Great representation from Aberdeen at the #AnatSocSummer25 Cortical Development meeting in Oxford. Fantastic talks and posters from our team, proud to share a few highlights! Thanks to @anatsoc.bsky.social for a brilliant meeting.
Next up is Mona Barkat from @ox.ac.uk who will deliver an oral presentation titled 'Integration of 3D-Neuronal Tissue into Traumatic Brain Injury Model' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Up next is Faye McLeod from the University of Newcastle who will talk to us about 'Modelling monogenic epilepsy in human foetal brain slice cultures' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Starting now our final Symposium Session (#9) with invited speaker Flora Vaccarino from Yale University who will give a presentation on 'Functional Genomics of Human Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Starting now Symposium Session #8 with our first invited speaker for today Tom Nowakowski from UCSF delivering a presentation on 'Uncovering the strategies of human radial glia using high throughput genomics' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Moving on now to a sponsor talk by Daniela Cacciabue from The University of Sheffield & Anatomage who will talk to us about 'Anatomy at Sheffield- From Scalpel to Virtual Dissection and Beyond' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Now over to Andras Nagy from the Unviersity of Pecs, Hungary delivering a presentation on 'Exploring the teaching traditions of Central European anatomists through the Erasmus+ LEANbody collaborative project' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Taking over now is Leandros Rapteas from the @unibirmingham.bsky.social with a presentation on 'Equipping future clinicians: Inclusive anatomy teaching amid legal and social challenges to gender equity' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Coming up shortly is Honey Zahr from RMLIMS Lucknow, India who will talk about 'Exploring Anatomy Education: A Comparative Analysis of Cadaver Dissection and 3D Anatomical Study Tool' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Now over to Ryan Smith from the University of Cambridge who will talk to us about 'A simplified clinically applicable classification of Circle of Willis variants' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Up next is Sophie Mok from the University of Edinburgh who will deliver a presentation on 'Evaluating osteoblast-fibroblast co-culture in a multiphasic calcaneofibular bone-ligament scaffold' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Taking over now, Meric Goker from RCSI who will present on 'Advanced Synovial Microneedle Technology for Drug Delivery to Prevent Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Coming up shortly is Louise Hosty from RCSI who will give a presentation on the 'Development of a Pro-Angiogenic Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Decorated with Vascular Cell-Derived ECM’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Now over to Eavan Pakenham from RCSI who will share with us insights on 'Selenium and Magnesium Functionalised
Scaffolds for Dual Bone Regeneration and Anti-Cancer
Therapy’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Next up is Natalia Penar from the University of Edinburgh, talking about 'Mechanisms of epithelial symmetry-breaking
during mammalian morphogenesis' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Our first oral presentation for today is Jason Sparks who will talk about 'Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating
polypeptide (PACAP) mediates bacterial endotoxin-induced fever via an effect on cyclooxygenase-2 and inflammatory cytokines in mice' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Good morning everyone! Final day of the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting at the @ox.ac.uk ☺️
Registration 📍 Porters’ Lodge
Presentations 📍Garden Quadrangle Auditorium Foyer
#AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
The final talk for today will be given by Zoltan Molnar one of the chairs and co-organizers of the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting 2025, who will give us a lecture on the History of Neuroscience #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Our final invited speaker for today is Sara Bandiera from @ox.ac.uk &
@yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social who will talk to us about 'Extrinsic modulation of cortical development by early thalamic innervation in the human foetal brain' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Moving on with invited speaker Tim Zolnik from Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin who will talk about 'Orexin-activated neurons of the human cortex' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Coming up shortly is invited speaker Anton Tonchev from Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria who will deliver a presentation titled 'An insight into human cortical development from adult neurogenesis' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Starting symposium session #6 with invited speaker @alainchedotal.bsky.social from Institut de la Vision, Paris who will talk to us about Tridimensional analysis of human nervous system development. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Now taking over is invited speaker Helen Stolp from Royal Veterinary College who will discuss the short- and long-term effects of acute early-life activation of the GABA receptor on neuronal development . #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Coming up is a sponsored talk by primal pictures, by David Price from the University of Edinbrugh who will talk to us about Variation in human brain development. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Moving on, our invited speaker Masahiro Tsuji from Kyoto's Women's University will delve into the Pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with low birthweight: insights from a rat model. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Starting symposium session #5 with our Dr Sophie Miller Prize Awardee Orla Mitchell from RCSI who will talk to us about Early Life Adversity & Brain Structure: A Longitudinal Structural Human MRI study. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Now over to the next oral presentation which will be delivered by Mohammed Abuelem from @ox.ac.uk who will talk to us about 'Cortical Layer 6 Drd1a-Cre+ neurons mediating dopaminergic-driven activation of the murine medial prefrontal cortex' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Coming up is our invited speaker Željka Krsnik from the University of Zagreb who will discuss 'Initial regional patterning and laminar dynamics in the developing human prefrontal
cortex and cingulate cortex'. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
Up next is our invited speaker, Nenad Sestan from @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social who will dive into the 'Origins of the Prefrontal Cortex and Cognitive- Emotional Networks: What Makes Us Human’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford
