Singapore Psychology & Neuroscience Events – Week 26

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Post-synaptic signalling pathways in Alzheimer’s disease
Speaker: Prof Lars Ittner (Macquarie University)
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room 5-1, Level 5
Date: 11 July 2019, Thursday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00

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  • Visitors will need to register at Level 1 Security post before proceeding to Level 5

Dendrite development and degeneration
Speaker: Dr Chien Cheng-Ting
Venue: Duke-NUS (directions), Meeting Room 7C, Level 7
Date: 19 July 2019, Friday
Time: 12.00 – 13.00

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New insights into the cause and treatment of schizophrenia
Speaker: Prof Alan Breier (Indiana University)
Host: Prof Zhang Su-Chun (Duke-NUS)
Venue: Duke-NUS (directions), Meeting Room 7C, Level 7
Date: 23 July 2019, Tuesday
Time: 12.00 – 13.00

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  • Light refreshments will be served at 11.30 AM

Long-term memory caught in traffic
Speaker: A/Prof. Sathya Puthanveettil
Host: A/Prof. Saji Kumar Sreedharan
Venue: NUS, Department of Physiology (map), MD9, Workshop Room, Level 1
Date: 2 August 2019, Friday
Time: 12.00


CARE’s Research Methods Workshop: Causal inference in social research
Speaker: Dr Abhijit Visaria (Centre for Ageing Research and Education, CARE)
Venue: Duke-NUS (directions), Meeting Room 3D, Level 3
Date: 5 August 2019, Monday
Time: 9.00 – 17.30

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  • Registration deadline: 29 July 2019, Monday (link)

Academic drug repurposing reveals a lithium mimetic for bipolar disorder: From in vitro identification to clinical trials
Speaker: Dr Grant C. Churchill (New College Oxford / University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Deron R. Herr (NUS)
Venue: NUS, Department of Pharmacology (map), MD3, Level 2 LT (02-01)
Date: 19 September 2019, Thursday
Time: 11.00 – 12.00


11th Models of Physiology and Disease Symposium & 2019 International Perspective on Geroscience Meeting
Keynote speakers: James Kirkland (Mayo Clinic, USA), Charlotte Peterson (University of Kentucky, USA), Zuhang Sheng (NINDS, NIH, USA)
Venue: NUS, Tahir Foundation Building (map), MD1, LT37
Dates: 24 – 26 September 2019, Tuesday – Thursday

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  • Registration & abstract submission deadline: 13 August 2019 (link)

Neuroscience Singapore 2019: SfN Singapore Chapter Annual Symposium
Keynote speakers: Christof Koch (Allen Brain Institute) and Hailan Hu (Qiushi Academy / Zhejiang U)
Venue: Yale-NUS, Performance Hall (map)
Dates: 26 – 27 September 2019, Thursday – Friday
Time: 13.00 (26th) – 20.00 (27th)

  • Event page and registration (Chapter members can register for free; non-members will need to pay a fee equivalent to a membership fee)
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SFN 2019 – Chicago
Dates: 19 – 23 October 2019, Saturday – Wednesday


NUS Neuroscience & Technology Symposium: Revisualizing the brain
Venue: NUS, Auditorium, Level 1, Clinical Research Centre, Block MD 11 (map)
Dates: 25 – 26 November 2019, Monday – Tuesday
Time: 9.00 (25th) – 18.00 (26th)