Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
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
31/1/19 13:00 Lecture series From flexible self-assembly to robust brain wiring on the fly
Speaker:
Peter Robin Hiesinger, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin
24/1/19 13:00 Lecture series Processing aversion by habenular circuits
Speaker:
Manuel Mameli, DNF, University of Lausanne
17/1/19 13:00 Lecture series Thalamocortical interactions during visual processing
Speaker:
Sonja Hofer, UCL
10/1/19 16:00 NEUReka! seminar "Tasting from within, a new interoceptive sensory pathway linking cerebrospinal fluid to motor circuits"
Speaker:
Claire Wyart, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Paris
13/12/18 13:00 Lecture series Cell type-specific translation profiling in neurodevelopmental disorders
Speaker:
Emily Osterweil, CENTRE FOR DISCOVERY BRAIN SCIENCES, University of Edinburgh
22/11/18 13:00 Lecture series Cell migration promotes dynamic cellular interactions to control cerebral cortex morphogenesis
Speaker:
Laurent Nguyen, GIGA Institute, Liege University
15/11/18 13:00 Lecture series Evolution of olfaction
Speaker:
Richard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne
8/11/18 13:00 Lecture series Synaptic plasticity as probabilistic inference
Speaker:
Peter Latham, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL
25/10/18 13:00 Lecture series The evolution of function in the nervous system: What can we learn from the vertebrate retina?
Speaker:
Thomas Baden, University of Sussex
18/10/18 13:00 Lecture series Quantitative and dynamic analysis of neurogenesis with single cell resolution at the tissue level
Speaker:
Nancy Papalopulu, The University of Manchester
11/10/18 13:00 Lecture series Development and function of Drosophila locomotor circuits
Speaker:
Chris Doe, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
4/10/18 13:00 Lecture series Enriching adult neurogenesis: how experience
and activity shape the brain
Speaker:
Gerd Kempermann, CRTD, Technische Universitaet Dresden
13/9/18 13:00 Lecture series mRNA transport to synapses and how this might impact memory, epliepsy and autism
Speaker:
Michael Kiebler, Biological Center Munich Cell Biology, LMU
28/6/18 13:00 Lecture series Transient moving organizers: life and death in cortical development and evolution
Speaker:
Alessandra Pierani, Institut Jacques Monod
21/6/18 13:00 Lecture series Stress and the developmental origins of longevity
Speaker:
Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute
24/5/18 13:00 Lecture series Differential resilience of normal brains to perturbation
Speaker:
Eve Marder, Brandeis University
10/5/18 13:00 Lecture series Nested neuronal oscillators organize behavior across time-scales in C. elegans
Speaker:
Manuel Zimmer, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
26/4/18 13:00 Lecture series Neural circuitry of a polycystin-mediated hydrodynamic startle response in Platynereis: from genes to ecology
Speaker:
Gáspár Jékely, University of Exeter
29/3/18 13:00 Lecture series Neuronal substrates of a division of labor in the external globus pallidus
Speaker:
Peter Magill, University of Oxford
22/3/18 13:00 Lecture series Deficits in axonal transport in ALS and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease models
Speaker:
Giampietro Schiavo, University College London
15/3/18 13:00 Lecture series Temporal control of neurogenesis
Speaker:
Bassem Hassan, ICM (Brain & Spine Institute) Paris, France.
