Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What’s behind the trauma

Chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Prof Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 13 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity

Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration

Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge

Marie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The social brain in adolescence

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 16:00-17:15

CamBRAIN talks

So you want to be a neuroscientist?

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87543675352

Dr Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego.

Zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Bedside to bench and back again, a path to translational pain research?

Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Genomically Humanised Mouse Models For ALS Research

Dr Thomas Cunningham, MRC Harwell Institute.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Clinical Neuroscience and the Heart-Brain Axis

Chair: Prof Paul Fletcher

Prof Sarah Garfinkel, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention

Mariam Aly (Columbia University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Human brain functional genomics and the mechanisms underlying genetic risk for schizophrenia

Dr Michael Gandal.

Online.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse

Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-13:55

Zangwill Club

Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership

Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Professor Zoe Kourtzi - Title TBC

Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Molecular traits of cell type-specific reactivity in neuroinflammation

Dr Lucas Schirmer, Manheim Center for Translational Neuroscience, Heidelberg University.

Zoom (link will be given in Abstract).

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Translational medicine in Alzheimer’s disease – taking the unfolded protein response as a therapeutic target in to clinical trials.

Chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Ben Underwood, Deputy Medical Director CPFT.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Carving the world into useful task representations

Yael Niv (Princeton University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Zangwill Club

TBA

Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Regenerative Neuroimmunology - new generation molecular approaches to restore maladaptive inflammatory responses in the persistently inflamed CNS

Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Replication control during the cell cycle and development

Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Zangwill Club

Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections

Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Zoom meeting.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Experts by Personal and Professional Experience: A Novel Anti-Stigma Intervention Targeting Healthcare Professionals and Students

Chair: Dr Rashid Zaman

Dr Ahmed Hankir, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 10 June 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression

Jonathan Roiser (UCL).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes

Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Webinar via Zoom - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Chaucer Club

Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?

Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University).

Zoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Marta Zlatic.

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration?

Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Meaghan Creed, Washington University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meaghan Creed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Meaghan Creed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:30-13:30