A biology, but not as we know it Jan Bieschke
Wednesday
26th June
1pm - 2pm
Professor Adrian Isaacs
UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL
Department of Neurodegenerative Disease
C9orf72 FTD/ALS molecular mechanisms Tom Cunningham
Wednesday
1st May
1pm - 2pm
Professor Hiroki Ueda
University of Tokyo
Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of sleep Peter Kloehn
Wednesday
20th March
1pm - 2pm
Professor Michael D. Greschwind
University of California
A tour of clinical research from a centre in the USA Simon Mead
Wednesday
21st February
1pm - 2pm
Professor Selina Wray
Department of Neurodegenerative Disease

Human stem cell models of Alzheimer’s disease and familial British dementia

Meeting ID: 974 4165 4898
Passcode: 752809

Simon Mead

2023

DateSpeakerTitle of TalkHost
Wednesday
11th October
1pm - 2pm
Professor Jeremy Schmit
Department of Physics, Kansas State University
Amyloid aggregation at multiple resolutions: Zooming in without missing the big pictureJan Bieschke

2022

DateSpeakerTitle of TalkHost
Wednesday
7th December
1pm - 2pm
Professor Sarah Tabrizi
Director of the Huntington’s Disease Centre,
Joint-Head of the Department of Neurodegenerative Disease,
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology,
and Principal Investigator of the UK Dementia Research Institute
Genetic Therapies for Huntington’s disease -
challenges and opportunities
John Collinge
Wednesday
23rd November
1pm - 2pm
Dr Stephen Turnock
Regional Programme Manager (LSHTM,RVC,UCL)
NC3Rs - National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
Using the 3Rs as a framework for carrying out animal researchSilvia Purro
Wednesday
9th November
1pm - 2pm
Professor Dr. Ina Vorberg
Principal Investigator of Prion Cell Biology at the DZNE
and Professor at the University of Bonn
University of Bonn
Protein folding goes viral: How viral gene products
increase the dissemination of misfolded proteins
John Collinge
Wednesday
22nd June
1pm - 2pm
Professor John Hardy
PhD MD(Hons) DSc AEu FMedSci FRS
Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Genomic analysis and neurodegenerationJohn Collinge
Wednesday
6th April
1pm - 2pm
Dr Wei-Feng Xue
Reader in Chemical Biology and
Programme Director for Biochemistry,
School of Biosciences, University of Kent
The polymorphic landscape of amyloid assembly
revealed by atomic force microscopy and individual
particle structural reconstruction
Jan Bieschke
Wednesday
2nd March
12.30pm - 1pm
Prof Rickie Patani
Professor of Human Stem Cells
and Regenerative Neurology at
The Francis Crick Institute and
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Decoding cell type specific molecular
aberrations in ALS using human stem cell models

Parmjit Jat

2021

DateSpeakerTitle of TalkHost
Wednesday
1st December
1pm - 2pm
Dr Frances Wiseman
Programme Leader in Animal Models
at UK Dementia Research Institute
and ARUK Senior Research Fellow
Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease in Down syndrome
– a range of research approaches

Dr Silvia Purro

Wednesday
6th October
1pm - 2pm
Dr Ronald Melki
Director of Research at CNRS,
Paris, France
Prion-like propagation of alpha-synuclein assemblies
and the molecular basis of distinct synucleinopathies
Dr Peter Kloehn
Wednesday
8th September
1pm - 2pm

Professor Sheena Radford
Astbury Professor of Biophysics
and Royal Society Research Professor
University of Leeds

Arresting amyloid formation by targeting the early culprits of aggregationDr Graham Jackson
Wednesday
26th May
1pm - 2pm
Dr Wenjuan Zhang
Career development fellow,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

 
Cryo-EM structures of tau filaments in human neurodegenerative diseasesProf John Collinge

Wednesday
28th April
Starting at 12:30

Professor Kerensa Broersen
Associate Professor of Applied
Stem Cell Technologies,
University of Twente, NL

Nonconventional secretion of Alzheimer-related protein tau

Prof John Collinge

2020

DateSpeakerTitle of TalkHost
Wednesday
25th November
Dr Sean Sweeney

Reader in Neuroscience, University of York

Using Drosophila to identify pathological signaling and therapeutics for Frontotemporal Dementia and Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisDr Emmanuel Asante
Wednesday
1st July
Dr Wendy Noble
Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience,
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience,
King’s College
Organotypic brain slice cultures as models for Alzheimer's disease researchDr Emmanuel Asante
Wednesday
6th May

Professor Rick Livesey
Professor of Stem Cell Biology,
Developmental Biology & Cancer Department,
Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children,
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health

Insights into the pathogenesis of dementia from human stem cell systemsDr Peter Kloehn
Wednesday
15th January
Professor James H Naismith
Professor of Structural Biology &
Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Oxford
The Potential for Electrons in ImagingProf John Collinge

2019

DateSpeakerTitle of TalkHost

Wednesday
20th November

Professor Philip Lowry
Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading

A historical perspective of therapeutic Human Growth    

Dr Peter Kloehn

Wednesday
25th September

Dr Benjamin Falcon
Postdoctoral Scientist at the
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Cryo-EM of assembled tau conformers in human neurodegenerative disease

Dr Jan Bieschke

Wednesday
24th July

Prof Mark Marsh
Director - MRC-Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Linking cell biology to pathogenesis in a simian model for HIV infection

Professor Parmjit Jat

Wednesday
10th July

Sir Paul Nurse
FMedSci FRS Chief Executive and Director, Francis Crick Institute

Controlling the Cell Cycle

Professor John Collinge

Wednesday
26th June

Dr J P Simons
Reader in Experimental Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Centre for
Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins, Division of Medicine, UCL

Mechanisms of amyloid deposition in systemic amyloidosis

Professor John Collinge   

Monday
24th June

Dr Reed Wickner, M.D.
Distinguished Investigator
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH

Anti-prion system in yeast

Professor John Collinge 

Wednesday
20th February

Professor Glenn C Telling 
Director Prion Research Center (PRC)
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology
Colorado State University University

Characterizing the host range and strain properties of chronic wasting disease prions

Professor John Collinge

UCL footer

Visit

  • Bloomsbury Theatre and Studio
  • Library, Museums and Collections
  • UCL Maps
  • UCL Shop
  • Contact UCL

Students

  • Accommodation
  • Current Students
  • Moodle
  • Students' Union

Staff

  • Inside UCL
  • Staff Intranet
  • Work at UCL
  • Human Resources

UCL social media menu

  • Link to Soundcloud
  • Link to Flickr
  • Link to TikTok
  • Link to Youtube
  • Link to Instagram
  • Link to Facebook
  • Link to Twitter

University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 2000

© 2025 UCL

Essential

  • Disclaimer
  • Freedom of Information
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • Slavery statement
  • Log in