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