Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
2/2/23 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Of odour plumes and synchrotrons- structure and function in neural circuits
Speaker:
Andreas Schafer, Francis Crick Institute
26/1/23 13:00 Lecture series Cortical Layers in Context & Learning
Speaker:
Randy Bruno, University of Oxford
19/1/23 13:00 Lecture series
Speaker:
Simona Parrinello
15/12/22 13:00 Lecture series Mechanisms of neuronal diversification and evolution
Speaker:
Nuria Flames, Valencia Biomedicine Institute
8/12/22 13:00 Lecture series Molecular programs for adult brain (re)wiring
Speaker:
Csaba Földy, University of Zurich
1/12/22 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Going into the unknown together: a guitar talk about the importance of emotions in science
Speaker:
Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute, Israel
24/11/22 13:00 Lecture series Circuits for learning, predicting and deciding in Drosophila
Speaker:
Marta Zlatic, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
3/11/22 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Novel homeostatic functions for the pro-inflammatory molecule Galectin-3 in embryonic and adult neurogeneis
Speaker:
Francis Szele, Oxford University
8/9/22 13:00 Lecture series Cytoskeletal regulation of single-cell branching morphogenesis
Speaker:
Sofia J Araújo, University of Barcelona
7/7/22 13:00 Lecture series Vascular instructions during CNS development
Speaker:
Amparo Acker-Palmer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
16/6/22 13:00 Lecture series tbc
Speaker:
Peter Hacker, Univeristy of Oxford
19/5/22 13:00 Lecture series Control of neural connectivity by synapse-specific cell-surface interactions and downstream signaling’
Speaker:
Joris de Wit, VIB-KU Leuven Center For Brain & Disease Research
12/5/22 13:00 Lecture series Dissecting how internal states shape brain function and nutritional decision
Speaker:
Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
21/4/22 16:00 Lecture series Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease: from cognition to cancer
Speaker:
Michelle Monje, Stanford Medicine
20/4/22 13:00 Lecture series Alternative splicing regulatory networks and their roles in nervous system development and disorders
Speaker:
Benjamin Blencowe, University of Toronto
31/3/22 13:00 Lecture series The roles of extracellular vesicles in brain development, function and disease
Speaker:
Hollis Cline, The Scripps Research Institute
17/3/22 13:00 Lecture series Brain region evolution by duplication-and-divergence -- lessons from the cerebellar nuclei
Speaker:
Justus Kebschull, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
10/3/22 13:00 Lecture series A day in the life (and mind) of the larval zebrafish: organization of motivational states in the vertebrate brain
Speaker:
Jennifer Li & Drew Robson, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
3/3/22 13:00 Lecture series Synaptic Logistics: Protein Supply and Demand at Synapses.
Speaker:
Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
24/2/22 13:00 Lecture series Internal representations of space and gradient navigation in larval zebrafish
Speaker:
Ruben Portugues, Institute of Neuroscience, Technical University of Munich
10/2/22 10:30 Lecture series The embryonic root of adult subventricular neural stem cells
Speaker:
Yukiko Gotoh, The University of Tokyo
27/1/22 13:00 Lecture series The importance of synaptic changes in tau in Alzheimer's disease and cognitive ageing
Speaker:
Tara Spires-Jones, University of Edinburgh
20/1/22 13:00 Lecture series Genomically-aided diagnosis of developmental disorders: Making geneticist feel very stupid
Speaker:
David FitzPatrick, Univeristy of Edinburgh
16/12/21 16:00 Lecture series Understanding the Brain: Does the Nascent Field of Connectomics Help? (or Hurt?)
