List 1


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

2006-10-05 16:00: From sodium pump to calcium pump - going round in circles? (Prof. Roger Thomas, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-12 16:00: Chipping away at genome regulation (Dr Rob White, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-12 16:00: (feed)-Back to the Future: (feed)-Forward thinking on the interplay between Golgi cells and granule cells in the cerebellum (Dr Tahl Holtzman, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-19 16:00: Roles of feedback regulation of signaling in kidney and brain development (Prof. Ivor Mason, King's College London)

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

2006-10-26 16:00: Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia (Dr Matthieu Vermeren, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-10-26 16:00: Neuronal excitability is controlled by pH - but the pH of what? (Schwiening Lab, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-02 16:00: Programming the blood & cardiovascular system in Xenopus & zebrafish embryos (Prof. Roger Patient, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

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

2006-11-09 16:00: How does the cytoskeleton regulate cell shape during morphogenesis? (Dr Katja Roper, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-09 16:00: New brain cells for old - neurogenesis in the adult brain: what happens and does it matter? (Prof. Joe Herbert, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

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)

2006-11-16 16:00: Motor neuron degeneration and legs at odd angles (Prof. Elizabeth Fisher)

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)

2006-11-21 16:00: The chemical synapse goes electric: GPCRs, voltage and beyond (Profs. Itzchak & Hanna Parnas; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

2006-11-23 16:00: Dynamics of gamma oscillations in the neocortex (Dr Hugh Robinson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2006-11-23 16:00: Functions, mechanisms and evolution of genomic imprinting (Dr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

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

2006-11-30 16:00: Domains of the electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 that contribute to function, expression, and ion translocation (Prof. Mark Bevensee; Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham)

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)

2007-01-18 16:00: Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits (Prof. Steve Wilson, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, UCL)

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

2007-01-25 16:00: E.solo and E.pluribus: two new experimental organisms (Prof. Dennis Bray, PDN)

2007-01-25 16:30: Modelling of primary processes in Drosophila phototransduction (Dr. Marten Postma, Hardie Lab, PDN)

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

2007-02-01 16:30: Selectivity in the expression of pre- and post-synaptic mechanisms in cortical circuits (Prof. Alex Thomson, School of Pharmacy, London)

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

2007-02-15 16:00: Epithelial Physiology: facts, fantasies and fun (Prof. Richard Boyd, University of Oxford)

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

2007-02-22 16:00: Plasticity of neuron to astrocyte signalling in the cerebellum (Dr. Tom Bellamy, Babraham Institute)

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)

2007-03-01 16:00: Sweet dreams: new pathways of glucose-sensing in the brain (Dr. Denis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology)

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)

2007-03-08 16:00: Imaging neurulation in the zebrafish embryo (Dr. Richard Adams, PDN)

2007-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Sarah Bray, PDN)

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)

2007-04-26 16:00: Experience Dependent Mechanisms of Visual System Development (Prof. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor)

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

2007-05-03 16:00: An interaction between the Trk and EphA tyrosine kinase families controls retinotectal topography (Dr. Uwe Drescher, King's College 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)

2007-05-17 16:00: Prenatal Origins of Heart Disease: The Role of Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Dr. Dino Giussani, PDN)

2007-05-17 16:30: The vital role of kissing in reproduction (Dr. Bill Colledge, PDN)

2007-05-24 16:00: Central circuits that subserve pain of different behavioural significance and their descending control (Dr. Bridget Lumb, University of Bristol)

2007-05-31 16:00: Arrhythmogenic mechanisms in the isolated perfused hypokalemic murine heart (Prof. Chris Huang, PDN)

2007-05-31 16:30: Platelet Store-operated Ca2+ entry: The NCX trips up the TRP (Dr. Stewart Sage, PDN)

2007-06-07 16:00: Axon and dendrite geography predict the specificity of synaptic connections in a functioning spinal cord network (Prof. Alan Roberts, University of Bristol)

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

2007-06-14 16:00: Pluripotency and the early embryo: overriding development for production of embryonic stem cells (Dr. Jenny Nichols, PDN/Stem Cell Institute)

