WIBR Symposium Thursday 13th June 2019

Welcome

10:20am

10:30am

10 mins

Dr Beverley Clark 
Director WIBR

Development, Plasticity and Repair
Lab

Chair: Dr Beverley Clark

10:30am

11:00am

30 mins 

Transient increased cortical inhibition and disrupted behaviours in mice.
Professor Nicoletta Kessaris
(7 mins)

Oligodendrocyte cholesterol in developmental and ageing brain.
Dr Huiliang Li 
(7mins)

Myelinating memories: intro to the Richardson lab
Professor William D. Richardson
(7mins)

The role of Ino80 and Smarca5 chromatin remodelling complexes in oligodendrocytes
Dr Jordan Wright
(3mins)  

Working memory training stimulates and requires new oligodendrocyte generation
Dr Takahiro Shimizu
(3mins)  

Neuronal maturation in the adult murine lateral entorhinal cortex
Dr Richa Tripathi
(3mins)

Nociception
Lab

Chair: Dr Huiliang Li

11:00am

11:30am

30 mins 

Function and regulation of sodium channel Na_V1.7 in pain
Dr Jing Zhao
(10 mins)

Post-transcriptional regulation of sensory neuron phenotype
Dr Ali Bangash
(10 minutes)

FAAH-OUT! A new pain insensitivity gene
Dr James Cox
(10 mins)

Development and function of the social brain circuit
Lab

Chair: Dr Beverley Clark

Is loneliness painful? Social behaviour and nociception in zebrafish
Dr Elena Dreosti

Neural Circuits for Pain
Lab

Chair: Dr Beverley Clark

Expanding the toolkit to deconstruct pain
Dr Liam Browne

External Speaker

Chair: Dr Beverley Clark

12:00pm

12:30pm

(20 mins + 10mins questions)

Genomic analysis of neurodegeneration
Professor John Hardy
Institute of Neurology

Poster presentations and lunch

1. Dr Hande Tunbak Social preference in the zebrafish brain
2. Elisa De Sequeira Couto E Vazao Clemente Trigeminal activity underlying thermal nociception in zebrafish
3. Oliver Gauld Two-photon all-optical interrogation of L2/3 mouse barrel cortex during a sensory discrimination task
4. Ara Schorscher-Petcu Ultrafast and spatially precise evoked and quantified protective pain behaviour

5. Nick Robinson
   Direct activation of hippocampal place cells drives memory-guided behaviour

6. Kaoru Beppu Graded sign inversion via inhibitory networks in cerebellar cortex

Drug Discovery
Lab

Chair: Dr James Cox

1:30pm

2:00pm

30 mins 

Drug discovery for the brain - not so easy
Professor David Selwood
(10min)

Enhancing gene therapy
Dr Joshua Maw
(10 mins)

Student talks (3 min each)

Immune activation for the treatment of glioma
Anastasia Patsiarika
(MSc student)

Building new proteomics tools
Restuan Lubis
(MRes student)

AI and drug discovery
Oliver Scott
(PhD student)  

Neural Computation
Lab

Chair: Professor Nicoletta Kessaris

Overview of the Hausser lab
Professor Michael Hausser

Closed-loop all-optical interrogation of neural circuits
Zoe Zhang

Reward signalling in the cerebellar cortex
Dr Dimitar Kostadinov

Closing

2:30pm

Dr Beverley Clark