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

Rational Belief Polarisation: A Bayesian Network Model of Bias Attributions

User David Young (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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User Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Will Greedy, University of Bristol.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

User Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond

User Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London.

Friday 26 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts

User Mike Anderson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Snacks & Drinks! (Postgrads & Postdocs)

User Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Reward Modelling

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User Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Autism Research for Autistic Flourishing

User Liz Pellicano, University College London.

Monday 22 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

The host for this talk is David Belin

User Dr David Dupret (Oxford University).

Friday 19 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

User Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids

User Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB.

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Broad Transcriptomic Dysregulation Occurs Across the Cortex in ASD

User Prof. Michael Gandal, UPenn.

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

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

Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting

User Lili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Civilians on Fire: Moral Injury and Associated Mental Health Symptoms in Ukrainians Under the Russian Invasion

User Larysa Zasiekina (University of Cambridge; Ukrainka Volyn National University).

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Feedback control in the nervous system: from cells and circuits to behaviour

User Dr Timothy O'Leary, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Advanced optical approaches to reveal the neural code underlying sensory perception

User Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts

User Professor Josep Call, University of St Andrews.

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

User Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 12 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour

User Martina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London).

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry

User Sam Power, University of Bristol.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

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

When Is Morality Black and White?

User Joshua D. Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania).

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

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User Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Neural mechanisms for credit assignment and model building

User Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University .

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

Targeting Maladaptive Emotional Memories to Treat Mental Health Disorders: Insights from Rodent Models

User Professor Amy Milton, Department of Psychology.

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

In Our Lifetime! AI, Robotics, and Global Collaboration for Aging Research and Drug Discovery

User Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD.

House Department of Chemistry (Wolfson lecture theatre).

Friday 05 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The DNA revolution and psychology

User Professor Robert Plomin (King's College, London).

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

User Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Decision making without genes?

User Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL.

Friday 05 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

User Aad van der Vaart (Delft).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

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

Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life

User Joseph Ledoux (New York University) .

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Prejudice is Affect: Divorcing Prejudice from Propositional Representations?

User Chris Crandall (University of Kansas).

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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User Burigede Liu.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

House https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09.

Microglia and astrocyte involvement in synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease

User Prof. Tara Spires-Jones. University of Edinburgh, UK.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa

User Professor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

User Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from working memory

User Marie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Stereotypes as Shifting Standards: Implications for Social Judgment, Communication, and the Interpretation of Feedback

User Monica Biernat (University of Kansas).

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

The Naked Mole Rat: Blind and Naked, but oh so cool!

User Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry (Wolfson lecture theatre).

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 18:00-19:00

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

The glymphatic system and Alzheimer's disease

User Iben Lundgaard, Associate Professor, Lund University.

Friday 21 April 2023, 16:30-17:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

From Connectome to Computation Through the Genomic Bottleneck

User Prof. Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory..

The Craik Journal Club (Online)

Thursday 20 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory

User Adam Triabhall.

House Zoom link: www.bayslab.org/craikjc.

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Neural Tangent Kernel

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User Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Aberrant circuitry underlying olfaction in the face of severe olfactory bulb degeneration"

User Dan Rokni, The Hebrew University, Israel.

House Hodgkin–Huxley Seminar Room Physiology Building, Downing Site CB2 3DY Cambridge.

Monday 17 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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User Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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User Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09.

How microglia shape synapse homeostasis

User Prof. Michela Matteoli. Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.

Monday 03 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Oligodendroglia during development and disease: insights from single-cell and spatial epigenomics

User Professor Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden..

Thursday 30 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Physics-informed machine learning

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User Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud).

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

A functioning neuroanatomy of autism

User Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute.

Monday 27 March 2023, 11:30-12:30

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/99063802794?pwd=UEQ2b0Y5czZ1RENNUDQ4QjY0UENUQT09 Meeting ID: 990 6380 2794 Passcode: Fy7GsDg46x .

Gender equality in academia: why and how

User Prof Paul Walton Dept of Chemistry, University of York .

Friday 24 March 2023, 12:30-01:30

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

Somatosensory participation in human motor learning

User David Ostry (McGill University) .

Thursday 23 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Causal Machine Learning

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User Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis

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

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Choice under Computational Complexity

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

User Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge).

Friday 17 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

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

“The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action”

(Please note later start time)

User Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) .

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Network approaches to psychopathology: An overview

User Prof. Denny Borsboom, University of Amsterdam .

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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User Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Fragile minds in a scary world: trauma and post traumatic stress in very young children

User Dr Tim Dalgleish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention

The hosts for this talk are Tristan Bekinschtein and Andrés Canales-Johnson

User Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience).

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

User Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Form and function during early heart development

User Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94037796809?pwd=MHNRUk5JL0JmTlZTcnJZU3VQNllYQT09 Meeting ID: 940 3779 6809 Passcode: J70tjaPaNT .

