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2008

"Autoimmunity to glycans in peripheral nervous system disorders"

Professor Hugh J Willison
Division of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Glasgow
2nd December
Queen Square

"Spinal muscular atrophy: from gene to therapy and protective modifier"

Prof. Dr. Brunhilde Wirth
Director of the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Tuesday 2nd December
Newcastle University

"Small fibre neuropathies: dissecting damage from pain"

Professor Martin Schmelz
Department of Anaesthesiology, University Clinic of Mannheim
1pm, Thursday 20th November
Seminar room, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
4th floor, Albany Wing, NHNN

"Iron and energy failure - the role of the mitochondria in human diseases'

Professor Doug Turnbull
Newcastle University
Thursday 20th November
Queen Square

"Determining the anatomy of the subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra on MRI at 9.4 Tesla"

Luke Massey
Friday 21st November
Queen Square

"The regulation of neurotrophin receptor trafficking and its relevance in neurodegeneration"

Professor Giampietro Schiavo
Institute Scientist, Molecular NeuroPathoBiology Laboratory,
Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
Tuesday 4th November
Queen Square

"CMAP and beyond"

Professor Erik Stalberg
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Uppsala
Thursday 23rd October
NHNN

"Novel insights into muscle channelopathies"

Professor Bertrand Fontaine
Director, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie,
Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris
Tuesday 14th October
Queen Square

"What have we learnt to date about myositis disease mechanisms from immunogenetics"

Dr Robert Cooper
University of Manchester
Friday 10th October
Queen Square

"Clinical trials for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: the dawning of a new era"

Professor Paula Clemens
UPMC
Thursday 2nd October
Newcastle General Hospital

"Therapeutic strategies in collagen VI related disorders"

Professor Carsten Bonnemann
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Friday 3rd October
ICH

"Functional imaging of the FoF1-ATPase Inhibitory Factor 1 (IF1): a novel and major regulator of mitchochondrial function and structure" and "The role of the Schwann cell notch signalling pathway in peripheral nerve regeneration"

Michelangelo Campanella & Daniel Wilton, UCL
Friday 25th July
ICH

"Localised grey matter damage and disability in early primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis" & "Models and therapeutic strategies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy"

Zhaleh Khaleeli & Carl Adkin, ICH

Friday 11th July

Institute of Child Health

"Expanding the collagen VI family *Analysis of alpha 4(VI), alpha 5(VI) and alpha 6(VI)"

Jamie Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor
Oregon Health and Science University
Tuesday 8th July
Institute of Child Health

"Development of cell culture models to study the pathophysiology of muscle disease and to test therapeutic strategies"

Gillian Buttler-Browne
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Institut de Myologie, Paris
Tuesday 1st July
Newcastle University

"Modelling and manipulating the degenerative features of sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis" & "New insights into skeletal muscle channelopathies"

Dr Adrian Miller & Dr Emma Matthews
MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, ION
Friday 27th June
Institute of Child Health

"A kelch protein is mutated in a novel autosomal dominant distal myopathy"

Dr Sebahattin Cirak
Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre
Friday 6th June 2008
Wellcome Building
Institute of Child Health

"Induction of axonal domains by glia"

Professor Peter Brophy, FMedSci, FRSE
Centre for Neuroscience Research, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday 3rd June 2008
Wolfson Lecture Theatre
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

"Array-based dystrophin gene analysis: enhancing both genomic and transcriptomic definition in dystrophinopathies"

Professor Alessandra Ferlini
Universita di Ferrara
Friday 9th May 2008
Institute of Child Health

"Dystrophin-associated and dystrophin-related proteins in muscular dystrophy"

Professor Dame Kay Davies, FRS, FMedSci
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford
Tuesday 1st April 2008
UCL Institute of Neurology

"Use of the mdx mouse in targeting drugs for therapies in DMD"

Annamaria de Luca
Universita di Bari
Monday 28th January 2008
Centre for Life, Newcastle University