Targeting muscle and metabolic pathologies to develop new treatment strategies for spinal muscular atrophy
Dr Melissa Bowerman, Lecturer in Bioscience, School of Medicine, Keele University
Thursday 13th December 2018, 1pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Lyndsay Murray
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Functional dynamics of interacting motor circuits during frog metamorphic development
Monday 3rd December 2018, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr HongYan Zhang
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Fertility preservation in prepubertal boys diagnosed with cancer
Professor Ans van Pelt, Center for Reproductive Medicine, UMC Amsterdam
Thursday 29th November 2018, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Federica Lopes
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Newt regeneration: regulation and evolution
Professor Andras Simon, Department of Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Monday 26th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
From photon to pipette: optical and electrophysiological tools for studying intact neural circuits
Thursday 22nd November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Richard Morris
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
The Physiological Society, GL Brown Lecture - Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space
Prof Andrew Parker, University of Oxford
Thursday 15th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof David Wyllie
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building******
Illuminating the TRPC gating machinery - novel aspects of photopharmacology and optochemical genetics of TRPC channels
Professor Klaus Groschner, Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz
Thursday 8th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Mark Evans
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Peripheral macrophage control of microglia during CNS injury
Dr Andy Greenhalgh, University of Bordeaux
Thursday 1st November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Barry McColl + Dr Laura McCulloch
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Role of microglia in the glioma biology
Dr Anne Régnier-Vigouroux, Faculty of Biology, JGU-Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Monday 29th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Dirk Sieger
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Investigating mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in an organotypic slice culture model of Alzheimer’s disease
Dr Claire Durrant, University of Cambridge
Thursday 25th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Tara Spires-Jones
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Mary Pickford Lecture - Alison Douglas Prize - Aggregation of tau and alpha-synuclein: towards a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases
Professor Maria Spillantini, Professor of Molecular Neurology Dept Clinical Neurosciences - University of Cambridge
Thursday 18th October 2018, 12.30pm - Anatomy Lecture Theatre - Doorway 3, Room 425, Teviot - Medical School
Host: Prof David Wyllie
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Publishing in Nature Neuroscience
Shari Wiseman, Editor for Nature Neuroscience, NYC
Tuesday 16th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Emily Osterweil
***Live streamed to: Boardroom 2nd Floor, Chancellor's Building***
Mechanisms of excitability defects in Fragile X Syndrome
Dr Vitaly Klyachko, Washington University School of Medicine
Friday 12th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Peter Kind
***Followed by a drinks reception in HRB common room***
Juvenile NMDA receptors: gate-keepers of brain development and cognition
Professor Isabel Pérez-Otaño, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
Thursday 11th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof David Wyllie
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Zebrafish Amygdaloid Complex and Eversion
Dr Thomas Müller, Kansas State University, USA
Monday 1st October , 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Catherina Becker
***Live streamed to: Room 6, Hugh Robson Building***
Actinopathies: From Mutations To Treatment
Thursday 27th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Robin Beaven
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Olfactory Food Perception Rewires Organismal Proteostasis
Prof Thorsten Hoppe, CECAD Cologne and Institute for Genetics
Thursday 20th September 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Emanuel Busch
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Neural ensemble dynamics in the brainstem for global brain state regulation
Monday 17th September 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Perturbed TDP-43 autoregulation: the key to disease in ALS-FTD
Dr Jemeen Sreedharan, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Thursday 13th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Chris Henstridge
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Epigenetic regulation of axon regeneration: the role of gene repression
Dr Valeria Cavalli, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Center of Regenerative Medicine Washington University
Monday 10th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Giles Hardingham
***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Molecular mechanisms of glutamate receptor trafficking
Dr Victor Anggono, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia
Friday 27th July 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre , Hugh Robson Building
***Live streamed to: Room GU216, NRIE UoE Auditorium B, Chancellors Building****
Molecular and structural bases for synaptic plasticity - molecules and structure of PSD
Professor Tatsuo Suzuki, Department of Neuroplasticity, Shinshu University
5th July, 1:00pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building
Host: Dr Noboru Komiyama
***Live streamed to: Room 174 - Hugh Robson Building, George Square***
Activity-dependent myelination and its role in learning
Professor William D Richardson, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL
4th June 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building
Host: Professor David Lyons
***Live streamed to: Room G6 - Hugh Robson Building, George Square***
Mechanisms of homeostatic plasticity in mouse visual cortex
Dr Tara Keck, Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology, UCL
31st May 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Nathalie Rochefort
Molecular connection between calcium-regulated exocytosis and compensatory endocytosis in neuroendocrine cells and neurons
24th May 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Mike Cousin
***Live streamed to: Room FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Brain oxygen sensing
Professor Alexander Gourine, Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL London
10th May 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Mark Evans
***Live streamed to: Room FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Dynamic control of stress axis and pituitary endocrine excitability
Professor Mike Shipston, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
3rd May 2018, 1:00 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre (1 George Square) (Streamed to Rm G7, 1 GS if capacity is required)
Hosts: Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch
***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
A deep-superficial sublayer perspective of hippocampal function
Dr Liset Menendez de la Prida
26th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre, Hugh Robson Building.
