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Tomorrow, Tues 14th May, 12pm-1pm: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar (in person): Prof Ruth Itzhaki, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing: “Herpes and dementia: the enemy within”, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tomorrow, Thurs 1st Feb, 12pm-1pm: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar (in person): Dr Wioleta Zelek, Cardiff University: “Complement in Alzheimer’s Disease”, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tomorrow, Thurs 25th Jan, 12pm-1pm: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar (in person): Prof Zoltan Takats, Imperial College London: “Ambient Mass Spectrometry in Neuroscience: From spatial biology to neurosurgery”, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Today, Fri 19th Jan, 1pm-2pm: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar (in person): Prof Richard Brown, Dalhousie University: “The Importance of Behavioural Bioassays in Neuroscience”, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tomorrow, Thurs 11th Jan, 12pm-1pm: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar (in person): Prof Clare Bryant, University of Cambridge: 'Are Toll-like receptors and inflammasomes therapeutic targets for neuroinflammation?', John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tomorrow, Thurs 9th Nov, 12pm-1pm: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar (in person): Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge: “Translational applications of human brain charts: from clinical to population neuroscience”, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

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Tomorrow, Tues 10th Oct, 4.30pm: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar (in person): Prof Subhojit Roy, UCSD: “Unexpected physiologic role of alpha-synuclein Serine-129 phosphorylation”, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair.

Tomorrow, Thurs 5th Oct: Dept of Clinical Neurosciences Seminar: Prof Karalyn Patterson
‘Thoughts on the interaction of different memory systems: evidence from semantic dementia’. 
12-1pm, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, in person only but all welcome

📚 Dr Andy Osborne and I wrote a book chapter on how to deliver #AAV to #RGC within the eye 👁️. We hope it helps fellow researchers to carry out effective intravitreal injections to transduce the inner retinal surface while avoiding common pitfalls🧑‍🔬. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-…

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Zuhang Sheng (NIH, Bethesda) will give the Cambridge Clin Neuro seminar at 16:00 in the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair: “Energy matters: programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics to power neural regeneration”. In person seminar, all welcome.

On the journal cover 📸. Transgene expression in axons of retinal ganglion cells along the visual pathway 👁️. The image shows expression from AAV2-SYN-eGFP. Read the full article ➡️ nature.com/articles/s4143… #AAV #eye #retina #genedelivery #GTArticle

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Prof Kelly Monk (Vollum Institute, OHSU, Portland) will give the Cambridge Clin Neuro seminar at 12:00 Thur 22nd June, Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room, Forvie Site: “Molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuron-glia interactions”. In person seminar, all welcome.

There's one more week left to apply for 2 MRC-funded Research Associate positions in the lab. One post is in Organoid Neurobiology and the other one is in Computational Biology/Data Science with Harvard-Cambridge collaborative opportunities. See below:

Many congratulations to Dr Richard Eva for starting his own laboratory at King's College London. Follow his research here: Richard Eva

Congratulations, Tasneem! We are delighted that your work performed with us @Cam_Uni Cam Neuroscience has been recognised as significant research by ARVO. #genetherapy #glaucoma #dementia