Date: Tuesday 24 January, 10.30am-11.30am
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Speaker: Dr Francesco Boato, Postdoctoral Fellow, Van Aelst Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title: Restoring lost connectivity after CNS injury
Dear All,
This is the second event in a new series of guest speakers, hosted by the Centre for Neuroscience Surgery and Trauma.
My work focuses on the study of repair and regeneration after CNS injury. Restoring lost function after CNS injuries is one of the major challenges of contemporary neuroscience. Functional deficits after such injuries are primarily due to a disruption of axonal connections. Thus, regeneration of the severed axons in order to re-establish the disrupted connections is needed to promote functional recovery after injury. In order to repair the damaged tracts, the injured neurons need to recover the capacity for intrinsic growth (typical of developing neurons) initiating regenerative growth. Throughout my entire career I gave special emphasis to translational approaches and the development of techniques to genetically engineer damaged neurons to induce regeneration and repair neuronal circuits to ultimately study functional synaptogenesis after CNS injury.
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Please look out for more information on future speakers coming soon.