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Neuroscience Day 2019 - Brain Jam

This year’s focus of the Neuroscience day will be “Protein aggregation Brain diseases” under the headline: Brain Jam.

2019.03.28 | Zitta Glattrup Nygaard

Date Mon 13 May
Time 08:00 17:00
Location Lakeside Lecture Theatres bldg. 1250

The event is open to all students, researchers, clinicians, therapists, caregivers, foundations and organizations interested in neuroscience.  

The talks of the day will cover A-synucleinopathies, A-beta and Tau diseases, and other protein aggregation-disorders and will include all aspects from: molecular bases of neurodegeneration, to disease modeling, patients studies and novel therapeutic approaches.  

Invited keynote speakers:

  • 2018 Brain Prize Winner Prof. Michel Goedert. More information here.
  • Assoc. Prof Jørgen E. Nielsen, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen. More information here.
  • Prof Gitte Moos, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen. More information here.

Invited speakers:

  • Prof Poul Henning Jensen, DANDRITE, AU
  • Assoc. Prof Marina Romero-Ramos, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU
  • Prof Daniel Otzen, INANO, AU
  • Assoc. Prof Olav Andersen, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU 
  • Prof David Brooks, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, AU

This year we also have the honor of having cand.oecon and former Municipal Executive in Djursland Keld Overgaard, who will talk about his life with Parkinson's Disease.

Foundations, associations, and organizations in attendance:

  • The Brain Prize
  • The Danish Parkinson Association 

See PROGRAMME

Meeting, Research, Public/Media, Department of Biomedicine, Department of Biomedicine, PhD students, Students, Technical / administrative staff, Academic staff, Exchange students