The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) and UK DRI, as Festival Partner, are excited to announce a line-up of top international plenary speakers for BNA2021 Festival of Neuroscience taking place virtually from 12-15 April 2021. For the UK DRI’s scientific stream ‘Ageing and dementia’, UK DRI Director Prof Bart De Strooper, will be delivering a plenary lecture on the cellular phase of Alzheimer’s disease.
We are delighted that Prof Sarah Tabrizi, Group Leader from UK DRI at UCL, has also been selected by the Association of British Neurologists to give a plenary lecture about her groundbreaking research on Huntington’s disease.
Covering a broad range of topics, from neural networks and neurogenesis to consciousness and cellular neurodegeneration, the world-class plenary speakers include:
Bart De Strooper – UK DRI; University College London; KU Leuven & VIB (UK DRI plenary lecture)
Sarah Tabrizi – UK DRI; University College London, UK (Association of British Neurologists plenary lecture)
Fred Gage– Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Peter Jonas – Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Jürgen Knoblich – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria
Tirin Moore – Stanford University, USA
Beatriz Rico– King’s College London, UK
Amita Sehgal – University of Pennsylvania, USA
Anil Seth– University of Sussex, UK
Huda Zoghbi – Baylor College of Medicine, USA (The Lundbeck Brain Prize plenary lecture)
