Past Seminars & Events in 2022/23 at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.
‘Midbrain circuits for flexible instinctive behaviours'
Dr Vanessa Stempel, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Thursday 25th May 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)
Host: Dr Sam Booker
‘Engineering neuroscience with microfluidics: complex in vitro models made easy’
Dr Michele Zagnoni, Reader, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Monday 15th May 2023, 13:00, CB (Hybrid)
Host: Prof David Lyons
'Visual Cortex and Tauopathy: insights into network level dysfunction in disease'
Dr Fabio Ribeiro Rodriguez, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL
Thursday 11th May 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)
Host: Prof Tara Spires-Jones
‘Spatial assessment of ALS’
Monday 24th April 2023, 13:00, Auditorium B, Chancellor’s Building (Hybrid)
Host: Profs Colin Smith + Seth Grant
'Neural mechanisms for emotional behavior and decision making'
Dr Andrew Macaskill, Principal Research Fellow, Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology, UCL
Thursday 13th April 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)
Host: Prof Matt Nolan
'Impact of transposable elements in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration'
Dr Marco Trizzino, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Genomics, Imperial College London
Monday 3rd April 2023, 13:00 (Virtual)
Host: Dr Kathryn Bowles
'The neurobiology of individuality'
Prof Gerd Kemperman, Adult neurogenesis, speaker and research group leader - DZNE, Dresden
Tuesday 21st March 2023, 13:00, Undergraduate Medical Teaching Room (GU318), BioQuarter (Hybrid)
Hosts: Prof Seth Grant
'A gut sense'
Dr Melanie (Maya) Kaelberer, sensory neuro-gastroenterologist, Duke University, Durham, NC
Thursday 16th March 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)
Host: Dr Ann Clemens
***CANCELLED*** 'Targeting Foam Cells (Macrophages) to Improve Stroke Recovery'
Dr Kristian Doyle, Associate Professor of Immunobiology and Neurology, University of Arizona
Monday 6th March 2023, 13:00, lecture theatre B, Chancellor's Building (Hybrid)
Host: Dr Barry McColl
‘Cortical wiring by synapse type-specific control of local protein synthesis’
Dr Clémence Bernard, Research Associate, Kings College London
Thursday 2nd March 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)
Host: Dr Lida Zoupi
'Directed evolution of molecular tools for the mapping and manipulation of active neuronal circuits'
Dr Mateo Sanchez, Postdoctoral Fellow (Bioengineering), Imperial College London
Thursday 2nd February, 2023 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)
Host: Dr Francesco Gobbo
'Mechanisms driving joint pain'
Prof Ewan St John Smith, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Thursday 19th January 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)
Host: Dr Carole Torsney
'Neuron Differentiation: From Chromatin to Connectivity’
Dr Adrian Moore, Riken Centre for Brain Science, Hirosawa Wako City, Japan
Monday 9th January 2023, 13:00, QMRI - Wellcome Auditorium (E1.01), (Hybrid)
Host: Prof Seth Grant
'Astrocytes in tauopathies'
Professor Wendy Noble, Professor in Molecular Neurodegeneration, King’s College London
Monday 12th December 2022, 13:00, Undergraduate Teaching Room, Chancellor's Building (Hybrid)
Host: Prof Karen Horsburgh
***Postponed***
Prof Megan Carey, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon
Thursday 1st December, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre
Hosts: Prof James Boardman & Prof Ian Duguid
'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’
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'
Wednesday 28th September, 15:00, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's 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
'Cognitive Resilience'
Dr Thomas Montine, MD, PhD, Medicine Professor Of Pathology, Stanford University, CA
***Cancelled*** Thursday 22nd September, 13:00, HRB 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 (Hybrid)
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
Tuesday 10th May 2022, 2:00pm, Anatomy, Teviot
Host: Prof David Wyllie
'Structural constraints of neuron-astrocyte interactions at glutamatergic synapses'
Thursday 5th May 2022, 13:00 (virtual)
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 (virtual)
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
'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 (virtual)
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 please note unusual start time
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'
'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'
Thursday 10th February 2022, 15:00
'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; UCL
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