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3 upcoming talks and 1048 talks in the archive.

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Egocentric and allocentric representations in cortical structures

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Foster Talks

Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast

UserMiguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Structuring experience in cognitive spaces

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Chromosome dynamics during the cell cycle

UserDaniel Gerlich, IMBA, University of Vienna.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Linking histone H1 to Polycomb repression

UserIva Tchasovnikarova (University of Cambridge).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserSusan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep

User Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France).

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

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Using brain organoids to understand cell fate

UserMadeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Foster Talks

Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease

also hybrid, check this space for upcoming Zoom link!

UserEmma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 07 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets

UserKeita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86076415954?pwd=XTPUrPn3tx4Z1T0ant39Y7HyaVBPtO.1

UserAlberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Anti-obesity drug validation and discovery using human neuronal models

UserFlorian Merkle, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 06 November 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.

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

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

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Regulation of mRNA translation and decay

UserDavid Bartel, Whitehead Institute.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Central representation of protein availability regulates metabolism and behaviour

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Cortical Layers in Context and Learning

UserRandy Bruno, DPAG, University of Oxford.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.

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

Craik Club

A new approach to understanding eye design

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 02 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

UserDr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

UserDr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

UserDr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

UserDr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

The evolution of mammalian X-inactivation

UserJames Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

UserDr Marie Manceau (College De France).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Myelin plasticity - a mechanism for learning and repair?

UserThora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Foster Talks

Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins

Hosted by Milka Sarris and Ewa Paluch

UserNir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Visual information processing in mice – from the retina to cortex

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Chromosome-end protection in pre-implantation development

UserJérôme Déjardin, Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

UserAndreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neuroscience in artistic cartoons

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

HouseSt John's College.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

UserProf Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The enigmatic and integrative claustrum

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

UserRenske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

UserProf Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Representation and computation in visual working memory

UserPaul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

UserKatrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Anterior Insula and Prospect Theory

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

HouseZoom only.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

UserDr Dorit Hockman.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Control limited perceptual decision making

UserAlfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

On the neural language of the cerebellum

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

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

Foster Talks

The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size.

UserElisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

HouseOn Zoom.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair

UserMagdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

HouseZoom only.

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

Foster Talks

Global Views of Mammalian Development

UserJay Shendure, University of Washington.

Househybrid format.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function

UserManohar Bance, University of Cambridge.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 07 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

UserDanijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

HousePhysiology Lecture theatre (and on Zoom) .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

UserRenata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions

UserGilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

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

Foster Talks

Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish

User Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity

UserMarcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neurodegeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model

UserAndras Lakatos, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Control limited perceptual decision making

UserAlfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room and ZOOM.

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

Adrian Lectures

Neural control of innate behaviors and internal states

UserDavid J Anderson, Calthech, Pasadena, CA.

HouseZoom only.

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

Foster Talks

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

UserWendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

UserDanijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 09 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Lectures

How does the brain figure out the structure of problems?

Zoom link to follow

UserTim Behrens, University of Oxford.

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

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

Foster Talks

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

UserRiccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ

User Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

UserFiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits for learning and decision making

This talk is conducted on Zoom only

UserIlana Witten.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

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

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of Aging

UserAnne Brunet, Stanford University.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines

UserDavid Sheppard, Bristol University.

Househybrid format.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit

This talk is conducted on Zoom only

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The social brain in adolescence

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

UserFabian Grabenhorst, PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Foster Talks

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

UserSara Wickström, University of Helsinki.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Foster Talks

Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations

UserAndre Fenton, New York University.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

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)

UserZoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockMonday 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)

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockMonday 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)

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockMonday 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)

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockMonday 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)

UserEd Boyden, MIT Department of Biological Engineering.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Foster Talks

Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up?

User Brian Cox, University of Toronto.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

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)

UserSylvia Wirth.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockMonday 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)

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockMonday 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.

UserJohn Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland .

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockMonday 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.

UserAlexandra Battaglia Mayer - SAPIENZA - Università di Roma.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Foster Talks

TBC

UserKevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge.

HouseLive Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

UserStefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

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

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Where does value come from?

Host: Wolfram Schultz

UserChris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits

Host: Sue Jones

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

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Blood is thicker than water

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

HouseSt John's College Lightfoot Room.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale

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

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

UserDr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids

UserProfessor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockMonday 01 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

UserDr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The mechanics and biophysics of getting in touch

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserProf Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

UserDr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

UserProfessor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

UserKate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

UserRobin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

UserProfessor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

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

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila

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

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

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

Foster Talks

The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation

UserJames Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

UserProfessor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

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

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Neural progenitors and neural tube defects.

UserAndy Copp, University College, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Visual categorization of simple stimuli

UserProfessor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University.

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

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"

UserProfessor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil.

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

UserDr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms

UserProfessor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

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

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniqueness

UserTara L. White, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination.

UserRobin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

UserDr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex

UserDr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

37th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProfessor Kim Nasmyth; Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 02 July 2018, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis

UserJohn B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A..

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

ClockTuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork

UserProfessor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

UserMehrdad Jazayeri.

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

ClockTuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Craik Club

Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains

UserProfessor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas.

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

UserMilena Bonte, University of Maastricht.

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

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

TODAY Foster Talk - Integrin-associated adhesion complexes and their role in mechanotransduction

UserDr Christof Ballestrem, Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, University of Manchester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

UserHernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

UserMadeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates.

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi

UserDr Janine Mendola (McGill).

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

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain

UserDr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford.

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

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

UserBrian Metscher (University of Vienna).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

UserDr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

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

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

UserDr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University.

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

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

UserDr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside.

HouseNick Mackintosh Seminar Room, second floor, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

UserAssociate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex

UserDr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford).

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

ClockMonday 26 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair

UserProfessor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Craik Club

Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man.

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

UserProfessor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham.

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

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

"The koniocellular visual pathway"

UserDr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

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

ClockTuesday 21 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth

UserProfessor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

36th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Margaret Goodell; Prof. Paul Lehner.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

“How does melanopsin help us to see?“

UserDr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester.

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

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer

UserProfessor Paul Martin, University of Bristol.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain

UserProfessor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

UserJohannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

"Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing"

UserProfessor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute).

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

ClockThursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decoding

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

UserAlan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania).

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

ClockFriday 16 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perception

The host for this talk is Zoë Kourtzi (zk240@cam.ac.uk)

UserDr Lynne Kiorpes (NYU).

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

ClockWednesday 14 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

One day meeting on vision and neuroscience

In the Craik Club tradition, the administrative arrangements for this meeting are minimal. There is no registration fee. However, so that we can cater appropriately (and also for security reasons), we do ask you to sign up at http://doodle.com/poll/hrd

UserOne day meeting on vision and neuroscience.

HouseDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience: Physiology Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 12 December 2016, 10:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear

UserProfessor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans

UserDr Martin How, Bristol University.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

35th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Oliver Rando; Dr Francois Spitz.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockFriday 04 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

34th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Todd MacFarlan (NIH); Dr Elizasbeth Bayne (Edinburgh).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Learning flights in bumblebees

UserDr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Attention filters for features

UserProfessor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine.

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

ClockMonday 18 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Wings inform: mechanosensing in insect flight control.

The host for this talk is Paloma Gonzalez Bellido

UserTom Daniel (U. Washington, USA).

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

ClockWednesday 06 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency

UserProf Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

33rd Epigenetics Club Seminar

Please note the new time and location

UserDr Peter Rugg-Gunn (The Babraham Institute); Dr Ross Waller (Department of Biochemistry).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Perception as a closed-loop convergence process

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location

UserEhud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. For directions see http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Craik Club

“Why are rods more sensitive than cones?”

UserProfessor Gordon Fain (UCLA and PDN).

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

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"Hijacking of NMDA receptor signalling by tumors"

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

UserChristopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Flight, flow and gaze control: Design principles of fly stabilization reflexes

UserProfessor Holger G. Krapp, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College, London.

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

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Michael Strkyer, UCSF.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Natural statistics and human perception of shape and gloss

The host for this talk is Dr Andrew Welchman

UserWendy J. Adams, Southampton University.

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

ClockThursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

32nd Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge); Dr Petra Hajkova (Imperial College, London).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Colour perception in synaesthesia

UserProfessor Katsuaki Sakata, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan.

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

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"Function and modulation of sensory TRP channels"

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

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

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

31st Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Prof. Antoine Peters (University of Basel, Switzerland); Dr Skirmantas Kriacionis (Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual information

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

UserProf. Karl Gegenfurtner.

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

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

30th Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Prof. Ryan Lister (The University of Western Australia); Prof. Doug Higgs (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

29th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA); Prof. Craig Pikaard (Dept of Biology & Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Foster Talks

Concept cells

UserProf Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

eph25's list

Placental adaptation: the role of fetal nutrient demand

UserDr Mark Dilworth, University of Manchester.

HouseAddenbrooke's CS Seminar Room 6.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Methods and mechanisms of motion dazzle

UserAnna Hughes, PDN Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The Achilles' heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system

UserProfessor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress

UserProfessor Dino Giussani - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions

UserProf Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

UserDr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Career Stories

UserDr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time

UserProfessor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Craik Club

Visual perceptual learning: A new perspective

The host for this meeting is Professor Zoë Kourtzi

UserProfessor Cong Yu, Peking University.

