Where does value come from?

Host: Wolfram Schultz

Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 10 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of working memory and decision making

Host: Mate Lengyel

Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 03 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits

Host: Sue Jones

Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 27 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Blood is thicker than water

Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

St John's College Lightfoot Room.

Monday 09 December 2019, 18:30-20:00

The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale

Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 02 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond

David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 25 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

In search of the molecules of memory - ANNUAL LECTURE

Roger Nicoll, University of California San Francisco.

Main Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 18 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Synapse specific homeostatic responses to sensory deprivation

Tara Keck, Division of Biosciences, University College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 28 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Towards a brain architecture for visual behavior selection

Gwyneth Card, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 14 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

New ideas on the organization of neural circuitry

Larry Swanson, University of Southern California.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 17 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

The mechanics and biophysics of getting in touch

Miriam Goodman, Beckmann Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 20 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration

Frank Bradke, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany..

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy

Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC).

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila

Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations

Troy Margrie.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior

Fritjof Helmchen, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys

Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus".

Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar - "Circuit principles of memory-based behaviour choice".

Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar - "The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks".

William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar - "Probing the molecular basis of extreme physiology using African mole-rats"

Gary Lewin, Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 29 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar Series - ANNUAL LECTURE - "Transforming thought into action using bidirectional brain-machine interfaces

Richard Andersen, California Institute of Technology.

The Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar - "Probing computations in neural circuits using single-neuron perturbations"

Chris Harvey, Harvard Medical School.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 15 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Neural motion"

Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar: Ensemble coding in amygdala circuits

Andreas Luthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute Basel, Switzerland.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 March 2018, 16:30-18:00

TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Physiological and genetic heterogeneity in hearing loss"

Karen Steel, King's College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 05 March 2018, 16:30-18:00

TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Functional synaptic architecture of visual cortex"

David Fitzpatrick, Research Group Leader & Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Starting new actions and learning from it"

Rui Costa, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory"

Tim Bliss, University College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 05 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

TODAY Adrian Seminar - A remarkable combination of skills in hunting archerfish

Stefan Schuster, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 29 January 2018, 16:30-18:00

TODAY! Adrian Seminar - "Plasticity of the adult visual cortex in human" - Concetta Morrane, University of Pisa, Italy

Concetta Morrone, University of Pisa.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 22 January 2018, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience - ANNUAL LECTURE Rachel Wilson "Neural correlates of orienting behaviors and latent action biases"

Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 27 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

TODAY: Adrian Seminar - Corinne Houart "Modulation of embryonic signalling activities controls forebrain size and complexity"

Corinne Houart, King's College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 06 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

TODAY: Adrian Seminar - "Functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mammalian CNS" - David Rowitch

David Rowitch, University of Cambridge.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 30 October 2017, 16:30-18:00

TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task"

Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 October 2017, 16:30-18:00

"Circular Inference in schizophrenia...and all of us"

Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 15 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation

Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

"Variability, robustness and modulation in neurons and networks"

Eve Marder, Brandeis University USA.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 06 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

"Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity"

Oscar Marin, King's College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 27 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

"Modeling others during social exchange: neuroimaging and neuromodulatory correlates"

Read Montague, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and University College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 20 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

"Turning glia into neurons - from scar formation to repair"

Magdalena Goetz, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 13 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

"The visual cortex as a cognitive blackboard"

Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 23 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

"Negative-feedback control of cortical activity by the neuromodulator adenosine" PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE

Magnus Richardson, University of Warwick.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 05 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminar Series - Annual Lecture "How Do You Feel? Ion channels that sense mechanical force"

Ardem Patapoutian, The Scripps Research Institute, California.

The Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 21 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

"Sound encoding in the cochlea: from molecular physiology to optogenetic restoration"

Tobias Moser, Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 24 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

"How to sample a reliable neural estimate of the variable world"

Mikko Juusola, Professor of Systems Neuroscience, University of Sheffield.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 10 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

"Hijacking of NMDA receptor signalling by tumors"

Professor Douglas Hanahan, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

"Pathways specifying cell fates in the Drosophila CNS”.

Stefan Thor, Linkoping University, Sweden.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 07 March 2016, 16:30-18:00

"Neurobiology of Economic Decisions"

Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Washington University, St Louis.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 29 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

"Breaking symmetry in the brain – from genes to circuits and behaviour"

Steve Wilson, University College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 22 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

"Function and modulation of sensory TRP channels"

Thomas Voets, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, University of Leuven, Belgium.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

"Plastic Transcriptomes and Proteomes at Synapses"

Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Human cerebral cortex development and disease in stem cell systems

Dr Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 18 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Temporal Expectations in the Human Brain

Professor Kia Nobre.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 30 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Social Behavior Circuits in the Mouse

Catherine DuLac, Harvard University.

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

Monday 23 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Contrasting roles of prefrontal cortical areas in reward-guided learning and decision making.

Matthew Rushworth. University of Oxford.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Light Sleep

Gero Miesenboek University of Innsbruck.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Biophysics of the inner ear and beyond

Tobias Reichenbach, Imperial College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Distilling the true neural correlate of consciousness: have we looked in all the wrong places?

Melanie Wilke, University of Gottingen, Germany.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

NMDA receptors: diversity, molecular mechanisms and synaptic regulation.

Prof. Pierre Paoletti. École Normale Supérieure, Paris..

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 11 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Neural circuits underlying operant learning in larval zebrafish.

Prof. Florian Engert. Harvard University.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 27 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

New perspectives on cochlear nerve degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss

Charles Liberman. Harvard Medical School.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Local Transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons

Erin Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Adaptive Codes for flexible behaviour in the human brain.

Zoe Kourtzi. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit

Naoshige Uchinda, Harvard University.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Branching and Synoptogenicsm in Fly and Frog CNS

Dietmar Schmucker. VIB Vesalius Research Centre, KULeuven.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

How developmental origin determines microcircuit function in the hippocampus.

Rosa Cossart Institute for Neuroscence, Montpellier.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 19 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

The Annual Adrian Lecture. "The flow of information underlying a tactile decision."

Dr Karel Svoboda. Janelia Farm, USA..

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

Monday 01 December 2014, 16:30-18:00

The Philippe Wiener Lecture. "From Human pluripotent stem cells to cortial circuits: towards brain disease modeling and repair."

Pierre Vanderhaeghen. Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Brussels, Belgium.

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

Monday 24 November 2014, 16:30-18:00

Inhibition and adaptationin the outer retina - Intiguing synaptic mechanisms with unexpected molecular players

Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

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

Monday 20 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

The neuroeconomics of complex social valuation

Colin Camerer. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

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

Monday 13 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Insights into the moecular basis of of neurodegenerative disease.

Prof. Graham Collingridge, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 12 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Adaptive Coding in the Auditory System

Andrew King, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Brain power: where does it come form and how is it used.

David Attwell, University College, London.

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

Monday 03 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

The different perceptual worlds in which we live

Prof. John Mollon, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 24 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Ten Ways To A Better Brain

Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 17 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Choice and value: a behavioural ecologist's perspective on animal preferences

Alex Kacelnik. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

It takes two to tango: The cerrebellum simplified into two types of modules with two encoding schemes

Professor Chris de Zeeuw. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam and the Netherands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam.

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

Monday 03 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

The first steps in vision: computation and repair.

Botond Roska. Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland..

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

Monday 27 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Sifting Circuits for Motor Control.

Tom Jessell. Columbia University, New York City.

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

Monday 25 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Peripheral Pain Mechanisms

John Wood, University College Londaon (UCL) .

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

Monday 04 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Functional Modules: How do we get them and what good are they?

Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School.

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

Monday 21 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Imaging Neuronal and Behavioural Activity in the Freely Moving Animal: What are they looking at?

Jason Kerr, Max Planck Institute of Biological Sciences.

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

Monday 14 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

The self-tuning neuron- homeostatic plasticity in visualcortical circuitry

Gina Turrigiano. Brandeis University, Massachusetts.

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

Monday 22 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Imaging Tools To Reverse Engineer The Brain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the Evolution of Reward Signals: A Computational Just-So Story

Andy Barto, University of Massachusetts.

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

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Circuit mechanisms of oscillations and representation of space in the entorhinal cortex

Matt Nolan, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 11 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Neuropharmacology of visual attention in visual cortex

Alex Thiele University of Newcastle.

