MRC LMB Seminar Series

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

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

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, 11:00-12:00

Neural mechanisms of proprioception and motor control in Drosophila

John Tuthill, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Conformational and oligomeric rearrangements control intercellular signalling

Dr. Bert Janssen, Utrecht University.

MRC LMB: Sanger Seminar Room 3A180.

Tuesday 20 March 2018, 10:00-11:00

Drosophila Aggression: Agonistic interaction as a strategic action

Kenta Asahina, Assistant Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies .

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Friday 12 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

Insights into ligand recognition and desensitization from the x-ray structure of a nicotinic receptor

Ryan Hibbs, UT Southwestern.

MRC LMB: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 10:00-11:00

Dysregulation of a novel nerve growth factor metabolic pathway causes cholinergic atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

Dr. Claudio Cuello, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

MRC LMB: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Mapping higher-order olfactory connectivity using two-photon optogenetics

James M. Jeanne, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

MRC LMB: Sanger Seminar Room 3A180.

Monday 20 June 2016, 16:30-17:30

Tracing memory circuits in Drosophila using whole-brain electron microscopy

Dr. Davi Bock, Janelia Research Campus .

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Friday 17 June 2016, 10:00-11:00

Cell-type tailored efference copy signals in Drosophila

Dr Lisa Fenk, Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, Rockefeller University .

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 10:00-11:00

Control of the energy flux in the drosophila memory center

Thomas Preat, Director Brain Plasticity Unit, ESPCI-CNRS, Paris.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Monday 25 April 2016, 10:00-11:00

Stereotyped connectivity and computations in higher order olfactory neurons in drosophila

Mehmet Fisek, Hausser Lab, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London .

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Monday 19 October 2015, 10:30-11:30

Sensing our way to motor recovery

Aya Takeoka, University of Basel.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Tuesday 22 September 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mushroom body output neurons encode the valence and guide memory-based action selection in Drosophila.

Dr Yoshi Aso, HHMI Janelia Farm.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Friday 03 July 2015, 10:00-11:00

Nitric Oxide controls a switch between degenerative and regenerative phases of developmental neuronal remodelling

Oren Schuldiner, Ph.D, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Friday 14 November 2014, 10:00-11:00

The wiring diagram of the CNS of Drosophila larva: structure and function

Albert Cardona, HHMI.

MRC LMB: Sanger Seminar Room 3A180.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Neural Circuits Controlling Innate Behavior

Professor Mike Nitabach, Yale University.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Monday 10 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Neural Circuits Controlling Innate Behavior

Professor Mike Nitabach, Yale University.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Monday 10 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Neuropeptides, sexually dimorphic neurons, and male aggression

Kenta Asahina, California Institute of Technology.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Wednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

Drosophila olfactory neuroecology

Marcus Stensmyr, Lund University, Sweden.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Friday 10 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Brain power: Where does it come from and how is it used?

Professor David Attwell FRS, Jodrell Professor of Physiology, UCL.

Max Perutz Lecture Thetare.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Wakefulness, locomotion, and navigation: a look from visual cortex

Professor Matteo Carandini, GlaxoSmithKline - Fight for Sight Professor of Visual Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Motion sensitive circuits in the retina

Dr Keisuke Yonehara, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Thursday 26 September 2013, 12:30-13:30

Genetic dissection of Polarization Vision Circuitry in Drosophila

Mathias Wernet, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Tuesday 10 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Intrinsic biophysical diversity and connectivity of neuronal circuits

Troy Margrie, NIMR.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

The development of the neural code for space in the hippocampal formation

Dr Tom Wills, UCL.

MRC LMB: Klug Seminar Room 2A180.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Molecules and mechanisms of olfactory-mediated behaviour

Dr Darren Logan, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

MRC LMB: Sanger Meeting Room 3A180.

Friday 17 May 2013, 10:00-11:30

Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System: Where is the Dark Matter

Mark Ellisman, Professor of Neurosciences, Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California at San Diego.

MRC LMB: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

Friday 21 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

The Evolving Social Network of Drosophila

Richard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 11:00-12:00

Synthetic Biology - Smart Cells and Smart Materials

Prof Wilfried Weber, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), University of Freiburg, Germany.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 30 January 2012, 11:00-12:00

Tracking the whereabouts of CaMKII in dendrites: mechanisms and functions

Paul De Koninck, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

MRC LMB: Structural Studies Seminar Room (Level 3).

