“How to Guide Neurons and Control Metabolism”, 2 June

This week's Hudson Seminar will be held from 12-1 pm, Lecture Theatre 1, Monash Medical Centre.

The speaker will be: Prof Roger Poco, Veski Innovation Fellow, Head of the  Neuronal Development and Plasticity Laboratory, Monash University.

Light refreshments to follow presentation outside the Lecture Theatre.

Associate Professor Roger Pocok is a veski Innovation Fellow and the Head of the Neuronal Development and Plasticity Laboratory at Monash University.

Roger received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2004 and conducted his postdoctoral work at Columbia University in New York (2004-2009). He opened his first research group at the University of Copenhagen in 2010 where he worked on the functions of transcription factors and microRNAs in brain development. His work has been published in leading journals including Science, Nature Neuroscience and Current Biology.

Roger relocated his laboratory to Monash in January 2015 to help strengthen development neurobiology and to establish a C. elegans research hub in Australia.