Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience


2006-10-02 16:30: PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF CORTICAL CIRCUITS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE (Prof. Sacha Nelson, Brandeis University USA)

2006-10-23 16:30: THE ANALYSIS OF VISUAL MOTION (Prof. Tony Movshon New York University USA)

2006-11-06 16:30: A MOTOR CORTICAL NETWORK FOR VISUALLY GUIDED GRASP IN PRIMATES (Prof. Roger Lemon Institute of Neurology London)

2006-11-13 16:30: CORTICAL CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN HUMAN PREMOTOR, MOTOR AND PARIETAL CORTEX EXPLORED WITH TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (Prof. John Rothwell Institute of Neurology London)

2006-11-20 16:30: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE NON-LINEAR:  CHARACTERISING AUDITORY CORTICAL RESPONSES TO COMPLEX SOUNDS (Dr. Jennifer Linden Ear Institute London)

2006-11-27 16:30: GREY MATTER(S) (Prof. Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg Germany)

2006-12-04 16:30: Potassium channel diversity at the synaptic interface: Fast EPSCs and delayed rectification (Prof. Ian Forsythe University of Leicester)

2007-01-15 16:30: BEFORE AND AFTER GRANDMOTHER CELLS (Professor Horace Barlow, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-01-22 16:30: THE CEREBELLAR BASIS OF MOTOR LEARNING (Prof. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen, Germany)

2007-01-30 16:30: CHOICE AND CHANCE: LIMITATIONS AND EXTENSIONS OF THE LATER MODEL (Dr. Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-02-05 16:30: THE HUNGRY BRAIN: ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND NEURAL FUNCTION (Professor Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology)

2007-02-19 16:30: THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA (Prof. Paul Bolam, University of Oxford)

2007-02-26 16:30: WHY BASSO IS MACHO: FROM COCHLEA TO CORTEX, SIZE MATTERS IN HEARING (Professor Roy Patterson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-03-05 16:30: HUMAN PERCEPTION OF CHANGES IN NATURAL VISUAL SCENES, AND A VISUAL-CORTEX BASED MODEL OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATIONS (Dr. David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2007-03-19 16:30: “CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING HIPPOCAMPAL GAMMA-FREQUENCY ("40 HZ") NETWORK OSCILLATIONS” (Dr. Ole Paulsen University of Oxford)

2007-04-23 16:30: “CIRCADIAN RHYTHM AND SLEEP DISRUPTION IN HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE:  DOES IT PLAY A ROLE IN NEUROLOGICAL DECLINE?” (Dr. Jenny Morton, Department of Pharmacology)

2007-04-30 16:30: “A HOLISTIC MODEL OF BINAURAL HEARING IN MAMMALS” (Professor David McAlpine Ear Institute London)

2007-05-07 16:30: “PHEROMONAL SIGNALLING IN MICE” (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology)

2007-05-14 16:30: "SHIFTING VIEWS OF FRONTO-STRIATAL FUNCTION: NEUROMODULATORY MECHANISMS" (Professor Trevor Robbins, Deptartment of Experimental Psychology)

2007-06-11 16:30: “SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SIGNAL PROCESSING WITHIN THE INPUT LAYER OF THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX” (Professor Angus Silver, University College London)

2007-06-18 16:30: “PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF HUMAN SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL” (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering)

2007-11-26 16:30: “From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?” (Prof. Nikos Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)

2008-01-21 16:30: How the brain decides where and when to look (Prof. Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt University)

2008-01-28 16:30: Relating brain and behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg)

2008-02-04 16:30: Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from impulsive actions to compulsive habits. (Prof. Barry Everitt, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-18 16:30: Attentional modulation of visual motion processing: Space, feature and objects (Prof. Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen)

2008-02-25 16:30: Beyond Localization: What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us (Prof. Dick Passingham, University of Oxford)

2008-05-05 16:30: Learning to localize sound (Prof. Andrew King, University of Oxford)

2008-05-19 16:30: Dendritic recordings in vivo - the role of inhibition in shaping dendritic activity (Prof. Matthew Larkum, University of Bern)

2008-05-26 16:30: Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg)

2008-06-02 16:30: Functions of Electrical Junctions in the Thalamocortical System (Prof. Barry Connors, Brown University.)

