RS Macdonald Seedcorn Fund outcomes

The RS MacDonald Seedcorn Fund has been created to support the development of neuroscience research projects and collaboration at the University of Edinburgh. In the October 2018 funding round we received 30 applications requesting a total of £143,360. We were able to fund 10 proposals, allocating £41,825. 36% of funded proposals were from postdoctoral researchers.

 

• Cathy Abbott (Genetics & Molecular Medicine, plus EMC, MMEC, PWC), Using a mouse model to explore the link between epileptic encephalopathy and neurodegeneration
• Antonis Asiminis (Discovery Brain Sciences, plus PWC), Prey-capture: an ethologically relevant paradigm to study cognitive and sensory processing in rodents
• Catherina Becker, (Discovery Brain Sciences, plus EMC), Movers and shakers - the role of microglia in restorative neurogenesis after spinal cord injury
• David Breen (Clinical Brain Sciences), Cerebrospinal α-synuclein RT-QuIC in multiple system atrophy: a clinical and neuropathological study
• Amanda Drake (Cardiovascular Sciences, plus JBRL), Investigating the role of early life stress on epigenetic dysregulation in the hypothalamus
• Jenna Gregory and Marcelo Barria (Clinical Brain Sciences, plus EMC), Investigating the clinico-pathological correlation between differential folding conformations of TDP-43 and disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Matthew Horrocks (Chemistry), The time evolution of synapses at the nanoscale using super-resolution microscopy
• Yu-Ting Huang (Discovery Brain Sciences, plus EMC), Developing in utero gene therapy to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
• Declan King (Discovery Brain Sciences), Equipment for human brain embedding for Transmission Electron Microscopy – for use on Lothian Birth Cohort tissue and by collaborators in Edinburgh Neuroscience
• Bhuvaneish Selvaraj (Clinical Brain Sciences, plus EMC), C9ORF72 astrocytes induced transcriptome dysregulation in motor neurons

 

Huge congratulations to all of our awardees!