Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
17/10/19 Lecture series Cognitive ontogeny in health and disease: lessons from rodent models
Speaker: Ileana Hanganu-Opatz , University Medical Centre Hamburg
15/10/19 DNC Glial solutions to neuronal problems in the developing fruit fly visual system & Astrocytic-neuronal interaction in the specification of circadian time
Speakers: Vilaiwan Fernandes , Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL & Marco Brancaccio , Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London
10/10/19 Lecture series Transcriptomic approaches identify cell type diversity in mammalian glial development and multiple sclerosis
Speaker: David Rowitch
3/10/19 NEUReka! seminar Neural processes for experiencing a musical note
Speaker: Kerry Walker , Oxford University
26/9/19 Lecture series Early brain imaging in Down’s syndrome- the eBiDS study
Speaker: Mary Rutherford
19/9/19 Lecture series CNS regionalisation in the pre-vertebrate amphioxus: Insights into the origins of the vertebrate CNS
Speaker: Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez
12/9/19 Lecture series Nanoscale organization of the inhibitory synapse
Speaker: Kate Smith
5/9/19 NEUReka! seminar Dynamic encoding of behavioral states in amygdala circuits
Speaker: Andreas Lüthi , The Friedrich Miescher Institute
18/7/19 Lecture series Algorithms and neural circuits in olfaction
Speaker: Venkatesh Murthy
27/6/19 Lecture series How internal states and needs shape odor perception and behaviour
Speaker: Ilona Grunwald Kadow
20/6/19 Lecture series Neuronal ensembles: emergent units of cortical function?
Speaker: Rafael Yuste
13/6/19 Lecture series The Yin and Yang of synapse assembly and plasticity
Speaker: Stephan Sigrist
23/5/19 Lecture series Signaling Pathway Alterations in Medulloblastoma
Speaker: Olivier Ayrault
16/5/19 Lecture series The Cell Biology of Neurogenesis
Speaker: Kate Storey
9/5/19 Lecture series Emergence of stable and dynamic memory engrams in the hippocampus
Speaker: Marlene Bartos
7/5/19 Special seminar ‘In vivo optogenetic control of neuronal activity: ground-truth electrophysiology calibration of 10 different opsin transgenic lines’
Speaker: Adna Dumitrescu , Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Paris
23/4/19 Special seminar Postsynaptic LTP Underlies Cortical Remapping Through AMPA
Receptors Synaptic Accumulation
Speaker: Tiago Campello , IINS (Bordeaux)
15/4/19 Special seminar Flying in a multi-sensory world: How insects acquire and process multi-modal cues
Speaker: Sanjay Sane , National Centre for Biological Sciences,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore India
28/3/19 Lecture series Stability and plasticity of cortical circuits
Speaker: Tobias Bonhoeffer
21/3/19 Lecture series Motor context tunes active visual control of locomotion in Drosophila
Speaker: Eugenia Chiappe
14/3/19 Lecture series Time to get up: awakening stem cells in the brain
Speaker: Andrea Brand
6/3/19 Lecture series Mechanisms of development and evolution of the human cerebral cortex
Speaker: Chris Walsh
14/2/19 Lecture series Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair
Speaker: Magdalena Götz
7/2/19 NEUReka! seminar A Gut Feeling about the Brain: Microbiome as a key regulator of Neurodevelopment and Ageing
Speaker: John Cryan
31/1/19 Lecture series From flexible self-assembly to robust brain wiring on the fly
Speaker: Peter Robin Hiesinger
25/1/19 Special seminar "When we met: early encounters of modern humans with neandertals"
Speaker: Sergi Castellano , UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
24/1/19 Lecture series Processing aversion by habenular circuits
Speaker: Manuel Mameli
17/1/19 Lecture series Thalamocortical interactions during visual processing
Speaker: Sonja Hofer
10/1/19 NEUReka! seminar "Tasting from within, a new interoceptive sensory pathway linking cerebrospinal fluid to motor circuits"
Speaker: Claire Wyart
13/12/18 Lecture series Cell type-specific translation profiling in neurodevelopmental disorders
Speaker: Emily Osterweil
22/11/18 Lecture series Cell migration promotes dynamic cellular interactions to control cerebral cortex morphogenesis
Speaker: Laurent Nguyen
15/11/18 Lecture series Evolution of olfaction
Speaker: Richard Benton
8/11/18 Lecture series Synaptic plasticity as probabilistic inference
Speaker: Peter Latham
25/10/18 Lecture series The evolution of function in the nervous system: What can we learn from the vertebrate retina?
Speaker: Thomas Baden
18/10/18 Lecture series Quantitative and dynamic analysis of neurogenesis with single cell resolution at the tissue level
Speaker: Nancy Papalopulu
11/10/18 Lecture series Development and function of Drosophila locomotor circuits
Speaker: Chris Doe
4/10/18 Lecture series Enriching adult neurogenesis: how experience
Speaker: Gerd Kempermann
13/9/18 Lecture series mRNA transport to synapses and how this might impact memory, epliepsy and autism
Speaker: Michael Kiebler
28/6/18 Lecture series Transient moving organizers: life and death in cortical development and evolution
Speaker: Alessandra Pierani
21/6/18 Lecture series Stress and the developmental origins of longevity
Speaker: Alex Gould
