Schedule for poster presentations for full-time (2011-2012) and part-time (2010-2012) students on Monday 3rd September ('dry' lab) and Tuesday 4th September ('wet' lab) in seminar rooms A & B in the SGDP
Some posters will be examined earlier and some later
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Monday 3rd September ('dry' lab)
| First Session 9:30 – 10:50 |
- A study of the chronicity of depression following treatment with Interferon for Hepatitis C
- Graham Campbell
Supervisor: Neil Harrison - The relationship between mindfulness, schizotypy and allocentric information processing
- Casswina Donald
Supervisor: Elena Antonova - Frontal striatal degeneration in primary progressive aphasia. A tractography study of pathways underlying grammar
- Angus Prosser
Supervisor: Marco Catani - 'Associations between risk of mortality and atypical antipsychotic use in vascular dementia
- Janet Sultana
Supervisor: Clive Ballard
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- Procedural learning in schizophrenia: neural substrates and relationship with treatment outcome
- Christine Deuschl
Supervisor: Veena Kumari - Meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies
- Muzzammil Hussain
Supervisor: Cynthia Fu - Perceptual decision making in the context of pain
- Reyhan Bozdag
Supervisor: Katja Wiech - The influence of childhood abuse in cognitive and affective functioning of individuals with schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder
- Jessica Green
Supervisor: Veena Kumari
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- The relationship between body mass index, FTO genotype and brain structure in major depressive disorder
- Priscilla Green
Supervisor: James Cole - Effect of genetic polymorphisms on the neural correlates of depression
- Rebecca MacGregor Legge
Supervisor: Cynthia Fu - The role of CNVs and gene expression in the paternal age mediated cause of psychiatric disorders
- Amandeep Virk
Supervisor: Rebecca Smith - Study on effects of genetic influence (Zinc Finger protein gene) on broad clinical outcomes of psychosis
- Anuprabha Wikramasinghe
Supervisor: Rob Stewart
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| Second Session 11:00 – 13:00 |
- An investigation of factors which influence insight into personal needs in adults with autism and ADHD
- Helen Todman
Supervisor: Tim Cadman - Prepulse Inhibition and the risk of psychosis
- Florian Windler
Supervisor: Toby Winton-Brown - Genetic variability in response to anti-psychotics
- Anne-Mary Abe
Supervisor: Livia Martucci - The relative sensitivity of VBM and ROI techniques to detect changes in regional brain volume due to aging
- Namrata Ghanshamdas
Supervisor: Matthew Kempton - The relationship between mindfulness, allocentric spatial memory and empathy
- Clara Pretus
Supervisor: Elena Antonova - Behavioural differentiation of fear and anxiety using a joystick operated runway task in psychiatric criterion groups
- Laura Clemens
Supervisor: Veena Kumari
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- Pituitary volume in psychosis: relationship with cognitive and emotional functions and response to cognitive behaviour therapy
- Luigi Gregori
Supervisor: Veena Kumari - FAT or Fiction? Investigating a newly discovered frontal pathway
- Henrietta Howells
Supervisor: Marco Catani - Behavioural differentiation of fear and anxiety using a joystick operated runway task in psychiatric criterion groups
- Ilya Rafailov
Supervisor: Veena Kumari - Effects of childhood abuse on anticipatory fear in violent offenders: an fMRI study
- Samantha Miles
Supervisor: Veena Kumari - The neurocognitive precursors of handwriting: a combined hypnosis-fMRI study
- Anthony Gabay
Supervisor: Mitul Mehta - The anatomy of the U-shaped fibres of the occipital lobe
- Adam Cunningham
Supervisor: Marco Catani
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- Development of functional diffusion mapping for assessment of malignant gliomas post treatment.
