Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
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
22/10/20 15:00 Lecture series Following neuronal trajectories
Speaker:
Silvia Cappello, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
15/10/20 15:00 Lecture series Neural representations of a spatial memory
Speaker:
Matt Nolan, University of Edinburgh
8/10/20 15:00 Lecture series Gene therapy for epilepsy: Time for clinical trials in 2021?
Speaker:
Stephanie Schorge, UCL
24/9/20 15:00 Lecture series Drosophila neuroblast tumors as a model to investigate the developmental origin of cancers and the principles of tumor hierarchy
Speaker:
Cédric Maurange, IBDM
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
27/2/20 13:00 Lecture series Oligodendroglial heterogeneity
and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis
Speaker:
Anna Williams, Centre for Regenerative Medicine
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
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
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