Dysregulation of ADAM10 Shedding activity in naked mole-rat fibroblasts is due to deficient phosphatidylserine externalisation

User Post doc: Dr Paulina Urriola Munoz (Smith Lab) Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge .

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:30-01:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94037796809?pwd=MHNRUk5JL0JmTlZTcnJZU3VQNllYQT09 Meeting ID: 940 3779 6809 Passcode: J70tjaPaNT .

The structural polymorphism of alpha-synuclein in conditions resembling the cellular environment

User Post doc: Dr Maria Zacharopoulou (Itzhaki Lab) Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge .

Friday 10 March 2023, 01:00-01:30

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

Exploiting nuclear envelope dysfunction in progeria syndromes to identify new therapeutic targets for ageing

User Delphine Larrieu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry (Wolfson lecture theatre).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

Exploiting nuclear envelope dysfunction in progeria syndromes to identify new therapeutic targets for ageing

User Delphine Larrieu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry (Wolfson lecture theatre).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

Exploiting nuclear envelope dysfunction in progeria syndromes to identify new therapeutic targets for ageing

User Delphine Larrieu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Chemistry (Wolfson lecture theatre).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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User Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Integrative Neuromodulation: from biomarker identification to optimizing neuromodulation

User Dr Valerie Voon, Department of Psychiatry.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09.

Microglial immunophenotype in the human brain

User Prof. Delphine Boche. University of Southampton, UK.

Monday 06 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations

User Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

User Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation

User Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Online ONLY: https://zoom.us/j/93882601826?pwd=dEMzYTNUSkFGZ2ttMHVYT3dLdjZRUT09 Meeting ID: 938 8260 1826 Passcode: hLg0x6Hvu8.

How PROTACs work: why the ternary complex matters and how it impacts degrader design

User Prof Alessio Ciulli School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:30-01:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Relations and Predictions in Brains and Machines

User Dr. Kim Stachenfeld, Deep Mind.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

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

Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex

User Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) .

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

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User Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Fidelity and Replication: Modelling the Impact of Protocol Deviations on Effect Size

User Professor Michelle Ellefson.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Myelin plasticity - a mechanism for learning and repair?

User Thora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The Neuroscience of Reading: Tracing words from the page through the brain

User Dr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington).

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

User Ricardo Silva (UCL).

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients

User Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London.

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online:https://zoom.us/j/99631545539?pwd=ajBSeUp5TkJyTnZUcUNsZlpzd0NrQT09 Meeting ID: 996 3154 5539 Passcode: CZHX0w3jjX .

ANNUAL DAVID JAMES SEMINAR DNA graffiti: Mutation patterns in human DNA and how to use them in medicine

User Prof Serena Nik-Zainal Academic Dept of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Friday 24 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

Fuels and drivers of smouldering brain disease

User Dr Stefano Pluchino, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 16:30-17:30

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

Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins

Hosted by Milka Sarris and Ewa Paluch

User Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel.

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

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

Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand

User Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Bayesian Neural Networks

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User James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre + Zoom.

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

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

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

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

User Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years

User Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/93680660312?pwd=SkN6Tm41YTVIcWJFMUVneHo4enovdz09 Meeting ID: 936 8066 0312 Passcode: LR0ytaPNbK .

Endogenous and immunological mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain

User Dr Shafaq Sikander Queen Mary University of London .

Friday 17 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors

User Dr. Lucina Uddin, UCLA.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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User Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Valentine’s Day for people with multiple sclerosis: promoting brain repair through remyelination

User Professor Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Puria Radmard and David Liu.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Visual information processing in mice – from the retina to cortex

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

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

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

User Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/95738364476?pwd=RUpPeU9rWnlMdGFIZ2JsbXVULzRrQT09 Meeting ID: 957 3836 4476 Passcode: 77n788e51Z .

The Pharmacology of Pain

User Dr Kirsty Bannister King’s College London .

Friday 10 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

User Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

Friday 10 February 2023, 12:00-13:30

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

Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice

User Helen Barron (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

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User Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Children-Agent Interaction For Assessment and Rehabilitation: From Linguistic Skills To Mental Well-being

User Dr Micole Spitale, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning

User Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive embodiment of artificial limbs

User Tamar Makin, MRC-CBSU, Cambridge .

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

House https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09.

Microglia in health and disease

User Prof. Helmut Kettenmann. Charité Berlin, Germany.

Monday 06 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED OWING TO THE RAIL STRIKE

User Dr David Dupret (Oxford University).

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

User Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/93332623395?pwd=ejMrUUhHOG1qK2N6dzg3ZStmQXdHQT09 Meeting ID: 933 3262 3395 Passcode: v1SSfY1xB3 .

