Dates for your diary

The next branch meeting is on Saturday 5th September at our new venue - the Vassall Centre, Gill Avenue, BS16 2QQ.

This meeting will start with a social at 10:30 a.m,  with tea and coffee available as usual and the meeting will finish before 12:30 p.m.  We have an excellent line up as shown below with a special invitation to visit laboratories at Bristol University . We look forward to seeing you there. 

11.00-11.10  Dick Denton FRS, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry. Introduction (and how some of his findings made more than 50 years ago may still be relevant).

11.10 -11.25 Professor  Ian Collinson. “The ins and outs of a protein called PINK”

11.25-11.30 Questions

11.30-11.45  Professor  Jon lane. “Tackling mitochondrial stress in Parkinson’s”.

11.45-11.50 Questions and invitation to visit the two speaker's laboratories in the Biomedical Sciences Building

 Jon and Ian will explain how their research groups are using a range of powerful modern techniques to better understand the architecture and function of the centres of energy production (mitochondria) of the neurons of the mid-brain substantia nigra and the wider consequences of neuronal cell death in PD.  

Meetings for the rest of the year -  

OCTOBER 3

NOVEMBER 7

DECEMBER 5