ARClub Talks


2007-10-25 13:00: Fear conditioning deficits in Conduct Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome: Implications for amygdala-based accounts of developmental psychopathology (Dr. Graeme Fairchild, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University)

2007-11-02 13:00: Attention in autism: Evidence from change blindness studies (Dr. Chris Ashwin (Essex University, Affective Neuroscience Lab, and ARC))

2007-11-22 14:30: The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS):  An Update (Michael Lombardo (ARC))

2007-12-07 00:00: Three post-mortem studies of autism: new findings - TALK POSTPONED (Dr Andrew Dean (Cambridge Brain Bank))

2008-02-15 13:00: Reading our own emotions: How good are we? (Jorrit de Kieviet and Bhismadev Chakrabarti (ARC))

2008-02-29 13:00: The magnocellular theory of autism (Dr. Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)

2008-04-25 13:00: Abnormalities in cultural knowledge in autism: a link between behaviour and cognition? (Dr. Eva Loth, Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2008-05-09 13:00: Event Related Potential (ERP) studies of autism (Dr. Howard Ring (Centre for Learning Disabilities and ARC, Cambridge))

2008-05-23 13:00: IMFAR 2008 conference jottings (ARClub members)

2008-06-06 13:00: To what extent are autistic traits and intellectual impairment genetically related? Insights from a large population based twin study (Dr. Rosa Hoekstra, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2008-06-20 13:00: Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective (Dr. Napoleon Katsos, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge)

2008-07-18 13:00: An fMRI study of prior emotion processing on subsequent cognitive performance: relevance for psychiatric disorders (Dr. Nicholas Walsh, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2008-07-29 13:00: Supra-regional brain systems in autism spectrum.  Perspectives from neuroimaging (Grainne McAlonan, University of Hong Kong)

2008-09-19 13:00: Design of robotic toys and game scenarios for behavioral training of autistic children. (Dr. Emilia I. Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)

2008-10-17 13:00: A funny turn in the brain: fMRI on jokes (Tristan Bekinschtein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2008-10-20 10:00: The Enhanced Perceptual Functioning Model of Autism (Prof. Laurent Mottron, University of Montreal, Canada)

2008-11-07 13:00: Exploring the genetic and environmental causes of behaviours characteristic of autistic spectrum conditions (Dr. Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck College, London)

2008-11-14 13:00: Multimodal hypersensitivity in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (Teresa Tavassoli, Autism Research Centre)

2008-12-05 13:00: The Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism (Dr. Christopher Badcock, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics)

2009-01-23 13:00: Genetics of Autism (Patricia Lewin, MD, IntegraGen)

2009-02-06 12:00: Journal Club (Michael Lombardo, ARC)

2009-02-27 12:00: Hierarchical modularity in human fMRI brain networks (Dr. David Meunier, Brain Mapping Unit)

2009-03-06 12:00: A structural and functional imaging study of autism and its extended phenotype (Dr. Michael Spencer, ARC and Developmental Psychiatry)

2009-03-13 13:00: Born on the wrong planet?  Using forum postings to test hypotheses about special interests and religious beliefs of autistic spectrum young adults (Prof Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Boston University)

2009-04-17 12:30: Emotion and Memory: Explorations of the Amygdala. (Prof. Joseph LeDoux)

2009-05-13 10:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Tony Attwood, Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia)

2009-05-22 13:00: Asperger syndrome and the interbrain (Prof. Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield and University of Cambridge)

2009-06-12 12:00: Reciprocal imprinting produces sex differences in autistic spectrum traits (Gill Ragsdale)

2009-09-15 11:00: Psychometric properties of Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (Chiara Horlin, Neurocognitive Development Unit, University of Western Australia)

2009-10-23 13:00: How can we benefit from autism theories? (Dr. Meng Chuan Lai, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry)

2009-10-30 13:00: Autism: what has genetics taught us? (Professor Dan Geschwind,UCLA School of Medicine)

2009-11-13 13:00: Attention to faces in autism: An ERP study (Owen Churches, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2009-12-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Joaquin Fuentes, MD,Head of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of Policlinica Gipuzkoa (San Sebastian))

2010-02-26 13:00: Diminished adaptation in autism: A working hypothesis (Dr. Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education, London))

2010-03-12 13:00: Normal clinical visual function in individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions (Dr Keziah Latham, Department of Vision & Hearing Sciences and Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University)

2010-04-30 13:00:  Is it possible to extent the E-S theory for explaining the individual differences in cognition in general population? : Evidence from children and university students (Prof Dr Akio Wakabayashi, Department of Psychology,  Chiba University)

