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Upcoming Seminars

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Cancer Research and Development Public Lecture (open to the public)
Brain Cancer - recent advances in treatment
Wednesday 29th February 2012
6 - 8 pm, George Square Lecture Theatre, George Square
Organiser: Lisa Wood
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Cardiovascular Sciences
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
Series Organiser: Heather Laing
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Clinical Brain Sciences - Academic Half Day
Neurophysiology and muscle disease
Dr Greg Moran, Western General Hospital
Thursday 23rd February 2012
1.15 pm, DCN Seminar Room, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital

Series Organiser: Suvanka Pal
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Clinical Brain Sciences - Brain Research Imaging Centre
MR Physics: Solids, Liquids, People
Michael Thrippleton, Medical Physics
Monday 27th February 2012
12.30 pm, Teaching and Research Seminar Room, Division of Clinical Neuroscience (DCN), Western General Hospital

Series Organiser: Maria Valdes Hernandez and Moira Henderson
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Clinical Brain Sciences - Psychiatry
Saving  Women's  Lives: what  can  mental  health  services  do?
Dr  Roch  Cantwell,  Perinatal  Psychiatry,  Southern  General  Hospital
Wednesday 15th
February 2012
4 pm, Small Lecture Theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Host:
Prof Andrew  McIntosh,  sponsored  by  SMHRN
Series Organiser
: Prof Stephen Lawrie
watch the seminar live! (also, all 2011 seminars now available to view)
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Clinical Brain Sciences - Stroke Research Group
Small Vessel Disease: proposal for a randomised trial
Prof Joanna Wardlaw, Brain Research Imaging Centre
Wednesday 22nd February 2012
2 pm, DCN Seminar Room, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital
Series Organiser: Dr Will Whiteley

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Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology
The Remarkable Plasticity of Ageing
Professor Kaare Christensen, Department of Public Health, The Danish Ageing Research Centre.
Tuesday 8th May 2011
5 p.m., Room F21, Psychology Building, 7 George Square
Followed by a wine reception
Series Organiser: Dr Beverley Roberts
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Cognitive and Neural Systems
Controlled hippocampal modulation as a mechanism underlying the suppression of unwanted memories

Dr. Michael Anderson
, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
Thursday 1st March 2012
4 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square

Series Organiser: Richard Morris
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Cognitive Neuroimaging Seminar series
Visualizing internal face representations from behavioural and brain imaging data
Dr. Marie Smith, Birkbeck, University of London
Thursday 23rd February 2012
4 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square
Host: Cyril Pernet

Series Organisers: Alexa Morcom, Cyril Pernet and Thomas Wolbers
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College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine - Inaugural Lectures (open to the public)
Cardiothoracic Radiology - a journey in time and place
Professor Edwin JR van Beek, SINAPSE Chair of Clinical Radiology
Monday 27th February 2012
5.15 pm, Lecture Theatre A, Chancellor’s Building, Little France Crescent
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College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine - Medical Detectives (open to the public)
This series has ended for 2011, look out for a futrue series in 2012
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Edinburgh Neuroscience
Early Years Researchers Funders Afternoon with the Wellcome Trust and MRC
Tuesday 20th March 2012
2 - 5 pm, Reception Room, McEwan Hall, Bristo Square (entre from the old Medical School Quad)
Organiser: Edinburgh Neuroscience

booking will open in mid February
Edinburgh Neuroscience
Neuroscience Day 2012
Wednesday 21st March 2012
9am - 5 pm, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Queen's Street
Organiser: Edinburgh Neuroscience

booking will open in mid February
Emotions Reading Group
awaiting notification of next meeting
Series Organiser: Rosie Garrett Anderson
Evolutionary Biology
Regeneration, development and stemcells in flatworms

Aziz Aboobaker, University of Nottingham
Wednesday 7th March 2012
4 pm, Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Lanoratories, King's Buildings
this is the next seminar that may be of interest to neurosciencetists
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Genetics and Molecular Medicine
Transition states and ß-catenin signalling in self renewal and differentiation of Stem Cell populations
Professor Alfonso Martinez-Arias, University of Cambridge
Thursday 23rd February 2012

1 pm, MRC Seminar Room, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General hospital

Host: Prof Nick Hastie
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Geriatric Medicine
awaiting notification of next meeting
Series Contact: Maureen Harding
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Honyman Gillespie Lecture In association with the Lister Postgraduate Institute
Neurodegeneration, stem cells and brain repair
Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Thursday 23rd February 2012
5 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, Little France

Inflammation Research - Research in Progress
no neuroscience-related seminars currently scheduled
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Informatics - Adaptive and Neural Computation Workshop
Anxiety in the UK… (actually in Zebrafish!)
Douglas Armstrong, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
My PhD in 30 Minutes or Less: Proteins, Anatomy and Networks of the Fruit Fly Brain
Seymour Knowles Barley, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation

Tuesday 21st February 2012
11 am, Room 4.31/4.33, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street
Series Contact: Charles Sutton

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Informatics - Hamming Seminar
no seminar currently scheduled
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Informatics - Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Integrative Physiology
Specification, maintenance and elimination of neuromesodermal axial progenitors
Dr Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Friday 24th February 2012
12.30 pm, Lecture Theatre, Hugh Robson Building, George Square
Series organisers: Thomas Theil and Ian Duguid
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Monday Neuroscience Seminar Series
Signal failure: Molecular mechanisms underlying motor neuropathy
Dr. Zameel Cader, University of Oxford
Monday 20th February 2012
3.45 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France
Host
: Prof Tom Gillingwater
Series organisers
: David Lyons and Tom Gillingwater
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Music in Human and Social Development
no seminar currently scheduled
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Neurological Student Society (Edinburgh University)
Neurodegeneration
Prof Thomas Gillingwater, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research
Thursday 1st March 2012
7 pm, Faculty Room S, David Hume Tower, George Square
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Pathway Medicine
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Pharmacological Student Society (Edinburgh University)
no seminar currently scheduled
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Philosophy Student Society (Edinburgh university)
no neuorscience-related event currently scheduled
Postgraduate Social Seminar Series (SBMS)
awaiting notification of next seminar

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Psychology - Cognitive Ageing Journal Club
title to be advised
Simon Cox, Human Cognitive Neuroscience
Monday 27th February 2012
12.30 pm, Room B21, Psychology Building, 7 George Square
Series Organiser
: Catherine Murray
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Psychology - Human Cognitive Neuroscience
Improving 7 day memory via a brief wakeful rest

Jessica Alber, Human Cognitive Neuroscience
Friday 17th February 2012
4 pm, Room S38, Psychology Building, 7 George Square

Series Organiser: Maria Garraffa
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Psychology - Philosophy, Psychology and Informatics Reading Group
The Problem of Unconscious Consciousness
Jean-Michel Roy, Ecole Normale Supérieure
Wednesday 22nd
February 2012
4.30 pm, Room B21, Psychology Building, 7 George Square
Series Organiser
: Till Vierkant

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Psychology Colloquia
Control of Movement
Dave Lee, Director, Perception-Movement-Action Research Consortium, University of Edinburgh
Monday 27th February 2012
5.15 pm., Lecture Theatre F21, Psychology, 7 George Square
Host: Dr Thomas Bak
Series Organiser: Thomas Bak

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Queen's Medical Research Institute Seminar
no seminar currently scheduled
Regenerative Medicine
no seminar currently scheduled
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Roslin Institute - Easter Bush Research Consortium
Cognitive ageing and cognitive epidemiology in the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936
Prof Ian Deary, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday 22nd February 2012
11 am, Auditorium, Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Research Campus
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Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - Grand Round
no neuroscience-related grand round currently scheduled
Scottish TSE Network (STN)
PrP Fragmentation in Health and Disease
Thursday 12th April 2012
2 - 5 pm, Auditorium, The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Research Campus

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Synthetic Systems Edinburgh (formally Systems Biology Edinburgh)
no seminar currently scheduled
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology
Production and destruction of RNA in human nuclei
Professor Torben Heick Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Monday 16th April 2012
12 noon, Lecture Theatre 1, Rutherford Building, King's Buildings

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Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Western General Hospital - Grand Round
no neuroscience-related Grand Round this week
Series organisers: Ms Kelly Black /Dr Brian Campbell

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