Join the UK Dementia Research Institute at Imperial College London and Professor Giles Hardingham (Associate Director, UK Dementia Research Institute at The University of Edinburgh) for a seminar on ‘Signalling pathways to degeneration and resilience in the CNS‘
Professor Hardingham’s research group focuses on signalling events within and between neurons and glia, and how these interactions shape brain development and homeostasis as well as drive pathological cascades. The overarching aim is to understand how signaling between and within different components of the neuroglial system maintains brain homeostasis, and how this goes awry in disease. There is a deficit in our fundamental understanding of how neurons and glia control each other’s properties both basally, in response to physiological stimuli, and under pathological conditions. By exploiting new approaches that allow us to profile multiple cell types simultaneously we will uncover novel mechanisms by which inter- and intra-cellular signals integrate to achieve homeostasis in the neuroglial unit, and uncover mechanisms of non cell-autonomous neurotoxicity in neurodegeneration.
A light lunch available from 12.00 in the Wolfson Café
Hosted by Professor Paul M Matthews (p.matthews@imperial.ac.uk)
Contact Dr Jennifer Podesta (j.podesta@imperial.ac.uk) to arrange to meet with the speaker.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/dementia-research-institute/seminars/