2008-06-09 16:30: The Economy of the Mind (Prof. Michael Platt, Duke University)

2008-10-13 16:30: Grid cells and spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex (Prof. May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute, Trondheim)

2008-10-27 16:30: Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their precursors: its role in oligodendrocyte development and white matter disease (Prof. David Attwell, University College London)

2008-11-17 16:30: Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by myosin molecules and ion channels in hair cells of the inner ear (Prof. James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University)

2008-11-24 16:30: Building Neural Representations of Habits (Prof. Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2008-12-01 16:30: Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Retina (Prof. Heinz Waessle, Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt)

2008-12-08 16:30: SNAREs, synaptotagmin, and fusion pores (Meyer Jackson, Dept. of Physiology, University of Wisconsin)

2009-01-19 16:30: A genetic approach to understanding the molecular basis of auditory function (Prof. Karen Steel, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2009-02-02 16:30: From Cell Signaling to Function in Large-Scale Neural Networks (Prof. Jorn Hounsgaard, University of Copenhagen)

2009-02-09 16:30: Measuring and modelling the development of ordered nerve connections (Prof. David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh)

2009-02-23 16:30: Useful signals from motor cortex (Prof. Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh)

2009-03-02 16:30: Amazing TRP channels: from Aristotle´s five senses to TRPpathies (Prof. Bernd Nilius, University of Leuven)

2009-04-27 16:30: Synaptic mechanisms of neocortical sensory processing (Prof. Carl Petersen, Lausanne)

2009-05-11 16:30: TRPV1: hot new channels in the hippocampus (Prof. Julie Kauer, Brown University)

2009-05-18 16:30: Delays and coincidences in spatial hearing (Prof. Philip Joris, University of Leuven)

2009-10-12 16:30: Computational modeling of long-range connections in superficial layers of visual cortex V1 (Steven Zucker, Yale University)

2009-10-19 16:30: Investigating the firing properties of motoneurones with dynamic clamp and modelling (Claude Meunier René Descartes University, Paris.)

2009-11-02 16:30: “Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”. (Wulfram Gerstner EPFL.)

2009-11-09 16:30: “Nociception and pain in early life: the emergence of endogenous control systems”. (Maria Fitzgerald, UCL.)

2009-11-16 16:30: “Olfaction as a model for brain organization: from Adrian to the present”. (Gordon Shepherd, Yale University.)

2009-11-23 16:30: “How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”. (Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried.)

2010-01-25 16:30: The ins and outs of hearing: amplification and coding in the mammalian cochlea (Jonathan Ashmore, UCL.)

2010-02-22 16:30: CANCELLED "Wiring the brain: how axons are guided to their targets" (Prof. Christine Holt, PDN.)

2010-03-01 16:30: It’s all about context: How the auditory system helps us notice change (Katrin Krumbholz, University of Nottingham.)

2010-04-19 16:30: “Auditory processing in a "simple" nervous system: Lessons learned from crickets”. (Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology.)

2010-05-10 16:30: “Building the cognitive map - integration of metric and non-metric inputs by entorhinal and hippocampal neurons”. (Kate Jeffery, UCL.)

2010-05-17 16:30: “To switch, or not to switch: how the brain answers the question”. (Angela Roberts, PDN.)

2010-10-18 16:30: RNA based therapies for neurological and muscle disease (Matthew Wood, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

2010-10-25 16:30: Synaptic processing of visual information in the retina of zebra fish (Leon Lagnado, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2010-11-08 16:30: The role of temporal fine structure in the perception of pitch and speech; influences of hearing loss and age (Brian Moore, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University)

2010-11-22 16:30: Optogenetics: development and application (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University)

2010-11-29 16:30: From reward to Punishment and Invigoration to Inhibition (Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UC London)

2010-12-06 16:30: Neural Circuits for rapid perceptual decisions under uncertainty (Zach Mainen, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)

2011-01-24 16:30: Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex (Matteo Carandini, Institute of Ophthalmology, UC London)

2011-01-31 16:30: What it takes to become an auditory relay synapse (Gerard Borst, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam)

2011-02-14 16:30: Brain neurons switch each other into pacemaker mode to drive locomotion (Wen-Chang-Li, School of University Sciences, University of St. Andrews)

2011-02-21 16:30: Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus (Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford)

2011-02-21 16:30: Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus (Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford:)

2011-02-28 16:30: The ‘in’ and ‘out’ of hippocampal GABAergic interneurons (Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Vienna)

