Dementia Journal Club

Cryo-EM structures of patient-derived alpha-synuclein fibrils - CANCELLED

Manuel Schweighauser - LMB.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Cryo-EM structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils

Janin Lautenschläger.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

From gut to brain: An alpha-synuclein Parkinson’s model

Katrina Räty (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Cryo-EM structures of Aß amyloid fibrils

Veronica Kane Dickson (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Neuroinflammation and gut microbiota in AD progression

Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Hot science: a peak into the living brain

Nisha Ramakrishnan.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 25 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

VCAM1, brain ageing, and the 'vampire hypothesis'

Veronica Kane Dickson.

Seminar room, Level 4***, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory

Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance Talk 2. Multivariate approaches to understanding the brain-behaviour relationships in cognitive ability

Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Dementia Journal Club

Exploring the amyloid beta secretome in 2D and 3D culture models of AD

Laura Pellegrini (MRC-LMB).

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Blood Brain Barrier breakdown in Neurodegeneration

Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Recognition of the amyloid precursor protein by human γ-secretase

Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Imagers Interest Group

Practical Power Estimation for fMRI

Tom Nichols, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 15 March 2019, 10:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Dementia Journal Club

Leptin and AD risk

Selena Sephton, WBIC.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Dementia Journal Club

AD-associated variants identified by whole exome sequencing

Alexander Mörseburg, Department of Archaeology.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Amyloid-β ‘seeds’ in old vials of growth hormone

Ryan Prestil, CIMR.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Cofactor-assisted seeding of tau fibrils

Alexander Epstein, LMB.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

DJC Holiday Networking Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Autophagy and neural stem cell therapy; a new tool for dementia

Michele Frison, MRC-MBU.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

PET tracers for Tau

Nisha, Stephen, and Selena.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Dementia Journal Club

Introductory Journal Club Meeting - Tau filament structures

Veronica and Antonina, CIMR.

Level 5 Seminar Room, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Research outside of academia: How to be an asset in policy-related work

Dr Amanda Aldercotte, Quantitative Researcher at the Equality Challenge Unit.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Observations from the Edge of Beauty

Mr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

the Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room in the Department of Psychology on the Downing Site:.

Monday 13 March 2017, 16:00-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sebastian Schneegans (Bays Lab).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cognitive dysfunction in depression: testing the potential of modafinil as a treatment

Dr Muzaffer Kaser, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 March 2017, 12:30-13:00

Zangwill Club

‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB TALK

Dr Rosalind Ridley.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain

Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicators

Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Deep Neural Networks

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Monday 28 November 2016, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity

Professor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to give good talks

Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Monday 21 November 2016, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series

Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech

Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario.

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

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory

Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Consciousness

Tristan Beckstein (Cambridge University).

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

Monday 14 November 2016, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition

Axel Cleeremans, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia

Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University.

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

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?

Professor Gregor Thut, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control

Tim Behrens, Oxford.

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

Thursday 03 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset

Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations

Philippe Peigneux, PhD, Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016 Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

Neural representation of complex space

Professor Kate Jeffery, UCL.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Memory

Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Monday 24 October 2016, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

See what you hear - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses -

Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Pharmacology Tea Club

Neuronal regulation of myelination and remyelination

Thora Karadottir, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00