Time 3:00 pm - 3:10 pm: Welcome Chair: Linda Hildegard Bergersen
Time 3:10 pm - 3:55 pm: "Dementia: the vascular connection" Speaker: David Attwell, University College London. Position: Director of Vascular Disease Centre
Time 3:55 pm - 4:00 pm: Questions
Time 4:05 pm - 4:45 pm: "The big questions concerning aging" Speaker: Kalle Moene, University of Oslo
Time 4:45 pm - 4:55 pm: Questions
Time 4:55 pm - 5:15 pm: Refreshments
Time 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm: Lecture: "Advancing Precision Medicine: NGS Proteomics in Action" Speaker: Focus: Multiomics, Olink
Time 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm: Closing remarks by Linda Hildegard Bergersen
Speakers:
Professor David Attwell FRS (born 1953) is a leading British neuroscientist, and the Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London in the Faculty of Life Sciences. He uses electrophysiological recording and imaging techniques to study neurotransmitter signalling between nerve and glial cells in the central nervous system.
He studied physics and physiology at Magdalen College, Oxford and earned D.Phil. in neuroscience from Oxford, where he studied with Julian Jack. He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley with Frank Werblin.
He organises the 4 year PhD in Neuroscience at UCL, and gives undergraduate lectures. He was Vice-Head of the Graduate School, the body overseeing graduate education at UCL, was on UCL's Council and is now on the Governance Committee of Academic Board. He occasionally teaches on international subject-specialist teaching programmes, e.g. on Ion Channels, the Astrocyte School, or teaching programmes related to brain energy supply and use.
Karl Ove Moene (born 18 October 1949) is a Norwegian economist. A professor at the University of Oslo, he has published extensively in scientific journals, as well as regularly contributing to public debate on economic issues.
Moene graduated as cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1977, and as dr. philos. in 1984. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1987. His research interests include companies owned by and ruled by workers, the Nordic model and the welfare state, and development economics. He has published more than one hundred scientific papers. His books include Likhet under Press: utfordringer for den skandinaviske fordelingsmodellen from 2003 (co-writer), Marked uten kapitalisme: økonomisk demokrati med selveide bedrifter from 1990 (co-writer), and Alternatives to Capitalism from 1989 (co-editor). He takes part in public debate on economic issues, and is a regular columnist for the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv. In 2011, he was awarded the Research Council of Norway's Award for Excellence in Communication of Science.[1] In 2017, he gave a TEDx talk on Universal basic share(UBS), which is variation on Universal basic income (UBI).[citation needed] He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is director of the GiWES: Globalisation, Institutions and the Welfare State Project[3] which is part of the NORFACE Welfare State Futures Programme network.