11 September 2013, 4pm - 5pm
Lecture Theatre 3, Lower Ground, Wallace Wurth, UNSW Kensington campus.
Event details
When:
11 September 2013, 4pm - 5pm
Where:
Lecture Theatre 3, Lower Ground, Wallace Wurth, UNSW Kensington campus.
Event type:
Seminar
Event open to:
All
Cost:
Free
Booking is not necessary
Inquiries:
Dr Phoebe Phillips
Presented by Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert, Macquarie Group Foundation Chair of Schizophrenia Research; Schizophrenia Research Institute, UNSW and Neuroscience Research Australia.
Her work has broad impact beyond psychiatry including examining molecular mechanisms by which hormones and growth factors cooperate to control gene expression and experimental examination of how sex hormones impact social development in adolescence. She has made pivotal contributions to the conceptualization of schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder and is best known for her pioneering work on brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) and estrogen receptor.
Her work has broad impact beyond psychiatry including examining molecular mechanisms by which hormones and growth factors cooperate to control gene expression and experimental examination of how sex hormones impact social development in adolescence. She has made pivotal contributions to the conceptualization of schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder and is best known for her pioneering work on brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) and estrogen receptor.