Thursday 27 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Tools for the dense reconstruction of neuronal circuits

Moritz Helmstaedter, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich, Germany.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 24 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Molecular and cellular mechanisms for memory allocation in neuronal networks

Alcino Silva, UCLA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 16 September 2011, 16:15-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Genetic dissection of emotion circuits in flies and mice - Francis Crick Lecture 2011

Dr David Anderson, California Institute of Technology, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 09 September 2011, 16:00-18:00

Polyglutamine and neurodegeneration

Prof. Annalisa Pastore, Division of Molecular Structure, NIMR, Mill Hill London..

MRC LMB: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 July 2011, 14:15-15:30

Probing the basis of neuronal branching

Please not change of date and room

Dr Hermann Cuntz, Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 18 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Dendritic computation in cortical pyramidal neurons

Tiago Branco, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Thursday 14 July 2011, 16:00-17:00

Your personal list

Pre- and postsynaptic NMDA receptors in neocortical synaptic plasticity

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

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

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

Genetic approaches to understand and manipulate retinal circuit function

Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:15-17:15

Homeostatic plasticity: from synapses to the axon initial segment

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

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:15-17:15

Nitric oxide as a homeostatic regulator of neuronal intrinsic excitability: reciprocal regulation of voltage-gated potassium currents

Ian Forsythe, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 22 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Active vision and higher brain function in Drosophila melanogaster

Gaby Maimon, Division of Biology, Caltech.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 08 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Synaptic plasticity and sleep in Drosophila

Giorgio F. Gilestro, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 11:00-12:00

"Who is he, and what is he to you?" Dissecting recognition, social experience and their effects on the sexual behaviour of D. melanogaster

Jean-Christophe Billeter, Dept Biology, University of Toronto.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 22 February 2010, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Role of PRG-1 (plasticity related gene-1) in glutamatergic transmission

Dietmar Schmitz, Charité, Berlin.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 16:15-18:00

Neural circuits underlying visually guided behaviors in zebrafish

Michael Orger, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Thursday 16 July 2009, 12:00-13:00

Olfactory processing in Drosophila

Please note change of time from 11am to 12 noon

Vikas Bhandawat, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Thursday 23 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

Time and time again - The regulation of segmentation clock period in zebrafish

Note unusual location

Leah Herrgen, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

MRC LMB: Cell Biology Seminar Room (Level 4, Room 4014).

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 11:00-11:45

Neurobiology of the Drosophila circadian clock

Justin Blau, Department of Biology, New York University.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 15 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

Contrast sensitivity in C57BL6 mice

Please note change of time

Bart van Alphen, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Tuesday 09 December 2008, 15:00-16:00

Genetic analysis of layer specific axon targeting in the Drosophila visual system

Milan Petrovic, University of Muenster.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Thursday 20 November 2008, 11:00-11:45

Identifying genes involved in sense organ formation in Drosophila

Sebastian Cachero, Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 16:00-16:45

Neural Coding and Microstimulation Studies of Motion Detection in the Primate Visual System

Nicolas Masse, Dept of Physiology, McGill University.

MRC LMB: Neurobiology Division Seminar Room (Level 2).

Monday 04 February 2008, 16:00-16:45

Sequential Neurogenesis Establishes the Different Sensory Modalities of the Trigeminal Ganglia

PLEASE NOTE CORRECTED DATE - WED 3rd

Sophie Caron, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 11:00-12:00

Nonlinearity and frequency tuning in insect hearing

This talk is part of the Zoology Tea Talks series organised by Isabel Palacios. Greg Jefferis will be hosting Daniel Robert.

Daniel Robert (School of Biological Sciences & IRC in Nanotechnology, Bristol).

Zoology Part II Lecture Theatre (first floor).

Thursday 30 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

HOW FLIES SMELL: THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF DROSOPHILA OLFACTION

LT is on 2nd floor of Austin Building

RICHARD BENTON, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK.

Part 2 Neuroscience Lecture Theatre, Austin Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 24 August 2006, 13:00-14:00