Topic:Asymmetries of the brainvs.asymmetries of the whole body: the ‘right’ and ‘left’ of morphogenesis in health and disease
Speaker:John L. Waddington, PhD, DSc
Time: 16:00-17:00,Jun12, 2023
Location: 402, Conference Hall on the 4thfloor
About the Speaker
John Waddington is an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, now RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. For over 35 years, he has taught medical and pharmacy students on the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders and conducted research relating to the developmental pathobiology of psychotic illness. His work has been widely published in scientific and medical journals, includingNature,Nature Neuroscience,Nature Medicine,Science,Cell,British Medical Journal,andLancet. He has received the Neuroscience Research Award of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science of the Schizophrenia International Research Society. With Prof. Xuechu Zhen at the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, he has established a program of international partnership between RCSI and Soochow University, and he has held a Joint Appointment as the Chair Professor at Soochow University since 2014. His lecture will consider: anatomical asymmetries as a fundamental aspect of human development; how peripheral asymmetries may relate to brain asymmetries; and how the development of brain asymmetries may be disrupted in psychiatric illness.