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

2007-10-04 16:00: Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegans (Dr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2007-10-11 16:00: Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning? (Prof. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL)

2007-10-18 16:00: Understanding actions. (Dr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL)

2007-10-25 16:00: Sides, bottom and top; diverse mechanisms of cell adhesion (Dr Nick Brown, PDN)

2007-10-25 16:30: Mesoderm formation in vertebrates - Identifying transcriptional targets of No tail in zebrafish (Dr Fiona Wardle, PDN)

2007-11-01 16:00: Teenagers: A Natural History (Dr David Bainbridge, PDN)

2007-11-01 16:30: Adapting a bacterial enzyme for gene therapy in the central nervous system. (Dr John Rogers, PDN)

2007-11-08 16:00: Mechanisms of Regulating Epidermal Stem Cell Fate (Dr Michaela Frye, PDN)

2007-11-08 16:30: Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cord (Dr Katharine Lewis, PDN)

2007-11-15 16:00: Pain processing - what the brain tells the spinal cord (Prof. Anthony Dickenson, UCL)

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)

2008-01-17 16:00: Reward and uncertainty (Dr Wolfram Schultz (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-01-17 16:30: Horses for courses in intrauterine programming (Dr Abby Fowden (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

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

2008-01-24 16:00: Chromatin and pluripotency (Dr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London))

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

2008-01-31 16:00: Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair. (Dr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair))

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

2008-02-07 16:00: Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope? (Dr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair))

2008-02-14 16:00: The secret life of neural stem cells (Dr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-02-14 16:30: Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia. (Dr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

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

2008-02-21 16:00: Early intracellular Abeta amyloid pathology and its relevance to Alzheimer's therapeutics (Dr Claudio Cuello (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada))

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

2008-02-28 16:00: The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identity (Dr Clare Baker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-02-28 16:30: The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury (Dr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-03-06 16:00: Computational modelling of structural and functional development of the visual system. (Dr Stephen Eglen (DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Science))

2008-04-24 16:00: Placental evolution, structure and function. (Dr Peter Wooding, PDN)

2008-04-24 16:30: Phototransduction in Drosophila. (Professor Roger Hardie, PDN)

2008-05-01 16:00: Stem cell renewal and lineage selection in mammalian epidermis. (Dr Fiona Watt, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge)

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

2008-05-08 16:00: Analysis of cell movement in early embryos. (Dr Benedicte Sanson, PDN)

2008-05-08 16:30: Imaging sub-cellular pH dynamics: from synapse to acinus. (Dr Christof Schwiening, PDN)

2008-05-15 16:00: The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility. (Dr Paul Burgoyne, NIMR, MRC, London)

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

2008-05-22 16:00: Struggling to measure the number of protons pumped in by the calcium pump in snail neurones. (Professor Roger Thomas, PDN)

2008-05-22 16:30: A magnesium-inhibitable conductance hyperpolarises the resting membrane potential of the human erythroleukemia cell line (Dr Michael Mason)

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

2008-05-29 16:00: Why does it hurt so much? Understanding the neurobiology of pain. (Professor Steve McMahon, King’s College, London)

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

2008-06-05 16:00: To Cross or Not To Cross? Transcriptional Control of Axonal Pathfinding Choices. (Dr Sara I. Wilson, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York)

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

2008-10-09 16:00: Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration (Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

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

2008-10-16 16:00: Consider the mother as a pressure vessel: Adventures in Bioengineering and Obstetrics (Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering, Cambridge)

2008-10-23 16:00: Synaptic specificity in the visual system (Josh Sanes, Harvard University)

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)

2008-10-30 16:00: Axons, ions and injury: why synaptic machinery is present in your white matter and what it means for your chances during stroke (Robert Fern, University of Leicester)

2008-11-06 16:00: Controlling neural stem cell fates in the Drosophila optic lobe (Boris Egger, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-06 16:00: Motor learning and the cerebellum: more of those blinking bunnies (Steve Edgley, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-13 16:00: Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish (Catherina Becker, University of Edinburgh)

