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.
12/12/24 13:00 Lecture series

Circuits for instinct – form, function and flexibility

Speaker: Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, 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
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, MeLis, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,Institut NeuroMyoGène, Lyon
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Robert Hinges
22/5/25 13:00

The development and evolution of vertebrate lateral line electroreceptors

Speaker: Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, 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, Professor of Quantative Neuroscience Department of Neuromuscular Diseases UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Adil Khan