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

ClockFriday 21 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

**Out-of-Term Neuroscience Seminar** Cell Biological Insights into Parkinson’s Disease and ADHD

UserProfessor Morgan Sheng, Vice President (Neuroscience & Molecular Biology), Genentech .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

28th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. John Rinn; Dr Sarah Teichmann.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 16 June 2015, 18:00-19:00

Foster Talks

Extreme Threats - GL Brown Prize Lecture 2015, The Physiological Society

UserProfessor Mike Tipton, Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

UserChristen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Life Study – identifying pathways to health in early life

UserProfessor Carol Dezateux, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Life Study, UCL Institute of Child Health.

HouseAddenbrooke’s Clinical School Seminar Room 3 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Making, breaking and directing polarity during neural lumen formation and neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryo

UserProfessor Jon Clarke, King's College London, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neuroimmune interactions in early development and the biological embedding of health disparities

UserProfessor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Perceptual Organization of Shape

UserDr James Elder, York University, Toronto.

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

ClockFriday 17 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Role of vascular growth factors in pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor David Bates, Division of Cancer and Stem Cells, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham .

HouseBryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Visual information processing and its role in fly and cephalopod behaviour.

UserDr Trevor Wardill, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction

UserProfessor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Bo Jacobsson, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gotenburg Sweden.

HouseAddenbrooke’s F&G 5 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain

UserDr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

UserVahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix

UserDr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

27th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Sarah Elderkin; Dr Daniel Zilberman.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi

UserProfessor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg.

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

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

26th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Déborah Bourc'his; Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Foster Talks

Self-Organisation of Pluripotent Cells in the Mouse Embryo

UserProfessor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience & Gurdon Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

UserEllen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Preeclampsia research and follow-up in Utrecht

UserProfessor Arie Franx, Head of Obstetrics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands.

HouseBryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fronto-subcortical Circuits in Cognition & Emotion: Modulation by Serotonin, Dopamine and Glutamate

UserDr Hannah Clarke, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cell Migration & Gradient Sensing: Lessons from Zebrafish Neutrophils

UserDr Milka Sarris, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience / Cambridge Immunology Network.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach

UserProfessor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Fading and Filling-in

UserProfessor Lothar Spillmann, Freiburg.

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

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular Disease

UserProfessor David Paterson, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The neuroeconomics of complex social valuation

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

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

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

Foster Talks

A Deadly Game of “Tag”: Insect Aerial Predation as a Model for Sensorimotor Processing

UserDr. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

25th Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Greg Hannon; Dr Michaela Frye.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

Color Transformations Across the Life Span: Two Hypotheses about Modulation by Light

UserProfessor John S. Werner, University of California, Davis.

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

ClockWednesday 01 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesis

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert

UserWei Ji Ma (New York University).

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

ClockTuesday 30 September 2014, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Dave Natale, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Calgary.

HouseBryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 15 September 2014, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep Time and Modern Brains

Please contact the organiser, Liria Masuda-Nakagawa (lm546) if you would like to meet Professor Strausfeld after the seminar.

UserProfessor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment..

ClockFriday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

The Reward Prediction Error of Dopamine Neurons: What information does it convey and how is it generated?

UserDr. Christopher D. Fiorillo - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST - Daejeon, Korea.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception.

UserProf Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) .

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activity

UserDr. Shankar Srinivas - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics - University of Oxford.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction

UserProf. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease

UserProfessor David Eisner - Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in Mammals

UserDr. Duncan Odom - Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute at University of Cambridge..

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

UserHannah Long (University of Oxford).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects

UserKatherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL).

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

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

UserJohn Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states

UserShahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

UserBenjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of lymphocyte development and activation by RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNA

UserDr Martin Turner; Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

UserGünter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Twenty-third Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Maria-Elena Torres Padilla, Dr Robert Schneider.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 18:00-19:00

Foster Talks

Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity

UserDr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organization

Host: Professor Zoë Kourtzi

UserDr Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

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

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition

UserProf Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The different perceptual worlds in which we live

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation

UserDr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

UserPatrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Ten Ways To A Better Brain

UserSimon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

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

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Ralf Dechend, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

UserMichel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensions

UserProfessor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute).

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

ClockTuesday 28 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The first steps in vision: computation and repair.

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Dendritic Potassium Channel Regulation by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP)

UserDr HyeYoung Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California in San Francisco.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Remodeling the prepartum cervix: do macrophages open the gate for parturition?

UserProfessor Steve Yellon Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor Centre for Reproductive Health University of Edinburgh, Professor of Physiology and Associate Director Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine .

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

All for one and one for all: single-cell properties in the service of circuit-level computations

UserDr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brain

UserDr. B. M. Harvey, University of Utrecht.

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

ClockWednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Making a fetus grow and the consequences of getting it wrong

UserDr Jacqueline Wallace Rowett Institute of Health and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen .

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments)

UserDr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

UserGáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Peripheral Pain Mechanisms

UserJohn Wood, University College Londaon (UCL) .