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)

2008-11-20 16:00: Disease, experiment and physiology (James Fitzsimons, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-20 16:00: Measuring osmotic modulation of synaptic responses (Richard Dyball, University of Cambridge)

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

2008-11-27 16:00: Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention (Mani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin)

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

2008-12-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Magda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge)

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

2009-01-15 16:00: The Music of Life: metaphors for 21st century biology (Denis Noble, University of Oxford)

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

2009-01-22 16:00: Tonic inhibition regulates the transfer of sensory information through the cerebellar cortex (Ian Duguid)

2009-01-29 16:00: New insights into neurogenic hypertension (Julian Paton, University of Bristol)

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)

2009-02-12 16:00: Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord Injury (James Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)

2009-02-19 16:00: RNA-based guidance in axons (Christine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

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

2009-02-26 16:00: Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomains (Clive Orchard, University of Bristol)

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

2009-03-05 16:00: G L Brown prize lecture: "And the beat goes on. The cardiac conduction system: the wiring of the heart" (Mark Boyett, University of Manchester)

2009-03-18 16:00: Molecular and computational aspects of neuronal motility (Professor Vincent Torre, SISSA, Trieste)

2009-04-23 16:00: Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing? (David Berry, University of Cambridge)

2009-04-23 16:00: Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing? (Horace Barlow, University of Cambridge)

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

2009-04-30 16:00: Epigenetic control of genome function - physiology development and neuroscience of genomic imprinting in mouse (Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-07 16:00: Connexins and carbonic anhydrases: pH regulators in heart and in cancer (Richard Vaughan-Jones, University of Oxford)

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

2009-05-14 16:00: Function and regulation of the PTEN tumour suppressor in neurons: from axon guidance to soma size control (Britta Eickholt, King's College London)

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

2009-05-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge)

2009-09-28 16:00: How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIF (Professor Randall Johnson (University of California))

2009-10-08 16:00: "Shaping the amniote embryo: the cellular mechanisms of chick morphogenesis (Octavian Voiculescu, Dept of PDN)

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

2009-10-15 16:00: Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (David Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge)

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

2009-10-22 16:00: Cancelled (Enrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich)

2009-10-29 16:00: 'Understanding the MRC's failure to fund Edwards' and Steptoe's work that led to the birth of Louise Brown (Martin Johnson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

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

2009-11-05 16:00: "Chromatin architecture and transcription: a view form the fly genome" (Steve Russell, Dept of Genetics, Cambridge)

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

2009-11-12 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Steve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge)

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

2009-11-19 16:00: Clockwork in the embryo (Julian lewis)

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

2009-11-26 16:00: The importance of context in protein misfolding and aggregation (Anne Bertolotti, MRC LMB, Cambridge)

2009-12-02 16:00: Obesity and insulin resistance: Lessons from human genetics (Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

2009-12-03 16:00: A systems approach to cellular shape and motion (Professor Jonathon Howard, Director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

2010-01-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lopez-Barneo)

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

2010-01-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Emma Rawlins)

2010-02-11 16:00: "Useful or just trendy? Using physics to solve biological problems" (Dr Miodownik- King's College London)

2010-02-18 16:00: Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’ (Prof Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, Cambridge)

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

2010-02-25 16:00: "Development and organisation of connectivity in an embryonic motor (Dr Matthias Landgraf)

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

2010-03-04 16:00: ‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’ (Prof Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast)

2010-03-11 16:00: Molecular and cellular mechanisms for cold sensing' (Prof Carlos Belmonte)

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)

2010-10-28 16:00: Motor circuit dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Dr. Wendy Imlach, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York)

2010-11-04 16:00: Analysis of synaptic connectivity and function in the cerebellum in vivo (Prof Henrik Jörntell, Lund University, Sweden)

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)

2010-11-11 16:00: The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration (Prof Jeremy Brockes, University College London)

2010-11-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2010-11-25 16:00: Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts (Prof Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela)

