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.
27/3/25 13:00 NEUReka! seminar

Cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating progenitor cells during cortical development

Speaker: Fiona Francis, Institut du Fer a Moulin, Sorbonne University
Location: New Hunt's House, 4th Floor, Large meeting room
Host: Ioana Genescu
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
3/4/25 13:00 Lecture series

Representation of three-dimensional visual scenes in the mouse visual cortex

Speaker: Petr Znamenskiy, https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/petr-znamenskiy
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Laura Andreae
24/4/25 16:00 Lecture series

Speaker: Julijana Gjorgjieva, https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/gjorgjieva-julijana
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Dimitar Kostadinov
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
26/6/25 13:00 Lecture series

Dendritic contributions to biological and artificial learning systems

Speaker: Panayiota Poirazi, Poirazi Lab, Athens
Location: Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus
Host: Juan Burrone