2023 Programme
The inaugural 2023 event was kindly sponsored by Generon, Thistle Scientific & New England Biolabs
9 AM Arrival and registration
Session 1: Trafficking, transport and the cytoskeleton
Session Chair: Alessio Vagnoni
9:30 AM Marvin Bentley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Kinesin Phosphoregulation is Integral for Dendrite-selective Transport".
9:50 AM Jessica Bithell, University of Warwick, "KIF15 regulates dense core vesicle transport in neurons".
10:10 AM Holly Burbidge, The University of Manchester, "Ciliary sequestration of Smoothened facilitates actin remodelling to drive axon extension during vertebrate CNS development"
10:30 AM Dhanya Cheerambathur, University of Edinburgh, "Repurposing the chromosome-segregation machinery as a "tuner" of actin dynamics during dendrite branching"
10:50 AM Natalia Sanchez Soriano, University of Liverpool, "Microtubule networks are a key lesion site in ageing neurons and a key driver of neuronal decay"
11:10 AM Coffee break
Session 2: Organisation across scales
Session Chair: Emilie Hollville
11:25 AM Jose Norberto S. Vargas, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, "BDNF controls transcriptional and signalling networks governing cytoskeletal organization and axonal transport and regeneration"
11:45 AM Lubna Nuhu-Soso, University of York, "Characterising the neuronal functions of TLK2, an intellectual disability gene"
12:05 PM Rosalind Norkett, Francis Crick Institute, "Investigating the Mitochondria-Plasma membrane Contactome"
12:45 PM Holly Rutherford, University of Sheffield, "Microglia replacement in a zebrafish model of childhood leukodystrophy as a potential therapy"
Lunch, networking and poster session
12:45 PM Lunch & posters
Plenary speakerÂ
15:00 PM Ilan Davis, University of Oxford, "mRNA localisation in glia and its role in neuronal plasticity"
Session 3: Synapses and signalling
Session Chair: Mathew Horrocks
15:40 PM Paul Donlin-Asp, University of Edinburgh, "Imaging local protein synthesis in the mouse cortex"
16:00 PM Vincent Croset, Durham University, "Post-synaptic gating of dopaminergic modulation in the Drosophila learning and memory centre"
16:20 PM Jimena Monzon Sandoval, UKDRI at Cardiff University, "Activity-dependent cholesterol biosynthesis in human-derived astrocytes increases functional maturation of human-derived cortical neurons"
16:40 PM Nicol Birsa, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, "Axonal stress triggers a transport-independent somatic stress response"
17:00 PM Closing comments and departure