2022 Seminars & Events

Past Seminars & Events in 2022 at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

'Astrocytes in tauopathies'

Professor Wendy Noble, Professor in Molecular Neurodegeneration, King’s College London

Monday 12th December 2022, 13:00, Undergraduate Teaching Room, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Karen Horsburgh

'Putting a spin on developmental biology and flies to battle neurodegeneration'

Professor Andreas Prokop, Division of Molecular & Cellular Function, University of Manchester

Thursday 17th November, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre

Host: Prof Jamie Davies

***This event is sponsored by BSDB - British Society for Developmental Biology***

2022 Mary Pickford Lecture/Alison Douglas Prize (best PhD thesis) With Prof Maria Fitzgerald - 'Pain and the developing brain'

Professor Maria Fitzgerald, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, UCL

Thursday 10th November, 13:00, Anatomy Lecture Theatre

Host: Prof David Wyllie

'Fire-together, wire together: The role of human hippocampal oscillations and spike-timing dependent plasticity in shaping episodic memory codes'

Professor Simon Hanslmayr, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Glasgow

Thursday 3rd November, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre

Host: Prof Matt Nolan

'Neural circuit mechanisms for episodic memory’

Dr Takashi Kitamura, Assistant Professor,  Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA 

Monday 17th October, 15:00, (virtual)

 Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang

'The molecular nanoarchitecture that controls synaptic transmission'

Professor Thomas Blanpied, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Monday 3rd October, 14:00, (virtual)

Host: Prof Seth Grant

'Neurosteroid based therapies for improving outcome following compromised pregnancies'

Professor Jon Hirst, University of Newcastle​​​​​​

​​​​Thursday 29th September, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Paula Brunton

'Perivascular macrophages and SPP1 imprint microglial phagocytic states in Alzheimer’s disease models'

Dr Sebastiaan (Seppe) De Schepper, Postdoctoral fellow, UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London​​​​​​

Wednesday 28th September, 15:00, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building

Host: The Microglia Club

'Expression of ApoE2 can protect against plaque deposition, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration despite the presence of ApoE4'

Dr Rosie Jackson, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Monday 26th September, 13:00, Gaddum lecture theatre

Host: Prof Tara Spires-Jones

'Matrix Resurrections: Novel Therapeutic Targets for Cerebrovascular Disease and COVID-19'

Professor Greg Bix, Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Center, Tulane University, USA

Tuesday 13th September 2022, 13:00, LTB, Chancellor's Building

Host:  Prof Karen Horsburgh

'Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations'

Professor Tony Hannon, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Victoria, Australia 

Monday 13th June, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre

Host: Prof Tara Spires-Jones

'Translational behavioral studies reveal the potential for cannabis to treat bipolar disorder'

Professor Jared Young, University of California, San Diego | UCSD · Department of Psychiatry

Monday 6th June 2022, 13:00, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Jill Fowler

'Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Cortical Interneuron Development'

Dr Myrto Denaxa, Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Greece.

Thursday 19th May 2022, 13:00 (virtual)

Host: Dr Lida Zoupi

The Physiological Society Members Roadshow plaque unveiling to Edward Sharpey-Schafer

Dr Kate Ellacott, Associate Professor in Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Exeter 

'Regulation of feeding behaviour – A role for astrocytes?'

Tuesday 10th May 2022,  Doorway 3 medical Quad then Anatomy lecture theatre,  14:15

Hosts: David Wyllie + Mike Shipston  

'Structural constraints of neuron-astrocyte interactions at glutamatergic synapses'

Professor Christian Henneberger, Institute of Cellular Neurosciences, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn

Thursday 5th May 2022, 13:00

Host: Prof Mark Evans

'Intrinsic synaptic dynamics and why they matter'

Professor Noam Ziv, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Monday 25th April 2022, 13:00

Host: Prof Seth Grant

'The role of glia-neuron interactions in brain excitability and seizures'

Professor Emre Yaksi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway

Monday 11th April 2022, 13:00

Host: Dr Tim Czopka

'Vision in Action: Visual processing in active behaviours'

Dr Aman Saleem, Part of PALS Experimental Psychology, University College London

Thursday 7th April 2022, HRB lecture theatre, 14:00

Host: Prof Matt Nolan

'What does the retrosplenial cortex do? Visual responses and visuospatial memory engrams'

Prof Frank Sengpiel, Head of Neuroscience Division, Cardiff University

Monday 28th March 2022, 13:00

Host: Prof Seth Grant

‘Autism: Neurodiversity to Neuroscience’

Professor Audrey Brumback, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School

Thursday 24th March 2022, 14:00

Host: Prof Tara Spires-Jones

Shape Matters: Engineering human stem cells models to understand the relationship between form and function in neural cells

Dr Andrea Serio​​​​​, The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Monday 14th March 2022, 13:00, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building

Host: Prof David Lyons

'All-optical interrogation of the hippocampal role in episodic memory formation, consolidation and retrieval'

Dr Nick Robinson, Research Associate, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research, UCL

Thursday 10th March 2022, 13:00

Host: Dr Emma Wood

'Idling brain: from memory engram to behavior'

Prof Kaoru Inokuchi, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toyama, Japan

Monday 7th March 2022, 11:00,

Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang

'Explorations in Ca2+ imaging of neural activity in freely moving rats: social cells, place cells and goal cells'

Professor Richard Morris, FRS,  Dr Francesco Gobbo + Rufus Mitchell-Hegg

Thursday 3rd March, 13:00

Host: Dr Nicola Romano + Dr Lida Zoupi

'Regional differences in neurovascular coupling and implications for disease'

Dr Catherine Hall, School of Psychology, University of Sussex

Monday 28th February 2022, 13:00

Host: Prof Karen Horsburgh

'Inhibitory Microcircuits for Associative Learning'

Dr Sabine Krabbe,  Group Leader,  DZNE, Bonn

Thursday 24th February 2022, 13:00

Host: Prof Ian Duguid

'Non-productive angiogenesis in Alzheimer’s disease, a glimpse on how AD compromises non-neuronal cells'

Dr Alberto Pascual, The Neuroscience Institute at Seville (IBiS)

Monday 14th February 2022, 13:00

Host: Dr Blanca Diaz-Castro

'Subcortical Networks to Control Seizures'

Dr Patrick Forcelli, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Georgetown University

Thursday 10th February 2022, 15:00

 Host: Dr Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser

'Oligodendrocyte progenitors alter the extracellular matrix to control differentiation and morphogenesis'

Prof Dwight Bergles, John Hopkins Medicine, USA 

Monday 31st January 2022, 13:00

Host: Prof David Lyons

'More than bystanders, learning how microglia eliminate synapses in the Alzheimer brain'

Dr  Soyon Hong, UK Dementia Research Institute, University College London 

Monday 17th January 2022, 13:00

Host:  Prof Anna Williams

'Role of tanycyte shuttles and networks in the control of glucose and energy homeostasis'

Dr Vincent Prevot, French Institute of Health and Medical Research | Inserm · Development and PLasticity of the Postnatal Brain

Thursday 13th January 2022, 13:00

Host: Dr Nicola Romano

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