Neuroscience Seminars 2005-03-16 15:00: Approximating The Hierarchical Dirichelet Distribution (Phil Cowans) 2005-03-23 15:00: Bayesian Learning for Visual Inference (Ollie Williams) 2005-03-30 15:00: Communicating with buttons: current progress in one- and two-button Dasher (Ingrid Jendrzejewski) 2005-04-05 16:30: The predictive power of contractive neural-network spaces (Ashley Mills) 2005-04-11 16:00: Bloom Filters and Tries (a comparison) (David MacKay) 2005-04-20 15:00: Astronomical Image Recognition (David MacKay) 2005-04-27 15:00: Variational Gibbs Sampling (Ulrich Paquet) 2005-05-03 14:00: Computer Othello (Sanjoy Mahajan) 2005-05-11 14:00: Joint Gaussian Process-Density Mixtures (Ole Winther, DTU / Inference Group) 2005-05-17 14:00: Nested Sampling for Motif Discovery (Thomas Down, Sanger Institute) 2005-06-07 16:00: Neighbourhood Components Analysis (Sam Roweis, University of Toronto) 2005-06-08 15:00: Information and Intelligence (Alex Selby) 2005-06-08 16:30: A Tale of T9 (Cliff Kushler) 2005-06-09 09:30: Japanese Language Model (Takashi Kaburagi) 2005-06-09 15:00: Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Models for Time Series Data (Matthew Beal, SUNY at Buffalo) 2005-06-10 11:00: Language Modelling In Dasher: A Tutorial (Phil Cowans) 2005-06-10 15:30: Monte Carlo experiments in computer Go (Lukasz Lew, Vrije University, Amsterdam) 2005-06-14 14:00: Epitomes And Epitexts (Phil Cowans, Inference Group) 2005-06-15 15:00: A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets (Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto) 2005-06-21 16:30: Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech; Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic ink (Keith Vertanen and Phil Cowans, Cavendish Laboratory) 2005-06-22 15:00: LOCUS: Learning Object Classes with Unsupervised Segmentation (John Winn, Microsoft Research) 2005-06-29 15:00: What we face in facing up to complexity in the genetics of complex disease (Ken Weiss, Pennsylvania State University) 2005-07-03 15:00: To be confirmed (David MacKay) 2005-07-06 15:00: An introduction to Brain-Computer Interfaces (Seb Wills, Inference Group) 2005-07-22 15:00: Why do fruitflies like bananas? (Gregory Jefferis, Department of Zoology) 2005-08-03 15:00: Progress with #Dasher, a Continuous Gesture IDE (Luke Church) 2005-08-16 12:00: Efficient communication with buttons: an update on Button Dasher (Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Inference Group) 2005-08-17 12:30: Language relationships, phonology, and Greek (Tudor Dimofte, Inference Group) 2005-08-17 15:00: Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation and Optimization (Chunlin JI, Engineering Department) 2005-10-05 15:00: Bayesian Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of Go (David Stern, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory) 2005-10-12 15:00: A Cross-Entropy Based Method to Analyse Iterative Decoding (Qinglin Luo) 2005-11-02 15:00: Dasher for the blind, and some visual illusions (David MacKay, Inference Group) 2005-11-09 15:00: Monte Carlo is Bayesian (John Skilling, ex-DAMTP) 2005-11-18 14:00: Locked-in syndrome (Mick Donegan, ACE Centre Oxford) 2005-11-23 15:00: Efficient Quantum Computation with linear optics (Oliver Stegle, Inference Group) 2005-11-28 14:30: Cheap and cheerful inference machines for tracking (Ollie Williams, CUED) 2006-01-11 13:00: Moving Colours (Annette Werner, Centre for Vision, University of Tbingen) 2006-01-11 15:00: Eye Tracking with Consumer Hardware (Dan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen) 2006-01-19 15:00: Lexicographic text analysis using non-negative factorisation techniques (Sinead Williamson) 2006-01-20 15:00: Recognition and prediction of biological motion (Robert Wilson, University of Pennsylvania) 2006-01-24 13:00: Bees' colour vision: lessons from understanding visual capabilities and cognition possible with the mini brain. (Adrian Dyer) 2006-01-25 15:00: Dynamical Networks for Agent Systems (Pedro Ortega, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile) 2006-02-01 15:00: Latency-optimal fault-tolerant replication (Piotr Zielinski, Inference Group) 2006-02-07 13:00: The Trefethen Effect (David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-08 15:00: Virtual-move Parallel Tempering (Ivan Coluzza, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-15 15:00: Experimental Annotation of the Human Genome (Paul Bertone, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute) 2006-02-16 15:15: Uncertainty Logic (Christian Steinruecken) 2006-02-22 15:00: Topic Modeling: Beyond Bag-of-Words (Hanna Wallach, Inference Group) 2006-02-23 13:00: Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neurons (Salome Antolin, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge) 2006-03-01 15:00: Speech Recognition During Dictation Corrections (Keith Vertanen, Inference Group) 2006-03-07 12:30: Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (Dr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield) 2006-03-07 14:00: Student Project Presentations: "Redundancy in Turing machines"; "A two button implementation of Dasher" and "Relationships between energy and information in fly retina" (R.J. Henderson, Tim Ward, and Mike Baker) 2006-03-10 11:00: Student Project Presentations: "Colour Memorisation", "One button communication" and "Optimising digital fountain codes" ( J.E. Main, Naath (Helen) Cousins, and Olly Madge) 2006-03-13 15:00: Aggregation of Particles in Stochastic Flows (Per Sillr?n, Chalmers University, Sweden) 2006-03-16 13:00: Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRI (Kathy Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University) 2006-03-21 13:00: Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes (Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester) 2006-03-22 15:00: Epitomic representation of natural signals (Anitha Kannan, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2006-03-28 14:00: Graph Transformation Method for Calculating Waiting Times in Markov Chains (Semen Trygubenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2006-03-29 15:00: Bayesian Online Changepoint Detection (Ryan Adams, Inference Group) 2006-04-04 13:00: On the Neural Machinery for Face Processing (Winrich Freiwald, Centers for Advanced Imaging & Cognitive Sciences, Bremen University; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School) 2006-04-13 15:00: The Swendsen-Wang algorithm (tutorial), and the "Baby and Toy" algorithm (David MacKay) 2006-04-19 15:00: Hierarchical Passage Retrieval (Phil Cowans, Inference Group) 2006-04-19 16:30: Bayesian approximation for physical inverse problems (Debasish Roy) 2006-04-21 15:00: The 'Rich Club' phenomenon in large networks (Anthony Leung, Hong Kong) 2006-04-26 14:30: Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair Cosmologist (David MacKay) 2006-05-03 14:00: The Capacity of the Deletion Channel (David MacKay) 2006-05-03 16:00: New Developments in Optical Imaging (Brad Amos (MRC-LMB)) 2006-05-10 14:00: To be confirmed (David Stern, Inference Group) 2006-05-10 15:00: How to Parameterize a Positive-definite Matrix (David MacKay) 2006-05-24 13:00: Learning and recall of visuomotor transformations (John Krakauer, Columbia University) 2006-05-24 14:00: Title to be confirmed (David Stern, Inference Group) 2006-05-26 14:00: Joint LDPC Decoding and Timing Recovery Using Code Constraint Feedback (Christopher Jones) 2006-05-30 13:00: Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired people (Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2006-05-31 14:00: Capacity of phase-based attractor networks with pairwise couplings (David MacKay) 2006-06-07 14:00: Finite element modelling of growing microtubules (Michael Verhoek, KCL) 2006-06-07 16:00: Breaking the Resolution Limit in Light Microscopy (Rainer Heintzmann (King's College London)) 2006-06-15 14:00: Blissymbolics (Annalu Waller, University of Dundee) 2006-06-20 14:00: A Bayesian Unfolding Method Applied to the PAMELA Experiment (Germano Percossi) 2006-06-21 14:00: In search of the brain's wiring (Philipp Hennig, Heidelberg) 2006-06-27 14:00: Blissymbolics - The Emergence of a Written Language (Annalu Waller, Dundee) 2006-06-28 11:00: Music Access for the Disabled (Jon Hall, Engineering Department) 2006-06-28 14:00: Information-Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to Practice (Miguel Rodrigues, Digital Technology Group, Cambridge) 2006-06-28 17:00: Ligand detection and discrimination by spatial relocalisation: the complexities of T cell activation (Nigel Burroughs (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)) 2006-07-03 13:00: Absolute Pitch: Genetics & Perception (Jane Gitschier, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco) 2006-07-05 14:00: Gaussian Process models for solving ODEs (Oliver Stegle, Inference Group) 2006-07-05 16:00: Optical Imaging in Cancer and Radiobiology (Borivoj Vojnovic (Gray Cancer Institute)) 2006-07-07 13:00: Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic (Bruno Laeng, Department of Psychology, University of Tromso) 2006-07-12 14:00: On the Analysis of Ellipsoid Approximation of Nested Sampling (Ratthachat Chatpatanasiri) 2006-07-12 16:00: Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of voltage in dendritic spines. (Rafael Yuste, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) 2006-07-18 14:00: Implicit learning in Music (Martin Rohrmeier, Centre for Music and Science) 2006-07-19 14:00: Divergence measures and latent variable models (Ulrich Paquet) 2006-07-26 14:00: The Manufacture of Bioethanol - A brief Introduction (Samir Bhatt) 2006-07-26 16:00: Graphical Combinator Programming (Christian Steinruecken) 2006-08-02 14:00: sparse GP classification (Andrew Naish) 2006-08-02 14:00: neural phase codes (Bob Wilson) 2006-08-09 11:00: Cognitive Cars (K. Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company) 2006-08-09 14:00: Getting it Right the Second Time: Recognition of Spoken Corrections (Keith Vertanen, Inference Group) 2006-08-16 13:00: Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cells (Trevor Lamb, Division of Neuroscience JCSMR, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australian National University, Canberra) 2006-08-16 14:00: Naive OCR? (Seb Wills, Inference Group) 2006-08-23 14:00: How to veto anonymously under surveillance? (Piotr Zielinski, Inference Group) 2006-08-24 13:00: HOW FLIES SMELL: THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF DROSOPHILA OLFACTION (RICHARD BENTON, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK) 2006-09-06 14:00: MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions (Iain Murray, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) 2006-09-06 16:00: summer holiday (back in october) 2006-09-13 14:00: An interesting preprint (David MacKay) 2006-09-13 16:15: Hereditary spastic paraplegia, BMP signaling, and axonal degeneration in Drosophila (Xinnan Wang, O'Kane lab, Department of Genetics) 2006-09-13 16:15: Ubx controls Notch/ Numb dependent cell fate decisions in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila (Torsten Bossing, Brand lab, Gurdon Institut) 2006-09-20 14:00: Optimised Digital Fountain Codes for Medium Blocklengths (Oliver Madge) 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) 2006-10-05 16:00: Mixture Models and the EM Algorithm (Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2006-10-06 16:30: Intelligence and ageing: contributions from the Scottish Mental Survey follow-up studies (Professor Ian Deary, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh) 2006-10-11 16:15: Postsynaptic phosphorylation networks (Marcelo Coba, Grant lab, Sanger Institute) 2006-10-11 16:15: Defining the neural stem cell state (Steven Pollard, Smith lab, Institute for Stem Cell Biology) 2006-10-12 09:30: Neuroscience and Society (One-day seminar) 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) 2006-10-13 16:30: Sex differences in intelligence? (Professor Nick Mackintosh, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-16 14:00: Leaf Selection for Maximising Diversity in a Tree (Fabio Pardi) 2006-10-18 14:00: Teaching Statistics - A Bag of Tricks (David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-10-19 12:45: Clinical Neuroscience (Ramez Reda Moustafa) 2006-10-19 16:00: Roles of feedback regulation of signaling in kidney and brain development (Prof. Ivor Mason, King's College London) 2006-10-20 14:15: Compact self-wired cultured neural networks (Dr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University) 2006-10-20 16:30: What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRI (Professor John Henderson, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh) 2006-10-23 16:30: THE ANALYSIS OF VISUAL MOTION (Prof. Tony Movshon New York University USA) 2006-10-24 13:00: The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal function (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-24 20:00: Evolution of the Middle Ear (Dr Matthew Mason, Department of Physiology) 2006-10-25 12:30: Subliminal face priming: Evidence from fMRI, EEG and MEG (Rik Henson, MRC-CBU) 2006-10-25 17:00: Psychiatry and colonial politics: colonial psychiatry and indigenous physicians in the former Dutch East Indies (Hans Pols (University of Sydney)) 2006-10-26 14:45: Dynamic imaging of blood flow in the conjunctival and episcleral microcirculations of the human eye: a new chapter in diagnostic imaging? (Dr. Paul Meyer, Ophthalmology Department, Addenbrookes Hospital) 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) 2006-10-26 16:00: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (Ed Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2006-10-27 13:15: Neurodegeneration, membrane traffic and BMP signaling in Drosophila. (Cahir O'Kane, Dept. of Genetics) 2006-10-27 16:30: Migration and fusion of perceptual content – premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction? (Professor Anthony Marcel, University of Cambridge and University of Hertfordshire) 2006-10-30 13:00: Embodiment and the Sciences of the Mind (Professor Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh) 2006-11-01 17:00: Angina pectoris and the Arnolds: emotions and the framing of heart disease in medical history (Fay Bound Alberti (University of Lancaster)) 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) 2006-11-02 16:00: Semantic knowledge and the anterior temporal lobes: why doesn't anyone believe us? (Dr Tim Rogers, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2006-11-03 12:30: Journal Club: A Neural Probabilistic Language Model (-) 2006-11-03 13:15: In vivo calcium imaging during zebrafish somite and muscle (Caroline Brennan, Queen Mary University of London) 2006-11-03 16:30: Mood, memory & clinical depression (Professor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-06 16:30: A MOTOR CORTICAL NETWORK FOR VISUALLY GUIDED GRASP IN PRIMATES (Prof. Roger Lemon Institute of Neurology London) 2006-11-06 20:00: Sleepfaring: A journey through the science of sleep (Professor Jim Horne, Loughborough Sleep Research Centre) 2006-11-08 12:30: Hemispheric asymmetetries in viewpoint-dependent and viewpoint-invariant priming (Elias Mouchlianitis, MRC-CBU) 2006-11-08 12:30: Context-dependent representations in human prefrontal cortex (Mark Stokes, MRC-CBU) 2006-11-08 14:00: Do Scanning Electron Microscopes have a point-spread function? (Philipp Hennig) 2006-11-08 16:15: Regulation of spindle orientation and neural stem cell fate in the Drosophila optic lobe (Boris Egger, Brand lab, Gurdon Institute) 2006-11-08 16:15: Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia (Matthieu Vermeren, PDN) 2006-11-09 12:45: Molecules of Cognition (Tomas Ryan) 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) 2006-11-09 16:00: Causality (Dr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2006-11-09 16:15: The role of the hippocampus in relational memory: Evidence from amnesia and fMRI (Prof Mieke Verfaellie, University of Boston) 2006-11-10 13:15: Cell biological parameters that modulate the range of Wingless in Drosophila epithelia. (Jean Paul Vincent, NIMR, Mill Hill) 2006-11-10 16:30: Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations (Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Department of Psychology, Barcelona University, Spain) 2006-11-13 13:00: Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'? (David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge) 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) 2006-11-13 20:30: Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system (Dr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) 2006-11-15 12:30: ERP and fMRI correlates of object and word recognition (Olaf Hauk, MRC-CBU) 2006-11-15 14:00: Vector Gaussian Processes (Ryan Adams, Inference Group) 2006-11-15 17:00: Shell shock to PTSD: a step change in the conceptualisation of psychological responses to traumatic events (Edgar Jones (King’s College London)) 2006-11-16 16:00: Motor neuron degeneration and legs at odd angles (Prof. Elizabeth Fisher) 2006-11-16 16:00: Expectation Propagation (Dr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2006-11-16 16:15: Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine? (Professor Josef Käs (Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig)) 2006-11-16 16:15: Neural mechanisms of attention and cognitive control in the human brain: Evidence from TMS (Dr Chris Chambers, University College London) 2006-11-17 13:00: Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activity (Simon R. Schultz, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London) 2006-11-17 13:15: The Self-Renewing Intestinal Epithelium and its Neoplasms: Cellular and Developmental Issues. (William Dove, McArdle Laboratories, Wisconsin, USA) 2006-11-17 16:15: Physical principles of sensory transduction (Dr Tom Duke, Department of Physics, Cambridge) 2006-11-17 16:30: Do familiarity and recollection have different neural bases? Normal, lesion, fMRI, and neophrenology studies (Professor Andrew Mayes, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester) 2006-11-17 16:45: The brain as a statistical machine (Professor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge)) 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) 2006-11-21 16:30: The Role of Language in Mathematical Development (Dr Chris Donlan, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London) 2006-11-22 12:30: Morphological structure in visual word recognition (Mirjana Bozic, MRC-CBU) 2006-11-22 14:00: Bayesian estimation of neuronal connectivity from MEA recordings (Fabio Rigat) 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) 2006-11-23 16:00: Advanced MCMC Methods (Iain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2006-11-23 16:15: Do S-cones contribute to the perception of brightness? (Prof Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany and the Visual Center Lab at the Salk Institute in the US.) 2006-11-24 16:30: The origins of adult magical beliefs (Professor Bruce Hood, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol) 2006-11-27 16:30: GREY MATTER(S) (Prof. Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg Germany) 2006-11-29 12:30: Individual differences in emotional responsivity (Elaine Fox, University of Essex) 2006-11-29 17:00: Four erotic problems: elements of a history of arts of love (Michel Feher (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)) 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) 2006-11-30 16:00: Nonlinearity and frequency tuning in insect hearing (Daniel Robert (School of Biological Sciences & IRC in Nanotechnology, Bristol)) 2006-11-30 16:15: Experience-dependent plasticity as revealed by fMRI (Dr Zoe Kourtzi, University of Birmingham) 2006-12-01 13:00: Sensorimotor and perceptual representations engaged when performing and observing object manipulation tasks (Randy Flanagan, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada) 2006-12-04 10:15: Pragmatics and Cognitive Science (Deirdre Wilson (UCL)) 2006-12-04 11:45: Ellipsis, Dialogue Modelling, and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface (Ruth Kempson (King's College London)) 2006-12-04 14:15: A Formal Semantic Analysis of Gesture (Alex Lascarides (Edinburgh)) 2006-12-04 16:30: Potassium channel diversity at the synaptic interface: Fast EPSCs and delayed rectification (Prof. Ian Forsythe University of Leicester) 2006-12-06 12:30: Emotion from brain identity (Mitch Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center) 2006-12-06 14:00: Transcription regulation: from parts list to genomic network. (Nicholas Luscombe) 2006-12-07 16:15: Hearing with a cochlear implant: The perception of sound intensity (Prof Colette McKay, Aston University Birmingham) 2006-12-12 13:00: Motion Perception - from visual arts to neural processing (Johannes M. Zanker, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London) 2006-12-13 14:00: Robust Gaussian Process Regression and Applications (Oliver Stegle) 2006-12-13 14:45: Title to be confirmed (Luis Diaz-Santana, Dept of Optometry and Visual Science, City University) 2006-12-14 17:00: Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect (Jon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2006-12-15 13:00: A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound (Michael Shadlen, Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington) 2007-01-10 14:00: HMMs for controlling dynamical systems (Marcus Frean) 2007-01-10 16:00: waiting for CR UK Cambridge Research Institute opening (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-01-15 16:30: BEFORE AND AFTER GRANDMOTHER CELLS (Professor Horace Barlow, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-01-17 14:00: Learning from positive and unlabeled data (Jurgen Van Gael) 2007-01-18 16:00: Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits (Prof. Steve Wilson, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, UCL) 2007-01-18 16:15: Auditory processing, language impairment and developmental dyslexia (Professor Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge) 2007-01-19 16:30: New family forms: Implications for parenting and child development (Professor Susan Golombok, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2007-01-22 16:30: THE CEREBELLAR BASIS OF MOTOR LEARNING (Prof. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen, Germany) 2007-01-24 12:30: Beyond the scores: Clues to neurophsychological disorders from the things patients say and do (Karalyn Patterson, MRC-CBU) 2007-01-24 14:00: Modeling text with Dirichlet compound multinomial distributions (Charles Elkan, UCSD) 2007-01-25 16:00: E.solo and E.pluribus: two new experimental organisms (Prof. Dennis Bray, PDN) 2007-01-25 16:15: Prefrontal contributions to dynamic cognitive control (Dr Hugh Garavan, Trinity College Dublin) 2007-01-25 16:30: Modelling of primary processes in Drosophila phototransduction (Dr. Marten Postma, Hardie Lab, PDN) 2007-01-26 16:30: Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memory (Professor Graham Hitch, University of York) 2007-01-30 13:00: Learning about the big picture: Flexibility in Infant Memory (Dr Jane Herbert, The Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield) 2007-01-30 16:30: CHOICE AND CHANCE: LIMITATIONS AND EXTENSIONS OF THE LATER MODEL (Dr. Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-01-31 12:30: Parafoveal perception of emotional scenes: Evidence from oculomotor biases and affective priming (Lauri Nummenmaa, MRC-CBU) 2007-01-31 14:00: Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade Processes (Rich Turner, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) 2007-01-31 17:00: The mismeasure of stickman: testing intelligence by drawings (Barbara Wittmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)) 2007-02-01 16:00: Robot Localisation and Mapping (Dr Paul M Newman, Oxford University) 2007-02-01 16:15: Crossing the divide: Interactions between the processing of regular and irregular past tense words (Professor Elaine Funnell, Royal Holloway, University of London) 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) 2007-02-02 13:15: Genome-wide approaches to the identification and characterization of JAK/STAT pathways regulators in Drosophila and Human systems. (Martin Zeidler, University of Sheffield.) 2007-02-02 16:30: Reward processing in the addicted brain: Sex, drugs and genes (Dr Jane Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA) 2007-02-05 16:30: THE HUNGRY BRAIN: ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND NEURAL FUNCTION (Professor Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology) 2007-02-06 16:30: Understanding selective attentional and perceptual abnormalities in autism (Dr Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-07 12:30: TBCThe past is another country: The elusiveness of specific emotional memories following psychological trauma (Tim Dalgleish, MRC-CBU) 2007-02-08 16:15: Investigation of the relationship between the BOLD response and cortical oscillatory dynamics using MEG and fMRI (Professor Krish Singh, Cardiff University) 2007-02-09 13:15: The transcription factor SRF directs developmental and adult brain plasticity. (Alfred Nordheim, University of Tuebingen.) 2007-02-09 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA) 2007-02-13 13:00: Biophysics of wiring the brain (Aldo Faisal, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-14 14:00: NIPS presentations (Ryan Adams) 2007-02-14 17:00: On the metaphysics of listening and lying in psychoanalysis (Bibi Straatman (University of Nijmegen)) 2007-02-15 16:00: Epithelial Physiology: facts, fantasies and fun (Prof. Richard Boyd, University of Oxford) 2007-02-16 13:15: Genetic control of brain development in Drosophila. (Frank Hirth, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, KCL) 2007-02-16 16:30: Is theory of mind necessary for teaching (Dr Douglas Frye, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, University of Pennsylvania, USA) 2007-02-19 16:30: THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA (Prof. Paul Bolam, University of Oxford) 2007-02-21 12:30: A slim grip on reality? The role of anterior prefrontal cortex in source recollection (Jon Simons, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-21 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Giselle Walker) 2007-02-22 16:00: Plasticity of neuron to astrocyte signalling in the cerebellum (Dr. Tom Bellamy, Babraham Institute) 2007-02-22 16:00: An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian Methods (Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-22 16:15: Clarifying the functional neuro-anatomy of face processing by combining lesion studies and neuroimaging (Dr Bruno Rossion, UCL Belgium) 2007-02-23 13:00: The concatenation of factors of change in perception (Donald MacLeod, UCSD) 2007-02-23 13:15: Liver formation in zebrafish - Wnt and BMP signalling in organ specification. (Elke Ober, NIMR, Mill Hill) 2007-02-23 16:30: Reanalyzing ungrammatical sentences: Evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEG (Professor Fernanda Ferreira, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh) 2007-02-23 17:30: IDENTITY AND THE MIND (Raymond Tallis, Manchester University) 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) 2007-02-27 16:30: Parietal mechanisms subserving the mental number line (Dr Ed Hubbard, INSERM Cognitive Neuroimaging Service, Orsay, France) 2007-02-28 12:30: Discrete object representation for perception and memory in posterior parietal cortex (Rhodri Cusack, MRC-CBU) 2007-02-28 14:00: Some interesting data: Cryptic DNA sequence periodicities are ubiquitous, organism specific and distinguish introns from exons. (Giselle Walker) 2007-02-28 17:00: How we became our brains: a historical perspective (Fernando Vidal (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)) 2007-03-01 16:00: Sweet dreams: new pathways of glucose-sensing in the brain (Dr. Denis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology) 2007-03-01 16:00: Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (Dr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2007-03-01 16:15: Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in episodic memory and strategy implementation (Dr Mark Baxter, University of Oxford) 2007-03-02 08:45: "Polyneuropathy in Leonberger dogs: An emerging pan-European polyneuropathy" (Nicolas Granger) 2007-03-02 13:15: Conserved mechanisms regulating lineage commitment during vertebrate gastrulation. (Josh Brickman, Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh.) 2007-03-02 16:30: Neural systems for attention and perceptual decisions (Professor Maurizio Corbetta, Department of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, USA) 2007-03-05 14:00: Real and apparent time: evidence from language change across the lifespan (Professor Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania)) 2007-03-05 15:30: The Life History of a Sound Change (Professor William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)) 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) 2007-03-07 12:30: Can approach-avoidance paradigms inform debates about embodied cognition? (Adle Pacini, MRC-CBU) 2007-03-07 12:30: Attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex (Max Garagnani, MRC-CBU) 2007-03-07 14:00: Metropolis-Coupled MCMC for Nested Sampling (Ratthachat (Jung)) 2007-03-08 16:00: Imaging neurulation in the zebrafish embryo (Dr. Richard Adams, PDN) 2007-03-08 16:15: 11thousand autobiographical memories: Results from the BBC memory survey (Professor Martin Conway, Leeds University) 2007-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Sarah Bray, PDN) 2007-03-08 17:00: The Depressed Child and Adolescent (Prof Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2007-03-09 13:15: The homeobox gene Hex has essential roles during liver development. (Clifford Bogue, Yale University/ Gurdon Institute.) 2007-03-09 16:30: Intuition and affect in decision-making (Dr Marius Usher, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College) 2007-03-14 12:30: Human memory: insights from the past and challenges for the future (Kim Graham, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & MRC-CBU) 2007-03-14 14:00: Gaussian Process Product Models (Ryan Adams) 2007-03-14 17:00: ‘No! No! Not the comfy chair!’ The power of the experimental situation in social psychology (Alison Winter (University of Chicago)) 2007-03-15 13:00: Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classification (Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST)) 2007-03-15 16:00: Bayesian Ranking (Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2007-03-15 16:15: Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition (Professor Neil Macrae, Aberdeen University) 2007-03-19 13:00: Date and Title to be confirmed (Stephen Scott, Queen's University, Canada) 2007-03-19 16:30: “CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING HIPPOCAMPAL GAMMA-FREQUENCY ("40 HZ") NETWORK OSCILLATIONS” (Dr. Ole Paulsen University of Oxford) 2007-03-20 09:30: CamLing 2007 - day 1 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-03-21 09:30: CamLing 2007 - day 2 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-03-21 12:30: The Cognitive Heterogeneity of Parkinson's Disease (Caroline Williams-Gray, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) 2007-03-21 14:00: Monte Carlo Approaches to Game Playing (David Stern, Strategic Inference Task Force, Cambridge) 2007-03-23 14:00: Logistic regression with a Laplacian prior on the singular values: convex duality and application to EEG classification. (Ryota Tomioka (冨岡亮太), University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST IDA) 2007-03-26 14:00: Inference in Bayesian Networks using Dynamic Discretisation (Martin Neil, Agena Ltd & David Marquez, Queen Mary, University of London) 2007-03-28 14:00: Inductive Logic Programming and Kernel methods (David Kirchheimer, Bristol University) 2007-03-30 14:00: Learning Patterns in the Game of Go (Emil Nijhuis, University of Amsterdam) 2007-04-03 13:00: Analysis of Channel Coding for Redundant Sources (Joseph Boutros, ENST Paris) 2007-04-04 11:00: Colour Vision Meeting (Speakers include: R. A. Weale, D. van Norren, J. Bowmaker, H. Cooper, G. Jordan, H. Smithson, J. Barbur and D. Tolhurst) 2007-04-12 13:00: Variational free energy and the brain (Karl Friston, UCL) 2007-04-19 16:15: The effects of learning on the neural representation of natural objects in extrastriate, temporal and prefrontal cortex (Dr Gregor Rainer (Tuebingen)) 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) 2007-04-24 13:00: Visual discrimination of interacting human agents (Peter Neri, City University, London) 2007-04-25 12:30: Breaking the silence - brain-computer interfaces for communication in locked-in patients (Andrea Kuebler, Universitaet Tuebingen) 2007-04-25 14:00: Context Tree Weighting (Martijn van Veen and Philip Cowans) 2007-04-26 16:00: Experience Dependent Mechanisms of Visual System Development (Prof. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor) 2007-04-26 16:00: Multiple activity-dependent mechanisms control visual system development (Prof. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA) 2007-04-26 16:15: Psychological factors in the epidemiology of disease (Dr Paul Surtees (Cambridge)) 2007-04-27 13:00: On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordination (Jörn Diedrichsen, University of Wales, Bangor) 2007-04-27 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA) 2007-04-30 14:30: Role of the GDNF-GFRa1 signalling system in the development and function of cortical parvalbumin interneurons (Alison Canty, Dept of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) 2007-04-30 16:30: “A HOLISTIC MODEL OF BINAURAL HEARING IN MAMMALS” (Professor David McAlpine Ear Institute London) 2007-04-30 19:30: DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System (Professor Robin Franklin. Neurosciences Laboratory (Department of Veterinary medicine) and the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge) 2007-05-02 12:30: Why masked priming tells us more about normal perception than unconscious processing (Dennis Norris (MRC-CBU)) 2007-05-02 14:00: Bayesian nonparametric latent feature models (Zoubin Ghahramani) 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) 2007-05-03 16:15: The thoughts and brain activity of taxi drivers navigating in London (Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL)) 2007-05-04 16:30: The role of action in directing attention (Professor Glyn Humphreys, Behavioural Brain Sciences Group, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 2007-05-07 16:30: “PHEROMONAL SIGNALLING IN MICE” (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology) 2007-05-09 14:00: Shape writing: fluid text entry on mobile devices (Per Ola Kristensson) 2007-05-09 17:00: Children in hospital: attachment theory and psychoanalytic research in post-war Britain (Michal Shapira (Rutgers University)) 2007-05-10 13:00: The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs Genes (Ruth Hogg, University of Melbourne) 2007-05-10 16:15: Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition (Professor Neil Macrae (Aberdeen)) 2007-05-10 17:00: Annual Kenneth Craik lecture - Decisions, outcomes and emotion (Professor Ray Dolan, Institute of Neurology, University College London) 2007-05-11 16:30: Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in strategy implementation and episodic memory (Dr Mark Baxter, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2007-05-14 12:30: Postponed until further notice (Chichung D Lie, GSF, Munich) 2007-05-14 14:00: Getting published in a high impact journal (Katja Brose, Editor of Neuron and Consulting Editor of Cell) 2007-05-14 16:30: "SHIFTING VIEWS OF FRONTO-STRIATAL FUNCTION: NEUROMODULATORY MECHANISMS" (Professor Trevor Robbins, Deptartment of Experimental Psychology) 2007-05-16 14:00: Learning and Stability in Random Sigma-Pi Networks (Philip Sterne) 2007-05-17 16:00: Prenatal Origins of Heart Disease: The Role of Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Dr. Dino Giussani, PDN) 2007-05-17 16:15: Can the mirror neuron system infer intentions from observed action? (Dr James Kilner (UCL)) 2007-05-17 16:30: The vital role of kissing in reproduction (Dr. Bill Colledge, PDN) 2007-05-18 14:00: New opportunities for medical research (Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council) 2007-05-18 16:30: Timing, memory and choice (Professor John Staddon, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, USA) 2007-05-22 13:00: Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesia (Gary Bargary, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin) 2007-05-22 16:15: Structural analysis of glutamate receptor gating and allosteric regulation (Mark Mayer, NIH) 2007-05-22 16:30: Neural correlates of number magnitude processing in children & adults: evidence from fMRI (Dr Liane Kaufmann, Clinical Dept. of General Paediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University) 2007-05-23 12:30: Electrophysiological evidence for the enhanced allocation of spatial attention to threat in anxious individuals (Elaine Fox, University of Essex) 2007-05-23 17:00: 'We might as well call it stuff!': A short history of information as a psychological concept (Alan Collins (Lancaster University)) 2007-05-24 16:00: Central circuits that subserve pain of different behavioural significance and their descending control (Dr. Bridget Lumb, University of Bristol) 2007-05-24 16:15: Imaging voice-specific responses in auditory areas (Professor Pascal Belin (Glasgow)) 2007-05-28 14:00: Probabilities, Complexities and Game Semantics (Christian Steinruecken) 2007-05-30 12:30: Language and action: Cross-talk between processing of action words and motor control (Veronique Boulenger (MRC-CBU)) 2007-05-30 14:00: An Error-Correcting Keyboard (Carl Scheffler, Inference Group, University of Cambridge) 2007-05-31 16:00: Arrhythmogenic mechanisms in the isolated perfused hypokalemic murine heart (Prof. Chris Huang, PDN) 2007-05-31 16:15: The time-course of response inhibition revealed by an examination of movement trajectory (Professor Robin Walker (Royal Holloway, University of London)) 2007-05-31 16:30: Platelet Store-operated Ca2+ entry: The NCX trips up the TRP (Dr. Stewart Sage, PDN) 2007-06-04 12:30: Endocytosis and sorting along the axonal retrograde pathway (Giampietro Schiavo, Molecular NeuroPathoBiology Lab, Cancer Research UK) 2007-06-05 13:00: How do we perceive motion direction? (Linda Bowns, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology) 2007-06-06 14:00: Open Vocabulary Confusion Networks for Speech Recognition (Keith Vertanen) 2007-06-07 13:00: The effect of color and motion changes on attentional capture (Adrian von Mühlenen, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick) 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) 2007-06-07 16:00: CILR meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-06-07 16:15: Fundamental principles of cognition, which might apply across several cognitive domains (Professor Nick Chater (UCL)) 2007-06-11 16:30: “SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SIGNAL PROCESSING WITHIN THE INPUT LAYER OF THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX” (Professor Angus Silver, University College London) 2007-06-13 12:30: Functional and neural bases of eye gaze perception (Andy Calder (MRC-CBU)) 2007-06-13 14:00: Language Modelling Discussion (Phil Cowans) 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 12:30: Targeting endogenous prion protein reverses cognitive deficits and pathology in prion disease (Giovanna Mallucci, PRION) 2007-06-18 16:30: “PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF HUMAN SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL” (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering) 2007-06-20 12:30: Seeing patterns, reading words: Some preliminary results on the perception of "invisible words" (Doris Eckstein (MRC-CBU)) 2007-06-20 16:15: Human memory: new insights and fresh challenges (Dr Kim Graham) 2007-06-21 13:00: Biology and Language 2007: An EMBL-EBI Science & Society Symposium (William Marslen-Wilson (Chair)) 2007-06-26 13:00: Decoding consciousness (Geraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2007-06-27 12:30: Presentation and progression of memory deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment (Samrah Ahmed (MRC-CBU)) 2007-06-27 13:00: Measures of auditory streaming (Sarah Thompson (MRC-CBU)) 2007-07-02 12:00: Hormesis in Neural Plasticity and Neurological Disorders (Mark Mattson, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore) 2007-07-02 17:30: Defining the neural stem cell (Steven Pollard, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge) 2007-07-03 13:00: Uncomfortable images and spatial periodicity in nature, in art, and in text (Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex) 2007-07-06 14:00: Olfactory ensheathing glia: a source of regeneration-promoting molecules? (Elske Franssen. Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience) 2007-07-25 14:00: Minimal Perfect Hashing: hash tables with no collisions (Piotr Zielinski and others) 2007-08-29 14:00: What is a Fab Lab? (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2007-09-04 16:15: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: building bridges or falling between two stools? (Barbara Wilson (MRC-CBU)) 2007-09-12 14:00: Five energy plans for Britain (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-09-12 16:00: A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actions (Emo Todorov, UCSD) 2007-09-13 13:00: Covariate Shift Adaptation: Supervised Learning When Training and Test Inputs Have Different Distributions (Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technlogy)) 2007-09-14 14:00: Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component Analysis (Hao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra) 2007-09-18 16:00: DeMISTifying the brain: a dissection of complex neural circuits (Dr Alla Karpova, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm) 2007-09-19 12:00: Cambridge Neuroscience Launch Symposium 19th to 21st September (Professor Adriano Aguzzi, Nobel-Prize winner Dr Linda Buck, Professor Antonio Damasio, Professor Tom Jessell, Professor Earl Miller, Professor Joshua Sanes, Dr Mike Shadlen and Dr Daniel Weinberger.) 2007-09-19 14:00: Graph Kernels for Data Mining (Karsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED) 2007-09-26 09:45: Understanding the ageing brain: linking cognitive and neural change across the lifespan (Prof Lorraine K Tyler, Prof Peter Lansley, Dr Paul Fletcher, Dr Alexa Morcom, Dr Meredith Shafto, Prof Lawrence Whalley, Dr Rebecca Charlton, Dr Tom Barrick, Prof Hugh Markus, Prof Robin Morris, Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis, Prof Zoe Kourtzi, Ms Christina Mouts) 2007-09-26 09:45: Understanding the ageing brain: linking cognitive and neural (Workshop) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-09-26 14:00: Shape writing: a fast and fluid writing system designed for mobile devices (Per Ola Kristensson) 2007-10-03 11:00: Sequential Neurogenesis Establishes the Different Sensory Modalities of the Trigeminal Ganglia (Sophie Caron, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University) 2007-10-03 12:30: The practical impact of FTD: an observational approach (Eneida Mioshi (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-03 14:00: Optimal Spreading Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems; Using CSK as a Case Study (Theodore Papamarkou, University of Warwick) 2007-10-04 11:00: The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-04 16:00: Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegans (Dr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2007-10-05 16:30: Mental programs and the frontal lobe (Dr John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2007-10-08 16:15: Speech, language and the brain (William Marslen-Wilson (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-09 13:00: Collaborative learning in children: contradiction, co-construction and the development of knowledge (Christine Howe, Faculty of Education, Cambridge) 2007-10-10 12:30: Fronto-temporal dementia not all it seems (John Hodges (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-10 14:00: Improving the Power of eQTL Studies by accounting for non-genetic Factors (Oliver Stegle, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-11 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-11 16:00: Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning? (Prof. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL) 2007-10-11 16:15: Knowing Me, Knowing You (Neil Macrae (University of Aberdeen)) 2007-10-11 16:15: Knowing Me, Knowing You: Tactics of personal understanding (Neil Macrae: University of Aberdeen) 2007-10-12 13:15: Getting to the bottom of the Drosophila posterior (Daniel St. Johnston - University of Cambridge, The Gurdon Institute) 2007-10-12 16:30: The psychopharmacology of social and non-social risky choice, and gambling behaviour (Dr Robert Rogers, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) 2007-10-15 13:00: The origins and biology of play (Professor Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee) 2007-10-15 16:15: Neurobiological and psychological mechanisms underlying impulsivity and drug abuse vulnerability (Jeff Dalley (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Depts of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology)) 2007-10-17 12:30: Listening in a cocktail party with acoustic and electric hearing (Bob Carlyon (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-17 14:00: Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning (Ricardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory)) 2007-10-17 17:00: Margaret Mead amongst the natives of Great Britain (Peter Mandler (Faculty of History)) 2007-10-18 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-18 16:00: Group Theory and Machine Learning (Imre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2007-10-18 16:00: Understanding actions. (Dr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL) 2007-10-18 16:15: Functional interactions of frontal cortex during action selection and attentional selection (Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)) 2007-10-18 16:15: Functional interactions of frontal cortex during action selection and attentional selection (Matthew Rushworth: University of Oxford) 2007-10-19 13:15: Semaphorins, glia and keeping motor neurons in position (Matthieu Vermeren - University of Cambridge, Dept. Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-10-19 16:30: Stress, Happiness and Health: the Cortisol Connection (Professor Angela Clow, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster) 2007-10-22 16:15: Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it. (Bob Carlyon (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-23 13:00: Intrusive Thoughts and Cognitive Functioning following Potentially Traumatic Events: From Hurricanes to Maltreatment, Injury, and Chronic Illness (Manuel Sprung, University of Innsbruck) 2007-10-24 14:00: Bliss-Dasher -- Efficient semantic writing with any muscle (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-10-25 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 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) 2007-10-25 16:00: Spectral Clustering (Arik Azran, Machine Learning Group) 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) 2007-10-26 13:15: Combining classical and modern techniques in C. elegans to solve mechanisms of morphogenesis (Bob Goldstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 2007-10-26 16:30: Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implantees (Professor Colette McKay, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester) 2007-10-29 16:15: Neuroethical issues in cognitive enhancement and neuroimaging (Barbara Sahakian (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2007-10-30 16:30: Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of Numbers (Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept of Psychology, University College London) 2007-10-31 12:30: Strateies of spatial listening for speech comprehension (Antje Ihlefeld (MRC-CBU)) 2007-10-31 14:00: The last thing that we should talk about (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2007-10-31 17:00: 1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London (John Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)) 2007-11-01 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-01 16:00: Prequential Statistics (Philip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge) 2007-11-01 16:00: Teenagers: A Natural History (Dr David Bainbridge, PDN) 2007-11-01 16:15: The cognitive neuroscience of the human voice (Pascal Belin (University of Glasgow)) 2007-11-01 16:15: The cognitive neuroscience of the human voice (Pascal Belin: University of Glasgow) 2007-11-01 16:30: Adapting a bacterial enzyme for gene therapy in the central nervous system. (Dr John Rogers, PDN) 2007-11-02 13:00: Attention in autism: Evidence from change blindness studies (Dr. Chris Ashwin (Essex University, Affective Neuroscience Lab, and ARC)) 2007-11-02 13:15: Neural induction requires simultaneous inhibition of both Smad1 and Smad2 signals during gastrulation (Chenbei Chang - University of Alabama at Birmingham) 2007-11-02 16:30: Androgen and gender development (Professor Melissa Hines, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-05 16:15: A slim grip on reality? Linking source memory and psychosis. (Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2007-11-06 13:00: Chinese Whispers and Virtual Arrowheads: What cultural transmission experiments can tell us about cultural evolution (Alex Mesoudi, SPS) 2007-11-07 11:30: Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process Models (Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-07 12:30: From emotion in the control of action to emotional meaning - a suggested evolutionary trajectory (Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-07 14:00: An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applications (Arthur Gretton) 2007-11-08 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-08 16:00: Mechanisms of Regulating Epidermal Stem Cell Fate (Dr Michaela Frye, PDN) 2007-11-08 16:15: Computational mechanisms for the generation and regulation of behaviour (Richard Cooper (Birkbeck College, University of London)) 2007-11-08 16:15: Computational mechanisms for the generation and regulation of behaviour (Richard Cooper: Birkbeck College, University of London) 2007-11-08 16:30: Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cord (Dr Katharine Lewis, PDN) 2007-11-09 13:15: Rosalind Franklin Seminar: Transcriptional networks during development - dissecting the logics (Eileen Furlong - EMBL, Heidelberg) 2007-11-09 16:30: Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and events (Dr Madeline Eacott, Department of Psychology, University of Durham) 2007-11-12 15:30: What has neuroimaging taught us that we didn’t already know? (Prof Ed Bullmore (Chair)) 2007-11-12 15:30: What has neuroimaging taught us that we didn’t already know? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-11-12 16:15: Psychosis and cognition over life course (Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2007-11-13 16:30: Event Related Potentials and Maturation of Auditory Memory Function (Dr Oleg Korzyukov. MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2007-11-14 12:30: Putting emotions into context (Dean Mobbs (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-14 14:00: Branch and Bound reconstruction of Balanced Minimum Evolution optimal trees (Fabio Pardi) 2007-11-14 17:00: The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori (Katherine Angel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)) 2007-11-15 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-15 12:00: Development and evolution of the brain: insights from insects (Heinrich Reichert, University of Basel) 2007-11-15 16:00: Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language Parsing (Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory) 2007-11-15 16:00: Pain processing - what the brain tells the spinal cord (Prof. Anthony Dickenson, UCL) 2007-11-15 16:15: Beyond localization. What brain imaging can tell us (Dick Passingham (University of Oxford)) 2007-11-15 16:15: Beyond Localization: What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us (Dick Passingham: University of Oxford) 2007-11-16 13:15: Dissecting the molecular basis of cranial muscle development in the zebrafish (Robert Knight - Kings College London) 2007-11-16 16:30: Developing cognitive approaches to the assessment of animal emotion (Professor Mike Mendl, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol) 2007-11-16 17:15: Life beyond the Physics department (Ed Ratzer (GCHQ)) 2007-11-19 16:15: Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to assess brain function. (Rhodri Cusack (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-20 13:00: Change in Personal Values: How, When, What, and Effects on Well-Being (Dr Anat Bardi, University of Kent) 2007-11-21 12:30: Amazing puzzles: a preserved ability in Semantic Dementia? (Hilary Green (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-21 14:00: Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approach (Dr Guy-Bart Stan (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-22 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-22 14:30: The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS): An Update (Michael Lombardo (ARC)) 2007-11-22 16:00: Error Correcting Codes (David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics) 2007-11-23 13:15: How to tinker a haltere instead of a wing: probing downstream targets of Hox genes in Drosophila (Tassos Pavlopoulos - University of Cambridge, Dept. Zoology) 2007-11-23 16:30: Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimes (Dr Daniel Durstewicz, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth) 2007-11-26 12:30: Wnt-signalling in adult neurogenesis (Chichung D Lie, GSF REsearch , Munich) 2007-11-26 15:00: Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning Approach (Sandy Klemm, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-26 16:15: What is meaning, does it reside in the brain, and, if yes, where? (Friedemann Pulvermuller (MRC-CBU)) 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) 2007-11-28 14:00: The development of a motor network in Drosophila, the role of precocious neural activity in the emergence of coordination (Michael Bate (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-29 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2007-11-29 16:15: Uncertainty and behavioural control: Episodes, actions and habits (Peter Dayan (University College London)) 2007-11-29 16:15: Uncertainty and behavioural Control: Episodes, Actions and Habits (Peter Dayan: University College London) 2007-12-03 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Harry W M Steinbusch, Professor in Cellular Neuroscience, Maastricht University) 2007-12-03 16:15: Research Ethics (Luke Clark (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2007-12-05 12:30: Cognition and reward in Parkinsons Disease (James Rowe (MRC-CBU and Addenbrooke's Hospital)) 2007-12-06 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC-CBU)) 2007-12-06 16:15: Chaucer Club debate: What can functional neuroimaging tell us that is relevant for cognitive psychology? (Mike Page (University of Hertfordshire) vs Tim Shallice (University College London)) 2007-12-06 16:15: Chaucer Club Debate: What can funtional neuroimaging tell us that is relevant for cognitive psychology? (Mike Page: University of Hertford vs Tim Shallice: University College London) 2007-12-07 00:00: Three post-mortem studies of autism: new findings - TALK POSTPONED (Dr Andrew Dean (Cambridge Brain Bank)) 2007-12-07 11:00: Composing: Linear and Non-Linear Thinking (Richard Burns (Cambridge Poet)) 2007-12-07 13:00: The machinery of colour vision (Professor P. Lennie) 2007-12-07 16:30: Grounding knowledge in the brain’s modal systems (Professor Lawrence W Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University, USA) 2007-12-13 12:00: Neurodegeneration and Plasticity in Alzheimers Models (Tara Spires-Jones) 2008-01-10 13:00: Normalizing colour vision (Michael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada) 2008-01-16 12:30: Prediction error, causal learning and the delusional state (Paul Fletcher (University of Cambridge Dept of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit)) 2008-01-16 14:00: NIPS presentations (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2008-01-17 16:00: Graphical Models (Christopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 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)) 2008-01-18 16:30: Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why? (Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford) 2008-01-18 16:30: Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why? (Colin Blakemore (University of Oxford)) 2008-01-21 16:15: Post-traumatic stress disorder (Tim Dalgleish, MRC-CBU) 2008-01-21 16:30: How the brain decides where and when to look (Prof. Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt University) 2008-01-21 19:45: Is there really a link between Genius and Madness? (Edward Pain) 2008-01-22 11:00: Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease Mapping (Jarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology) 2008-01-22 20:00: The necessity of consciousness: why human zombies would be an evolutionary dead end (Nicholas Humphrey, London School of Economics) 2008-01-23 12:30: Maturational aspects of auditory ERP (Oleg Korzyukov (MRC-CBU)) 2008-01-23 14:00: Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections (David Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University) 2008-01-24 13:15: Nonverbal Communication and Autism (Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield) 2008-01-24 16:00: Chromatin and pluripotency (Dr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London)) 2008-01-24 16:15: The neural architecture of social concepts and values: implications for neuropsychiatry (Roland Zahn (University of Manchester)) 2008-01-25 13:15: Making neurons outside the stem cell niche (Professor Sally Temple, NY Stem Cell Institute) 2008-01-25 16:30: How antipsychotic medications work - from receptors to response (Professor Shitij Kapur, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London) 2008-01-28 16:15: The systems neuroscience of human memory (Rik Henson, MRC-CBU) 2008-01-28 16:30: Relating brain and behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg) 2008-01-29 16:00: Reinforcement Learning (Peter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2008-01-30 12:30: Does software matter? (Matthew Brett (MRC-CBU)) 2008-01-30 14:00: Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored Lights (Gabriel J. Brostow (University of Cambridge)) 2008-01-30 17:00: 'Out of the shadows': Alexander Mitscherlich and psychoanalysis in Germany after 1945 (Martin Dehli) 2008-01-31 16:00: Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair. (Dr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)) 2008-01-31 16:15: Cell recording and fMRI reveal a specialized system for processing faces in the temporal lobe (Doris Tsao (University of Bremen)) 2008-02-01 16:30: Functional MRI studies of memory and ageing (Dr Alexa Morcom, Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh) 2008-02-04 16:00: Neural Coding and Microstimulation Studies of Motion Detection in the Primate Visual System (Nicolas Masse, Dept of Physiology, McGill University) 2008-02-04 16:15: The Psychology of gambling behaviour (Luke Clark (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2008-02-04 16:30: Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from impulsive actions to compulsive habits. (Prof. Barry Everitt, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-05 13:00: Stress and Child care (Professor Lieselotte Ahnert, Faculty of Human Science, University of Cologne) 2008-02-05 16:00: Identifying genes involved in sense organ formation in Drosophila (Sebastian Cachero, Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh) 2008-02-05 16:30: Children's Tacit and Explicit Knowledge of Object Motion: The First Results (Christine Howe, Joana Taylor Tavares and Amy Devine) 2008-02-05 19:30: Probing the Procrastinating Brain (Ben Pearson (Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-06 12:30: Does Spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation? (Karolina Moutsopoulou) 2008-02-06 12:30: Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory (Danny Mitchell (MRC-CBU)) 2008-02-06 14:00: Stable distribution and data sketching (Ioana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford) 2008-02-07 16:00: Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope? (Dr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)) 2008-02-07 16:15: Cognitive processes and molecular mechanisms (Seth Grant (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)) 2008-02-08 13:15: Glial cells generate neurons - mechanisms of neurogenesis and neuronal repair (Professor Magdalena Goetz, Institute of Stem Cell Research) 2008-02-08 16:30: Learned predictiveness and cue processing in human learning (Dr Mike Le Pelley, School of Psychology, Cardiff University) 2008-02-11 16:15: Executive functions of the prefrontal cortex: theoretical and methodological issues from converging cross-species studies (Trevor Robbins (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2008-02-13 12:00: Therapeutic potential of iron chelators for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease (Prof Robert Hider, King's College London) 2008-02-13 14:00: Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers (Dr Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-13 17:00: Colonising and de-colonising psychoanalysis in the 1950s: Masud Khan amongst the British (Julia Borossa (Middlesex University)) 2008-02-14 16:00: Information Retrieval (Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2008-02-14 16:00: The secret life of neural stem cells (Dr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-14 16:15: Developmental impairments of attention and working memory: Same of different? (Sue Gathercole (University of York)) 2008-02-14 16:30: Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia. (Dr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-15 08:45: Cognition and awareness in domestic animals (Donald Broom) 2008-02-15 13:00: Reading our own emotions: How good are we? (Jorrit de Kieviet and Bhismadev Chakrabarti (ARC)) 2008-02-15 15:30: A Critical Point for Science? (Prof. Brian Josephson, Cavendish Laboratory) 2008-02-15 16:30: The role of phasic dopamine signalling in the determination of agency and the discovery of novel actions (Professor Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield) 2008-02-18 11:30: Biomedical Image Search (Alex Ksikes (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-18 16:15: Auditory processing: From illusions to the musical brain (Jessica Grahn (MRC-CBU)) 2008-02-18 16:30: Attentional modulation of visual motion processing: Space, feature and objects (Prof. Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen) 2008-02-18 16:30: Positive emotional states in marmosets: an autonomic, behavioural and neural analysis (Angela Roberts, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-19 11:30: Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopy (Professor Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen) 2008-02-19 13:00: The geography of personality (Dr Jason Rentfrow, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Cambridge) 2008-02-19 17:00: Monkeys seeing red: Signal content of red coloration in mandrills (Jo Setchell, Durham University) 2008-02-20 12:00: Some new perspectives on neuromuscular synapses (Prof Richard Ribchester, University of Edinburgh) 2008-02-20 12:30: The role of dopamine and seratonin in reinforcement-based learning and adaptation. (Roshan Cools) 2008-02-20 14:00: Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear Model (Matthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics)) 2008-02-21 13:00: Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic Icons (Dr. Srimant P. Tripathy, Department of Optometry, University of Bradford) 2008-02-21 14:00: Model selection and model order adaptation for clustering (Peter Orbanz (ETH Zurich)) 2008-02-21 16:00: Statistical Machine Translation (Bill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory) 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)) 2008-02-21 16:15: A cognitive neuropsychological account of antidepressant drug action (Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford)) 2008-02-22 16:30: Spatial memory: from neurons to learning and behaviour (Professor Neil Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) 2008-02-25 13:00: Coding and plasticity in an olfactory system (Gilles Laurent, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA) 2008-02-25 16:15: Functional brain imaging as a physiolgical method (John Duncan (MRC-CBU)) 2008-02-25 16:30: Beyond Localization: What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us (Prof. Dick Passingham, University of Oxford) 2008-02-26 12:00: Local protein synthesis at synapses (Professor Erin Schuman, California Institute of Technology) 2008-02-26 13:00: Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008: How far have we come? (Dr. Peter Thompson, University of York) 2008-02-26 17:00: Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders (Sasha Handley (University of Manchester)) 2008-02-27 12:30: Follow your heart? Investigating the influence of bodily feedback on decision-making and emotion experience (Barney Dunn (MRC-CBU)) 2008-02-27 14:00: How nervous systems are designed to be energy efficient (Simon Laughlin (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-28 16:00: Inductive Logic Programming (Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London)) 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 16:15: Learning predictions and actions in the basal ganglia (Ben Seymour (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital)) 2008-02-28 16:30: The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury (Dr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-29 13:00: The magnocellular theory of autism (Dr. Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) 2008-02-29 16:30: Cancellation in Auditory Scene Analysis (Dr Alain de Cheveigne, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Université Paris Descartes & Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2008-03-03 16:15: Gnostic units and the cerebral bus (John Mollon (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2008-03-04 11:30: Building asymmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits (Professor Steve Wilson, University College London) 2008-03-04 13:00: How to measure God: Innovations in the experimental investigation of religious cognition (Dr Nicholas Gibson, Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity,) 2008-03-05 12:30: Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks. (Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU)) 2008-03-05 20:00: A Critical Point for Science? (Professor Brian Josephson, University of Cambridge) 2008-03-06 11:00: A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networks (Jake Hofman (Columbia University)) 2008-03-06 16:00: Computational modelling of structural and functional development of the visual system. (Dr Stephen Eglen (DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Science)) 2008-03-07 16:30: Processes involved in remembering future intentions: Automatic or controlled? (Dr Lia Kvavilashvili, School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire) 2008-03-10 16:15: Pictures of data: improving scientific illustrations (Matt Davis (MRC-CBU)) 2008-03-10 19:30: Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops? (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre) 2008-03-11 11:30: Discriminative Methods with Structure (Simon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley)) 2008-03-12 12:00: Whole genome technologies and human disease (Prof John Hardy, Institute of Neurology, UCL) 2008-03-12 12:30: fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants (Alexandra Woolgar) 2008-03-12 12:30: Stems and affixes in Polish non-fluent aphasia (Ola Jelowicka (MRC-CBU)) 2008-03-12 13:00: Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energy (Dr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology)) 2008-03-12 14:15: (clashing event: Sustainable Energy and Arithmetic) (David MacKay) 2008-03-12 17:00: Exploring the human psyche: psychology and British psychic detective fiction at the turn of the 20th century (Alexandra Lembert (University of Leipzig)) 2008-03-13 13:00: The Neuronal Circuits Underlying Odor Perception in Mice (Dr Alexander Fleischmann, Columbia University) 2008-03-13 16:15: Insight, Attention and Error (Ian Robertson (Trinity College, Dublin)) 2008-03-13 18:30: Memories are made of this (Prof Steven Rose, Open University) 2008-03-17 14:00: Learning quantum physics (Dr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering)) 2008-03-18 09:30: Memory - Storing associations between items? Insights from a normative perspective (Dr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering) 2008-03-18 10:00: Synapse Machines and Mental State (Professor Seth Grant, The Sanger Institute) 2008-03-18 11:45: Reverse-Engineering the Human Motor System (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering) 2008-03-18 14:45: Can Machines Reason? (Dr Mateja Jamnik, The Computer Laboratory) 2008-03-18 14:45: Learning Language, Evolving languages (Professor Ted Briscoe, The Computer Laboratory) 2008-03-19 14:00: On sparsity and overcompleteness in image models (Richard E. Turner (Gatsby Unit, UCL), Pietro Berkes) 2008-03-19 17:00: Revolution in mind: making the psychoanalytic field, 1870-1945 (George Makari (Weill Medical College of Cornell University)) 2008-03-26 12:00: Specification of cerebellar neurons and their integration in the cortical network (Prof Ferdinando Rossi, Rita Levi Montalcini Center for Brain Repair, University of Turin) 2008-04-01 14:00: Models to approach disease- Parkinson's Disease (Leonidas Stefanis, Serge Przedborski, Tipu Aziz, Roger Barker) 2008-04-02 09:00: Alzheimer's Disease (Monica Di Luca, Amrit Mudher, James Nicoll, Peter Nestor. ) 2008-04-02 14:00: Models of disease (Andrew Grierson, David Allsop, Peter St George-Hyslop) 2008-04-02 14:00: Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov Models (Jurgen Van Gael) 2008-04-03 09:00: Huntington's Disease (David Rubinsztein, Gill Bates, Sarah Tabrizi, Roger Barker) 2008-04-07 12:00: Neurotransmitter signalling to Oligodendrocytes in Health & Disease (Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir) 2008-04-08 11:00: Count nouns and the semantics of counting (Professor Susan Rothstein, Bar Ilan University) 2008-04-09 12:00: Nocicepetors and neurotrophins - signalling pathways modulating ion channel function (Prof Peter McNaughton, University of Cambridge) 2008-04-10 14:00: Unravelling the Secrets of the Brain, Cell by Cell, with New Analytical Techniques (Professor Jonathan V. Sweedler, University of IIlinois, U.S.A.) 2008-04-10 15:30: Metabolomics of Neurodegeneration (Dr Jules L. Griffin, University of Cambridge) 2008-04-10 16:15: Neurochemical Analysis of Brain Function in Behaviour and Disease (Professor John Lowry, National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth, Ireland) 2008-04-15 10:00: CILR workshop: Forensic Linguistics (Jim Fitzgerald (ex-FBI), Francis Nolan, Katrin Müller-Johnson, Luna Filipovic) 2008-04-16 17:00: Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial vision (Professor Mark Georgeson) 2008-04-18 09:00: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job" (Dr Stephen Sawcer, Neurology Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2008-04-18 10:30: The foetal androgen theory of neural sex differences and autism (Prof Simon Baron-Cohen) 2008-04-18 11:00: Neurochemical mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity underlying swarm formation in the Desert Locust (Dr Swidbert R. Ott and Dr Stephen M. Rogers, Department of Zoology) 2008-04-18 11:30: Depressive disorders in adolescents (Prof Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry) 2008-04-18 12:00: Understanding how behaviour evolves (Dr Mario de Bono, Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2008-04-18 16:30: Predisposition, early learning and memory: An analysis of neural mechanisms (Prof Sir Gabriel Horn, Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology) 2008-04-21 11:15: Treed Gaussian Processes for Regression and Classification (Tamara Broderick (University of Cambridge)) 2008-04-23 12:00: Olig2 localisation in NG2+/Olig2+ progenitors mediates astrocyte/oligodendrocyte cell fate choice after brain injury (Dr Jing-Wei Zhao, Centre for Brain Repair) 2008-04-23 12:30: EEG and MEG Correlates of Recollection, Familiarity, and Priming (Jason Taylor (MRC-CBU)) 2008-04-23 13:00: Reliable neuronal logic devices from patterned hippocampal cultures. (Dr Assaf Rotem, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science) 2008-04-23 14:00: On Sparsity and Overcompleteness in Image Models (Pietro Berkes (and Richard Turner)) 2008-04-24 16:00: Placental evolution, structure and function. (Dr Peter Wooding, PDN) 2008-04-24 16:15: Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective. (Napoleon Katsos (Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge)) 2008-04-24 16:30: Phototransduction in Drosophila. (Professor Roger Hardie, PDN) 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) 2008-04-25 15:00: Some models for biology (Leopold Parts) 2008-04-25 16:30: Attentional bias and craving in substance use (Dr Matthew Field, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool) 2008-04-29 13:00: Fathers, Infants and Family Leave Policies: International Perspectives and Policy Impact (Professor Margaret O'Brien, University of East Anglia) 2008-04-30 12:30: Rhythm perception in musicians and non-musicians: auditory-motor network modulations (Jessica Grahn (MRC-CBU)) 2008-04-30 16:30: The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s (Barbara Wurm (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna)) 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) 2008-05-01 16:15: Adaptive face-coding mechanisms in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder. (Liz Pellicano (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)) 2008-05-02 16:30: A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it’s not all associative! (Dr David Bannerman, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2008-05-05 16:30: Learning to localize sound (Prof. Andrew King, University of Oxford) 2008-05-06 13:00: Spatial vision in the periphery (Professor Roger Anderson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) 2008-05-07 12:00: Cytokines & Axonal Transport (Prof Peter Richardson, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Neurosurgery) 2008-05-07 12:30: Adaptation of Visual Cues to Social Attention (Rebecca Lawson (MRC-CBU)) 2008-05-07 12:30: Response learning contributions to priming and repetition suppression. (Aidan Horner (MRC-CBU)) 2008-05-07 13:00: Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution (Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 2008-05-07 14:00: Noise in the central nervous system (Aldo Faisal) 2008-05-07 15:00: Psychometric Principles 3: Why is it important to standardise tests? (Professor John Rust, Director, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge) 2008-05-08 16:00: An Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory (Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL)) 2008-05-08 16:00: Analysis of cell movement in early embryos. (Dr Benedicte Sanson, PDN) 2008-05-08 16:15: A Neural Mechanism of Decision Making, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bound. (Michael Shadlen (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle)) 2008-05-08 16:30: Imaging sub-cellular pH dynamics: from synapse to acinus. (Dr Christof Schwiening, PDN) 2008-05-09 13:00: Event Related Potential (ERP) studies of autism (Dr. Howard Ring (Centre for Learning Disabilities and ARC, Cambridge)) 2008-05-09 13:00: Give us the tools, and we will finish the job (Stephen Sawcer, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2008-05-09 16:30: Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting Together (Joint presentation of Professor Guenther Knoblich and Dr Natalie Sebanz, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 2008-05-13 11:30: Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive Robotics (Dr Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham)) 2008-05-14 12:00: Shaping the Neurons:teh role of the Ral GTPase (Dr Giovanna Lalli, King's College London) 2008-05-14 14:00: Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPs (Debajyoti Ray (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2008-05-14 17:00: Scottish psychotherapy: communion, community and communication (Gavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University)) 2008-05-15 16:00: The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility. (Dr Paul Burgoyne, NIMR, MRC, London) 2008-05-15 16:15: Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. (Robert Foley (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-16 08:45: Neurotransmitter signaling to oligodendrocytes (Ragenhilder Karadottir) 2008-05-16 13:00: PET/MR: a new modality for molecular imaging (Adrian Carpenter, Head of MRI, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and Reader in Imaging Sciences, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital) 2008-05-16 16:30: Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography (Professor Kathy Rastle, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London) 2008-05-19 16:30: Dendritic recordings in vivo - the role of inhibition in shaping dendritic activity (Prof. Matthew Larkum, University of Bern) 2008-05-21 12:00: Distinctive properties of SC and OEC in scar formation and spinal cord repair (Prof Sue Barnett, Beatson Laboratories, Glasgow) 2008-05-21 12:30: Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks (Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU)) 2008-05-21 13:00: The importance of cortical and subcortical visual pathways for attention and eye movements (Dr. Petroc Sumner, Cardiff University) 2008-05-21 15:00: Psychometric Principles 4: How can test bias and adverse impact be addressed? (Professor John Rust, Director, the Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge) 2008-05-21 16:30: Multiple sclerosis: a mitochondrial disease (Dr Don Mahad, Mitochondrial Research Group, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne) 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 16:15: Does Sudoku Require Semantic Memory? (Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2008-05-22 16:30: A magnesium-inhibitable conductance hyperpolarises the resting membrane potential of the human erythroleukemia cell line (Dr Michael Mason) 2008-05-23 13:00: IMFAR 2008 conference jottings (ARClub members) 2008-05-23 16:30: Brain and Decisions: Unitary or Dual Systems? (Professor Aldo Rustichini, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) 2008-05-26 16:30: Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg) 2008-05-27 13:00: Shifting ground: The variable use of essentialism in contexts of inclusion and exclusion (Dr Thomas Morton, University of Exeter) 2008-05-27 14:00: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-05-28 12:30: Interactions between memory, perception and semantics: Insights from amnesia and semantic dementia (Morgan Barense (MRC-CBU)) 2008-05-28 14:00: H-Infinity Clustering (Prof. Sam Roweis (Toronto)) 2008-05-29 16:00: Why does it hurt so much? Understanding the neurobiology of pain. (Professor Steve McMahon, King’s College, London) 2008-05-29 16:00: Gaussian Process Density Sampler (Ryan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-05-30 11:00: Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and more (Alberto Giovanni Busetto, ETH Zurich) 2008-05-30 13:15: Pax genes and neurogenic placode identity (Clare Baker - PDN, University of Cambridge) 2008-05-30 14:00: Integration of the mentalizing and mirror neuron systems in reflective representations of the self and others (Michael Lombardo, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge) 2008-06-02 16:30: Functions of Electrical Junctions in the Thalamocortical System (Prof. Barry Connors, Brown University.) 2008-06-02 19:45: “Human Obesity: Science vs Stigma”, (Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science and Pembroke College) 2008-06-03 13:00: Language and the Child's Theory of Mind (Professor Janet Astington, Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto) 2008-06-04 12:30: Parkinson's Disease, dopamine and spatial span (Sean Fallon (MRC-CBU)) 2008-06-04 12:30: Examining morphological processing in word recognition using MEG (Caroline Whiting (MRC-CBU)) 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) 2008-06-05 16:15: Binding temporary information in working memory: A role for an episodic buffer? (Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York)) 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) 2008-06-06 13:15: Genetic regulation of musculoskeletal development in zebrafish (Henry Roehl - Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield) 2008-06-09 16:30: The Economy of the Mind (Prof. Michael Platt, Duke University) 2008-06-10 13:00: Dialogue and the development of reasoning and understanding (Professor Neil Mercer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) 2008-06-11 12:00: Towards imaging genomics for Alzheimer's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis (Prof Paul Matthew, Imperial College London) 2008-06-11 12:30: Associations and dissociations in prefrontal cortex (John Duncan (MRC-CBU)) 2008-06-12 14:00: Assessing high-dimensional latent variable models (Dr Iain Murray (Toronto)) 2008-06-12 16:00: Seeing Patterns in Randomness: Irrational Superstition or Adaptive Behavior? (Dr Angela Yu (Princeton)) 2008-06-12 16:15: Spatial Representations in Numerical Cognition (Martin Fischer (School of Psychology, University of Dundee)) 2008-06-16 14:00: Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processes (Dr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London)) 2008-06-17 11:15: Bayesian Models for Dependency Parsing Using Pitman-Yor Priors (Hanna Wallach (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) 2008-06-23 13:00: CILR meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-06-25 12:00: Alzheimers disease immunology & molecular mimicry: The potato virus Y protein binds to the Amyloid Beta Protein (Prof. Robert Friedland) 2008-06-25 13:00: Grandmother cells in the human brain? (Professor Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester) 2008-06-25 15:00: Bayesian analysis of complex biological systems (Dr Edo Airoldi (Princeton)) 2008-06-26 13:00: Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging (Scott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara) 2008-07-09 16:30: The Geometry of the Space of Shapes (Prof. David Mumford (Brown University)) 2008-07-15 11:30: Message-passing inference on graphical models (Simon Byrne (Cambridge)) 2008-07-15 13:00: The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next (Dr. Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne) 2008-07-15 14:00: Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical Systems (Emily Fox (MIT)) 2008-07-16 13:00: A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and Features (George Sperling, University of California, Irvine) 2008-07-16 14:00: Modeling with Bounded Partition Functions (Ryan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-07-16 14:00: Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous Distributions (Dr Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton)) 2008-07-17 13:00: "The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye" (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University) 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) 2008-07-18 14:00: Maternal care and the epigenetic regulation of gene expression and neuroendocrine function (Professor Michael Meaney, McGill University, Canada) 2008-07-23 14:00: Semantic Texton Forests for Image Categorization and Segmentation. (Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College) 2008-07-28 13:00: Schreck! Or Innate Fear in the Zebrafish (Dr. Suresh Jesuthasan) 2008-07-29 13:00: Supra-regional brain systems in autism spectrum. Perspectives from neuroimaging (Grainne McAlonan, University of Hong Kong) 2008-07-30 14:00: From Automated Currency Validation to Protein Fold Recognition: Probabilistic Multi-class Multi-kernel Learning (Theodoros Damoulas (CS, University of Glasgow)) 2008-08-13 14:00: Artificial intelligence in combinatorial game design (Cameron Browne, Queensland University of Technology) 2008-08-22 11:15: Connectomics in the developing nervous system (Professor Jeff W Lichtman) 2008-08-27 14:00: Associative Memories (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2008-09-03 12:00: From prediction error to psychosis: towards a translational neuroscience of Delusions. (Dr Phil Corlett: Brain Mapping Unit of the department of Psychiatry) 2008-09-03 16:00: Assessing the effects of statistical dependencies on neural population coding in the visual pathway (Jonathan Pillow (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)) 2008-09-08 12:00: Rewiring the injured Spinal cord (Dr Karim Fouad. University of Alberta, Canada) 2008-09-09 14:00: Matrix Factorization and Relational Learning (Ajit Paul Singh (CMU)) 2008-09-10 12:00: Intraneuronal AB triggers neurodegeneration: New evidence from Transgenic Alzheimer Mouse Models (Dr Oliver Wirths: University of Gottingen, Germany) 2008-09-10 14:00: Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priors (Dr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge)) 2008-09-12 18:00: Impulsiveness and its pathology (Professor Eric Taylor, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London) 2008-09-15 14:00: Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learning (Jo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California)) 2008-09-16 14:00: Clustering by linear programming, convex optimization and belief propagation (Brendan Frey, University of Toronto) 2008-09-16 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering) 2008-09-17 14:00: Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language Model (Dr Frank Wood (UCL)) 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) 2008-09-23 14:00: Learning Bigrams from Unigrams (Andrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison)) 2008-09-24 12:00: The Brain in Flames: Mechanisms of inflammatory neurodegeneration (Dr GUy Brown: Dept of Biochemistry.) 2008-09-25 16:15: Resting-state functional connectivity: Principles and applications in cognitive neuroscience (Michael Greicius (Stanford University School of Medicine)) 2008-09-26 15:00: A Bayesian approach to language learning (Dr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh)) 2008-09-29 11:00: Spoken Dialogue Management (Sebastien Bratieres) 2008-09-30 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2008-10-01 11:15: From calcium imaging to spikes, using sequential Monte Carlo methods (Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University) 2008-10-01 14:00: Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system (Professor James Fawcett, Centre for Brain Repair) 2008-10-02 16:15: Conflict, competition and cognitive control (Nick Yeung (University of Oxford)) 2008-10-02 20:00: The Francis Crick Lecture in Neuroscience for 2008: Nicotinic Acetylcholine receptor and structural basis of fast synaptic transmission (Dr. Nigel Unwin, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2008-10-07 14:00: Inferring the hazard rate in change point models ( Robert Wilson, U. Penn) 2008-10-08 12:00: Animal Models of Progression in MS (Dr David Hampton: brain Repair Centre) 2008-10-08 12:30: Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU)) 2008-10-08 13:30: Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor Processes (Dr Erik Sudderth (UC Berkeley)) 2008-10-09 16:00: Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration (Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2008-10-09 16:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-09 16:15: Imaging the relationship between structure, function and behaviour in the human brain (Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford)) 2008-10-10 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-10-10 16:30: The spatial foundations of the conceptual system (Professor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA) 2008-10-13 16:15: Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to assess brain function. (Rhodri Cusack, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2008-10-13 16:30: Grid cells and spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex (Prof. May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute, Trondheim) 2008-10-14 11:30: Origins and organization of synapse complexity (Seth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge) 2008-10-14 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Mate Lengyel (Cambridge University, UK)) 2008-10-15 12:30: Episodes, actions and abstractions in lexical learning (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU) ) 2008-10-16 11:00: The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-10-16 16:00: Consider the mother as a pressure vessel: Adventures in Bioengineering and Obstetrics (Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering, Cambridge) 2008-10-16 16:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-16 16:15: Perception and production of speech - a view from functional imaging (Sophie Scott (University College London)) 2008-10-17 13:00: A funny turn in the brain: fMRI on jokes (Tristan Bekinschtein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2008-10-17 13:15: Mechanisms controlling cell fate specification of pluripotent stem cells (Ludovic Vallier - Dept of Surgery Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine University of Cambridge) 2008-10-17 15:30: 3rd William Pitt Seminar - Narratives of Risk (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-10-17 16:30: Comparative cognitive development in chimpanzees (Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa) 2008-10-17 16:45: Do ghosts get itchy? A cross-cultural study of folk dualistic reasoning (Dr. Emma Cohen (Centre for Anthropology and Mind, University of Oxford)) 2008-10-20 10:00: The Enhanced Perceptual Functioning Model of Autism (Prof. Laurent Mottron, University of Montreal, Canada) 2008-10-20 16:15: What is meaning, does it reside in the brain, and, if yes, where? (Friedemann Pulvermüller, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2008-10-21 15:00: Context in human robot interaction (Thomas Kollar (MIT)) 2008-10-21 17:30: How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science (Ben Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net) 2008-10-21 19:30: CAN WE BLAME OUR BRAINS? Neuroscience in the Courtroom (Professor Raymond Tallis; Professor Nikolas Rose; Mr Amit Pundik; Dr Ian Treasaden) 2008-10-22 12:00: Regulating synaptic strength: Integrins and homeostatic mechanisms (Dr Yukiko Goda: LMCB, UCL, London) 2008-10-22 12:30: Reduced top-down modulation in autism: The role of prior knowledge in spontaneous attention, memory, and social perception (Eva Loth (BCNI, Cambridge)) 2008-10-22 13:00: Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's Coalescent (Dr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2008-10-22 14:15: Forensic Genomics:Kin Privacy, Driftnets and Other Open Questions (Frank Stajano, Lucia Bianchi, Pietro Liò and Douwe Korff) 2008-10-22 17:00: Psychoanalysis, psyche and spirit in the modern world (Sudhir Kakar (INSEAD, Fontainebleau & Goa)) 2008-10-23 09:30: Dissecting the dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks (Dr. Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Structural Studies)) 2008-10-23 09:55: Causal network structure identification in nonlinear dynamical systems (Professor Zoubin Ghahramani (Department of Engineering)) 2008-10-23 10:20: Combining molecular and physiological data from complex psychiatric disorders (Dr. Pietro Lio / Emanuel Schwarz (Computer Laboratory / Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)) 2008-10-23 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-10-23 11:15: Evolution of biological complexity and multicellular phototaxis (Prof Ray Goldstein (DAMTP)) 2008-10-23 11:40: Transcriptional networks controlling blood stem cells (Dr. Bertie Gottgens (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)) 2008-10-23 12:05: Inference for stochastic models (Dr Lorenz Wernisch ( MRC Biostatistics Unit)) 2008-10-23 12:30: How molecules constrain networks (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-23 13:00: Recent developments in the chemical senses: a tutorial for visual and auditory scientists (Professor Barry Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge) 2008-10-23 14:00: Complexities and uncertainties of neuronal network analyses (Dr. David Parker (Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-10-23 14:25: Spontaneous neural activity in the developing nervous system. (Dr. Stephen Eglen (DAMTP)) 2008-10-23 14:50: Learning and memory in neural networks: statistically optimal computations (Dr Mate Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering)) 2008-10-23 15:40: Small, network models of effective connectivity in the human brain: evidence from fMRI and MEG (Dr. Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)) 2008-10-23 16:00: Synaptic specificity in the visual system (Josh Sanes, Harvard University) 2008-10-23 16:05: Cost-efficiency of complex human brain networks (Prof Ed Bullmore (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry)) 2008-10-23 16:15: Remapping attention (Patrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes)) 2008-10-23 16:30: Towards a cartography of complex biological systems (Professor Luis Amaral (Northwestern University, USA)) 2008-10-23 16:30: Implicit theism in self-reported atheists (Dr. Jesse Bering (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast)) 2008-10-24 13:15: Modelling the vertebrate melanocyte - how exactly do neural crest cells go black? (Robert Kelsh - Dept of Biology and Biochemistry University of Bath) 2008-10-24 16:30: Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processes (Professor Alan Pickering, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London) 2008-10-27 16:15: Goal-directed action: Using animal learning paradigms to study human behaviour. (Tony Dickinson, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) 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) 2008-10-28 11:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-28 16:30: Biophysics of behaviourally defined neurocircuits (Dennis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge) 2008-10-28 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Aldo Faisal (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-29 14:00: Low-cost large-scale renewable energy (Denis Bonnelle) 2008-10-30 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 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) 2008-10-30 16:15: Causal functional interactions between cortical areas (Wim Vanduffel (Catholic University of Leuven)) 2008-10-30 16:30: Cultural psychology of religion (Prof. Jacob Belzen (University of Amsterdam)) 2008-10-31 13:15: Wnt signalling and cell fate decisions in stem cell populations (Penny Hayward - Dept of Genetics University of Cambridge) 2008-10-31 16:30: The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorder (Dr Tim Dalgleish, Co-Director of the Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2008-11-03 16:15: A slim grip on reality? Linking source memory and psychosis (Jon Simons, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) 2008-11-04 13:00: The Colour of Motivation (Prof. Andrew Elliot, University of Rochester, NY, USA) 2008-11-05 12:00: Fractalkine signalling in the primary olfactory pathway: Mediating life after death (Marc Ruitenberg) 2008-11-05 12:30: Neurocognitive mechanisms supporting fear conditioning: effects of anxiety (Sonia Bishop (MRC CBSU)) 2008-11-06 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 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) 2008-11-06 16:15: Neural mechanisms of sequence learning (Bruno Averbeck (University College London)) 2008-11-07 13:00: Exploring the genetic and environmental causes of behaviours characteristic of autistic spectrum conditions (Dr. Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck College, London) 2008-11-07 13:15: Non-catalytic roles for the maintenance methyltransferase, XDnmt1, in development and disease (Richard Meehan - MRC Human Genetics Unit Western Gen Hospital Edinburgh) 2008-11-07 16:30: Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobe (Dr Tim Hodgson, School of Psychology, University of Exeter) 2008-11-10 11:00: Spiking Boltzmann Machines (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-10 16:00: Motorneuron dendritic growth during larval life: regulation through cell-autonomous and target derived signals (Jan-Felix Evers, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2008-11-10 16:15: Post-traumatic stress disorder (Tim Dalgeish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2008-11-11 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-12 12:00: Extracellular Calcium as a first messenger in the control of Axon and Dendrite Growth (Prof Alun Davies: Cardiff School of Biosciences) 2008-11-12 12:30: Dissociations in brain structure and function in incipient Alzheimer's disease? (Peter Nestor (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)) 2008-11-12 13:00: Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankings (Dr Marina Meila (University of Washington)) 2008-11-12 14:00: Thermochemistry and Nuclear power - Clean responsive electricity (Jonathan Lee, Trinity College) 2008-11-12 16:30: The natural foundations of reincarnation beliefs (Claire White (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-12 17:00: How the insane crossed the Channel: a forgotten aspect of the Franco-British shared psychiatric history (Aude Fauvel (HPS & Fondation Singer-Polignac)) 2008-11-13 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-11-13 16:00: Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish (Catherina Becker, University of Edinburgh) 2008-11-13 16:15: Cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation in health and disease (Irene Tracey (University of Oxford)) 2008-11-14 13:00: Multimodal hypersensitivity in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (Teresa Tavassoli, Autism Research Centre) 2008-11-14 13:15: How to build a bridal chamber: development of the thalamus (Steffen Scholpp - MRC Centre for Developmental Biology King’s College Londo) 2008-11-14 16:30: What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex? (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, University College London) 2008-11-17 16:15: Psychosis and cognition over the life course. (Peter Jones, Dept of Psychiatry, Cambridge) 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) 2008-11-18 13:00: Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Children's Evaluations of Disclosing an Adult's Wrongdoing (Lindsay Malloy, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-19 12:30: The effect of lexical ambiguity on spoken word recognition using homographs and homophones: Behavioural and neural evidence (Jack Rogers (MRC CBSU)) 2008-11-19 16:30: Why pain gets worse – molecular mechanisms of inflammatory heat pain (Peter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-20 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-11-20 11:00: Genetic analysis of layer specific axon targeting in the Drosophila visual system (Milan Petrovic, University of Muenster) 2008-11-20 14:30: "Mechanisms of synaptic communication: Vesicle traffic and Neuronal disease" (Dr Patrik Verstreken, Dept of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven.) 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) 2008-11-20 16:15: Mirror-touch: A remarkable form of synaesthesia (Jamie Ward (University of Sussex)) 2008-11-21 13:15: In vivo analysis of morphogenesis in cultured imaginal discs: A new role for Myosin II (Luis M. Escudero - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge) 2008-11-21 16:30: Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational Thought (Professor Vinod Goel, Department of Psychology, University of Hull) 2008-11-24 16:15: Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it. (Tim Dalgelish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences unit) 2008-11-24 16:30: Building Neural Representations of Habits (Prof. Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2008-11-25 14:00: Hardness Ratios (Yue Wu) 2008-11-25 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ian Howard (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-26 12:00: TBA (Dr Dan Webber) 2008-11-26 12:30: Animacy properties of words and expectation modulate ERP components (Elisabeth Fonteneau (MRC CBSU)) 2008-11-26 14:00: Bayesian Inductive Programming (R J Henderson (Edinburgh)) 2008-11-26 16:30: Irreligious experiences: Preliminary empirical findings (Stephen Bullivant (University of Oxford)) 2008-11-26 17:00: Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland (Christian Ydesen (Centre for Educational Sociology, Edinburgh)) 2008-11-27 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-11-27 13:00: Going with the flow: Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybees (Professor Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Queensland Brain Institute) 2008-11-27 16:00: Deep Networks for Vision (Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto)) 2008-11-27 16:00: Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention (Mani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin) 2008-11-27 16:15: Reward and choice (Ray Dolan (University College London)) 2008-11-28 13:15: Transcriptional networks in vertebrate mesoderm formation (Fiona Wardle - Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge) 2008-11-28 16:30: The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and function (Dr Narender Ramnani, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London) 2008-12-01 16:15: Speech, language and the brain (William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2008-12-01 16:30: Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Retina (Prof. Heinz Waessle, Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt) 2008-12-02 13:00: Adoption: Recovery After Initial Adversity (Prof. Jesús Palacios, University of Seville, Spain) 2008-12-02 17:00: Segments and proportions: body mapping in early twentieth-century neuroscience (Katja Guenther (Harvard University)) 2008-12-03 12:30: The frontal lobes and voluntary action: how we choose when young, old or parkinsonian (James Rowe (MRC CBSU)) 2008-12-03 16:15: Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives. (Dr Saul Griffith, Makani Power) 2008-12-04 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-12-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Magda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge) 2008-12-04 16:15: Top-down influences on visual processing studied with TMS and fMRI (Christian Ruff (University College London)) 2008-12-05 11:00: Estimating the Pen Trajectories of Handwritten Static Scripts using Hidden Markov Models (Emli-Mari Nel, Vicon) 2008-12-05 13:00: The Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism (Dr. Christopher Badcock, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics) 2008-12-05 14:00: Mondrian Processes (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2008-12-08 10:30: Eye-Tracking in Virtual Reality ( Alessio Murgia , Reading) 2008-12-08 11:30: Navigating ethical and compliance issues in developing causal conclusions from randomized field trials: A case study (Professor Brain Junker, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) 2008-12-08 14:00: Visual Search: Applications and Computational Modelling (Xiao-Peng Hu, Imperial College) 2008-12-08 16:30: SNAREs, synaptotagmin, and fusion pores (Meyer Jackson, Dept. of Physiology, University of Wisconsin) 2008-12-09 10:00: Optimizing Similarity Functions in Various Pattern Recognition Problems (Sang Wan Lee, KAIST Korea) 2008-12-09 13:45: Opening (Professor Joe Herbert, Brain Repair Centre, Cambridge) 2008-12-09 14:00: Promoting axon regeneration in the damaged CNS (Professor James Fawcett, Brain Repair Centre, Cambridge) 2008-12-09 14:30: Glial cell transplants to promote axonal regeneration (Dr. Xavier Navarro, Institute of Neuroscience, Barcelona) 2008-12-09 15:00: Repair of interrrupted fibre connections and circuits after spinal cord and brain injury (Professor Martin Schwab, Brain Research Institute, Zurich) 2008-12-09 15:00: Contrast sensitivity in C57BL6 mice (Bart van Alphen, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands) 2008-12-09 15:30: Semaphorins: role in axonal degeneration and plasticity (Professor. Joost Verhaagen, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam) 2008-12-09 16:30: PSA-NCAM and regeneration (Dr. Jean-Chretien Norreel, PHARMAXON, Marseille) 2008-12-09 17:00: Development and repair in the cerebellum (Dr. Ferdinando Rossi, Rita Levi Montalcini Centre for Brain Repair, Torino) 2008-12-09 17:30: Adult stem cells and biomaterials for the treatment of CNS injury (Professor Eva Sykova, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Charles University, Prague) 2008-12-09 18:00: Molecular mechanisms of activity dependent plasticity in the cerebellar cortex (Professor Piergiorgio Strata, Foundazione Santa Lucia, Rome) 2008-12-09 18:30: Round table one: meet the professor sessions (PIs and BRC PIs) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-12-10 12:00: Regulation of Neuroprotective and antioxidant pathways by Synaptic activity (Dr Giles Hardingham: Centre for Neuroscience research, Edinburgh.) 2008-12-10 14:00: Matrix metalloproteinase-9 in synaptic plasticity (Dr. Leszek Kaczmarek, Nencki Institute, Warsaw) 2008-12-10 14:30: Cell replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease (Professor Patrik Brundin, Wallenberg Neuroscience Centre, Lund) 2008-12-10 15:00: Adult neurogenesis: From molecular mechanisms towards tools for brain repair (Dr. Harold Cremer, Developmental Biology Institute, Marseille) 2008-12-10 15:30: Cell sorting strategies for improved stem cell differentiation into neural cells (Dr. Andreas Bosio, MILTENYI, Cologne) 2008-12-10 16:30: Round table two: meet the professors sessions (PIs and BRC PIs) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-12-10 18:00: Closing session (Professor Joe Herbert, Brain Repair Centre, Cambridge) 2008-12-11 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2008-12-15 14:15: Neurobiology of the Drosophila circadian clock (Justin Blau, Department of Biology, New York University) 2008-12-16 14:00: Of mice, men, and microscopes: Watching the brain dynamics of motor control at the cellular scale in behaving subjects (Dr Mark Schnitzer, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA) 2008-12-16 14:30: Reverse engineering the brain: what photons and electrons can tell us about thought. (Professor Winfried Denk, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Biomedizinische Optuik, Germany) 2009-01-06 13:00: The Perception of Colour Seen in Context (Dr Steve Shevell, University of Chicago) 2009-01-12 13:00: What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it? (Dr Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University) 2009-01-13 13:00: Microgenesis and the Constructive Mind in Movement (Brady Wagoner (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-13 14:00: HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry Data (Dr Bernd Fischer (EBI)) 2009-01-13 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Nikon Rasumov (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-14 12:30: Behavioural and imaging investigations of spatial exploration or awareness in patients with unilateral neglect (Margarita Sarri (MRC CBU)) 2009-01-15 16:00: The Music of Life: metaphors for 21st century biology (Denis Noble, University of Oxford) 2009-01-15 16:15: Back to the future: memories for making predictions and decisions (Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-16 14:00: Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics and control may yet learn from the brain (Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine (Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT)) 2009-01-16 16:30: Why genetic association studies have been so unsuccessful in psychiatry (Professor Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford) 2009-01-19 13:00: Perception, action and uncertainty (Prof. Laurence Maloney, Department of Psychology, NYU) 2009-01-19 14:00: Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging Software (Laura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken)) 2009-01-19 16:15: An introduction to the systems neuroscience of memory ( Rik Henson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-01-19 16:30: A genetic approach to understanding the molecular basis of auditory function (Prof. Karen Steel, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2009-01-21 12:00: Plasticity of neuron-glial communication in the cerebellum (Dr Tom Bellamy - Babraham Institute) 2009-01-21 12:30: MEG in older controls: counterparts of 1) semantic & episodic memory & 2) speech perception (Lisa Brindley (MRC CBU)) 2009-01-21 12:30: The structure of the parietal VSTM representation features, objects and space (Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky (MRC CBU)) 2009-01-21 13:00: The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov Model (Tom Stepleton (CMU)) 2009-01-21 17:00: Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience (Matthew Broome (University of Warwick)) 2009-01-22 16:00: Tonic inhibition regulates the transfer of sensory information through the cerebellar cortex (Ian Duguid) 2009-01-22 16:15: Decoding the listening brain with human neuroimaging and machine learning (Elia Formisano (Maastricht University)) 2009-01-23 13:00: Genetics of Autism (Patricia Lewin, MD, IntegraGen) 2009-01-23 13:15: Regulation of Dpp signalling in Drosophila (Hilary Ashe - Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester) 2009-01-23 16:30: What the "Renewal Effect" is, is not, and the status of current explanations (Professor James Byron Nelson, University of the Basque Country, Spain) 2009-01-26 16:15: The psychology of gambling (Luke Clark (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2009-01-27 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Arjun Bharioke, Cambridge University) 2009-01-28 12:00: Motivational Processing, Mesolimbic and mesostriatal function in Psychosis. (Dr Graham Murray - Dept. Psychiatry, Addenbrookes Hospital) 2009-01-28 12:30: Pitch matching between acoustic and electric hearing: what cochlear implant scientists can learn from Christopher Poulton (Olivier Macherey (MRC CBU)) 2009-01-28 13:00: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences (Prof. Jay Belsky (Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London)) 2009-01-28 16:00: Parakeet: A Continuous Speech Recognition System for Mobile Touch-Screen Devices (Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-28 16:30: NIPS Highlights (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-28 17:00: Ultimate fantasies: Sigmund Freud and evolutionary psychiatry (Pieter R. Adriaens (University of Leuven)) 2009-01-29 16:00: New insights into neurogenic hypertension (Julian Paton, University of Bristol) 2009-01-29 16:15: An a priori model of biased perceptual choice (Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)) 2009-01-30 13:00: Extending the Affinity Propagation Model (Inmar Givoni (University of Toronto)) 2009-01-30 13:15: Intercellular signalling and intracellular transport during axis specification in Drosophila (Isabel Palacios - Department of Zoology University of Cambridge) 2009-01-30 16:30: Problem gambling, near-misses, and the brain reward system (Dr Luke Clark, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-02 16:15: Cognition and Neural Networks ( John Duncan (MRC CBSU)) 2009-02-02 16:30: From Cell Signaling to Function in Large-Scale Neural Networks (Prof. Jorn Hounsgaard, University of Copenhagen) 2009-02-03 16:30: A religious Stroop effect? Searching for attentional biases in religious cognition (Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-04 12:30: Memory rehabilitation using SenseCam (Georgina Browne (Neuropsychology Department, Addenbrooke's)) 2009-02-04 16:00: More NIPS highlights (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-04 17:00: Recarving the cognitive joints of nature (Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling)) 2009-02-05 16:15: The role of human prefrontal cortex in hierarchical decision making (John O’Doherty (Trinity College Dublin)) 2009-02-06 12:00: Journal Club (Michael Lombardo, ARC) 2009-02-06 13:15: Molecular basis of development and degeneration of sensory hair cells in deafness (Karen Steel - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge) 2009-02-06 16:30: Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge (Dr Zoltan Dienes, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex) 2009-02-09 16:15: Translational neuroscience: Promise and pitfalls (Trevor Robbins (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2009-02-09 16:30: Measuring and modelling the development of ordered nerve connections (Prof. David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh) 2009-02-10 11:00: Time and time again - The regulation of segmentation clock period in zebrafish (Leah Herrgen, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) 2009-02-10 13:00: "Only You Can Tell Me What Happened": Innovative Techniques for Interviewing Child Alleged Victims of Sexual Abuse (Dr. Carmit Katz (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-10 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-11 12:30: Recurrent activity supports the construction of meaningful object (Alex Clarke (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology)) 2009-02-12 16:00: Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord Injury (James Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) 2009-02-13 13:15: Differential chromatin marking of introns and expressed exons by H3K36me3 (Julie Ahringer - The Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2009-02-13 16:15: Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality (Stanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Paris)) 2009-02-13 16:30: Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality (Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Director of INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France) 2009-02-16 16:15: Auditory processing: From illusions to the musical brain (Jessica Grahn (MRC CBSU)) 2009-02-17 14:00: Stochastic control as an inference problem (Prof. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen)) 2009-02-18 17:00: The phenomenology of the extended mind: why your beliefs are not in your iPhone (Ron Chrisley (University of Sussex)) 2009-02-19 16:00: RNA-based guidance in axons (Christine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2009-02-19 16:15: Prefrontal cortex and top-down control: ablation studies (David Gaffan (University of Oxford)) 2009-02-20 11:00: Generalization in Learning (Yevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University)) 2009-02-20 13:15: Sex Determination Mechanisms in Zebrafish (John Postlethwait - Institute of Neuroscience University of Oregon) 2009-02-20 16:30: From perception to conception: object processing in the ventral stream (Professor Lorraine K Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-23 16:15: Word production and its brain correlates (Michele Miozzo (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2009-02-23 16:30: Useful signals from motor cortex (Prof. Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh) 2009-02-23 17:00: Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their Applications (Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard)) 2009-02-24 10:00: Mind reading by machine learning: an ideal observer based analysis of cognitive scientific experiments (Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Collegium Budapest)) 2009-02-24 13:00: Deception Detection (Dr. Eunkyung Jo (Hallym University, Korea)) 2009-02-24 14:00: A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels (Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University) 2009-02-24 16:30: Strange bedfellows: Psychologists in missionary care (Prof. Steve Allison (Abilene Christian University)) 2009-02-24 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-24 18:00: Clinical Disorders in the Neurology of Music (Dr Steven Sparr, Montefiore Medical Center, NY) 2009-02-24 18:00: Clinical disorders in the neurology of music: what our patients teach us about localisation of music in the brain (Dr. Stephen Sparr (Montefiore Medical Center, New York, USA)) 2009-02-25 12:00: Mitochondrial dysfunction and neurodegeneration (Dr Miguel martins) 2009-02-25 12:30: Early linguistic access: rapid, parallel and automatic? (Yury Shtyrov (MRC CBU)) 2009-02-25 16:00: Dasher in Mandarin Chinese with Phonetic Pin Yin (Will Zou) 2009-02-26 16:00: Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomains (Clive Orchard, University of Bristol) 2009-02-26 16:00: An Introduction to Transcriptomics (Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto)) 2009-02-26 16:15: What are illusions and why do we see them? (Beau Lotto (University College London)) 2009-02-27 12:00: Hierarchical modularity in human fMRI brain networks (Dr. David Meunier, Brain Mapping Unit) 2009-02-27 13:15: Regulatory logic for cell specification during early embryogenesis (Paola Oliveri - University College London) 2009-02-27 16:30: Adaptive coding mechanisms in children with autism: lessons from development (Dr Liz Pellicano, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol) 2009-03-02 14:00: Learning Semantic Representation from Experience and Language (Professor Gabriella Vigliocco and Dr. Mark Andrews) 2009-03-02 16:15: Pictures of data: methods for improving scientific illustrations (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU)) 2009-03-02 16:30: Amazing TRP channels: from Aristotle´s five senses to TRPpathies (Prof. Bernd Nilius, University of Leuven) 2009-03-03 19:30: What makes someone psychopathic? (Professor James Blair, Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, National Institute for Mental Health) 2009-03-04 12:30: Prefrontal cortex and representation of task relevant information (Natasha Sigala (MRC CBU) ) 2009-03-04 16:00: Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops? (Prof Simon Baron Cohen (Autism Research Centre, Cambridge)) 2009-03-04 17:00: How creative is evolutionary computation? (Maggie Boden (University of Sussex)) 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) 2009-03-05 16:15: Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology (Robert Rogers (University of Oxford)) 2009-03-06 12:00: A structural and functional imaging study of autism and its extended phenotype (Dr. Michael Spencer, ARC and Developmental Psychiatry) 2009-03-06 13:00: The neural code and knowledge representation: a bridge too far? (Dr Peter Foldiak, St Andrews University) 2009-03-06 13:15: How does smell turn into behaviour? (Gregory Jefferis - Division of Neurobiology LMB Cambridge) 2009-03-06 15:00: Quasi-linear Sensor Management (Marco Huber (University of Karlsruhe)) 2009-03-06 16:30: How does early brain organization promote language acquisition in humans? (Dr Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France) 2009-03-09 16:15: Psychosis and cognition over the life course (Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2009-03-10 15:00: Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing data, with an application to portfolio balancing (Robert B. Gramacy (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-10 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Professor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering)) 2009-03-11 12:00: High Resolution Retinal Imaging in the Rodent Eye: Part 2 (Dr Luis Diaz-Santana (Centre for Brain Repair)) 2009-03-11 12:30: Understanding speech with an ageing brain: perception, cognition, and compensation (Jonathan Peelle (MRC CBU)) 2009-03-11 16:00: Painless Parse Errors (Kathryn Gray, Computer Laboratory) 2009-03-11 17:00: Transfer, translation, trading: how can we understand international influence and inspirations on a national educational field? (Christian Ydesen (Aarhus University and University of Edinburgh)) 2009-03-12 11:00: Cloud Ships for global warming reduction (Fred Farrell) 2009-03-12 11:30: Geothermal power in Australia (Catriona Knox) 2009-03-12 13:00: The Art Image as Foundation for a Science of Mind: The Life Work of Susanne K. Langer (Dr. Ivan Ellingham (Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust)) 2009-03-12 16:15: From a face to its category via a few information states in the brain (Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow)) 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) 2009-03-17 13:00: Statistically optimal inference and learning: from behavior to neural representations (Professor József Fiser, Brandeis University) 2009-03-17 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Peter Latham, Gatsby, UCL) 2009-03-18 16:00: Molecular and computational aspects of neuronal motility (Professor Vincent Torre, SISSA, Trieste) 2009-03-19 10:05: Processing and Storage Within Neurons (Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA) 2009-03-19 11:30: Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain (Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology) 2009-03-19 12:00: What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains? (Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2009-03-19 12:30: Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders (Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics) 2009-03-19 15:00: Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease (Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine.) 2009-03-19 15:30: Gambling and the Brain (Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology.) 2009-03-19 16:00: Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease. (Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience) 2009-03-19 16:45: In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits (Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA) 2009-03-19 18:00: What is Consciousness For? (Professor Chris Frith, University College London) 2009-03-19 18:00: What is consciousness for? (Chris Frith, Professor in Neuropsychology) 2009-03-19 19:30: Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-03-24 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Petra Vertes (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-25 11:00: Learning from Measurements in Exponential Families (Percy Liang (University of California, Berkeley)) 2009-03-25 12:00: New approaches to axonal regeneration in the central and peripheral nervous system (Dr Barbara Lorber (Brain Repair Centre)) 2009-03-25 17:00: Coding with envelopes, receptive fields and plasticity (André Longtin, University of Ottawa) 2009-03-27 12:30: Computations in human sensorimotor control (Prof Daniel Wolpert, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge) 2009-03-30 13:00: What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the world (Prof. David H. Foster, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester) 2009-03-31 10:00: Algorithms for Understanding Motor Cortical Processing and Neural Prosthetic Systems (John Cunningham (Stanford University)) 2009-03-31 14:10: Axon guidance and local RNA-based mechanisms of directional steering (Christine Holt Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Anatomy Building, Downing Street, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY) 2009-03-31 14:55: Functional Genomics: Phenotypic screening of large gene sets to identify novel genes that regulate axon growth and branching. (Vance Lemmon Miami Project to Cure Paralysis) 2009-03-31 16:10: Cellular mechanisms underlying self-assembly of growth cones after axotomy (Micha E. Spira Department of Neurobiology, The Life Sciences Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.) 2009-03-31 16:55: Deconstructing synapses with Wnt antagonists (Patricia C. Salinas Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London. London WC1 6BT. UK.) 2009-04-01 09:00: Structural synaptic changes in cortical adaptive plasticity (Anthony Holtmaat Département des Neurosciences fondamentales CMU, 1 Rue Michel-Servet 1211 GENEVE 4) 2009-04-01 09:45: Visual Cortical Placticity (Mark Hübener Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany) 2009-04-01 11:00: Imaging changes in neurodegenerative disease (Tara L Spires-Jones Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA USA.) 2009-04-01 13:45: Imaging axonal degeneration and regeneration (Martin Kerschensteiner Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany) 2009-04-01 14:30: Functional imaging in stroke (Jean-Claude Baron Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, R3 Neurosciences Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge UK) 2009-04-01 15:15: Functional imaging of cortical connectivity in normal brain and neurodegenerative disease (James Rowe Cambridge University Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) 2009-04-01 17:00: Motor systems plasticity (John W Krakauer MD Associate Professor of Neurology, Co-Director, The Motor Performance Laboratory, The Neurological Institute Columbia University) 2009-04-02 09:00: Molecular control of visual cortical plasticity (Tommaso Pizzorusso 1,2. 1.Istituto Neuroscienze CNR, Pisa 2.Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Firenze) 2009-04-02 09:45: Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on axon regeneration and plasticity. ( James W. Fawcett Cambridge University Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) 2009-04-02 11:00: In vivo 2-photon imaging of axonal microlesions in the adult brain (Vincenzo De Paola MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London) 2009-04-02 11:45: A systems approach to recovery of function (Cornelius Weiller Department of Neurology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany) 2009-04-15 14:00: Deducing Principles in Natural Perception (Mike Lewicki - CMU, Berlin, and Case Western) 2009-04-15 16:00: Feature tracking with full posteriors (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-17 12:30: Emotion and Memory: Explorations of the Amygdala. (Prof. Joseph LeDoux) 2009-04-20 13:00: Talking about the past, present and future: Effects on children's memory and knowledge (Prof. Mel Pipe (Brooklyn College, CUNY)) 2009-04-21 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rainer Engelken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-22 11:00: Literature review presentations - Tidal power, and Fuel cells (Geoffrey Supran and Colm Seeley) 2009-04-22 14:00: Bayesian periodicity detection (Tamara Broderick (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-23 12:00: Olfactory processing in Drosophila (Vikas Bhandawat, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School) 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) 2009-04-24 12:30: Cognition in Parkinson's disease (Jonathan Evans, Research Fellow, Dept. of Neurology) 2009-04-24 16:30: Are imitation and the 'mirror system' products of associative learning? (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, University of Oxford) 2009-04-27 16:30: Synaptic mechanisms of neocortical sensory processing (Prof. Carl Petersen, Lausanne) 2009-04-28 17:00: Fearful Brains in an Anxious World (Professor Joseph Ledoux, New York University, USA) 2009-04-29 12:00: Cellular modulators of mutant huntingtin aggregation (Anne Bertolotti, Division of Neurobiology MRC-LMB, Cambridge) 2009-04-29 12:30: Lateral prefrontal cortex and the representation of task relevant information (Natasha Sigala (MRC-CBU)) 2009-04-29 14:00: Useful Computation with Coincidence Detection (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-29 18:00: Learning, Stress and Integrated Brain-functioning: States of Consciousness Explored via Meditation Practice (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-04-29 18:30: Learning, Stress and Integrated Brain-functioning (Director, Centre for Brain Consciousness and Cognition, Iowa, USA) 2009-04-30 13:00: Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina (Dr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)) 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) 2009-04-30 16:15: Lateralisation of brain functions: what and why? (Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford)) 2009-05-01 13:15: Integrins: force-responsive connectors for morphogenesis (Nick Brown, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-01 16:30: The dark side of impulsivity: neural and psychological mechanisms of pre-disposition to stimulant addiction (Dr Jeff Dalley, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-04 18:00: Do Animals Have Memories of Tomorrow? (Professor Nicola Clayton ( Department of Experimental Psychology)) 2009-05-05 13:00: Nostalgia as a social support repository: The role of attachment-related avoidance (Dr. Tim Wildschut (University of Southampton)) 2009-05-05 16:30: Jesus in your heart: Why personal relationships with God can increase both cardiovascular health and coalitional aggression (Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and Colin Holbrook (Queen's University, Belfast)) 2009-05-05 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Braun (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-06 09:30: Opening of the Conscious Access Workshop (Adrian Owen, MRC CBSU) 2009-05-06 09:45: The cognitive architecture for chaining of two mental operations. (Jerome Sackur (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)) 2009-05-06 11:00: Load Induced Blindness (James McDonald (Université Paul Sabatier, Tolouse).) 2009-05-06 11:00: Neural correlates of visual-tactile awareness in neglect (Margarita Sarri (MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge).) 2009-05-06 12:30: Temporal grouping effect in verbal short term memory (Kristjan Kalm (MRC-CBU)) 2009-05-06 12:30: The neural basis of frustration: an fMRI study (Jacky Yu (MRC-CBU)) 2009-05-06 14:15: ERP evidence for unconcious priming of inhibitory control. (Gethin Hughes (University of Oxford, Oxford).) 2009-05-06 14:15: Event-related potentials of subliminal priming in the light of conscious experience: a reevaluation of empirical findings (Doris Eckstein (University of Bern, Bern).) 2009-05-06 17:00: Psychoanalysis and war (Eli Zaretsky (New School for Social Research, NY, and Institut du Temps Présent, Paris)) 2009-05-07 14:30: Integrated analysis of memory phase dynamic in Drosophila (Dr Thomas Preat - CNRS, Paris) 2009-05-07 16:00: Connexins and carbonic anhydrases: pH regulators in heart and in cancer (Richard Vaughan-Jones, University of Oxford) 2009-05-07 16:00: Inferring building properties from temperature data (Dan Ryder-Cook) 2009-05-07 16:15: Auditory processing in singing and walking crickets (Berthold Hedwig (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-08 13:15: Genetic Specification of Neuronal Circuitry: How Are Different Types of Neurons Made in the Vertebrate Spinal Cord? (Katharine Lewis - PDN University of Cambridge) 2009-05-08 16:30: Who Lost the Cog in Cognitive Science?—Mentalism in an Era of Anti-Cognitivism (Professor Josef Perner, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria) 2009-05-11 16:30: TRPV1: hot new channels in the hippocampus (Prof. Julie Kauer, Brown University) 2009-05-11 19:00: Rethinking the Realities of the Spotless Mind (Dr Amy Milton, Department of Experimental Psychology and Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-13 10:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Tony Attwood, Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia) 2009-05-13 12:00: Regulation of Neural precursors proliferation in the postnatal subventricular Zone (Dr Francesca Ciccolini - Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg) 2009-05-13 12:30: Emotion effects on memory and conceptual priming (Cristina Ramponi (MRC-CBU)) 2009-05-13 13:00: Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoos (Dr. Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 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) 2009-05-14 16:15: Dissociating timing from temporal attention with fMRI (Jenny Coull (University of Provence)) 2009-05-15 13:00: The state of PET for experimental medicine in oncology - current challenges (Professor Pat Price, Ralston Paterson Professor of Radiation Oncology, Christie Hospital, University of Manchester) 2009-05-15 13:15: Taking a Shot at neuronal growth in Drosophila (Andreas Prokop - Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester) 2009-05-15 16:30: How we come to experience that we own our body (Dr Henrik Ehrsson, Department of Neuroscience & Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) 2009-05-18 16:30: Delays and coincidences in spatial hearing (Prof. Philip Joris, University of Leuven) 2009-05-18 20:00: Mental programs and the frontal lobe (Prof. John Duncan (Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2009-05-19 13:00: Sex differences in spatial navigation and spatial IQ tasks (Dr. Lucie Salwiczek (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-19 14:00: Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systems (Sean Sedwards, CoSBi) 2009-05-19 16:30: How to create a religion: What does it really take to explain (and therefore understand) a religious ritual act? (Prof. E. Thomas Lawson (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University, Belfast)) 2009-05-19 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Edward Turnham (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-20 12:00: Spinal mechanisms of locomotor recovery after various spinal lesions (Serge Rossignol, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 2009-05-20 12:30: DTI tractography of frontotemporal white matter pathways and language comprehension (John Griffiths (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology)) 2009-05-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-21 16:15: The humble rat has a cognitive moment: coordinating limbic-cortical networks in cognition, sleep and disease (Matthew Jones (University of Bristol)) 2009-05-21 20:00: The plastic brain (Prof Colin Blakemore) 2009-05-22 13:00: Asperger syndrome and the interbrain (Prof. Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield and University of Cambridge) 2009-05-22 13:15: Division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system (Anna Philpott - Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-26 13:00: Using gradient descent for optimization and learning (Nicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research)) 2009-05-27 12:00: Intracellular mechanisms of axonal growth and regeneration (Dr Frank Bradke, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany) 2009-05-27 12:30: Sometimes angry, but always afraid: Differential effects of anxiety on the neural response to facial signals of threat (Michael Ewbank (MRC-CBU)) 2009-05-28 16:15: Motivation and executive control in human prefrontal cortex (Etienne Koechlin (INSERM-ENS, Paris)) 2009-05-29 12:30: Early markers of disease in Mild Cognitive Impairment (Dr Peter Nestor (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-29 13:15: Insect gut feelings: development and function of visceral neurons in Drosophila (Irene Miguel-Aliaga - Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-29 14:00: Hippocampal rhythms (Dr. Ole Paulson, University of Oxford) 2009-06-01 17:30: Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences (Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin) 2009-06-01 19:30: "Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling (Dr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-02 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Arne Nagengast (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-04 16:15: Cognitive neuroscience of attention: insights from developmental disorder (Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)) 2009-06-05 13:15: The imprinted atypical Notch ligand Dlk1 and the regulation of adult neurogenesis (Anne Ferguson-Smith - PDN, University of Cambridge) 2009-06-08 11:00: Inference in Models with Latent Hierarchies (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-08 16:30: Religion and self-regulation (Prof. Michael McCullough (University of Miami)) 2009-06-09 14:00: Why the brain is the way it is: the efficient-coding hypothesis (Professor David McAlpine, UCL, London.) 2009-06-09 16:00: Is the homunculus `aware' of sensory adaptation? (Peggy Seriès (The University of Edinburgh)) 2009-06-10 12:30: The effect of attention on illusory vowel perception and sound onset: an fMRI study (Antje Heinrich (Department of Linguistics)) 2009-06-11 11:30: Colour vision in flies (Professor Claude Desplan, Department of Biology, New York University, USA) 2009-06-11 13:00: Nonconscious processes in goals and their pursuit (Prof. Henk Aarts (University of Utrecht)) 2009-06-11 16:15: The social brain (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London)) 2009-06-11 17:00: The Flow of Information in Complex Networks (Jon Kleinberg (Cornell).) 2009-06-12 11:00: Short ICML Practice Talk (Ryan Prescott Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory)) 2009-06-12 12:00: Reciprocal imprinting produces sex differences in autistic spectrum traits (Gill Ragsdale) 2009-06-15 15:00: A quick way to learn a mixture of exponentially many linear models (Geoffrey Hinton, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & University of Toronto) 2009-06-16 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-17 14:00: Homeostatic Modulation of Neural Function: From Phenomenology to Molecular Design (Professor Graeme Davis, University of California, San-Francisco, USA.) 2009-06-19 14:00: Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception (Professor Carl Petersen, from the Brain Mind Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland) 2009-07-06 10:30: Mapping facial gestures to control cursors and switches (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-07 12:00: Is schizophrenia a frontotemporal dementia? (Dr Dennis Velakoulis Melbourne, Neuropsychiatry Centre University of Melbourne Australia) 2009-07-08 14:00: Dashing this way and that ( Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-16 12:00: Neural circuits underlying visually guided behaviors in zebrafish (Michael Orger, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University) 2009-07-27 13:00: Variability and Robustness in Neuronal Networks (Dr. Astrid Prinz, Emory University) 2009-07-28 11:00: Physics Dimensions in Sage (Miriam Backens, University of Cambridge) 2009-07-28 14:00: Computable Probability Theory (Daniel Roy (MIT)) 2009-07-31 12:30: The Hormonal control of food intake and eating behaviour (Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories) 2009-08-11 15:00: Combining Collaborative Filtering with Meta Data for Scalable Recommendations (David Stern (Microsoft)) 2009-08-24 11:00: Text entry performance of state of the art unconstrained handwriting recognition: a longitudinal user study (Leif Denby (University of Cambridge)) 2009-08-27 11:00: Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear Models (Hannes Nickisch) 2009-08-28 12:30: The Neuropsychiatry of the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (Dr Petrus de Vries, Consultant in Developmental Neuropsychiatry, Peterborough District Hospital) 2009-09-02 12:00: Neural Tissue Engineering Strategies (Prof Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto, Canada) 2009-09-08 12:00: Effects of secreted alpha-synuclein on cell homeostasis (Dr Kostas Vekrellis, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece) 2009-09-14 11:00: Thermal expansion of beta-eucryptite (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-15 11:00: Psychometric properties of Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (Chiara Horlin, Neurocognitive Development Unit, University of Western Australia) 2009-09-18 10:00: CANCELLED (Prof. Eric Xing (CMU)) 2009-09-21 11:00: Capacity of Spiking Neural Networks (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK)) 2009-09-23 12:00: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of neocortical stem cell biology (Dr Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) 2009-09-28 16:00: How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIF (Professor Randall Johnson (University of California)) 2009-09-28 18:30: Neurological Studies of Rewards Processing In Major Depression (Dr Wayne C Drevets, Senior Investigator and Chief of Sectioning on Mood and Anxiety Disorders for the National Institute of Mental Health in the USA) 2009-09-29 09:15: The simple truth about the genetic complexity of schizophrenia (Dr. Danny Weinberger, National Institutes of Health, USA) 2009-09-29 10:00: Pain and swelling, suffering and love: the NGF story (Dr. Geoff Woods, Department of Genetics, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 11:00: Mechanism of alpha-synuclein toxicity in Parkinson's disease. (Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 11:00: Of Uncertain Value -- Bayesian Quadratic Reinforcement Learning (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-29 11:30: Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development (Professor Wolf Reik, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 12:00: Neural vulnerability mechanisms underlying stimulant addiction (Dr. Jeff Dalley, Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 12:30: Cognitive biomarkers for detecting dementia and possibilities for cognitive enhancement (Professor Barbara Sahakian, FMedSci, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 12:30: Neurological changes in early stage Huntington’s disease (Dr. Jenny Morton, Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 14:00: Cellular plasticity cascades: genes to behaviour pathways in the pathophysiology and treatment of severe mood disorders (Dr. Husseini Manji, National Institutes of Health / Johnson & Johnson, USA) 2009-09-29 14:00: Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learning (Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2009-09-29 15:15: Writing fast with any muscle (Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 15:45: Misfolding of proteins with polyglutamine expansion is facilitated by proteosomal chaperones (Dr. Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2009-09-29 16:00: Reduced cortical neuron models: Experiment and theory (Magnus Richardson, Warwick University) 2009-09-29 16:45: Early onset depressions: Can neuroscience aid clinical decision making? (Professor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Developmental Psychiatry) 2009-09-29 17:15: Selective motor control and focal dystonia (Dr. Mark Hallett, Human Motor Control Section, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, USA) 2009-09-29 18:30: Music and the Mind (Organised by Cambridge Neuroscience) 2009-09-30 09:00: Emotion, value and the tyranny of choice (Professor Ray Dolan, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, UK) 2009-09-30 09:45: Action decisions in health and Parkinson’s disease (Dr. James Rowe, Department of Clinical Neurosciences / MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2009-09-30 10:45: Restoring executive control in drug addiction through the disruption on memories (Dr. Amy Milton, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute / Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) 2009-09-30 11:15: Complex brain networks, cognition and schizophrenia (Professor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute / Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge) 2009-09-30 11:15: Mechanism-based therapy of stroke (Professor Jean-Claude Baron, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2009-09-30 11:45: Multiple sclerosis, depleting lymphocytes and autoimmunity (Revd. Dr. Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2009-09-30 13:45: Conflict between brain circuits (Dr. Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA) 2009-09-30 14:30: Human obesity: a heritable neurobehavioural disorder (Professor Steve O’Rahilly, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge) 2009-09-30 15:00: Using functional imaging to understand pathological and pharmacological alterations in consciousness (Professor David Menon, Department of Medicine) 2009-09-30 15:30: Why canine patients provide an important ‘missing link’ in spinal cord injury (Professor Nick Jeffery, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge) 2009-09-30 16:00: Genetic analysis of neurodegenerative disease (Professor John Hardy, FRS) 2009-09-30 16:30: Can we ever really repair the brain in Parkinson’s disease with cells? (Professor Roger Barker, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2009-09-30 17:00: Controlling stem cells in health and disease (Dr. Ron McKay, National Institute of Health, USA) 2009-10-05 11:00: Recognition and Correction of Voice Web Search Queries (Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (James Ingram (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-07 12:00: Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality (Ilina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre)) 2009-10-08 11:00: The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU)) 2009-10-08 15:30: The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networks (Prof Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL)) 2009-10-08 16:00: "Shaping the amniote embryo: the cellular mechanisms of chick morphogenesis (Octavian Voiculescu, Dept of PDN) 2009-10-09 13:00: Motor Skills Learning for Robotics (Jan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen) 2009-10-09 16:30: Licking & liking in rodents (Dr Dominic Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University) 2009-10-12 11:00: Learning Logical Relations (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-12 16:00: Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to assess brain function (Rhodri Cusack (MRC CBSU)) 2009-10-12 16:30: Computational modeling of long-range connections in superficial layers of visual cortex V1 (Steven Zucker, Yale University) 2009-10-13 13:00: Psychometrics ancient and modern: From Classical Test Theory to Item Response Theory (Prof. John Rust (Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-14 12:00: A role for hippocampal neurogenesis in pattern separation: implications for the organisation of memory and cognition (Dr Tim Bussey, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2009-10-14 12:30: Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks (David Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-14 19:30: Shrinking Down Nutrition: Nanofoods (Dr Dora Pereira, MRC Human Nutrition Research) 2009-10-15 10:30: Psychometrics at the University of Cambridge (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-15 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-10-15 16:00: Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (David Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge) 2009-10-16 13:00: Russian Blues: Effects of Language Categories on Colour Discrimination (Professor Galina Paramei, Hope University) 2009-10-16 13:15: Hedgehog signalling and myogenesis in the zebrafish (Philip Ingham, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Singapore) 2009-10-16 16:30: Wobbles, warbles and fish - the physiology of dyslexia (Professor John Stein, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford) 2009-10-19 11:00: Inclusive user modelling (Pradipta Biswas (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-19 16:00: Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU)) 2009-10-19 16:30: Investigating the firing properties of motoneurones with dynamic clamp and modelling (Claude Meunier René Descartes University, Paris.) 2009-10-19 16:30: Researching fundamentalism and xenophobia: A religious schema approach (Dr. Heinz Streib (Bielefeld University, Germany)) 2009-10-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK)) 2009-10-21 12:30: Spoken word priming and its role in subsequent recollection and familiarity (Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2009-10-22 10:30: Ready Steady Cook (book): Cooking up a psychometric treat in 20 minutes - live, hot and tasty! (Dr Tim Croudace ( University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-22 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-10-22 15:30: Syntax in the human brain (Prof Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)) 2009-10-22 16:00: Cancelled (Enrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich) 2009-10-23 13:00: How can we benefit from autism theories? (Dr. Meng Chuan Lai, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry) 2009-10-23 13:15: The long and short of Hox non-coding RNAs (Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester) 2009-10-23 16:30: The neurodynamics of cognitive integration (Professor Murray Shanahan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London) 2009-10-26 11:00: A facial gesture switch using hidden Markov models (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-26 16:00: Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU)) 2009-10-27 13:00: The development of sex differences in mental rotations in human infants (Prof. David Moore (Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate School, USA)) 2009-10-27 16:00: On the Games Neurons Play (in Visual Cortex) (Steven Zucker) 2009-10-28 11:00: Information theoretic model selection in clustering (Joachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich) 2009-10-28 12:00: Axonopathy (Dr Paul Glynn, MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester) 2009-10-29 10:30: Poseurs, tricksters and loafers - how to recognize them among your participants? (Michal Kosinski (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-29 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU)) 2009-10-29 15:30: The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditions (Prof Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)) 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) 2009-10-30 12:30: Models of mental architecture (Dr. Philip Barnard, MRC CBU) 2009-10-30 12:30: How to conduct an experiment using z-Tree (Daniele Nozenso (University of Nottingham) and Donna Harris (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-30 13:00: Autism: what has genetics taught us? (Professor Dan Geschwind,UCLA School of Medicine) 2009-10-30 13:15: The role of transcriptional regulators in extraembryonic cell-fate decisions (Kathy Niakan, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge) 2009-10-30 14:00: Association mapping and prediction of complex structured phenotypes (Oliver Stegle (Max Planck Institutes, Tübingen)) 2009-10-30 16:30: Neurobiological basis of music and dance skills (Professor Lawerence Parsons, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield) 2009-11-02 11:00: Optimizing Dasher for the iPhone (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-02 16:00: Speech, language and the brain (William Marslen-Wilson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-11-02 16:30: “Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”. (Wulfram Gerstner EPFL.) 2009-11-02 16:30: Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition (Dr. Fraser Watts (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-04 12:30: Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special (Clara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-05 10:30: Identifying key drivers of item variance in your questionnaire data: an introduction to Confirmatory Factor Analysis (Jan Stochl) 2009-11-05 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU)) 2009-11-05 15:30: Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisation (Prof Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France)) 2009-11-05 16:00: "Chromatin architecture and transcription: a view form the fly genome" (Steve Russell, Dept of Genetics, Cambridge) 2009-11-06 13:15: Balancing self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system (Andrea Brand, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-06 16:30: Risks, Emotions & Decisions (Professor Peter Ayton, Department of Psychology, City University London) 2009-11-09 16:00: Neuropsychology of Gambling Addiction (Luke Clarke (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2009-11-09 16:30: “Nociception and pain in early life: the emergence of endogenous control systems”. (Maria Fitzgerald, UCL.) 2009-11-10 11:00: KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty (Bert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)) 2009-11-10 13:00: Measuring unconscious response tendencies in adults and children (Dr. Dénes Szücs (Department of Education, University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-11 12:00: Axonal transport in Alzheimer's disease (Dr Gorazd Stokin, Recently at University of California, San Diego) 2009-11-11 12:30: The future of scientific publishing - Ideas for an open, transparent, independent system (Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2009-11-11 19:30: Exploiting Bacteria to Battle Cancer (Dr Guillermo de la Cueva Méndez (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre)) 2009-11-12 10:30: Introduction to Item Response Theory (Uli Reininghaus) 2009-11-12 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-11-12 15:30: Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational models (Dr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2009-11-12 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Steve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge) 2009-11-13 13:00: Attention to faces in autism: An ERP study (Owen Churches, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-13 13:15: Developmental programming of the placenta (Abby Fowden, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-13 16:30: Why speaking louder might not make you understood - supra-threshold deficits in hearing impairment (Dr Kathryn Hopkins, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-16 11:00: 研究の紹介 (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-16 16:00: Impulsivity and neurocognitive functioning in substance addiction (Antonio Garcia (Department of Clinical Psychology & Institute of Neuroscience, University of Granada)) 2009-11-16 16:30: “Olfaction as a model for brain organization: from Adrian to the present”. (Gordon Shepherd, Yale University.) 2009-11-17 13:00: Daily well-being is about thoughts as well as feelings: Extending the day reconstruction method (Dr. Mathew White (University of Plymouth)) 2009-11-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (David Franklin (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-18 12:30: Inverse mapping the neuronal substrates of face categorizations (Marie Smith (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2009-11-18 16:15: Role of PRG-1 (plasticity related gene-1) in glutamatergic transmission (Dietmar Schmitz, Charité, Berlin) 2009-11-19 10:30: Understanding how people think through means and ends: An introduction to laddering (Dominic Yeo (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-19 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-11-19 13:00: Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imaging (Dr. Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool) 2009-11-19 14:00: Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor Selection (Prof. Stephen Roberts (Oxford)) 2009-11-19 15:30: Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigm (Dr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL)) 2009-11-19 16:00: Clockwork in the embryo (Julian lewis) 2009-11-20 13:15: Establishing and manipulating pluripotency in the early embryo (Jenny Nichols, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-20 14:00: Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behaviour (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2009-11-20 16:30: Evaluating the costs and benefits of future rewards: neuropsychological and neurochemical investigations in frontal and dopaminergic circuits (Dr Mark Walton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2009-11-23 11:00: Probabilistic feature tracking with non-probabilistic techniques (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-23 16:00: The neuroscience of music (Jessica Grahn (MRC CBSU)) 2009-11-23 16:30: “How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”. (Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried.) 2009-11-23 16:30: Improving paper-and-pencil measures of God representations (Bonnie Poon Zahl (Dept. of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-24 13:00: The personalities of nonhuman primates: All too human? (Dr. Alex Weiss (University of Edinburgh)) 2009-11-25 12:00: Mechanisms underlying embryonic and adult DRG regeneration (Dr Laura Gumy, BRC) 2009-11-25 12:30: Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation (Chris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-25 13:00: Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1a (Dr. Patricia Jusuf) 2009-11-25 13:00: Genetic Testing in the Clinic for the APOE gene: A Cautionary Tale (Dr Margaret Lock. See: www.mcgill.ca/ssom/facultyinfo/lock/) 2009-11-26 10:30: Measurement of Influence Factors in a Decision Making Process: An Application of Conjoint Analysis (Farrah Arif (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-26 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU)) 2009-11-26 15:30: Navigating in a 3-d world (Prof Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL)) 2009-11-26 16:00: The importance of context in protein misfolding and aggregation (Anne Bertolotti, MRC LMB, Cambridge) 2009-11-27 13:00: Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidance (Professor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL) 2009-11-27 13:15: Molecular control of axon pathfinding in the visual system (Robert Hindges, MRC Neurobiology Unit, King's College London) 2009-11-27 16:30: Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with Magnetoencephalography (Professor Joachim Gross, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow) 2009-11-30 11:00: Face Recognition: Who's That Blonde? (Ulrich Paquet (Imense)) 2009-11-30 11:40: NIPS poster (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-30 16:00: The systems-level neuroscience of human memory (Rik Henson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-12-01 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ian Howard (University of Cambridge)) 2009-12-02 11:00: Joint imputation and estimation of haplotype transition probabilities (Wolfgang Lehrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2009-12-02 12:30: Diffusion MRI and tractography (Eleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 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 10:30: Introduction to Mokken scaling (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge)) 2009-12-03 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC CBSU)) 2009-12-03 15:30: Decoding memories in the human hippocampus (Prof Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL)) 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) 2009-12-04 11:00: Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotation (Sean Moran (Edinburgh)) 2009-12-04 13:00: The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalry (Dr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University) 2009-12-08 13:00: We think we understand: When empathic accuracy and perceptions diverge (Prof. Sara D. Hodges (University of Oregon)) 2009-12-09 12:00: Is there really a role for stem cells in regenerative neurology? (Siddharthan Chandran, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) 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)) 2009-12-09 19:30: Genetic testing: Truth or Dare? (Dr Caroline Wright (PHG Foundation)) 2009-12-10 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU)) 2009-12-10 15:30: Action and Language (Prof Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy)) 2009-12-17 15:30: Analysing and communicating uncertainty (Prof David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge)) 2010-01-08 11:00: Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal Imaging (Prof Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA)) 2010-01-11 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Hugo Vincent (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-13 11:00: Immune components in genetically mediated demyelination (Prof Rudolf Martini, Department of Neurology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany) 2010-01-13 12:30: Tuuut... Puff. Tuuut... Puff. Unconscious patients learn to respond after tuut (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU)) 2010-01-14 10:00: Machine Learning Course (4F13) (Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge)) 2010-01-14 15:30: Cognitive and Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories (Dr Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-01-14 17:00: On the typology of indefinites: Neo-Aristotelian prolegomena (Professor Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp) 2010-01-15 16:30: Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficits (Dr Marcus Kaiser, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University) 2010-01-18 10:00: Visuospatial Reasoning (Stephanie Chan (MIT)) 2010-01-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Michele Miozzo (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2010-01-19 11:00: CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human Sensing (Dr Fernando de la Torre (CMU)) 2010-01-20 10:00: Machine Learning Course (4F13) (Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge)) 2010-01-20 12:00: Environmental regulation of CNS remyelination (Dr Mark Kotter, LRM, Cambridge) 2010-01-20 12:00: Environmental regulation of CNS remyelination (Dr Mark Kotter, LRM, Cambridge) 2010-01-20 12:30: Multivariate pattern approaches to gaze perception (Johan Carlin (MRC CBSU)) 2010-01-20 12:30: Bored & frustrated? Your ego might be depleted (Theresa Dahm (MRC CBSU)) 2010-01-21 15:30: Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology (Prof Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)) 2010-01-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lopez-Barneo) 2010-01-21 16:00: Accelerated Bayesian inference in cosmology (Dr. Mike Hobson (Cambridge)) 2010-01-22 13:15: What are the cells in the developing vertebrate retina doing? (Bill Harris, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-22 16:30: The cognitive basis of perspective-taking: Evidence from adults and implications for studies of infants and non-human animals (Dr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 2010-01-25 16:00: What is meaning? (Friedemann Pulvermuller (MRC CBSU)) 2010-01-25 16:30: The ins and outs of hearing: amplification and coding in the mammalian cochlea (Jonathan Ashmore, UCL.) 2010-01-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Braun (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-27 12:30: EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection (Zara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology)) 2010-01-27 19:30: Pandemic! Where do new infections come from? (Dr Chris Smith, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-28 15:30: Fetal testosterone in mind (Prof Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)) 2010-01-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Emma Rawlins) 2010-01-29 00:00: Epigenetic signatures of stem-cell identity - CANCELLED (Veronique Azuara, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College) 2010-01-29 09:00: CILR Workshop: THE FINAL-OVER-FINAL CONSTRAINT: TYPOLOGY, ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING (Full details available at www.cilr.cam.ac.uk) 2010-01-29 15:30: Positive psychology and positive education (Prof. Martin Seligman (University of Pennsylvania; former president, American Psychological Association)) 2010-01-29 16:30: Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobe (Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester) 2010-02-01 11:00: NIPS 2009 highlights (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge), Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-01 16:00: A slim grip on reality: Linking source memory and psychosis (Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2010-02-02 11:00: Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental Design (Neil Houlsby (CUED)) 2010-02-02 19:30: Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo (Professor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-02 20:00: Prof Nicola Clayton - Do Animals Make Shopping Lists? 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An artificial orthography paradigm (Dr. Jo Taylor (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-02-19 13:15: Shaping and patterning the embryo: Gastrulation in higher vertebrates (Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-19 16:30: Deficits in processing sensory context in schizophrenia (Dr Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London) 2010-02-22 11:00: Dasher (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-22 11:00: "Who is he, and what is he to you?" Dissecting recognition, social experience and their effects on the sexual behaviour of D. melanogaster (Jean-Christophe Billeter, Dept Biology, University of Toronto) 2010-02-22 16:00: A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems (John Duncan (MRC CBSU)) 2010-02-22 16:30: CANCELLED "Wiring the brain: how axons are guided to their targets" (Prof. Christine Holt, PDN.) 2010-02-23 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Richard Turner (University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-24 11:00: Synaptic plasticity and sleep in Drosophila (Giorgio F. Gilestro, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA) 2010-02-24 12:30: What the heck is priming and what's a shoebox got to do with it? (Aidan Horner (MRC CBSU)) 2010-02-24 13:00: “Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time” (Tatiana Selchenkova, I. P. 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Comparing models of how leaders affect team performance (Prof. Martin Kilduff (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-26 13:15: Lung epithelial progenitor cells in development and repair (Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-26 16:30: Human cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptors (Professor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany) 2010-02-26 16:30: Human Cerebral Cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, Segregation of Function and Transmitter Receptors (Prof Karl Zilles (Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf, Germany)) 2010-03-01 11:00: Latent Force Models with Gaussian Processes (Dr Neil Lawrence (University of Manchester)) 2010-03-01 16:00: From impulsivity to compulsivity: cross-species studies in humans and other animals relevant to neuropsychiatric disorders. 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(Prof. Oliver John (UC Berkeley)) 2010-03-12 16:00: The ethical brain (Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara)) 2010-03-15 11:00: Bayesian feature tracking and head pose estimation (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-03-16 11:00: Slice sampling with latent Gaussian models (Dr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh)) 2010-03-17 12:00: Transgenic studies of gliogenesis in the healthy and damaged CNS (Prof Bill Richardson, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London) 2010-03-18 15:30: Does prefrontal cortex contain a variety of subsystems with separable functions: the neuropsychological perspective ? (Prof Tim Shallice (SISSA Trieste and ICN, UCL, London )) 2010-03-19 19:30: Explore the science of personality research (Dr Jason Rentfrow (Dept of Social and Developmental Psychology)) 2010-03-22 11:00: Language Modelling with PPM (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2010-03-22 11:00: Nitric oxide as a homeostatic regulator of neuronal intrinsic excitability: reciprocal regulation of voltage-gated potassium currents (Ian Forsythe, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester) 2010-03-22 16:00: Measurement error modelling through SEM: Applications in epidemiology and health (Tim Croudace (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2010-03-24 19:30: Jumping to Delusions - how the brain takes dangerous shortcuts (Professor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2010-03-29 11:00: Speech Dasher: Fast Writing using Speech and Gaze (Keith Vertanen, University of Cambridge) 2010-04-09 12:30: TOWARDS A STEPPED CARE APPROACH TO THE TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD ANXIETY (Dr Cathy Creswell (University of Reading)) 2010-04-14 12:00: Making motor neurons in the zebrafish spinal cord (Dr Catherina Becker) 2010-04-19 16:30: “Auditory processing in a "simple" nervous system: Lessons learned from crickets”. (Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology.) 