2010-05-28 13:00: "Second life demonstration" (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-06-11 13:00: Predicting progress in PECS use by children with autism (Dr Greg Pasco)

2010-06-18 13:00: The specificity of face detection in autism (Owen Churches)

2010-07-02 13:00: "White matter abnormalities underlying autism spectrum conditions in women" (Amber Ruigrok)

2010-10-21 13:00: The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on imitation ability; implications for individuals with Autism. (Anna Moffat, Flinders University)

2010-11-05 13:00: Motion processing in autism: atypical bounded integration (Caroline Robertson)

2010-11-12 13:00: "Theory of Mind and Peer Relationships in late childhood and adolescence" (Dr Claire Hughes, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-19 13:00: Computing and emotions (Professor Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-14 12:00: Getting to know you: The acquisition of new face representations is impaired in autism (Dr Owen Churches, Department of Psychiatry)

2011-03-18 12:00: The evolution and development of social cognition: lessons from corvids and children (	 Professor N S Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-19 13:00: "Embodied semantics in autism spectrum conditions" ( Friedemann Pulvermuller , MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2011-06-03 12:00: You talkin' to me? Processing self-relevant ostensive cues across modalities (Raliza Stoyanova , Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge)

2011-07-01 13:00: The latent structure of the autism phenotype (Rachel Grove)

2011-10-07 12:00: The ‘social’ brain in ASC: differences in the processing of eye gaze and at rest (Dr. Elisabeth von den Hagen, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2011-10-21 13:00: Neurodevelopmental basis of social and non-social processing differences in children with autism (Dr. Joe McCleery, University of Birmingham)

2011-11-04 13:00: Mix technology-enhanced learning and behavioral approaches with Nao the robot. (Dr. Olivier Joubert, Aldebaran Robotics)

2011-11-18 13:00: Atypical gaze processing in autism; a neural deficit or difference? (Dr. Chris Ashwin, University of Bath)

2011-12-09 13:00: Effect of prenatal testosterone exposure on language development in early childhood. (Lauren Hollier)

2011-12-12 13:00: The brain basis of insistence of sameness within the Autism spectrum (Charlton Cheung)

2012-02-03 13:00: Autitouch: Supporting autism diagnosis with multitouch (Freena Eijffinger, CEO Autitouch)

2012-02-17 13:00: What's special about the female autistic brain? (Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Postdoctoral Research ARC)

2012-03-02 12:30: Autobiographical memory in autism (Dr Kate Plaisted Grant, Department of Experimental Psychology)

2012-03-07 12:00: The role of alexithymia in autism (Dr. Geoff Bird, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London)

2012-03-15 13:00: A search for a latent genetic variable: Important or out of date? (Professor James Leckman)

2012-03-16 12:00: Asperger's biostratigraphy and the price of fish (Jon Adams)

2012-03-23 13:00: Exploring the underconnectivity theory of autism using independent component analysis (Richard Bethlehem)

2012-05-04 13:00: IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-05-11 12:45: IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 2 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-06-06 10:30: It's the thought that counts: neural mechanisms of Theory of Mind in typical development and in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Dr Rebecca Saxe, Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT)

2012-06-11 12:00: When maths and mindreading meet: sex-dependent empathizing/systemizing interactions, and insights into ASC development (Jeffrey Valla)

2012-06-29 13:00: Autism and Human Cognitive Diversity, from Physiology to Psychology to Pedagogy (Dr Matthew Belmonte)

2012-07-18 13:00: Are auditory sensory behaviours associated with ASD a consequence of atypical low-level auditory processing? (Dr José Alcántara)

2012-11-09 13:00: Clinical characteristics of young adult males with autism spectrum disorders sentenced to prison for violent or sexual offences (Dr Björn Hofvander, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-16 13:00: Embodied Morality (Dr Simone Schnall, Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory)

2012-11-30 14:00: Autism in DSM-5 (and beyond) (Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2012-12-03 13:00: How do individuals with autism reason about the physical world? (Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education)

2013-02-01 12:00: Bio-behavioral Synchrony and the Cross-Generation Transmission of Social Adaptation and Psychopathology (Dr. Ruth Feldman, Bar Ilan University)

2013-02-12 15:00: The Odd Pair of Autism and Transsexualism (Dr. Annelou de Vries, Department of Paediatrics, VUmc)

2013-03-01 13:00: The visual system in autism: what binocular rivalry can tell us (Jan Freyberg, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre)

