Past seminars

Past seminars and events in 2024/2025 at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

'Motor preparation and learning: a multiregional perspective'

 Dr Zengcai Guo, Tsinghua-PKU Center, China

Friday 18 July 2025, 12.30pm to 1.30pm, Gaddum lecture theatre, 1 George Square 

Host: Dr Gülşen Sürmeli

'A biobehavioural signature of the individual vulnerability to develop compulsive incentive drug seeking habits'

'Dorsal Raphe Nucleus Facilitates Behavioural State Transitions In Human and Nonhuman Primates'

'Understanding recovery after stroke: a role for inflammation and cholesterol metabolism'

Prof Catherine Lawrence, Senior Lecturer, Division of Neuroscience, University of Manchester

Monday 31st March 2025, 13:00, Auditorium A, Chancellors Building, BQ (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Axel Montagne

'The role of oxytocin in cooperative behaviour in wild chimpanzees: insights into human cooperation'

Dr Catherine Crockford, Director of Research at the ISC, CNRS, Lyon, France

Thursday 27th March 2025, *16:00, HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)  

Host: Prof Mike Ludwig

'Inflammation in the bladder - does it alter the brain'

Dr Molly Ingersoll, Group Leader, Mucosal Inflammation and Immunity, Institute Pasteur, France

Monday 27th January 2025, 13:00, IRR South Seminar Room 1.05, BQ

Host: Dr Jing Qiu

'RNA methylation (m6A) changes in experimental and human temporal lobe epilepsy regulate network excitability and seizure susceptibility'

'Memory Representations: Interneurons and Plasticity in the Hippocampus'

‘Glial cells in building and maintaining a healthy retina'

Dr Ryan MacDonald, Associate Professor, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL

Monday 25th November, 13:00, Auditorium A, Chancellors Building, BioQuarter (Hybrid)

Host: Prof David Lyons

R Jean Banister Prize Lecture + Mary Pickford Lecture with Alison Douglas prize (best PhD thesis) - Thursday 21st November, 13:30, Wellcome Auditorium, followed by a drinks reception in the Drum cafe, QMRI

R Jean Banister Prize Lecture with  Dr Andrew Lin, University of Sheffield + Mary Pickford Lecture with Prof Laura Bennet, University of Auckland 

Thursday 21st November, 13:30, Wellcome Auditorium, followed by a drinks reception in the Drum cafe, QMRI

Hosts: Prof David Wyllie, Prof Tara Spires-Jones + Dr Carole Torsney

‘Cerebellar error signals during rapid motor skill adjustment'

‘Restoring axonal transport in neurodegenerative diseases’

Prof Giampietro Schiavo, Professor of Cellular Neuroscience, Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL

Monday 28th October, 13:00, Auditorium B, Chancellors Building, BioQuarter (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Blanca Díaz Castro

‘EVs in neurodegenerative diseases’

Prof Anja Schneider, Group Leader, Translational Dementia Research, DZNE Bonn

Monday 30th September, 13:00, Undergraduate Medical Teaching Room (GU318), BioQuarter (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Bhuvaneish Selvaraj

'Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decisions'

'mGRASPi: an improved multiplex toolbox for mapping convergent synaptic connectivity'

Dr Jinny Kim, Brain Sciences Institute, Korea Institute for Science and Technology Seoul, South Korea

Friday 14th June, 13:30,  Shirley Hall lecture theatre, Chancellor's Building

Host: Dr Ann Clemens  (Part of EN Afternoon)

'The role of the microvasculature and node of Ranvier in early Alzheimer's disease'

Prof David Attwell, Jodrell Professor of Physiology. Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology, UCL

Monday 10th June 2024, 15:30, Auditorium B, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Axel Montagne

‘C9orf72 mutation in ALS and FTD’

'Blood-Brain Barrier Dynamics in Vascular Dementia: Unravelling the tripartite crosstalk between the endothelium, pericytes and microglia'

***CANCELLED*** Dr Conor McQuaid, ECR, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Monday 13th May 2024, 13:00, Auditorium A, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Axel Montagne

‘Deconstruction of a memory engram’

Prof Gisella Vetere, Brain Plasticity, ESPCI, Paris

Monday 29th April 2024, 13:00, Auditorium B., Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang

‘Sniffing out neural circuit changes during sleep’

Dr Julia Harris,  Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, UCL

Thursday 25th April 2024, 13:00, HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Rebecca Jordan

'RNA dysregulation in ALS'

'Linking communication and cooperation: Lessons from the naked mole-rat'

Dr Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany

Thursday 11th April 2024, 13:00, HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Paul Donlin-Asp

'Non-invasive temporal interference deep brain stimulation’

Dr Nir Grossman, Senior Lecturer, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London

Tuesday 26th March 2024, 13:00,  Auditorium B, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Jian Gan

‘The impact of Alzheimer's Disease on the human cortical synaptome

Dr Jessica Griffiths, ECR Grant lab, CCBS University of Edinburgh

Monday 18th March 2024, 13:00, Auditorium B, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Seth Grant

‘Early postnatal development of neocortex-wide activity patterns in GABAergic and pyramidal neurons'

'The Development History of the Molecular Synaptic Code'

Dr Fekrije Selimi, CIRB, Collège de France, Paris

Tuesday 12th March 2024, 13:00,  Auditorium A, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Seth Grant

'Mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain'

Prof Masahisa katsuno: 'Prodromal cohort of Lewy body disease for development of biomarkers and preventive therapies' + Dr Yohei Iguchi: 'IκB kinase beta as a novel therapeutic target for ALS'

'The interaction of learning with innate behaviour and its effect on evolution'

Paul Conway, PhD Student, Ryan Lab, Trinity College Dublin

Thursday 15th February 2024, 13:00,  HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Francesco Gobbo

'Investigating mechanisms by which oligodendrocyte precursor cells govern the size of retinal ganglion cell in the Zebrafish visual system'

Emma Dumble, ECR Czopka lab, University of Edinburgh

Monday 5th February 2024, 13:00,  Auditorium A, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Tim Czopka

'The energetics of epilepsy: feeding the good and bad energy'

Dr Felix Chan, Lecturer, Aston Pharmacy School, Aston University, Birmingham

Thursday 1st February 2024, 13:00,  HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Mike Cousin