Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught

Olaf Hauk (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

ARClub Talks

A real-life gift? The practical application of increased perceptual capacity in autism.

Dr Anna Remington, Director, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) UCL Institute of Education, University College London.

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts

Anaïs Rouanet (MRC Biostatistics Unit) .

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 25 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Engineered neural networks as self-organised computational substrates in the healthy and lesioned CNS

Ioanna Sandvig - Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Interference and memory capacity limitations

Ansgar Endress (City University).

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

Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation

Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences

Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Mechanisms of forgetting

Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. A vascular problem?

Steve Gentleman - Imperial College London.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks

Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sameer Jauhar, Senior Research Fellow, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 01 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Sleep for Systems Consolidation

Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Emotion

Caitlin Hitchcock (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 05 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

ARClub Talks

Sensory processing in autism – Core phenotypic status?

Dr. Caroline Robertson, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth University, Director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative.

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

How amyloid pathology induces a long pathological cellular response in the Alzheimer’s brain

Professor Bart De Strooper - Director of UK Dementia Research Institute.

Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise

Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

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

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Cognition in corvids and kids

Nicky Clayton (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Social timing in autism spectrum disorders

Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

William Schaefer, 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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load

John Duncan (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Claire Harwell, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Anthony Cleare, Professor of Psychopharmacology and Affective Disorders, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 15 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion

Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow).

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Escape from pluripotency

Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Making sense of time in the Human mind

Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to give good talks

Tom Manly (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches

Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

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

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Friends become Enemies: DNA Repair and Autophagy Converge to Promote Neurodegeneration

Sherif El-Khamisy - University of Sheffield.

Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Making use of data from the UK Biobank cohort for mental health research

Professor Daniel Smith, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 22 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Chaperone networks coping with protein aggregates and amyloids

Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH).

The Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CIMR, Addenbrooke's Site.

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know

Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

Rogier Kievit (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "Plasticity in neural networks"

Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Atypical neurogenesis and E/I precursor imbalance in autism iPSCs

Dr Dwaipayan Adhya, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scientist, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Jose Gomez-Sanchez.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Julieta Galante, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control

Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading.

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

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 06 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Andrea Cipriani, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford; Associate Director, Research and Development Department, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 December 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"

Professor Givago Souza, University of Belém, Brazil.

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

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Vittoria Bocchi - University of Milan.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr John Perry, Co-leader, Growth and Development Programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 December 2018, 12:30-13:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Zhai, Grace R. University of Miami.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Friday 14 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Keith Martin, University of Cambridge.

TBC.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions

Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University.

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Zanna Clay, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Durham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 17 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow / Mental Health & Wellbeing Academic Centre, Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury

Mark A. Anderson - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles.

IPH large seminar room.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 09 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30