Welcome to our first ever international collaboration webinar with Hong Kong Student Association of Neuroscience. This is a preliminary event happening as a taster for the upcoming UCL x HKSAN Brain Symposium planned for July this year.

Joining us are Dr Stephanie Koch, UCL and Dr Sau Ching Stanley Wong, HKU.

Dr Koch is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sensorimotor Neuroscience. Her research primarily focuses on increasing understanding of how the nervous system learns to interact with the environment in order to allow specific and precise movements to be recruited.

Her presentation title is “Touch, Pain and Itch: how we learn to navigate the world” :

“We use our sense of touch, pain and itch to know how to accurately respond to our environment be it by moving away from pain or by removing an itch, but how does the body know how to move in response to each cue? Our somatosensory system is precisely wired to allow us to protect ourselves and this wiring is set up after birth as a function of experience. Here we will discuss the circuits underlying touch, pain and itch and how we can use our understanding of postnatal development to reveal how these circuits can miswire after injury.”

~Koch, 2023

Dr Wong is a Clinical associate professor working in pain medication, cardio protection and basic pain signalling pathways at Queen Mary Hospital, HK. He is a well known professor in his field, especially for anaesthesiology and pain modulation, and has a plethora of published landmark studies in these fields.

He will be joining us all the way from Hong Kong with a fantastic presentation on pain in a clinical setting.

Feel free to sign up to the link and join us!