Neuroscience in Liverpool: Origins and Ramifications (BYOB Liverpool)

About This Event

On Wednesday 2^nd April 2025 | 6:30PM Welcome Reception | 7:00-8:00PM Lecture

Free to attend, but booking is essential. Over 18s only.

Part of the BYOB Liverpool event series, in celebration of the BNA2025 Festival of Neuroscience

Speaker: Dr Andrew Larner

The British Neuroscience Association Meeting in Liverpool in April 2025 will provide many opportunities to learn about exciting developments in the field of neuroscience and forge new ideas and collaborations for future research.  It also presents an opportunity for retrospection, to consider the history of neuroscience research in Liverpool which dates back at least 150 years.  In this personal view, the work of two late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century researchers, Richard Caton and Charles Sherrington, perhaps the earliest neuroscientists working in Liverpool, will be considered, along with the ramifications of their work as it was disseminated locally, nationally and internationally.

Don’t miss this captivating lecture, delivered in the beautiful, historic surroundings, highlighting Liverpool's contributions to neuroscience and their broader impacts.

About The Speaker
Andrew J Larner, MD, PhD, FRCP(UK), is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation at the Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK.  He was previously a Consultant Neurologist at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool where had a specialist interest in dementia and cognitive disorders. He now pursues research in the history of neurology and neuroscience.

About The Venue
Liverpool Medical Institution (LMI) is one of the oldest medical societies in the world, tracing its origins back to the founding of the Liverpool Medical Library in 1779. For nearly two centuries this beautiful Grade II Listed building has been a focus of medical life and a meeting place for the medical community of Merseyside, its primary role being that of a medical library.

About BYOB Liverpool
In celebration of the BNA2025 Festival of Neuroscience coming to Liverpool – the Liverpool Neuroscience Group, BNA, & partners will be organising an exciting programme of free, neuro-themed public events between March – April 2025 in and around Liverpool - come along, but remember to Bring Your Own Brain!