Developmental Neurosciences Otto Wolff Symposium

This annual symposium is chaired by Professor Helen Cross

Speakers:

• Professor Rosalind Smyth (Director, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) - Welcome introduction

• Otto Wolff lecture - Prof Mark Johnson (Cambridge) - Executive attention as a neurocognitive modifier of developmental trajectories

• Dr Anna Hood (GOSICH, Developmental Neurosciences) - Executive Function Challenges for Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

• Dr Joe Bathelt (Royal Holloway) - The unity and diversity of executive function difficulties in children who struggle in school

• Prof Gaia Scerif (Oxford University) - Variable attentional control skills in syndromes of identified genetic aetiology

• Dr Michael Zech - “The landscape of Genetic Dystonia: implications for clinical care”

• Prof Jenny Morgan -“Stem cells to treat muscular dystrophies?"

• Prof Charlotte Sumner -“Developmental expression of SMN in disease-relevant tissues: implications for SMA treatment”

• Otto Wolff Lecture - Prof Lorenz Studer - “Developing cell therapies for neurodegenerative disorders"

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