Scientifica are delighted once again to be sponsoring the BNA 2025 International Festival of Neuroscience in Liverpool.
BNA2025 is a novel, multi-organisation forum brings together all those with an interest in brain research at a single shared event. From fundamental neuroscience in both academic and commercial sectors, to clinical expertise and patient perspectives in neurology, psychology and psychiatry.
You can come and speak to our team on stand G5.
Details
Date: 27th - 30th April 2025
Location: ACC, Liverpool, UK
More details: BNA2025 | The British Neuroscience Association
Come and say hello
Scientifica is a gold partner of BNA2025 and will be exhibiting with a range of electrophysiology equipment (booth G5), including our SliceScope Pro and PatchScope Pro Systems.
Come and say hello to our expert team of product specialists who will be happy to discuss your research and your electrophysiology needs.
We will also be hosting a Silent Symposium - see below for more details.
Symposium: Postdoc to PI: Making Your Lab Vision a Reality
Scientifica is delighted to be hosting the silent symposium 'Postdoc to PI: Making Your Lab Vision a Reality' with guest panelist Dr Sam Booker from the University of Edinburgh.
Tuesday 29th April, 11.20 – 11.45am
You can add this symposium to your schedule via the BNA platform.
About Sam Booker
Sam completed an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh with an Honours Degree in Pharmacology in 2008. From there, he moved to Glasgow University to perform a PhD in the lab of Imre Vida, performing a variety of whole-cell patch clamp recording techniques from hippocampal interneurons. He moved with the lab to Berlin in 2011 to take up a 3 year post-doctoral position at the Charite Universitaetmedizin – still in the lab of Imre Vida. They further studied the role of hippocampal and cortical interneurons in local microcircuit formation, using a combination of whole-cell, calcium imaging, and GABA uncaging.
From 2014 – 2021 Sam was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh in the labs of Peter Kind and David Wyllie, with a primary focus on understanding synaptic mechanisms in the early brain that contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders. For this, we established multi-photon imaging and uncaging combined with whole-cell and field recording. In 2021 Sam was awarded a SIDB ESAT Fellowship to form his own research group. Their new(ish) lab studies the fundamental mechanisms leading to plasticity of neurons in the developing brain, and how these are influenced by inhibitory signalling. For this they employ a combination of electrophysiology and neuroanatomy in cell and slice cultures, and acute brain slices from rodents and humans.