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

2010-12-02 16:00: On the Role of Nitrogen Oxides in Acclimatization/Adaptation to Hypoxia (Prof Martin Feelisch, University of Warwick)

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

2011-01-20 16:00: Neurons feel the force ‐ Mechanosensitivity in the nervous system (Dr Kristian Franze, Dept of Physics & Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge)

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

2011-01-27 16:00: Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis (Dr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine)

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)

2011-02-03 16:00: How form shapes function; from sensory neurones to the organisation of the primate cortex (Dr 
Mikko 
Juusola, 
Dept 
of 
Biomedical 
Science,
 Univ 
of 
Sheffield)

2011-02-10 16:00: Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thing (Prof
. Anne 
Cooke, 
Dept 
of 
Pathology, Univ of 
Cambridge)

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)

2011-02-17 16:00: Physical aspects of collective cell migration (Dr 
Alexandre 
Kabla, 
Dept 
of 
Engineering, Univ of 
Cambridge)

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)

2011-03-03 16:00: Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets? (Dr 
John 
Coates, 
Judge 
Business 
School, Univ of 
Cambridge)

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

2011-03-10 16:00: Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons (Dr
 Karri 
Lamsa,
 Dept 
of 
Pharmacology, 
Univ 
of 
Oxford)

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

2011-04-28 16:00: Intrinsically irregular spiking in a class of cortical inhibitory interneuron (Dr Hugh Robinson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ of Cambridge)

2011-05-05 16:00: Loopy Lungs in Alligators (Prof Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)

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

2011-05-12 16:00: Calcium channels of vascular remodelling (Prof David J Beech, Inst of Membrane & Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Univ of Leeds)

2011-05-19 16:00: Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology (Dr
 Brian 
Billups, 
Dept of 
Pharmacology, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-05-26 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss Using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof Pete Coffey, Inst of Ophthalmology, University College London)

2011-10-13 16:00: Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues. (Prof. Enrico Coen, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre)

2011-10-14 16:00: Dynamic aspects of the function and stoichiometry of ion channel complexes (Prof. Yoshihiro Kubo, National Institute for Physiological Science, Japan)

2011-10-20 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL)

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

2011-10-27 16:00: The egress mechanism of malaria parasites: surprising active participation of the host red cell membrane (Dr Virgilio Lew, PDN)

2011-11-03 16:00: The importance of nature (as opposed to nurture) in the development of cortical interneurons (Dr Simon Butt, Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetic, University of Oxford)

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)

2012-02-09 16:00: A sixth sense: the development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Dr Clare Baker, Dept. of PDN)

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

2012-02-16 16:00: Decision-making in animal collectives (Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain)

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

2012-02-23 16:00: Polycomb complexes co-associate with a specific RNA polymerase II variant in ES cells (Prof. Ana Pombo, Imperial College London)

2012-03-01 16:00: Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development (Prof. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex)

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

2012-03-08 16:00: Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance (Prof. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester)

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)

2012-04-26 16:00: How much calcium does caffeine release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a large snail neurone? (Prof. Roger Thomas, PDN)

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)

2012-05-03 16:00: Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands)

2012-05-10 16:00: Epo's impact on exercise performance (Prof. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland)

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

2012-05-17 16:00: Origin and properties of adult neural stem cells in the zebrafish brain: role of Notch signaling (Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif, University of Paris Sud, France)

2012-05-24 16:00: Mechanism regulating neural differentiation (Prof. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee)

2012-06-07 16:00: Sequencing nucleic acids: from chemistry to life sciences and personalised medicine (Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, Dept of Chemistry)

2012-06-14 16:00: Food for thought: visceral control of nutritional decisions in Drosophila (Dr Irene Miguel-Aliag, Dept of Zoology)

2012-10-11 16:00: The Promises of a Polychrome Retina  (Professor Bill Harris.  Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University )

2012-10-18 16:00: What is evidence-based reproductive medicine and what part did the Physiology Department in Cambridge play historically in its development? (Professor Martin Johnson. Cambridge University. )

2012-10-25 16:00: Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory (Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.)