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

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

Craik Club

The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light

UserDr Juliette McGregor, University of Bristol.

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

ClockFriday 01 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease

UserDr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Title to be confirmed

UserChristian Lohmann, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 18:00-19:30

Foster Talks

Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer

UserProf Paul Martin. School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis

UserProf Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning

UserDr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

TBC

UserMegan Holmes, Professor of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Edinburgh University.

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

CANCELLED!

Talk will be given at the next session

UserJosef Kittler, University College London.

HouseMax Perutz Lecture Theatre, New MRC-LMB (Addenbrooke's site).

ClockMonday 15 April 2013, 18:00-19:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

All Welcome! Models and modelling approaches for pregnancy research

UserProfessor Michael Taggart, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University.

HouseHodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

Title to be confirmed

UserJuan Burrone, King's College London.

HouseGurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Imaging Tools To Reverse Engineer The Brain

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures

UserProfessor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

ALL WELCOME! The placental renin-angiotensis system: an old system with a new look

UserProfessor Broughton Pipkin, Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Physiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, City Hospital, Nottingham.

HouseAddenbrooke’s Seminar Room 8 (in the Clinical School).

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future

UserProfessor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

UserSteffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila

UserDr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London..

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

A Year at the Synapse: where Pre meets Post

"The presynaptic side of synapse formation" & TBC

UserChristine Holt (PDN) & Greg Jefferis (MRC-LMB).

HouseGurdon Institute Tearoom, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Foster Talks

Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient Mice

UserDr. Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera. UCL Institute of Child Health.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders

UserProfessor Philippa Saunders. University of Ediburgh. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Individual differences in human perception

UserDr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA.

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

ClockMonday 07 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Sixteenth Epigenetic Club Seminar

UserProf. Amanda Fisher; Dr Jonathan Mill.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2012, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

UserSiegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

An as-if model of economic decision making

UserDr Ian Krajbich. Department of Economics, University of Zurich .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Lecture Cancelled

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

UserEve Marder. Brandeis University, Mass. USA.

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

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

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The LKB1-AMPK signalling pathway and the regulation of breathing by hypoxia: metabolic control at the whole body level?

UserProfessor A. Mark Evans, Centre for Integrative Physiology, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Decoding the Notch signal

UserSarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 13:15-13:55

Foster Talks

Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory Networks

UserProfessor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Recent advances in gestational trophoblastic disease

UserProf. Neil Sebire, Professor of Paediatric and Developmental Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital / Institute of Child Health.

HouseAddenbrooke's Seminar Room 7 (Clinical School).

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

UserKristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants

UserDr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see?

UserDenis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC).

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

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour

UserDr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Colour Vision

Please note this talk is on Monday

UserProf. Mohamed Sobhy, University of Kent.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo

UserVeronique Azuara, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 13:15-13:55

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Cambridge Neuroscience Technical Lecture in association with Life Technologies

Registration is FREE but is required and available at http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/events/event.php?permalink=1b46c26790

UserDr David Bourdon, Life Technologies.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The Promises of a Polychrome Retina

UserProfessor Bill Harris. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University .

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Chromosome aneuploidy in the human preimplantation embryo

UserPROFESSOR ALAN HANDYSIDE The London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre.

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Perception of motion blur during eye movement

UserProfessor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry.

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

ClockWednesday 25 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Fourteenth Epigenetic Club Seminar

UserProf Wendy Bickmore (MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh); Dr Asifa Akhtar (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 July 2012, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

Vision for reading

UserProfessor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

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

ClockThursday 28 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Thirteenth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Richard Carthew (Northwestern University, USA); Prof. Olivier Voinnet (ETH Zurich, Switzerland).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

A new look at human motor control

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

UserDr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

UserMatthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Mechanism regulating neural differentiation

UserProf. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

CTR Seminar Series

Sex specific differences in placental glucocorticoid sensitivity

UserVicki Clifton, University of Adelaide.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

phm28's list

Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours

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

HouseHodgkin-Huxley Seminat Room, Physiology Building.

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

Foster Talks

Epo's impact on exercise performance

UserProf. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders

UserDr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

"Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised.

UserEero Simoncelli, New York University.

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

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The genome-wide hunt for pre-eclampsia genes

UserDr Linda Morgan, Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Nottingham.

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 04 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Twelth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. Azim Surani (The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge); Prof. Sir David Baulcombe (Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

UserDiethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo

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

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

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

Craik Club

"Genetic correlates of visual biases"

UserPatrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.

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

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance

UserProf. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Identification and Targeting of Hypoxia Tolerance Mechanisms - from Critters to Cancer

UserProfessor Thomas Gorr, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development

UserProf. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Eleventh Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserProf. Robin Allshire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh); Prof. Jerzy Paszkowski (University of Geneva, Switzerland).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

UserMandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Decision-making in animal collectives

UserDr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Trophoblast invasion and spiral artery transformation in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor Fiona Lyall, Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health Institute of Medical Genetics Yorkhill Glasgow.

