Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)

Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Imaging and reconstructing mouse development at the cellular level using light-sheet microscopy

Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA..

Zoom meeting.

Friday 30 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID

Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care).

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Monday 02 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Prosocial Motivation Increases Framing Bias in Risky Decisions for Others

Professor Vincent Mak (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Don't go breaking my heart: antipsychotics and cardiometabolic health in schizophrenia (and what clinicians should be doing)

chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen

Dr Toby Pillinger, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins

Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) .

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

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial-mesenchymal cell plasticity during normal development and cancer progression

Kyra Campbell, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 06 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients’ mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK

Dr Rudolf Cardinal.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University).

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

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Woofing it Down: Lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend

Eleanor Raffan, PDN, Cambridge.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain

Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Understanding Fallism

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies

Dr. David Belin.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How to talk about your feelings: The peculiar relationship between words and emotions

Dr Ryan Boyd (Lancaster University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Alcohol and Older People. What's the Use?

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Tony Rao, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study

Damien Fair (University of Minnesota).

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

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Re-generating the principles of appendage regeneration in the single-cell era

Can Aztekin, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 20 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Development of the social brain in adolescence and effects of social distancing

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

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

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

Foster Talks

TBC

Kevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment

Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Friday 27 November 2020, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried?

Dr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Dept. of Psychology) .

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction

Professor Linda Skitka (University of Illinois at Chicago).

via zoom .

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Embodied Cognition

Dr Micah Allen, Aarhus University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics

chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The Phenotypic Spectrum of Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants

Dr Kimberly Kendall, Cardiff University .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

TBC

Flora Vaccarino, Yale University.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandra Pitman, University College London .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 28 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation

Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Claire Gillan, Trinity College Dublin .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 18 March 2021, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations

Andre Fenton, New York University.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Foster Talks

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

Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

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

Foster Talks

Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems.

Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona.

Live Zoom webinar, followed by Q&A session.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00