2012-11-01 16:00: Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants (Dr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. )

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

2012-11-15 16:00: Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory Networks (Professor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego.  )

2012-11-16 10:00: A histone tail:  Pre-messenger RNA splicing and the coordinated control of gene expression (Dr Tracy Johnson. UC San Diego.)

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

2012-11-22 16:00: An as-if model of economic decision making (Dr Ian Krajbich.  Department of Economics, University of Zurich )

2013-01-17 16:00: The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders (Professor Philippa Saunders.  University of Ediburgh. )

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

2013-01-24 16:00: Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient Mice (Dr. Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera.  UCL Institute of Child Health)

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)

2013-02-07 16:00: The microvasculature - an early marker/driver of CVD risk across the life-course (Professor Geraldine Clough.  University of Southampton.  )

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

2013-02-14 16:00: Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila (Dr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.)

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

2013-02-21 16:00: Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future (Professor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. )

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)

2013-02-28 16:00: Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and disease (Dr Sue Ozanne)

2013-03-07 16:00: Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures (Professor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. )

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)

2013-05-02 16:00: Sheep Models of Human Neurodegenerative Disease. How, where and why? (Prof Jenny Morton. PDN, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-16 16:00: The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning (Dr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-23 16:00: Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis (Prof Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London)

2013-05-30 16:00: Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Prof Paul Martin.  School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. )

2013-06-13 16:00: MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease (Dr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow)

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)

2013-11-27 16:00: TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments) (Dr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology))

2014-01-16 16:00: All for one and one for all: single-cell properties in the service of circuit-level computations (Dr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-23 16:00: Dendritic Potassium Channel Regulation by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP) (Dr HyeYoung Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California in San Francisco)

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)

2014-02-20 16:00: Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation (Dr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

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

2014-02-27 16:00: Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition (Prof Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London)

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

2014-03-06 16:00: Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity (Dr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy)

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

2014-03-13 16:00: Regulation of lymphocyte development and activation by RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNA (Dr Martin Turner; Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute)

2014-04-24 16:00: Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states (Shahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development)

2014-05-08 16:00: Hippocampal network dynamics underpinning the emergence and persistence of spatial memories (David Dupret - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

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

2014-05-22 16:00: Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in Mammals (Dr. Duncan Odom - Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute at University of Cambridge.)

2014-05-29 16:00: GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease (Professor David Eisner - Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester)

2014-05-30 16:00: Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction (Prof. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute)

2014-06-05 16:00:  The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activity (Dr. Shankar Srinivas - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics - University of Oxford)

2014-06-12 16:00: The Reward Prediction Error of Dopamine Neurons: What information does it convey and how is it generated? (Dr. Christopher D. Fiorillo - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST - Daejeon, Korea)

2014-10-09 16:00: A Deadly Game of “Tag”: Insect Aerial Predation as a Model for Sensorimotor Processing (Dr. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

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

2014-10-16 16:00: Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular Disease (Professor David Paterson, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)

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

2014-10-30 16:00: Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach (Professor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology)

2014-11-06 16:00: Cell Migration & Gradient Sensing: Lessons from Zebrafish Neutrophils (Dr Milka Sarris, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience / Cambridge Immunology Network)

2014-11-13 16:00: Fronto-subcortical Circuits in Cognition & Emotion: Modulation by Serotonin, Dopamine and Glutamate (Dr Hannah Clarke, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-20 16:00: Self-Organisation of Pluripotent Cells in the Mouse Embryo (Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience & Gurdon Institute)

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.)

