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Friday 28th September 2018, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dorothea Hammerer, 
UCL/DZNE
The ageing noradrenergic system: Brain Meeting
4th floor seminar room, WCHN 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

Wednesday  3rd October 2018, 4pm
Speaker: Rick Livesey, Cambridge
Down Syndrome Seminar Series: Human stem cell studies of neural development and neurodegeneration in Down syndrome
Venue: Large second floor seminar room, Queen Square House
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

 

Wednesday 3rd October 2018, 4pm
Speaker: Andrew Tosolini, IoN
Host: Institute of Neurology Seminar Series. All are welcome . Venue: tbc
Further information:
ion-postdoc-seminar@ucl.ac.uk

 

Tuesday 9th October 2018,  12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Andre Gerber, Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences, University of Surrey
ALS Seminar: title tbc
Host: Professor Elizabeth Fisher. This seminar is part of the ALS Seminar Series
Venue: 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Queen Square House, Queen Square
For further information - please contact: Debbie Hadley -
d.hadley@ucl.ac.uk

 

Thursday 11th October 2018, 2-3pm
Speaker: Dr Dorothee Dormann, Department of Cell Biology, LMU Munich
ALS Seminar: title tbc
Host: Dr Adrian Isaacs. 
Venue: 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Queen Square House, Queen Square
For further information - please contact: Debbie Hadley - 
d.hadley@ucl.ac.uk

 

Thursday 11 October 4pm,
Speaker: Prof. Marzia Malcangio , Kings College London
"Exosomes containing miR-21 mediate nociceptive neuron-macrophage communication after nerve injury": Synaptopathies seminar
Venue: Gilliatt Lecture Theatre
Further information: Erica Tagliatti
e.tagliatti@ucl.ac.uk

 

Thursday 11th October 2018, 5.30 pm
Stuart Baker (Newcastle University) : Exploiting plasticity in brainstem systems for rehabilitation
UCL Partners CNR seminar. Basement Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square
Further information:
cnr@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 12th of October , 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Karla Miller, University of Oxford
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 19th of October 2018 , 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Jorn Diedrichsen, University of Western Ontario

Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

Tuesday 30th October 2018, 5.30 pm
Neurorehabilitation for young adults:  How do we include parenting and spousal roles?
UCL Partners CNR clinical networking event
Basement Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square,
Enquiries to
cnr@ucl.ac.uk

Friday 2nd November 2018 , 3.15pm
Dr. Julio Acosta-Cabronero,  UCL
Brain iron: a marker of cellular status?
Brain meeting
Venue:
 4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Wednesday 7th November 2018, 4pm
Speaker:   Jamie Edgin, Arizona
Down Syndrome Seminar Series: Title to be arranged

Venue: Large second floor seminar room, Queen Square House
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

Thursday 8th November 2018, 5.30 pm
Peter Feys (Hasselt University, Belgium)

Advances in evidence-based MS physical rehabilitation
UCL Partners CNR seminar
Basement Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square
Further information:
cnr@ucl.ac.uk

Friday 9th November 2018, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Chen Song, Cardiff University
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Tuesday 13th November 2018,  12-1pm
Speaker: Dr Mhoriam Ahmed, Department of Neuromuscular Disease
ALS Seminar: Arimoclomol treatment is neuroprotective + ameliorates FTD/ALS pathology in mutant VCP mice
Host: Professor Linda Greensmith. This seminar is part of the ALS Seminar Series
Venue: 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Queen Square House, Queen Square
For further information - please contact: Debbie Hadley -
d.hadley@ucl.ac.uk

 

Monday 19th November 2018, 6pm: David Marsden Movement Disorders Symposium
Further information: https://www.uclhcharitycourses.com/courses/neurology/movement-disorders-symposium-celebrate-life-and-work-late-professor-david-marsden  

 

Thursday 22nd November 2018       4pm

Speaker: Dr Tiago Branco, University College London
Synaptopathies Seminar

GLT (Gilliat Lecture Theatre), Ground Floor, Queen Square House

Further information: Erica Tagliatti e.tagliatti@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 23rd November 2018, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Simon Hanslmayr, University of Birmingham
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 30th November 2018, 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Lauri Parkkonen, Aalto University

Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Tuesday 4th December 2018,  12-1pm
Speaker: Dr Fiona Marshall, VP Head of the UK Discovery Centre for MSD Research Laboratories 
ALS Seminar: New approaches in the hunt for drug targets to treat neurodegenerative disease. 
Host: Professor Elizabeth Fisher. 
Venue: 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Queen Square House, Queen Square. 
For further information - please contact: Debbie Hadley -
d.hadley@ucl.ac.uk

Wednesday 5th December  2018, 4pm
Speaker: Shahid Zaman
Down Syndrome Seminar Series: Title to be arranged

Venue: Cambridge
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

 

Friday 7th December 2018, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Clive Rosenthal, University of Oxford

Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Thursday 13th December 2018       4pm
Speaker: Dr Ingo Greger, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Synaptopathies Seminar
GLT (Gilliat Lecture Theatre), Ground Floor, Queen Square House
Further information: Erica Tagliatti
e.tagliatti@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 14th December 2018, 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Lars Muckli, University of Glasgow
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Wednesday 9th January 2019, 4pm
Speaker: Carla Startin, LonDowns/KCL
Down Syndrome Seminar Series: Cognitive decline and dementia in adults with Down syndrome
Venue: Large second floor seminar room, Queen Square House
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

 

Friday 11th January 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Heleen Slagter, University of Amsterdam
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 18th January 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Howard Bowman, University of Birmingham
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk


Friday 1st February 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Xavier Golay, UCL
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Wednesday 6th February 2019
Speaker: John Hardy, LonDowns/UCL
Down Syndrome Seminar Series: Title to be arranged
Venue: Large second floor seminar room, Queen Square House
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

 

Friday 1st February 2019 09.00-17.30
UCLP CNR Symposium: Living with Cognitive Disability: Cognitive Rehabilitation:  interventions for living with cognitive difficulties after brain damage
Basement Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square
Professor Jon Evans (University of Glasgow) sets the tone of the day with his keynote lecture, and sessions are chaired by experts in the field – Dr Mike Dilly, Professor Diane Playford, Dr Patrick McKnight, and Dr Andrew Tyerman.
Registration https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-brain-sciences-c07/ucl-institute-of-neurology-department-of-brain-repair-and-rehabilitation-f82/f82-uclp-cnr-symposium-living-with-cognitive-disability
Enquiries to CNR@ucl.ac.uk

Friday 8th February 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr. Evgeniya Kirilina, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig)
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 15th February 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Talfan Evans, UCL
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 22nd February 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Tobias Hauser, UCL
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 1st March 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Thomas Parr, UCL
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Wednesday 6th March 2019, 4pm
Speaker:  Frances Wiseman, UCL
Down Syndrome Seminar Series: Title to be arranged

Venue: Large second floor seminar room, Queen Square House
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

 

Friday 8th March 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Elena Boto, University of Nottingham
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 15th March 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Marion Rouault, UCL
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 22nd March 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Prof Stephanie Jones, Brown University
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 29th March 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Rani Moran, UCL
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

2 April 2019 to 5 April 2019
Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases

The inaugural Biomarkers in neurodegenerative Diseases course took place April 2018 at the University of Gothenburg. We are pleased to announce that the course will be held in 2019 in Queen Square as an exciting UCL/University of Gothenburg (UGot)
Venue: Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square

Further information

 

Wednesday 3rd April 2019, 4pm
Speaker: Rosalyn Hithersay, LonDowns/KCL
Down Syndrome Seminar Series:
Shining a light on cortical function in Down syndrome: a functional near infrared spectroscopy feasibility study
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry, KCL
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

 

4th and 5th April 2019
12th Annual Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference
Venue: Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne
Further information:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cnmd/events
Contact:
cnmd.contact@ucl.ac.uk

 

Friday 5th April 2019, 3.15pm
Speaker: Dr Yael Balbastre, UCL
Brain meeting: title tbc
Venue:  4th floor seminar room, WCHN, 12 Queen Square
Further information:
ion.fil.brainmeetings@ucl.ac.uk

 

Wednesday 14th July  2019, 4pm
Down Syndrome Seminar Series: Speaker and Title to be arranged

Venue: Large second floor seminar room, Queen Square House
Further information: Frances Wiseman (
f.Wiseman@ucl.ac.uk) and Elizabeth Fisher (elizabeth.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)