Neuroscience Seminars

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

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

User Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys

User Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Time course of memory updating in running span

User Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

User Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow / Mental Health & Wellbeing Academic Centre, Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

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

User Ryan Prestil, CIMR.

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

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

Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?

User John Rothwell (UCL).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

User Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

House Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

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

User Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

User Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Computational Models—who needs them?

User Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior

User Fritjof Helmchen, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich.

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Mindfulness training for mental health promotion

User Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge).

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids

User Dr Madeline Lancaster, Principal Investigator, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery

User Adam Zeman (University of Exeter).

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation

User James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development

User Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

User Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York.

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

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

How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?

User Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

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

Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations

User Troy Margrie.

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective

User Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Exploring disease mechanisms in a novel group of neurological diseases caused by mutations in the RNA exosome

User Juliane Muller, University Cambridge (previously Newcastle University).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Richard Holton, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Alexander Mörseburg, Bio Anth.

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

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

Testosterone and human gender development

User Melissa Hines (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer

User Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

User Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

How to write good papers

User Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila

User Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

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

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Understanding vulnerability and related outcomes in autism using genetics

User Dr Varun Warrier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection

User Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

User Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

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

House IPH large seminar room.

Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury

User Mark A. Anderson - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

User Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

User Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

User Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Animal models of episodic memory

User Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

User John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

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

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment

User Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

User Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

User Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

User Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

How to make good scientific figures

User Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

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

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

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

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

User Joni Holmes (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Long-term stability of human neurons in an organotypic slice culture system – a new model to study disease mechanisms of neurological disorders

User Henner Koch, University of Tübingen.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

User Tamar Makin (UCL).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

User Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

User Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

TBC

User Albert Quintana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

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

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

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

User Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

User Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

User Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

How to write a Fellowship proposal

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

User Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Far beyond the back of the brain

User Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Please volunteer!.

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

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

User Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

TBC

User Roland Patai.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

User Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

User Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after"

User Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

User Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 09 May 2019, 12:30-13:30