2013-03-04 13:00: Steroid Hormones and the Maternal-Placental-Fetal System: Relevance to Autism? (Alexa Pohl, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre)

2013-03-15 13:00: Dopaminergic Modulation of Reward Learning in Social Contexts (Dr Christoph Eisenegger, Department of Psychology)

2013-04-22 13:00: Overlooked and Undiagnosed: The female expression of the autistic phenotype (Alexandra Head, PhD Candidate at Deakin University, Australia)

2013-05-09 13:00: Brain imaging findings in BPD (Dr Robert Dudas, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-24 13:00: Epac2, from protein to in vivo function: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Deepak Srivastava, Department of Neuroscience and Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

2013-06-07 13:00: Talk has been cancelled! (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-06-20 13:00: Brain imaging and the nosology of "childhood psychoses" (Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry)

2013-06-24 14:00: Atypical visual integration in autism (Caroline Robertson, Autism Research Centre)

2013-09-30 14:00: Music and the Brain - Forming and Connecting Memories (Ittai Shapira)

2013-10-04 13:00: Human computer interaction in autism research (Dr Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Reader in Psychology, Heriot-Watt University)

2013-10-18 13:00: Does recurrent ASD risk depend on whether younger siblings were conceived or born before their elder siblings were diagnosed? (Prof. Michael Beenstock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College)

2013-11-01 13:00: Leo Kanner 70 years on - A History of Autism (Adam Feinstein)

2013-11-15 13:00: CANCELLED (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-11-29 13:00: The Role of Empathy in Musical Preferences (David Greenberg, PhD Student Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-24 13:00: Emotion Processing and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Dr Sarah Cassidy, Research Coordinator, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge,)

2014-02-07 13:00: The Anatomy of Violence (Prof Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania Dept Psychology, Visiting Professor University of Cambridge)

2014-02-21 13:00: How do young brains mature? UCHANGE design, techniques and some early results (Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, BCNI)

2014-03-07 12:00: Shedding Light on the Newborn Brain (Dr Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist, Cambridge Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience)

2014-04-11 14:00: Increasing autism awareness and autism service provision in Ethiopia: the HEAT+ project (Dr Rosa Hoekstra & Dr Bethlehem Tekola, The Open University)

2014-05-23 13:00: Influence of facial expressions on attention to gaze in autism: Neural correlates and development (Dr Amandine Lassale, Autism Research Centre)

2014-06-06 13:00: Autism: what the genes tell us (Varun Warrier, MPhil Student at the ARC, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-13 16:30: Switching between affect and ratio: The basolateral amygdala (Dr David Terburg, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University )

2014-10-06 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Dr. Thomas Bourgeron, Génétique Humaine et Fonctions Cognitives Institut Pasteur)

2014-10-14 13:00: Search for extra-terrestrial integrity - SETi. A Neuroscientific Study of ‘Theory of Mind’ with a Nonverbal Task Employing Algorithmically Generated Sounds of Varying Dissonance Level. (Fernando Bravo, Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-28 13:00: Emotional and cognitive empathy: from heritability to neurotransmitters (Florina Uzefovsky, Post Doc at the Autism Research Centre)

2014-11-11 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Amber Ruigrok, Autism Research Centre)

2014-11-25 13:00: Investigating recollection in autism spectrum disorder (Rose Cooper, Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-12-09 13:00: White matter correlates of visual imagery in synesthesia (Dr Kirstie Whitaker, Research Associate Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-03 13:00: Brain hypoconnectivity as a potential endophenotype of autism (Dr Rachel Moseley & Dr Rolf Ypma, BCNI, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-17 13:00: Studies of prenatal testosterone and autism-relevant behaviour in non-human animals (Dr Gillian Brown, Lecturer, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, UK)

2015-02-24 16:00: The course of developmental health in autism spectrum disorder; the pre-school years (Professor Peter Szatmari, Chief, Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at SickKids and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Toronto)

2015-03-03 13:00: The brain of the beholder: Honouring individual representational idiosyncrasies. (Ian Charest, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2015-03-19 13:00: Testosterone and the Brain: A molecular study using an autism stem cell model (Dwaipayan Adhya, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre)

2015-04-28 13:00: IMFAR Practice Talks (Dorothea Floris, PhD Student, Autism Research Centre)

2015-05-05 11:00: The Biological Basis of Empathy Development: From Genes to Brain and Anything in Between (Dr Florina Uzefovsky, Autism Research Centre)

2015-05-26 13:00: The emotional modulation of gaze-oriented attention and its influence by autistic-like traits (Dr Amandine Lassalle)

