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SfE/BES Annual Meeting: Heike Heuer and Steffen Mayerl represent LOCOTACT
LOCOTACT PI Heike Heuer and Steffen Mayerl were both invited to the 2021 Society for Endocrinology/British Endocrine Society (SfE/BES) Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Heike Heuer has been honored with the Pitt-Rivers Medal for her outstanding research contributions in the field of thyroid disorders. Thus, she presented at the plenary lecture of the Pitt-Rivers-Lecture Award and talked about the "Role of thyroid hormone transporters in brain development and function" on 08.11.2021.
The day after, on 09.11.2021, PI Steffen Mayerl represented LOCOTACT with his talk on "Concerted action of TH transporters MCT8 and OATP1C1 regulates adult hippocampal neurogenesis and hippocampal function in mice".
We thank both of you for these outstanding presentations!
LOCOTACT Lectures - Jan G. Hengstler
Renate-Maaß-Research Award 2021
Interview with the 2021 Pitt-Rivers Lecturer
LOCOTACT Lectures - Final Programme
LOCOTACT Lectures - Guo Huang
LOCOTACT-Lectures
The monthly lectures with invited guest speakers start on September 9, 2021 and will take place on thursdays from 5:00 to 6:00 pm via Zoom.
ETA eConference 2021: Steffen Mayerl speaks about GABAergic interneurons
LOCOTACT was represented at the 2021 ETA eConference by PI Steffen Mayerl. In the Sunday evening oral session he gave his talk "Thyroid hormone transport impacts multiple stages of GABAergic interneuron development".