Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series

PROGRAM FOR 2025

• 24 April, 16:00, Segerfalk lecture hall, BMC A10
  Professor Bill Seeley, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, USA
  
  Lecture title: "Upstream pathogenesis in FTD/ALS"
  
  Lecture host: Alexander Santillo 

  Bio-sketch:
  Professor Seeley is a behavioral neurologist who specializes in neurodegenerative dementia. His lab has taken a leading role in identifying the neuron types, brain regions, and large-scale networks targeted in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Their current work seeks to translate these discoveries, using a blend of neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, and cellular/molecular biology, into improved disease pathogenesis models and novel biomarker approaches. In 2008, professor Seeley founded the UCSF Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank (NDBB), which now includes tissue from more than 800 donors.

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• 3 September, 16:00, E16003, BMC 
  Professor David J Burn, Newcastle University, UK
  
  Lecture title: Predicting dementia in Parkinson´s
  
  Lecture host: Per odin
  
  Bio-sketch:
  Professor David Burn has been Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University since 2017.   He is an honorary consultant neurologist.  Since designation by NIHR and NHS England in March 2020, David has been Director of Newcastle Health Innovation Partners, the Academic Health Science Centre for the Northeast of England and North Cumbria. David is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator. He chaired the NIHR Translational Research Collaboration for Dementia 2017-2023 and the Northern Health Science Alliance Board 2018-2024.   He is President-elect of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.