Neuroscience Seminars

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Double talk on Autism genetics

User Dr Gokul Ramaswami and Dr Hyejung Won, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Deficits in axonal transport in ALS and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease models

User Giampietro Schiavo - UCL.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What can we learn from the study of brain sulcal variability for cognition, mental health and illness

User Professor Arnaud Cachia, Professeur en Neurosciences, Université Paris Descartes, Membre Junior, Institut Universitaire de France (spécialité neurosciences).

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania

User Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorder

User Dr Yaara Shapira, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach

User Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) .

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

TBC

User Alex Whitworth, Mitochondrial Biology Unit - University of Cambridge.

House VGB.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Brain imaging and genetics in autism

User Dr Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 03 May 2018, 12:30-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the genetics of autism through the genetics of related traits

User Varun Warrier, Autism Research Centre.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Alpha-actinin dynamically anchors PSD-95 and AMPARs at postsynaptic sites

User Johannes Hell, University of California, Davis.

House Klug Seminar Room, Level 2, LMB.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?

User Gareth Gaskell (U. of York).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - Cross-talk between circadian clocks, sleep-wake cycles, and metabolic networks

User Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening

User Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex

User Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

User Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study)

User Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity: a biologically inspired and implemented motion model

User Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute.

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Pieter du Toit, Principal Clnical Psychologist, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Ely.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 10 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Title TBC

User Speaker TBC.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila

User François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

User Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory

User Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent.

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds

User Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building (formerly 'the library').

TBC

User George Mentis - Columbia University.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Shirley Reynolds, Professor of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, University of Reading.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 17 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Remembering complex events

User Chris Bird (U. of Sussex).

Thursday 17 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring

User Professor Christine Holt.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo

User Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms

User Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Understanding the genetics of autism from the genetics of related traits

User Varun Warrier, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system

User Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Admissions and early intervention: insights from newer approaches

User Dr Matthew Taylor, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Bipolar Disorder, King's College, London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Why are we so bad at face recognition?

User Mike Burton (U. of York).

Thursday 24 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Hedgehog signalling in immune cells

User Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Metacognition of internally-generated processes

User Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Re-thinking cognitive training research

User Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The structure and function of visual working memory

User Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology).

Thursday 31 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach

User Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations

User Professor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it?

User Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients

User Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) .

Thursday 07 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Self-Other Processes in ASD - the Case of Empathy

User Dr Idalmis Santiesteban, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline

User James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Concept learning as compression

User Bradley Love (UCL).

Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity"

User Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

TBC

User Hardingham Giles - University of Edinburgh.

House TBC.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Louis Appleby, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester; Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:30-13:30