Northwest Neuroscience Meeting 2021

Venue

Time

Activity

Presenter

Institute

MORNING SESSION

Lounge

10.30am

Registration

Lecture theatre

11.00am

Welcome

John Gigg

UoM

11.05am

Plenary 1

Rob Lucas

UoM

Optogenetic strategies to restore vision in retinal degeneration

11.35am

ECR talks 1

Chair: Iain Hunter

Ada Bradlaugh

UoM

Essential elements of radical pair magnetosensitivity in Drosophila

Sarah Martin

MMU

Free-water imaging of the cholinergic basal forebrain and pedunculopontine nucleus in Parkinson’s disease

Andrew Greenhalgh

UoM

Studying the neuroimmunology of concussion

Laura Mulligan

MMU

The healing power of touch

Lounge

1.00pm

LUNCH AND POSTERS

16 posters

AFTERNOON SESSION

Lecture theatre

2.30pm

ECR talks 2

Chair: TBA

Nina Milosavljevic

UoM

BRIAN – every neuroscientist’s best friend

Varinder Lall

Leeds

Spike propagation through the dorsal root ganglion investigated using a modified working heart brainstem preparation

Alysha Burrows

MMU

Investigating neural differentiation capacity in Alzheimer’s disease iPSC-derived neural stem cells

Patrycja Orlowska-Feuer

UoM

Light-responsive neurons in the suprachiasmatic area of diurnal and nocturnal rodents

Beatriz Bano Otalora

UoM

Impact of bright daytime light exposure on the circadian clock in a diurnal mammal

4.15pm

Plenary 2

James Jepson

UCL

How does BK channel hyperfunction cause involuntary movements and seizures? Defining critical cell-types and developmental windows through a Drosophila knock-in model

Lounge

5.00 - 6.00pm

Wine, Mulled wine, Tea/coffee & posters

Andreea

Pantiru

Altered behaviour, metabolism and neural activity in a mouse model of intellectual disability with a mutation in PDZD8 gene

Sahal

Alotaibi

Neural processing differences during short-term Spoken and signed language learning: fMRI study

Kholoud

Alwashmi

Auditory spatial cueing improves visual perception using virtual reality and fMRI

Marie

Burgess

Individuals with chronic pain lack optimistic bias about future events

Marilyn

Clark

Expression of the GLP-1 receptor in CSFcNs of the spinal cord: a potential role in cell proliferation and differentiation?

Bramwell

Coulson

Effects of critical period activity perturbation on the Drosophila larval locomotor circuit

Alex

Dyson

ASD-associated NF1 regulates synaptic transmission at the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction

Jen

Fletcher

Investigating the effects of acute and chronic exercise on cognitive dysfunction in a preclinical model of relevance to schizophrenia

Arianna

Fozzato

Inhibition of mitochondria fission in astrocytes of the dorsal Vagal complex reduces food intake and body weight and induces changes in brown adipose tissue of high-fat diet fed rats

Loredana

Frau

The role of cognitive reserve and depression on the use of executive strategies in older adults with high risk of dementia: a 10-year longitudinal study

Alice

Gregorie

Understudied chloride channels of rat Dorsal Root Ganglia: glycine receptors and Anoctamin 6/TMEM16F

Jessica

Henderson

Neural correlates of texture perception during active touch

Danielle

Hewitt

Intensity-dependent modulation of cortical somatosensory processing during external, low-frequency peripheral nerve stimulation in humans”

Tyler

Mari

Classifying pain intensity using machine learning and EEG: A development and external validation paradigm

Alice

Newton-Fenner

Economic Value in the Brain: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis of Willingness-to-pay

Shihab

Shah

Nanodomain Ca2+ signals couple activation of TRPV1 and ANO1 sensory ion channels

Yuhong

Sun

Early impairment of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in the TgF344-AD rat model for Alzheimer’s disease