2014-12-04 16:00: "Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Disease: Is It All In Our Head?": Elucidating Mechanisms of Central Metabolic Control (Dr Stefan Trapp, UCL, Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience)

2015-01-15 16:00: Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix (Dr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes)

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)

2015-02-05 16:00: Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron Homeostasis (Dr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France)

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

2015-02-12 00:00: *CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB* (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-02-19 16:00: Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual System (Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden)

2015-02-26 16:00: Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain (Dr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London)

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

2015-03-05 16:00: Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction (Professor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany)

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

2015-03-12 16:00: Visual information processing and its role in fly and cephalopod behaviour. (Dr Trevor Wardill,  Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-13 17:00: BIOSCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Q&A SESSION: A personal perspective about life in the Bioscience Industry. (Dr Tim Rink, MD, ScD)

2015-04-23 16:00: Neuroimmune interactions in early development and the biological embedding of health disparities (Professor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA)

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

2015-04-30 16:00: Making, breaking and directing polarity during neural lumen formation and neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryo (Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology)

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

2015-05-28 16:00: Extreme Threats - GL Brown Prize Lecture 2015, The Physiological Society (Professor Mike Tipton, Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth)

2015-07-23 16:00: **Out-of-Term Neuroscience Seminar**   Cell Biological Insights into Parkinson’s Disease and ADHD (Professor Morgan Sheng, Vice President (Neuroscience & Molecular Biology), Genentech )

2015-09-15 12:00: Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time (Professor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY)

2015-10-01 16:00: Career Stories (Dr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson)

2015-10-08 16:00: Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (Dr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France)

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)

2015-10-15 16:00: CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions (Prof Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

2015-10-22 16:00: Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Professor Dino Giussani - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

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

2015-10-29 16:00: The Achilles' heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system (Professor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester)

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

2015-11-05 16:00: Concept cells (Prof Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester)

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

2015-11-19 16:00: Migration of neuronal and immune cells in forebrain wiring (Dr Sonia Garel, INSERM, France)

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

2015-11-26 16:00: Circuit adaptations underlying drug addiction: mechanisms and therapeutic implications (Prof Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva)

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

2015-12-03 16:00: From mesoderm mechanotransductive evolutionary origins  to tumourogenic mechanical induction (Emmanuel Farge, Institute Curie, Paris)

2016-01-14 16:00: Evolution of color and motion vision (Claude Desplan- NYU Biology)

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

2016-01-21 16:00: How the sins of your grandparents affect your health (Dr Erica Watson PDN, 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)

2016-02-11 16:00: Probing the mechanisms of learning and memory at the single-neuron level in humans (Dr Ueli Rutishauser California Institute of Technology)

2016-02-18 16:00: Parietal cortex and action space (Prof. Roberto Caminiti)

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)

2016-03-03 16:00: Astrocyte-like glia during visual circuit assembly in Drosophila (Iris Salecker)

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

2016-03-10 16:00: Endothelial Cells and HIF transcription factors regulating lung pre-disposition for metastatic events (Dr Cristina Branco, PDN Cambridge)

2016-04-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Michael Strkyer, UCSF)

2016-05-05 16:00: CANCELLED The pioneering history of IVF from the PND* Laboratory, Cambridge: 1976-2016, and what we know now! (Prof. Simon Fishel, CARE Fertility group)

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

2016-05-26 16:00: Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency (Prof Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield)

2016-06-09 16:00: The roles of dopamine in perceptual and economic decision making (Dr Armin Lak, UCL)

2016-06-16 16:00: Unraveling the role of astroglial perisynaptic nanodomains in synaptic strength and memory (Dr Nathalie Rouach, CIRB, College de France, Paris)

2016-06-23 16:00: Gene duplication and ion channel evolution in weakly electric fish (Prof Harold Zakon, UT Austin)

2016-10-06 16:00: The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythms (Dr John O'Neill, University of Cambridge)

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)

2016-10-13 16:00: Learning flights in bumblebees (Dr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University)

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)

2016-10-27 16:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery, UCL)

2016-11-10 16:00: Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans (Dr Martin How, Bristol University)

2016-11-17 16:00: Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear (Professor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark)

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)

2016-11-24 16:00: Stem cells, gene editing, and cellular models of human neurological disease (Dr Florian Merkel, University of Cambridge)

2016-12-01 16:00: Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicators (Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London)

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)

2017-01-26 16:00: Retinal functomics: What the eye tells the brain, and how it got there (Dr Tom Baden, University of Sussex)