Aurora kinase A: from basic biology to PROTAC-mediated Targeted Protein Degradation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 03 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Linking cortical microstructure to in vivo measures of cortical structure in health and disease

User Dr. Konrad Wagstyl, University College London.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

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

Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines

User Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind).

Thursday 02 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid seminar: Clinical School Seminar Room 14 & on Zoom (see Abstract for link).

"Autophagy and neurodegeneration"

User Professor David Rubinsztein, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease

User Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

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

User Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

User Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

User Peter John (King's College London).

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

User Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

User Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94645182181?pwd=ZENTaStsZ2IxVkZBSElpMjBnUUdWQT09 Meeting ID: 946 4518 2181 Passcode: 8yWtSkrEku .

Pharmaceutical nanotechnology and the control of in vivo drug transport

User Prof Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu University College London .

Friday 27 January 2023, 12:30-01:30

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

Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being

User Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid seminar: Clinical School Seminar Room 3 & on Zoom (see Abstract for link).

"Leveraging transcriptomic maps to navigate human brain diseases"

User Dr Mina Ryten, Professor of Clinical Genetics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

User David Belin, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Ageing on the Autism Spectrum

User Prof Francesca Happe.

Monday 23 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet?

User Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge).

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

User Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

User Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Neural network models as mechanistic explanations of brain information processing

User Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Columbia University.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

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

Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex

User Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid seminar: Clinical School Seminar Room 11 & on Zoom (see Abstract for link).

"Neuronal and glial responses to the absence of microglia"

User Professor Josef Priller, University of Edinburgh, DRI & Technical University Munich.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow? Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research

User Dr Ben Underwood, Department of Psychiatry.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Hybrid seminar: Clinical School Seminar Room 2 & on Zoom (see Abstract for link).

"White matter in dementia; from lesions to plasticity"

User Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09 (Meeting ID: 941 2860 1767, Passcode: E2Gpvk35FP).

Microglial control of synaptic and neuronal network activity

User Dr. Christian Madry. Charité Berlin, Germany.

Monday 09 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

User David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

User David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis

User Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA).

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 08 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis

User Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA).

Thursday 08 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Edward Young, Zahara Girones.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

Neuroscience in artistic cartoons

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

House St John's College.

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

Metabolic control of myeloid cell function in chronic central nervous system inflammation

User Dr. Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti - Clinical Neurosciences.

House Hybrid & Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

Monday 05 December 2022, 18:00-19:00

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09 (Meeting ID: 941 2860 1767, Passcode: E2Gpvk35FP).

Microglia in Neurodegeneration

User Prof. Jochen Herms. LMU Munich, Germany.

Monday 05 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

User Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss

User Tamar Makin (MRC CBU).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

How can we treat visceral pain?

User Dr David Bulmer, Department of Pharmacology.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour

User Juan Alvaro Gallego.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

The enigmatic and integrative claustrum

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

Cambridge University Longevity Society 2022-2023 Series

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

Using AI to Discover Dual-purpose Therapeutics Targeting Aging and Disease at the same time

User Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD - Insilico Medicine.

House Virtual Talk (Zoom).

Saturday 26 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The measurement of difficult things: From psychophysics to psycho-oncology

User Professor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

User Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

User John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Myelin regeneration - from gene therapy to energy metabolism

User Dr Vanja Tepavčević, Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Bilbao, Spain.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 24 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Changing Connectomes: How Brain Network Changes are Linked to Cognition in Health and Disease

User Prof. Marcus Kaiser (University of Nottingham, UK).

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

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

The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity

User Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC).

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

User Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Dr Kate Baker

User Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Developmental disorders of presynaptic vesicle cycling - Synaptotagmin-1 and beyond

User Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Andy Lin, MLG.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

User Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

House CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

User Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

User Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development

User Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

House Via Zoom - See website for details: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/.

Talk title tbc

User Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research).

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

User Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Autism Research: State of the Field and Future Directions

User Zachary J. Williams, Vanderbilt University .

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Predicting generalization of ML models.

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

User Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing

User Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington).

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

User Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition

User Steve Fleming (UCL).

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Analyzing artificial neural networks to understand the brain

User Dr Grace Lindsay.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

What have we learned about autism from infants?

User Tony Charman, King's College London.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

A tutorial on diffusion models

User Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility

User Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders

User Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94128601767?pwd=UklLN2h5ZGNVL3BMYVNqdXh3djRXZz09 (Meeting ID: 941 2860 1767, Passcode: E2Gpvk35FP).

Microglial states and nomenclature

User Prof. Amanda Sierra. Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience, Spain.

Monday 07 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

User Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging, Therapeutics

User Dr Katerina Akassoglou.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Local Independence Graphs

User Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

User Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits

User Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris).

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The second generation of meta-learning methods

User Massimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge.

House Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder

User Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich).

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

User Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

User Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

House https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84909272851?pwd=MWh4VTFZd3ovRjN3LzZ4eU9yOVdpUT09.

Engineering insights into the strange world of cancer

User Dr Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard Medical School, US.