2015-06-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-06-15 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Anna Remington, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University of London)

2015-06-23 12:00: Latest Research in Autism Genetics (Joseph Buxbaum, Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, and Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

2015-07-21 13:00: Visual perception and heterogeneity in the autism phenotype (Dr Elizabeth Milne, Sheffield Autism Research Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2015-09-30 13:00: Four Key Words: Making Autism Research Work for Women  (Dena Gassner)

2015-10-15 10:30: Does testosterone predict autistic traits? Unpacking the assumption of Gaussian noise (Alexa Pohl, PhD Student, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-29 13:00: Repetition suppression and face memory in the neurotypical and autistic population (Dr Michael Ewbank, MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2015-11-12 13:00: CALM and collected: A dimensional approach to developmental disorders of attention, learning and memory (Professor Susan Gathercole, Director of the MRC - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2015-12-10 13:00: CANCELLED (Dr Greg Davis, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-18 13:00: Is the cingulate cortex a useful biomarker of Autism pathology? Task-free and task-based approaches. (Dr Josh Balsters, Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

2016-03-03 13:00: CANCELLED (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-03-17 10:30: Computer-Assisted Training for People with Autism who Lack Communicative Speech: Can Remediating Sensorimotor Dyscontrol Open a `Back Door' to Social Communicative Development? (Dr Matthew Belmonte, Reader at Nottingham Trend University)

2016-04-07 13:00: Cultivating Speech in Non-Verbal Children with Autism (Dr Aaron Ralby, Linguisticator Ltd)

2016-04-28 13:00: Understanding cellular and molecular pathways of human preterm brain injury (Professor David Rowitch, Head Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-26 13:00: CANCELLED - Prenatal estrogens and autism risk (Alexa Pohl, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-02 13:00: Neuroinflammation in autism (Dr John Suckling, Director of MRI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-09 13:00: CANCELLED (Dr Florina Uzefovsky, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-24 13:00: Testosterone and Autism iPSC-neurons - A Functional Genomics Study (Dwaipayan Adhya, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2016-07-28 10:30: Facial masculinisation in the autism spectrum (Diana Tan, PhD Student, School of Psychology and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia)

2016-09-28 10:30: Facial masculinisation in the autism spectrum (Diana Tan, School of Psychology and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia)

2016-10-12 10:30: Altered senses and excited brains: investigating the neural basis of autism (Dr Steven Chance, Associate Professor in Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)

2016-10-26 10:30: People with Autism Spectrum Conditions make more consistent decisions (Dr George Farmer, Research Associate, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-09 10:30: Internal Bodily Sensations, Emotion, and Autism Spectrum Conditions (Punit Shah, Researcher in the Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London)

2016-11-23 10:30: Toddlers with autism and their parents: Lessons learned from an ASD Baby-Sib study about measurement, assessment and clinical judgement (Dr Greg Pasco, Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London)

2017-01-18 10:30: Can people with developmental disorders function successfully as bilinguals? (Dr Napoleon Katsos, Reader in Experimental Pragmatics & Dr Ozge Ozturk, Postdoc at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge)

2017-02-01 10:30: The cross-cultural challenges in the identification and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: a conceptual framework (Anne de Leeuw, Researcher at VU Medical Centre Amsterdam and Dr Rosa Hoekstra, Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London)

2017-02-15 10:30: In vivo Evidence of Reduced Integrity of the Grey-White Matter Boundary in Autism Spectrum Disorder (Derek Andrews, PhD Candidate at  The Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London)

2017-03-01 10:30: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Cognitive Models of Autism (Prof Kenneth Richman, Professor of Philosophy and Health Care Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, MCPHS University)

2017-03-21 10:30: Sex and gender as moderators for the presentation and emergence of autism: Myths and unresolved questions (Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Clinician Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH and O’Brien Scholar within the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative with CAMH, the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto.)

2017-03-22 10:30: Genetic connections between neurodevelopment, autism & schizophrenia (Jeffrey Barrett, Group Leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Director, Open Targets)

2017-04-26 10:30: Hypersensitivity to low intensity fearful faces in autism when fixation is constrained to the eyes (Dr Amandine Lassalle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MGH / Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School)

2017-05-24 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-06-07 10:30: The story of the infinity principles: a link between autism and a person's potential (Rhys Jenkins)

2017-06-21 10:30: The impact of personal relevance and person perception on social cognition (Dr Paola Ricciardelli, 1)  Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy; 2) Milan Centre for Neuroscience, Italy)

2017-07-05 10:30: Insights from oxytocin administration and fMRI studies in high functioning youth with ASD (Ilanit Gordon, Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center)