- Monica Orcine
Supervisor: Jonathan Ashmore - The anatomy of the short frontal lobe connections in autism spectrum disorder
- Abigail Thompson
Supervisor: Marco Catani - A new frontal lobe pathway underlining speech production in stroke aphasia
- Jana Wanli
Supervisor: Marco Catani - An fMRI Investigation of atypical antipsychotic effects on procedural memory in chronic schizophrenia
- Seoung Lee
Supervisor: Veena Kumari - Prenatal and postnatal depression and anxiety effects on mothers and fathers and their effects on their offspring
Supervisor: Andrew Pickles
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| Lunch |
| Third Session 13:30–15:10 |
- Individual differences in fronto-striatal function investigated with fMRI of procedural learning
- Ardeshier Mofidi
Supervisor: Veena Kumari - Exploring the cognitive basis of pathological demand avoidance
- Emma Quinlan
Supervisor: Fransesca Happé
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- Impaired face processing pathways in males with ASD
- Asimina Tsirka
Supervisor: Marco Catani - Diffusion tensor imaging of the frontal social interaction and communication network in women with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Eva Zeestraten
Supervisor: Marco Catani
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- Pathways to reward
- Helen Lloyd
Supervisor: Marco Catani - Applications of DTI to radiotherapy treatment planning
- Edward Owen
Supervisor: Marco Catani
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| Fourth Session 15:20 – 17:00 |
- Cognitive analysis of alcohol dependence
- Antonio Metastasio
Supervisor: Luke Clark
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- Alterations in structural connectivity in psychopathy: Relation to affective and interpersonal traits
- Arjun Sethi
Supervisor: Michael Craig
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- The neuroanatomical basis of handedness
- Rosie Coleman
Supervisor: Marco Catani
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Tuesday 4th September ('wet' lab)
| First Session 9:30 – 10:50 |
- Correlating epigenetic status with localised neurodegenerative changes in Alzheimer's disease and control human brain by immunoblotting
- Adnan Jihad
Supervisor: John Powell - Impulse conduction at physiological frequency leads to accumulation of mitochondria in peripheral terminals of saphenous nerve
- Chao Yu Lee
Supervisor: Marija Sajic - Drosophila models of disease (I): Targets of TDP-43 dysfunction in a Drosophila model of motor neuron disease
- Rawan Alsubaie
Supervisor: Frank Hirth - Targeting GABAA receptors as a model for cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia in rats
- Raymond Rix
Supervisor: Mohammed Shoaib
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- Mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease: Investigation into novel interactions between tau and the tyrosine kinase fyn
- Charles Evans
Supervisor: Amy Pooler - The role of glycogen synthase kinase 3 in the symptoms of sleep disturbance in Alzheimer's disease
- Siddharth Govindaraju
Supervisor: Abdul Hye - Determination of the levels of immunoglobulin subclasses in the plasma of control and Alzheimer’s disease patients
- Amarjit Hothi
Supervisor: Mohammed Aiyaz - Mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease: Investigation into the effects of amyloid on tau phosphorylation and localization
- Emma Phillips
Supervisor: Amy Pooler
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- Drosophila models of disease (III): The role of glia in TDP-43 related motor neuron disease formation
- Angelique Di Domenico
Supervisor: Frank Hirth - Drosophila models of disease (II): Genetic dissection of the pathogenic mechanisms underlying TDP-43 dysfunction in motor neuron disease
- Max Greenstein
Supervisor: Frank Hirth - Investigating the role of kinases and phosphatases in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia
- Priya Kadam
Supervisor: Teresa Rodriguez Martin - HEK293 cells as a model for the neuropathological effects induced by beta-amyloid
- Joshua Jackson
Supervisor: Richard Killick
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| Second Session 11:00 – 13:00 |
- Peripheral changes in respiratory chain genes from the mitochondrial genome in Alzheimer's disease as a potential biomarker
- David Robinson
Supervisor: Aiofe Keohane - Evaluation of RNA reprogramming therapy for neurodegenerative diseases
- Mayen Udoma
Supervisor: Jean-Marc Gallo - What is the species of A-beta that causes the toxicity found in a Drosophila model that expresses both tau and Abeta
- Megan Sealey
Supervisor: Amrit Mudher - A proof-of-concept investigation of genotype-dependent noradrenergic effects on memory and attention
- Carla Emmanuelle Bautista
Supervisor: Ayana Gibbs - Establishing Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer with orally delivered nicotine in rats: route to developing more effective smoking cessation medications
- Beth Fisher
Supervisor: Mohammed Shoaib - Examining the connections between neurochemicals and mathematical abilities in young children
- Claire Brown
Supervisor: Roi Cohen Kadosh
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- The role of NNAT in determining the pluripotent states of human induced pluripotent stem cells
- Simi Thankaraj
Supervisor: Dafe Uwanogho - The neural death process induced by A-beta
- Devkee Vadukul
Supervisor: Carol Troy - Clearance of Clusterin complexes from the brain in Alzheimer's disease
- Vicky Cartwright
Supervisor: David Howlett - Screening for mutations in the colony stimulating factor I receptor (CSF1R) gene in AD subjects
- Yun-Wen Chen
Supervisor: Angela Hodges - Deciphering the epigenome in AD
- Daniel Condliffe
Supervisor: Katie Lunnon - Genotype and pathological phenotype in Alzheimer's disease
- Elena De las Heras Sordo
Supervisor: John Powell
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- The effect of mutations in tau on its degradation by autophagy in cultured neurons
- Rima Hussain
Supervisor: Teresa Rodriguez Martin - The effects of beta amyloid and tau on PI3K/Akt
- Hadilah Manaf
Supervisor: Richard Killick - Determining how beta-amyliod activated PARP1 impacts Clusterin.
