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A superlist combining individual seminars and series from other lists on talks.cam. These Neuroscience-themed seminars will be advertised throughout the relevant interest group in Cambridge.

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BRC Seminar Series

Intra-tumour heterogeneity in human glioblastoma.

UserDr Sara Piccirillo, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 19 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease

UserDr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Title to be confirmed

UserChristian Lohmann, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

From situation to cognition --- A discovery process

UserDr Wei Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

BRC Seminar Series

Spatiotemporal control of motor circuit assembly and function.

UserDr Marco Tripodi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Ear reconstruction for microtia

This talk is part of the Cambridge Hearing and Balance Seminars

UserHenning Frenzel, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany.

HouseSeminar Room 5, Cambridge University Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2013, 17:30-19:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization of pluripotent cells to establish the mouse embryo

UserMagdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 31 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Foster Talks

Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer

UserProf Paul Martin. School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases

UserDr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserTaylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

Shaping neural circuits by early experience.

Please note unusual day and time

UserProfessor Takao Hensch, Center for Brain Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Flourishing: from science to policy

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockTuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Epac2, from protein to in vivo function: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

UserDr Deepak Srivastava, Department of Neuroscience and Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockFriday 24 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis

UserProf Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

"Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making".

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Molecules and mechanisms of olfactory-mediated behaviour

UserDr Darren Logan, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseMRC LMB: Sanger Meeting Room 3A180.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 10:00-11:30

Foster Talks

The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning

UserDr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using Bayes to get the most out of null results

UserZoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nutrient sensing in the central brain of Drosophila larvae controls feeding behavior

UserPierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose, University of Nice, France.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tells us about psychology?

UserProfessor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

ARClub Talks

Brain imaging findings in BPD

UserDr Robert Dudas, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

BRC Seminar Series

Understanding the molecular principles of protein misfolding.

Please note unusual time.

UserProf Erich Wanker, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Emotional disorders and mental imagery

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Emily A. Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Gaussian Processes

UserProf. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

How Do Mindreaders Model Minds?

UserDr. Stephen Butterfill, University of Warwick.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Approaches to statistical modeling of network data

UserMaxim Nazarov (Bocconi University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Regulation of neural and intestinal stem cell differentiation

UserAxel Behrens, CR-UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 13:15-13:55

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

CANCELLED!

Talk will be given at the next session

UserJosef Kittler, University College London.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

ClockMonday 15 April 2013, 18:00-19:30

BRC Seminar Series

Studies on Abeta (1-42) toxicity

UserProfessor Vilma Borutaite, Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2013, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State Segmentation

UserWill Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 08 April 2013, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 02 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family

UserJames Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 25 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

EEG and MEG analysis

UserRik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 11:00-13:00

Benign Intracranial Hypertension

This talk is part of the Cambridge Hearing and Balance Seminars

UserProfessor John Pickard, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseSeminar Room 5, Cambridge University Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

ClockTuesday 19 March 2013, 17:30-19:30

Computational Neuroscience

University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talks

UserClaudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 14:30-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tinnitus and cochlear implants

UserPhil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational geometry modelling

UserAlex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

Metabolic reprogramming in iPS cells and neuronal derivatives

UserDr Alessandro Prigione, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Title to be confirmed

UserJuan Burrone, King's College London.

HouseGurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Investigating Cognition using CANTAB

UserDr. Charlotte Housden, Cambridge Cognition, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserGuillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Imaging Tools To Reverse Engineer The Brain

UserWinfried Denk. Director of Max Planck Institute for Medical Research.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures

UserProfessor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory

UserProfessor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

All work and no play

UserProf. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin organisation in embryonic stem cells

UserPeter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 13:15-13:55

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Tools for the Brain: Using neural interfaces to restore motor function

UserAndrew Jackson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Insitute of Neuroscience.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism

UserProfessor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future

UserProfessor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions

UserProfessor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decision-making with and without rules

UserJiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Preventing neurodegeneration through control of proteostasis"

UserProfessor Giovanna Mallucci, Leicester.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system

UserProfessor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Coping with life changing events: Stem cells, regeneration, and plasticity

UserRobin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

Foster Talks

Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila

UserDr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London..

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex

UserProfessor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"The presynaptic side of synapse formation" & TBC

UserChristine Holt (PDN) & Greg Jefferis (MRC-LMB).

HouseGurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

ARClub Talks

The Odd Pair of Autism and Transsexualism

UserDr. Annelou de Vries, Department of Paediatrics, VUmc.