2011-03-07 16:30: Neural circuits co-ordinating sleep, feeding and reward (Denis Burdakov, Dept of Pharmacology, Cambridge University)

2011-03-14 16:30: Making sense of scents, the mammalian olfactory system (Stuart Firestein, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York)

2011-05-09 16:30: The adaption of rod photoreceptors to light (Gordon Fain, Department of Physiological Science, University of California, USA)

2011-10-24 16:30: Optogenetics and Other Neural Circuit Analysis Tools (Ed Boyden MIT, Cambridge, USA)

2011-11-21 16:30: Oscillations and Neural Syntax (Gyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers, Newark, USA)

2012-01-23 16:30: Oscillatory dynamics in the hippocampus: a model system to study information routing in the brain (Dimitri Kullman, Queen Square, London)

2012-01-30 16:30: Physicians as Scientists: Abnormal eye movement seen in the clinic can teach us how the brain works (David Zee, Johns Hopkins University,  Baltimore, Maryland, USA & John Leigh, Case Western Reserve University, CLeveland, Ohio, USA)

2012-02-06 16:30: Wiring the brain: RNA-based mechanisms in guiding axon growth (Christine Holt, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-13 15:30: Brain maps for space (Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway)

2012-02-20 16:30: Biological precursors of the number sense (Andreas Nieder, University of Tubingen, Germany)

2012-03-05 16:30: Dynamic regulation of dopamine transmission in the striatum (Stephanie Cragg, University of Oxford)

2012-03-12 16:30: Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo (Jackie Schiller, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Tecnion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

2012-04-30 16:30: Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat. (Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)

2012-05-14 16:30: Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours (Tamas Freund. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary)

2012-11-12 16:30: Genetic Dissection of the Fly Visual Course Control (Axel Borst)

2012-11-19 16:30: Adrian Lecture Cancelled (Eve Marder. Brandeis University, Mass. USA)

2013-01-21 16:30: Inhibition and Odour discrimination in mice (Andreas Schaefer Heidelberg)

2013-01-28 16:30: Memory codes and their transformation in bee brain (Randolf Menzel, Frieie University of Berlin)

2013-02-04 16:30: Neuropharmacology of visual attention in visual cortex (Alex Thiele University of Newcastle)

2013-02-11 16:30: Circuit mechanisms of oscillations and representation of space in the entorhinal cortex (Matt Nolan, University of Edinburgh)

2013-02-18 16:30: On the Evolution of Reward Signals: A Computational Just-So Story (Andy Barto, University of Massachusetts)

2013-02-25 16:30: Tools for the Brain: Using neural interfaces to restore motor function (Andrew Jackson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Insitute of Neuroscience)

2013-03-11 16:30: Imaging Tools To Reverse Engineer The Brain (Winfried Denk. Director of Max Planck Institute for Medical Research)

2013-04-22 16:30: The self-tuning neuron- homeostatic plasticity in visualcortical circuitry (Gina Turrigiano. Brandeis University, Massachusetts)

2013-10-14 16:30: Imaging Neuronal and Behavioural Activity in the Freely Moving Animal: What are they looking at? (Jason Kerr, Max Planck Institute of Biological Sciences)

2013-10-21 16:30: Functional Modules: How do we get them and what good are they? (Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School)

2013-11-04 16:30: Peripheral Pain Mechanisms (John Wood, University College Londaon (UCL) )

2013-11-25 16:30: Sifting Circuits for Motor Control.  (Tom Jessell. Columbia University, New York City)

2014-01-27 16:30: The first steps in vision: computation and repair.  (Botond Roska. Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.)

2014-02-03 16:30: It takes two to tango: The cerrebellum simplified into two types of modules with two encoding schemes (Professor Chris de Zeeuw. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam and the Netherands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam)

2014-02-10 16:30: Choice and value: a behavioural ecologist's perspective on animal preferences (Alex Kacelnik. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2014-02-17 16:30: Ten Ways To A Better Brain (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-24 16:30: The different perceptual worlds in which we live (Prof. John Mollon, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-03 16:30: Brain power: where does it come form and how is it used. (David Attwell, University College, London)

2014-03-10 16:30: Adaptive Coding in the Auditory System (Andrew King, University of Oxford)

2014-05-12 16:30: Insights into the moecular basis of of neurodegenerative disease. (Prof. Graham Collingridge, University of Bristol)

2014-10-13 16:30: The neuroeconomics of complex social valuation (Colin Camerer. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

2014-10-20 16:30: Inhibition and adaptationin the outer retina - Intiguing synaptic mechanisms with unexpected molecular players (Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

2014-11-24 16:30: The Philippe Wiener Lecture. "From Human pluripotent stem cells to cortial circuits: towards brain disease modeling and repair." (Pierre Vanderhaeghen. Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Brussels, Belgium)

2014-12-01 16:30: The Annual Adrian Lecture. "The flow of information underlying a tactile decision." (Dr Karel Svoboda. Janelia Farm, USA.)

