Seminars
The Centre hosts weekly seminars with leading scientists and guest lecturers from all over the world. Below is a list of past seminars.
20/10/16 12:30 Lecture series Balancing plasticity/stability across brain development
Speaker:
Takao Hensch, Harvard University
29/9/16 12:30 Lecture series Setting the mood: Environmental regulation of circuit function and global animal state
Speaker:
Mario de Bono, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
22/9/16 12:30 Lecture series Hox genes and brainstem sensory circuit formation
Speaker:
Filippo Rijli, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
12/9/16 12:30 Lecture series Mechanisms of Cerebellar Development: Migration, Circuit Formation and Synaptic Plasticity
Speaker:
Mary E Hatten, The Rockefeller University
30/6/16 16:00 Lecture series Functional imaging of sensorimotor circuits in behaving zebrafish
Speaker:
Michael Orger, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
22/6/16 16:00 Lecture series The many autisms: mouse brain imaging to understand heterogeneity and convergence in ASD
Speaker:
Jason Lerch, University of Toronto
31/5/16 15:00 Lecture series A role for NMDARs in Construction of a Hippocampal feedforward inhibitory pathway
Speaker:
Chris J McBain, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
26/5/16 16:00 Lecture series How it grows: The zebrafish retina
Speaker:
Bill Harris, University of Cambridge
19/5/16 16:00 Lecture series Chocolate cake or ice cream? Why does it take so long to decide between two good options?
Speaker:
Alexandre Pouget, University of Geneva
12/5/16 16:00 Lecture series Generating asymmetric features in a symmetric muscular organ and associated neuronal circuits:
The diaphragm of mammals
Speaker:
Valérie Castellani, University of Lyon
28/4/16 16:00 Lecture series Dynamics and plasticity of neuronal identity in developing neocortical circuits
Speaker:
Denis Jabaudon, University of Geneva
21/4/16 16:00 Lecture series Cellular environment: implications for brain development and maldevelopment.
Speaker:
Laura Cancedda, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
18/4/16 16:00 Lecture series A neural circuit that regulates cortical state and enhances plasticity
Speaker:
Michael Stryker, University of California San Francisco
14/4/16 16:00 Lecture series Understanding the role of thalamocortical input in sensory cortical map development and plasticity
Speaker:
Guillermina Lopez-Bendito, Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC & Universidad Miguel Hernández
7/4/16 16:00 Lecture series RNA regulation during Drosophila neural development
Speaker:
Claudio Alonso, University of Sussex
10/3/16 16:00 Lecture series Neural Stem Cells and Brain development – from Drosophila to human organoids
Speaker:
Juergen Knoblich, IMBA, Vienna
25/2/16 16:00 Lecture series Octopus neural systems and their development
Speaker:
Cliff Ragsdale, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago
18/2/16 16:00 Lecture series Neuronal activity and glutamate signalling regulating myelination in health and disease
Speaker:
Thóra Káradóttir, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
10/2/16 16:00 Lecture series Saving the synapse: circuit tuning, pruning and Alzheimer's disease
Speaker:
Carla Shatz, Stanford School of Medicine
3/2/16 16:00 Lecture series Developing human cellular models for studying cortical development and disease in vitro
Speaker:
Sergiu Pasca, Stanford University
28/1/16 16:00 Lecture series Early wiring of cortical circuits: neuronal and immune orchestration
Speaker:
Sonia Garel, Ecole Normale Superieure
21/1/16 16:00 Lecture series Molecular, genetic and neuronal diversity in the olfactory system
Speaker:
Darren Logan, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
14/1/16 16:00 Lecture series Assembly and functional organization of microcircuits for episodic memory
Speaker:
Attila Losonczy, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University
3/12/15 16:00 Lecture series What the fly’s nose tells the fly’s brain
Speaker:
Charles F Stevens, Salk Institute
26/11/15 16:00 Lecture series Evolution of the olfactory system in blind cavefish
Speaker:
Sylvie Retaux, CNRS - Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard
19/11/15 16:00 Lecture series Genetic and pharmacological modulators of sleep
Speaker:
Jason Rihel, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
12/11/15 16:00 Lecture series Staying connected: the role of synapses in Alzheimer’s disease
Speaker:
Tara Spires-Jones, Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh
29/10/15 16:00 Lecture series Astrocytes in Drosophila: genesis, organization and utility for studies of neurological diseases
Speaker:
Don van Meyel, McGill University
22/10/15 16:00 Lecture series Talpid3 mutations cause Joubert Syndrome
Speaker:
Megan Davey, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
15/10/15 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
8/10/15 16:00 Lecture series Reawakening the sleeping beauty in the adult brain: neurogenesis from parenchymal glia
Speaker:
Benedikt Berninger, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
6/10/15 16:00 NEUReka! seminar Synaptic integration in circuits controlling mouse instinctive behaviours
Speaker:
Tiago Branco, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
11/6/15 16:00 Lecture series Schizophrenia: Penetrating the Impregnable through Genetics
Speaker:
Michael O'Donovan, Cardiff University
4/6/15 16:00 Lecture series Modelling neurodevelopmental disorders in mouse: Deconstructing a Frankenstein's monster
Speaker:
Cathy Fernandes, IoPPN
21/5/15 16:00 Lecture series Molecular Specialization in the Assembly of Presynaptic Inhibitory Synapses
Speaker:
Julia Kaltschmidt, Sloan Kettering, NYC
