Registration is now open for this years UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize Winners Showcase .

The 2021 winners of the Jon Driver Prize and UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize will be presenting their prize winning research at this showcase event.

The Jon Driver Prize recognises the outstanding research that young neuroscientists (at PhD level) at UCL are engaged in.

The UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize recognizes outstanding work published in the past year by early career UCL neuroscientists in any field of neuroscience. It is awarded in two categories; junior scientist (PhD to 3 years post-doc) and advanced scientist (3-10 years post-doc).

The prize winners and speakers this year are:

Jon Driver Prize

Alex Fratzl, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre - Talk title: Flexible inhibitory control of visually-evoked defensive behaviour
Matthew Nour, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research - Talk title: Impaired neural replay for inferred relationships in schizophrenia, and its relationship to default mode network function
Dora Steel, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health - Talk title : Whole-genome sequencing for rare childhood movement disorders
Angeliki Zarkali , UCL Dementia Research Centre - Talk title: Finding the network balance: the neural correlates of visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease

UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize

Federico Rossi (Winner in Junior Category), UCL Institute of Ophthalmology - Talk title: Spatial connectivity matches direction selectivity in visual cortex
Naciye Magusali (Runner-up Junior Category), UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL - Talk title: A genetic link between risk for Alzheimer's disease and severe COVID-19 outcomes via the OAS1 gene
Jonathan Lezmy (Runner-up Junior Category), UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology - Talk title: Astrocytes regulate myelinated axon excitability and conduction speed
Ian Harrison (Winner in Advanced Category), UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging - Talk title: Impaired Glymphatic Function and Clearance of Tau in an Alzheimer’s Disease Model: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Tauopathies?
Magda Atilano (Runner-up Advanced Category), UCL Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment - Talk title: Enhanced insulin signalling ameliorates C9orf72 repeat toxicity
Catia Andreassi ( Runner-up Advanced Category), MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL - Talk title: mRNA metabolism in the axons of developing sympathetic neurons

The full programme is available here.

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Neuroscience Early Career Prize Winners Showcase 2021/22