2015-01-19 16:30: How developmental origin determines microcircuit function in the hippocampus.  (Rosa Cossart Institute for Neuroscence, Montpellier)

2015-01-26 16:30: Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Branching and Synoptogenicsm in Fly and Frog CNS (Dietmar Schmucker. VIB Vesalius Research Centre, KULeuven)

2015-02-02 16:30: Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit (Naoshige Uchinda, Harvard University)

2015-02-09 16:30: Adaptive Codes for flexible behaviour in the human brain. (Zoe Kourtzi. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-02 16:30: Local Transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons (Erin Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

2015-03-09 16:30: New perspectives on cochlear nerve degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss (Charles Liberman. Harvard Medical School)

2015-04-27 16:30: Neural circuits underlying operant learning in larval zebrafish. (Prof. Florian Engert. Harvard University)

2015-05-11 16:30: NMDA receptors: diversity, molecular mechanisms and synaptic regulation. (Prof. Pierre Paoletti. École Normale Supérieure, Paris.)

2015-10-12 16:30: Distilling the true neural correlate of consciousness: have we looked in all the wrong places? (Melanie Wilke, University of Gottingen, Germany)

2015-10-26 16:30: Biophysics of the inner ear and beyond (Tobias Reichenbach, Imperial College London)

2015-11-02 16:30: Light Sleep (Gero Miesenboek University of Innsbruck)

2015-11-09 16:30: Contrasting roles of prefrontal cortical areas in reward-guided learning and decision making. (Matthew Rushworth.  University of Oxford)

2015-11-23 16:30: Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Social Behavior Circuits in the Mouse (Catherine DuLac, Harvard University)

2015-11-30 16:30: Temporal Expectations in the Human Brain (Professor Kia Nobre)

2016-01-18 16:30: Human cerebral cortex development and disease in stem cell systems (Dr Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-25 16:30: "Plastic Transcriptomes and Proteomes at Synapses" (Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

2016-02-08 16:30: "Function and modulation of sensory TRP channels" (Thomas Voets, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, University of Leuven, Belgium)

2016-02-22 16:30: "Breaking symmetry in the brain –  from genes to circuits and behaviour" (Steve Wilson, University College London)

2016-02-29 16:30: "Neurobiology of Economic Decisions" (Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Washington University, St Louis)

2016-03-07 16:30: "Pathways specifying cell fates in the Drosophila CNS”.  (Stefan Thor, Linkoping University, Sweden)

2016-05-09 16:30: "Hijacking of NMDA receptor signalling by tumors" (Professor Douglas Hanahan, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

2016-10-10 16:30: "How to sample a reliable neural estimate of the variable world" (Mikko Juusola, Professor of Systems Neuroscience, University of Sheffield)

2016-10-24 16:30: "Sound encoding in the cochlea: from molecular physiology to optogenetic restoration" (Tobias Moser, Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany)

2016-11-21 16:30: Adrian Seminar Series - Annual Lecture "How Do You Feel? Ion channels that sense mechanical force" (Ardem Patapoutian, The Scripps Research Institute, California)

2016-12-05 16:30: "Negative-feedback control of cortical activity by the neuromodulator adenosine" PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE (Magnus Richardson, University of Warwick)

2017-01-23 16:30: "The visual cortex as a cognitive blackboard" (Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

2017-02-13 16:30: "Turning glia into neurons - from scar formation to repair" (Magdalena Goetz, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen)

2017-02-20 16:30: "Modeling others during social exchange: neuroimaging and neuromodulatory correlates" (Read Montague, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and University College London)

2017-02-27 16:30: "Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity" (Oscar Marin, King's College London)

2017-03-06 16:30: "Variability, robustness and modulation in neurons and networks" (Eve Marder, Brandeis University USA)