2017-07-12 10:30: Weighing the past against the present: computational approaches to understand learning and uncertainty autism (Dr Rebecca Lawson, Research Associate, Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London)

2017-11-22 10:30: Neural synchrony through gaze in adult-infant dyads (Victoria Leong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore & Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2017-12-13 10:30: Binocular vision and Autism Spectrum Disorder (Dr Jan Skerswetat, Lecturer in Vision Science at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Vision and Hearing Science, Anglia Ruskin University)

2018-01-17 10:30: The impact of parental traits on the phenotypes of children with genomic copy number variations  (Professor David Evans, Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University and Visiting Researcher at the Autism Research Centre)

2018-01-29 10:30: Decomposing heterogeneity in the autisms (Dr Michael Lombardo, Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus; Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-14 10:30: Behavioural phenotypes of children born preterm: what we know and future research avenues (Dr Hilary Wong, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge; Senior Specialty Registrar, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University College London Hospital)

2018-02-28 10:30: New Insights in Immunopsychiatry (Provisional Title) (Professor Ed Bullmore, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-14 10:30: Autism Imaging & Genetics (Dr Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-21 10:30: Tracking neurobiological factors of language developmental difficulties (Dr. Gesa Schaadt, Research Scientist (Post-Doc) at the Clinic of Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, University Leipzig, Germany and the Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)

2018-04-11 10:30: Repetitive Behavior and Restricted Interests: Developmental, Genetic, and Neural Correlates (Professor David Evans, Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University and Visiting Researcher at the Autism Research Centre)

2018-04-25 10:30: fNIRS shines a light on early atypical brain responses in autism (Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Co-Investigator and Lead Psychologist on the Brain Imaging for Global Health Study (BRIGHT); Head of NIRS Lab, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London)

2018-04-26 10:30: Double talk on Autism genetics (Dr Gokul Ramaswami and Dr Hyejung Won, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

2018-05-02 10:30: Altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorder (Dr Yaara Shapira, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

2018-05-23 10:30: Understanding the genetics of autism from the genetics of related traits (Varun Warrier, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Univeristy of Cambridge)

2018-06-20 10:30: Self-Other Processes in ASD - the Case of Empathy (Dr Idalmis Santiesteban, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2018-06-27 10:30: A longitudinal study on the effect of testosterone and estradiol on empathy and systemizing (EQ-SQ): from amniotic fluid to adolescence.  (Tess Beking, PhD Student, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen)

2018-07-04 14:00: Progressing from gene discovery to the biology of autism (Dr Stephan Sanders, Associate Professor, Dept. Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco)

2018-07-11 10:30: Mechanistic insights from genome-wide association studies of reproductive traits  (Professor Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-10 10:30: Investigating Sensory Prediction in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Johanna Finnemann, PhD Student,  Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-24 10:30: A real-life gift? The practical application of increased perceptual capacity in autism. (Dr Anna Remington, Director, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) UCL Institute of Education, University College London)

2018-11-06 12:00: Sensory processing in autism – Core phenotypic status? (Dr. Caroline Robertson, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth University, Director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative)

2018-11-28 10:30: Atypical neurogenesis and E/I precursor imbalance in autism iPSCs (Dr Dwaipayan Adhya,  Postdoctoral Research Scientist Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scientist, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London )

2018-12-05 14:00: Sensory Reactivity in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Dr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading)

2019-01-16 10:30: Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions (Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University)

2019-02-13 10:30: Understanding vulnerability and related outcomes in autism using genetics (Dr Varun Warrier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-27 10:30: Experience of Motherhood for Autistic Women  (Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-27 10:30: Longitudinal analysis of intracortical microstructural profiles during adolescent development (Dr Richard Bethlehem, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-15 10:30: Sex differences and the neural correlates of repetitive behaviour (Dr. David Evans, Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University, Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-29 10:30: Autism and Emotion: Perspectives from Affective Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, and Computer Vision. (Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

2019-10-09 10:30: Autism and the criminal justice system (Dr Clare Allely,  Reader in Forensic Psychology, University of Salford)

2019-10-30 10:30: The Early Start Denver Model in autistic preschoolers: a treatment trial (Dr Ofer Golan, Associate Professor, Autism Research Lab, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University )

2019-11-13 10:30: The value of student projects in autism research: Findings from studies of disordered eating, gender identity, and career choice (Dr Gareth Richards, School of Psychology, Newcastle University)

2019-11-27 10:30: Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorder (Dr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia)

2019-12-03 12:30: Public perceptions of genetic research and autism (Deborah Oakley)

