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Poster Abstracts for Rapid and Online Presentations
We are pleased to showcase research posters from colleagues across the Neuroscience Domain. 50 posters will be presented as rapid presentations during the poster session of the symposium (2.25-3.25pm). The remaining 61 posters will be displayed online with accompanying video presentations Please see below for more details.
The Abstract Booklet with more details is availalbe here.
A room breakdown for the Rapid Poster Presentation session is available
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2021 Rapid Poster Presentation Prize
The 10 posters shortlisted for the 2021 Rapid Poster Presentation Prize are highlighted in bold.
Cognition and Behaviour
1. Ilinca Angelescu - Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Measuring mood bias on reward with a brief smartphone task
2. Roberta Bianco - UCL Ear Institute (Presenting on the day)
Long-term implicit memory for sequential auditory patterns in humans
3. Sylvia Blackmore - Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Predictive coding and spectral asymmetry in PFC
4. Edmund Chong - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
A novel behavioral paradigm for parametric spatial working memory in rats
5. Louis Dannatt - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Unsupervised clustering on task-related representations in the prefrontal cortex
Poster | Video
6. Constance Destais - UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Investigating accuracy maximisation as a possible cause for negative affective bias
7. Samuel Failor - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Learning orthogonalizes visual cortical population codes
8. Wanying Gan - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
To investigate the relationship between music preference and perceptual speed in a music-in-noise task
9. Alexandra Gilbert - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (Presenting on the day)
Modulating sleep homeostasis using long and short days in zebrafish
10. Elena Gutierrez - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
OFC encodes novelty during a novel associative learning task in rhesus macaques
11. Anna Hengstschlaeger - UCL Division of Psychiatry (Presenting on the day)
What are the neural correlates of impaired awareness of social cognition and function in dementia? A systematic review
12. Marta Huelin - UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience (Presenting on the day)
The role of experience in memory consolidation
13. Alizee Kastler - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
Understanding how social interactions modulate pain
14. Hyunwoo Kim - UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Machine versus human affect recognition of posed and spontaneous expressions
Poster
15. Carl Lindersson - UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Region-specific encoding of decision variables across prefrontal cortex
Poster | Video
16. Lennart Luettgau - Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research (Presenting on the day)
Reinstatement of cortical outcome representations during second-order conditioning
17. Anushay Mazhar - UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Does an extended family improve mentalising in Autistic Children: a cross-cultural perspective from UK and Pakistan
18. Elena Menichini - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Sensory priors, choice and outcome history in service of optimal behaviour in noisy environments
19. Jessica Passlack - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Limitations imposed by neural circuits on successor representation models of decision making
20. Mariana R. Pereira - UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
The development of emotional face processing under a predictive processing framework: an online familiarization-novelty lookit study with infants
21. Philip Shamash - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Mice learn multi-step routes by memorizing subgoal locations
Poster
22. Margot Tirole - UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience
How to deal with limited storage: the temporal dynamics of memory triage during sleep
23. Hande Tunbak - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
Lonely or Loner?
24. Ivan Voitov - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (Presenting on the day)
Working memory is distributed, high-dimensional, and maintained by cortical feedback loops
Poster
25. Baihan Wang - UCL Division of Psychiatry (Presenting on the day)
Genome-wide association analysis of adolescent verbal memory as a psychosis endophenotype
26. Elliott Wimmer - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Replay is separately associated with planning and memory maintenance
27. Laura Zaikauskaite - UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Temporal dynamics of interactions between moral emotions and moral cognition in General Public vs. Extinction Rebellion activists. Evidence from event-related potentials
Poster
Computational Neuroscience
28. Freddie Bickford Smith - UCL Department of Experimental Psychology (Presenting on the day)
Understanding top-down attention using task-oriented ablation design
29. Tom George - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (Presenting on the day)
Reservoir networks can learn temporal regularities by selectively suppressing chaos
30. Grace Lindsay - Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Task-trained neural networks learn different recurrent visual processing strategies than bio-inspired ones do
31. Anahita Talwar - UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (Presenting on the day)
Stick or switch: modelling attentional set-shifting with CANTAB IED
Poster
32. Alessandra Nicoletta Cruz Yu - UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Emotion inference and learning
33. Yibo Zhao - UCL School of Pharmacy (Presenting on the day)
LRRK2 Protein-protein Interaction Interactome and brain region specificity
Poster
34. Liang Zhou - Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Learning sensory representations for flexible computation with recurrent circuits
