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UK DRI Seminar: David Attwell

24 July 2019, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm

UK Dementia Research Institute

Event Information

Open to

All

Organiser

Katharine Buckle

Location

Lecture Theatre 1
Cruciform Building
Gower St, Fitzrovia
London
WC1E 6BT

The role of capillary pericytes in health, stroke and Alzheimer's disease

In this UK DRI seminar, Professor Attwell will share exciting data from his lab that suggest a new role of Abeta in reducing cerebral blood flow via pericyte-mediated capillary constriction.

In addition to the live event, the seminar will be streamed online. Click here for webstream link. 

About the Speaker

David Attwell

Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London

Professor David Attwell, FRS, FMedSci, Acad Europaea is the Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London.  Professor Attwell studied physics in Oxford, and then did a PhD in neuroscience with Julian Jack.  After a post-doc in Berkeley studying the retina with Frank Werblin, he came to UCL.  The Attwell lab is interested in signalling between neurons, glial cells (microglia, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes) and the vasculature, and in how the brain's energy supply is controlled and determines the computational power of the brain, using patch-clamping, 2-photon imaging, immunolabelling and mathematical modelling techniques.