Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Towards understanding adaptive intelligence

Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 18 November 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices

Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 28 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours

Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS), University of Edinburgh .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 21 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Networks in action: the crucial role of dynamics in networks neuroscience

Petra Vértes, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 14 October 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Egocentric and allocentric representations in cortical structures

Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S.A..

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 29 April 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Structuring experience in cognitive spaces

Christian Doeller, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 11 March 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Estradiol feedback on the reproductive neuroendocrine system

Sue Moenter, University of Michigan, U.S.A. .

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86949521310?pwd=ZUZ6WnNMOVZKNGF5QTJkbnJFMGlHZz09.

Monday 04 March 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ANNUAL LECTURE: Saving the Synapse in Development and Alzheimer’s Disease

Carla Shatz, Stanford University, U.S.A. .

Physiology Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cortical integration of vestibular and visual signals for self-motion perception and spatial navigation

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Dept of PDN, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 19 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Using brain organoids to understand cell fate

Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 12 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The Impact of Individual GABA Cells in Developing and Adult Cortex

Rosa Cossart, INMED, Marseille, France.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 05 February 2024, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Christmas Lecture: Wiring the Brain and Local Translation

Christine Holt, PDN, Cambridge .

Old Divinity School, St John's College .

Monday 04 December 2023, 18:30-20:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The many faces of stress: from developmental impacts to stress-related brain disorders

Jeff Dalley, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 27 November 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2

Note unusual time.

Sreedharan Sajikumar, Dept of Physiology, NUS, Singapore.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Buiding, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Anti-obesity drug validation and discovery using human neuronal models

Florian Merkle, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 06 November 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The dynamics of motivation: The neural and computational mechanisms of effort when treated as a cost or a benefit

Matt Apps, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 30 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

From Modulation of Neurons and Small Networks to Climate Change

This talk is via zoom only.

Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A..

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84204498431?pwd=Um1oU284b1YxWThObGw4ZU9XZitWdz09.

Monday 23 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Central representation of protein availability regulates metabolism and behaviour

Clémence Blouet, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and Dept of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 16 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cortical Layers in Context and Learning

Randy Bruno, DPAG, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

Monday 09 October 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Advanced optical approaches to reveal the neural code underlying sensory perception

Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 15 May 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms for credit assignment and model building

Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 20 March 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Myelin plasticity - a mechanism for learning and repair?

Thora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 27 February 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

ADRIAN LECTURE: Region-selective hippocampus contributions to altered cognition in aging

Carol Barnes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A..

Physiology Lecture Theatre + Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Visual information processing in mice – from the retina to cortex

Katrin Franke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, U.S.A.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 13 February 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive embodiment of artificial limbs

Tamar Makin, MRC-CBSU, Cambridge .

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 06 February 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Of odour plumes and synchrotrons - structure and function in neural circuits

Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 30 January 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The paths to compulsion: new insights into the factors that shape the vulnerability to develop compulsive disorders

David Belin, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neuroscience in artistic cartoons

Paul Apicella, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France .

St John's College.

Monday 05 December 2022, 18:30-00:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The enigmatic and integrative claustrum

Adam Packer, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders

Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 07 November 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour

Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and German Primate Center, Göttingen.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 24 October 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Representation and computation in visual working memory

Paul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 17 October 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Anterior Insula and Prospect Theory

Veit Stuphorn, Department of Neuroscience, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A..

Zoom only.

Monday 10 October 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Control limited perceptual decision making

Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

On the neural language of the cerebellum

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 16 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Aversive cognition: inference, learning and control of aversive states in the human brain

Flavia Mancini, Department of Engineering.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 09 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair

Magdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

Zoom only.

Monday 02 May 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cell-type-specific vulnerability, degeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model

András Lakatos, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 25 April 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions

Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 14 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons - dendrites, soma and axons

Zayd Khaliq, NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 07 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neurodegeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model

Andras Lakatos, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 21 February 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Control limited perceptual decision making

Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

Monday 14 February 2022, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Lectures

Neural control of innate behaviors and internal states

David J Anderson, Calthech, Pasadena, CA.

Zoom only.

Monday 07 February 2022, 16:15-19:00

Adrian Lectures

How does the brain figure out the structure of problems?

Zoom link to follow

Tim Behrens, University of Oxford.

Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College and zoom.

Monday 06 December 2021, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

How does the brain figure out the structure of problems?

Tim Behrens.

Zoom link to follow.

Monday 06 December 2021, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits

Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge).

Zoom only. Please see member emails for link..

Monday 29 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits for learning and decision making

Ilana Witten.

Zoom only. Please see member emails for link..

Monday 22 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits for learning and decision making

This talk is conducted on Zoom only

Ilana Witten.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 15 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity

Nathalie Rochefort, Centre for discovery, Brain Sciences, Edinburgh.

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

Monday 08 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity

Nathalie Rochefort.

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

Monday 08 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Using the marmoset prefontal cortex to understand psychiatric symptoms: schizophrenia and hippocampal-prefrontal circuitry

Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn).

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

Monday 01 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 25 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 25 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 25 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit

This talk is conducted on Zoom only

Indira Raman, Dept Neurobiology, Northwestern Univ, Evanston IL.

Online via zoom.

Monday 18 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neuronal heterogeneity and plasticity in the olfactory bulb

Elisa Galliano (University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 11 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The social brain in adolescence

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Functions of the primate amygdala in decision-making and social cognition

Fabian Grabenhorst, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Monday 10 May 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adaptive brain computations for perceptual decisions

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link for this talk (internal only)

Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The real-time formation of the hippocampal cognitive map

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link for this talk (internal only)

Julija Krupic, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Chandelier cells: shining a light on the emergence and plasticity of GABAergic synapses

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link for this talk (internal only)

Juan Burrone ( MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College, London) .

Online via zoom.

Monday 22 February 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Visual learning and attention in mice: behavioural strategies and neural circuit change

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link for this talk (internal only)

Jasper Poort, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Monday 15 February 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing the Brain

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link for this talk (internal only)

Ed Boyden, MIT Department of Biological Engineering.

Online via zoom.

Monday 08 February 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

From visual representation of space to schemas in the primate hippocampus

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link for this talk (internal only)

Sylvia Wirth.

Online via zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Restless engrams: the origin of continually reconfiguring neural representations

Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link for this talk (internal only)

Tim O'Leary, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Monday 25 January 2021, 16:00-17:15

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, 19:00-20:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Two brains in action: Neural mechanisms in frontal and paietal cortex of monkeys

Host: Wolfram Schultz. Please email mkp38@cam.ac.uk for the zoom link if you wish to attend this seminar.

Alexandra Battaglia Mayer - SAPIENZA - Università di Roma.

Online via zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 16:00-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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 Seminars in Neuroscience

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 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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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 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

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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 Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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 Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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 Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Monday 29 October 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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Pre- and postsynaptic NMDA receptors in neocortical synaptic plasticity

Ole Paulsen, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 16:15-17:15

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Zangwill Club

Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimes

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

Dr Daniel Durstewicz, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“PHEROMONAL SIGNALLING IN MICE”

Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology.

Lecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory, Downing site.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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