2020-01-27 10:30: The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology (Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania)

2020-01-29 10:30: Voice processing in autism (Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)

2020-02-26 10:30: Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach (Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu )

2020-03-25 10:30: CANCELLED: CATCh-uS as we fall: transition between child and adult services for young people with ADHD (Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2020-04-22 10:30: CANCELLED: Girls and women on the autism spectrum (Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London)

2021-03-01 15:30: Quality of life and mental health in autism (Beth Oakley (King's College London))

2021-03-08 15:30: Understanding the substance use of autistic adults: a mixed methods approach (Elizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-22 15:30: Family-based study of Autism Spectrum Disorders (Maja Bućan, University of Pennsylvania)

2021-04-12 15:30: Personalizing interventions in autism: Research considerations that can inform practice (Connie Kasari; Professor of Human Development and Psychology at UCLA)

2021-04-26 15:30: Health status and health care utilization among transition-age youth and adults on the autism spectrum (Lisa Croen, Director Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California)

2021-05-24 15:30: (At least) 10 things we learned from autistic girls and women in the past 10 years (Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai, University of Toronto)

2021-06-07 15:30: The connection between epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder: pearls from the clinical side (Sarah Spence, Harvard Medical School)

2021-06-14 15:30: Immune origins of sex differences in the brain (Margaret M McCarthy, James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine)

2021-06-21 15:30: The gut microbiome and neurodevelopmental disorders (Alejandro Arias Vásquez, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour │ Radboud university medical centre)

2021-06-28 15:30: Autism and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - an examination of a co-occurrence of conditions (Ofer Golan, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University)

2021-07-05 15:30: Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism (Varun Warrier, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge)

2021-07-12 15:30: Understanding and treating autism: a dual approach based on the Neuroarcheology concept   (Y Ben-Ari, Neurochlore, BABiomedical  and The Ben-Ari Institute of Neuroarcheology  (IBEN- Marseille, France))

2021-07-19 11:00: **CANCELLED*** Everyday Autism (Liz Pellicano, Macquarie University)

2021-07-26 15:30: Digital Transformation of Autism Pathway (Dr Venkat Reddy MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH.)

2021-07-27 15:30: Brain charts for the human lifespan (Richard Bethlehem ( ARC))

2022-01-17 15:30: The ‘autism advantage’ in the workplace:  what the latest research tells us (Adam Feinstein)

2022-01-24 15:30: The ADHD polygenic score  (Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck University of London)

2022-01-31 15:30: The importance of early diagnosis for improving social communication in children with ASD (Ilan Dinstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

2022-02-07 15:30: Dyadic intervention for autism in the prodrome and preschool – developmental effects, mechanisms and service implication (Jonathan Green, University of Manchester)

2022-02-28 15:30: Novel Digital Health Approaches to Early Autism Screening (Geraldine Dawson, Duke University School of Medicine)

2022-05-16 15:30: Neuroplacentology (Anna Penn, Columbia University & NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital)

2022-06-06 15:30: Promoting Psychological Health Among Adolescents and Adults on the Autism Spectrum (Prof. Somer Bishop & Dr. Shuting Zheng, University of California San Francisco)

2022-06-13 15:30: Neurodevelopmental risk assessment in the COVID-19 Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO) Initiative at Columbia University (Dr. Dani Dumitriu, Columbia University Iriving Medical Center)

2022-06-20 15:30: Theory of mind, gender, and human progress | Empathy, psychopathy, and brain structure (Marcin A. Radecki)

2022-06-27 15:30: Perception and learning in autism (Nazia Jassim, PhD candidate, Autism Research Centre)

2022-07-20 12:30: Taking heterogeneity seriously: Towards new research and support strategies (Beatriz Lopez, University of Portsmouth)

2022-09-14 12:30: The neuroscience of resilience: Lessons from autism  (Mayada Elsabbagh, McGill University)

2022-09-28 12:30: SENSORY SUBTYPES IN AUTISM: State of the Evidence & Future Directions (Professor Alison Lane, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University )

2022-10-12 10:30: Autistic Friendships (Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University)

2022-10-12 10:30: Autistic Friendships (Prof. Tony Attwood, Associate Professor at Griffith University)

2022-11-10 12:30: What have we learned about autism from infants? (Tony Charman, King's College London)

2022-11-16 15:00: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Autism Research: State of the Field and Future Directions (Zachary J. Williams, Vanderbilt University )

2023-01-23 11:30: Ageing on the Autism Spectrum (Prof Francesca Happe)

2023-03-27 11:30: A functioning neuroanatomy of autism (Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute)

2023-05-22 11:30: Autism Research for Autistic Flourishing  (Liz Pellicano, University College London)

2023-06-19 11:30: Increased autism diagnosis in the UK (Ginny Russell, University of Exeter)

2023-07-10 11:30: Empathic disequilibrium – a novel conceptualization of the role of empathy in psychopathology and beyond (Florina Uzefovsky, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

2023-07-17 11:30: Impacts and experiences of psychiatric diagnosis: The case of autism (Cliódhna O'Connor, University College Dublin)

2023-07-24 11:30: Educational Outcomes of Students with Special Educational Needs in the United Kingdom (Elizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge))

2023-07-31 11:30: Autism and the Criminal Justice System: Achieving Best Evidence  (Katie Maras, Centre for Applied Autism Research (CAAR), University of Bath)

2023-10-30 11:30: Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety? (Claire Howlin, Trinity College Dublin)

2023-11-13 11:30: The Spectrum of Neurodiverse Talent in Banking Technology (Jonathan Scott-Lee, Autism Centre of Excellence and Autism Research Centre; HSBC)

2023-12-04 16:00: ***CANCELLED*** Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are going (Larry Cahill )

2024-01-24 16:00: New directions in autism early detection, biomarker discovery and understanding heterogeneity using eye tracking and brain imaging (Dr Karen Pierce, Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego; Co-Director, UCSD Autism Center of Excellence)

2024-01-31 11:30: Sensory hypersensitivity and poor sleep - understanding neural mechanisms during early development (Teodora Gliga, University of East Anglia)

2024-02-07 11:30: Jason Arday (Jason Arday, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-14 15:00: Increasing access to early diagnosis and assessment of autism via objective and cost-effective eye-tracking-based tools (Ami Klin, PhD, Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine.  )

2024-02-21 11:30: Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and Others (Sarah Douglas)

2024-03-13 11:30: Neural Sociometrics: Precision assessment of parent-child brain-behaviour interaction dynamics (Professor Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-20 11:30: From precision medicine for autism to precision support for neurodivergent people: Why we need to consider dynamic interactions between brain, body and the social environment to better understand each other. (Eva Loth, King's College London)

2024-04-17 11:30: Sex differences in co-occurring conditions among autistic individuals (Miriam Martini, Karolinska Institutet)

2024-05-01 11:30: Perceptual decision-making in autism: From neurochemistry to cognition (Nazia Jassim, University of Cambridge)

2024-06-07 10:30: Lessons from a lifetime of leading with autism (Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science)

2024-07-10 12:30: Nine Minds; Inner Lives on the Spectrum (Daniel Tammet)

2024-07-17 11:30: Synthetic Life: Music Therapy, Active Noise Cancelling and Neonatal Intensive Care (Dr. Artur C Jaschke, University of Cambridge)

2024-07-24 16:00: Twenty years of sex influences on the brain: Some perspective on where we were, where we are, and where we are going (Larry Cahill)

2024-09-04 11:30: Autistic People's Access to Services in Europe (Dr Siti Nurnadhirah Binte Mohd Ikhsan, University of Cambridge)

2024-09-18 11:30: Developing and evaluating interventions to support children with autism or other developmental disabilities in low-income contexts: insights from the SPARK project in Ethiopia and Kenya (Prof. Rosa Hoekstra, King's College London)

2024-10-02 11:30: How Autistic Minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists (Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC)

2024-10-23 11:30: How Autistic minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists (Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC)

2024-11-20 11:30: Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside the lab (Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading )

2024-12-04 11:30: Cognitive aging in (older) autistic adults (Prof. Hilde M. Geurts, University of Amsterdam)

2024-12-11 11:30: Self-harm in secondary schools; Prevalence, School Level Influences, and Interventions (Rasanat Fatima Nawaz, University of Cambridge)

2025-01-15 11:30: The Double Hit Hypothesis and Hyperandrogenism: Unraveling Social Cognition Impairments in Daughters of Women with PCOS (Juan Pablo Del Rio, Universidad de los Andes at Santiago)

2025-01-29 11:30: Reflecting upon the double empathy problem: new directions and practical implications. (Damian Milton, University of Kent)

2025-02-05 16:00: It’s All in the Hands — Changing Developmental Trajectories of Young Children with ASD Using the Early Social Interaction (ESI) Model (Amy M. Wetherby, Florida State University)

2025-02-12 14:00: Using global multicohort studies to determine how genetic and environmental factors influence brain development in infancy and early childhood. (Rebecca Knickmeyer, Michigan State University)

