AGENDA: ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING AND AGM

0945-1000 Arrival tea & coffee

1000-1010 Dennis Chan: Introductory remarks

1010-1020 ARUK introduction

1020-1100 Opening talk Prof. Michele Vendruscolo - "An overview of the activities at the 
Centre for Misfolding Diseases".

1100-1130 Dr Caroline Williams Gray, Dep of Clinical Neurosciences "What drives the 
development of dementia in Parkinson's disease?"

1130-1150 coffee break

1150-1220 Dr Aviva Tolkovsky, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences - “Glia involvement in tau-related neurodegeneration”

1220-1320 2 talks from Cambridge Dementia Research Institute (DRI) Fellows:

Dr Edward Avezov - 'Endoplasmic Reticulum luminal dynamics and morpho-regulation in neuronal health'

Dr Will McEwan -‘Intracellular antibody neutralisation of seeded tau aggregation’

1320-1350 Annual General Meeting 

1320-1420 Lunch and poster viewing

1420-1510 Five 10min data blitz talks from junior researchers (PhD & PDRA)

1510-1530 coffee break

1530-1600 Dr Gabi Kaminki, Dep. of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering, “An all optical approach to amyloids”

1600-1640 Closing talk: Professor Julie Williams, University of Cardiff University “Genetic findings in Alzheimer’s Disease and where do we go next?”

1640-1800 Drinks reception