2017-02-09 16:00: Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain (Professor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh)

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

2017-02-16 16:00: In vivo studies of cellular and subcellular mechanisms that build the vertebrate brain (Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London)

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)

2017-02-23 16:00: Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Professor Paul Martin, University of Bristol)

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

2017-03-02 16:00: Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviour (Professor Ewa Paluch, University College London)

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

2017-03-09 16:00: Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth (Professor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany))

2017-03-16 16:00: Electrophysiology of autocrine and paracrine NMDA receptor signalling in invasive mouse pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour cells (Dr Hugh Robinson, PDN, University of Cambridge)

2017-04-27 16:00: Removing tumours from within and around the brain (Dr Thomas Santarius)

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)

2017-06-01 16:00: Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair (Professor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid)

2017-06-15 16:00: The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammals (Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham))

2017-06-22 16:00: Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective (Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland))

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

2017-10-12 16:00: Foster Talks: Professor Bill Harris "Promises of a polychrome retina redux: partial fulfilment with spectrum of fates" (Professor Bill Harris, PDN, Cambridge University)

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)

2017-11-09 16:00: TODAY: Foster Talk "Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours" Professor Richard Benton (Professor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)

2017-11-23 16:00: Foster Talk: Professor Wolfram Schultz "How my brain is getting me the best reward"  (Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge)

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)

2017-12-07 16:00: Foster Talk:  "Self-assembly of the mammalian embryo in vitro" Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz (Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PDN Cambridge)

2018-01-16 11:30: Imaging cancer invasion and pluripotency (Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, Finland)

2018-01-18 16:00: Foster Talk - Dr Rachel Tribe "How to expect the unexpected. Prediction and prevention of preterm birth" Physiology Lecture Theatre (Dr Rachel Tribe,Kings College London)

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)

2018-02-01 16:00:  Foster Talk - "Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease" (Meritxell Huch, The Gurdon Institute)

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)

2018-02-15 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - Integrin-associated adhesion complexes and their role in mechanotransduction (Dr Christof Ballestrem, Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, University of Manchester)

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)

2018-03-01 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - "Paraspeckles, TDP-43 & alternative polyadenylation: how regulation of a membraneless compartment guides cell fate" (Dr Jernej Ule, Francis Crick Institute, London)

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)

2018-03-15 16:00: Foster Talk - TODAY - Professor Ifat Levy, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurocience, Yale University, USA (Professor Ifat Levy, Yale University, USA)

2018-05-03 16:00: Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork (Professor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London)

2018-05-17 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring (Professor Christine Holt)

2018-06-14 16:00: Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity" (Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

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

2018-10-11 16:00: FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex (Dr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh)

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)

2018-10-25 16:00: Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination. (Robin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

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)

2018-11-08 16:00: Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids. (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB)

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)

2018-11-22 16:00: The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniqueness (Tara L. White, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA)

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

2018-12-06 16:00: Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis. (Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute)

2019-01-17 16:00: Neural progenitors and neural tube defects. (Andy Copp, University 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)

2019-01-31 16:00: The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation (James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

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)

2019-02-14 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

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))

2019-02-28 16:00: Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis (Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School)

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

2019-03-22 16:00: SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour (Steve Wilson, University College, London)

2019-03-28 16:00: Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis (Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen)

2019-05-02 16:00: An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature (Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London)

2019-05-16 16:00: Regulating needs: Exploring the role of insulin-like growth factor-2 in materno-fetal resource allocation and its importance for development, physiology and disease (Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri)

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)

2019-10-17 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

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

2019-11-07 16:00: The amazing world of the GnRH neuron (Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge)

2019-11-14 16:00: Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling (Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota)

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

2019-11-21 16:00: Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation (Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen)

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)

2019-12-05 16:00: Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps (Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante)

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

2020-01-16 16:00: Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding (Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia)

2020-01-23 16:00:  Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing (Steve Harridge, King's College London)

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)

2020-02-06 16:00: Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency (Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland)

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

2020-02-27 16:00: Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells (Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK)

2020-03-12 16:00: 3D Genomics in development and disease (Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany)

2020-04-30 16:00: The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps (Francesca Cacucci, UCL)

2020-05-07 16:00: Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos (Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London)

2020-05-14 16:00: Mechanobiology of cell shape control (Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge)

2020-11-12 16:00: Woofing it Down: Lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend (Eleanor Raffan, PDN, Cambridge)

2020-11-26 16:00: TBC (Kevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)

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 )

2021-01-21 16:00: Lineage tracing through somatic mutations in human development (Flora Vaccarino, Yale University)

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)

2021-02-04 16:00: Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up? ( Brian Cox, University of Toronto)

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) )

2021-02-25 16:00: Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation (Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research)

2021-03-04 16:00: How cells integrate chemical and mechanical cues during cell migration in vivo (Roberto Mayor, UCL)

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)

2021-03-18 16:00: Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations (Andre Fenton, New York University)

2021-04-29 16:00: Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces. (Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki)

2021-05-06 16:00: Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems. (Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona)

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)

2021-10-21 16:00: Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines (David Sheppard, Bristol University)

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))

2021-11-04 16:00: Mechanisms of Aging (Anne Brunet, Stanford University)

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)

2021-11-18 16:00: Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis (Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

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

2021-11-25 16:00: Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ ( Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin)

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

2021-12-02 16:00: What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex (Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge)

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

2021-12-09 16:00: Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-01-20 16:00: CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris)

2022-02-03 16:00: Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools (Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia)

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)

2022-02-24 16:00: Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity (Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY)

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

2022-03-10 16:00: Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish ( Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai)

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

2022-03-17 16:00: Development of interneurons in visual cortex (Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY)

2022-03-24 16:00: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris)

2022-04-07 16:00: Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function (Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge)

2022-04-20 16:00: Global Views of Mammalian Development (Jay Shendure, University of Washington)

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)

2022-05-05 16:00: The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size. (Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona)

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.)

2023-02-23 16:00: Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins (Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel)

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)

2023-11-09 16:00: Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions (Alberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge)

2023-11-23 16:00: Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets (Keita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience,  University of 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  )

2023-12-07 16:00: Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease (Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge)

2024-01-18 16:00: Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes (Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB)

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)

2024-02-15 16:00: Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep (Dr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR)

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. )

2024-02-29 16:00: Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: a developing obesity crisis. (Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-29 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge)

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 )

2024-03-14 16:00: Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast (Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research)

2024-04-25 16:00: Eating and Walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion (Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

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

2024-05-09 16:00: Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning (Shankar Srinivas, Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, based at the Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine. )

2024-05-23 16:00: How innate immune cells adapt to environment and function: diverse tales of mitochondria (Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona))

2024-06-06 16:00: Identifying mechanisms of, and countermeasures to, muscle decline in ageing (Dr Colleen Deane, University of Southampton)

2024-10-10 16:00: Symmetry breaking decisions in stem cells from mouse bi-layered epithelia in development and regeneration. (Dr Silvia Fre - Institute Curie Paris)

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

2024-10-15 16:00: Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits (Bayram Yilmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey)

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)

2024-11-07 16:00: Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development (Kathy Niakan, University of Cambridge)

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

2024-11-28 16:00: The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation (Stephen G. Matthews, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Depts Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada)

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)

2025-02-06 16:00: From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour (Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich)

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 )

2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL)

2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL)

2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL)

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

2025-03-13 16:00: Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats (Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley)

2025-03-13 16:00: Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats (Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley)

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)

2025-03-20 16:00: Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces (Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France)

2025-03-20 16:00: Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces (Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France)

2025-05-08 16:00: Potassium channel activators - a possible anti-seizure treatment. (Prof Frederik Elinder - Linköping University, Sweden)

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

2025-05-15 16:00: From nuclear swelling to chemoattractant production during tissue damage (Dr Balázs Enyedi - Semmelweis University, Budapest)

2025-05-22 16:00: It is not all in your genes - epigenetic regulation of human lung repair (Dr Renata Jurkowska, Cardiff University)

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)