14/5/15 16:00 Lecture series Synaptic mechanisms underlying multisensory processing in the cerebellum
Speaker:
David DiGregorio, Institut Pasteur, Paris
7/5/15 16:00 Lecture series Cellular mechanisms of tissue extending and bending
Speaker:
Jeremy Green, KCL, Dept of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology
30/4/15 16:00 Lecture series Taking poietic license: Neurogenesis and its regulation in the mammalian olfactory epithelium
Speaker:
James Schwob, Tufts University, Boston
23/4/15 16:00 Lecture series Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos and stem cells
Speaker:
Kathy Niakan, NIMR, Mill Hill
16/4/15 16:00 Lecture series Cerebellar impact on thalamocortical networks in health and disease
Speaker:
Freek E Hoebeek, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam
9/4/15 16:00 Lecture series Synapses, muscular dystrophy and brain disorders
Speaker:
Lin Mei, Georgia Regents University, USA
26/3/15 16:00 Lecture series Prenatal Neural Defects and Outcome Heterogeneity in Autism
Speaker:
Eric Courchesne, UC San Diego Autism Centre of Excellence
19/3/15 16:00 Lecture series Activity Dependent Development Prior to Sensory Experience
Speaker:
Michael Crair, Yale School of Medicine
12/3/15 16:00 Lecture series Rapid contractions in the developing brain - a new way to dispose of damaged cells
Speaker:
Leah Herrgen, University of Edinburgh
5/3/15 16:00 Lecture series Dynamic Patterns: Self-organization of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Speaker:
Ali Brivanlou, Rockefeller University
26/2/15 16:00 Lecture series Evolution of cortical development
Speaker:
Zoltan Molnar, University of Oxford
19/2/15 16:00 Lecture series Cellular differentiation and function of mechanosensory neurons in Drosophila
Speaker:
Andrew Jarman, University of Edinburgh
12/2/15 16:00 Lecture series The collective cell biology of organ formation
Speaker:
Darren Gilmour, EMBL Heidelberg
5/2/15 16:00 Lecture series Development and evolution of the neocortex: from stem cells to neuronal circuits
Speaker:
Pierre Vanderhaeghen, University of Brussels
29/1/15 16:00 Lecture series Self-tuning neurons and firing rate set-points in visual cortical circuits
Speaker:
Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
22/1/15 16:00 Lecture series Adhesion-GPCRs - a novel class of metabotropic mechanoreceptors
Speaker:
Tobias Langenhan, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
15/1/15 16:00 Lecture series Myths and metaphors at the dawn of the connectomic era
Speaker:
Marco Catani, Department of Neuroimaging, IoPPN
11/12/14 16:00 Lecture series Synaptic Adhesion Complexes: From Molecular Recognition Tags to Autism
Speaker:
Peter Scheiffele, Biozentrum, Basel
4/12/14 16:00 Lecture series Plasticity and circuit dysfunction in mouse models of intellectual disability
Speaker:
Peter Kind, University of Edinburgh
27/11/14 16:00 Lecture series Do GABAergic interneurons act as a scaffold for emergent neocortical network?
Speaker:
Simon Butt, University of Oxford
20/11/14 16:00 Lecture series Molecular control of growth cone adhesion, clutching and invasion
Speaker:
Timothy Gomez, University of Wisconsin
13/11/14 16:00 Lecture series Nitric Oxide controls a switch between degenerative and regenerative phases of developmental neuronal remodelling
Speaker:
Oren Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute, Israel
12/11/14 16:00 Lecture series Institute of Pharmaceutical Science Seminar
Speaker:
Tina Flatau, Biopharma Projects
12/11/14 13:15 Lecture series 9th Randall Lecture
Birth & future of multi-scale modeling of macromolecules
Speaker:
Michael Levitt, 2013 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry
12/11/14 12:00 Lecture series AstraZeneca Open Innovation Seminar
Speaker:
Jane Escott, Associate Director in Scientific Partnering & Alliances, AstraZeneca
11/11/14 17:15 Lecture series King’s International Lecture Series Rosalind Franklin Lecture Spatial Organisation of a very large cell by microtubules
Speaker:
Timothy J Mitchison, Harvard Medical School
11/11/14 12:00 Lecture series Division of Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series:
Flow of vitreous humour due to eye movements
Speaker:
Jennifer H Siggers, Imperial College London
10/11/14 12:15 Lecture series Division of Immunology, Infection & Inflammatory Disease Seminar Series:
Structural insights into severe malaria
Speaker:
Matthew Higgins, University of Oxford
24/10/14 12:00 Lecture series Stem Cell Journal Club
Speaker:
Wenny An, Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology, King's College London
22/10/14 12:00 Lecture series Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:
Ignacio Sancho-Martinez, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA
9/10/14 18:30 Lecture series World Mental Health Day: Living with Schizophrenia
Speakers:
Derek Summerfield, Institute of Psychiatry
Lara Carmona, Head of campaigns and public affairs at Rethink Mental Illness
9/10/14 11:00 Lecture series Picturing Mental Illness: The Portraits of Holloway Asylum, c. 1886
Speaker:
Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University
6/10/14 13:00 Lecture series Intervening in Ageing to prevent neurodegeneration
Speaker:
Linda Partridge, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
2/10/14 14:00 Lecture series Transcriptional mechanisms of pro neural factors and REST in regulating neuronal reprogramming of astrocytes.
Speaker:
Sebastien Gillotin, NIMR: Francois Guillemot’s lab
8/1/14 Lecture series
Speaker:
David Lyons, University of Edinburgh
27/11/13 Lecture series How do neurons create their characteristic dendrite branching patterns?
Speaker:
Adrian W Moore, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan