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

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Memory codes and their transformation in bee brain

Randolf Menzel, Frieie University of Berlin.

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

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Inhibition and Odour discrimination in mice

Andreas Schaefer Heidelberg.

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

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Lecture Cancelled

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

Eve Marder. Brandeis University, Mass. USA.

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

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

Genetic Dissection of the Fly Visual Course Control

Axel Borst.

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

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

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Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours

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

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminat Room, Physiology Building.

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

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

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

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

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

Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo

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

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

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

Dynamic regulation of dopamine transmission in the striatum

Stephanie Cragg, University of Oxford.

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

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

Biological precursors of the number sense

Andreas Nieder, University of Tubingen, Germany.

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

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

Brain maps for space

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

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

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

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

Christine Holt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dimitri Kullman, Queen Square, London.

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

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

Oscillations and Neural Syntax

Annual Lecture

Gyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers, Newark, USA.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

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

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Optogenetics and Other Neural Circuit Analysis Tools

Ed Boyden MIT, Cambridge, USA.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminat Room, Physiology Building.

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

The adaption of rod photoreceptors to light

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

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

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

Making sense of scents, the mammalian olfactory system

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

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

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

Neural circuits co-ordinating sleep, feeding and reward

Denis Burdakov, Dept of Pharmacology, Cambridge University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus

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

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

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

Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus

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

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

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

Brain neurons switch each other into pacemaker mode to drive locomotion

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

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

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

What it takes to become an auditory relay synapse

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

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

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

Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex

Matteo Carandini, Institute of Ophthalmology, UC London.

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

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

Neural Circuits for rapid perceptual decisions under uncertainty

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

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

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

From reward to Punishment and Invigoration to Inhibition

Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UC London.

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

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

Optogenetics: development and application

Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University.

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

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

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

Brian Moore, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.

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

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

Synaptic processing of visual information in the retina of zebra fish

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

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

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

RNA based therapies for neurological and muscle disease

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

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

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

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

Angela Roberts, PDN..

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

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

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

Kate Jeffery, UCL..

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

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

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

Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology..

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

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

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

Katrin Krumbholz, University of Nottingham..

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

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

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

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

Prof. Christine Holt, PDN..

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

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

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

Jonathan Ashmore, UCL..

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

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

“How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”.

Annual Adrian Lecture

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

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

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

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

Gordon Shepherd, Yale University..

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

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

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

Maria Fitzgerald, UCL..

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

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

“Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”.

Wulfram Gerstner EPFL..

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

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

Investigating the firing properties of motoneurones with dynamic clamp and modelling

Claude Meunier René Descartes University, Paris..

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

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

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

Steven Zucker, Yale University.

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

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

Delays and coincidences in spatial hearing

Prof. Philip Joris, University of Leuven.

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

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

TRPV1: hot new channels in the hippocampus

Prof. Julie Kauer, Brown University.

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

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

Synaptic mechanisms of neocortical sensory processing

Prof. Carl Petersen, Lausanne.

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

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

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

Prof. Bernd Nilius, University of Leuven.

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

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

Useful signals from motor cortex

Prof. Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh.

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

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

Measuring and modelling the development of ordered nerve connections

Prof. David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

From Cell Signaling to Function in Large-Scale Neural Networks

Prof. Jorn Hounsgaard, University of Copenhagen.

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

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

A genetic approach to understanding the molecular basis of auditory function

Prof. Karen Steel, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

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

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

SNAREs, synaptotagmin, and fusion pores

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

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

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

Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Retina

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

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

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

Building Neural Representations of Habits

Prof. Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 24 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

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

Prof. James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University.

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

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

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

Prof. David Attwell, University College London.

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

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

Grid cells and spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex

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

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

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

The Economy of the Mind

Rearranged from March 3

Prof. Michael Platt, Duke University.

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

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

Functions of Electrical Junctions in the Thalamocortical System

Prof. Barry Connors, Brown University..

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

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

Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila

(Rearranged from 28 January)

Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 26 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

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

Prof. Matthew Larkum, University of Bern.

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

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

Learning to localize sound

Prof. Andrew King, University of Oxford.

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

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

Beyond Localization: What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us

Prof. Dick Passingham, University of Oxford.

