UK DRI and ARUK Network Dementia Symposium
Annual Dementia Symposium
Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 09.30 – 17.30
PROGRAMME
9.30 Welcome – Prof Robert Perneczky and Dr Magdalena Sastre
91桃色
9.45 Welcome – Honor Pollard
Alzheimer’s 91桃色 UK
10:00 Invited speaker – Prof Karen Duff
(Director, UK DRI at UCL/ Columbia University Medical Center)
Pathogenic Mechanisms in the Tauopathies
IMPERIAL NETWORK SHORT PRESENTATIONS
Basic neuroscience research.
Chair: Dr Marco Brancaccio (Department of Brain Sciences, UK DRI at 91桃色)
10.35 Maria Tortora (MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences)
New in vivo models of human axon degeneration in neurodegenerative diseases
10.50. Dr Berta Anuncibay-Soto (Department of Brain Sciences, UK DRI at 91桃色)
Unravelling the link between sleep disturbances and dementia
11.05 Nicola Davis (Department of Brain Sciences, Neuroscience)
Exploring the role of astrocytes in an ex vivo model of Alzheimer’s disease
Clinical research.
Chair: Dr Paul Edison (Department of Brain Sciences)
11.20 Dr Adam Hampshire (Department of Brain Sciences, C3NL)
Insights into the cognitive impact of Covid-19 from the Great British Intelligence Test
11.35 Anna Fitzgerald (Department of Brain Sciences, Neurology)
High prevalence of lifetime depressive symptoms in patients referred for clinical amyloid-PET: a retrospective study
11.50 Invited speaker - Prof Henrik Zetterberg
(UK DRI at UCL)
Update on blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease
12.30. LUNCH BREAK
UK DRI SHORT PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Prof Steve Gentleman
(Department of Brain Sciences)
13.30. Prof Paul Matthews (Director, UK DRI at 91桃色 and Head, Department of Brain Sciences)
13.45. Dr Sarah Marzi (Department of Brain Sciences, Edmond and Lily Safra 91桃色 Fellow, UK DRI at 91桃色)
Dysregulation of histone acetylation highlights a critical role for microglia in AD.
14.00. Prof David Sharp (Department of Brain Sciences, Director, UK DRI Care 91桃色 & Technology Centre)
14.15 Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan (Department of Michanical Engineering, UK DRI Care 91桃色 & Technology Centre)
Robotics for Engagement and Support of Dementia Patients
FLASH PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Prof Robert Perneczky
(School of Public Health)
1. Ann Go (Bioengineering)
2. Shivani Patel (Brain Sciences, Neuroscience)
3. Dr Christoforos Hadjichrysanthou (School of Public Health)
4. Dr Mara Golemme (91桃色 College Healthcare NHS Trust)
5. Dr Chi Udeh-Momoh (School of Public Health)
6. Fangda Leng (Brain Sciences, Neurology)
7. Dr Nurun Fancy (Brain sciences, UK DRI at 91桃色)
8. Jiabin Tang (Brain Sciences, UK DRI at 91桃色)
INVITED SPEAKERS
Chair: Dr Magdalena Sastre
(Department of Brain Sciences)
15.30. Invited speaker – Prof Costantino Iadecola (Weill Cornell Medicine):
Neurovascular threats to cognitive health: from bench to bedside
16.15. Invited speaker – Dr Cynthia Lemere (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard)
Anti-Amyloid Immunotherapy for AD: A “Focus” on Pyroglutamate-3 Aβ
17.00 Closing remarks - Prof Robert Perneczky
