Cambridge BRAINFest
Opening Variety Night | 23 June 2017
Doors open at 18:30
Babbage Lecture Theatre
19:00 Welcome, opening remarks
Professors Ed Bullmore & Angela Roberts
19:05 Professor Usha Goswami:
The dyslexic brain: In tune but out of time?
19:35 The Sea is an Edge and an Ending
performed by Lavinia Greenlaw
20:05 Interval
20:20 Professor Roger Barker:
Can we repair the diseased brain?
20:50 Excerpt from “Take a Step”, The story of
Parkinson’s disease
21:15 Dr Giles Yeo:
Why are we getting so fat?