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers

UserProfessor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserSina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents

UserProfessor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional Control of Cell Fate Choice in Blood Stem Cells

UserBertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 13:15-13:55

Chaucer Club

Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation

UserProfessor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer

Please note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday!

UserHaley Frend, Department of Pathology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 19:30-20:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The consequences of intentional forgetting

UserJonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning

UserProfessor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient Mice

UserDr. Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera. UCL Institute of Child Health.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the role of stem cells in tissue development and maturation

UserKim Jensen, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 13:15-13:55

Foster Talks

The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders

UserProfessor Philippa Saunders. University of Ediburgh. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Volition and Agency

THIS TALK IS A JOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR TO BE HELD AT 15 CHAUCER ROAD CAMBRIDGE. PLEASE NOTE: THIS PARTICULAR LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF THE USUAL FRIDAY.

UserProfessor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

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

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Volition and Agency

Joint Chaucer Club/Zangwill Club lecture

UserProfessor Patrick Haggard (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats Wednesdays at 12noon, Thursday at 2pm during Lent 2013

UserMate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Individual differences in human perception

UserDr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA.

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

ClockMonday 07 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

BRC Seminar Series

Formation of earliest cortical circuits

UserProfessor Zoltan Molnar, DPAG, University of Oxford.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2012, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action

UserFred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin.

HouseMRC CBU, 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 7EF.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Autism in DSM-5 (and beyond)

UserDr Meng-Chuan Lai, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockFriday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Representation of motor skills in cortical networks

UserDr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

UserPeter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recent research updates

UserCBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior

UserProfessor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

An as-if model of economic decision making

UserDr Ian Krajbich. Department of Economics, University of Zurich .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning

Two short talks today

UserMoos Peeters (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features

Two short talks today

UserSeyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Lecture Cancelled

Please note the Adrian Lecture scheduled for this date is cancelled.

UserEve Marder. Brandeis University, Mass. USA.

HouseThe Main Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Public communication of science in the media

(Please bring a recent example of a media science story)

UserEmily Holmes (MRC CBSU).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch signal

UserSarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Some social logics of sharing: From Web 2.0 to the therapeutic narrative

UserNicholas John, Ben-Gurion University, Israel & The London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseArts School Room B, New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Embodied Morality

UserDr Simone Schnall, Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory.

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory Networks

UserProfessor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisions

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How variable clones build an invariant retina

UserBenjamin Simons, Cavendish Laboratory/ Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making

UserProfessor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

Genetic Models of Peripheral Regeneration Defects

UserProfessor Gennadij Raivich, Inst. for Women's Health, University College London.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

bbu20's list

Coding with Dendrites

UserPanayiota Poirazi.

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks

UserDr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The role of Dicer and miRNAs in regulating neural stem cell multipotency

UserTherese Andersson, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge..

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Foster Talks

Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants

UserDr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see?

UserDenis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC).

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

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'Losing your world while falling asleep'

UserDr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Aggregating Minds

UserDr Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory

UserProfessor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

UserPeter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Face space in the primate visual system

Two short talks today

UserJonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Sex, Love, and Goodness

UserAlex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulations

UserJes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling

UserDr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo

UserVeronique Azuara, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning

UserProfessor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Emotion, Cognition, and “Rational” Embodiment.

UserPiotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Technical Lecture in association with Life Technologies

Registration is FREE but is required and available at http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/events/event.php?permalink=1b46c26790

UserDr David Bourdon, Life Technologies.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling

UserDr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Deciphering gene regulatory circuitry underlying early steps of neural crest development

UserTatjana Sauka-Spengler, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

Foster Talks

The Promises of a Polychrome Retina

UserProfessor Bill Harris. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Person identification and speech recognition in human communication

UserDr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Machine learning for auditory neuroscience

UserRichard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition.

UserProfessor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation

UserProfessor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

UserPeter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

BRC Seminar Series

Neuronal pentraxins, PV-INs and perineuronal nets

UserDr A. Radu Aricescu, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry 2012 Paykel Lecture: 'The Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia: Neural Basis and Clinical Relevance'

Lecture starts at 17:30 and tea and coffee will be served from 17:00. There will be a wine reception after the Lecture, which will give you an opportunity to speak to Professor Joyce.

UserProfessor Eileen Joyce, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

HouseLecture Theatre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

ClockTuesday 02 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserMatthias Seeger, EPFL.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 September 2012, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories

UserManik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System: Where is the Dark Matter

UserMark Ellisman, Professor of Neurosciences, Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California at San Diego.