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

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

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

Prof. Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen.

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

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

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

Prof. Barry Everitt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Relating brain and behaviour in Drosophila

Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg.

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

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

How the brain decides where and when to look

Prof. Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt University.

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

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

“From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?”

The Annual Adrian Lecture

Prof. Nikos Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 26 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

“PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF HUMAN SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL”

Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering.

Part II Seminar Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing site.

Monday 18 June 2007, 16:30-17:30

“SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SIGNAL PROCESSING WITHIN THE INPUT LAYER OF THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX”

Professor Angus Silver, University College London.

Part II Seminar Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing site.

Monday 11 June 2007, 16:30-17:30

"SHIFTING VIEWS OF FRONTO-STRIATAL FUNCTION: NEUROMODULATORY MECHANISMS"

Professor Trevor Robbins, Deptartment of Experimental Psychology.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory, Downing site.

Monday 14 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

“PHEROMONAL SIGNALLING IN MICE”

Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory, Downing site.

Monday 07 May 2007, 16:30-17:30

“A HOLISTIC MODEL OF BINAURAL HEARING IN MAMMALS”

Host: Andrew Crawford

Professor David McAlpine Ear Institute London.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 30 April 2007, 16:30-17:30

“CIRCADIAN RHYTHM AND SLEEP DISRUPTION IN HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE: DOES IT PLAY A ROLE IN NEUROLOGICAL DECLINE?”

Dr. Jenny Morton, Department of Pharmacology.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 23 April 2007, 16:30-17:30

“CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING HIPPOCAMPAL GAMMA-FREQUENCY ("40 HZ") NETWORK OSCILLATIONS”

Host: Hugh Robinson

Dr. Ole Paulsen University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 19 March 2007, 16:30-17:30

HUMAN PERCEPTION OF CHANGES IN NATURAL VISUAL SCENES, AND A VISUAL-CORTEX BASED MODEL OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATIONS

Dr. David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 05 March 2007, 16:30-17:30

WHY BASSO IS MACHO: FROM COCHLEA TO CORTEX, SIZE MATTERS IN HEARING

Professor Roy Patterson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 26 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA

Host: Wolfram Schultz

Prof. Paul Bolam, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 19 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

THE HUNGRY BRAIN: ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND NEURAL FUNCTION

Professor Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 05 February 2007, 16:30-17:30

CHOICE AND CHANCE: LIMITATIONS AND EXTENSIONS OF THE LATER MODEL

Please note that this Adrian Seminar is on a Tuesday

Dr. Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Tuesday 30 January 2007, 16:30-17:30

THE CEREBELLAR BASIS OF MOTOR LEARNING

Host: Steve Edgley

Prof. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 22 January 2007, 16:30-17:30

BEFORE AND AFTER GRANDMOTHER CELLS

Professor Horace Barlow, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 15 January 2007, 16:30-17:30

Potassium channel diversity at the synaptic interface: Fast EPSCs and delayed rectification

Host: Sue Jones

Prof. Ian Forsythe University of Leicester.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 04 December 2006, 16:30-17:30

GREY MATTER(S)

Annual Adrian Lecture. Host: Wolfram Schultz

Prof. Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg Germany.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 27 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE NON-LINEAR: CHARACTERISING AUDITORY CORTICAL RESPONSES TO COMPLEX SOUNDS

Host: Andrew Crawford

Dr. Jennifer Linden Ear Institute London.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 20 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

CORTICAL CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN HUMAN PREMOTOR, MOTOR AND PARIETAL CORTEX EXPLORED WITH TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION

Host: Steve Edgley

Prof. John Rothwell Institute of Neurology London.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 13 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

A MOTOR CORTICAL NETWORK FOR VISUALLY GUIDED GRASP IN PRIMATES

Host: Wolfram Schultz

Prof. Roger Lemon Institute of Neurology London.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 06 November 2006, 16:30-17:30

THE ANALYSIS OF VISUAL MOTION

Host: Horace Barlow

Prof. Tony Movshon New York University USA.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 23 October 2006, 16:30-17:30

PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF CORTICAL CIRCUITS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

Host: Hugh Robinson

Prof. Sacha Nelson, Brandeis University USA.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

Monday 02 October 2006, 16:30-17:30