2024 Prion Unit at UCL seminars

 Prion Unit at UCL seminars/events archive

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