HouseMRC LMB: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 21 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding

UserYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Monarch butterfly migration: from behavior to genes

Cambridge Neuroscience are pleased to welcome Professor Steven M. Reppert, MD. Steven is a highly successful neuroscientist and one the circadian clock "stars". For more information, please see http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/news/article.php?

UserProfessor Steven Reppert, Department of Neurobiology at UMASS Medical School, Worcester.

HouseDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 11 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learning

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general framework

UserProf. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 08 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing Costs

UserPedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 03 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields

UserKonstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 27 July 2012, 11:00-12:00

Craik Club

Perception of motion blur during eye movement

UserProfessor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry.

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

ClockWednesday 25 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

IQ Gains in the 21st Century

UserProf Dr James Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseExperimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 July 2012, 15:00-16:00

BRC Seminar Series

The real basis of glaucoma

UserProfessor Goeffry Raisman, FRS,Chair of Neural Regeneration, Queen Square, London.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockThursday 19 July 2012, 12:00-13:00

Craik Club

Vision for reading

UserProfessor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

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

ClockThursday 28 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

A new look at human motor control

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

UserDr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

‘Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Disease Processes’

UserProfessor Roger Y Tsien, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego.

HouseDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 18 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Technical Lecture "Neural cells as a model: from differentiation to transfection"

Registration is FREE but required for this event. Please click http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/events/event.php?permalink=74f096cfc5 for more information on this event.

UserDr Alberto Chinali, Life Technologies.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias

UserDr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Human mesenchymal precursors - Transplantation and mechanisms of action in spinal cord injury"

UserDr Giles W Plant, Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences (SINTN),Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of speech intelligibility

Postponed from 13th to 20th June, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience

UserSam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

Characterisation of the structure and dynamics of alpha-synuclein by NMR spectroscopy

UserDr Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception?

UserDr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data

Please note - this is a change from our original schedule

UserHamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

A Molecular Geneticist's Strategy for Understanding the Fly Brain

Gerry has been heading a large and multi-faceted programme at Janelia Farm studying brain development and function. For more information on Gerry Rubin and his research: http://www.janelia.org/lab/rubin-lab http://www.hhmi.org/research/groupleaders/rubi

UserDr. Gerald Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Farm Research Campus.

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 10:00-11:00

BRC Seminar Series

Photoreceptor Directed Gene Therapy-Restoring Function and Structure, and Reversing Inner Retinal Remodeling

UserGustavo Aguirre, VMD, PhD, PhD (hc), Professor of Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology,School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Ryan-VHUP, Room 2050, 3900 Delancey Street,Philadelphia, PA 19104-6010.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition

Talk Cancelled - Please accept our apologies

UserProfessor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A quantitative view of gene expression levels

UserSarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Interacting without Touch.

UserDr. Helena Mentis - postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital System (SDS).

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Mechanism regulating neural differentiation

UserProf. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

BRC Seminar Series

Activity Dependent Plasticity in Spinal Locomotor Circuits

UserDr Ronaldo M Ichiyama, University of Leeds.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

Communication over noisy channels (III)

Note unusual time

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 21 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval

UserDr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Finding the correct pairing partner during meiosis: events inside and outside the nucleus

UserEnrique Martinez-Perez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

Chaucer Club

Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour

UserProfessor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

phm28's list

Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours

UserTamas Freund. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminat Room, Physiology Building.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour

UserProfessor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Epo's impact on exercise performance

UserProf. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more

UserProfessor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

Molecular Bioengineering for Neuroscience

UserProfessor Giuseppe Battaglia, The Krebs Institute, The Centre for Membrane Interactions and Dynamics,& Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimation

UserBarnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Inference Group

Communication over noisy channels (II)

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 07 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control

UserDr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

BRC Seminar Series

Using polymers to define 3D architecture of stem cell cultures

UserProf. Kevin Shakesheff, School of Pharmacy, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Molecules of touch and taste sensation

UserWilliam Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 13:15-13:55

Foster Talks

Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders

UserDr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state

UserJonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Craik Club

"Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised.

UserEero Simoncelli, New York University.

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

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Inference Group

Communication over noisy channels (I)

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Interactions between stem cells and their niche in mammalian epidermis

UserFiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 27 April 2012, 13:15-13:55

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Mastering Uncertainty

UserStephen Reid, Stephen Reid and Spring Business Innovation Ltd.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockFriday 27 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity - in health and disease

UserDr Jose Esteban, Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology, Madrid.

HouseMRC LMB Cell Biology seminar room (Level 4).