2017-05-08 16:30: Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation (Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen)

2017-05-15 16:30: "Circular Inference in schizophrenia...and all of us" (Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris)

2017-10-09 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task" (Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas)

2017-10-30 16:30: TODAY: Adrian Seminar - "Functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mammalian CNS" - David Rowitch (David Rowitch, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-06 16:30: TODAY: Adrian Seminar - Corinne Houart "Modulation of embryonic signalling activities controls forebrain size and complexity" (Corinne Houart, King's College London)

2017-11-27 16:30: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience - ANNUAL LECTURE Rachel Wilson "Neural correlates of orienting behaviors and latent action biases"  (Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School)

2018-01-22 16:30: TODAY! Adrian Seminar - "Plasticity of the adult visual cortex in human" - Concetta Morrane, University of Pisa, Italy (Concetta Morrone, University of Pisa)

2018-01-29 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - A remarkable combination of skills in hunting archerfish   (Stefan Schuster, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

2018-02-05 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory" (Tim Bliss, University College London)

2018-02-12 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Starting new actions and learning from it" (Rui Costa, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia)

2018-02-26 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Functional synaptic architecture of visual cortex" (David Fitzpatrick, Research Group Leader & Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience)

2018-03-05 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Physiological and genetic heterogeneity in hearing loss" (Karen Steel, King's College London)

2018-03-12 16:30: Adrian Seminar: Ensemble coding in amygdala circuits (Andreas Luthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute Basel, Switzerland)

2018-10-08 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Neural motion" (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

2018-10-15 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Probing computations in neural circuits using single-neuron perturbations" (Chris Harvey, Harvard Medical School)

2018-10-22 16:30: Adrian Seminar Series - ANNUAL LECTURE - "Transforming thought into action using bidirectional brain-machine interfaces (Richard Andersen, California Institute of Technology)

2018-10-29 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Probing the molecular basis of extreme physiology using African mole-rats" (Gary Lewin, Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin)

2018-11-12 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks". (William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2018-11-19 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Circuit principles of memory-based behaviour choice". (Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-26 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus". (Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London)

2019-01-21 16:30: Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys (Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

2019-01-28 16:30: Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior ( Fritjof Helmchen,  Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)

2019-02-04 16:30: Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations (Troy Margrie)

2019-02-11 16:30: Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila (Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

2019-02-25 16:30: The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy (Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC))

2019-03-07 16:30: Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration (Frank Bradke, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.)

2019-05-20 16:30: The mechanics and biophysics of getting in touch (   Miriam Goodman, Beckmann Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA)

2019-06-17 16:30: New ideas on the organization of neural circuitry (Larry Swanson, University of Southern California)

2019-10-14 16:30: Towards a brain architecture for visual behavior selection (Gwyneth Card, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA)

2019-10-28 16:30: Synapse specific homeostatic responses to sensory deprivation (Tara Keck, Division of Biosciences, University College London)

2019-11-18 16:30: In search of the molecules of memory - ANNUAL LECTURE (Roger Nicoll, University of California San Francisco)

2019-11-25 16:30: Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond (David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience)

2019-12-02 16:30: The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale (Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France)

2019-12-09 18:30: Blood is thicker than water (Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

2020-01-27 16:30: The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits (Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience)

2020-02-03 16:30: Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of working memory and decision making (Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)

2020-02-10 16:30: Where does value come from? (Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2020-11-30 16:00: Two brains in action: Neural mechanisms in frontal and paietal cortex of monkeys (Alexandra Battaglia Mayer - SAPIENZA - Università di Roma)

2020-12-21 19:00: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Gut Feelings About the Brain (John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland )

2021-01-25 16:00: Restless engrams: the origin of continually reconfiguring neural representations (Tim O'Leary, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-01 16:00: From visual representation of space to schemas in the primate hippocampus (Sylvia Wirth)

2021-02-08 16:00: Tools for Analyzing and Repairing the Brain (Ed Boyden, MIT Department of Biological Engineering)

2021-02-15 16:00: Visual learning and attention in mice: behavioural strategies and neural circuit change (Jasper Poort, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-22 16:00: Chandelier cells: shining a light on the emergence and plasticity of GABAergic synapses (Juan Burrone ( MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College, London) )

