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, Gaddum lecture theatre, 1 George Square 

Host: Dr Gülşen Sürmeli

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

Professor David Belin, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Fellow and Director of Study for PBS, of Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Monday 23rd June 2025, 13:00, Chancellor ‘s Building , Auditorium B (Hybrid)

Host:  Prof Tara Spires-Jones

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

Dr Nima Khalighinejad, Experimental Psychology, BBSRC Discovery Fellow, University of Oxford

Thursday 10th April 2025, 13:00,  HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Leena Williams

'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'

Dr Gary Brennan, Lecturer/Assistant Professor, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin

Thursday 16th January 2025, 16:00, HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Paul Donlin - Asp

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