HouseAddenbrooke's ATC Seminar Room 3.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brain maps for space

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

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

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

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Tenth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Edith Heard (Institute Curie, Paris); Prof. Bas van Steensel (The Netherlands Cancer Institute).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Craik Club

Colour Categories in Language and Thought

UserDr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex.

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

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius

User G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon, M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg..

HouseCavonius Centre, Stephen Hawking Building, Harvey Court, West Road.

ClockWednesday 11 January 2012, 10:00-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Early embryo environment and implications for health into adulthood'

UserProfessor Tom Fleming, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2011, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

UserStefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Oscillations and Neural Syntax

Annual Lecture

UserGyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers, Newark, USA.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

UserEvelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The importance of nature (as opposed to nurture) in the development of cortical interneurons

UserDr Simon Butt, Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetic, University of Oxford.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

'Genome wide analysis of placental DNA and RNA in first trimester maternal plasma by massively parallel sequencing: current and future possibilities'

UserDr Cees Oudejans, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

UserGregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Seeing in the dark: single-photon signals in the retina

UserProfessor John Robson, Gonville and Caius College.

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

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing

UserProf. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Dynamic aspects of the function and stoichiometry of ion channel complexes

Note unusual week day (Friday)

UserProf. Yoshihiro Kubo, National Institute for Physiological Science, Japan.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues.

UserProf. Enrico Coen, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Ninth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Gavin Kelsey (Babraham Institute, Cambridge); Dr Fred Berger, National University of Singapore).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 18:00-19:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Imaging in Preeclampsia

UserProfessor Basky Thilaganathan, Director, Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

HouseATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Craik Club

The Problem with Colour

We regret that the speaker has had cancel this talk for family reasons

UserDr. Simon J. Cropper, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.

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

ClockWednesday 05 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modern

UserProfessor Ian Howard, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto.

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

ClockMonday 12 September 2011, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Developmental origins of obesity

UserProfessor Lucilla Poston, Director - Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King’s College London.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 September 2011, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Eigth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDr Jeannie Lee (Massachussetts General Hospital, USA); Dr Thomas Jenuwein (Max Plank Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics, Germany).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 19 July 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Seventh Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Prof. Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory); Prof. Tony Kouzarides (The Gurdon Institute).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2011, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

Decision-making computations within prefrontal cortex: so many interesting neuronal signals but how do we make sense of them?

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

UserDr. Steve Kennerley, UCL, Institute of Neurology.

HouseSecond-floor seminar room, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Visual cortical architecture and subjective perception

UserDr. Sam Schwarzkopf, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neural Imaging.

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

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Stemming Vision Loss Using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing

UserProf Pete Coffey, Inst of Ophthalmology, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology

UserDr
 Brian 
Billups, 
Dept of 
Pharmacology, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Understanding and optimizing human motor learning

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

UserDr. Amy Bastian, John Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Is Heparin a placental anticoagulant?

UserProfessor John Kingdom, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Foster Talks

Calcium channels of vascular remodelling

UserProf David J Beech, Inst of Membrane & Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Univ of Leeds.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The adaption of rod photoreceptors to light

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Loopy Lungs in Alligators

UserProf Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Maternal signalling to the villous placenta

UserProfessor John Aplin, Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group, the University of Manchester.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Craik Club

Navigational guidance systems in the human brain

The host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept.

UserHugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience.

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

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Intrinsically irregular spiking in a class of cortical inhibitory interneuron

UserDr Hugh Robinson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Sixth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserWilliam Kelly (Emory University, USA); Alexei Aravin (California Institute of Technology, USA).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 April 2011, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

'The locus of the neural mechanism underlying the Craik Effect'

This talk is being sponsored by St John's College: Kenneth Craik was a Fellow of St John's and described the 'Craik effect' in his Fellowship Dissertation

UserProfessor Steve Shevell.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockFriday 25 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Making sense of scents, the mammalian olfactory system

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons

UserDr
 Karri 
Lamsa,
 Dept 
of 
Pharmacology, 
Univ 
of 
Oxford.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets?

UserDr 
John 
Coates, 
Judge 
Business 
School, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Evolution of Placental Function?

UserProfessor Anthony Carter, Faculty of Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Craik Club

Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs

UserDr Hannah Smithson, University of Durham.

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

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Physical aspects of collective cell migration

UserDr 
Alexandre 
Kabla, 
Dept 
of 
Engineering, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Conserved principles of movement generation

The host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept., m.lengyel@eng.cam.ac.uk

UserMark Churchland, Stanford University.

