Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Genetic Dissection of the Fly Visual Course Control

Axel Borst.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 29 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat.

Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 30 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo

Jackie Schiller, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Tecnion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Dynamic regulation of dopamine transmission in the striatum

Stephanie Cragg, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Biological precursors of the number sense

Andreas Nieder, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 20 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brain maps for space

Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 13 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Wiring the brain: RNA-based mechanisms in guiding axon growth

Christine Holt, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 06 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Physicians as Scientists: Abnormal eye movement seen in the clinic can teach us how the brain works

David Zee, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA & John Leigh, Case Western Reserve University, CLeveland, Ohio, USA.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 30 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Oscillatory dynamics in the hippocampus: a model system to study information routing in the brain

Dimitri Kullman, Queen Square, London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 23 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The adaption of rod photoreceptors to light

Gordon Fain, Department of Physiological Science, University of California, USA.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Making sense of scents, the mammalian olfactory system

Stuart Firestein, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 14 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural circuits co-ordinating sleep, feeding and reward

Denis Burdakov, Dept of Pharmacology, Cambridge University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 07 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The ‘in’ and ‘out’ of hippocampal GABAergic interneurons

Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Vienna.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 28 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus

Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 21 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus

Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford:.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 21 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brain neurons switch each other into pacemaker mode to drive locomotion

Wen-Chang-Li, School of University Sciences, University of St. Andrews.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 14 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

What it takes to become an auditory relay synapse

Gerard Borst, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 31 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex

Matteo Carandini, Institute of Ophthalmology, UC London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 24 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural Circuits for rapid perceptual decisions under uncertainty

Zach Mainen, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 06 December 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

From reward to Punishment and Invigoration to Inhibition

Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UC London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 29 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Optogenetics: development and application

Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 22 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The role of temporal fine structure in the perception of pitch and speech; influences of hearing loss and age

Brian Moore, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Synaptic processing of visual information in the retina of zebra fish

Leon Lagnado, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

RNA based therapies for neurological and muscle disease

Matthew Wood, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 18 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“To switch, or not to switch: how the brain answers the question”.

Angela Roberts, PDN..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 17 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“Building the cognitive map - integration of metric and non-metric inputs by entorhinal and hippocampal neurons”.

Kate Jeffery, UCL..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 10 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“Auditory processing in a "simple" nervous system: Lessons learned from crickets”.

Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 19 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

It’s all about context: How the auditory system helps us notice change

Katrin Krumbholz, University of Nottingham..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 01 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

CANCELLED "Wiring the brain: how axons are guided to their targets"

This talk has had to be cancelled, it will be re-scheduled.

Prof. Christine Holt, PDN..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 22 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The ins and outs of hearing: amplification and coding in the mammalian cochlea

Jonathan Ashmore, UCL..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”.

Annual Adrian Lecture

Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 23 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“Olfaction as a model for brain organization: from Adrian to the present”.

Gordon Shepherd, Yale University..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 16 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“Nociception and pain in early life: the emergence of endogenous control systems”.

Maria Fitzgerald, UCL..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”.

Wulfram Gerstner EPFL..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Investigating the firing properties of motoneurones with dynamic clamp and modelling

Claude Meunier René Descartes University, Paris..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 19 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Computational modeling of long-range connections in superficial layers of visual cortex V1

Steven Zucker, Yale University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Delays and coincidences in spatial hearing

Prof. Philip Joris, University of Leuven.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 18 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

TRPV1: hot new channels in the hippocampus

Prof. Julie Kauer, Brown University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 11 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Synaptic mechanisms of neocortical sensory processing

Prof. Carl Petersen, Lausanne.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 27 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Amazing TRP channels: from Aristotle´s five senses to TRPpathies

Prof. Bernd Nilius, University of Leuven.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Useful signals from motor cortex

Prof. Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 23 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Measuring and modelling the development of ordered nerve connections

Prof. David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

From Cell Signaling to Function in Large-Scale Neural Networks

Prof. Jorn Hounsgaard, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

A genetic approach to understanding the molecular basis of auditory function

Prof. Karen Steel, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 19 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

SNAREs, synaptotagmin, and fusion pores

Meyer Jackson, Dept. of Physiology, University of Wisconsin.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 December 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Retina

Prof. Heinz Waessle, Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 01 December 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by myosin molecules and ion channels in hair cells of the inner ear

Prof. James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 17 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their precursors: its role in oligodendrocyte development and white matter disease

Prof. David Attwell, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 27 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Grid cells and spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex

Prof. May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute, Trondheim.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 13 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The Economy of the Mind

Rearranged from March 3

Prof. Michael Platt, Duke University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 June 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Functions of Electrical Junctions in the Thalamocortical System

Prof. Barry Connors, Brown University..

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 June 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Dendritic recordings in vivo - the role of inhibition in shaping dendritic activity

Prof. Matthew Larkum, University of Bern.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 19 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Learning to localize sound

Prof. Andrew King, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 05 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Beyond Localization: What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us

Prof. Dick Passingham, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Attentional modulation of visual motion processing: Space, feature and objects

Prof. Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 18 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from impulsive actions to compulsive habits.

Prof. Barry Everitt, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 04 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Relating brain and behaviour in Drosophila

Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 28 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

How the brain decides where and when to look

Prof. Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 21 January 2008, 16:30-17:30