CBU Monday Methods Meeting

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

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

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Akantsha Jain-Unveiling the choreography of human brain development;Yamini Ravichandran-Topology changes of the regenerating Hydra define actin nematic defects as mechanical organizers of morphogenesis

Akantsha Jain,Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland; Yamini Ravichandran,University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Online.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific

Prof Sonya Clegg.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

ARClub Talks

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

Rebecca Knickmeyer, Michigan State University.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

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

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

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

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Reconstructing the hominin tree

Dr Suzy White, University of Reading.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

Tessa Dekker (UCL).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Squirrels of the British Isles: Red, Grey, and Black!

Helen McRobie, Anglia Ruskin University.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

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

David Hughes, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

Zangwill Club

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Juan Alonso-Serra -Hydraulic patterns in plant development; Ana Patricia Ramos-Forming an Eye: from cell behaviour to tissue shape changes.

Juan Alonso-Serra,University of Helsinki; Ana Patricia Ramos, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal .

Online.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ancestral Sight

Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

Prof Jeffrey W. Dalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

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

Online.

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London.

Online.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

Henry Stanier, Monitoring & Research Officer at the BCN Wildlife Trust.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger, title TBC

Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

Zangwill Club

Autonomy as an Engine for Wellbeing, Engagement, and Student Performance: A Gamification Approach"

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Nathan J. Emery PhD FHEA, Dept of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

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

Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae

Paula Elomaa,University of Helsinki .

Online.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

Chaucer Club

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

Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Field Studies 2024

Duncan Mackay and Jonathan Shanklin.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Deciphering how complex organ form emerges in development

Timothy Saunders.

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisiting the paradigm of African ape and human origins

Prof David Begun, University of Toronto.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang

Zhang, MIT.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Health and nutrition among the Maya

Dr Ines Varela-Silva, Loughborough University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London.

Online.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Forests

Charles Turner.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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

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

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, title TBC

Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Fengzhu Xiong.

in person at LMB and Online.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club - 1925 to 2025: a century of bird watching

Bob Jarman.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Maria Maiarú, title TBC

Dr Maria Maiarú, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

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

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

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Morphogenesis Seminar Series

From active surfaces to evo-devo-mechanobiology

Guillaume Salbreux, University of Geneva, Switzerland .

in person at Sainsbury Laboratory and online.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

From known to unknown? Investigating Pleistocene landscapes at Happisburgh’

Dr Rachel Bynoe, University of Southampton.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

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

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania.

Online.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting 2025

Please note earlier 6.30pm start

The President and Officers.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:30-18:55

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

Jim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 19:00-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

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

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr James Reading, title TBC

James Reading, University College London.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

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

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

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

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Artefacts in MEG data

Dr Golan Karvat, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

osl-ephys: A Python toolbox for the analysis of electrophysiology data

Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK .

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Mac Shine, University of Sydney.

Online.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 10:00-11:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

Online.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:00-16:00