Lunch Hour Lecture | Unravelling Dementia: What Can a Tiny Fly Teach Us About Our Brains?
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In this lecture, Dr Teresa Niccoli will explore how tiny flies could lead to new strategies to defend human brain cells from Dementia.
About the lecture:
Unravelling Dementia: What Can a Tiny Fly Teach Us About Our Brains?
Dementia is now the UK's top killer, making it vital to understand why brain cells die. Our lab uses fruit flies – remarkable models with brain similarities to ours and short lives – to tackle this mystery. A key puzzle in dementia is why only some brain cells succumb while others resist. We investigate this selective vulnerability to find protective mechanisms and are also testing if common drugs, like metformin for diabetes, can shield brain cells from disease. Ultimately, insights from these tiny flies could lead to new strategies to defend human brain cells from disease.
UCL's popular public Lunch Hour Lecture series has been running at UCL since 1942, and showcases the exceptional research work being undertaken across UCL. Lectures are free and open to all and since 2020 have been held online.
Originally streamed on 2 October 2025.
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