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

How memory guides perception

UserProfessor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

Grey matter astrocyte responses and the integrity of neuronal circuits following remote axonal insults

UserDr Andras Lakatos, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (IV)

New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 23 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior

UserProfessor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 April 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Roles of ADAM family metalloproteases in cardiovascular development

UserAtsuko Sehara-Fujisawa, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 20 April 2012, 13:15-13:55

Chaucer Club

Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement

UserProfessor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

“The life and death of the synapse: a role for Wnt signalling”

UserProf Patricia Salinas, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (III)

New: Previous lectures can be downloaded!

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 16 April 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

An intermediate state in glutamate receptor activation: structure and mechanism

UserDr Andrew Plested Leibniz, Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) & Neurocure Initiative Charité Universitätsmedizin, Germany.

HouseMRC LMB Cell Biology seminar room.

ClockFriday 23 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

The Editorial Process in Nature Neuroscience

UserDr Charvy Narain, Nature Neuroscience.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2012, 16:30-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserJohannes Hjorth, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 20 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov Models

UserJonathan Huggins (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 11:00-11:45

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory.

UserProfessor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Craik Club

"Genetic correlates of visual biases"

UserPatrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.

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

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance

UserProf. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain

CANCELLED - please accept our apologies

UserProfessor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

Scientific "Tapas"

UserElena Vecino, Ophthalmo-Biology Group, Basque Country University.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

BRC Seminar Series

"How reggies/flotillins regulate axon regeneration and growth"

UserProfessor. Claudia A.O. Stürmer, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz Germany.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

The role of alexithymia in autism

UserDr. Geoff Bird, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseHexagon Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (II)

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no lectures during the Easter break (12 March - 9 April). Lectures will resume on 16 April.

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

EEG and MEG analysis

UserRik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 14:00-16:00

ARClub Talks

Autobiographical memory in autism

UserDr Kate Plaisted Grant, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseDept of Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development

UserProf. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Imagining other people

UserDr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Inference Group

Entropy and data compression (I)

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

The Adolescent Brain

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mapping Morphogenesis

UserRichard Adams, PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

The case for the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment in the study of parental discipline practices

UserChristina Moses Passini, Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Components of working memory in task control

UserProfessor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

"The Salvage Pathway of NAD Biosynthesis: Road to Neuroprotection"

User Laura Conforti, University of Nottingham.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Open your Mind

UserDr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 19:30-20:30

Inference Group

Introduction to information theory

UserDavid MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation

UserDr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

ARClub Talks

What's special about the female autistic brain?

UserDr Meng-Chuan Lai, Postdoctoral Research ARC.

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Decision-making in animal collectives

UserDr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

The Evolving Social Network of Drosophila

UserRichard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne.

HouseMRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brain maps for space

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology Meet

JOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR

UserProfessor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meet

Note - this is a Joint Chaucer/Zangwill Club talk and will be held at Department of Experimental Psychology

UserProfessor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin).

HouseDept of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nanoscale Tools for the Silencing of Genes in the Brain

UserKostas Kostarelos, The School of Pharmacy, University of London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurophysiology of speech act processing

UserNatalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Astrocyte pathology in brain ageing and dementia"

UserDr Stephen Wharton, The Sheffield Institute forTranslational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, Unive).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Against Qualia

UserProfessor Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

SHiPSCs, Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells?

UserPentao Liu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Chaucer Club

Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons

UserDr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

Microglia: Special Award for Best Supporting Actor

UserDr Rosa Paolicelli, Mouse Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Monterotondo, ITALY.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Synthetic Biology - Smart Cells and Smart Materials

UserProf Wilfried Weber, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), University of Freiburg, Germany.

HouseMRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences

UserDr Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Crowdsourcing Contests

UserYoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework

UserProfessor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

Thinking aloud about mental voices

UserDr Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, Durham University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games

UserProfessor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Localizing integrins in vivo for use in axonal regeneration"

UserDr Melissa Andrews, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 18 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Craik Club

Colour Categories in Language and Thought

UserDr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex.

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

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Information gathering and impulsivity

UserProfessor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Craik Club

One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius

User G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon, M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg..

HouseCavonius Centre, Stephen Hawking Building, Harvey Court, West Road.

ClockWednesday 11 January 2012, 10:00-18:00

BRC Seminar Series

"to be confirmed"

UserProfessor Barry Keverne , Institute of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockWednesday 14 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

BRC Seminar Series

"Searching for interventions in the pathological pathway to Alzheimer's disease"

UserProfessor James Vickers, Menzies Institute, University of Tasmania.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockTuesday 13 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

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