Developmental Neuroscience
35. Joanna Aloor - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
An automated image processing pipeline to quantify brain-wide neurochemical expression in the larval zebrafish
36. Emily Brookes - MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL
Regulation of the Bdnf gene by genome topology and a novel enhancer during neuronal development
37. Philippa Harding - UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (Presenting on the day)
Molecular disruption in early cellular optic vesicle models derived from patients with microphthalmia and aniridia associated PAX6 variants
38. Polyxeni Katsouli - UCL Division of Medicine
Identifying and characterizing the phenotype of Schwann cell precursors for use in peripheral nerve tissue engineering
39. Neelum Mistry - UCL Division of Biosciences (Presenting on the day)
Naturally occurring tactile stimulation can augment cortical activity in neonatal infants with acquired brain injury
40. Patricia Pascual Vargas - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
A post translational modification regulates the trafficking and synaptogenic activity of the Wnt receptor Fz5
41. Rachele Rossi - Developmental Neuroscience, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Evaluation of DMD transcripts after golodirsen treatment of MyoD-converted fibroblasts from 4053-101 clinical trial patients
Poster
42. Daisy Thompson-Lake - Developmental Neurosciences, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (Presenting on the day)
Disrupted cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical network in large family with inherited stuttering Poster
Disorders of the Nervous System
43. Isabelle Austin-Zimmerman - UCL Division of Psychiatry (Presenting on the day)
Genome-wide association study investigating genetic loci for self-reported sleep duration: a meta-analysis with data from UK Biobank and the Million Veteran Program
44. Iryna Benilova - MRC Prion Unit at UCL (Presenting on the day)
Highly infectious prions are not directly neurotoxic
Poster
45. Rohan Bhome - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Brain DNA methylation ageing: observations from frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and different brain cell types
46. Jackie Casey - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Haploinsufficiency of progranulin causes impairments in mitophagy
47. Elisa Colato - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Predicting disability progression and cognitive worsening in multiple sclerosis using patterns of grey matter volumes
48. Cara Croft - UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL
Determining alpha-synuclein protein aggregate turnover and production dynamics
49. Tom Dufor - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (Presenting on the day)
Understanding the mechanisms of synapse vulnerability and resilience in a Wnt signalling deficient mouse model
50. Clíona Farrell - UK Dementia Research institute at UCL
Using organotypic hippocampal slice cultures from a mouse model of Down syndrome to assess microglia inflammasome activity in response to amyloid-β
51. Katherine Fodder - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Brain co-methylation network analysis in progressive supranuclear palsy
Poster
52. Judy Zhexing Ge - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL (Presenting on the day)
Osteopontin/SPP1-positive Perivascular Macrophages Mediate Synapse Loss in Pre-Plaque Alzheimer’s Mouse Models
53. Talia Gileadi - UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Restoration of dystrophin expression in the brain to address neurobehavioural problems in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
54. Cagla Kaya - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Investigating the consequences of trisomy 21 on mitochondrial pathways in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cells
55. Iris Kleerekooper - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Retinal dysfunction in acute optic neuritis: inflammation at the inner nuclear layer or retrograde axonal signaling?
Poster
56. Serena Lu - UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Impact of Ketogenic Diet Therapy on growth in children with epilepsy
57. Naciye Magusali - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
A genetic link between risk for Alzheimer's disease and severe COVID-19 outcomes via the OAS1 gene
58. Nuria Martin Flores - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (Presenting on the day)
Contribution of the secreted Wnt antagonist Dkk3 to synapse imbalance in Alzheimer’s disease
59. Chloe Mayhead - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Influence of different segmentation methods on the hippocampal volume in term neonates with HIE
60. Paige Mumford - UK Dementia Research institute at UCL (Presenting on the day)
Preclinical modelling in the mouse of altered neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease – Down syndrome
Poster
61. Megha Murthy - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Analysis of DNA methylation ageing in different brain regions in multiple system atrophy
62. Benjamin O'Callaghan - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Understanding the mechanism by which KANSL1 and KAT8 Parkinson’s Disease Risk Genes Regulate PINK1/PARKIN Mitophagy
63. Ernest Palomer - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Sirtuin2-induced H4K16ac deacetylation regulates Frizzled 1 and Frizzled 7 expression in AD
64. Melissa Rayner - MRC Prion Unit and UCL Institute of Prion Disease
Development of a cell-based bioassay to accurately measure Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions in human tissues
65. Olivia Rogerson - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Epigenetic clock analysis in frontotemporal dementia
Poster
66. Jai Sidpra - UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Improved Prediction of Postoperative Paediatric Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome Using An Artificial Neural Network
67. Martin Smith - UCL Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Does Phase-Amplitude Coupling (PAC) Between Brain Regions Play A Role In Seizure Generalisation?
