{"id":3693,"date":"2017-04-28T16:47:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:47:38","slug":"festival-of-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/festival-of-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April Lindsey Forbes, a final-year PhD student supervised by Dr Melissa Andrews and Dr Simon Powis, attended the Festival of Neuroscience, organised by the British <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3694 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/04\/LF2-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/>Neuroscience Association in conjunction with The Physiological Society.\u00a0 The 4-day conference is one of the largest neuroscience meetings in Europe and was held at the International Conference Centre in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting she presented a poster highlighting the work from her 3-year PhD entitled, \u2018Using human iPSC-derived neural progenitor cells to increase integrin expression in the CNS\u2019, which was well received.<\/p>\n<p>Further to the fantastic plenary lectures and symposia covering a wide-range of neuroscience topics, there were a number of workshops and interactive session aimed towards early-career researchers including Grant &amp; Fellowshop Writing and Careers Beyond the PhD, which she found particularly helpful.<\/p>\n<p>She would like to kindly thank and acknowledge the funding from the School of Medicine and the Kozinn fund for enabling her to travel and attend the conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3695 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/04\/LF1-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April Lindsey Forbes, a final-year PhD student supervised by Dr Melissa Andrews and Dr Simon Powis, attended the Festival of Neuroscience, organised by the British Neuroscience Association in conjunction with The Physiological Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[362,399,480,675],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-dr-melissa-andrews","tag-dr-simon-powis","tag-festival-of-neuroscience","tag-lindsey-forbes"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 14:10:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}