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Cafe Scientifique February Meeting

Mon 17 Feb 25
Talk starts at 7.30 PM

All Welcome, no admission charge

All of the proceeds from a voluntary collection will be donated to Alzheimer’s Society St. Patricks Irish Club, Adelaide Road, Leamington Spa CV32 5AH Kevin Moffat, Emeritus Professor of the University of Warwick School of Life Sciences will be talking to us about Fruit flies’ assistance in understanding Alzheimer’s Disease The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, devastating for the individual, for families and for society. There is currently no cure. With over a million people currently in the UK having some form of dementia, and with cost cares rising to over £42 billion, then intervention is a priority. Come with Kevin, as he takes you on a journey of science, touching on history, and politics. The fruit-fly, Drosophila, is a model organism, arguably the most studied animal, other than humans themselves. Flies share with us important similarities in behaviour, anatomy, genetics and physiology: learning and remembering, aging and degenerating. However, in this lecture we will look at how we have ‘humanised’ the fly through transgenesis and from this approach what we have learnt about Alzheimer’s disease. We’ll explore where this has taken Kevin’s research, moving from flies through physical biochemistry to electrophysiology – and hopefully into new targets for the next generation of drug intervention... READ MORE>

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