The Plastic Brain - East Midlands Branch
Start/Finish date: 11th March 2010 18.30
Location: Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester
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Event type: Lecture
Event Summary
Annual Charter Lecture: The Plastic Brain, Professor Colin Blakemore Hon FSB, FRS Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford
Event description
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Colin Blakemore is one of Britain’s foremost scientists. He became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford University in 1979 and latterly served as Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council. Prof Blakemore has been President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the British Neuroscience Association, the Physiological Society and the Biosciences Federation.
Prof Blakemore has been actively involved in the public communication of science for more than 30 years. He is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television, has published a number of books about science for a general readership, and he writes for the national and international media. Among many other responsibilities, he is President of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. He was the youngest person ever to give the Reith Lectures (1976) and he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1982-3. He wrote and presented the BBC series The Mind Machine.
Prof Blakemore has made a major contribution to our understanding of the visual system, the development of the brain and, in particular, the concept of neural plasticity. His current interests lie in three areas: the formation of the human cortex; the imaging of the living adult human brain; and the cellular pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease. Colin is a renowned speaker and will discuss a number of these issues in his talk: The Plastic Brain.
Contact
Dr Jon Scott
Email: js50@le.ac.uk
Website: www.societyofbiology.org
Telephone: 0116 252 3083
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