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Neurobiology Symposium

The MS Society Scotland was represented at a prestigious neurobiology symposium held at the University of Glasgow in April 2008

The meeting was held in Honour of Professor Ian R. Griffiths’ Contribution to Myelin Biology and Veterinary Neurology.

 The speakers were:
Sue Barnett, University of Glasgow
Techniques for visualising CNS repair

Bill Blakemore, University of Cambridge
High dose local X-irradiation and CNS progenitors

Peter Brophy, University of Edinburgh
Transgenic rescue strategies to understand node of Ranvier formation

Peter Dickinson, University of California, Davis
Techniques for stereotactic brain biopsy in small mammals

Ian Duncan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Strategies for investigating the phenotype/morphology of myelin mutants

Robin Franklin, University of Cambridge
Strategies for studying regenerative properties of adult neural stem cells

Andy Freer, University of Glasgow
Protein chemistry, another part of the jigsaw

Peter Kennedy, University of Glasgow
The mouse model of human African trypanosomiasis

Klaus Nave, Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine
Strategies for understanding genotype investigations; including establishing transgenics and knockouts

Ian Griffiths, University of Glasgow
The impact of technological advances on myelin biology



 
 


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