Pathfinder proposal: RNAi screens to identify genetic modifiers of Huntingtons disease in Drosophila models
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Medical Genetics
Abstract
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Publications
Rubinsztein DC
(2005)
Dyneins, autophagy, aggregation and neurodegeneration.
in Autophagy
| Description | MRC Programme Grant |
| Amount | £2,968,260 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2007 |
| End | 12/2011 |
| Description | Talks at international conferences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | India-EMBO Autophagy Symposium (Bubaneswar 2017), Autophagy as a Common Pathway in Diseases (NIH, Bethesda 2018), Gordon Conference -Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease (Il Ciocco, 2018), Interact (Munich, 2018), Autophagy and Neuroprotection (Teaching course, Venice 2018), 83rd Harden Conference Autophagy - from Molecules to Disease (Warwick 2018), Gordon conference - Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Castelldefels, Spain, 2018), Workshop on Autophagy in model organisms (Budapest, 2018), Autophagy in the healthy and diseased brain - Lake Como School of Advanced Studies (2018), 7th International Student Symposium conducted by the International Max Planck Research School in Chemical and Molecular Biology (Dortmund) (2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talks at international conferences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keystone Symposium: Autophagy: From Model Systems to Therapeutic Opportunities (Santa Fe 2019), Autophagy, Inflammation & Metabolism Annual Meeting & Symposium (Albuquerque (2019), British Inflammation Research Association meeting on Autophagy (2019), FASEB - The Protein Aggregation Conference (Snowmass, 2019), Gordon Research Conference on Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease (Barga, 2019), Imperial College Alzheimer's Research Network Symposium (London 2019), EMBO Autophagy Workshop 2019 (Crieff, Scotland), European Society of Neurochemistry 2019 (Milan), Basel Life - Aging and drug discovery and AI (Basel, 2019), Inaugural International Symposium of Cell Fate Determination (Shanghai 2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talks for Medical Students societies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | St Johns College Medical Society Cambridge (2017) Trinity College Medical Society (2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2019 |
| Description | Talks for lay audiences/patients |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Addenbrooke's Hospital Huntington's disease patients (2018); Addenbrooke's Hospital Parkinson's disease patients (2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |