ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Marika Rostvall 2) Lovisa Hellsten. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Lovisa Hellsten 2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity

1) Lovisa Hellsten 2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 16 April 2025, 11:30-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 15:00-16:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Analysing electrophysiology data with osl-ephys

Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services;

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Friday 11 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Prevalence, Transitions and Access to Mental Health Services for Young People with Eating Disorders

Prof. Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 02 April 2025, 11:00-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Artefacts in MEG data

Dr Golan Karvat & Dr Olaf Hauk, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

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Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces

Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces

Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Reproducible Brain Charts: Accelerating Studies of Brain Development with Open Science

Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania.

Online.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Sex differences in the placenta and autism

Dr Alex Tsompanidis, University of Cambridge .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

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Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The place to be? At the nexus of psychology and geography

Friedrich Goetz (University of British Columbia).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 17 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales

Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

: Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats

Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats

Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain

Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 10 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, Drug Discovery, Action, and Repurposing in iPSC-derived Neurons

Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

“Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments”

Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Revolutionizing Connectomics using Generative, Federated and Holistic Learning

Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London.

Online.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?

Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Encouraging sustainable food choices on food-delivery apps: which interventions work, when, and do consumers want them?

Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

Nick Mackintosh Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang - Exploration of Biological Diversity

Zhang, MIT.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

The Continual Learning (CL) Theory

Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Probabilistic Functional Modes: population-informed individual specific modelling of brain networks

Rezvan Farahibozorg, University of Oxford, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease

Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2025, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample

Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

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Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Playing with dice: two unusual use cases for experimental randomisation in fMRI

Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger, Milk it! The Cambridge Lactation Lab Vision

Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Algorithmic Information Dynamics

Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London.

Online.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Microtargeting Manipulation Machine

Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

Online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDIzZDBmNDEtNTZlNC00MzFkLWEzNWEtODBmZmI5NWE0NzJh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2215d66985-4ebf-4bf2-a70f-da9a8a459e44%22%7d.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Zixing Song.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back

Youjing Yu; Tim Lin.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ancestral Sight

Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 17 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Developing More Effective Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Pain

David Hughes, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

Tessa Dekker (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

ARClub Talks

Using global multicohort studies to determine how genetic and environmental factors influence brain development in infancy and early childhood.

Rebecca Knickmeyer, Michigan State University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:45-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment

Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland .

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 10 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Revealing the Spatial Pattern of Brain Hemodynamic Sensitivity to Healthy Aging through Sparse Dynamic Causal Model

Dr Giorgia Baron, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension

John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour

Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Challenges and opportunities for biological network inference

Dr Kimberly Glass.

Online.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

John Duncan (MRC CBU).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

It’s All in the Hands — Changing Developmental Trajectories of Young Children with ASD Using the Early Social Interaction (ESI) Model

Amy M. Wetherby, Florida State University.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships

Daniel Toribio Florez (University of Kent).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 03 February 2025, 16:15-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Lipid Nanoparticles that Enable the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Gene Therapies

Pieter Cullis, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Monday 03 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Rethinking Academic Recruitment: Exploring the Potential of Narrative CVs

Dr Noam Tal-Perry, Research Strategy Office & Bennett Institute for Public Policy, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Human Pain Genetics

Geoff Woods, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy

Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

CANCELLED: How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI

Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Reflecting upon the double empathy problem: new directions and practical implications.

Damian Milton, University of Kent.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle

Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 27 January 2025, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Detectability and cortical depth dependence of stimulus-driven high-frequency BOLD oscillations in the human primary somatosensory and motor cortex

Dr Shota Hodono, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands..

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

The Marmoset Monkey as a Model Species for Spatial Navigation and Vestibular Function

Dr. Jean Laurens, The Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience..

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:15-17:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation

Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The Genetics of Person-specific fMRI Networks

Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch.

Online.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments

Emma Holmes (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Foundation Models in Robotics

Liyou Zhou (Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Title TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning

N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive-Motor Borderlands

Sam McDougle (Yale University).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

The Double Hit Hypothesis and Hyperandrogenism: Unraveling Social Cognition Impairments in Daughters of Women with PCOS

Juan Pablo Del Rio, Universidad de los Andes at Santiago.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 15 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex

Lea Duncker, Columbia.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Modelling C. elegans pharynx

Dana Sherman, Weizmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 11:00-11:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution

18:30 (Mince pies and mulled wine) for 19:00 lecture

Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany .

McCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub), Bene't Street.

Monday 16 December 2024, 18:30-20:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Self-harm in secondary schools; Prevalence, School Level Influences, and Interventions

Rasanat Fatima Nawaz, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex

Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Cognitive aging in (older) autistic adults

Prof. Hilde M. Geurts, University of Amsterdam.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks

Brent Doiron, University of Chicago.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Cognitive Neuroscience Methods Day

Multiple.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 December 2024, 09:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Peter Ulric Tse, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Dr Javier Aguilera Lizarraga, Dr Anwit Pandit.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta 

Norah Fogarty - King's College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation

Stephen G. Matthews, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Depts Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today

Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Power analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Quantifying the persuasive impact of ad-targeting using an archive of real campaigns’ ad experiments

Ben Tappin (London School of Economics).

Online.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

State space models (as alternatives to Transformers)

Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Deconstruction of the social brain

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Redirecting innate immune mechanisms against aggregated proteins

Dr William McEwan, University of Cambridge UK Dementia Research Institute.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 22 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis

Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present

Avital Hahamy (University College London) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside the lab

Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms

Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Towards understanding adaptive intelligence

Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 18 November 2024, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

How to version control your scientific code using Git and GitHub

Máté Aller (CBU).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Delaying and Measuring ageing

Dr Ivana Bjedov, University College London Cancer Institute.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach

Clare Buckley - University of Manchester.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 15 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust

Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions

Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Are we making progress in unlearning? 

Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Principles of sexually dimorphic experience dependent plasticity

Sonu Peedikayil-Kurien, Oren-Suissa Lab, Weizmann Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of neural representations

Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Harnessing the principles of cellular resilience for therapeutics

Dr Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development

Kathy Niakan, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity

Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

The Atomic Human

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Computational Microbiology of the E. coli cell envelope

Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Recurrent circuits involving motoneurons in the spinal cord

Prof Marco Beato - UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions

Tim Denison (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of cortical function in humans and rats

Dr Sam Booker, University of Edinburgh.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits

Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:30-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices

Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 28 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights

The host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina

Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition

Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What does psychology have to do with climate change? Challenges, evidence, and opportunities

Jacob Rode (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

How Autistic minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists

Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours

Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS), University of Edinburgh .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 21 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Determining the direction of communication between the hippocampus and neocortex with layer-specific fMRI.

Oliver Warrington (UCL) .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Not too big and not too small – Bicycle peptides for precision targeted therapies

Dr Liuhong Chen, Bicycle Therapeutics.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells

Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Building synapses in the hippocampus

Prof Laura Andreae, King's College.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events

Adrian Horner (U. of York) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Foster Talks

Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits

Bayram Yilmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Networks in action: the crucial role of dynamics in networks neuroscience

Petra Vértes, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 14 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations

Ken Harris, University College London.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 11 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fate versus free will; how does the environment shape early tumour survival?

Maria Alcolea - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Symmetry breaking decisions in stem cells from mouse bi-layered epithelia in development and regeneration.

Dr Silvia Fre - Institute Curie Paris.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control

Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sleepless and Alone: The Impact of Sleep Loss on Human Social Behavior

Eti Ben Simon, The Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California Berkeley.

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

How Autistic Minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists

Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 02 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Monday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Developing and evaluating interventions to support children with autism or other developmental disabilities in low-income contexts: insights from the SPARK project in Ethiopia and Kenya

Prof. Rosa Hoekstra, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 18 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

ARClub Talks

Autistic People's Access to Services in Europe

Dr Siti Nurnadhirah Binte Mohd Ikhsan, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1.

Wednesday 04 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Myelin plasticity is required for opioid reward

Dr. Belgin Yalçın (Michelle Monje group, Stanford University).

Part II Classroom, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 03 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Psychedelics: how do they work?”

Prof Robin Carhart-Harris, University of California San Francisco.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 25 July 2024, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are going

Larry Cahill.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 24 July 2024, 16:00-17:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

FSL-MRS as an alternative to MRspa for 1H MRS processing

Carina Graf.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 22 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Compartmentalized intrathecal inflammation in multiple sclerosis as driver of disease progression: from neuropathology to clinical correlates”

Please note this is now to be on FRIDAY 19th at 1pm

Prof Roberta Magliozzi, University of Verona & Imperial College London.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Friday 19 July 2024, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Synthetic Life: Music Therapy, Active Noise Cancelling and Neonatal Intensive Care

Dr. Artur C Jaschke, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 17 July 2024, 11:30-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Therapeutic ultrasound to treat and modulate against brain diseases

Sophie Morse (Imperial College London).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 15 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Nine Minds; Inner Lives on the Spectrum

Doors Open 12:30pm; Talk starts 1pm; Refreshments from 2pm. If you would like to attend in person, please book your place on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-autism-research-lecture-with-daniel-tammet-tickets-895238601757

Daniel Tammet.

Winstanley Lecture Hall (http://www.acs-cam.org.uk/CRSS/venue/venue_CRSS.html).

Wednesday 10 July 2024, 12:30-14:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Estimating across-site PAC, delays, and complex network properties under source mixing

Stefan Haufe (Technical University of Berlin).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 July 2024, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“A novel role at organelle contacts for protrudin, a protein that promotes axonal regeneration”

The talk is in-person only and a recording is not available.

Prof Evan Reid, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 04 July 2024, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

How is Association Cortico-Cortical Circuit Construction Compromised in a Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorder?

Prof Anthony LaMantia - Virginia Tech (USA).

Brian Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 01 July 2024, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Task Alignment

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 June 2024, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis

Ralf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 24 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tackling global social issues: Understanding what shapes and motivates pro-environmental behaviour

Claudia R Schneider (University of Canterbury).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Leveraging transcriptomics to understand neurodegeneration”

The talk is in person only.

Prof Mina Ryten, UK-DRI, Cambridge Centre & University College London.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processing

Rodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Rincell-1: first-in-human, pluripotent stem cell-based therapy for hearing loss”

The talk is in-person only and a recording is not available.

Profs Marcelo Rivolta & Douglas Hartley, University of Sheffield / University of Nottingham.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Large Language Models or Large Models of the Human Mind?

Michal Kosinski (Stanford University).

Online.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Easter II

Abigail Agyemang (Psychology), Irena Tetkovic (Psychiatry), Keith Liang (Psychology).

Old Cavendish Psychology Ground Floor Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 09:30-11:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Preregistration: When great ideas meet reality (can we avoid the hiccups?)

Roni Tibon (University of Nottingham).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 June 2024, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Lessons from a lifetime of leading with autism

Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Friday 07 June 2024, 10:30-11:30

Foster Talks

Identifying mechanisms of, and countermeasures to, muscle decline in ageing

Dr Colleen Deane, University of Southampton.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 06 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The role of reward in language learning

Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social robots: an experimental apparatus in fundamental psychological research and a support tool in healthcare

Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 14:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain

Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Advances in fMRI Data Acquisition Techniques

Benedikt Poser (Maastricht University).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 June 2024, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The problem with mental health awareness

Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Cambridge Overcoming Polarisation Initiative

Ceejay Hayes (Cambridge) .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Circuit for memory-based action selection

Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Foster Talks

How innate immune cells adapt to environment and function: diverse tales of mitochondria

Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

How does the human brain recognize faces?

Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tin Foil Confessions: Escaping The Cult Of Conspiracy

Brent Lee.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

ISMRM highlights

Multiple.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2024, 12:30-13:30

Computational Neuroscience

Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision making

Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 20 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

The Cognitive Biology of Language

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Sleep to forget unwanted memories

Scott Cairney (U. of York).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Herpes and dementia: the enemy within”

The talk is in-person only and a recording is not available.

Prof Ruth Itzhaki.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders

Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Multi-tissue tectonics enable self-assembly of the vertebrate body axis

Benjamin Steventon, Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning

Shankar Srinivas, Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, based at the Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Learning and memory in developmental amnesia 

Rachael Elward (London South Bank University).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Protecting and regenerating the diseased nervous system: Lessons from development”

Please note TIME CHANGE (the seminar is now 13:00-14:00)

Prof Michel Cayouette, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM).

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Trends, Drivers, Solutions

Julia Ebner (Oxford).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps

James Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 12:15-13:15

Zangwill Club

Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts

Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

An ancient regulatory network sets the position of the forebrain in chordates

Elia Benito-Gutierrez, Department of Zoology/Genentech.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust

Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“On Brains and Vessels: How perivascular fibroblasts contribute to ALS neurodegeneration”

In person only. (No recording will be available.)

Sebastian Lewandowski, Karolinska Institutet.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Behavioural Science and Security: Informing Evidence-based Policy and Practice

Brooke Rogers (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Youjing Yu.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 14:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Perceptual decision-making in autism: From neurochemistry to cognition

Nazia Jassim, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk

Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Easter I

Kelsey Graber (Education), Eireann Attridge (Education), Jessica van de Grint (Psychology).

South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 09:30-11:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Egocentric and allocentric representations in cortical structures

Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S.A..

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 29 April 2024, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Brain age prediction using diffusion MRI data

James Bacon (University of Cambridge).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2024, 12:50-13:30

Statistics

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Differential tissue deformability underlies fluid pressure driven shape divergence of the embryonic brain and spinal cord

Susannah McLaren, Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 26 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers"

Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:30

Foster Talks

Eating and Walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion

Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation

Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social and political change in diverse societies: Insights from largescale panel studies

Nikhil Sengupta (University of Kent).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Handling missingness in cognitive variables using multiple imputation

Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 22 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

The sound of noise in auditory midbrain and cortex

Livia de Hoz - Charite Berlin.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Sex differences in co-occurring conditions among autistic individuals

Miriam Martini, Karolinska Institutet.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

fMRI vs. Electrophysiology in Humans

Patricia Figueiredo (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon) .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 15 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

Dr Omer Bayraktar.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma

Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Translational applications of human brain charts: from clinical to population neuroscience”

The talk is in-person only and a recording is not available.

Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 11 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Tools for studying variation in the dark genome”

Dr Michael Eberle, PacBio Computational Biology Group.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 28 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Political Polarization, Social Norms, and Sorting: An Agent-based Social Sampling Model

In person only

Gordon Brown (University of Warwick).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

From precision medicine for autism to precision support for neurodivergent people: Why we need to consider dynamic interactions between brain, body and the social environment to better understand each other.

Eva Loth, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition

Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Studies with Single Subjects or Large Numbers of Volunteers - Why, & How?

Wietske van der Zwaag (Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“The all ‘A’s: ageing, Alzheimer, autophagy, AI, and an ‘A’ compound in brain health and longevity”

Please note that the talk this week is on Monday instead of the usual Thursday

Dr Evandro Fei Fang, University of Oslo.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Molecular insights into GABA-A receptor pharmacology

Dr Paul Miller, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast

Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production

Kate Watkins (U. of Oxford) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Neural Sociometrics: Precision assessment of parent-child brain-behaviour interaction dynamics

Professor Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

Jonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Structuring experience in cognitive spaces

Christian Doeller, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 11 March 2024, 16:15-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Psychological Intergroup Interventions: The Motivation Challenge

NOTE: This talk is on Monday at 11 am !

Eran Halperin (Hebrew University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults.

The host for this talk is Trevor Robbins

Dr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

PDRA Talks: Nuclear envelope integrity in health and disease | A role for the proton

Dr Anne Janssen, Dr Luke Pattison, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Controlling the cell cycle

Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces

Jaimie Henderson (Stanford University).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Atomic pathology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-EM of amyloid filaments”

TIME CHANGE Please note this talk is from 2pm to 3pm

Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Student Spotlight: Yan Xia, James Ackland, and Nikolay Petrov

Yan Xia (Aalto University), James Ackland (Cambridge), and Nikolay Petrov (Cambridge).

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Estradiol feedback on the reproductive neuroendocrine system

Sue Moenter, University of Michigan, U.S.A. .

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86949521310?pwd=ZUZ6WnNMOVZKNGF5QTJkbnJFMGlHZz09.

Monday 04 March 2024, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Harnessing Visual Studio Code for Your Research

Máté Aller & Dace Apšvalka, MRC CBU.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2024, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

A novel type of proteasome condensates that can target toxic protein aggregates

Dr Yu Ye, Imperial College London, Department of Brain Science.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint

Neil Anthwal, Kings College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:30

Foster Talks

Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: a developing obesity crisis.

Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Consolidation of memory and model-based planning

Neil Burgess (UCL.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in clinical routine - a pretty Swedish perspective”

The talk is in-person only and a recording is not available.

Prof Michael Schöll, University of Gothenburg.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

When Curiosity Gaps Backfire: Effects of Headline Concreteness on Information Selection Decisions

Marianne Simone Aubin Le Quere (Cornell University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Lent II

Jiayin Zheng (Education@Cambridge), Kate Merritt (IMH@UCL), Ceci Qing Cai (ICN@UCL).

Old Cavendish Psychology Ground Floor Seminar Room.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 09:30-11:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ANNUAL LECTURE: Saving the Synapse in Development and Alzheimer’s Disease

Carla Shatz, Stanford University, U.S.A. .

Physiology Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical interneurons in health and disease.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

David James Seminar: Molecular mechanisms regulating human weight regulation

Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS, University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Biochemistry Abstract.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

David Burt, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Exploring microcircuit properties for memory, from rodents to the human brain

Jake Watson, IST Austria (Klosterneuburg AT).

Klug Seminar Room, Level 2, LMB.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations

Gustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Enhancing Insight into Neurodegenerative Disease-Associated Genes via Long-Read RNA-Sequencing”

Dr Emil Gustavsson, University College London.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How Can the Behavioral Sciences Inform the Climate Crisis Response?

Madalina Vlasceanu (New York University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and Others

Sarah Douglas.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cortical integration of vestibular and visual signals for self-motion perception and spatial navigation

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Dept of PDN, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 19 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Resting State fMRI & Recent Advances

Marta Bianciardi (Harvard University).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

StaRs™ and Structures – a door to the GPCR pharmacological and drug discovery universe

Dr Alastair Brown, Sosei Heptares, Translational Biosciences.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep

Dr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A closer look at testimony: Scope, challenges, and consequences

Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London) .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Increasing access to early diagnosis and assessment of autism via objective and cost-effective eye-tracking-based tools

Ami Klin, PhD, Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine. .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Changmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Craik Club

Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep

Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Using brain organoids to understand cell fate

Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 12 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Not just an affair of the heart: A look at ERG channels and Kv7 channels in

Professor Iain Greenwood, St George’s University, Department of Life and Environmental Science.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology ..

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness

Erik Clark, Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments

Cath Harmer (U. of Oxford) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Understanding and managing conspiracy beliefs

Mikey Biddlestone (University of Kent).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Jason Arday

Jason Arday, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The Impact of Individual GABA Cells in Developing and Adult Cortex

Rosa Cossart, INMED, Marseille, France.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 05 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

BOLD & Non-BOLD Contrasts in Human fMRI

Sriranga Kashya (Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 05 February 2024, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

When Art meets Psychology

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Prof. Clive Wilkins.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Biophysical methods in small molecule drug discovery

Dr Stanislava Panova, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Senior Research Associate.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBA

Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems

Anna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Complement in Alzheimer’s Disease”

Dr Wioleta Zelek, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Explaining regional mental health prescriptions in England through deprivation and aggregate personality profiles

Andrés Gvirtz (King’s College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Sensory hypersensitivity and poor sleep - understanding neural mechanisms during early development

Teodora Gliga, University of East Anglia.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81268825017?pwd=dndNSE9selNDTktIUGNNejZKZDFVUT09 .

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 11:30-12:30

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Lent I

Speaker to be confirmed.

South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 09:30-11:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Why it’s important to think about equity, diversity and inclusion when designing, running, analysing and reporting clinical trials

Professor Shaun Treweek University of Aberdeen, Health Services Research.

Zoom.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

The finger of blame in depression and the brain

Roland Zahn (KCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Ambient Mass Spectrometry in Neuroscience: From spatial biology to neurosurgery”

Prof Zoltan Takats, Imperial College London.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

New directions in autism early detection, biomarker discovery and understanding heterogeneity using eye tracking and brain imaging

Dr Karen Pierce, Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego; Co-Director, UCSD Autism Center of Excellence.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The paradox of virality

Steve Rathje (New York University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

"The Importance of Behavioural Bioassays in Neuroscience"

Prof Richard Brown, Dalhousie University, Canada .

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Friday 19 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes

Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children

Torsten Baldeweg (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The failure of Russian propaganda in Ukraine and Russian PsyOps ads on Facebook

Jon Roozenbeek (Cambridge), Tetiana Haiduchyk and Uliana Hresko (Trementum), Anton Dek (Judge Business School).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Are Toll-like receptors and inflammasomes therapeutic targets for neuroinflammation?”

Prof Clare Bryant, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 11 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition

Dr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved

Michael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 12:45-13:45

Foster Talks

Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease

also hybrid, check this space for upcoming Zoom link!

Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Robust brain functional connectivity network estimation

Dr. Hanâ Lbath, Université Grenoble Alpes.

Online.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants

Ruth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Christmas Lecture: Wiring the Brain and Local Translation

Christine Holt, PDN, Cambridge .

Old Divinity School, St John's College .

Monday 04 December 2023, 18:30-20:30

ARClub Talks

***CANCELLED*** Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are going

Larry Cahill .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 04 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Methods In Cognitive Neuroscience Day

Multiple.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 December 2023, 09:30-16:15

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Insights and strategies during sensorimotor learning

Kishore Kuchibhotla - Johns Hopkins University.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

New models to study human embryo implantation and early development

Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 01 December 2023, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 December 2023, 11:00-12:30

Beyond the Neuron - Cambridge Neuroscience theme seminar series

Myelin turnover, maintenance and disease: Insight from electron microscopy and 3D imaging by FIB-SEM

DR. WIEBKE MÖBIUS; Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Göttingen, Germany.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research

Essi Viding (UCL) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Michaelmas II

Rachel Knight, Jean Heng, and Dianna Ilyka.

South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 09:30-11:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The many faces of stress: from developmental impacts to stress-related brain disorders

Jeff Dalley, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 27 November 2023, 16:15-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Brain geometry and dynamics

James Pang (Monash University).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 27 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language

The host for this talk is Kanad Mandke

Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Beyond the Neuron - Cambridge Neuroscience theme seminar series

Myelin turnover, maintenance and disease: Insight from electron microscopy and 3D imaging by FIB-SEM

Wiebke Möbius, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

TBC

Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 24 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Engineering post-translational regulation of ion channels: basic mechanisms to translation

Professor Henry Colecraft, University of Columbia.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2

Note unusual time.

Sreedharan Sajikumar, Dept of Physiology, NUS, Singapore.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Buiding, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Beyond the Neuron - Cambridge Neuroscience theme seminar series

Myelin turnover, maintenance and disease: Insight from electron microscopy and 3D imaging by FIB-SEM

DR. WIEBKE MÖBIUS, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Göttingen, Germany.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets

Keita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy

Quentin Huys (UCL).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2023-2024 Series

Unlocking Safe Reprogramming with Deep Learning

Brendan Swain - Shift Bioscience.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Capability-oriented Evaluation in AI: From IRT to Measurement Layouts

The talk is available online. Please email the organiser and ask for the Teams invite.

Prof Jose Hernandez-Orallo.

S3.04, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

A novel mechanism of selective inhibition of Glycine receptors observed by Cryo-EM | Controlling and combining signal activation for adhesion and receptor bridging

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 17 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside

Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Network effects in the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders

Prof. Alex Fornito, Monash University, Australia.

Online.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

A primer on relating Age, Brain and Cognition: As easy as “ABC”?

Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 13 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

The Spectrum of Neurodiverse Talent in Banking Technology

Jonathan Scott-Lee, Autism Centre of Excellence and Autism Research Centre; HSBC.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 13 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Circuit basis of learning and decision-making

Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Implications and molecular mechanisms of MOK, a new signaling kinase in neurodegenerative neuroinflammation

Dr Cintia Roodveldt University of Seville .

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Foster Talks

Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86076415954?pwd=XTPUrPn3tx4Z1T0ant39Y7HyaVBPtO.1

Alberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Idiosynchrony: Using naturalistic stimuli to draw out individual differences in brain and behavior

Dr. Emily Finn, Darmouth, USA.

Online.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

Jan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Translational applications of human brain charts: from clinical to population neuroscience”

Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Anti-obesity drug validation and discovery using human neuronal models

Florian Merkle, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 06 November 2023, 16:15-18:00

Statistics

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress

Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

GABA-A receptor subtypes controlling pain and itch

Professor Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 03 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity

The host for this talk is Amy Milton

Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Exploring the human connectome

Prof. Martijn van den Heuvel, CNCR, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Online.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex

Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Child Development Forum (CDF)

Child Development Forum Michaelmas I

Thomas Allen, Carly Hood, Alisa Anokhina.

West Wing Seminar Room, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge..

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 09:30-11:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The dynamics of motivation: The neural and computational mechanisms of effort when treated as a cost or a benefit

Matt Apps, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 30 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

ARClub Talks

Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety?

