| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Zoom Log in | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Date | Event | Programme | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 8th April 2025 9.30am - 4pm | MRC Prion Unit at UCL Open Day 2025 | 09.30 - 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
Prion Unit at UCL seminars/events archive
2024
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Zoom Log in | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 picture | Jan Bieschke |
2022
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 research | Silvia 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 neurodegeneration | John 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
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 aggregation | Dr 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 diseases | Prof 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
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Sclerosis | Dr 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 research | Dr 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 systems | Dr 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 Imaging | Prof John Collinge |
2019
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |