Seminars

The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of upcoming seminars for the 2024/2025 academic year.
17/10/24 13:00 Lecture series

Functional roles of the cortical myeloarchitecture

Speaker: Maarten Kole, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Juan Burrone
24/10/24 13:00 Lecture series

Noradrenergic-dependent deficit in cortical function in a mouse model of SYNGAP1 -related intellectual disability and autism

Speaker: Nathalie Rocheford, Professor of Neuroscience, Centre for Discovey Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
Location: Gowland Hopkins Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building
Host: Adil Khan
14/11/24 13:00 Lecture series

Is love blind? Mating proximity gates threat perception

Speaker: Carolina Rezaval, School of Biosciences, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
Location: New Hunt's House, 4th Floor, Large meeting room
Host: Robert Hinges
21/11/24 13:00 Lecture series

Evolutionary expansion of a learning and memory centre

Speaker: Stephen Mongomery, Associate Professor in Evolutionary Neurobiology and Behaviour, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Darren Williams
12/12/24 13:00 Lecture series

Circuits for instinct – form, function and flexibility

Speaker: Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute
Location: Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Host: Laura Andreae
13/2/25 13:00 Lecture series

Advancing Neurodevelopmental Research: Developing Human Brain Organoid Models to Investigate Brain Malformations

Speaker: Orly Reiner, Incumbent of the Berstein-Mason professorial chair of Neurochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Laura Andreae
27/2/25 13:00 Lecture series

Time is of the essence: insights on axon tract expansion in human evolution

Speaker: Feline Lindhout, Lancaster Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Location: Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus
Host: Laura Pellegrini
6/3/25 13:00 Lecture series

TBC

Speaker: Gaia Novarino, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Oscar Marin
20/3/25 13:00 Lecture series

Evolution of neural circuits, lessons from the flies

Speaker: Lucia Prieto-Godino, Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Laura Andreae
8/5/25 13:00

The Construction of Sensory-Modality Circuits: The Key Role of Spontaneous Activity Programs

Speaker: Guillermina López-Bendito, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Benedikt Berninger