8/3/18 13:00 Lecture series Time units for learning and their implementation in the hippocampus
Speaker:
Pico Caroni, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
22/2/18 13:00 Lecture series Mechanisms regulating neural differentiation
Speaker:
Kate Storey, University of Dundee
8/2/18 13:00 Lecture series Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Morphogenesis
Speaker:
Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre
2/2/18 13:00 Lecture series Accelerating the maturation of human stem cell derived neurons by transient activation of mTOR signaling
Speaker:
Stewart Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
25/1/18 13:00 Lecture series Neurobiology of Social Behavior Circuits
Speaker:
Catherine Dulac, Harvard University
18/1/18 13:00 Lecture series New cells in old brains
Speaker:
Jonas Frisen, Karolinska Instituet
11/1/18 13:00 Lecture series Three-dimensional representation of the motor space in the mouse superior colliculus
Speaker:
Marco Tripodi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
14/12/17 13:00 Lecture series Generating layer-specific motion-direction sensitive neurons in Drosophila
Speaker:
Iris Salecker, The Francis Crick Institute
7/12/17 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Light on an ancestral sensory interface linking cerebrospinal fluid to motor circuits in vertebrates
Speaker:
Claire Wyart, The Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière
6/12/17 13:00 Lecture series Parvalbumin-positive interneurons: computations and roles in neuropsychiatric disease
Speaker:
Dimitri Kullmann, UCL Institute of Neurology
23/11/17 13:00 Lecture series Neural dynamics of the hippocampal memory trace
Speaker:
David Dupret, University of Oxford
16/11/17 13:00 Lecture series Dynamics and signaling mechanisms associated with synaptic adhesion proteins, neurexins and neuroligins
Speaker:
Olivier Thoumine, Université Bordeaux
9/11/17 13:00 Lecture series Networks of Alternative Splicing Regulation in Cancer
Speaker:
Juan Valcárcel, Centre for Genomic Regulation
26/10/17 13:00 Lecture series Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression
Speaker:
Simon Hippenmeyer, The Institute of Science and Technology Austria
12/10/17 13:00 Lecture series Neurodevelopmental disorders: from molecular mechanism to novel treatments
Speaker:
Gaia Novarino, The Institute of Science and Technology Austria
5/10/17 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Like SNPs in the night: psychiatric risk genes and coordinated limbic-cortical activity during wake and sleep
Speaker:
Matt Jones, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol
28/9/17 13:00 Lecture series Asymmetric cell division, Notch signaling and neurogenesis in the embryonic spinal cord
Speaker:
Xavier Morin, École Normale Supérieure
21/9/17 13:00 Lecture series The first steps of vision: cell types, circuits and repair
Speaker:
Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
15/9/17 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Exogeneous attentional guidance from primates to fish
Speaker:
Zhaoping Li, University College London
8/6/17 13:00 Lecture series How spontaneous activity wires the developing brain prior to experience
Speaker:
Christian Lohmann, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
25/5/17 13:00 Lecture series Genetic dissection of cortical circuits: chandeliers light up pyramids
Speaker:
Josh Huang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
11/5/17 13:00 Lecture series Molecular mechanisms underlying area-specific neuronal subtype and circuit formation in the mouse neocortex
Speaker:
Michele Studer, iBV - Institut de Biologie Valrose
30/3/17 16:00 Lecture series Potency, architecture and tissue partnerships in early mammalian development
Speaker:
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge
16/3/17 12:30 Lecture series Do the right thing: mechanisms of behavioural control
Speaker:
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford
9/3/17 13:00 Lecture series Design principles of pluripotency
Speaker:
Austin Smith, Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
23/2/17 13:00 Lecture series Non-coding RNAs in neural circuit development and epilepsy
Speaker:
Jeroen Pasterkamp, University Medical Center Utrecht
16/2/17 13:00 Lecture series Biogenesis and turnover of small RNAs in health and disease
Speaker:
Javier Caceres, University of Edinburgh
9/2/17 13:00 Lecture series Modulation of circuit organization in the adult fly brain
Speaker:
Gaia Tavosanis, Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
2/2/17 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Vision to Action: Perception of ethologically relevant visual stimuli and control of behavioural responses
Speaker:
Isaac Bianco, University College London
26/1/17 12:00 Lecture series Barcoding the brain for high-throughput connectomics
Speaker:
Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
15/12/16 12:30 Lecture series Epigenetic states of oligodendrocyte lineage cells during development and disease: insights from single-cell RNA sequencing
Speaker:
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet
8/12/16 12:30 Lecture series Biomechanical control of cell and tissue morphogenesis
Speaker:
Thomas Lecuit, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS
1/12/16 16:00 Lecture series Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells and Neocortex Expansion in Development and Evolution
Speaker:
Wieland Huttner, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
24/11/16 12:30 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 12:30 Lecture series Niche regulation of stem cell dynamics in the adult brain
Speaker:
Fiona Doetsch, University of Basel
10/11/16 12:30 Lecture series Behavioral state modulation of inhibition in mouse visual cortex
Speaker:
Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh
3/11/16 12:30 Lecture series Lineage-dependent assembly of the functional neocortex
Speaker:
Songhai Shi, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
27/10/16 12:30 Lecture series Formation, maintenance and recruitment of adult neural stem cell pools in the zebrafish brain
Speaker:
Laure Bally-Cuif, Institute of Neurobiology A. Fessard. CNRS
20/10/16 12:30 Lecture series Balancing plasticity/stability across brain development
Speaker:
Takao Hensch, Harvard University
