Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain

Dr Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (link given in Abstract).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

CANCELLED (Rescheduled for 18th February 2021) - Towards better interoceptive biomarkers in computational psychiatry

chair: Dr Valerie Voon

Dr Micah Allen, Aarhus University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies

Dr. David Belin.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 08 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing

Matthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Online on Zoom.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

[NEW DATE:11th of December] Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 11 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch.

Online.

Tuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Gut Feelings About the Brain

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the Zoom link for this talk.

John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland .

Online via zoom.

Monday 21 December 2020, 16:00-17:15

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Prof Olaf Sporns.

Online.

Tuesday 12 January 2021, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics

chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The Phenotypic Spectrum of Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants

chair: Dr Shahid Zaman

Dr Kimberly Kendall, Cardiff University .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

TBC

Flora Vaccarino, Yale University.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandra Pitman, University College London .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 28 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can exposure to green space reduce the risk of anxiety and depression among young people aged 14-24 living in urban settings?

Chair: Professor Tamsin Ford

Dr Issy Bray, UWE Bristol.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 04 February 2021, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up?

Brian Cox, University of Toronto.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation

Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

TBC

Roberto Mayor, UCL.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Claire Gillan, Trinity College Dublin .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 18 March 2021, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations

Andre Fenton, New York University.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces.

Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems.

Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00