An update on the quest for genetic determinants in Parkinson's Disease and related disorders
Vincenzo Bonifati, MD, PhD, holds a Chair in Genetics of Movement Disorders at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam. His lab, at the Dept. of Clinical Genetics, searches for novel genes involved in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, in order to illuminate the disease mechanisms and provide new targets for disease-modifying interventions. In the past few years, he described several genes causing inherited forms of parkinsonism, dystonia, and other movement disorders, including PARK7 (DJ-1), PARK15 (FBXO7), PARK20 (SYNJ1), and SLC30A10 (manganese transporter), and more recently his team reported LRP10 variants associated with familial forms of PD and Lewy Body Dementia.
Date: 18 May 2020, 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2020)
Venue: This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Speaker: Professor Vincenzo Bonifati (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam)
Organising department: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
Part of: OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Lorraine Dyson