Neuroscience Day 2008

Edinburgh Neuroscience hosted Neuroscience Day 2008 on 6th March 2008 at The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, for all those at The University of Edinburgh with an interest in Neuroscience. Attended by over 300 neuroscientists and students, there were talks and poster presentations on very diverse neuroscience subjects from the highly molecular to the clinical and human cognition - there was something for everyone.

Congratulations to our Organon sponsored PhD student poster competition winners who each recive £400 to attend a scientific meeting of their choice:
Mr Nick Bradshaw (Molecular Medicine Centre): NDE1 interacts with DISC1: A link between schizophrenia-related genes
Mr Christos Gkogkas (Centre for Neuroscience Research): Motor Neurone Disease and the endoplasmic reticulum
Mr Dario Magnani (Centre for Integrative Physiology): GLi3 is necessary for the formation of the major axonal tracts within the telencephalon

Neuroscience Day 2008 could not happen without financial support, and this year we are very grateful to have recieved funding from the following:
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, Centre for Integrative Physiology, Centre for Neuroscience Research, Human Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroinformtics Doctoral Training Centre, all The University of Edinburgh. In addition The Physiological Society and The British Neuroscience Association generously contributed funds.

Click on the view talk links, or the speaker photographs, to view the talks. These files are Windows Media Video files and can be played using Windows Media Player (click here to download this programme from the Microsoft website).

Neuroscience Day 2008
Programme of Talks

	Professor Charles ffrench-Constant (Centre for Regenerative Medicine) Towards remyelinating therapies in Multiple Sclerosis this talk may be available to view soon (33 min)
	Dr Mark Head (National CJD Surveillance Unit) Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease this talk not available to view
	Dr Robert McIntosh (Human Cognitive Neuroscience) Attending to the rehibilitation of spatial neglect view talk (27 min)
	Dr Matt Nolan (Centre for Neuroscience Research) Organization of synaptic information processing in a cognititve circuit view talk (30 min)
	The Translational Neuroscience Lecture Sponsored by the British Neuroscience Association Professor Hugh Willison (University of Glasgow) The pathogenesis and therapy of autoimmune peripheral nerve disorders Introduced by Prof Peter Brophy This talk is not available to view
	Dr Catherina Becker (Centre for Neuroscience Research) Making New Motor Neurones in the Adult Spinal cord - Lessons from Zebrafish view talk (26 min)
	Dr Jane Walker (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) 'Give a man a treatment and you help him for a day. Teach him how to treat himself and you help him for a lifetime': A radomised control trial of self-help for neurology patients with unexplained symptoms This talk is not available to view
	David Wyllie (Centre for Neuroscience Research) The ABC of NMDA receptors: Agonists, Blockers and Chimeras view talk (27 min)
	Luke Chamberlain (Centre for Integrative Physiology) Palmitoylation and trafficking of exocytotic proteins This talk is not available to view
	Annual Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience sponsored by The Physiological Society Dr Ray Dingledine (Chemical Biology Discovery Center and Department of Pharmacology, Emory University, USA) Understanding the evolution of abnormal network excitability Introduced by: David Wyllie (Centre for Neuroscience Research) view talk (62 min)

The Neuroscience Honours Class of 2008 host the Annual Neuroscience Dinner at Merchant's Restuarant

Neuroscience Day 2008 in pictures!

Poster presentations
Edinburgh Neuroscience co-directors Prof Charles Warlow and Prof Richard Morris with the administrator Dr Jane Haley

The invited lecturers:
Ray Dingledine (right)
Hugh Willison

The Organon sponsored poster competition was won by:
Mr Nick Bradshaw (2nd from left)
Mr Christos Gkogkas (3rd from left)and
Mr Dario Magnani (far right)
The presentations were made by Dr John Morrow from Organon.

Neuroscience Day 2008

Neuroscience Day 2008 Programme of Talks

Neuroscience Day 2008 in pictures!

Neuroscience Day 2008
Programme of Talks