Friday 28 October 2022, 12:30-01:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

User Liza Levina (Michigan).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Network-based approaches towards studying context-specific cell signalling

User Dr Evangelia Petsalaki.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

User Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud and David Liu.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00

Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour

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

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 .

Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons

User Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes

The host for this talk is Simon Baron-Cohen (sb205@cam.ac.uk)

User Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge).

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81119667575?pwd=bXNQVzBXR2p3NXRDWDVVamFQa2JJdz09.

Translating Proteostasis Mechanisms to Therapeutics of Diseases of Protein Conformation and Aging

User Prof Rick Morimoto, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Northwestern University, US.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

User Min Xu (Rutgers University).

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Neurocomputational basis of anxiety

User Oliver Robinson (UCL).

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built

User Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Representation and computation in visual working memory

User Paul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Plastic brains for flexible decisions

User Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

User Sam Power (University of Bristol).

Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications

User Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

House https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83567507458?pwd=d3VlOGo1djBaQkRyL21YT2NSMFhQQT09.

Power to the protein: analyse, signal and protect with bacterial superglues

User Professor Mark Howarth, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

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

Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning

User Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford).

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

User Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Autistic Friendships

User Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Autistic Friendships

User Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Designing the BEARS (Both Ears) Virtual Reality Training Package to Improve Spatial Hearing in Young People with Bilateral Cochlear Implant

User Dr Deborah Vickers, Clinical Neurosciences.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Anterior Insula and Prospect Theory

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

House Zoom only.

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

House MRC MBU, Sackler Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

“Gene Therapy and beyond – hopes and challenges in therapy development for neurological disorders”

User Dr Kathrin Meyer, Ohio State University.

Monday 10 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

What kind of network is the brain?

User John Mollon (University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

User Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication

User Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Friday 07 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Tidying up working memory

User Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

Thursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Building a remyelination trial in pediatric MS

User Professor Ann Yeh, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

SENSORY SUBTYPES IN AUTISM: State of the Evidence & Future Directions

User Professor Alison Lane, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University .

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:30-01:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

User Roman Novak, Google Brain.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

The neuroscience of resilience: Lessons from autism

User Mayada Elsabbagh, McGill University.

Wednesday 14 September 2022, 12:30-01:30

Integrated epigenomics reveal dysregulated chromatin landscapes in aged hematopoietic stem cells underlying aberrant transcription

User Dr Isabel Beerman– National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD.

Monday 12 September 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Taking heterogeneity seriously: Towards new research and support strategies

***PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME OF ARCLUB TALKS***

User Beatriz Lopez, University of Portsmouth.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 12:30-01:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

User Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

House https://zoom.us/j/95152465088?pwd=eTNJUzJTbjJLa2YvcXY4aFJ1eXA1QT09 Meeting ID: 951 5246 5088 Passcode: X1cm68NuVp .

Spatial heterogeneity of microglia in CNS disease

User Bart Eggen, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Monday 04 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

CCMR Events

Mechanisms of NSC differentiation: from Coagulation to Immunomodulation

In Person at JCBC, or online via Zoom (contact: kh621@cam.ac.uk) for details

User Dr Christian Schachtrup, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 16:00-18:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Network function in human cerebral organoids as a platform for mechanistic and therapeutic advances in cognitive disorders

User Dr Susanna Barrett Mierau.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

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

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

User Karen Campbell (Brock University).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

“Axoptosis: Mechanisms for coordinating axonal degeneration”

User Professor Leonard A. Levin, McGill University.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

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

Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains

User Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario).

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

User Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

User Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Somewhere over the Brainbow: super-multicolour imaging to automate neural circuit reconstructions

User Dr Marcus Leiwe, Kyushu University, Japan.

House Hodgkin–Huxley Seminar Room Physiology Building, Downing Site CB2 3DY Cambridge.

Monday 27 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Perception and learning in autism

User Nazia Jassim, PhD candidate, Autism Research Centre.

Monday 27 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

“In vivo assessment of synaptic loss in non-AD tauopathies”

User Dr Negin Holland, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

User Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Theory of mind, gender, and human progress | Empathy, psychopathy, and brain structure

User Marcin Aleksander Radecki.

Monday 20 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

User Ricardo Silva (UCL).

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Discovering and quantifying patterns in networks with coloured nodes

User Dr Vincenzo Nicosia.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

“Inducing mtDNA alterations in mouse dopaminergic neurons to study if and how they contribute to Parkinsons disease like phenotype”

User Professor Rudolf Wiesner, University of Cologne.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

User Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

House https://zoom.us/j/91013725662?pwd=V1VVYzJGenB2R3p5NHl3dUhaNlM1QT09.

Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks

User Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Neurodevelopmental risk assessment in the COVID-19 Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO) Initiative at Columbia University

User Dr. Dani Dumitriu, Columbia University Iriving Medical Center.

