Diana Franka Bocanegra (left) from Medicine

Wednesday 18th October

The speaker of today’s SoNG seminar is Diana Franco Bocanegra from Clinical Neurosciences,  Faculty of Medicine. Diana presented her work on microglial mobility in Alzheimer’s disease and whether amyloid immunotherapy can restore this important function of microglia. We were treated to some excellent immunohistochemistry of brain tissue.

Diana is a second year PhD student, supervised by Prof Delphine Boche and Prof James Nicole.

To find out more about Diana’s work, click here.

Full house today!

Wednesday 11th October.

It is time for the second SoNG seminar and speakers for today include Alan Sanderson from our Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) and Nathan Huneke from Psychology and poster prize winner of the 2017 Annual Song conference.

Alan Sanderson from ISVR (FEE)

First on was Alan, who presented his work on Cochlear implants. He explained that some patients show side effects after implantation of these devices and Alan is part of a team that investigated the underlying mechanism. We heard some interesting  explanations, based on circuit faults and  impendence, which can be measured, and the possibility that genetics and immune reactions can also play a role.

Alan Sandersson is a Teaching Fellow within Engineering and the Environment; to find out more about Alan’s work click here

Nathan Huneke from Psychology

The second talk was presented by Nathan presenting his work on the CO2 model of anxiety and the role of placebo effects in the validation of anxiolytic drugs. Could information give to participant of clinical trial influence the outcome of the study?

Nathan Huneke is an Academic Clinical Fellow at Department of Psychiatry; To find out more about Nathan’s work click here

Patricia Gonzalez from Biological Sciences

Wednesday 4th October 2017

It is the first week in October and it is tradition to start our Southampton Neuroscience group seminars again. We made a few small changes and this year:  the neuroscience seminars will be every Wednesday from 16.00-17.00 and we have invited speakers across the faculties to cover the broad spectrum of neuroscience research  in our University.

We kicked off with a talk from Patricia Gonzalez from Biological Sciences. As  one of the poster prize winners in the annual SoNG conference., it was only right to ask her to present her exciting work on Cholinergic pathways in c. elegans.  Patricia convincingly showed how c elegans can be used as a model organism to study the function of the neuromuscular junction in the different muscles. Patricia used emoticons to explain how synapses can be trained with preconditioning. What a good idea! All in all a very nice talk!

Patricia is a second year PhD student in Biological Sciences, supervised by Prof Lindy Holden Dye, Prof Vincent O’Connor, Christopher Green (DSTL) and John Tetterstall ( DSTL).

Click here to find out more about Patricia’s work.

Excellent turn out for the first talk of the semester!

Lots of question!

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