2021-03-08 16:00: The real-time formation of the hippocampal cognitive map (Julija Krupic, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-15 16:00: Adaptive brain computations for perceptual decisions (Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-10 16:00: Functions of the primate amygdala in decision-making and social cognition (Fabian Grabenhorst, PDN, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-17 16:00: The social brain in adolescence (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2021-10-11 16:15: Neuronal heterogeneity and plasticity in the olfactory bulb (Elisa Galliano (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-18 16:15: Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit (Indira Raman, Dept Neurobiology, Northwestern Univ, Evanston IL)

2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-01 16:15: Using the marmoset prefontal cortex to understand psychiatric symptoms: schizophrenia and hippocampal-prefrontal circuitry (Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn))

2021-11-08 16:15: Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity (Nathalie Rochefort, Centre for discovery, Brain Sciences, Edinburgh)

2021-11-08 16:15: Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity (Nathalie Rochefort)

2021-11-15 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten)

2021-11-22 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten)

2021-11-29 16:15: Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits (Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge))

2021-12-06 18:00: How does the brain figure out the structure of problems? (Tim Behrens, University of Oxford)

2022-02-07 16:15: Neural control of innate behaviors and internal states (David J Anderson, Calthech, Pasadena, CA)

2022-02-14 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal)

2022-02-21 16:15: Neurodegeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model (Andras Lakatos, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2022-03-07 16:15: Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons - dendrites, soma and axons (Zayd Khaliq, NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD)

2022-03-14 16:15: Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions (Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

2022-04-25 16:15: Cell-type-specific vulnerability, degeneration and repair  in a novel human organoid neuraxis model (András Lakatos, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2022-05-02 16:15: Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair (Magdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

2022-05-09 16:15: Aversive cognition: inference, learning and control  of aversive states in the human brain (Flavia Mancini, Department of Engineering)

2022-05-16 16:15: On the neural language of the cerebellum (Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,  Baltimore, MD, USA)

2022-05-23 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal)

2022-10-10 16:15: Anterior Insula and Prospect Theory (Veit Stuphorn,  Department of Neuroscience, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)

2022-10-17 16:15: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Paul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2022-10-24 16:15: Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour (Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and  German Primate Center, Göttingen)

2022-11-07 16:15: Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders (Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2022-11-28 16:15: The enigmatic and integrative claustrum (Adam Packer, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford)

2022-12-05 18:30: Neuroscience in artistic cartoons (Paul Apicella,  Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France  )

2023-01-23 16:15: The paths to compulsion: new insights into the factors that shape the vulnerability to develop compulsive disorders (David Belin, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2023-01-30 16:15: Of odour plumes and synchrotrons -  structure and function in neural circuits (Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2023-02-06 16:15: Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive embodiment of artificial limbs (Tamar Makin, MRC-CBSU, Cambridge )

2023-02-13 16:15: Visual information processing in mice –  from the retina to cortex (Katrin Franke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, U.S.A)

2023-02-20 16:15: ADRIAN LECTURE: Region-selective hippocampus contributions to altered cognition in aging (Carol Barnes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

2023-02-27 16:15: Myelin plasticity - a mechanism for learning and repair? (Thora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge)

2023-03-20 16:15: Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis (Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford)

2023-05-09 16:15: Neural mechanisms for credit assignment and model building (Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University )

2023-05-15 16:15: Advanced optical approaches to reveal the neural code underlying sensory perception (Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova)

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)

2023-10-23 16:15: From Modulation of Neurons and Small Networks to Climate Change (Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.)

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)

2023-11-24 12:00: Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity  within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2 (Sreedharan Sajikumar, Dept of Physiology, NUS, Singapore)

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

2023-12-04 18:30: Adrian Christmas Lecture: Wiring the Brain and Local Translation (Christine Holt, PDN, 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)

2024-02-26 16:15: ANNUAL LECTURE: Saving the Synapse in Development and Alzheimer’s Disease (Carla Shatz, Stanford University, U.S.A. )

2024-03-04 16:15: Estradiol feedback on the reproductive neuroendocrine system (Sue Moenter, University of Michigan, U.S.A. )

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 )

2024-12-16 18:30: Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany  )

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)

2025-02-10 16:30: ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment (Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and  Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland )

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)

2025-12-15 18:30: A fishy study: from ecology to cognition to brains (Adrian Christmas lecture) (Redouan Bshary, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

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)

2026-02-16 16:15: Brainwide sequences of neural activity (Matteo Carandini, University College London)

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)