Archived seminars and events

Archived information on past seminars given in the Centre.

2023 Seminars and Events:

'Learning a cognitive map'

'Synaptic and circuit basis of distinct memory formation in the hippocampus’

'State-dependent patterns of neuromodulatory signaling in the cortex’

‘Midbrain circuits for flexible instinctive behaviours'

‘Engineering neuroscience with microfluidics: complex in vitro models made easy’

'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

'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'

'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

‘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

List of the 2022 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

List of the 2021 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

List of the 2019 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

List of the 2017 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

List of the 2020 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

List of the 2018 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

List of the 2016 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.