- Seyed Alireza Mirabolfathi Nejad
Supervisor: Richard Killick - Immunohistochemical assessment of the role of APOJ in head injury
- Farzana Noor
Supervisor: Claire Troakes - Alterations in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation occur in early Alzheimer's disease
- Wendy Hyun Jung Sung
Supervisor: Joanna Riddoch-Contreras - An investigation into the role of p62 pathology in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis caused by C9orf72 expansion mutation
- Unnur Teitsdottir
Supervisor: Claire Troakes
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| Lunch |
| Third Session 13:30 – 15:10 |
- An experimental defination of Drosophila hard-wired locomotor behaviour
- Nicholas Vowles
Supervisor: Frank Hirth - Measuring Dkk1 in AD and in models of disease
- Fatima Akbar
Supervisor: Abdul Hye - Foxg1 regulation of Eph/Ehprin in formation of telencephalic boundary and neuronal migration
- Kalliopi Arkoudi
Supervisor: Corinne Houart - Investigating the effect of the Aß 25-35 peptide on clusterin
- Annie-Ruth Benton
Supervisor: Richard Killick - Autism-associated proteins and neuronal architecture
- Ding Chen
Supervisor: Deepak Srivastava
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- Characterisation of regional NRXN1 transcript expression and investigation of cis-acting regulatory influences
- James Docker
Supervisor: Nick Bray - Cellular targets of the schizophrenia susceptibility gene mir137
- Jacek Donocik
Supervisor: Nick Bray - Can AD disease susceptibility be explained by a change in the expression of particular transcripts from the MS4A6A gene?
- Sang Hyuck Lee
Supervisor: Angela Hodges - miRNA and neurodegeneration
- Sandra Proeless
Supervisor: Manolis Fanto - Profiling epigenetic differences in schizophrenia: Assessing DNA methylation in a collection of post-mortem brain samples from patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and healthy controls
- Joana Viana
Supervisor: Jon Mill
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- Role of disease-associated synaptic proteins in the structure and function of dendrites
- Michael Peter Deans
Supervisor: Deepak Srivastava - Function of the BMP signalling pathway in motor axon development and degeneration
- Maria Kokoreli
Supervisor: Corinne Houart - Role of Teneurin-3 and -4 during axon pathfinding and synaptogenesis: An in vivo imaging approach to brain connectivity
- Paride Antinucci
Supervisor: Robert Hindges - SHANK3 expression in the human brain
- Priya Gami
Supervisor: Jack Price - Characterizing changes in synaptic inputs onto inhibitory neurons after sensory deprivation
- Jennifer Mackie
Supervisor: Tara Keck
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| Fourth Session 15:20 – 17:00 |
Fifth Session 17:10– 18:10 |
- Investigating innate and adaptive immune responses in Batten disease
- Steven Duckett
Supervisor: Jon Cooper - Molecular mechanisms underlying neural stem cell specification and differentiation to GABAergic interneurons.
- George Efthymiou
Supervisor: Angela Bithell - Characterisation of the neuronal properties of Drosophila BG3 cells
- Dimitrios Fistouris
Supervisor: Manolis Fanto
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- Assessing the potential of gene therapy for juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL)
- Hemanth Ramesh Nelvagal
Supervisor: Jon Cooper - Exploring the efficacy of enzyme replacement therapy for infantile Batten disease
- Ewelina Lenartowicz
Supervisor: Jon Cooper - The role of MRAPs in cannabinoid 1 receptor trafficking and function
- David Jackson
Supervisor: Li Chan
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- Molecular mechanisms of memory formation and storage
- Vitor Paiva
Supervisor: Keiko Mizuno - Olfactory bulb atrophy in Huntington's disease
- Jennifer Siegel
Supervisor: Rachael Scahill - Determining the onset of disease progression in the Mcoln-/- mice
- Sarmi Sri
Supervisor: Jon Cooper
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