A fantastic 2-day symposium promoting collaboration between neuroscience communities in Korea and the UK

08:30

Registration

09:20

Opening

Kei Cho (UK DRI, King's College London) & Eunjoon Kim (IBS, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)

09:30

Plenary Lecture

Julie Williams (UK DRI, Cardiff) Identifying Alzheimer’s disease risk genes

Session 1

Gene, protein and brain disorder

10:00

Talk (UK) 1.1

Elizabeth Tunbridge (Oxford) - Understanding links between genes and brain dysfunction in psychiatric illness

20min+5min

10:25

Coffee Break

10:45

Talk (KOR) 1.2

Ja Woo Koo (Korea Brain Research Institute) - Epigenetic mechanisms in individual variation in psychiatric disorders

20min+5min

11:10

Talk (UK) 1.3

Marc-David Ruepp (UK DRI, King’s College London) - Altered RNA metabolism in neurodegeneration

20min+5min

11:35

Talk (KOR) 1.4

Ki-Jun Yoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) - Deciphering the neural epitranscriptome using mouse and human organoid models

20min+5min

12:00

Poster Blitz-1

2 min per poster (one slide only)

15 KOR

12:30

Lunch & poster preview

Poster Preview-Session

Session 2

Neural Plasticity

13:30

Talk (UK) 2.1

Dimitri Rusakov (University College London) - Neural circuits with astroglia

20+5min talk

13:55

Talk (KOR) 2.2

C. Justin Lee (Institute for Basic Science) - Critical roles of astrocyte-neuron interaction in behavior and brain diseases

20+5min talk

14:20

Talk (UK) 2.3

Nathalie Rochefort (Edinburgh) -

20+5min talk

14:45

Talk (KOR) 2.4

Hoon Ryu (Korea Institute of Science & Technology)- Epigenetic modulation of long term potentiation and memory function in Alzheimer’s disease

20+5min talk

15:10

Poster Blitz-2

2 min per poster (one slide only)

15UK

15:40

Poster Session

Poster, Networking & Wine

17:25

Poster voting and Award

Two posters will be awarded by public vote and giving a short oral presentation, 13/Aug (Day2)

1UK/1KOR

17:30

Day 1 End

Session 3

Hot Topic: Abnormal proteins in neurodegenerative disorders

09:00

Talk (UK) 3.1

Marco Brancaccio (UK DRI, Imperial College London) - Exploring the role of circadian dysfunction in the early stages of dementia

20+5min talk

09:25

Talk (KOR) 3.2

Nakwon Choi (Korea Institute of Science & Technology) - Hydrogel-based qPCR for multiplex detection of miRNAs associated with Alzheimer's disease

20+5min talk

09:50

Talk (UK) 3.3

Annalisa Pastore - (UK DRI, King's) - Structural biology in neurodegeneration

10+5min talk

10:05

Talk (KOR) 3.4

Heejung Chun (Institute for Basic Science) - H2O2 from severe reactive astrocytes precipitates pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease

10+5min talk

10:20

Talk (UK) 3.5

Ben Falcon (LMB, Cambridge) - CryoEM and amplification mechanisms of filamentous proteins - neurodegeneration

10+5min talk

10:35

Talk (KOR) 3.6

Hansang Cho (Univ. North Carolina) - 3D Human Brain models for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases

10+5min talk

10:35

Coffee Break

11:10

Congratulatory address

Minister N.K. Sun (Embassy in Korea) & Dr. Mark Palmer (MRC)

11:20

Plenary Lecture

Matt Botvinick (DeepMind) - AI and Neuroscience: a virtuous circle

12:10

Lunch

Photo session & Lunch

Session 4

Science Careers-Panel Discussion

13:10

Introduction

John Isaac (J&J)

5 min

13:15

Panel discussion

John Isaac (J&J), Pann-Ghill Suh (KBRI), Carol Routeledge (ARUK), Laura Andreae (King’s College London)

5 min each panel

Session 5

Poster Award Talk

13:40

Poster talk 5.1 (KOR)

presentation only, no Q&A

10min

13:50

Poster talk 5.2 (UK)

presentation only, no Q&A

10min

Session 6

Hot Topic Invited Talks

14:00

Talk 6.1

Gaynor Smith (UK DRI, Cardiff) - The genetics of axonal mitochondrial biology

10+5min talk

14:15

Talk (KOR) 6.2

Jong-Cheol Rah (Korea Brain Research Institute) - Cortical neurophysiology

10+5min talk

14:30

Talk (KOR) 6.3

Sehoon Keum (Institute for Basic Science) - A Missense Variant at the Nrxn3 Locus Enhances Empathy Fear in the Mouse

10+5min talk

14:45

Coffee Break

Session 7

Model Organism

15:05

Talk (UK) 7.1

Scott Waddell (Oxford) - Neural circuit properties of memory- directed behaviour in the fruit fly

20min+5min

15:30

Talk (KOR) 7.2

Myungin Baek (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology) - Decoding the molecular logic underlying locomotor circuit development

20min+5min

15:55

Talk (UK) 7.3

Lucia Prieto-Godino (Francis Crick Institute) - Neural circuits develop in the Drosophila

20min+5min

16:20

Talk (KOR) 7.4

Gregg Suh (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) - Nutrient Sensing, Valence Encoding in Flies and Mice

20min+5min

16:45

Closing Remarks & Symposium End