Monday 13 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level

User Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

User Sven Bestmann (UCL).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

“Sickness behaviour and depression: an updated model of peripheral central immune interactions”

User Professor Federico Turkheimer, King's College London.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

House https://zoom.us/j/91285050301?pwd=bkNKeXhRV25US2phMlNISGpGcERvZz09.

Publishing your work in Nature Human Behaviour and other Nature portfolio journals

User Marike Schiffer, PhD (Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour).

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

User Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/97166826000?pwd=QzlIMzVZQ0V3MHhFeG5UZExIaFhSdz09 Meeting ID: 971 6682 6000 Passcode: z8dyfgibi8.

How microglia shape synapse homeostasis

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated in "Venue"

User Michela Matteoli, Milan, Italy..

Monday 06 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Promoting Psychological Health Among Adolescents and Adults on the Autism Spectrum

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

User Prof. Somer Bishop & Dr. Shuting Zheng, University of California San Francisco.

Monday 06 June 2022, 15:30-16:30

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

User Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Friday 03 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

User Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room (D Floor, Physiology building) - https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/about-us/map-and-directions.

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

User Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings

User Joel Voss (University of Chicago) .

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

"The prohibitin proteins in myelination"

User Dr Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge.

House In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91661708050?pwd=WS9Ua0czQm9FaC9qaWk3S2VQMjE5dz09.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Using connectomes to accelerate studies of the neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila

User Gerald M. Rubin, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, LMB Fellow.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease – cause, effect and treatment

User Professor James Rowe.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Control limited perceptual decision making

User Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

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

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer

User Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

"HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE- Where has our research taken us to date?"

User Professor Roger Barker, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Exploring mechanisms of human brain expansion in cerebral organoids

User Dr Madeline Lancaster MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference

User Wen-Hao Zhang.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

On the neural language of the cerebellum

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

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

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Neuroplacentology

User Anna Penn, Columbia University & NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

Monday 16 May 2022, 15:30-16:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles

User Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex).

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

User Yihong Wu (Yale University).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration

User Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London.

Friday 13 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

House Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

User Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

House https://zoom.us/j/93583553185?pwd=d1kvR3A1VnNxemZwWUNhR2RJUGk5Zz09.

Face and feeling: Examining the role of facial feedback in emotional feeling

User Dr. Nicholas Coles, Stanford University,.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

User David Burt, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

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

User Flavia Mancini, Department of Engineering.

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

House https://zoom.us/j/93385021933?pwd=cnNabGRvL0lJUk9qKzFNNGpydTdCQT09 Meeting ID: 933 8502 1933 Passcode: bmBXz8QB2j.

Diversity of brain macrophages

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated in "Venue"

User Josef Priller, University of Edinburgh & Technical University of Munich.

Monday 09 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required

User Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research.

House Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition

User Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University).

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

User Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency

User Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

User Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

House On Zoom.

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

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

Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)

User Cathy Price (UCL).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

“Can we block axon degeneration in disease?”

User Dr Andrea Loreto, University of Cambridge.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 05 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

ENIGMA at 10: What have we learned from a decade of large scale collaborative meta-analysis in neuroimaging

User Prof Sarah Medland.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Bests of ICLR

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair

User Magdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

House Zoom only.

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

House https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oWsowrrnQ5-LiMi6OtktrQ .

Protein Design Using Deep Learning

Annual David James Lecture 2021-2022, Department of Pharmacology

User Professor David Baker, Institute of Protein Design, Washington University.

Friday 29 April 2022, 17:00-18:15

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development

User Professor Pasco Fearon.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:30-18:00

House Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain

User Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

User Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) .

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

CCMR Events

CCMR Annual Symposium

Please contact the University of Cambridge Online Store to register: https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/

User Prof. Anna Williams; Prof. Brian Popko; Prof. Robin Franklin; Dr Omar de Faria Jr; Dr Alexandra Nicaise; Dr Nick Cunniffe; Dr Andras Lakatos; Dr Andrea Lareto; Dr Madeline Lancaster; Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti.

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 09:00-21:00

Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity

User Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

User András Lakatos, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

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

A Connectomic Hypothesis for the Hominization of the Brain

User Prof Claus Hilgetag.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

User University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Global Views of Mammalian Development

User Jay Shendure, University of Washington.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

User Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

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

User Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge.

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

“Myelinated axon formation, health and function”

User Professor David Lyons, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 07 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

CamBRAIN talks

Neurotalks: Lifelong Brain Development

User Yizhou Yu (MRC Toxicology Unit) and Nejc Kejzar (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

House The Cambridge Tap.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 19:00-22:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User David Liu and Edward Young.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99313378855?pwd=WHdISHZkQmtDcDNjSDVwd3lRWjBFdz09 Meeting ID: 993 1337 8855 Passcode: S1euwnDicX.