68. Yutong Wan - UCL Division of Biosciences
Exploring the Basis of Phenotypic Diversity in Alzheimer’s Disease
Poster
69. Yanisa Wannasuphoprasit - UCL Division of Psychiatry
CYP2D6 genetic variation and antipsychotic-induced weight gain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
70. Katharina Wenz - UK Dementia Research institute at UCL
Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease – determining which chromosome 21 gene(s), when over-expressed, modulate Aβ toxicity and accumulation
71. Angeliki Zarkali - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL (Presenting on the day)
Visual dysfunction predicts cognitive impairment and white matter degeneration in Parkinson's disease
72. Ya Zhou - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Correlative light and electron microscopy suggests that mutant huntingtin dysregulates the endolysosomal pathway in presymptomatic Huntington’s disease
Homeostatic and Neuroendocrine Systems
73. Ptolemy Banks - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Insight into physiologically normal ranges of intracranial pressure and the effects of body position from 184 telemetric ICP monitor patients
74. Dan Brierley - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Central and peripheral GLP-1 systems independently suppress eating
75. Shereen Nizari - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (Presenting on the day)
Glucagon-like-peptide-1 induces cerebral arteriole dilations, increases cerebral blood flow, and promotes neuroprotection against ischaemic stroke Poster
Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia: Cellular Mechanisms
76. Stephanie Choi - MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology
Understanding the pathophysiological development of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy through non-neuronal cells
77. Timothy Church - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Direct suppression of protein kinase A by calcineurin in synapses
78. Gerard Crowley - UK Dementia Research Institute (Presenting on the day)
Chemogenetic activation of perforant pathway induces microglial complement signalling
79. Ashton Curtis - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Building stronger synapses with CaMKII and a-actinin-2
80. Megan Jones - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (Presenting on the day)
Contribution of a genetic variant of the Wnt receptor LRP6 on synapse impairment in ageing and in Alzheimer’s disease
81. Yaara Lefler - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Synaptic integration in the mouse midbrain during instinctive defensive behaviour
82. Emma Lloyd - MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology
Investigating translational homeostasis in mature axons
83. Oriol Pavon Arocas - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (Presenting on the day)
Topographic gene expression profiling of single periaqueductal gray neurons
84. Marta Perez Gonzalez - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Neuroinflammatory and synaptic characterization of the Dp1Tyb mouse model of Down syndrome
Video
85. Dimitra Sokolova - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Role of astrocytic MFG-E8 in synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease
Novel Methods, Resources and Technology Development
86. Ali Alim-Marvasti - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Seizure focus prediction from seizure semiology: data-driven cortical probabilistic heatmaps from 4643 patients
Poster
87. Stephane Bugeon - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Recording the activity of transcriptomic cell types in mouse primary visual cortex
88. Amy Leung - UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Investigation of Ataluren (PTC124) as a potential therapeutic for LCA4 in a patient-derived iPS-retinal organoid model
89. Ruth Lovering - UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science
Gene Ontology annotation of the Blood-Brain Barrier
Poster | Video
90. Anwar Nunez-Elizalde - UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Neural basis of functional ultrasound signals
91. Lyes Toualbi - UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Using non-viral S/MAR DNA vectors to restore protein expression in models of choroideremia
92. Adam Tyson - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (Presenting on the day)
BrainGlobe: a Python ecosystem for computational (neuro)anatomy
93. Matteo Zanovello - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Is the pathogenic Androgen Receptor CAG repeat expansion underestimated in the general population?
Poster
Sensory and Motor Systems
94. Paride Antinucci - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Space and rate codes in tectum-pretectum control calibrated hunting manoeuvres
Poster
95. Célian Bimbard - UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (Presenting on the day)
Visual cortex is hardly auditory
96. Davide Bono - UCL Department of Experimental Psychology (Presenting on the day)
A novel method to identify intraoral somatosensory maps in humans
97. Philip Coen - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Presenting on the day)
Mouse frontal cortex mediates additive multisensory decisions
Poster
98. Charlie Dowell - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (Presenting on the day)
Target directed saccades with specialised kinematics and eye-tail coordination during hunting behaviour in larval zebrafish
99. Alex Fratzl - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (Presenting on the day)
Flexible inhibitory control of visually-evoked defensive behaviour by the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus
100. Sara Hestehave - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (Presenting on the day)
Emotional and sensory profiles in two murine models of chronic joint pain
Poster
101. Alice Milne - UCL Ear Institute
Modulating performance and reaction time using predictability in an online auditory experiment
102. Kamile Minkelyte - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
High-yield Mucosal Olfactory Ensheathing Cells Restores Loss of Function in Rat Dorsal Root Injury
103. Oakley Morgan - UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (Presenting on the day)
Restraint stress exacerbates inflammation-induced facial and hind-limb hypersensitivity
Poster
104. Filipe Nascimento - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (Presenting on the day)
Recurrent spinal circuitry in the SOD1G93A mouse model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Poster
105. Mohammed Rupawala - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (Presenting on the day)
Neonatal development of CNS response modulation and cortical microstate engagement to repeated noxious procedures
Poster
106. Thomas Ryan - Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
What is the functional significance of the teleost pallium, the ancestral homolog of mammalian cortex?
107. Natalie Shoham - UCL Division of Psychiatry (Presenting on the day)
Associations Between Psychosis and Visual Acuity Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Poster
108. Hugo Soulat - Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (Presenting on the day)
Distinct representations of self and external motion in cortical and collicular networks
109. Flora Takacs - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (Presenting on the day)
Probing audiovisual integration in the mouse superior colliculus
110. Emmett Thompson - Sainsbury Welcome Centre (Presenting on the day)
Dorsolateral striatum composes multi-step motor sequences through the assembly of subsequence elements
111. Asaph Zylbertal - UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (Presenting on the day)
Behaviour of larval zebrafish can be predicted from ongoing whole-brain activity using recurrent neural networks