Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room


2023-10-09 16:15: Cortical Layers in Context and Learning (Randy Bruno, DPAG, University of Oxford)

2023-10-16 16:15: Central representation of protein availability  regulates metabolism and behaviour (Clémence Blouet, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and  Dept of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge)

2023-10-30 16:15: The dynamics of motivation: The neural and computational  mechanisms of effort when treated as a cost or a benefit (Matt Apps, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham )

2023-11-06 16:15: Anti-obesity drug validation and discovery  using human neuronal models (Florian Merkle, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

2023-11-27 16:15: The many faces of stress: from developmental impacts to  stress-related brain disorders  (Jeff Dalley, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2024-02-05 16:15: The Impact of Individual GABA Cells  in Developing and Adult Cortex (Rosa Cossart, INMED, Marseille, France)

2024-02-12 16:15: Using brain organoids to understand cell fate (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, Cambridge)

2024-02-19 16:15: Cortical integration of vestibular and visual signals for self-motion perception and spatial navigation (Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Dept of PDN, Cambridge)

2024-03-11 16:15: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces (Christian Doeller, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany )

2024-04-29 16:15: Egocentric and allocentric representations in cortical structures (Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

2024-10-14 16:15: Networks in action: the crucial role of dynamics in networks neuroscience (Petra Vértes, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2024-10-21 16:15: Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours (Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS),  University of Edinburgh )

2024-10-28 16:15: Different dynamics of learning  in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices (Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo)

2024-11-18 16:15: Towards understanding adaptive intelligence (Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland )

2025-01-27 16:15: The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle (Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

2025-02-03 16:15: Principles of learning in distributed neural networks (Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)

2025-02-17 16:15: Ancestral Sight (Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge )

2025-03-03 16:15: Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control (Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge )

2025-03-10 16:15: Simple principles underlying complex neural responses (Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge )

2025-03-17 16:15: How to overwrite an instinct:  neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses (Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London)

2025-05-12 16:15: Normalisation, adaptation, and the balance of excitation and inhibition (Yashar Ahmadian, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-13 16:15: Plasticity of the Parental Brain (Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute London)

2025-10-20 16:15: Visual cortex gamma reflects stimulus experience and stimulus reward value (Pascal Fries, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany)

2025-10-27 16:15: Conscious visual perception, perceptual organization and how to restore it in blindness (Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

2025-11-24 16:15: Brainstem peptides: for better for worse, in sickness and in health (Simon Luckman, University of Manchester)

2025-12-01 16:15: Seeing in three dimensions: how the visual cortex uses motion to parse 3D scenes (Petr Znamenskiy, The Francis Crick Institute London)

2026-01-26 16:15: Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory (Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University)

2026-02-02 16:15: Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep (Helen Barron, University of Oxford)

2026-02-09 16:15: Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story (Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds)

2026-02-23 16:15: The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops (Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-02 16:15: A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation (Dan Bendor, University College London)

2026-03-09 16:15: The function of the top-down processes in the visual cortex: contextual processing and scene segmentation (Matthew Self, University of Glasgow)

2026-03-16 16:15: Targeting AD-related pathophysiology with non-invasive brain stimulation (Sam Barnes, Imperial College London)

2026-05-11 16:15: Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex (Andreas Keller, University of Basel)