Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
24/6/20 15:00 Special seminar Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism of learning and repair?
Speaker:
Thora Karadottir , University of Cambridge
23/6/20 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Neuronal circuits for goal-directed sensorimotor transformation
Speaker:
Carl Petersen , EPFL
18/6/20 15:00 Lecture series Cytonemes shape the Wnt morphogenetic gradient
Speaker:
Steffen Scholpp , University of Exeter
11/6/20 15:00 Lecture series Assembly and functions of protein-RNA condensates in the brain
Speaker:
Jernej Ule , The Francis Crick Institute
4/6/20 14:00 NEUReka! seminar Evolution of olfactory circuits
Speaker:
Lucia Prieto-Godino , Francis Crick Institute
21/5/20 14:00 Lecture series Successful repair of the spinal cord
Speaker:
Catherina Becker , University of Edinburgh
14/5/20 14:00 Lecture series The art of decision making by stem cells in the adult brain
Speaker:
Ana Martin-Villalba , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
30/4/20 14:00 Lecture series The regenerative potential of glia
Speaker:
Alicia Hidalgo , IBDM
23/4/20 13:00 Lecture series How development scaffolds memory circuits
Speaker:
Rosa Coassart , INMED
26/3/20 13:00 Lecture series A Toll receptor map underlies structural brain plasticity
Speaker:
Alicia Hidalgo , University of Birmingham
19/3/20 13:00 Lecture series Neural codes for spatial memory
Speaker:
Matt Nolan , University of Edinburgh
12/3/20 13:00 Lecture series Cancelled - New date will be rescheduled soon! Modeling neuronal migration disorders with
human-derived cerebral organoids
Speaker:
Silvia Cappello , Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
10/3/20 12:00 Special seminar Internal only Junior Group Leader candidate The neural basis of motor skill learning
Speaker:
Ashesh Dhawale , Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
4/3/20 12:00 Special seminar Internal only Junior Group Leader candidate In vitro modelling of human development and disease
Speaker:
Jakob Metzger , Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University
27/2/20 13:00 Lecture series Oligodendroglial heterogeneity
and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis
Speaker:
Anna Williams , Centre for Regenerative Medicine
25/2/20 12:00 Special seminar Internal only JUNIOR GROUP LEADER Understanding disease and development through human mosaic mutations
Speaker:
Martin Breuss , Health Sciences, UC San Diego
13/2/20 13:00 Lecture series Serotonergic modulation of the feeding connectome in Drosophila
Speaker:
Michael J Pankratz , Life and Medical Sciences Institute
30/1/20 13:00 Lecture series Reverse engineering Drosophila limb control circuits and behaviors to inform robotics
Speaker:
Pavan Ramdya , EPFL
23/1/20 13:00 Lecture series Biological Robustness: genetic compensation and transcriptional adaptation
Speaker:
Didier Stainier , Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
16/1/20 13:00 Lecture series Neuronal computations determined by the wiring diagram of the olfactory bulb
Speaker:
Rainer Friedrich , Friedrich Miescher Institute
12/12/19 13:00 Lecture series From mechanisms of neurogenesis to neural repair
Speaker:
Magdalena Gotz , Ludwig Maximilians Universitat
5/12/19 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of perception and working memory
Speaker:
Athena Akrami , Princeton University
28/11/19 13:00 Lecture series The sweet taste of nectar: Novel mechanisms for taste coding revealed in bees
Speaker:
Geraldine Wright , Oxford University
21/11/19 13:00 Lecture series Genome regulation and architecture
Speaker:
Julie Ahringer , The Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge
14/11/19 13:00 Lecture series The sensory neurons of touch
Speaker:
David Ginty , Harvard Medical School
7/11/19 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Size and number matter - efficient neural design sets specifications for development
Speaker:
Simon Laughlin , Cambridge University
31/10/19 13:00 Lecture series Lifelong changes in stem cells of the adult brain and their niche
Speaker:
Francois Guillemot , The Francis Crick Institute
17/10/19 13:00 Lecture series Cognitive ontogeny in health and disease: lessons from rodent models
Speaker:
Ileana Hanganu-Opatz , University Medical Centre Hamburg
15/10/19 17:30 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 13:00 Lecture series Transcriptomic approaches identify cell type diversity in mammalian glial development and multiple sclerosis
Speaker:
David Rowitch , University of Cambridge
3/10/19 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Neural processes for experiencing a musical note
Speaker:
Kerry Walker , Oxford University
26/9/19 13:00 Lecture series Early brain imaging in Down’s syndrome- the eBiDS study
Speaker:
Mary Rutherford , KCL
19/9/19 13:00 Lecture series CNS regionalisation in the pre-vertebrate amphioxus: Insights into the origins of the vertebrate CNS
Speaker:
Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez , Cambridge University
12/9/19 13:00 Lecture series Nanoscale organization of the inhibitory synapse
Speaker:
Kate Smith , University of Colorado
5/9/19 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Dynamic encoding of behavioral states in amygdala circuits
Speaker:
Andreas Lüthi , The Friedrich Miescher Institute
18/7/19 13:00 Lecture series Algorithms and neural circuits in olfaction
Speaker:
Venkatesh Murthy , Harvard University
27/6/19 13:00 Lecture series How internal states and needs shape odor perception and behaviour
Speaker:
Ilona Grunwald Kadow , Technical University of Munich
20/6/19 13:00 Lecture series Neuronal ensembles: emergent units of cortical function?
Speaker:
Rafael Yuste , The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University
13/6/19 13:00 Lecture series The Yin and Yang of synapse assembly and plasticity
Speaker:
Stephan Sigrist , Freie Universität Berlin
23/5/19 13:00 Lecture series Signaling Pathway Alterations in Medulloblastoma
Speaker:
Olivier Ayrault , Institut Curie
16/5/19 13:00 Lecture series The Cell Biology of Neurogenesis
Speaker:
Kate Storey , University of Dundee
9/5/19 13:00 Lecture series Emergence of stable and dynamic memory engrams in the hippocampus
Speaker:
Marlene Bartos , Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg
7/5/19 16:00 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 11:30 Special seminar Postsynaptic LTP Underlies Cortical Remapping Through AMPA
Receptors Synaptic Accumulation
Speaker:
Tiago Campello , IINS (Bordeaux)
15/4/19 13:00 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 13:00 Lecture series Stability and plasticity of cortical circuits
Speaker:
Tobias Bonhoeffer , Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
21/3/19 13:00 Lecture series Motor context tunes active visual control of locomotion in Drosophila
Speaker:
Eugenia Chiappe , Champalimaud Foundation
14/3/19 13:00 Lecture series Time to get up: awakening stem cells in the brain
Speaker:
Andrea Brand , The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
6/3/19 11:00 Lecture series Mechanisms of development and evolution of the human cerebral cortex
Speaker:
Chris Walsh , Boston Children's Hospital
14/2/19 13:00 Lecture series Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair
Speaker:
Magdalena Götz , Helmholz Center Munich & Institute Stem Cell Research
7/2/19 16:00 NEUReka! seminar A Gut Feeling about the Brain: Microbiome as a key regulator of Neurodevelopment and Ageing
Speaker:
John Cryan , University College Cork (UCC), Ireland