9 AM Arrival, registration & coffee
9:45 AM Introduction
9:50 AM Kate Smith, University of Colorado School of Medicine, "Release Your Inhibitions: Understanding The Nanoarchitecture Of GABAergic Inhibitory Synapses"
10:10 AM John Girgis, University of Edinburgh, "Towards a Conotoxin-Based Fluorescent Probe for AMPA Receptors"
10:30 AM Panni Kaliczka, University of York, "Novel inhibitory peptides to unravel GSK3β’s activity in specific cellular compartments"
10:50 AM Rachel Moore, King's College London, "Investigating the role of SRSF RNA splicing proteins in axonal development"
11:10 AM Coffee Break
11:25 AM Abigail Stretch, University of Sheffield, "Examining Visual Dysfunction as a Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease Using Drosophila as a Model"
11:45 AM Nivedita Sarveswaran, CIMR, University of Cambridge, "Pain in a Dish: Advancing Human iPSC Nociceptor Models by Transcriptional Programming"
12:05 PM Hosain Barati, Newcastle University, "The role of purinergic receptors in modulating neuroinflammation and hyperexcitability in a mouse model of Dementia with Lewy Bodies"
12:25 PM Katherine White, University of Nottingham, "Astrocyte cold-stress signalling in ALS"
12:45 PM Lunch & posters
15:00 PM Giampietro Schiavo - University College London, Queen Square Institute of Neurology
15:40 PM Rosalind Norkett, Francis Crick institute, "Investigating Mitochondria-Plasma membrane contact sites in neurons"
16:00 PM Erin Wosnitzka, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, "Secretory autophagy shapes the neuronal surface via Golgi-independent protein trafficking"
16:20 PM Juliet Redford, University of Manchester, "Uncovering a role for AP-5 vesicles in the endolysosomal system and its role in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP)"
16:40 PM Natalia Sanchez-Soriano, University of Liverpool, "Understanding neuronal vulnerability during ageing: crucial roles for autophagy-microtubule cross-talk"
17:00 PM Drinks reception.
After drinks we have space reserved at BrewYork Walmgate (directions here) for anyone wanting food with friends & colleagues before heading home.