2010-04-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK)) 2010-04-21 12:30: Modulation of emotion: A computational and real-time functional MRI approach (Su Li (MRC CBSU)) 2010-04-22 15:30: Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language (Prof Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)) 2010-04-23 13:00: Investigating reading in low I.Q. children (Sarah Kuppen (Department of Psychology, University of Bedfordshire)) 2010-04-23 13:15: Fine-tuning BMP signaling during cell fate specification (Kristi Wharton, Brown University) 2010-04-23 16:30: Measuring consciousness: From behaviour to neurophysiology (Dr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex) 2010-04-28 12:00: On the toxicity of the amyloid beta peptide (Dr Damian Crowther) 2010-04-28 12:30: Measuring axon diameters with diffusion MRI and other tales (John Griffiths (CSLB)) 2010-04-28 12:30: Learning to read an artificial orthography and adaptations for fMRI (Jo Taylor (MRC CBSU)) 2010-04-28 19:30: Ape Research in Indonesia - Marrying Science with Conservation (Dr Susan Cheyne, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford) 2010-04-29 15:30: What can brain imaging tell us about developmental disorders of speech and language? (Dr Kate Watkins (Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford)) 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) 2010-04-30 13:00: Helping divorced fathers help their children (Prof. Sanford L. Braver (Department of Psychology, Arizona State University)) 2010-04-30 13:15: Dissecting the role of signalling inhibition during the induction of pluripotency (Jose Silva, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge) 2010-04-30 16:30: How do we read other people's mind? Insights from neuropsychology (Dr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham) 2010-05-03 11:00: Report from CHI 2010 (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Professor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering)) 2010-05-05 12:30: Taskplan hierarchy and the prefrontal cortex (Ausaf Farooqui (MRC CBSU)) 2010-05-05 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Lisa Brindley (MRC CBSU)) 2010-05-05 16:30: Mapping affective decisions in depression using reinforcement learning tools (Quentin Huys (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)) 2010-05-06 12:00: Activity-Dependent Training after Human Spinal Cord Injury (John Steeves) 2010-05-06 15:30: Comprehension of human action in a hierarchical framework for mirroring and mentalising (Dr Antonia Hamilton (School of Psychology, University of Nottingham)) 2010-05-07 12:30: LOST IN TRANSLATION: THE BASIC SCIENCE – CLINICAL PRACTICE DIALOGUE (Dr. Tim Dalgleish (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit and C2AD)) 2010-05-07 13:00: The psychology of the imagination and social development: Reflections from Rio's favelas (Dr. Sandra Jovchelovitch (Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics)) 2010-05-07 13:15: Epigenetic mechanisms in mammalian neurogenesis (Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2010-05-07 16:30: Brain imaging studies of memory for when events occurred (Dr Ed Wilding, School of Psychology, Cardiff University) 2010-05-10 11:00: Coherent Inference on Optimal Play in Games (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-10 16:30: “Building the cognitive map - integration of metric and non-metric inputs by entorhinal and hippocampal neurons”. (Kate Jeffery, UCL.) 2010-05-12 12:00: Activation of endogeneous neural stem cells for the prevention of age related cognitive decline (Dr Rodney Rietze) 2010-05-12 12:30: Investigating the assembly of task sets (Apoorva Bhandari (MRC CBSU)) 2010-05-12 12:30: Connectivity in face processing (Daniel Wakeman (MRC CBSU) ) 2010-05-13 15:30: When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusia (Dr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London)) 2010-05-14 13:00: Children's memories for repeated events: Helping them to recall individual episodes and unique details (Sonja Brubacher (Department of Psychology, Wilfred Laurier University)) 2010-05-14 13:15: Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: the repair connection (Petra Hajkova, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Imperial College London) 2010-05-14 16:30: Making Decisions without Values (Professor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College London) 2010-05-17 11:00: Ticker: A text-entry interface with audio feedback for single-switch users (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-17 16:30: “To switch, or not to switch: how the brain answers the question”. (Angela Roberts, PDN.) 2010-05-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-19 12:30: Autism Spectrum characteristics and their relationship to brain structure and function in the typical population (Elisabeth von dem Hagen (MRC CBSU)) 2010-05-19 19:30: Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit? (Dr Giles Yeo, Institute of Metabolic Science) 2010-05-20 15:30: Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces (Dr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital)) 2010-05-21 13:00: Conversations sell: How dialogical judgements and goals underpin the success of viral videos (Dominic Yeo (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-21 13:15: Control of tissue size and shape in Drosophila (Barry Thompson, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London) 2010-05-21 16:30: Brain-Based Values (Professor Patricia Churchland, Philosophy Department, University of California San Diego, USA) 2010-05-24 10:30: From tuning curves to behaviour (Mandana Ahmadi (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)) 2010-05-24 11:00: Conditional Counting: Approximate Multinomial Probit Regression (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-24 12:30: Learning predictive models for visual motion extrapolation (Paul Schrater (Depts Psychology & Computer Science, University of Minnesota)) 2010-05-26 12:00: Studies on the alpha-Synuclein Degradation (Dr George Tofaris) 2010-05-26 12:30: Gaining control: The effects of cognitive training on emotion regulation (Susanne Schweizer (MRC CBSU)) 2010-05-26 12:30: The neural basis of human moral decision-making: A look into the disparity between the idealised and actual moral self (Oriel Feldmanhall (MRC CBSU)) 2010-05-26 13:00: Credit Assignment, State Representations, & Time Scales in Motor Learning (Prof. Maurice Smith, Harvard University) 2010-05-27 10:00: Confidence intervals for IRT models: three new exact approaches meeting different criteria of optimality (Anna Doebler - WWU Münster) 2010-05-28 13:00: Dialogical knowing and believing (Prof. Ivana Markova (Department of Psychology, University of Stirling)) 2010-05-28 13:00: "Second life demonstration" (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-05-28 13:15: Region-specific regulation of neurogenesis by mir-9 (Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester) 2010-05-31 11:00: Robust Associative memory (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-01 13:00: Cell polarity and subcellular organelle dynamics cooperate to regulate retinal neurogenesis (Brian Link, Associated Professor from Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy) 2010-06-02 12:30: Discreteness: The essence of language? 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(Dr Katrin Krumbholtz (MRC Institute of Hearing Research)) 2010-06-04 13:00: Secrecy versus disclosure within families created by gamete donation: Effects on parent-child relationships and children's psychological well-being (Lucy Blake (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-04 13:15: Cell wars: competition through growth factor signalling (Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2010-06-09 12:00: Protein misfolding and oxidative stress: potential roles for molecular chaperones (Dr Andreas Wyttenbach) 2010-06-09 12:00: Protein misfolding and oxidative stress: potential roles for molecular chaperones (Dr Andreas Wyttenbach) 2010-06-09 12:30: The face isn't everything: examining the influence of visual and auditory cues in emotion perception (Raliza Stoyanova (MRC CBSU)) 2010-06-09 12:30: Emotional self regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (Davy Evans (MRC CBSU)) 2010-06-09 14:00: Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack Dimension (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)) 2010-06-10 11:30: Structured Prediction Cascades (Dr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania)) 2010-06-10 15:30: Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathology (Dr Emily Holmes (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)) 2010-06-11 11:00: Message Passing In Centralized Database (Konstantina Palla (Edinburgh)) 2010-06-11 12:30: TREATMENT OF DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS (Prof Ian Goodyer (Dept. of Psychiatry, Cambridge and C2AD)) 2010-06-11 13:00: Predicting progress in PECS use by children with autism (Dr Greg Pasco) 2010-06-11 14:00: Using topic models to help cure cancer (Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto)) 2010-06-14 09:00: The AEGIS project (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-15 11:00: Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological Problems (Barbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago)) 2010-06-16 11:00: Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational Bayes (Dr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland)) 2010-06-16 12:00: Studies on alpha-Synuclein Degradation (Dr George Tofaris, University of Oxford) 2010-06-16 16:00: Neo-Gricean pragmatics: From anaphora through the Square of Opposition to relationship breakdown (Yan Huang, University of Auckland) 2010-06-16 19:30: Gambling and the brain (Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology) 2010-06-17 15:30: Language processing in the musician brain (Dr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience)) 2010-06-18 13:00: Psychological essentialism and the concept of the soul (Prof. Rebekah Richert (Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside)) 2010-06-18 13:00: The specificity of face detection in autism (Owen Churches) 2010-06-21 11:00: Differential Privacy and Probabilistic Inference (Oliver Williams (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-23 12:00: On Sandhoff (Lipid storage) Disease and Neurodegeneration (Dr Tim Sargeant,Department of Medicine,Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge) 2010-06-24 12:00: Stem Cells and Brain Repair – challenges for an Australian in Cambridge (Associate Professor Simon Koblar, Head, Stroke Research Programme,Stoke Physician/Neurologist, University of Adelaide, Australia) 2010-06-24 15:30: A new paradigm to uncover regions involved in parsing language into constituent structure (Dr Christophe Pallier (CNRS INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit)) 2010-06-25 13:00: Scientific study of forgiveness: Status (Prof. Everett L. 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(Dr Gos Micklem, Department of Genetics) 2010-07-16 11:00: Dasher on a Space-filling curve (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-19 11:00: Introduction to Geometric Algebra (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-20 14:00: Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDA (James Balfour (NVIDIA)) 2010-07-21 11:00: Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic Models (Dr. Tomoharu Iwata (NTT)) 2010-07-26 11:00: Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-26 15:00: Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint models (Prof Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster)) 2010-07-28 11:00: Wellcome Trust Presentation (Dr John Williams, Science Funding Division, Wellcome Trust) 2010-07-28 14:00: Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems (Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)) 2010-07-28 14:30: Wellcome Trust Presentation (Dr John Williams, Science Funding Division, Wellcome Trust) 2010-07-29 16:30: Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politics (Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)) 2010-08-02 12:00: Long noncoding RNAs in the mammalian brain. (Dr. Tim Mercer, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.) 2010-08-02 14:15: Some Uses of Hashing in Networking Problems (Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University) 2010-08-03 11:00: Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank (Prof Michael Mitzenmacher - Computer Science, Harvard) 2010-08-09 11:00: Topic Models -- and how to break them (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2010-08-16 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Laurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge)) 2010-08-23 11:00: Statistical Language Modelling (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-08-25 14:00: On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief Propagation (Danny Tarlow (University of Toronto)) 2010-08-30 11:00: Research adventures in Japan (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2010-08-31 14:00: The sleeping fly: neural circuits that control behavioral state (Leslie Griffith, Brandeis University) 2010-09-03 09:30: BIPOLAR DISORDER WORKSHOP (Dr Warren Mansell (University of Manchester)) 2010-09-06 11:00: Ticker: Case Study (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2010-09-09 13:15: Translational biomedical informatics research in a clinical neurosurgery environment (Xiao Hu, University of California, Los Angeles) 2010-09-13 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2010-09-13 14:30: Self-regulation of activity in an olfactory system: mechanisms and consequences (Gilles Laurent, Department of Neural Systems and Coding, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt) 2010-09-14 11:00: Continuous control of brain computer interfaces based on a covert spatial attention paradigm (Ali Bahramisharif (Radboud University Nijmegen)) 2010-09-20 11:00: Bayesian Inference with Kernels (Dr Arthur Gretton (UCL)) 2010-09-21 16:00: Optimality among optimals: decision making from neurobiological ‘noisy’ signals within the cortico-basal-ganglia system (Javier A. Caballero, Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield) 2010-09-22 12:00: Morphology and proliferation of the mammalian spinal cord central canal (Clara Alfaro Cervelló) 2010-09-22 17:00: Paediatric infectious diseases: inborn errors of immunity (Dr Jean Laurent Casanova - The Rockefeller University New York) 2010-09-29 12:00: "Growth and plasticity inhibition in the CNS - interactions of semaphorin 3A with glycans in perineuronal nets" (Gunnar Dick) 2010-09-30 11:00: Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages (Gjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)) 2010-10-04 11:00: Continuous Gesture Recognition and Visualization (Leif Denby (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-06 12:00: Links between stem cell signalling pathways and immune tolerance (Su Metcalfe) 2010-10-06 12:30: Introducing Zebra Speech: from bleep-blop streaming to concurrent speech segregation (Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-10-07 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2010-10-07 15:30: Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language (Ritta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)) 2010-10-07 18:00: Mentalization Based Therapy - Sate of the Art (Professor Peter Fonagy - Frued Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of Research, Dept of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London) 2010-10-08 16:30: Science and government policy: current oxymoron future opportunity? (Professor David Nutt, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London) 2010-10-11 11:00: Bayesian Psychometry (Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-11 16:00: Speech, language and the brain (William Marslen-Wilson (MRC CBSU)) 2010-10-11 17:00: The Flynn Effect, intelligence, and US Black/White IQ (Professor James Flynn, University of Otago) 2010-10-13 12:30: Learning-dependent plasticity: evidence from fMRI multi-voxel patterns (Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-10-14 15:30: Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces (Sarah Gonzales-Andino (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland)) 2010-10-15 13:00: Personality Reconsidered: Personal Projects, Free Traits and the Shape of a Life (Prof. Brian R. Little) 2010-10-15 13:15: Modelling early human cell fate decisions using pluripotent stem cells (Roger Pedersen, The Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-15 16:30: How the brain makes decisions (Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org)) 2010-10-18 16:00: Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to assess brain function (Rhodri Cusack (MRC CBSU)) 2010-10-18 16:30: RNA based therapies for neurological and muscle disease (Matthew Wood, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) 2010-10-18 17:00: THE SEMANTIC MYTH OF TEXT AND CONTEXT (Professor Stephen Neale, City University New York) 2010-10-19 16:00: Parallel dendritic processing and hippocampal spatial representations (Balazs Ujfalussy, Dept. Biophysics, KFKI RIPNP, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 2010-10-19 19:30: 'Dementia and an ageing society' (Professor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health and Primary Care) 2010-10-20 12:00: Targeting Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Role of PINK1 and Parkin in Mitochondrial Quality Control (Derek Narendra, NIH (NINDS) and Cambridge) 2010-10-20 12:30: If you're conscious and you know it, squeeze your hand: detecting awareness in the vegetative state (Damian Cruise (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-10-20 15:30: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-21 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 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) 2010-10-21 15:30: Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activity (Tor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA)) 2010-10-22 13:00: Challenges for parents: understanding infant communication (Dr. Joanna Hawthorne, Brazelton Centre UK) 2010-10-22 13:15: Tracking cell and cytoskeletal behaviour to understand tissue morphogenesis in fish and fly embryos (Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-22 16:30: Human speech and language: Separable neurobiological substrates (Professor William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-25 11:00: Putting Some Language Back Into Language Modelling (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-25 16:00: Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU)) 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) 2010-10-27 11:30: STORM below the localisation limit (Susan Cox, Kings College London) 2010-10-27 12:00: Using clues from genetics to provide new therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease - a company perspective (Malcom Roberts, Eisai London Research Labs, UCL, London) 2010-10-27 12:30: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus (Pedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2010-10-28 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2010-10-28 14:00: A brief introduction to neuropsychological tests (Luning Sun (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-28 15:30: Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and production (Anne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)) 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) 2010-10-29 13:00: Resilience, regulation, and adaptation - British children's first school experiences (Anni Yang, PPSIS) 2010-10-29 13:15: Hox targets in Drosophila (Rob White, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-29 16:30: Epigenetics, brain development and behaviour (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-01 11:00: The Multiscale Composite Dirichlet Process and its applications (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-01 16:00: Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU)) 2010-11-01 17:00: SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGY (Professor Max Cresswell, Victoria University of Wellington, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts (VLAC)) 2010-11-03 12:30: Analysing neuronal networks using communicating automata (Su Li (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-11-04 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2010-11-04 15:30: Memory consolidation: the impact of novelty and prior knowledge (Richard Morris (Edinburgh University)) 2010-11-04 16:00: Analysis of synaptic connectivity and function in the cerebellum in vivo (Prof Henrik Jörntell, Lund University, Sweden) 2010-11-05 12:30: USING COGNITIVE ANALYTIC THERAPY IN LIAISON PSYCHIATRY (Dr. Alison Jenaway (CAMH, Huntingdon & Liaison Psychiatry Team, Cambridge)) 2010-11-05 13:00: Motion processing in autism: atypical bounded integration (Caroline Robertson) 2010-11-05 13:00: Towards a Psychological understanding of Extremism (Shahzad Shafqat, Dept of Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-05 13:15: Coordinated regulation of cell divisions, migration and differentiation in the developing mouse brain (Francois Guillemot, Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Medical Research) 2010-11-05 13:30: Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (Charles Blundell, Lloyd Elliot and Vinayak Rao, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2010-11-05 16:30: Neuroimaging of ADHD and related disorders (Professor Katya Rubia, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London) 2010-11-08 11:00: South Africa's Involvement With Square Kilometre Array Bid: Infrastructure and Electromagnetic Quietness (Prof. Howard Reader, University of Stellenbosch) 2010-11-08 16:00: Neuropsychology of Gambling Addiction (Luke Clark (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 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) 2010-11-09 19:30: DNA and Cancer (Professor Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit) 2010-11-10 12:30: What did you just say? Cognitive processing while falling asleep (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-11-11 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2010-11-11 11:00: CANCELLED (Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP)) 2010-11-11 14:00: Computerized Adaptive Testing - The State of the Art (Philipp Doebler (University of Muenster, Germany)) 2010-11-11 15:30: 'Why Eyes' (Vicki Bruce (Newcastle University)) 2010-11-11 16:00: The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration (Prof Jeremy Brockes, University College London) 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) 2010-11-12 13:00: Morals and taboos in cyberspace: Do we play by the same rules? (Dr. Monica Whitty, Nottingham Trent University) 2010-11-12 13:15: The regulation of skeletal muscle development by signaling molecules and microRNAs (Andrea Münsterberg, Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich) 2010-11-12 16:30: Natural Geometry (Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA) 2010-11-15 11:00: Out-of-band Language Modelling (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-15 16:00: Associative theories of goal-directed behaviour: a case for animal-human translational models (Anthony Dickinson (Department of Exp. Psychology)) 2010-11-16 16:00: Computational neuroscience journal club (Neil Houlsby) 2010-11-17 12:00: "Control from within: axonal mRNA transport in developing neurons" (Antonella Riccio, MRC LCMB, UCL, London) 2010-11-17 12:30: Effects of disfluencies in speech on listeners (Lucy McGregor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-11-18 11:00: Crowdsourcing data modelling (Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle)) 2010-11-18 14:00: Mind reading by machine learning: a doubly Bayesian method for inferring mental representations (Máté Lengyel (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-19 13:00: The adolescent brain: vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders (Dr. Jennifer Lau, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2010-11-19 13:00: Computing and emotions (Professor Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-19 13:15: Regulation of chromatin organization and epigenetic modifications in embryonic stem cells (Anton Wutz, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-19 16:30: Illusions in the real world (Dr Peter Thompson, Department of Psychology, University of York) 2010-11-22 16:00: The neuroscience of music (Jessica Grahn (MRC CBSU)) 2010-11-22 16:30: Optogenetics: development and application (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University) 2010-11-24 12:00: Polyglutamine Atrophin causes autophagic neurodegeneration by repressing the fat gene (Manolo Fantos, PhD, University Lecturer, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, United Kingdom.) 2010-11-24 12:30: Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation (Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-11-24 17:00: From base change to better care in diabetes (Prof Andrew Hattersley FRS - Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, Exeter) 2010-11-25 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2010-11-25 15:30: Attention, Distraction and Cognitive Control under Load (Nilli Lavie (University College London)) 2010-11-25 16:00: Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts (Prof Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela) 2010-11-26 11:00: Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy Data (Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-26 13:00: Effective Intergroup Relations in Experimental and Field Settings (Dr. Andreas Richter (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-26 13:15: Your inner frog - Can clues from evolution unlock the molecular development of the cerebellum? (Richard Wingate, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London) 2010-11-26 16:30: The Evolution of shopping lists (Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-29 11:45: Title to be confirmed (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-29 16:00: The systems-level neuroscience of human memory (Rik Henson (MRC CBSU)) 2010-11-29 16:30: From reward to Punishment and Invigoration to Inhibition (Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UC London) 2010-11-30 11:00: Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedback (Dr Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2010-11-30 12:00: "Using a tissue engineering approach to model and repair the nervous system" (Dr James Phillips Department of Life Sciences The Open University) 2010-11-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2010-12-01 12:30: Individual object representations in individual people (Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-12-01 12:30: Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation (Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2010-12-02 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2010-12-02 15:30: Tracking memory retrieval using multivariate pattern analysis (Ken Norman (Princeton University)) 2010-12-02 16:00: On the Role of Nitrogen Oxides in Acclimatization/Adaptation to Hypoxia (Prof Martin Feelisch, University of Warwick) 2010-12-03 12:30: DEPRESSION AND COMPASSION FOCUSED THERAPY (Prof. Paul Gilbert (Mental Health Research Unit, Derby)) 2010-12-03 13:00: TBC (Dr. Pasco Fearon, University of Reading) 2010-12-03 13:00: "The manuscript selection process at SCIENCE" (Dr Peter Stern ,Senior editor of Science journal) 2010-12-06 11:00: Introduction to Geometric Algebra II (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2010-12-06 16:30: Neural Circuits for rapid perceptual decisions under uncertainty (Zach Mainen, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal) 2010-12-08 12:00: “Towards an invertebrate model of mammalian prion disease” (Dr. Raymond Bujdoso, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Immunology) 2010-12-09 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2010-12-13 11:15: A New Machine Learning Library (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2010-12-13 14:00: Optimal micro patterning of a collagen scaffold coordinates the induction of morphogenetic pathways in adult nerve regeneration (Dr. Alessandro Sannino,PhD, Associate Professor of Polymer Technology and Biomaterials, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.) 2010-12-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-13 11:00: Novi Quadrianto (Novi Quadrianto, Australian National University) 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) 2011-01-14 16:00: Evolution of Cerebral Cortical Development (Professor Zoltan Molnar, University of Oxford) 2011-01-17 11:00: Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED) (Dr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit) 2011-01-18 11:00: Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and Applications (Prof. Marcus Hutter (ANU)) 2011-01-18 13:00: 'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light' (Professor Glen Jeffery, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL) 2011-01-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Edward Turnham (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-19 16:30: Spinal cord repair: mechanisms gleaned from stem cell-based multimodal studies (Yang D. Teng, MD, PhD, Departments of Neurosurgery and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, and Division of SCI Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA) 2011-01-20 15:30: Face to Face, Brain to Brain: Exploring the Mechanisms of Dyadic Social Interactions (Uri Hasson (Dept of Psychology, Princeton, USA)) 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) 2011-01-20 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Louis Staudt - National Institutes of Health, Washington DC) 2011-01-21 13:00: Using Triangulation in Qualitative Research in Times of Mixed Methods (Dr. Uwe Flick (University of Applied Sciences, Berlin)) 2011-01-21 16:30: The Bayesian brain, surprise and free-energy (Professor Karl Friston, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London) 2011-01-24 16:00: Measurement error modelling through SEM: Applications in epidemiology and health (Tim Croudace (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2011-01-24 16:30: Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex (Matteo Carandini, Institute of Ophthalmology, UC London) 2011-01-25 11:00: Mining viral datasets (Dr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-26 12:00: "Structural Changes in the brain with Alzheimer's disease." (Mark West) 2011-01-26 12:30: Individual differences in visual short term memory (Michele Veldsman (CBSU)) 2011-01-26 12:30: Cognitive training in a healthy older population (preliminary results) (Sinéad Hynes(CBSU)) 2011-01-26 14:00: Psychometrics in Context (Professor John Rust, University of Cambridge) 2011-01-27 15:30: Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex? (Nancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA)) 2011-01-27 16:00: Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis (Dr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine) 2011-01-28 13:00: How musical is Homo Sapiens? Investigating perceptual and emotional components of musicality (Dr. Marcel Zentner (University of York)) 2011-01-28 13:15: Control of tissue growth by the Hippo signalling pathway in Drosophila (Nic Tapon, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London) 2011-01-28 16:30: Hippocampal function: Re-considering configural memory (Dr Mark Good, University of Cardiff) 2011-01-31 16:00: Cognitive neuroscience: Seeking convergence between neuroimaging and neuropsychology (Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 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) 2011-02-01 11:00: Differential Geometric MCMC Methods (Prof. Mark Girolami (UCL)) 2011-02-01 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (John Patrick Cunningham (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-01 16:15: Homeostatic plasticity: from synapses to the axon initial segment (Juan Burrone, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College, London) 2011-02-02 12:30: The effect of consolidation on the learning of novel spoken words: an MEG study (Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU)) 2011-02-02 14:00: Psychometric Test Construction (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-03 15:30: Timing attention in the human brain (Kia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford)) 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) 2011-02-03 16:15: Genetic approaches to understand and manipulate retinal circuit function (Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland) 2011-02-04 13:00: What children know about groups, and why it matters: The development of intergroup and intragroup relations (Dr. Dominic Abrams, University of Kent) 2011-02-04 13:15: The complex life of small RNAs (Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2011-02-04 16:30: The Neuroscience of moral judgement (Professor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford) 2011-02-07 11:00: A computer-vision based facial gesture switch (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-07 16:00: Circularity and selection bias in neuroscience and beyond: double dipping, publication bias, and the decline of significant effects (Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC CBSU)) 2011-02-09 12:00: "Autophagy and endocytosis in neuronal death during cerebral ischemia" (Professor Peter Clarke, University of Lausanne) 2011-02-09 12:30: Articulatory contributions to speech perception (Matt Davis (CBSU)) 2011-02-09 14:00: Classical Psychometric Test Theory (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-10 15:30: The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognition (Frank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA)) 2011-02-10 16:00: Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thing (Prof
. Anne 
Cooke, 
Dept 
of 
Pathology, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-02-11 13:00: Conserved principles of movement generation (Mark Churchland, Stanford University) 2011-02-11 13:00: Exploring the Role of Executive Functions in School Achievement (Dr. Michelle Ellefson (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-11 13:15: Transcriptional control of stem cell fate: keeping cells in the zone (Brian Hendrich, Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge) 2011-02-11 16:30: Do birds believe in magic (Dr Nathan Emery, Queen Mary, University of London) 2011-02-14 16:00: From impulsivity to compulsivity: cross-species studies in humans and other animals relevant to neuropsychiatric disorders (Trevor Robbins (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 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) 2011-02-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jakob Foerster) 2011-02-15 16:15: Pre- and postsynaptic NMDA receptors in neocortical synaptic plasticity (Ole Paulsen, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2011-02-16 12:30: Improving the definition of multiple demand cortex (Ben Crittenden (CBSU)) 2011-02-16 12:30: Crossmodal perceptual enhancement of degraded speech: a pathway to long-term learning? (Ediz Sohoglu (CBSU)) 2011-02-16 14:00: Applications of Item Response Theory (IRT) (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-17 15:30: Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas Project (Russ Poldrack (University of Texas at Austin), USA) 2011-02-17 16:00: Physical aspects of collective cell migration (Dr 
Alexandre 
Kabla, 
Dept 
of 
Engineering, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-02-17 19:30: Untangling Alzheimer's disease (Mr Graham Fraser, Department of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2011-02-18 13:00: Living fast and dying young: Variation in life history across English neighbourhoods (Dr. Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University)) 2011-02-18 13:00: Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs (Dr Hannah Smithson, University of Durham) 2011-02-18 13:15: Different flavours of myosin function drive tubulogenesis in the fly embryo (Katja Röper, PDN University of Cambridge) 2011-02-18 16:30: Perceptual Learning and Face Recognition (Professor Ian McLaren, University of Exeter) 2011-02-21 16:00: Why we have emotions and what life might be like without them (Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBSU)) 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:) 2011-02-23 12:00: "Human epidermal neural crest stem cells - characterization and directed differentiation into dopaminergic neurons and bone cells" (Professor Maya Sieber Blum,Institute of Human Genetics and Northeast England Stem Cell Institute, Newcastle University) 2011-02-23 12:30: Individual object representation in individual people (Ian Charest (CBSU)) 2011-02-24 15:30: fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic research to clinical applications (Rainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands) 2011-02-25 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2011-02-25 13:00: Theorising bystander behaviour: challenges and responses (Dr Rachel Manning (University of the West of England)) 2011-02-25 13:15: Morphogenesis of the adult abdominal epidermis of Drosophila: A matter of constriction and migration (Marcus Bischoff, Zoology University of Cambridge) 2011-02-25 16:30: That old feeling: Age-related changes in conversation (Professor Trevor Harley, University of Dundee) 2011-02-28 16:00: What is meaning? (Friedemann Pulvermuller (MRC CBSU)) 2011-02-28 16:30: The ‘in’ and ‘out’ of hippocampal GABAergic interneurons (Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Vienna) 2011-03-02 12:30: Informational masking of speech produced by speech-like sounds without linguistic content (Jing Chen (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2011-03-02 17:00: Pathogenesis of Prion Diseases (Professor Adriano Aguzzi - Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Zurich) 2011-03-03 15:30: Parsing the stream of behaviour (Jeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA)) 2011-03-03 16:00: Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets? (Dr 
John 
Coates, 
Judge 
Business 
School, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-03-04 10:30: Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing data (Dr Alexander Ilin (Aalto University)) 2011-03-04 11:30: Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab Priors (Dr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid)) 2011-03-04 13:00: Emotional awareness, rational action, and self-knowledge (Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University)) 2011-03-04 13:15: The Planar Cell Polarity pathway in lung development and disease (Charlotte Dean, MRC Harwell) 2011-03-04 16:30: Speech perception in older listeners: Contributions of changes in audition and cognition (Dr Christian Fullgrabe, University of Nottingham) 2011-03-07 16:00: A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems (John Duncan (MRC CBSU)) 2011-03-07 16:30: Neural circuits co-ordinating sleep, feeding and reward (Denis Burdakov, Dept of Pharmacology, Cambridge University) 2011-03-09 12:00: "Development of a motor system - regulation of dendritic growth and connectivity in the Drosophila embryo and larva." (Dr Matthias Landgraf, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge.) 2011-03-09 12:30: Quantity and quality of visual object representations during memory and perception (Daniel Mitchell (CBSU)) 2011-03-10 12:00: Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigm (Prof. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State)) 2011-03-10 15:30: A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodents (Rosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee)) 2011-03-10 16:00: Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons (Dr
 Karri 
Lamsa,
 Dept 
of 
Pharmacology, 
Univ 
of 
Oxford) 2011-03-11 13:00: The reluctant collaborator? How developing social understanding shapes knowledge (Patrick J. Leman (Royal Holloway, University of London)) 2011-03-11 13:15: Exploring the origin of leaves (Jill Harrison Plant, Sciences University of Cambridge) 2011-03-11 16:30: Thinking of things unseen: exploratory behaviour in chimpanzees and children (Dr Amanda Seed, University of St Andrews) 2011-03-14 11:00: CRH: a Central Reference Handling system (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-14 16:00: Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders (Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2011-03-14 16:30: Making sense of scents, the mammalian olfactory system (Stuart Firestein, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York) 2011-03-15 11:00: Exponential Conditional Volatility Models (Prof Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge)) 2011-03-16 12:30: Frontal deficits in Parkinson’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia (Laura Hughes (CBSU)) 2011-03-17 09:00: Diseases of the brain: from eponym and acronym to mechanistic taxonomy (Professor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2011-03-17 09:15: Autophagy in neurodegeneration (Professor David Rubinsztein, Department of Medical Genetics) 2011-03-17 09:45: The natural history of mild cognitive impairment (Professor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health) 2011-03-17 10:15: Dementia and tauopathy (Dr Michel Goedert, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2011-03-17 11:15: Prion-like properties of neurodegenerative disease (Plenary lecture by Professor Mathias Jucker, Hertie Institute and Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases,Tübingen) 2011-03-17 12:00: Autism spectrum disorders (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Department of Psychiatry) 2011-03-17 12:30: Mechanisms underlying schizophrenia symptoms (Dr Graham Murray, Department of Psychiatry and BCNI) 2011-03-17 13:00: Endophenotypes for drug addiction (Dr Karen Ersche, Department of Psychiatry and BCNI) 2011-03-17 15:00: Mitochondrial cytopathies (Guest Lecture, Professor Patrick Chinnery, Institute of Genetics, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 2011-03-17 15:30: The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortex (Kalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA)) 2011-03-17 15:30: Inflammatory injury of mitochondria and neurodegeneration (Dr Guy Brown, Department of Biochemistry) 2011-03-17 16:00: Mitochondria and axonal transport (Professor Christine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2011-03-17 16:30: Structure and mechanism of respiratory complex 1 (Dr Leonid Sazanov, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit) 2011-03-17 17:30: Mitochondria and the respiratory complex (Plenary lecture by Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit) 2011-03-17 18:30: Brains, Minds and their Connectivity (Public Plenary Lecture by Professor Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry, MRC and Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI)) 2011-03-18 09:00: Bilingual Language and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Multiple speakers (see www.cilr.cam.ac.uk for details)) 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) 2011-03-18 13:00: Strong versus the weak: A meta-analysis of tie strength and individual effectiveness (Dr. Martin Kilduff (Cambridge Judge Business School)) 2011-03-18 16:30: Soul Dust: the magic of consciousness (Dr Nicholas Humphrey) 2011-03-21 11:00: Rigid body motion in conformal geometric algebra (Patrick Welche (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-21 11:00: Nonlinear Dynamics of Learning (Prof. Max Welling (UC Irvine)) 2011-03-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2011-03-25 17:00: 'The locus of the neural mechanism underlying the Craik Effect' (Professor Steve Shevell) 2011-03-31 17:00: Therapeutic Opportunities in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Professor Dame Kay Davies - University of Oxford) 2011-04-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Armin Lak (University of Cambridge)) 2011-04-07 12:00: Imaging prions: the intracellular site of conversion and the mechanism of intercellular spreading (Dr Chiara Zurzolo, Unité de Trafic Membranaire et Pathogénèse, Institut Pasteur, Paris.) 2011-04-11 11:00: Mandarin Dasher (Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)) 2011-04-11 11:00: Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchies (Chris Haulk (UC Berkeley)) 2011-04-27 12:00: 'Novel in vivo and in vitro models of Alzheimer's disease: knock-in and viral gene delivery' (Dr Bettina Platt,School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen) 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) 2011-05-04 12:30: Now, Sometime, Never? Equality for Women in Science (Paul Walton (York University)) 2011-05-04 13:00: Navigational guidance systems in the human brain (Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience) 2011-05-04 16:00: The social side of social attention (Giovanni Galfano, Associate Professor, Cognition and Language Lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova) 2011-05-05 15:30: Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future (Professor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto) 2011-05-05 15:30: Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future (Professor Morris Moscovitch, Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging, University of Toronto) 2011-05-05 16:00: Loopy Lungs in Alligators (Prof Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) 2011-05-06 13:00: Adverse future outcomes of children involved in school bullying: Synthesizing data from longitudinal studies. (Dr. Maria Ttofi, University of Cambridge (Institute of Criminology)) 2011-05-06 13:15: Dissecting mRNA localisation mechanisms during Drosophila development (Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2011-05-09 16:30: The adaption of rod photoreceptors to light (Gordon Fain, Department of Physiological Science, University of California, USA) 2011-05-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department)) 2011-05-11 12:30: I remember, therefore I forget: bringing memory inhibition to life using the SenseCam (Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU)) 2011-05-12 15:30: Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variation (William Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 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) 2011-05-13 13:00: The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development (Dr. Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin) 2011-05-13 13:15: Cilia in development and disease (Dominic Norris, MRC Harwell) 2011-05-13 16:30: Emotions, Intuitions and Morality (Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-16 11:00: Hierarchical hidden Markov models revisited (Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)) 2011-05-16 12:00: The Ras-ERK signalling pathway in striatum-dependent plasticity and diseases (Professor Riccardo Brambilla) 2011-05-17 19:30: Zero Degrees of Empathy (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre) 2011-05-18 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Max Garagnani (CBSU)) 2011-05-18 13:00: Sacred values, sacred terror: Motivation and religious terrorism (Dr. James W. Jones (Rutgers University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice)) 2011-05-18 13:00: Differentiation plasticity of neural stem cells and CNS (re)myelination (Dr. Annik Baron-Van Evercooren) 2011-05-19 13:00: "Embodied semantics in autism spectrum conditions" ( Friedemann Pulvermuller , MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2011-05-19 13:00: Understanding and optimizing human motor learning (Dr. Amy Bastian, John Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute) 2011-05-19 15:30: Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollection (Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2011-05-19 16:00: Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology (Dr
 Brian 
Billups, 
Dept of 
Pharmacology, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-05-20 13:00: Creating contexts that enable behaviour change: towards a fourth generation of approaches to health promotion. (Dr. Catherine Campbell, London School of Economics) 2011-05-20 13:15: Genomics and development of the myriapod Strigamia maritima: an outgroup for comparison with insects and crustaceans (Michael Akam, Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-20 16:30: Memory Deficits associated with selective hippocampal atrophy (Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Child Health) 2011-05-23 13:00: The effects of early visual deprivation (Dr Ione Fine, University of Washington) 2011-05-23 14:00: Imitation, Participation, and the Transformation of Identity in Paul's Practical Theology (Prof. Susan Eastman (Duke Divinity School)) 2011-05-24 10:30: Mitochondria and progression of multiple sclerosis (Don Mahad) 2011-05-24 11:00: An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning (Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory)) 2011-05-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr.Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2011-05-25 12:30: Is all stopping the same? Assessing inhibition in action control (Chelan Weaver (CBSU)) 2011-05-25 14:00: Using R for Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Easier than it seems (Arielle Bonneville-Roussy (University 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) 2011-05-27 13:00: Visual cortical architecture and subjective perception (Dr. Sam Schwarzkopf, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neural Imaging) 2011-05-27 13:00: Toward a Psychology of Atheism: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas J. S. Gibson, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-27 13:15: Coincidence, cause & consequence: How can we know in developmental gene regulation? (Boris Adryan, Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-31 13:00: Decision-making computations within prefrontal cortex: so many interesting neuronal signals but how do we make sense of them? (Dr. Steve Kennerley, UCL, Institute of Neurology) 2011-06-01 12:00: "Synapses transmitting visual information in the retina" (Dr Leon Lagnado) 2011-06-01 12:30: How does the brain learn to read words and name objects? Evidence from artificial language learning and fMRI (Joanne Taylor (CBSU)) 2011-06-02 15:30: The role of dopamine for the persistence of human long-term memory (Emrah Duzel (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)) 2011-06-03 11:00: Censored Exploration in Dark Pools (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)) 2011-06-03 12:00: You talkin' to me? Processing self-relevant ostensive cues across modalities (Raliza Stoyanova , Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge) 2011-06-03 13:00: Discussing the development of Executive Functions in brazilian children (Dr. Rosinda Martins Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) 2011-06-03 13:15: Actin + oocyte: Old love - new affairs (Melina Schuh, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2011-06-06 14:00: Dissecting mechanisms controlling somatic cell reprogramming (Maria Pia Cosma,Unit of Reprogramming and Regeneration, Centre de Regulacio' Genomica (CRG),Barcelona, Spain) 2011-06-07 11:00: An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning (Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory)) 2011-06-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2011-06-08 12:30: Flexible representation of task-relevant information in frontoparietal cortex (Alexandra Woolgar (CBSU)) 2011-06-08 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Susan Fisher - Biomedical Sciences Program, University of California) 2011-06-09 15:30: esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivity (Nikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology, Max Planck Institute)) 2011-06-10 13:15: Map3k4 and Sry in mammalian sex determination (Andy Greenfield, MRC Harwell) 2011-06-14 19:30: Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's Disease (Professor Jenny Morton, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology) 2011-06-15 12:00: Perivascular drainage pathways in transgenic models of AD, ageing and immunotherapy (Dr Roxana Carare) 2011-06-15 12:30: Can I have a quick word? The speed of single-word reading determined by behavioural and EMEG data (and maybe a bit of fMRI) (Olaf Hauk (CBSU)) 2011-06-15 16:30: Size, numbers and the numerical core system (Professor Avishai Henik, Dept. of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 2011-06-16 15:30: Improving cognition (John Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan)) 2011-06-21 11:00: Word Recognition in alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts (Brendan Weekes, University of Hong Kong*) 2011-06-21 11:30: Organization of neuronal population activity in auditory cortex. (Kenneth D Harris, Imperial College London) 2011-06-21 14:30: Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priors (Prof. Tom Heskes (Radboud University Nijmegen)) 2011-06-22 12:00: Exosome secretion and communication between tumors and the immune system (Clotilde Thery) 2011-06-23 12:15: PI3K Signalling in Axonal Growth and Regeneration (Professor Britta Eickholt,MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology,King’s College London) 2011-06-28 11:00: Transthyretin and Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide - do two wrongs make a right? (Joel Buxbaum, MD PhD, Scripps Research Institute) 2011-07-01 13:00: The latent structure of the autism phenotype (Rachel Grove) 2011-07-04 11:00: Graphical Models for Bandit Problems (Kareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania)) 2011-07-04 17:00: Does Sox2 have a role in CNS remyelination? (Dr. Chao Zhao, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2011-07-05 11:00: A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease. (Paul Hopkins, King's College London) 2011-07-05 11:00: A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease (Paul Hopkins, King’s College London) 2011-07-06 12:30: Imprinting primes learning: thyroid hormone a determining factor for the critical period (Professor Koichi J. Homma, Department of Molecular Pathology, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan) 2011-07-11 11:00: Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature (Khalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2011-07-11 12:00: 'Mechanisms of activity-dependent plasticity at the axon initial segment'. (Matthew Grubb) 2011-07-13 11:00: Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models (Dr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh)) 2011-07-14 16:00: Dendritic computation in cortical pyramidal neurons (Tiago Branco, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL) 2011-07-18 11:00: Probing the basis of neuronal branching (Dr Hermann Cuntz, Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Goethe-University Frankfurt) 2011-07-28 11:30: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational Viewpoint (Prof. Matthias Seeger (EPFL)) 2011-07-29 14:15: Polyglutamine and neurodegeneration (Prof. Annalisa Pastore, Division of Molecular Structure, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London) 2011-07-29 14:15: Polyglutamine and neurodegeneration (Prof. Annalisa Pastore, Division of Molecular Structure, NIMR, Mill Hill London.) 2011-08-01 16:00: Mechanisms regulating spatial distribution of cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrites (Dr. Kazuto Fujishima, iCeMS of Kyoto University, Japan) 2011-08-17 14:00: "A barrier to regeneration: - the TGF-beta story". (Aviva Symes- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.) 2011-08-23 14:00: "A barrier to regeneration: - the TGF-beta story" (Aviva Symes- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) 2011-08-24 12:00: "Knockout/transgenic rat models (SAGE labs) & Zinc finger nuclease technology" (Ian McEvoy & Gurpreet Baltay - Sigma-Aldrich) 2011-09-08 14:00: “Spinal cord regeneration in amphibians (Xenopus)” (Professor Juan Larrain, Chile) 2011-09-09 16:00: Genetic dissection of emotion circuits in flies and mice - Francis Crick Lecture 2011 (Dr David Anderson, California Institute of Technology, USA) 2011-09-12 13:00: Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modern (Professor Ian Howard, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto) 2011-09-12 17:00: 'Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery (Dr. Matthew Trotter, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine) 2011-09-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club ( Balázs Ujfalussy, CBL) 2011-09-16 11:00: Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2011-09-16 16:15: Molecular and cellular mechanisms for memory allocation in neuronal networks (Alcino Silva, UCLA) 2011-09-19 15:00: Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems (Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany) 2011-09-20 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Dr. Zahi A. Fayad - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York) 2011-09-26 16:00: Reconciling intuitive and Newtonian physics (Adam Sanborn (University of Warwick)) 2011-09-27 11:00: Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann Machines (Chris Williams, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) 2011-09-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge)) 2011-09-29 17:00: Osteoporosis genetics: from markers to function (Professor Serge Ferrari - Professor of Osteoporosis Genetics and Medicine, Geneva Faculty of Medicine) 2011-10-03 17:00: Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes in health and disease (Ragnhildur Karadottir (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-05 12:00: "Recovery from complete spinal cord injury in neonatal opossums (Monodelphis domestica)" (Norman Saunders, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne) 2011-10-05 13:00: The Problem with Colour (Dr. Simon J. Cropper, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne) 2011-10-06 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-10-06 15:30: Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memories (Professor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York)) 2011-10-07 11:00: Machine Learning Markets (Dr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh)) 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) 2011-10-07 13:00: Rewriting the Rules? Non-monogamies and other adventures in non-normative relationships (Dr. Meg Barker, Open University) 2011-10-07 16:30: Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemas (Professor Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh) 2011-10-10 16:00: Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it (Bob Carlyon (MRC Cogntiion & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-10-11 11:30: Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient Inference (Piyush Rai (University of Utah)) 2011-10-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-11 19:30: 'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statistics (Dr Linda Sharples, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health) 2011-10-12 11:00: Not so naive Bayesian classification (Prof. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ)) 2011-10-12 12:00: 'The role of peri-neuronal nets in plasticity' (Dr Jessica Kwok, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) 2011-10-12 12:30: Heart and brain (Francesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-10-12 17:00: MR Elastography: A New Quantitative Imaging Biomarker (Richard L. Ehman, Professor of Radiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic) 2011-10-13 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-10-13 15:30: Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channels (Professor Julie Bierer (University of Washington)) 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 13:00: Collective efficacy and violence in London (Dr. Alex Sutherland, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-14 13:15: Taking shape: morphogenesis of Drosophila renal tubules (Helen Skaer, Zoology, University of Cambridge) 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) 2011-10-14 16:30: Dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory in young and older adults (Professor Emrah Düzel, Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Magdeburg, Germany) 2011-10-17 16:00: How children's cognitive abilities vary: methods for understanding individual differences (Susan Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-10-18 15:30: From heat stress metabolite perturbations in fruitflies to in vitro Amyloid beta – Congo Red interactions, all by NMR (Anders Malmendal, University of Copenhagen) 2011-10-19 12:30: Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention (Jason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-10-20 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-10-20 14:00: Copper 2+ binding to Aβ accelerates fiber growth and enhances neurotoxicity. (John H Viles, Queen Mary, University of London) 2011-10-20 15:30: Representation of visual features, objects, actions and scenes in the human brain (Professor Jack Gallant (University of California, Berkeley)) 2011-10-20 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL) 2011-10-21 13:00: Neurodevelopmental basis of social and non-social processing differences in children with autism (Dr. Joe McCleery, University of Birmingham) 2011-10-21 13:00: Risk factors for adolescent violence across cultures: comparing data from Ghana with the Cambridge Study in Delinquency Development and the Pittsburgh Youth Study (Dr. Kofi E. Boakye, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-21 13:15: Understanding cell shape: reconstituting actin polymerisation at the membrane-cytosol interface (Jenny Gallop, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-21 16:30: Visual sensitivity explained (Professor Denis Pelli, Professor of Neural Science, New York University) 2011-10-24 11:00: Tools for the dense reconstruction of neuronal circuits (Moritz Helmstaedter, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich, Germany) 2011-10-24 16:00: Factors in analysis : Freeware solutions (Tim Croudace (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2011-10-24 16:30: Optogenetics and Other Neural Circuit Analysis Tools (Ed Boyden MIT, Cambridge, USA) 2011-10-24 17:00: Structural variations of the human genome and their role in congenital disease (Professor Stefan Mundlos, Institute for Medical Genetics, University of Berlin) 2011-10-25 13:00: Seeing in the dark: single-photon signals in the retina (Professor John Robson, Gonville and Caius College) 2011-10-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2011-10-26 11:00: Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Models (Dr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox)) 2011-10-27 11:00: Tracking the whereabouts of CaMKII in dendrites: mechanisms and functions (Paul De Koninck, Laval University, Quebec, Canada) 2011-10-27 12:00: "Reducing neurodegeneration by inhibition of the endothelin and complement systems" (Gareth Howell, Research Scientist, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, 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) 2011-10-28 13:00: Psychological outcomes in parents of children diagnosed with disorders of sex development (DSD) (Dr. Vickie Pasterski, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-28 13:15: A fly's-eye view of epithelial polarity (Franck Pichaud, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2011-10-28 15:00: Challenges to test standardization in the 21st century (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-28 16:30: Pervasive Eye Tracking - Opportunities and Challenges (Dr Andreas Bulling, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-31 13:00: Which psychophysical colour vision test to use for screening in 3-9 year olds? (Dr Manca Tekavčič Pompe) 2011-10-31 16:00: The psychology of gambling and gambling addiction (Luke Clark (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2011-11-02 12:30: Tagging memories using steady-state visually evoked potentials (Maria Wimber (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-03 11:00: Categorical data analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-11-03 14:00: Demonstration of Neuropsychological Assessment Tools (Kerry Rough, Pearson Assessment) 2011-11-03 15:30: Corvid mentality: Implications for the evolution of human intelligence (Professor Nicky Clayton (University of Cambridge)) 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) 2011-11-04 13:00: Mix technology-enhanced learning and behavioral approaches with Nao the robot. (Dr. Olivier Joubert, Aldebaran Robotics) 2011-11-04 13:00: Representations of the past, present and future of Intercommunal Relations in Cyprus: A social-psychological analysis of the Cyprus issue (Dr. Charis Psaltis, Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cyprus) 2011-11-04 13:15: Regulation of neuronal growth in a developing motor system – a Drosophila dendrite perspective (Matthias Landgraf, Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-04 16:30: Causal models in evidential reasoning (Dr David Lagnado, Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Department, University College London) 2011-11-07 16:00: Associative theories of goal-directed behaviour: a case for animal-human translational models (Anthony Dickinson (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2011-11-07 17:00: Glial cell physics in CNS functioning (Kristian Franze, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2011-11-09 12:00: "The impact of systemic inflammation on the healthy and diseased brain" (Professor V Hugh Perry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton) 2011-11-09 12:30: Minding object category increases category distinctness of response patterns in ventral temporal cortex (Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-10 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-11-10 15:30: Reconsidering Papez circuit and memory: Is it all about the anatomy? (Professor John Aggleton (University of Cardiff)) 2011-11-11 13:00: Restrictive Parenting and the Unintended Consequences of Moral Prohibitions (Dr. Sana Sheikh, University of St. Andrews) 2011-11-11 13:15: What does smooth muscle development tell us about vascular disease susceptibility? (Christine Cheung, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-11 15:00: How do you like 'Likes'? (and some other cool projects from the Psychometrics Centre) (Michal Kosinski (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-11 16:30: When experimentation meets limits, but simple correlation is uninformative: modelling developmental influences and other complex phenomena (Professor Mark Haggard, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) 2011-11-14 16:00: The systems-level neuroscience of human memory (Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) ) 2011-11-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-16 12:30: Investigation of the sequential aspects of concurrent speech perception using Zebra Speech (Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-16 15:00: A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality Reduction (Prof Neil Lawrence (Sheffield)) 2011-11-16 17:00: Costimulation Blockade: to bela and beyond (Dr Allan Douglas Kirk - Professor of Surgery and Paediatrics, Emory Univ., Atlanta) 2011-11-17 11:00: Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-11-17 15:30: Experimental and neuroimaging studies of memory for trauma and PTSD (Professor Chris Brewin (University College London)) 2011-11-18 13:00: Atypical gaze processing in autism; a neural deficit or difference? (Dr. Chris Ashwin, University of Bath) 2011-11-18 13:00: Identifying Perpetrators with Distinctive Features (Dr. Dora Zarkadi, University of Bedfordshire) 2011-11-18 13:00: How do context and attention affect S-cone signals in human V1? (Professor Alex Wade, University of York) 2011-11-18 13:15: Anterior-posterior axis specification in the mammalian embryo (Tristan Rodriguez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London) 2011-11-18 16:30: fMRI of color signals in human visual cortex (Professor Alex Wade, Department of Psychology, University of York) 2011-11-21 16:00: Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration (Matt Davis (MRC Cogntiion & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-21 16:30: Oscillations and Neural Syntax (Gyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers, Newark, USA) 2011-11-22 19:30: A window on the biology of behaviour: insights from syndromes of genetic origin (Professor Tony Holland, Section of Developmental Psychiatry) 2011-11-23 11:00: Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State Systems (Vinayak Rao (UCL)) 2011-11-23 12:00: 'Mechanisms of cortical plasticity (Dr Gerald Finnerty, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, King's College London & Institute of Psychiatry) 2011-11-23 12:30: Does working memory training work? (Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-24 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-11-24 15:30: Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repair (Professor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-24 16:00: Modeling a non-linear EPSPs integration site in dendrites and its impact on computational capacities (Romain Cazé, Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) 2011-11-25 13:00: Meaning making between socially anxious mothers and their children regarding starting school (Dr. Lynne Murray, University of Reading) 2011-11-25 13:15: Heart development and ageing (Thomas Brand, Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London) 2011-11-25 15:00: To Lie or Not to Lie - Do Self-Monitoring and Impression Management Go Hand in Hand? (Iva Cek (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-25 16:30: Adult neuropsychological models cannot be generalised to neurodevelopmental disorders (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London) 2011-11-28 11:00: Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and Optimisation (Michael Osborne ( Oxford University)) 2011-11-28 16:00: Circularity and selection bias in neuroscience and beyond: double dipping, publication bias, and the decline of significant effects (Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cogntiion & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-29 14:00: The interplay between non-symbolic number and its continuous visual properties. (Titita Gebuis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) 2011-11-29 16:00: "Enigmatic NG2 glia" (Dr Jacqueline Trotter, Department of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz,Germany) 2011-11-29 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-30 12:30: Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-11-30 12:30: White matter pathology in Parkinson’s disease (Charlotte Rae (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2011-12-01 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-12-01 12:00: Endocannabinoid signalling in the brain - roles in wiring, firing and adult neurogenesis. (Professor Pat Doherty,Wolfson CARD, King's College, London) 2011-12-01 15:30: Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognition (Professor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)) 2011-12-02 13:00: The typical and atypical development of the human social brain (Dr. Mark Johnson, Birkbeck College) 2011-12-02 15:00: On Latent Change Model Choice in Longitudinal Studies (Dr. Tenko Raykov, Michigan State University) 2011-12-05 17:00: Trials and Tribulations (Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's) 2011-12-07 11:00: Scaling Machine Learning for the Internet (Prof. Alexander Smola (Yahoo!)) 