Event Archive

2020

March

• Silk: Discovery thread for healthcare applications

  05 March 2020, 13:00 - 14:00

  Phillip Seib - University of Strathclyde

February

• "Taking it up a Notch - building the vertebrate body plan."

  27 February 2020, 13:00 - 14:00

  Kim Dale - University of Dundee

• 'Identifying genetic interactions in the pharyngeal endoderm that control cardiovascular development.'

  24 February 2020, 13:00 - 14:00

  Simon Bamforth - University of Newcastle

• "Multilevel control of myelination in the developing peripheral nervous system."

  20 February 2020, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dies Meijer - University of Edinburgh

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  Brain mechanisms of liking & wanting food rewards

  11 February 2020, 13:15 - 14:00

  Seminar Abstract: The pleasure of tasty foods, and the desire to eat them, arise in our brains – not simply in the foods themselves.  This talk will describe how a brain network of small hedonic hotspots generate intense ‘liking’ for food, and how larger brain mesolimbic systems generate ‘wanting’ to...

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  Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

  03 February 2020, 18:30 - 20:00

  A free talk and book signing by author Rachel Clarke

• "Drop the BACE: Beta secretase as a novel therapeutic target for cardiometabolic disease"

  03 February 2020, 13:00 - 14:00

  Paul Meakin - University of Leeds

January

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  Motives and Modulators of Human Decision Making

  28 January 2020, 13:15 - 14:00

  Prof Soyoung Park, German Institute of Human Nutrition

• 'Circadian rhythms and skeletal muscle-re-setting the clock in metabolic disease'

  20 January 2020, 13:00 - 14:00

  Brendan Gabriel - Karolinska Institute

2019

December

• Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: Inherited conditions with multi-functional RNA binding proteins at their core

  17 December 2019, 13:30 - 14:30

  Judith Sleeman