Host: Prof Matt Nolan
***Live streamed to: FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
The mechanical control of neuronal development and regeneration
23th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.
Host: Dr. Leah Herrgen
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square****
Facilities around Edinburgh University: what they can do for us
Prof Mark Blaxter (Edinburgh Genomics), Dr Andy Finch (IGMM Mass Spectrometry Facility), Dr Marja Karttunen and Mr Tim McBride (Research Support Office)
19th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host:Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch
***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre A - Chancellor's Building, Little France***
The dynamic architecture of the visual cortex: How to keep my brain young?
Professor Siegrid Löwel, University of Göttingen
16th April 2018, 4:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Nathalie Rochefort
The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain Seminar
Adaptive immune responses and post-stroke dementia
Dr. Marion S. Buckwalter, Department of Neurology, Stanford University Medical Center
16th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.
Host: Dr Laura McCulloch
***Live streamed to: Room 174, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***
Dmrt transcription factors in the control of early cortical development
Professor Eric J. Bellefroid, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
12th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Thomas Theil
***Live streamed to: FU223 - Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Using the visual system to understand spatiotemporal memory in the cortical circuits
Dr Jeff Govornik , Boston University
5th April 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Emily Osterweil
***Live streamed to: Room FU223 - Seminar Room 4 Chancellors Building Little France***
It takes a brain to control immunity
Rappaport Medical School, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
15th March 2018, 1:00 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre (1 George Square)
Host: Professor Tara Spires-Jones
***Live streamed to: Undergraduate Teaching Room, Chancellor's Building, Little France ***
Developing new technology to treat pain and itch
Dr. Paul Heppenstall, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Italy
12th March 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.
Host: Professor Peter Brophy
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square****
Axonal remodeling following spinal cord injury
Dr. Florence Bareyre, Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
5th March 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.
Host: Professor Catherina G. Becker
***Live streamed to: Room G35, Link Hugh Robson Building***
New optical probes for TRP channels spotlight on the lipid-gating machinery
Professor Klaus Groschner, Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz
1 March 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Mark Evans
***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Regulation of Optic Pathway Development by Down’s Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule (DSCAM)
Professor Lynda Erskine, The Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
26th February 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.
Host: Dr Thomas Becker
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***
Synthetic Biology tools to manipulate dynamic biomedical systems
Prof. Andrew Millar, SynthSys, University of Edinburgh
22nd February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch
***Live streamed to: FU224 - SR3, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Network topology analysis reveals substructures within the synaptic proteome associated with complex human phenotypes
Prof. Douglas Armstrong, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh
15th February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr. Karen Smillie and Dr. Emanuel Busch
***Live streamed to: GU303 - Micro lab 2, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Schwann cells and the control of peripheral nerve repair
12th February 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building.
Host: Professor Dies Meijer
Neural circuits underlying prey-capture behavior in mice
Professor Jennifer Hoy, University of Nevada, Reno
8 February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Nathalie Rochefort
***Live streamed to: SR5, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Synaptic pruning by microglia in health and disease
Dr. Rosachiara Paolicelli (University of Zurich)
1 February 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Chris Henstridge
***Live streamed to: Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building, Little France***
Hindbrain centers that control and coordinate breathing and vocalization
Professor Carmen Birchmeier-Kohler, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
29th January 2018, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, at 13:00.
Host: Professor Catherina Becker
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***
Cryo-electron tomography of intact human spermatozoa reveals TAILS - an interrupted helical structure in the microtubule lumen
Professor Johanna Höög (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
25 January, 1:00 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre (1 George Square)
Host: Dr Emanuel Busch
Molecular mechanisms of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity
15th January 2018, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, at 13:00.
Host: Professor Catherina Becker
***Live streamed to: Room 174, Hugh Robson Building, George Square***
Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Delivery of Temporally Interfering Electric Fields
Professor Nir Grossman (Imperial College London)
11 January, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre