Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis

Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

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

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Microglia webinar series

Understanding microglial dynamics from development to age-related neurological diseases

This is a live webinar on Zoom using the link indicated above

Diego Gomez-Nicola, University of Southampton, U.K..

https://zoom.us/j/92796686042?pwd=bStrTUNHajBaNGJnVjV1cit5ZCtNdz09.

Monday 01 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Using the marmoset prefontal cortex to understand psychiatric symptoms: schizophrenia and hippocampal-prefrontal circuitry

Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn).

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 01 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The brain control of appetite: Can an old dog teach us new tricks?

Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Computational models of compulsivity - State learning and control in OCD and gambling disorder

Dr Frederike Petzschner, Brown University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms

Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Multiscale network neuroscience: linking cells, networks and symptoms in brain disease

Dr Linda Douw.

Online.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of Aging

Anne Brunet, Stanford University.

hybrid format.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them

Dr Jessica Kay Flake (McGill).

via zoom .

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces

Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille.

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

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Zangwill Club

Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour

Dominik Bach (University College London).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity

Nathalie Rochefort, Centre for discovery, Brain Sciences, Edinburgh.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment

Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

New paradigms for the negative symptoms

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought

Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University).

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

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning

Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Zangwill Club

Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies

Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) .

Zoom meeting.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots

Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories

Lila Davachi (Columbia University).

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

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis

Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

hybrid format.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization

Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Zangwill Club

Time perception as accumulation of salient events

Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Actionable analytics: harnessing electronic health record data to improve mental healthcare outcomes

Dr Rashmi Patel, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation

Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Dr Marinka Zitnik.

Online.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

Kevin Chalut, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

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

Friday 26 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Zangwill Club

What does magic tell us about free will?

Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration

Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena

Dr Alin Coman (Princeton).

via zoom .

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:00-17:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

How local and global metacognition shape mental health

Dr Stephen Fleming, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

New models of human hearing via machine learning

Josh McDermott (MIT).

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

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Making connections- brains and other complex systems

Title to be confirmed

Valerie Sydnor.

Online.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 15:00-16:00

Foster Talks

What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex

Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge.

hybrid format.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations

Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).

Zoom meeting.

Friday 03 December 2021, 16:15-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Prof Hakwan Lau, University of Californa, Los Angeles.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 09 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience

Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex).

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

Thursday 09 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian

Speaker to be confirmed.

hybrid format.

Thursday 09 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Prof Charles Conway, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 16 December 2021, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Sara Baker - Title TBC

Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 18 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion

Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris.

hybrid format.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Mirjana Bozic - Title TBC

Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools

Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia.

hybrid format.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Michael Hastings - Title TBC

Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate

Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity

Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY.

hybrid format.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Yaara Erez - Title TBC

Dr Yaara Erez, MRV Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Dr Petra Vértes - Title TBC

Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish

Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai.

hybrid format.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Development of interneurons in visual cortex

Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

hybrid format.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function

Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge.

hybrid format.

Thursday 07 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Global Views of Mammalian Development

Jay Shendure, University of Washington.

hybrid format.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Professor Jeff Dalley - Title TBC

Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Title tbc

Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

hybrid format.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Professor Allan Herbison - Title TBC

Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Professor Sir Simon Baron Cohen - Title TBC

Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00