Sussex Neuroscience Day
Fulton B Lecture Theatre, Thursday May 12th 2016
09:00
Arrival and Registration (Foyer area; coffee available)
09:20
Welcome
Session 1
09:30
Dr Paul Graham: “Visual navigation: comparing insects and humans.”
10:00
Dr Andy Penn: “AMPA receptor trafficking mechanisms during synaptic plasticity.”
10:30
Postdoctoral Prize talk – Dr Michael Bale: “Temporal coding of touch: From transduction to
sensation.”
11:00-11:30
Coffee
Session 2:
PhD student short talks
11:30
Tom Grice-Jackson: “I feel your pain: Common and distinct neural mechanisms associated with
the conscious experience of vicarious pain.”
11:40
Acer Chang: “Unconscious temporal predictive processing revealed by 10 Hz perceptual echo.”
11:50
Milena Wagner: “Single vesicle recycling properties.”
12:00
Rebecca Broad: “Quantitative imaging in motor neurone disease: Can microstructural changes be
detected?”
12:10
Paul Pichler: “Efferent modulation of mechanical information in zebrafish.”
12:20
Sussex Neuroscience group photo
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Session 3
13:30
Prof John Atack : “Drug discovery in academia – an oxymoron or a brave new world?”
14:00
Prof Corne Kros: “The hunt for otoprotective drugs: to angle or to trap?”
14:30
Prof Dora Duka: “Alcohol and impulsivity: Understanding a long-term relationship.”
15:00
Dr Eisuke Koya: “The intrinsic excitability properties of corticostriatal neuronal ensembles
encoding sucrose-cue associations.”
15:30- 16:00
Coffee, followed by PhD student prize announcement
16:00-17:00
Guest speaker: Prof Barbara Sahakian
“Translational neuroscience: Early detection and improving cognition in
neuropsychiatric disorders.”
17:30 onwards
Social at Stanmer House, Stanmer Park BN1 9QA