Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
15/12/16 Lecture series Epigenetic states of oligodendrocyte lineage cells during development and disease: insights from single-cell RNA sequencing
Speaker: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
8/12/16 Lecture series Biomechanical control of cell and tissue morphogenesis
Speaker: Thomas Lecuit
1/12/16 Lecture series Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells and Neocortex Expansion in Development and Evolution
Speaker: Wieland Huttner
29/11/16 Special seminar Internal only Deep-superficial structure of hippocampal oscillations in health and disease
Speaker: Liset Menendez de la Prida , Instituto Cajal CSIC
24/11/16 Lecture series Spatial specificity of neurite growth, branching and synapse formation: Novel mechanisms in flies, frogs, and mice
Speaker: Dietmar Schmucker , Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
17/11/16 Lecture series Niche regulation of stem cell dynamics in the adult brain
Speaker: Fiona Doetsch
10/11/16 Lecture series Behavioral state modulation of inhibition in mouse visual cortex
Speaker: Nathalie Rochefort
9/11/16 DNC Non-nuclear role for splicing factors in developing axons and degenerative processes & Post-transcriptional modes of regulating neural stem cell biology
Speakers: Corinne Houart , Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, KCL & Ilan Davis , Department of Biochemistry, The University of Oxford
3/11/16 Lecture series Lineage-dependent assembly of the functional neocortex
Speaker: Songhai Shi
27/10/16 Lecture series Formation, maintenance and recruitment of adult neural stem cell pools in the zebrafish brain
Speaker: Laure Bally-Cuif
20/10/16 Lecture series Balancing plasticity/stability across brain development
Speaker: Takao Hensch
29/9/16 Lecture series Setting the mood: Environmental regulation of circuit function and global animal state
Speaker: Mario de Bono
22/9/16 Lecture series Hox genes and brainstem sensory circuit formation
Speaker: Filippo Rijli
12/9/16 Lecture series Mechanisms of Cerebellar Development: Migration, Circuit Formation and Synaptic Plasticity
Speaker: Mary E Hatten
30/6/16 Lecture series Functional imaging of sensorimotor circuits in behaving zebrafish
Speaker: Michael Orger
22/6/16 Lecture series The many autisms: mouse brain imaging to understand heterogeneity and convergence in ASD
Speaker: Jason Lerch
15/6/16 DNC Coping with a stressful start in life & Regulating information processing in a neural code for dietary restriction
Speakers: Alex Gould , The Francis Crick Institute & Queelim Ch'ng , King's College London
31/5/16 Lecture series A role for NMDARs in Construction of a Hippocampal feedforward inhibitory pathway
Speaker: Chris J McBain
26/5/16 Lecture series How it grows: The zebrafish retina
Speaker: Bill Harris
19/5/16 Lecture series Chocolate cake or ice cream? Why does it take so long to decide between two good options?
Speaker: Alexandre Pouget
18/5/16 DNC The Gut-Brain Axis: An Enteric Nervous System Perspective & It’s not where you go, but how you get there
Speakers: Vassilis Pachnis , The Francis Crick Institute & Oscar Marin , King’s College London
12/5/16 Lecture series Generating asymmetric features in a symmetric muscular organ and associated neuronal circuits:
The diaphragm of mammals
Speaker: Valérie Castellani
28/4/16 Lecture series Dynamics and plasticity of neuronal identity in developing neocortical circuits
Speaker: Denis Jabaudon
21/4/16 Lecture series Cellular environment: implications for brain development and maldevelopment.
Speaker: Laura Cancedda
18/4/16 Lecture series A neural circuit that regulates cortical state and enhances plasticity
Speaker: Michael Stryker
14/4/16 Lecture series Understanding the role of thalamocortical input in sensory cortical map development and plasticity
Speaker: Guillermina Lopez-Bendito
7/4/16 Lecture series RNA regulation during Drosophila neural development
Speaker: Claudio Alonso
10/3/16 Lecture series Neural Stem Cells and Brain development – from Drosophila to human organoids
Speaker: Juergen Knoblich
25/2/16 Lecture series Octopus neural systems and their development
Speaker: Cliff Ragsdale
18/2/16 Lecture series Neuronal activity and glutamate signalling regulating myelination in health and disease
Speaker: Thóra Káradóttir
10/2/16 Lecture series Saving the synapse: circuit tuning, pruning and Alzheimer's disease
Speaker: Carla Shatz
3/2/16 Lecture series Developing human cellular models for studying cortical development and disease in vitro
Speaker: Sergiu Pasca
28/1/16 Lecture series Early wiring of cortical circuits: neuronal and immune orchestration
Speaker: Sonia Garel
21/1/16 Lecture series Molecular, genetic and neuronal diversity in the olfactory system
Speaker: Darren Logan
14/1/16 Lecture series Assembly and functional organization of microcircuits for episodic memory
Speaker: Attila Losonczy
3/12/15 Lecture series What the fly’s nose tells the fly’s brain
Speaker: Charles F Stevens , Salk Institute
26/11/15 Lecture series Evolution of the olfactory system in blind cavefish
Speaker: Sylvie Retaux
19/11/15 Lecture series Genetic and pharmacological modulators of sleep
Speaker: Jason Rihel
12/11/15 Lecture series Staying connected: the role of synapses in Alzheimer’s disease
Speaker: Tara Spires-Jones
