Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
25/5/17 Lecture series Genetic dissection of cortical circuits: chandeliers light up pyramids
Speaker:
Josh Huang
11/5/17 Lecture series Molecular mechanisms underlying area-specific neuronal subtype and circuit formation in the mouse neocortex
Speaker:
Michele Studer
10/5/17 DNC Making a neuroepithelium is one thing – reshaping it is another! &
Speakers:
Jon Clarke , Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London Andrew Copp , Institute of Child Health, University College London
30/3/17 Lecture series Potency, architecture and tissue partnerships in early mammalian development
Speaker:
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
16/3/17 Lecture series Do the right thing: mechanisms of behavioural control
Speaker:
Scott Waddell
9/3/17 Lecture series Design principles of pluripotency
Speaker:
Austin Smith
23/2/17 Lecture series Non-coding RNAs in neural circuit development and epilepsy
Speaker:
Jeroen Pasterkamp
16/2/17 Lecture series Biogenesis and turnover of small RNAs in health and disease
Speaker:
Javier Caceres
9/2/17 Lecture series Modulation of circuit organization in the adult fly brain
Speaker:
Gaia Tavosanis
2/2/17 NEUReka! seminar Vision to Action: Perception of ethologically relevant visual stimuli and control of behavioural responses
Speaker:
Isaac Bianco , University College London
1/2/17 DNC Is seeing believing? In search of the biological basis of predictive coding &
Speakers:
Ede Rancz , The Francis Crick Institute - London Greg Jefferis , MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology &
26/1/17 Lecture series Barcoding the brain for high-throughput connectomics
Speaker:
Anthony Zador
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 &
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 &
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 &
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