Microglial extracellular vesicles

User Claudia Verderio, CNR Vedano al Lambro, Italy..

Monday 04 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Inflammation and mental health: questions of causality

User Prof Ed Bullmore.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

User Emiel Hoogeboom.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Thinking the right thoughts

User Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University).

Friday 25 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

House Physiology Lecture theatre (and on Zoom) .

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

User Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

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

“Myelin's highway to the axon and implications for axonal support”

User Professor Julia Edgar, University of Glasgow.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

An Overview of AI Alignment

User Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19

User Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) .

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

User Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany.

Friday 18 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

User Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Aldo Faisal.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

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

Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory

User Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

“Functional transcriptomics in neurodegenerative disorders”

User Dr Roberto Simone, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Understanding the effects of repetition on belief

User Lisa Fazio (Vanderbilt).

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

User Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Network science and network medicine: New strategies for understanding and treating the biological basis of mental ill-health

User Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions

User Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Psychology talks and events

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

Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition

User Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL).

House virtually served - Zoom.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans

User Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

User Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai.

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

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

User Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

House MR2, CMS.

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

“Beyond proteinopathies, in vivo clinical markers for inflammation and synaptic loss in frontotemporal lobar degeneration”

User Dr Maura Malpetti, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Reconsidering the relationship between personality and politics

User Bert Bakker (Amsterdam).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Introduction to differential privacy

User Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00

Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons - dendrites, soma and axons

User Zayd Khaliq, NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD.

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

House https://zoom.us/j/95012836819?pwd=bi83ZjNFOHFFVkdxV0h3Rmc4djFBdz09 Meeting ID: 950 1283 6819 Passcode: 5cpeaE6bg0.

Role of microglia in myelin repair

User Mikael Simons, DZNE Munich, Germany.

Monday 07 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird.

User Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania).

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

The COVID Moonshot: Open Science Discovery of Oral Non-Covalent SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitor Therapeutics

User Dr Alpha Lee, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

User Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development

User Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

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

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

User Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) .

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

The Cooperative Animal

User Michael Tomasello (Duke).

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cross-modality imaging of the neural systems that support executive functions

User Dr Yaara Erez, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Novel Digital Health Approaches to Early Autism Screening

User Geraldine Dawson, Duke University School of Medicine.

Monday 28 February 2022, 15:30-16:30

Covid and Cognition

User Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) .

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

Actin remodelling: from molecular mechanism to disease models

User Dr Jenny Gallop, Gurdon Institute.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

User Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cells

User Nicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute.

Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity

User Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY.

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

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

Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors

User Lucina Uddin (UCLA) .

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

Reparative inflammation in remyelination

User Prof. Mikael Simons - Technical University Munich.

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

Structure-function of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and neuronal de/regeneration

User Dr Edward Avezov, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Apathy and Anhedonia in Adult and Adolescent Cannabis Users and Controls Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Martine Skumlien (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Retrieval Augmented NLP

User Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Neurodegeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model

User Andras Lakatos, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge.

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

Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields

User John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University).

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

Effects of Z-⍺1-antitrypsin on the endoplasmic reticulum

User Professor Stefan Marciniak, CIMR, Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development

User Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Genomic insights about the prenatal origins of behavioral disorders

User Prof Daniel Weinberger.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

“Presynaptic dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders”

User Professor Mike Cousin, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Circuits and Interpretability

User Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate

User Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Control limited perceptual decision making

User Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

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

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

Vascular adenylyl cyclase: New roles for an old enzyme

User Professor Caroline Dart, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool.

Friday 11 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage

User Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences

User Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL).

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity

User Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) .

Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

“Targeting astrocytes to protect the brain in Vascular Cognitive Impairment”

User Dr Jill Fowler, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Optimal Transport Metrics

User Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Why is the suprachiasmatic nucleus such a brilliant circadian time-keeper?

User Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud and Michal Wojcik.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:30-15:00

Adrian Lectures

Neural control of innate behaviors and internal states

User David J Anderson, Calthech, Pasadena, CA.

House Zoom only.

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

House https://zoom.us/j/95266584173?pwd=Q3pDZDJ3NVMzdmdnbit4cEtwV2ZOUT09 Meeting ID: 952 6658 4173 Passcode: anjuAgjXX3.

Effect of nutrients on microglial function

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated in "Venue"

User Agnès Nadjar, University of Bordeaux, France.

Monday 07 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Dyadic intervention for autism in the prodrome and preschool – developmental effects, mechanisms and service implication

User Jonathan Green, University of Manchester.

Monday 07 February 2022, 15:30-16:30

Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior

User Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus).

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

The Dynamic Spatial Organisation Of The Cell

User Professor Kathryn Lilley, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics.

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Theater and Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

User Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

User Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

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

Chromatin contact networks: towards a structure-function relationship in epigenomics

User Dr Vera Pancaldi.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

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

Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models

User Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham) .

