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.
27/2/25 13:00 Lecture series

Time is of the essence: calcium-mediated tuning of developmental tempo and evolutionary neuronal morphology

Speaker: Feline Lindhout, Lancaster Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre (Hodgkin)
Host: Laura Pellegrini
6/3/25 13:00 Lecture series

From Cells to Systems: understanding the phenotypic landscape of autism spectrum disorders

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

TBA

Speaker: Amélie Freal, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Matt Grubb
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
31/3/25 13:00 Special seminar

The ontogeny of hippocampus-dependent memory

Speaker: Paul Frankland
Location: New Hunt's House, 4th Floor, Large meeting room
Host: Benedikt Berninger
8/5/25 13:00 Lecture series

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

Speaker: Guillermina López-Bendito, Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, Alicante
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Benedikt Berninger
15/5/25 13:00 Lecture series

Studying the plasticity and heterogeneity of neuroblastoma in the light of the embryonic context of emergence and neural crest cell of origin

Speaker: Valérie Castellani, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut NeuroMyoGène Lyon
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Robert Hindges
22/5/25 13:00 Lecture series

The development and evolution of vertebrate lateral line electroreceptors

Speaker: Clare Baker, University of Cambridge
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Anthony Graham
5/6/25 13:00 Lecture series

Fish cognition: From circuits to behavior

Speaker: Herwig Baier, Director Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Robert Hindges
12/6/25 13:00 Lecture series

In vivo activity of transcriptomically identified cortical cell types

Speaker: Kenneth Harris, Institute of Neurology, UCL
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Adil Khan