8.30 a.m. |
Arrival and Registration
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9.00 |
Edinburgh Neuroscience in 2010
Prof Peter Sandercock (Director, Edinburgh Neuroscience)
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9.30 |
Is there a link between IQ in early life and health in adulthood ? Contributions from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology
Dr David Batty (Centre for Conitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology)
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10.00 |
Molecular mechanisms regulating synaptic plasticity in health and neurodegeneration
Dr Liliana Minichiello (Centre for Neuroregeneration)
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10.30 |
Coffee and Posters
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11.15 |
Translation factors and neuronal degeneration
Dr Cathy Abbott (Molecular Medicine Centre)
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11.45 |
Development of the thalamocortical input to the somatosensory cortex
Dr Michael Daw (Centre for Integrative Physiology)
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12.15 p.m. |
High-throughput computing: faster results and new analyses with the Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility
From water random motion to brain's white matter fibres and the study of cognition via ECDF
Dr Susana Munoz Maniega, SFC Brain Imaging Centre.
Web-based workflows for brain image analysis
Dr Kenton D'Mellow,, Research Systems Consultant.
SPRINT a parallel framework for R
Ms Muriel Mewissen, Division of Pathway Medicine
Computational approaches to the regulatory genomics of neurogenesis
Dr Ian Simpson, Centre for Integrative Physiology
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1.00 |
Lunch and Posters
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2.30 |
Visuo-spatial representations in the normal and damaged brain
Prof Robert Logie & Prof Sergio Della Sala (Human Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology)
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3.00 |
Challenges in neuro-oncology
Prof Ian Whittle (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences)
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3.30 |
Tea and posters
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| 4.00 |
Annual Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience supported by The Physiological Society
Optogenetics: development and application
Prof Karl Deisseroth, Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Introduced by: Prof Mike Shipston(Centre for Integrative Physiology)
Preceded by the announcement of the Poster Competition winners |
| 5.00 |
Poster competition winners will present their posters |
5.30 |
Close of Meeting
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7.30 |
Dinner at Merchants Restaurant hosted by Neuroscience Honours Class
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