Claire Howlin, Trinity College Dublin.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 30 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

ARClub Talks

Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety?

Claire Howlin, Trinity College Dublin.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 30 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction

Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Title to be Confirmed

Dr Alastair Brown, Heptares, Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Representation and computation in visual working memory

Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Edward Young.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

From Modulation of Neurons and Small Networks to Climate Change

This talk is via zoom only.

Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A..

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84204498431?pwd=Um1oU284b1YxWThObGw4ZU9XZitWdz09.

Monday 23 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical gradients of functional integration

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

Dr Daniel Margulies .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Exploiting nuclear envelope dysfunction in progeria to identify new therapeutic targets for ageing

Dr Delphine Larrieu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 20 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view

Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2023-2024 Series

The 'Tock Tick' of Senescence

Cleo Bishop - Queen Mary University of London.

Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-18:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Central representation of protein availability regulates metabolism and behaviour

Clémence Blouet, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and Dept of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 16 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amstersdam).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells

Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Third-generation approaches of antibody discovery and optimisation

Dr Pietro Sormanni, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94037796809?pwd=MHNRUk5JL0JmTlZTcnJZU3VQNllYQT09 .

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Motor cortex circuits for learned movements

Takaki Komiyama .

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

When language typology meets dementia

Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Unexpected physiologic role of alpha-synuclein Serine-129 phosphorylation”

Professor Subhojit Roy, University of California, San Diego.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

A new look at eye design

Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cortical Layers in Context and Learning

Randy Bruno, DPAG, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 09 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

Zangwill Club

Decoding the neural processing of speech

The host for this talk is Usha Goswami

Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures

Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Thoughts on the interaction of different memory systems: evidence from semantic dementia”

Professor Karalyn Patterson, University of Cambridge .

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away

Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

Craik Club

A new approach to understanding eye design

Professor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Beyond the Neuron - Cambridge Neuroscience theme seminar series

Establishing hPSC-derived Schwann cells for modeling metabolic disorders of the PNS

Dr Homa Majd.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 September 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2023-2024 Series

Taking Rejuvenation to Longevity Escape Velocity

Dr. Aubrey de Grey.

Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

Tuesday 19 September 2023, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"

Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

ARClub Talks

Autism and the Criminal Justice System: Achieving Best Evidence

Katie Maras, Centre for Applied Autism Research (CAAR), University of Bath.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 31 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

ARClub Talks

Educational Outcomes of Students with Special Educational Needs in the United Kingdom

Elizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 24 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

ARClub Talks

Impacts and experiences of psychiatric diagnosis: The case of autism

Cliódhna O'Connor, University College Dublin.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 17 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Energy Matters: Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics to power neural regeneration”

Dr Zu-Hang Sheng, NINDS, NIH.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tuesday 11 July 2023, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Energy Matters: Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics to power neural regeneration”

Dr Zu-Hang Sheng, NINDS, NIH.

Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.

Tuesday 11 July 2023, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Empathic disequilibrium – a novel conceptualization of the role of empathy in psychopathology and beyond

Florina Uzefovsky, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 10 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Microglia webinar series

Epigenetic profiling reveals mechanisms of microglial reprogramming in models of Alzheimer’s disease pathology

Dr. Jonas Neher. DZNE Tübingen, Germany.

https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09.

Monday 03 July 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

K2P channels in sensory transduction and neuromodulation

Professor Niels Ringstad, New York University School of Medicine.

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Room.

Friday 30 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Beyond the Neuron - Cambridge Neuroscience theme seminar series

Astrocytic decline and paralysis, rather than reactivity, contribute to brain ageing and age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases.

Professor Alexei Verkhratsky, Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Manchester.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 June 2023, 16:30-17:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Unbiased Genetic Screening to find Modifiers of Mitochondria in Neurons

Dr Gaynor Smith | Cardiff Univeristy.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy

Dorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

“Molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuron-glia interactions”

Professor Kelly Monk, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University.

Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Increased autism diagnosis in the UK

Ginny Russell, University of Exeter.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 19 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Chaucer Club

Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world

Rhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Exploring the Analgesic Effect of Social Power on Empathy for Pain

Ekim Luo (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B

Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 09 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia

Dan Bush (UCL) .

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Behavioural and Neural Dynamics of Learning in Social Interaction

Sara De Felice (University College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30