• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Dr John Davis (Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute)
• Web Address: http://oxford-ddi.alzheimersresearchuk.org/

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Synaptic and immune system changes in the brains of mice with rising amyloid beta. Can we improve mouse models for Alzheimer's disease?
  Professor Frances Edwards (University College London (UCL))

Wednesday 13 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Synapse degeneration and recovery: a role of Wnt signalling in Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Patricia Salinas (UCL)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Microglia in neurodegeneration
  Professor Guy Brown (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - PINK1/Parkin and mitochondrial markers
  Dr David Komander (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

Thursday 22 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - AMPK - a drug target in diabetes, cancer, and even neurodegenerative diseases – too good to be true?
  Professor Grahame Hardie (University of Dundee)

Tuesday 17 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Cellular Face of Alzheimer's Disease
  Professor Bart De Strooper (UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL)

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Understanding the role of the novel TLDc proteins in neurodegeneration
  Mattea Finelli (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Two surprises in canonical Wnt signalling
  Professor Trevor Dale (Cardiff University)

Wednesday 9 January 2019 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Aggregation of tau and alpha-synuclein: towards a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases
  Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini FRS (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Mapping Synaptic Contacts: From Dendrites to the Axon Initial Segment
  Professor Juan Burrone (King's College London)

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - ABAD or a good drug target for Alzheimer’s disease?
  Dr Laura Aitken (University of St Andrews)

Thursday 11 April 2019 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Discovery and characterisation of new lipid mediators of innate immunity generated by circulating blood cells
  Professor Valerie O'Donnell (Cardiff University)

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - The role of the cadherin proteins in Alzheimer's disease
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Modelling Microglia to Understand Neurodegeneration and Aging
  Professor David Brown (University of Bath)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - More than Bystanders in Dementia—Understanding What Microglia Do
  Dr Soyon Hong (UCL)