Thursday 03 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

"Fumarate hydratase and cancer: a paradigm of oncometabolism”

User Professor Christian Frezza, University Hospital Cologne.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Learned Compression

User Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention

User Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

The importance of early diagnosis for improving social communication in children with ASD

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

User Ilan Dinstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Monday 31 January 2022, 15:30-16:30

Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments

User Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt).

Friday 28 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

What drugs do to our bugs

User Dr Kiran Patil, MRC Toxicology Unit, Cambridge.

Friday 28 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

User Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) .

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

"Targeting axon transport to support axon regeneration in the adult CNS”

User Dr Richard Eva, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

The ADHD polygenic score

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

User Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck University of London.

Monday 24 January 2022, 15:30-16:30

Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research

User Irene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova).

Friday 21 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81177193310?pwd=QTVKcWQvTWtPU0ZVbGlpZFhzNTJIdz09 .

Keap1/Nrf2 as a druggable target

User Professor Albena Dinkova-Kostova, University of Dundee.

Friday 21 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching

User Tengyao Wang (LSE).

Friday 21 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

User Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

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

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

Neural dynamics of working memory

User Timothy Buschman (Princeton University) .

Thursday 20 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

"Can we improve human nerve regeneration?”

User Dr Peter Arthur-Farraj, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

Stress deceleration theory: chronic adolescent stress exposure results in decelerated neurobehavioral maturation

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Kshitij Jadhav, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

User Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Common elements: An innovative methodology for identifying effective interventions in early childhood education

User Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

The ‘autism advantage’ in the workplace: what the latest research tells us

Please note that this talk is taking place from 3.30pm-4.30pm UK Time

User Adam Feinstein.

Monday 17 January 2022, 15:30-16:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

AI Safety

User Neel Alex.

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

House https://zoom.us/j/99122826836?pwd=NEpzRHBFNzAwUGhzOGp6TDBoMzJUUT09.

Microglial function and dysfunction of TREM2 and ABI3, two major risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated in "Venue"

User Christian Haass, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich.

Monday 10 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99122826836?pwd=NEpzRHBFNzAwUGhzOGp6TDBoMzJUUT09.

Microglial function and dysfunction of TREM2 and ABI3, two major risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated in "Venue"

User Christian Haass, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich.

Monday 10 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/99122826836?pwd=NEpzRHBFNzAwUGhzOGp6TDBoMzJUUT09.

Microglial function and dysfunction of TREM2 and ABI3, two major risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated above

User Christian Haass, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich.

Monday 10 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience

User Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex).

Thursday 09 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Improving the identification of cardiometabolic risk in early psychosis

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Benjamin Perry (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 December 2021, 17:00-18:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Daniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern.

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

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

Adrian Lectures

How does the brain figure out the structure of problems?

Zoom link to follow

User Tim Behrens, University of Oxford.

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

House Zoom link to follow.

How does the brain figure out the structure of problems?

User Tim Behrens.

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

House https://zoom.us/j/94405218126?pwd=MTBYZm1mKzg0NEM0b0YxREJXNWtrUT09.

The many roles of microglia in brain wiring: a developmental perspective

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated above

User Sonia Garel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Monday 06 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations

User Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).

Friday 03 December 2021, 14:45-16:15

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

User Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

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

Hierarchical Neurodevelopment: Patterns, Plasticity, and Implications for Mood Psychopathology

User Valerie Sydnor.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 15:00-16:00

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

New models of human hearing via machine learning

User Josh McDermott (MIT).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

“Distinctive gene expression distribution in microglia and astrocytes in relation to distance from plaques in NLF knockin mice, where differences are undetectable in bulk RNAseq.”

Introduction by Dr Bryan Serrels, NanoString

User Professor Frances Edwards, University College London.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Finding needles in the neural haystack: unsupervised analyses of noisy data

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Marine Schimel, Kris Jensen, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 17:00-18:00

Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena

User Dr Alin Coman (Princeton).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:00-17:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Energy-Based Models

User Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration

User Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom only. Please see member emails for link..

Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits

User Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge).

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

What does magic tell us about free will?

User Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London).

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

User Heather Battey (Imperial College London).

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cells

User Simon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Regenerative Neuroimmunology: a neural stem cell perspective’

User Dr Stefano Pluchino – University of Cambridge.

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

Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ

User Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

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

Infusing Structure and Knowledge Into Biomedical AI Algorithms

User Dr Marinka Zitnik.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

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

Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation

User Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

"Prion diseases: risk factors, experimental treatments, and ways to improve care"

User Professor Simon Mead, University College London.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

A transdiagnostic data-driven study of children’s behaviour and the functional connectome

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Dr Jonathan Jones.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Georgia Turner and Falvia Mancini.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:30-15:00

House Zoom only. Please see member emails for link..

