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DemaNDs/ARUK Seminar ECR Presentations

Date:05 December 2025 |
Time:14:00 - 16:00
Location:Scafell room (1.05, BRB, CAV) and via Teams: Meeting ID: 342 297 339 098 5 Passcode: jj6kc7Lp

DemaNDs/ARUK Seminar - ECR Presentations - 5th December 2025

The next DemaNDs/ARUK Seminar will be on Friday 5 December 2025 from 14:00 to 16:00.   This seminar will include a showcase of research from local PhD students and Early Career Researchers.

14.00-14.05

Welcome

Paul Donaghy

14.05-14.15

Project Update

 

Integration of -omics data with histological and clinical data from dementia with Lewy bodies brain tissue

Jade Hawksworth (Newcastle)

 

14.15-14.45

PhD Presentations 1 (7.5 mins each)

 

Wearable measures of sleep and sedentary behaviour in neurodegenerative conditions

Mohammadreza Sedghi (Newcastle)

 

Spatial Transcriptomic Mapping of Neuroinflammation in the Lewy Body Microenvironment in Parkinson’s disease

Alaa Gouda (Teeside)

 

Photobiomodulation in normal Ageing; preliminary in vitro evidence for senescence-reversal

Julio Zarazua Jimenez (Durham)

 

The role of clonal haematopoietic mutations in Alzheimer's disease

Phoebe Watson (Newcastle)

14.45-15.15

NETWORKING/FOOD

15.15-15.55

PhD Presentations 2 (7.5 mins each)

 

Lewy Bodies are Surrounded by Tau-Laden Granulovacuolar Degeneration Bodies in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Searlit Thom (Newcastle)

 

Therapeutic Effects of Ellorarxine on Autophagy and Cellular Senescence in Neuronal Cell Models in vitro

Yunxi Zhang (Durham)

 

The role of purinergic receptors in modulating neuroinflammation and hyperexcitability in a mouse model of Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Hosain Barati (Newcastle)

 

Cross-contextual comparison of physical activity in people with Parkinson’s in the UK and Ghana

Jack Lumsdon (Newcastle)

 

A Multi Modular Approach to Investigate Early Neurodegenerative Changes and Potential Therapies in TDP-43 Proteinopathies

Martha Davies-Branch (Newcastle)

15.55-16.00

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Paul Donaghy