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

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thing

UserProf
. Anne 
Cooke, 
Dept 
of 
Pathology, Univ of 
Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

How form shapes function; from sensory neurones to the organisation of the primate cortex

UserDr 
Mikko 
Juusola, 
Dept 
of 
Biomedical 
Science,
 Univ 
of 
Sheffield.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Mechanisms of spiral artery remodelling

UserProfessor Guy Whitley, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, St George’s University of London.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

What it takes to become an auditory relay synapse

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

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

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

Foster Talks

Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis

UserDr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neurons feel the force ‐ Mechanosensitivity in the nervous system

UserDr Kristian Franze, Dept of Physics & Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Fifth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDuncan Odom (Cancer Research UK); Jeffrey Chen (University of Texas at Austin).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 18 January 2011, 18:00-19:00

Craik Club

'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light'

UserProfessor Glen Jeffery, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

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

ClockTuesday 18 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural Circuits for rapid perceptual decisions under uncertainty

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

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

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

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

From Stromatolites to Pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London.

HouseATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s (refreshments 4.30pm, talk at 5.00pm).

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Fourth Epigenetics Club Seminar

UserDavid Allis (Rockefeller Univ.); Barbara Meyer (Univ. California).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 18:00-19:00

Foster Talks

Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts

UserProf Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration

UserProf Jeremy Brockes, University College London.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental Physiology: Coming of Age

UserProfessor Colin Sibley, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Foster Talks

Motor circuit dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

UserDr. Wendy Imlach, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Third Epigenetics club seminar

UserProf. Anne Ferguson-Smith (PDN) and Dr Peter Fraser (Babraham Inst.).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

RNA based therapies for neurological and muscle disease

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

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

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

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental microparticles and exosomes: their role in pre-eclampsia

UserProfessor Ian Sargent, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford.

HouseATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s (refreshments 4.30pm, talk at 5.00pm).

ClockWednesday 06 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Second Epigenetics club seminar

UserProf Julian Sale and Prof Amanda Fisher, MRC.

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 13 July 2010, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

The inaugural meeting of the Cambridge Epigenetics Club

UserProf. Caroline Dean (John Innes Institute, Norwich) & Prof. Adrian Bird (University of Edinburgh).

HousePhysiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 18:00-19:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental metabolism in early and late onset pre-eclampsia

Refreshments at 16.30, presentation commences at 17.00

UserMatts Olovsson, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden.

HouseSeminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge..

ClockMonday 24 May 2010, 16:30-18:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Functional role of uterine NK cells in early pregnancy

UserDr Judith Bulmer, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University.

HouseATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 16:00-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The role of cyclic decidualization of human endometrium in determining pregnancy outcome

UserProfessor Jan Brosens, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 April 2010, 16:00-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The regulation of protein synthesis in health and disease

UserProfessor Chris Proud, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.

HouseATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

Foster Talks

‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’

GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE

UserProf Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

UserSebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

“Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time”

UserTatiana Selchenkova, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg.

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

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

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.

UserProf. Christine Holt, PDN..

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

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

Foster Talks

Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’

UserProf Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

UserBarry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Why (and how) did the amino acid cross the placenta?

UserDr Rohan Lewis, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton.

HouseBryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

UserDavid Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalry

Host: Jenny Bosten, Department of Experimental Psychology

UserDr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University.

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

ClockFriday 04 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

A systems approach to cellular shape and motion

UserProfessor Jonathon Howard, Director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Obesity and insulin resistance: Lessons from human genetics

UserProf. Stephen O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

UserDorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London.

HouseATC Seminar rooms A&B, Addenbrooke’s.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 16:30-18:00

Craik Club

Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidance

Host: Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department

UserProfessor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL.

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

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”.

Annual Adrian Lecture

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

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

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

Craik Club

Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imaging

UserDr. Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool.

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

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserSteve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

'Understanding the MRC's failure to fund Edwards' and Steptoe's work that led to the birth of Louise Brown

UserMartin Johnson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cancelled

UserEnrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

UserArtyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies

UserDavid Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIF

UserProfessor Randall Johnson (University of California).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 28 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoos

UserDr. Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina

UserDr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

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

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the world

UserProf. David H. Foster, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester.

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

ClockMonday 30 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

UserProfessor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

HouseWilliam Harvey.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

UserRahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomains

UserClive Orchard, University of Bristol.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

UserCarsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

RNA-based guidance in axons

UserChristine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord Injury

UserJames Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

New insights into neurogenic hypertension

UserJulian Paton, University of Bristol.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Perception, action and uncertainty

UserProf. Laurence Maloney, Department of Psychology, NYU.

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

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it?

UserDr Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University.

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

ClockMonday 12 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The Perception of Colour Seen in Context

UserDr Steve Shevell, University of Chicago.

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

ClockTuesday 06 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

UserMagda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention

UserMani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Going with the flow: Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybees

UserProfessor Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Queensland Brain Institute.

HouseLecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Disease, experiment and physiology

UserJames Fitzsimons, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Measuring osmotic modulation of synaptic responses

UserRichard Dyball, University of Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish

UserCatherina Becker, University of Edinburgh.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

UserAngela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Recent developments in the chemical senses: a tutorial for visual and auditory scientists

UserProfessor Barry Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge.

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

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

UserGáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration

UserMichael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

UserJeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

"The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye"

UserProfessor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University.

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

ClockThursday 17 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and Features

UserGeorge Sperling, University of California, Irvine.

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

ClockWednesday 16 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next

UserDr. Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne.

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

ClockTuesday 15 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging

UserScott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockThursday 26 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Grandmother cells in the human brain?

UserProfessor Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockWednesday 25 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The Economy of the Mind

Rearranged from March 3

UserProf. Michael Platt, Duke University.

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

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

Foster Talks

To Cross or Not To Cross? Transcriptional Control of Axonal Pathfinding Choices.

UserDr Sara I. Wilson, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

UserUrs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

HouseAustin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila

(Rearranged from 28 January)

UserProf. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

UserCatherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

UserAndreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Spatial vision in the periphery

UserProfessor Roger Anderson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Stem cell renewal and lineage selection in mammalian epidermis.

UserDr Fiona Watt, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

UserAdam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

UserJessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial vision

This meeting marks the fortieth anniversary of the classic paper by Campbell and Robson (1968). The scientific meeting will be followed by a wine reception.

UserProfessor Mark Georgeson.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 16 April 2008, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

UserGerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury

UserDr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identity

UserDr Clare Baker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-16:30

Craik Club

Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008: How far have we come?

UserDr. Peter Thompson, University of York.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Early intracellular Abeta amyloid pathology and its relevance to Alzheimer's therapeutics

UserDr Claudio Cuello (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic Icons

UserDr. Srimant P. Tripathy, Department of Optometry, University of Bradford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

UserJordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia.

UserDr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

The secret life of neural stem cells

UserDr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope?

UserDr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair.

UserDr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Chromatin and pluripotency

UserDr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Horses for courses in intrauterine programming

UserDr Abby Fowden (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Reward and uncertainty

UserDr Wolfram Schultz (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-16:30

Craik Club

Normalizing colour vision

UserMichael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockThursday 10 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

UserAndreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The machinery of colour vision

UserProfessor P. Lennie.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockFriday 07 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

The Annual Adrian Lecture

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

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

UserGuillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

UserBenoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Teenagers: A Natural History

UserDr David Bainbridge, PDN.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

UserTom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Understanding actions.

UserDr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning?

UserProf. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

UserMarcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegans

UserDr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 04 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

UserAnjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

UserAlistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

UserWim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Craik Club

Decoding consciousness

UserGeraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The effect of color and motion changes on attentional capture

UserAdrian von Mühlenen, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockThursday 07 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

UserPeter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

How do we perceive motion direction?

UserLinda Bowns, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 05 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesia

UserGary Bargary, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

The vital role of kissing in reproduction

UserDr. Bill Colledge, PDN.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 16:30-17:00

Craik Club

The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs Genes

UserRuth Hogg, University of Melbourne.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockThursday 10 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

UserAndreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“PHEROMONAL SIGNALLING IN MICE”

UserProfessor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory, Downing site.

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

Foster Talks

An interaction between the Trk and EphA tyrosine kinase families controls retinotectal topography

Host: Matthieu Vermeren

UserDr. Uwe Drescher, King's College London.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

“A HOLISTIC MODEL OF BINAURAL HEARING IN MAMMALS”

Host: Andrew Crawford

UserProfessor David McAlpine Ear Institute London.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Craik Club

On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordination

UserJörn Diedrichsen, University of Wales, Bangor.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockFriday 27 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Experience Dependent Mechanisms of Visual System Development

Host: Bill Harris

UserProf. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 April 2007, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Visual discrimination of interacting human agents

UserPeter Neri, City University, London.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Colour Vision Meeting

UserSpeakers include: R. A. Weale, D. van Norren, J. Bowmaker, H. Cooper, G. Jordan, H. Smithson, J. Barbur and D. Tolhurst.

HouseGonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 04 April 2007, 11:00-17:00

Craik Club

Date and Title to be confirmed

This talk has been canceled/deleted

UserStephen Scott, Queen's University, Canada.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockMonday 19 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

UserAleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Note change of venue

UserDr. Sarah Bray, PDN.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Imaging neurulation in the zebrafish embryo

Note change of venue

UserDr. Richard Adams, PDN.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 16:00-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Sweet dreams: new pathways of glucose-sensing in the brain

Host: Richard Dyball

UserDr. Denis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

UserPhil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Plasticity of neuron to astrocyte signalling in the cerebellum

Host: Steve Edgley

UserDr. Tom Bellamy, Babraham Institute.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

UserPauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA

Host: Wolfram Schultz

UserProf. Paul Bolam, University of Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Epithelial Physiology: facts, fantasies and fun

The Physiological Society 2006 G.L. Brown Prize Lecture

UserProf. Richard Boyd, University of Oxford.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 15 February 2007, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

UserSvante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HouseSeminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

Craik Club

Biophysics of wiring the brain

UserAldo Faisal, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

THE HUNGRY BRAIN: ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND NEURAL FUNCTION

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Selectivity in the expression of pre- and post-synaptic mechanisms in cortical circuits

Note change of time; Host: Sue Jones

UserProf. Alex Thomson, School of Pharmacy, London.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 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

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

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Modelling of primary processes in Drosophila phototransduction

UserDr. Marten Postma, Hardie Lab, PDN.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-17:00

Foster Talks

E.solo and E.pluribus: two new experimental organisms

UserProf. Dennis Bray, PDN.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:00-16:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

THE CEREBELLAR BASIS OF MOTOR LEARNING

Host: Steve Edgley

UserProf. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen, Germany.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits

Host: Kate Lewis

UserProf. Steve Wilson, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, UCL.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 18 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

BEFORE AND AFTER GRANDMOTHER CELLS

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

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Craik Club

A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound

UserMichael Shadlen, Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockFriday 15 December 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect

UserJon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockThursday 14 December 2006, 17:00-18:00

Craik Club

Motion Perception - from visual arts to neural processing

UserJohannes M. Zanker, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 12 December 2006, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Domains of the electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 that contribute to function, expression, and ion translocation

Additional Talk: Host - Christof Schwiening

UserProf. Mark Bevensee; Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

HouseBryan Matthews Room, Physiological Laboratory.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

GREY MATTER(S)

Annual Adrian Lecture. Host: Wolfram Schultz

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

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Dynamics of gamma oscillations in the neocortex

UserDr Hugh Robinson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Functions, mechanisms and evolution of genomic imprinting

UserDr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The chemical synapse goes electric: GPCRs, voltage and beyond

Additional Talk: Host - Martyn Mahaut-Smith

UserProfs. Itzchak & Hanna Parnas; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activity

UserSimon R. Schultz, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

Motor neuron degeneration and legs at odd angles

Host: Bill Colledge

UserProf. Elizabeth Fisher.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'?

UserDavid Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

How does the cytoskeleton regulate cell shape during morphogenesis?

UserDr Katja Roper, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

New brain cells for old - neurogenesis in the adult brain: what happens and does it matter?

UserProf. Joe Herbert, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

A MOTOR CORTICAL NETWORK FOR VISUALLY GUIDED GRASP IN PRIMATES

Host: Wolfram Schultz

UserProf. Roger Lemon Institute of Neurology London.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Programming the blood & cardiovascular system in Xenopus & zebrafish embryos

Host: Sarah Bray

UserProf. Roger Patient, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia

UserDr Matthieu Vermeren, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neuronal excitability is controlled by pH - but the pH of what?

UserSchwiening Lab, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal function

UserSimon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

THE ANALYSIS OF VISUAL MOTION

Host: Horace Barlow

UserProf. Tony Movshon New York University USA.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Foster Talks

Roles of feedback regulation of signaling in kidney and brain development

Host: Clare Baker

UserProf. Ivor Mason, King's College London.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Chipping away at genome regulation

UserDr Rob White, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

(feed)-Back to the Future: (feed)-Forward thinking on the interplay between Golgi cells and granule cells in the cerebellum

UserDr Tahl Holtzman, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

From sodium pump to calcium pump - going round in circles?

UserProf. Roger Thomas, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF CORTICAL CIRCUITS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

Host: Hugh Robinson

UserProf. Sacha Nelson, Brandeis University USA.

HouseLecture Theatre, Physiological Laboratory.

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

Craik Club

Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cells

UserTrevor Lamb, Division of Neuroscience JCSMR, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australian National University, Canberra.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockWednesday 16 August 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Absolute Pitch: Genetics & Perception

UserJane Gitschier, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockMonday 03 July 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired people

UserBrian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 30 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Learning and recall of visuomotor transformations

UserJohn Krakauer, Columbia University.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

On the Neural Machinery for Face Processing

UserWinrich Freiwald, Centers for Advanced Imaging & Cognitive Sciences, Bremen University; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 04 April 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes

UserAlexandre Pouget, University of Rochester.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 21 March 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRI

UserKathy Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockThursday 16 March 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neurons

UserSalome Antolin, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockThursday 23 February 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The Trefethen Effect

UserDavid J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Moving Colours

UserAnnette Werner, Centre for Vision, University of Tbingen.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockWednesday 11 January 2006, 13:00-14:00

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