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Jonathan Gilley, Paul Mayer, Gang Yu, Michael P Coleman; Low levels of NMNAT2 compromise axon development and survival, Human Molecular Genetics, ddy356, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddy356NMNAT2 is an endogenous axon maintenance factor that preserves axon health by blocking Wallerian-like axon degeneration. Mice lacking NMNAT2 die at birth with sev…

Romina Vuono’s dance production Enchanté took place at the Cambridge Junction on 31st August and 1st September 2018; proceedings will support the Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust and People Dancing/Dance for Parkinson's UK.If you would like to support their cause with a donation, visit: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/DanceEnsemble

Michael represented the UK in the World Gran Fondo Championship on 2nd September in Varese, Italy. Funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK makes much of the research in his laboratory possible so this is the occasion to put something back in. He's successfully reached his fundraising target of £500 to help Alzheimer's Research UK fund research that WI…

Olivia Sheppard will start a PhD in October 2018; her Major Project has been funded by ARUK: ‘Revealing mechanisms of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease by modelling in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures’. Congratulations Olivia!

Congratulations to Matthew White, recipient of this year’s Sir Michael Berridge Prize. The prize is awarded for his contributions to research creating and using a mouse model to learn more about the molecular biology of motor neuron disease, specifically a type known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD). This research …

Listen to Claire Durrant giving guidance on how to produce a fantastic award-winning conference poster, thinking about the abstract, scripting, concept, design, and logistics: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-creating-award-winning-posters/

Peter Arthur-Farraj has attended the two-week zebrafish development and genetics course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts to learn techniques such as microinjecting, cell transplant and live imaging amongst others. He will then be working with Professor Kelly Monk’s laboratory in Oregon Health and Science University i…

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-creating-award-winning-posters/

Congratulations to Andrea Loreto, who has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. Andrea will start his Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship on the 1st of November 2018. In this four-year project he will study the role of the Wallerian axon death pathway in Parkinson’s disease. Collaborations with Richard Wade-Martins (Oxfo…

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