2025-03-19 11:30: Sex differences in the placenta and autism (Dr Alex Tsompanidis, University of Cambridge  )

2025-04-09 12:00: Prevalence, Transitions and Access to Mental Health Services for Young People with Eating Disorders (Prof. Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2025-04-11 12:00: 1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services;  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-04-16 11:30: 1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity (1) Marika Rostvall 2) Lovisa Hellsten. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet  )

2025-04-16 11:30: 1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity (1) Lovisa Hellsten  2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet  )

2025-04-16 11:30: 1) Navigating Digital Health: Sociodemographic and Neuropsychiatric Influences on Youth uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services; 2) Endometriosis and psychiatric comorbidity (1) Lovisa Hellsten  2) Marika Rostvall. Both speakers are from the Karolinska Institutet  )

2025-05-14 11:30: Masking: the fine line between fitting in and exhaustion (Andrew Whitehouse, SEND Network )

2025-05-21 11:30: Autism in Midlife and Older Age (Dr Gavin R. Stewart, King’s College London)

2025-05-28 11:30: Sleep, Touch and the Making of the Human Brain (Professor Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist in Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Neurophotonics at University College London)

2025-06-04 11:30: Advancing precision health in  neurodevelopmental conditions (Evdokia Anagnostou, University of Toronto)

2025-06-18 11:30: Decomposing heterogeneity in the AUTISMS (Mike Lombardo, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)

2025-06-18 11:30: Decomposing heterogeneity in the AUTISMS (Michael Lombardo, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)

2025-06-18 17:00: Towards the Development of a National Autism Suicide Prevention Resource Hub (Darren Hedley, La Trobe University)

2025-06-25 11:30: How can insights from autistic doctors, including autistic psychiatrists, contribute to improving understanding of autism and outcomes for autistic people? (Mary Doherty, Consultant Anaesthetist, Autism Researcher, and Founder of Autistic Doctors International )

2025-07-16 11:30: Understanding health and wellbeing during menopause: A longitudinal comparison study between autistic and non-autistic people (Eunhee Kim, Bournemouth University)

2025-07-30 16:00: Searching for a “Double Empathy Solution”: Mixed-Neurotype Social Interactions in Educational Settings, Empathic Accuracy, and the Role of Disclosing Autism Diagnosis (Dr Yonat Rum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2025-09-10 11:30: Bayesian prevalence of autism and unmet special education needs in Chile in a sample of three million school-age children (Andres Roman-Urrestarazu MD PhD MBA MFPH, University of Cambridge)

2025-09-25 18:00: In Your Hands – a celebration of artwork created by neurodivergent individuals (Alice Nicholls, artist)

2025-10-01 11:30: Uncovering developmental paths to neurodevelopmental conditions: Dynamics over time  (Emily Jones, Professor, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London)

2025-10-15 17:00: The 5th Annual Cambridge Autism Research Lecture: Presented by John Harris (John Harris, journalist, critic, and author)

2025-10-22 11:30: The Biology and Impact of Sensory Differences in Autism (Nick Puts, King's College London)

2025-11-26 11:30: Diversity in Social Communication within and between Autistic and Non-autistic Adults (Prof. Danielle Ropar, University of Nottingham)

2025-12-03 10:30: Minimally Speaking Autistic People Who Understand More than They Can Say: Identification and Targeted Intervention (Matthew Belmonte)

2025-12-10 12:30: Semantic Drivers of Gaze in Natural Environments (Associate Professor Caroline Robertson, Dartmouth )

2026-01-21 11:30: Community Action to Understand and Prevent Suicide among Autistic People (Dr. Anne Kirby, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Trinity College Dublin )

2026-02-04 16:00: The Biology of Profound Autism: From Embryogenesis to Social Neural and Clinical Outcomes by Pre-School Ages  (Professor Eric Courchesne, University of California, San Diego)

2026-02-11 11:30: Investigating the role of three screening measures to support clinical decision-making in adult autism assessments (Dr Janine Robinson, CPFT)

2026-02-18 11:30: The genetic architecture of autism: from medicine to neurodiversity  (Prof. Thomas Bourgeron, Université Paris Cité, Institut Pasteur, )

2026-03-11 11:30: Understanding ethical challenges in research with autistic children who have complex additional support needs. (Dr Sarah Donald, University of Birmingham)

2026-03-25 11:30: From group psychotherapy to robot-assisted intervention: New therapies for socio-emotional challenges in individuals with autism   (Prof Dr Isabel Dziobek, University of Berlin)