BNA Festival 2021 Roundup
This week Professor Louise Serpell from University of Sussex talks to a great panel of early career researchers, discussing and sharing their highlights from this month\u2019s British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Festival.\n\nWith our largest ever panel of scientists, with backgrounds are as varied as the topics they discuss. Everything from misfolding proteins, the latest thoughts on amyloid, thought processing and much more.\n\nOur guests this week are:\n\nDr Lilya Andrianova, Postdoctoral Research Associate from the University of Glasgow. Lilya is researching neural circuits in health and disease.\n\nEmily Beswick, PhD Student from The University of Edinburgh. Emily works in Clinical Trials in MND, wearable devices and extra-motor outcome measures.\n\nSarah Gregory, PhD Student from The University of Edinburgh. Sarah is studying the HPA axis in midlife and it\u2019s association with dementia.\n\nSilvia Anderle, PhD Student at University of Sussex. Silvia uses photon microscopy to investigate how different APOE alleles affect neurovascular coupling in targeted replacement APOE mice.\n\nDr Annika Boldt, Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. Annika studies metacognition, such as confidence and error detection; cognitive offloading; (perceptual) decision making.\n\n_________________________\n\nYou can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website:\nhttps://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk \n\nA transcript of this podcast is also available here\nhttps://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-bna-festival-roundup\n\n_________________________\n\nLike what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode.\n\nThis podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.