Speakers
Professor Richard Reynolds
Imperial College London
Introduction
Professor James Best
LKCMedicine
Welcome Address 1
Professor Jonathan Weber
Imperial College London
Welcome Address 2
Professor Paul Matthews
Imperial College London
Neurodegeneration and Dementia Research at Imperial
Professor George Augustine
LKCMedicine
Neurodegeneration and Dementia Research at LKCMedicine
Dr Johanna Jackson
Imperial College London
Presentations Chair
Genomics/Transcriptomics
Dr Raffaella Nativio
Imperial College London
Epigenetics of neurodegeneration
Dr Foo Jia Nee
LKCMedicine
Genomic approaches to understand neurodegeneration
Molecular Mechanisms
Dr Yu Ye
Imperial College London
Proteostasis in neurodegeneration
Dr Anna Baron
LKCMedicine
Targeting mitochondria for treatment of Alzhimer's Disease
Circuits to Synapses
Dr Sam Barnes
Imperial College London
Micro-circuit plasticity in ageing and AD
Dr Tsukasa Kamigaki
LKCMedicine
Cortical organisation of working memory
How temperature and circadian rhythms intersect to regulate a protein shown to protect against neurodegeneration
A new study led by Dr Marco Brancaccio (UK DRI at Imperial) and Dr Marieke Hoekstra (former UK DRI at Imperial, now VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research) offers a deeper insight into how a neuroprotective pathway is regulated both by temperature and the body clock. This research, published in the journal PNAS, could open up new therapeutic avenues for neurodegenerative disease. Read more on the UK DRI website
Introducing Cynthia Sandor: Pioneering earlier detection of Parkinson’s
Dr Cynthia Sandor, former Emerging Leader at the UK DRI at Cardiff, joins the UK DRI at Imperial as a Group Leader, where she will be tackling early diagnosis of Parkinson’s.
With a background in genetics, Dr Sandor uses computational methods to bring greater understanding to the underlying molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s. Read more about Cynthia's work on the UK DRI website.