Striatal circuits for learning and decision making

User Ilana Witten.

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

Time perception as accumulation of salient events

User Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex).

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Variable elimination and graph reduction: towards an efficient g-formula for causal DAGs

User Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization

User Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

User Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

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

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

Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories

User Lila Davachi (Columbia University).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

"What did organoids do for us? - mechanistic & therapeutic discoveries at single cell resolution in ALS/FTD”

User Dr Andras Lakatos, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Networking—the key to success… especially in the brain.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Mr Alexander Dunn (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Field Social Psychology

User Dr Séamus A. Power, University of Copenhagen.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Deep Kernels

User Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots

User Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Striatal circuits for learning and decision making

This talk is conducted on Zoom only

User Ilana Witten.

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

Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies

User Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) .

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference

User Shuangning Li (Stanford University).

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

User Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

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

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

User Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

The Interplay between Local Protein Synthesis and Axon/NMJ Maintenance and Degeneration in ALS

User Professor Eran Perlson, Tel Aviv University.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Keeping axons alive after injury: Inhibiting programmed axon death

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Dr Stacey Gould, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment

User Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

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

Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity

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

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

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

Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity

User Nathalie Rochefort.

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

Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour

User Dominik Bach (University College London).

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes

User Lan Wang (University of Miami).

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

User Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Mechanisms of Aging

User Anne Brunet, Stanford University.

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

Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them

User Dr Jessica Kay Flake (McGill).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

User Yixin Wang.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Multiscale network neuroscience: linking cells, networks and symptoms in brain disease

User Dr Linda Douw.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

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

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

User Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Passive brain tumour visualisation during surgery using computer vision

User Dr Gita Khalili Moghaddam, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

The generation of cortical novelty responses through inhibitory plasticity

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User Nicholas Gale, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

User Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

The brain control of appetite: Can an old dog teach us new tricks?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

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

User Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn).

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

House https://zoom.us/j/92796686042?pwd=bStrTUNHajBaNGJnVjV1cit5ZCtNdz09.

Understanding microglial dynamics from development to age-related neurological diseases

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated above

User Diego Gomez-Nicola, University of Southampton, U.K..

Monday 01 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

MARS via LASSO

User Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis

User Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

A universal probabilistic spike count model reveals ongoing modulation of neural variability in head direction cell activity in mice

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395342039

User David Liu, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

User Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Role of astrocytes in CNS inflammation

User Francisco J. Quintana - Harvard University .

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang and Wayne Soo.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

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

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

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking

User Richard Holton (University of Cambridge).

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

A finger on the pulse of regeneration

User Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines

User David Sheppard, Bristol University.

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

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

Neural dynamics of working memory

User Tim Buschman (Princeton University).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Investigating the fundamental circuit pathology in schizophrenia using computational modelling of brain imaging data

User Dr Rick Adams.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Saying “No” Is Harder Than We Think: Implications for Compliance and Consent

User Dr Vanessa Bohns (Cornell).

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

User CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis

User Professor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit

This talk is conducted on Zoom only

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

House Online via zoom.

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

Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect

User David Bannerman (University of Oxford).

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

TBC

User Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

User Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids

User Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge).

Friday 15 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

"Altered synaptic ingestion by human microglia in Alzheimer's disease"

User Dr Makis Tzioras, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think

User Dr Hugo Mercier (Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS).

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 15:00-16:30

Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration?

User Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Guillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

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

Neuronal heterogeneity and plasticity in the olfactory bulb

User Elisa Galliano (University of Cambridge).

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

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Global testing for dependent Bernoullis

User Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University).

Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

“Biology in balance: human diploid genome integrity, gene dosage & genomic medicine”

User Dr James Lupski, Baylor-Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics, Houston, US.

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Thursday 07 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Neuroanatomical Sex Differences in the Human Brain: Maps, Mechanisms and Meanings

User Dr Armin Raznahan.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

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

The function of spontaneous brain activity

User Maurizio Corbetta (University of Padua).

Thursday 07 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Brain: Understanding the Role of Inflammation in Vascular Health, Stroke, and Cerebrovascular Disease

User Dr Nicholas Evans, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Tuesday 05 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://zoom.us/j/95235532571?pwd=dlFPdFRXTGhVeFBXOEtyTXZrN0lxQT09.

Microglial and myeloid mechanisms of resilience and repair in cerebrovascular disease

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated above

User Barry McColl, University of Edinburgh.

Monday 04 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

“Facing the impact of dementia globally with a focus on translational studies to reduce risk”

User Professor James Vickers, University of Tasmania.

Thursday 30 September 2021, 09:00-10:00

Developments in therapeutic remyelination: the clemastine story and biological validation of biomarkers

User Dr Ari.Green - University of California San Francisco.

Tuesday 28 September 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel and David Liu.

Tuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-15:30

House https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09.

Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models

User Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00