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Invitation to attend Eureka Live: The brain
The Wellcome Collection and the Times invite you to join a panel of experts to explore the hottest topics in neuroscience and biomedical ethics as well as other research that has been making headlines. Speakers include Cambridge Neuroscientist Professor Barbara Sahakian (Department of Psychiatry).
11th February 2010, 19.00 - 20.30, at the Wellcome Trust, London. Free to attend, booking required.
Cambridge Neuroscientists identify a survival factor for keeping nerve cells healthy
Dr. Jon Gilley and Dr. Michael Coleman (Babraham Institute, Cambridge) have discovered a novel survival factor whose rapid transport along nerve cells is crucial for keeping them alive. The same factor, called Nmnat2 seems likely to be needed to keep our nerves healthy as we age.
These findings were published on the 26th January, 2010 in PLoS Biology and suggest an exciting new therapeutic avenue for protecting nerves from disease and injury-induced degeneration.
Registration deadline approaching for the 22nd Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: Learning, Memory and Plasticity
Hosted by the Department of Experimental Psychology, 19th March, 2010, Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site. Poster abstract submission deadline: 28th February, 2010, Registration deadline: 5th March, 2010.
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