Time Topic & Guests
09:00 - 09:05
Let's get started - introducing the day

Adam Smith
09:05 - 09:30
Why is research important? (Click to Watch)

Wendy Mitchell
Chris Roberts
Jayne Goodrick
09:30 - 10:00
Supporting carers, the importance of everyday objects and facing the end (Click to Watch)

Dr Nathan Davies - Senior Research Fellow, University College London
Dr Nuriye Kupeli - Senior Research Fellow, University College London
Dr Kellyn Lee - Research Fellow, University of Southampton
10:00 - 10:30
Living well with dementia, the importance of eyesight and what it can tell us (Click to Watch)

Dr Marianne Coleman - Clinical Vision Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Dr Catherine Quinn - Lecturer in Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
10:30 - 11:00
The importance of communities and better health services (Click to Watch)

Dr Fiona Marshall - Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Paul Brownbill - Insight Manager, Richmond Fellowship
Dr Siobhan Reilly - Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University
11:00 - 11:30
The role of the arts and technology to support wellbeing in dementia (Click to Watch)

Brendan Commane - PhD Student, Royal College of Art, London
Dr Kat Algar-Skaife - Research Fellow, Bangor University
Professor Marion Lynch - Visiting Professor of Dementia Care, University of West London
11:30 - 12:00
Epigenetics, exploring dark crevices of the gene and links to Alzheimer's (Click to Watch)

Professor Katie Lunnon - Professor of Dementia Genomics, University of Exeter
Dr Leonidis Chouliaras - Clinical Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
12:00 - 12:30
Getting behind some of the causes - sleep, genes, weight and more (Click to Watch)

Dr Christina Toomey - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University College London
Dr Guliz Ozcan - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University College London
Dr Gemma Lace - Senior Lecturer & Lead of Public Engagement and Outreach, University of Salford
12:30 - 13:00
Neuropeptides, cells and dipeptides - Water parks and messages in the brain (Click to Watch)

Dr Emily Maguire - Research Associate, UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University
Dr Sarah Ryan - Alzheimer's Society Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Dr James Quinn - Neurology Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, USA
13:00 - 13:30
Living at home independently and making technology help (Click to Watch)

Dr Clarissa Giebel - Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
Sarah Wallcook - PhD Student, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Monica Leverton - PhD Student, Division of Psychiatry, University College London
13:30 - 13:45
How is Alzheimer's Research UK making a breakthrough possible (Click to Watch)

Timothy Parry - Director of Communications, Engagement and Brand, Alzheimer's Research UK
13:45 - 14:30
All about Frontotemporal dementia - caring, helping and the latest research (Click to Watch)

Imogen Swift - Research Assistant, UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London
Dr Lucy Russell - Research Fellow, Dementia Research Centre, University College London
Dr Martina Bocchetta - Senior Research Fellow, Dementia Research Centre, University College London
Mica Clarke - PhD Student, University College London
Dr Aitana Sogorb Esteve - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London
14:30 - 15:00
Making care homes great places, providing great care and great homes - Part 1 (Click to Watch)

Leah Hewer-Richards - PhD Student, University of Southampton
Dr Rachel Daly - Professional and Practice Development Facilitator, Dementia UK
Dr Alys Griffiths - Senior Research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
15:00 - 15:30
The economics of dementia and finding new treatments in old drugs (Click to Watch)

Dr Danielle Newby - Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Professor Martin Knapp - Professor of Health and Social Care Policy, London School of Economics
15:30 - 16:00
NHS Care and the science behind getting a reliable blood test (Click to Watch)

Dr Amanda Heslegrave - Senior Research Fellow, UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London
Dr Josie Jenkinson - Consultant Psychiatrist for Older People, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
16:00 - 16:30
A romp through the science - researching what causes dementia to help beat it (Click to Watch)

Dr Sam Moxon - Research Associate, The University of Manchester
Professor Louise Serpell - Professor of Biochemistry, University of Sussex
16:30 - 17:00
Risky genes and unlocking cells (Click to Watch)

Dr Hazel Hall-Roberts - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
Dr Mark Dallas - Associate Professor Neuroscience, University of Reading
17:00 - 17:30
Making care homes great places, providing great care and great homes - Part 2 (Click to Watch)

Claire Surr - Professor of Dementia Studies, Leeds Beckett University
Dr Laura Booi - Research Associate, Population Health Science Institute, Newcastle University
Dr Victoria Shepherd - Research Associate, Cardiff University
17:30 - 18:00
How is research making a visit to the hospital better for people living with dementia (Click to Watch)

Dr Courtney Genge - Program Adviser, National Research Council Canada
Dr Emily Oliver - Consultant Admiral Nurse, Dementia UK
18:00 - 18:30
Improving through research, ensuring ethnicity does not impact diagnosis and care (Click to Watch)

Dr Naaheed Mukadam - Senior Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry, University College London
Dr Nadine Mirza - Postgraduate Researcher, The University of Manchester
18:30 - 19:00
Making and using pictures of the brain (Click to Watch)

Dr Tim Rittman - Snr Research Assoc & Neurology Consultant, University of Cambridge
Dr Sana Suri - Alzheimer's Society Research Fellow, University of Oxford
19:00 - 19:30
Beating Tau & Amyloid (Click to Watch)

Dr Claire Durrant - Race Against Dementia Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Eric Dyne - PhD Student, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
19:30 - 20:00
What can population studies tell us & how evaluating services is raising standards (Click to Watch)

Professor Fiona Matthews - Professor of Epidemiology, Newcastle University
Dr Terry Quinn - Senior Lecturer and Consultant, University of Glasgow
20:00 - 20:30
Speech, language, diagnosis and depression (Click to Watch)

Dr Anna Volkmer - Speech & Language Therapy Researcher, UCL & UCL Hospitals NHS FT
Natasha Clarke - PhD Student, St George's University of London
Dr Lindsay Sinclair - Clinical Research Fellow, University of Bristol
20:30 - 21:00
Reducing the risks - what does our blood the brain and research tell us? (Click to Watch)

Dr Keeley Brookes - Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Petra Proitsi - Alzheimer's Research UK Post Doctoral Research Fellow, King's College London
21:00
Thank you and goodnight

Adam Smith