To commemorate International Women’s Day 2022, please join the Department of Brain Sciences for the Imperial Women in Neuroscience Symposium.
The event aims to showcase the fantastic research done by women in the Department of Brain Sciences and to also highlight positive role models with whom more junior researchers can identify.
The event will be hosted online via Microsoft Teams and is open to all at Imperial College London.
Agenda
Chairs: Dr Magdalena Sastre and Dr Jo Jackson
13:00: Welcome by Dr Jo Jackson
13:05: Welcome by Prof Paul Matthews
13:10: A historical perspective of women in biomedical research (Dr Magdalena Sastre)
13:20: Under-representation of women in science (Dr Jo Jackson)
13:30: Psilocybin assisted therapy as a treatment for Anorexia Nervosa (Dr Meg Spriggs)
13:45: Stroke recovery – Networks and the future (Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh)
14:00: Keynote address from Professor Patricia Salinas, UCL – Deficiency in Wnt signalling contributes to synapse degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease.
14:40: Tracking behavioural recovery after traumatic brain injury (Dr Lucia Li)
15:00: A multiplexed approach to redefine selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease (Dr Alessia Caramello)
15:20: Flash presentations
- Investigating the role of sex-dependent risk profiles and biological pathways on the development of Alzheimer’s Disease (Sima Toopchiani)
- Using big data and open code to identify relationships between neural network dynamics and behaviour (Danielle Kurtin)
- A non-invasive ultrasound technology to deliver drugs to the brain (Sophie Morse)
- Lewy Body Dementias – a Limbic Problem? (Shivani Patel)
- The Relationship between reward and Impulsivity in Substance Dependence: an fMRI Study’ (Lexi Hayes)
- TSPO regulates dsDNA signalling in human Microglia (Dr Maria Weinert)
15:50: Questions for short presentations
16:00: Close
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr Jo Jackson and Dr Magdalena Sastre.