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Program
08:45 - 09:30 Registration and coffee
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome to YND2010
- Opening address
Professor Iain Gilchrist, Director of Bristol Neuroscience - The wide world of neuroscience
Dr Anne Cooke, Bristol Neuroscience
09:45 - 10:30 The SARTRE talk for translational neuroscience
- Bipolar disorder: Experience meets research
Dr Jonathan Evans and Mark Stanford
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee and Poster Session A
11:15 - 12:00 Research Talks
- Going deep and changing sleep
Claire Durant - University of Bristol - Brain repair: Can we make it work?
Alex Klein - University of Cardiff
12:00 - 12:20 BCNC Travel Prize Winners
- Investigating the hypothetical protein LOC100130431
Amy Gerrish - University of Cardiff - Human hypertension and cerebral artery stenosis
Kimberley Connor - University of Bristol - Lynsey Forsyth - University of Bristol
- More than meets the eye: infra-red eye tracking in the clinical environment
Mizhanim Shahimin - University of Cardiff
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch
13:20 - 14:50 Parallel breakout sessions (1): Mini-symposia
Topic A - Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
- Effects of acute alcohol consumption on response inhibition of salience attribution.
S Adams, AF Ataya, MR Munafò - The hippocampal-cortical network basis of ketamine-induced hyperfrontality
T Blockeel, M Shahid, N Ward, S Cochran, M Jones - Interpreting the social scene: threat detection, cost attributions and self-referential learning in social anxiety
KS Button, MR Munafò, G Lewis - Foetal Heart Rate and Infant Cortisol Reactivity: Do Programming Effects of Maternal Depression Exist? Findings from the Developing World
MC Fernandes, AL Stein, K Srinivasan, G Menezes, PG Ramchandani - Neuropsychological and neuroimaging perspectives on Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA)
M Lehmann, S Crutch, J Barnes, E Warrington, N Fox - Temporal association between childhood depressive symptoms and harmful alcohol use in adolescence: findings from a large longitudinal population-based study
L Saraceno, J Heron, MR Munafò, N Craddock, MBM van den Bree
Topic B - Cellular Neuroscience
- Role of Arf1 in NMDA receptor dependent long term depression in the hippocampus
M Amici, D Rocca, J Hanley, G Collingridge - Optogenetic control of astrocytic ATP release in vitro and in vivo
M Figueiredo, F Tang, AV Gourine, AG Teschemacher, S Kasparov - Pattern Dependent Effects of Glucocorticoid Exposure on Prefrontal Cortex Transcriptional Output
CL George, MA McKenna, JR Pooley, JA Douthwaite, SL Lightman, BL Conway-Campbell - Differential roles of GABA transporters in the regulation of extracellular concentrations of GABA in the rat hippocampus
F Kersanté, SCS Rowley, MG Mecinas, JMHM Reul, ACE Linthorst - Opto-genetic analysis of glia-neuronal interactions in locus coeruleus
S Lane, M Figueiredo, S Kasparov, AG Teschemacher - Desensitization of mu opioid receptors at nerve terminals
JD Lowe, S Andrews, CP Bailey
Topic C - Cognitive Processes
- Sensory mechanisms of balance control in cerebellar disease
LM Bunn, JF Marsden, P Giunti, BL Day - Oculomotor adaptation and the extra-retinal motion aftereffect: An MEG study
B Dunkley, CA Freeman, KD Singh - A neural marker of visual working memory reveals both number and precision of representations
C Goh, M Machizawa, J Driver - Disruption of state-dependent hippocampal and prefrontal cortical network oscillations and interactions by a cannabinoid receptor agonist
MT Kucewicz, MD Tricklebank, MW Jones - Area-specific GABA concentration predicts tactile discrimination performance in humans
NAJ Puts, CJ Evans, RAE Edden, F McGlone, DJ McGonigle - Far transfer of training effects following executive function training in 11-month-old infants
SV Wass, C de Klerk, K Porayska-Pomsta, MH Johnson
14:50 - 15:30 Coffee and Poster Session B
15:30 - 16:30 Parallel breakout sessions (2): Being a neuroscientist
Topic D - Academic Careers
Chair: Vanessa Davies
- Early stages of write-up
Louise Hickey, Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol - Write-up and first grant
Rebecca Pearson, Psychiatry Unit, University of Bristol - Grants and funding bodies
Kathleen Sedgley, Research and Enterprise Development, University of Bristol - First fellowship
Casimir Ludwig, Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
Andrea Tales, Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol - Junior Lectureship
Emma Lane, Cardiff University
Topic E - Alternative Careers Chair: Anne Cooke
- Pharmaceutical Industry
Keith Philips, Eli Lilly and Company - Science policy, communication and commercialisation
Rebecca Sage - Research, support, & development
Derek Sheader, Research and Enterprise Development, University of Bristol - Company sales rep
Sam Roome, Ascent Scientific - Clinical Research Trials
Rachel Brierley, Clinical Research Officer
Topic F - Public Engagement Chair: Alice Palmer
- Wideranging PE experience
Sheila Dargan, Cardiff University - Researchers in Residence
Nicolaas Puts, Cardiff University
Rebecca Trueman, Cardiff University - Centre for Public Engagement
Philippa Bayley, Centre for Public Engagement, University of Bristol - Working with the media
Aliya Mughal, Press Officer, University of Bristol
16:30 - 17:00 Poster Session C
The British Pharmacological Society lecture
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary Speaker: Professor David Nutt
A CAREER WELL-TRAVELED
Reflections on a career that goes from science to medicine, alcohol to hard drugs, and from politics to the popular press
Announcement of poster prize winners (prizes provided by Bristol RED)
18:00 - 19:30 Bar and professional caricaturist
19:30 - late Three-course meal and neuroscience pub quiz