IDeAC are hosting an online workshop for colleagues with research interests in Dementia Care, which will be chaired by Prof Jackie Bridges, Health Sciences, University of Southampton. The workshop will include short presentations on the Dementia Care theme, current research and a group discussion on future ideas and funding opportunities. Anyone engaged in dementia care research is welcome to take part in the meeting.

Prof Kevin Marchbank, University of Newcastle – “The C3 gain of function mouse : a model of renal, liver and eye disease – too good to be true?”

Dr Ian Harrison,  UCL – “Glymphatic Clearance of Propagation-Prone Proteins: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Neurodegenerative Disease?”

Dr Louise Kelly, University of Southampton – “Pollution and dementia: exploring the link”

Prof Iracema Leroi, Trinity College Dublin – “’Hearing and vision impairment in dementia: Supporting concurrent sensory-cognitive challenges’

Dr Jenna Littlejohn, University of Manchester – “International guidelines to detect and manage hearing and vision impairment in people with dementia”

Dr Jay Amin, University of Southampton with trainees – “Clinical case presentation”

Dr Paul Donaghy, Newcastle University, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust – “Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies”

Dr Timothy Rittman, University of Cambridge – ‘Artificial Intelligence for Neurodegeneration – hype or happening?’

Mr Robin Borchert, University of Cambridge – ‘Artificial intelligence for diagnostic and prognostic neuroimaging in dementia: a systematic review’

Laura Freeman, PhD student, University of Southampton – ‘Using C. elegans to Understand the Interactions Between the Gut Microbiome and Innate Immune System in Ageing and Alzheimer’s disease’

Dr Sofia Michopoulou, University Hospital Southampton – ‘The BRAIN Study: Biomarker Research Assessing Inflammation in Neurodegeneration’

Hannah Warming, PhD student, University of Southampton – ‘Haemoglobin scavenging to preserve neuronal function after subarachnoid haemorrhage‘

Dr Mariana Vargas-Caballero, University of Southampton – ‘Synapse dysfunction in early Alzheimer’s disease‘

Dr Rebecca Kaye, University of Southampton – ‘Tetraspanin 10 in the retinal pigment epithelium and its role in age-related macular degeneration‘

Dr Fatima Pereira, University of Southampton – ‘“Differential effects of psychotropic drugs on gut microbiome homeostasis”

Prof Chris Kipps, University Hospital Southampton NHS FT – ‘Overview of Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease treatments’

Dr James Gwinnutt, University of Manchester – ‘Cognitive impairment in the immune mediated inflammatory diseases‘

Prof Christopher Edwards, University of Southampton – ‘Rheumatoid arthritis, brain fog and cognitive function’

Dr David Vauzour, University of East Anglia – ‘Novel strategies to delay brain ageing – the role of the gut microbiota’

Prof Sumeet Mahajan, University of Southampton

Dr Elena Konstantinopoulou, University of Southampton – ‘Combining micro-CT imaging with traditional histology and machine learning in a correlative imaging approach to investigate tuberculosis pathology in the human lung‘

Dr George Devitt, University of Southampton – ‘Stratification of tauopathy patients using vibrational and optical spectroscopy‘

Speakers: Dr Ruth Bartlett & Prof Jackie Bridges | Chair: Dr Euan Sadler

The need to build a strong evidence base to support the delivery of high quality health and social care for people living with a dementia is widely recognised.  Scaling up and skilling up the research workforce is an important part of the step-change needed.  In this seminar, Ruth and Jackie discuss their experiences of supporting a cohort of dementia care researchers through and beyond doctoral training, sharing the resulting research and drawing out the lessons learned for building conceptual, methodological and practical capacity in the workforce.

Prof Chris Kipps, Dr Sarah Fearn & Dr John Spreadbury, University of Southampton ‘Neurology Online: Managing care virtually’

Dr Naomi Farrington, University Hospital Southampton NHS FT & University of Southampton ‘Investigating quality of care for patients with dementia having treatment for cancer’

Prof Clive Holmes, University of Southampton – ‘Clinical trials update in Alzheimer’s Disease’

Dr Jagmohan Chauhan, University of Southampton – ‘On-Device Learning and Audio Sensing for HealthCare’

Prof Colm Cunningham, Dr Kellyn Lee & Dr Jay Amin, University of Southampton ‘Old Age Psychiatry and Neuroscience: Dementia vs. Delirium’

Prof Donna Wilcock, University of Kentucky ‘Integration of mouse and human studies for biomarker discovery in VCID’