Speaker:
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
9/12/21 13:00 Lecture series Remembering immunity: brain representation of immune states
Speaker:
Asya Rolls, Israel Institute of Technology
25/11/21 13:00 Lecture series Cellular remodeling after spinal cord injury - the impact of distal axonal lesion on upstream cortical networks
Speaker:
Maren Engelhardt, Johannes Kepler University Linz
18/11/21 13:00 Lecture series Dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic disruptions that underpin glioblastoma
Speaker:
Steven Pollard, University of Edinburgh
11/11/21 13:00 Lecture series Temporal controls over interareal cortical projection neuron fate diversity
Speaker:
Denis Jabaudon, University of Geneva
21/10/21 13:00 Lecture series Lessons learnt from studying apoptosis during C. elegans development
Speaker:
Barbara Conradt
14/10/21 13:00 Lecture series Its about time: cajal-retzius cells, activity and microglia in early cortical wiring
Speaker:
Sonia Garel, IBENS
7/10/21 15:00 NEUReka! seminar From swimming to seizures: Investigating locomotor behavior and epilepsy in developing zebrafish
Speaker:
Gerald Downes, University of Massachusetts Amherst
30/9/21 16:00 Lecture series Functional flexibility: state-dependence and neuromodulation in the cortex
Speaker:
Jessica Cardin, Yale Yale School of Medicine
23/9/21 16:00 Lecture series Wiring Specificity of Neural Circuits in Flies and Mice
Speaker:
Liqun Luo, Stanford University
16/9/21 16:00 Lecture series A human-specific genetic modifier of cortical connectivity and circuit function improves behavioral performance
Speaker:
Franck Polleux, Columbia University | Zuckerman Institute
9/9/21 16:00 Lecture series Purkinje cell axonal swellings enhance axon potential fidelity and cerebellar function
Speaker:
Alanna Watt, McGill University
1/7/21 15:00 Lecture series Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Era of Big Data
Speaker:
Damien Fair, University of Minnesota
10/6/21 15:00 Lecture series Diversity and Regulation of Adult Neural Stem Cells
Speaker:
Fiona Doetsch, University of Basel
20/5/21 15:00 Lecture series Immune-related proteins in neurons: from synapse identity to synaptopathies
Speaker:
Fekrije Selimi, Collège de France
13/5/21 15:00 Lecture series Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics during development and repair
Speaker:
Yanlan Mao, UCL
6/5/21 15:00 NEUReka! seminar The Neuroethology of visual navigation in insects
Speaker:
Paul Graham, University of Sussex
29/4/21 15:00 Lecture series Critical period of prefrontal circuit development, role of early life stress and antidepressants
Speaker:
Patricia Gaspar, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Paris
22/4/21 15:00 Lecture series Molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of bilateral circuits
Speaker:
Eloisa Herrera, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante CSIC-UMH
25/3/21 15:00 Lecture series Disentangling descending circuits for motor control
Speaker:
Silvia Arber, University of Basel & Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), Basel
18/3/21 15:00 Lecture series Human stem cells for modelling neural injury and disease
Speaker:
Patrizia Ferretti, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Section, UCL
11/3/21 10:30 Lecture series Cellular and molecular rules for distributing synaptic weights in hippocampal pyramidal neurons
Speaker:
Yukiko Goda, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
25/2/21 15:00 Lecture series Decoding the Notch signal
Speaker:
Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge
4/2/21 15:00 NEUReka! seminar Real problems and beast machines: predictive processing and conscious experience
Speaker:
Anil Seth, University of Sussex
21/1/21 15:00 Lecture series Understanding the complex behaviors of the 'simple' cerebellar circuit
Speaker:
Megan Carey, Champalimaud Foundation
14/1/21 15:00 Lecture series Microglial remodeling of the extracellular matrix in memory circuits
Speaker:
Anna Molofsky, UCSF
17/12/20 15:00 Lecture series Upgrading the physiological relevance of human brain organoids
Speaker:
Giorgia Quadrato, USC
10/12/20 15:00 Lecture series Genetic evolution of cerebral cortex size determinants
Speaker:
Victor Borrell, Instituto de Neurociencias
19/11/20 15:00 Lecture series The birth of memory circuits
Speaker:
Rosa Cossart, Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée
12/11/20 15:00 Lecture series Exuberance and plasticity during the wiring of the corpus callosum. Views to understand the diversity of cortical circuits
Speaker:
Marta Nieto, The National Centre for Biotechnolgy
5/11/20 15:00 NEUReka! seminar Using cerebral organoids to understand human brain size determination
Speaker:
Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
