Astrocyte biology of cognition and disease
Join us for a Brain and Neuroscience Special Seminar on “Astrocyte biology of cognition and disease”.
Dr. Michael Williamson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine
Where and when
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
10:30 – 11:30 am
In person, Medical Sciences Building (MSB), room 2377
No registration required, all are welcome.
University of Toronto Medical Sciences Building
1 King’s College Circle
Toronto, M5S 1A8
About the speaker: Dr. Michael Williamson
Dr. Michael Williamson received his BSc from the University of Alberta. During his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin he worked with Drs. Theresa Jones and Michael Drew, studying how astrocytes interact with other cell types to orchestrate brain repair and recovery after stroke.
Dr. Williamson is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine in the lab of Dr. Ben Deneen where he is studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which astrocytes regulate memory.
His lab will study the mechanisms of astrocyte-neuron interactions that underlie cognition and how these interactions change in disease states, both beneficially and detrimentally.
