ECND Programme 23 October 2024 | Bristol Neuroscience Research Network

The programme for the GW4 Early Career Neuroscientists' Day, 23 October 2024:

9.30-10.30	Welcome refreshments and pastries
10.30-10.35	Welcome and Introduction	Professor Marcus Munafò	Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor - Research Culture, Professor of Biological Psychology and MRC Investigator, School of Psychological Science	University of Bristol
10.35-10.50	ECR talk	Marlene Staginnus	Research Associate, Department of Psychology	University of Bath	Dimensional Associations Between Conduct Problems and Brain Structure: A Coordinated Analysis of 18 Cohorts From the ENIGMA-Antisocial Behavior Working Group
10.50-11.05	ECR talk	Rebecca Carnegie	GW4 CAT Doctoral Fellow in Psychiatry	University of Bristol	Micronutrients and Mood Disorders: Using Mendelian Randomization to identify potentially causal nutritional risk factors for depression
11.05-11.20	ECR talk	Jack Underwood	Wellcome GW4-CAT Clinical Research Fellow, Neuroscience & Mental Health Innovation Institute	Cardiff University	Childhood trauma as a mediator between autistic traits and depression: evidence from the ALSPAC birth cohort
11.20-11.35	ECR talk	Karen Low	NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Bristol Medical School	University of Bristol	“They don’t know how to live with a child with these conditions, they can’t understand…”: The lived experiences of parenting a child with a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder.
11.35-12.05	Keynote talk	Michael Owen	Professor, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences; Emeritus Director of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Innovation Institute, Cardiff University	Cardiff University	The Nature of Schizophrenia: Genetic Findings and their Implications
12.05-12.14	Sponsor's pitch	Adam Stanley	Sales Account Manager	Stratech
12.14-12.16	Poster presenter flash talk	Amy Amin	PhD student, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience	University of Bristol	Effort in Action: Distinct Dopamine Signalling in Different Striatal Regions
12.16-12.18	Poster presenter flash talk	Bangfu Zhu	Research Associate, Department of Life Sciences	University of Bath	Investigating neural network dysfunction in stem cell-derived neurons using a microelectrode array system
12.18-12.20	Poster presenter flash talk	Isabella Barclay	PhD student, Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics Cardiff and Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health	Cardiff University	Investigating the reasons behind a later or missed diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in young people and females: a population cohort study.
12.20-12.22	Poster presenter flash talk	Kenneth Steel	PhD student, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience	University of Bristol	Painstaking searches for the spinal circuit source of somatosensory evoked potentials
12.22-12.24	Poster presenter flash talk	Siri Devakumar	PhD student, Clinical and Biomedical Sciences	University of Exeter	Monocyte derived microglia - model for normal ageing?
12.26-12.28	Poster presenter flash talk	Jacob Day	PhD student, Exeter Medical School	University of Exeter	Elucidating the genotype-phenotype correlations of MARS1 variants in hereditary spastic paraplegia and wider diseases
12.28-14.30	Lunch and Poster Session
13.00-13.45	Poster Session A
13.45-14.30	Poster Session B
14.30-14.45	ECR talk	Claire Tume	School of Medicine (Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences)	Cardiff University	Genetic Implication of Specific Glutamatergic Neurons of the Prefrontal Cortex in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia
14.45-15.00	ECR talk	Matthew Claydon	Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience	University of Bristol	Selective effects of psilocin on cortico-amygdalar neurons mediated by 5HT2A and 5HT1A receptors
15.00-15.15	ECR talk	Giulia Pegoraro	PhD student, Medical School	University of Exeter	A transcriptome-wide analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain during systemic inflammation
15.15-15.30	Afternoon break
15.30-15.45	ECR talk	Daniel Goodwin	PhD student, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience	University of Bristol	Acetylcholine Dynamics in the Retrosplenial Cortex During Environmental Novelty and Reward Location Uncertainty
15.45-16.00	ECR talk	Charlotte S. Rye	MPhil student, Department of Psychology/Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience	University of Cambridge	Assessing receptor expression differences in the brains of PTSD-susceptible and PTSD-resilient rats
16.00-16.15	ECR talk	Charlotte Bridge	Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Medicine	Cardiff University	Can human pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic grafts alleviate cognitive impairments in a rat model of Parkinson’s Disease?
16.15-16.30	ECR talk	Johanna Ganssauge	PhD student, School of Biosciences	University of Exeter	Rapid and Inducible Mislocalisation of Endogenous TDP-43 in a Novel Human Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
16.30-17.00	Keynote talk	Jon Brown	Head of Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Associate Professor in Neurophysiology, University of Exeter	University of Exeter	Mechanisms underlying functional neuron-microglia interactions driven by gamma frequency neuronal network oscillations
17.00-17.15	Summary and Close	Joanna Jenkinson	Director	GW4
17.15-18.30	Reception and further opportunity to browse posters/stalls
18.30	Coaches leave for Bath, Cardiff and Exeter