Unit Science Day, Summer 2024
Unit Science Day, Summer 2024
Attendees at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day in Summer 2024.
The Unit held its eighteenth Science Day on Friday 5th July 2024. Unpublished work and future research projects were the focus of discussion, and Unit members and visitors enthusiastically took the chance to provide the constructive feedback needed for multidisciplinary team science.
There were 8 short talks and 17 poster presentations delivered by the Unit’s early-career researchers. Attendees were also treated to two Keynote Lectures: A first by Professor Penny Lewis of Cardiff University, in which she gave an engaging account of sleep engineering for health and cognition; and a second lecture by Professor Karunesh Ganguli of the University of California, San Francisco, in which he showcased the power of cross-species work to define the mechanisms underlying motor learning in health and in recovery from brain injury.
Unit Director Professor Peter Magill commented: “Another excellent opportunity to share ideas, know-how and data with colleagues, as well as to take stock of the Unit’s progress in synergistically integrating science, technology, engineering and mathematics into our research. The vigour of the whole community on the day was really uplifting.”
Unit postdoctoral researcher Laura Wehmeyer presents innovative ways of analysing brain network dynamics in patients with Tourette syndrome.
Keynote lecturer Karunesh Ganguli of UCSF showcases his work defining the mechanisms underlying motor learning at the Unit’s Science Day in Summer 2024.
Unit postdoctoral researcher Melissa Serrano explains her latest research on neural representation of timing behaviour at summer Science Day 2024.
Professor Penny Lewis of Cardiff University answers audience questions after her Keynote Lecture on sleep engineering at the Unit’s Science Day in Summer 2024.
Unit postdoctoral researcher Bahman Abdi-Sargezeh discusses how to use deep learning to predict the occurrence of pathological oscillations in the human brain.
Unit student Sumedha Nalluru discusses new facets of memory reactivation in the human brain.
Unit postdoctoral researcher Teris Tam sheds new light on neuromodulator signalling dynamics in the striatum.
Unit early-career researchers exchange ideas at the poster session during summer Science Day 2024.
Unit postdoctoral researcher John Fleming discusses the merits of in silico models for development and validation of brain stimulation algorithms.
Unit early-career researchers exchange ideas at the poster session during summer Science Day 2024.
Unit student Samuel Liebana Garcia reveals how striatal dopamine encodes teaching signals for learning.
Unit early-career researchers exchange ideas at the poster session during summer Science Day 2024.