2011-12-08 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2011-12-08 15:30: Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain? (Professor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London)) 2011-12-09 13:00: Effect of prenatal testosterone exposure on language development in early childhood. (Lauren Hollier) 2011-12-09 17:00: A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthday (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-12-12 13:00: The brain basis of insistence of sameness within the Autism spectrum (Charlton Cheung) 2011-12-13 13:00: "Searching for interventions in the pathological pathway to Alzheimer's disease" (Professor James Vickers, Menzies Institute, University of Tasmania) 2011-12-14 12:00: "to be confirmed" (Professor Barry Keverne , Institute of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge) 2012-01-09 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Stephen Sawcer) 2012-01-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage) 2012-01-10 19:30: Brain control of appetite and body weight (Dr Lora Heisler, Department of Pharmacology) 2012-01-11 10:00: One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius ( G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon, M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg.) 2012-01-12 15:30: Information gathering and impulsivity (Professor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health)) 2012-01-17 13:00: Colour Categories in Language and Thought (Dr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex) 2012-01-18 12:00: "Localizing integrins in vivo for use in axonal regeneration" (Dr Melissa Andrews, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) 2012-01-18 12:30: Auditory working memory and long-term memory in humans (Katrin Schulze (UCL Institute of Child Health)) 2012-01-19 15:30: Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games (Professor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London)) 2012-01-20 16:30: Thinking aloud about mental voices (Dr Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, Durham University) 2012-01-23 16:00: A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems (John Duncan (MRC CBSU)) 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) 2012-01-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2012-01-25 12:30: Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-01-26 15:30: Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework (Professor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2012-01-27 13:00: Crowdsourcing Contests (Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research) 2012-01-27 13:15: Embryonic enigmas: geminin regulation and function in stem cells (Ron Laskey, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge) 2012-01-27 16:30: Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences (Dr Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster) 2012-01-30 11:00: Synthetic Biology - Smart Cells and Smart Materials (Prof Wilfried Weber, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), University of Freiburg, Germany) 2012-01-30 16:00: From genes to behaviour: insights from people with neurodevelopmental syndromes associated with intellectual disabilities (Tony Holland (Dept of Psychiatry)) 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) 2012-02-01 12:00: Microglia: Special Award for Best Supporting Actor (Dr Rosa Paolicelli, Mouse Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Monterotondo, ITALY) 2012-02-01 12:30: Human object-similarity judgments reflect and transcend IT categorical object representations (Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-02-02 15:30: Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons (Dr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School)) 2012-02-03 13:00: Autitouch: Supporting autism diagnosis with multitouch (Freena Eijffinger, CEO Autitouch) 2012-02-03 13:00: Control versus chaos: differences in advertisements for non-psychiatric and psychiatric medication in professional journals (Dr. Juliet Foster ( University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-03 13:15: SHiPSCs, Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells? (Pentao Liu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge) 2012-02-03 16:30: Against Qualia (Professor Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-06 16:00: Sex differences in mind (Simon Baron-Cohen (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2012-02-06 16:30: Wiring the brain: RNA-based mechanisms in guiding axon growth (Christine Holt, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-06 17:00: Spatial proteomics: methods to look for global trafficking routes in cells (Kathryn Lilley, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, Unive)) 2012-02-08 12:00: "Astrocyte pathology in brain ageing and dementia" (Dr Stephen Wharton, The Sheffield Institute forTranslational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield) 2012-02-08 12:30: Neurophysiology of speech act processing (Natalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-02-08 12:30: Executive function in children with reading difficulties (Shinmin Wang (University of York)) 2012-02-09 16:00: A sixth sense: the development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Dr Clare Baker, Dept. of PDN) 2012-02-10 13:00: Psychological correlates of smoking, drinking and drug-taking use and dependency from a large online sample (David Stillwell) 2012-02-10 13:15: Nanoscale Tools for the Silencing of Genes in the Brain (Kostas Kostarelos, The School of Pharmacy, University of London) 2012-02-10 16:30: Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology Meet (Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin) 2012-02-10 16:30: Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meet (Professor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)) 2012-02-13 15:30: Brain maps for space (Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway) 2012-02-13 16:00: Significance, power and replication: why statistical life gets harder as a post-doc (Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry)) 2012-02-14 11:00: The Evolving Social Network of Drosophila (Richard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne) 2012-02-16 16:00: Decision-making in animal collectives (Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain) 2012-02-17 13:00: What's special about the female autistic brain? (Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Postdoctoral Research ARC) 2012-02-17 13:00: Rhetoric and standardization in Milgram's obedience experiments (Stephen Gibson, York St John University) 2012-02-17 13:15: A histone marks embryonic differentiation and acts as an epigenetic barrier to reprogramming (Vincent Pasque (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-17 16:30: The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation (Dr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 2012-02-20 16:00: Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to understand brain function (Danny Mitchell (MRC CBSU)) 2012-02-20 16:00: Introduction to information theory (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-02-20 16:30: Biological precursors of the number sense (Andreas Nieder, University of Tubingen, Germany) 2012-02-21 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-21 19:30: Open your Mind (Dr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-22 12:00: "The Salvage Pathway of NAD Biosynthesis: Road to Neuroprotection" ( Laura Conforti, University of Nottingham) 2012-02-22 12:30: Mechanisms underlying repetition suppression in the face and body-processing network: all effects are not created equal (Michael Ewbank (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-02-23 12:30: Probabilistic computing: computation as universal stochastic inference, not deterministic calculation (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT)) 2012-02-23 15:30: Components of working memory in task control (Professor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York)) 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) 2012-02-24 13:00: The case for the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment in the study of parental discipline practices (Christina Moses Passini, Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent) 2012-02-24 13:15: Mapping Morphogenesis (Richard Adams, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-24 16:30: The Adolescent Brain (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2012-02-27 14:30: Entropy and data compression (I) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-02-27 16:00: There no point crying about it … or is there? Some thoughts on why we have emotions (Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBSU)) 2012-02-29 12:30: Alertness Modulates spatial attention: Evidence from EEG Analysis (Corinne Bareham (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-03-01 15:30: Imagining other people (Dr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University 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) 2012-03-01 18:00: The Neuroscience of Consciousness: Baroness Susan Greenfield (Baroness Susan Greenfield) 2012-03-02 12:30: Autobiographical memory in autism (Dr Kate Plaisted Grant, Department of Experimental Psychology) 2012-03-02 13:00: I Am, Therefore I Buy - Measuring How Personality Influences Consumer Preferences in a Digital Age (Sanna Balsari-Palsule, Psychometrics Centre) 2012-03-02 13:15: The roles of the interaction between the APC/C and the centrosome in the cell cycle and development in Drosophila (Yuu Kimata, Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2012-03-02 16:30: Basic number representations and their neural basis (Dr Wim Fias, Ghent University, Belgium) 2012-03-05 14:30: Entropy and data compression (II) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-03-05 16:00: Cognitive neuroscience: Seeking convergence between neuroimaging and neuropsychology (Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 2012-03-05 16:30: Dynamic regulation of dopamine transmission in the striatum (Stephanie Cragg, University of Oxford) 2012-03-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Diana Burk) 2012-03-07 12:00: "How reggies/flotillins regulate axon regeneration and growth" (Professor. Claudia A.O. Stürmer, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz Germany) 2012-03-07 12:00: The role of alexithymia in autism (Dr. Geoff Bird, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London) 2012-03-07 12:30: Fast cortical mapping: a potential mechanism that supports novel word-picture associations in healthy adults (Andrea Greve (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-03-08 12:00: Scientific "Tapas" (Elena Vecino, Ophthalmo-Biology Group, Basque Country University) 2012-03-08 14:00: State of the art in psychometric modelling of forced-choice questionnaire data (Dr. Anna Brown) 2012-03-08 15:30: Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain (Professor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-08 16:00: Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance (Prof. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester) 2012-03-09 13:00: "Genetic correlates of visual biases" (Patrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University) 2012-03-09 16:30: Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory. (Professor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London) 2012-03-12 16:00: Strategies for cognitive translation from animal to human: Knock-outs, neurogenesis, and neuropsychiatric disease (Tim Bussey (Dept of Experimental Psychology)) 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) 2012-03-14 12:30: A novel framework for modelling ERP/ERF data (Nitin Williams (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-03-15 11:00: Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov Models (Jonathan Huggins (Columbia University)) 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) 2012-03-16 13:00: The Mental Representation of Social Values: From System to Instantiation (Greg Maio, Cardiff University) 2012-03-19 17:00: A new class of remyelination inhibitors: Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (Dr. Voon Wee Yong, Departments of Oncology and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary) 2012-03-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Hjorth, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 2012-03-21 16:30: The Editorial Process in Nature Neuroscience (Dr Charvy Narain, Nature Neuroscience) 2012-03-22 14:00: Identifying and Preventing Careless Survey Responses (Dr. Adam Meade, North Carolina State University) 2012-03-23 13:00: Exploring the underconnectivity theory of autism using independent component analysis (Richard Bethlehem) 2012-03-23 15:30: An intermediate state in glutamate receptor activation: structure and mechanism (Dr Andrew Plested Leibniz, Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) & Neurocure Initiative Charité Universitätsmedizin, Germany) 2012-03-27 19:30: What is Pain and how can we treat it? (Prof. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University)) 2012-03-27 19:30: What is Pain and how can we treat it? (Prof. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University)) 2012-04-16 14:30: Entropy and data compression (III) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-04-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge)) 2012-04-18 12:00: “The life and death of the synapse: a role for Wnt signalling” (Prof Patricia Salinas, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London) 2012-04-19 15:30: Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement (Professor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)) 2012-04-20 13:15: Roles of ADAM family metalloproteases in cardiovascular development (Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan) 2012-04-20 16:30: Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior (Professor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada) 2012-04-23 14:30: Entropy and data compression (IV) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-04-23 17:00: How carcimomas become aggressive (Professor Robert Weinberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) 2012-04-24 15:00: Rational learning may be minimalist (Paul R. Schrater) 2012-04-25 12:00: Grey matter astrocyte responses and the integrity of neuronal circuits following remote axonal insults (Dr Andras Lakatos, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge) 2012-04-25 12:30: New directions for neuroimaging genetics studies: a molecular biological perspective (Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry)) 2012-04-26 15:30: How memory guides perception (Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)) 2012-04-26 16:00: How much calcium does caffeine release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a large snail neurone? (Prof. Roger Thomas, PDN) 2012-04-26 16:15: Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity - in health and disease (Dr Jose Esteban, Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology, Madrid) 2012-04-27 13:00: Mastering Uncertainty (Stephen Reid, Stephen Reid and Spring Business Innovation Ltd) 2012-04-27 13:15: Interactions between stem cells and their niche in mammalian epidermis (Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2012-04-27 16:30: Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Genetic and brain imaging findings (Dr Essi Viding, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London) 2012-04-30 13:00: "Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia " (Professor Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, London) 2012-04-30 14:30: Communication over noisy channels (I) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 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) 2012-05-01 13:00: "Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli" (Eero Simoncelli, New York University) 2012-05-02 10:00: Optimal encoding and decoding in sensory populations (Eero Simoncelli (New York University, HHMI)) 2012-05-02 11:15: Non-parametric Bayesian Method and Maximum-A-Posteriori Inference in Statistical Machine Translation (Tsuyoshi Okita (Dublin City University)) 2012-05-02 12:30: Seeing what you want to see: a Bayesian account (Noham Wolpe (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-05-03 11:30: Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic tasks: from receptive fields to value functions (Constantin Rothkopf, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies) 2012-05-03 14:00: Effects of ignoring clustered data structures in factor analysis and item response theory (Dr. Jan Stochl, University of Cambridge) 2012-05-03 15:30: Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state (Jonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany)) 2012-05-03 16:00: Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands) 2012-05-04 11:15: Past work and future interests: respectively, the scattering of Anyons and Monte Carlo methods (Alexander Matthews) 2012-05-04 13:00: Outsmarting the liars: Towards a cognitive lie detection approach (Aldert Vrij, University of Portsmouth) 2012-05-04 13:00: IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 1 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-05-04 13:15: Molecules of touch and taste sensation (William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2012-05-04 15:00: Using polymers to define 3D architecture of stem cell cultures (Prof. Kevin Shakesheff, School of Pharmacy, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham) 2012-05-04 16:30: Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control (Dr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium) 2012-05-07 14:30: Communication over noisy channels (II) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-05-08 11:00: Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimation (Barnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2012-05-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-08 19:30: Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - How Intelligence Happens (Professor John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2012-05-09 12:00: Molecular Bioengineering for Neuroscience (Professor Giuseppe Battaglia, The Krebs Institute, The Centre for Membrane Interactions and Dynamics,& Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield) 2012-05-09 12:30: Brain and behavioural correlates of action-perception deficits in autism (Rachel Moseley (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-05-09 12:30: Perspective broadening training with depressed individuals in remission (Emma Hill (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-05-10 14:00: Automatic Rule-Based Generation of Items for Intelligence Tests and Probability Word Problems (Prof. Dr. Heinz Holling, University of Muenster) 2012-05-10 15:30: Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more (Professor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London)) 2012-05-10 16:00: Epo's impact on exercise performance (Prof. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland) 2012-05-11 12:45: IMFAR Practice Talks Pt 2 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-05-11 13:00: The developmental antecedents of political preference: Re-examining parental influence (Lori Bougher (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-11 13:15: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating epidermal stem cell fate (Michaela Frye, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2012-05-11 16:30: Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour (Professor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales) 2012-05-14 16:30: Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours (Tamas Freund. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary) 2012-05-15 10:30: New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway (Professor Alfred Lewis Goldberg) 2012-05-16 12:00: Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's Disease: Molecular Mechanisms (Paul Hopkins, Kings College London) 2012-05-16 12:30: Biasing experimental settings to maximise empirical phenomena: the good, the bad, and the ugly (John Duncan, Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-05-17 15:30: Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour (Professor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University)) 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) 2012-05-18 13:00: Mediators of the sex difference in aggression: An evolutionary approach (Anne Campbell, Durham University) 2012-05-18 13:15: Finding the correct pairing partner during meiosis: events inside and outside the nucleus (Enrique Martinez-Perez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London) 2012-05-18 16:30: The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval (Dr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales) 2012-05-21 14:30: Communication over noisy channels (III) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-05-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2012-05-23 12:00: Activity Dependent Plasticity in Spinal Locomotor Circuits (Dr Ronaldo M Ichiyama, University of Leeds) 2012-05-23 12:30: The ageing brain and its impact upon the gambling experience (Anna McCarrey (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-05-24 14:00: The mediating effect of career decision-making self-efficacy in the relationship between pressure on employment and vocational selection anxiety (Zhonghua Liu, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge) 2012-05-24 15:30: Translational cognitive neuroscience of social knowledge and moral motivations: new clues for the understanding of affective disorders (Dr Roland Zahn (Divisions of Psychology & Psychiatry, The University of Manchester)) 2012-05-24 16:00: Mechanism regulating neural differentiation (Prof. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee) 2012-05-25 13:00: Interacting without Touch. (Dr. Helena Mentis - postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital System (SDS)) 2012-05-25 13:00: Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speed (Dr Susana Chung, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley) 2012-05-25 13:15: A quantitative view of gene expression levels (Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2012-05-28 14:30: An Introduction to Statistical Inference, Data Modelling & Pattern Recogntion (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-05-28 15:30: Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition (Professor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition)) 2012-05-30 12:00: Photoreceptor Directed Gene Therapy-Restoring Function and Structure, and Reversing Inner Retinal Remodeling (Gustavo Aguirre, VMD, PhD, PhD (hc), Professor of Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology,School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Ryan-VHUP, Room 2050, 3900 Delancey Street,Philadelphia, PA 19104-6010) 2012-05-30 12:30: Semantic word category processing in degenerative brain diseases (Zubaida Shebani (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-05-30 12:30: Comparing models of contour in music and speech (Alex Billig (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-05-31 10:00: A Molecular Geneticist's Strategy for Understanding the Fly Brain (Dr. Gerald Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Farm Research Campus) 2012-06-01 13:00: Value From Hedonic Experience and Engagement (Tory Higgins, Columbia University) 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) 2012-06-06 12:00: Regulation of mitochondrial trafficking and function by Miro family proteins (Dr Josef Kittler, University College London) 2012-06-06 12:30: An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data (Hamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity)) 2012-06-07 15:30: Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception? (Dr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology)) 2012-06-07 16:00: Sequencing nucleic acids: from chemistry to life sciences and personalised medicine (Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, Dept of Chemistry) 2012-06-08 15:00: Understanding (Dis)honesty. (Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School) 2012-06-11 12:00: When maths and mindreading meet: sex-dependent empathizing/systemizing interactions, and insights into ASC development (Jeffrey Valla) 2012-06-11 14:30: Approximating Probability Distributions (I)-(II): Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-06-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2012-06-13 12:00: Characterisation of the structure and dynamics of alpha-synuclein by NMR spectroscopy (Dr Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge) 2012-06-13 12:30: The neural basis of speech intelligibility (Sam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-06-14 12:00: "Human mesenchymal precursors - Transplantation and mechanisms of action in spinal cord injury" (Dr Giles W Plant, Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences (SINTN),Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) 2012-06-14 15:30: Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias (Dr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia)) 2012-06-14 16:00: Food for thought: visceral control of nutritional decisions in Drosophila (Dr Irene Miguel-Aliag, Dept of Zoology) 2012-06-14 17:30: Cambridge Neuroscience Technical Lecture "Neural cells as a model: from differentiation to transfection" (Dr Alberto Chinali, Life Technologies) 2012-06-15 13:00: The Social Regulation of Activity and Inactivity (Dolores Albarracin, University of Illinois) 2012-06-18 16:00: ‘Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Disease Processes’ (Professor Roger Y Tsien, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego) 2012-06-19 11:00: Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant Optimization (Igor Mordatch (University of Washington)) 2012-06-19 13:00: A new look at human motor control (Dr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin) 2012-06-20 15:00: Optimal integration of top-down and bottom-up uncertainty in humans, monkeys, and neural networks (Ahmad Qamar (University of Chicago)) 2012-06-20 17:00: TBC (Professor Alfred Goldberg, Dept of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School) 2012-06-21 11:00: Building the supramodal language brain (Professor Donald Shankweiler, Haskins Laboratories) 2012-06-21 13:00: The wonder of hue: the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to blueness (Sungmi Oh, Joshibi University, Japan) 2012-06-25 14:30: Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-06-25 17:00: Neonatal White Matter Injury: Unexpected Mechanisms of Glial-Mediated Regeneration and Repair (Stephen A. Back, Oregon Health & Science University) 2012-06-26 13:00: A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics (Professor Bill Newsome, Stanford) 2012-06-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2012-06-28 13:00: Vision for reading (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex) 2012-06-29 13:00: Autism and Human Cognitive Diversity, from Physiology to Psychology to Pedagogy (Dr Matthew Belmonte) 2012-07-03 11:00: Structured Prediction using Linear Programming Relaxations (David Sontag (NYU)) 2012-07-04 11:00: Non-parametric Bayesian Learning of User Preferences: Elicitation, Sparsification and Beyond (Edwin Bonilla (NICTA/ANU)) 2012-07-04 14:00: Fast Gaussian process learning for regression, semi-supervised classification, and multiway analysis (Prof Alan Qi (Purdue U)) 2012-07-09 14:30: Approximating Probability Distributions (IV): Variational Methods (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-07-16 14:30: Data Modelling With Neural Networks (II): Content-Addressable Memories And State-Of-The-Art Error-Correcting Codes (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-07-18 13:00: Are auditory sensory behaviours associated with ASD a consequence of atypical low-level auditory processing? (Dr José Alcántara) 2012-07-19 12:00: The real basis of glaucoma (Professor Goeffry Raisman, FRS,Chair of Neural Regeneration, Queen Square, London) 2012-07-20 15:00: IQ Gains in the 21st Century (Prof Dr James Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand) 2012-07-25 13:00: Perception of motion blur during eye movement (Professor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry) 2012-07-27 11:00: Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields (Konstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College)) 2012-08-03 14:00: Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing Costs (Pedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)) 2012-08-08 14:00: Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general framework (Prof. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)) 2012-08-24 11:00: Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learning (Simon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris)) 2012-09-04 17:00: “Genetic analysis of a somatically acquired trait: immunological self-tolerance ” (Professor Chris Goodnow is Professor and Head of the Dept of Immunology at the Australian National University’s John Curtin School of Medical Research) 2012-09-05 10:30: Perceiving is Believing: Bayesian inference in unexpected places. (Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby, UCL) 2012-09-11 16:00: Monarch butterfly migration: from behavior to genes (Professor Steven Reppert, Department of Neurobiology at UMASS Medical School, Worcester) 2012-09-12 16:00: Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding (Yutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink) 2012-09-21 11:00: Multiscale Imaging of the Nervous System: Where is the Dark Matter (Mark Ellisman, Professor of Neurosciences, Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California at San Diego) 2012-09-24 11:00: Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 2012-09-25 15:00: Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference (Matthias Seeger, EPFL) 2012-09-26 11:00: Compressed Sensing Applications in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Christine Law (Oxford University)) 2012-10-02 17:30: Department of Psychiatry 2012 Paykel Lecture: 'The Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia: Neural Basis and Clinical Relevance' (Professor Eileen Joyce, Institute of Neurology, University College London) 2012-10-03 12:00: Neuronal pentraxins, PV-INs and perineuronal nets (Dr A. Radu Aricescu, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford) 2012-10-03 12:30: Routes to forgetting unwanted memories (and worrying future thoughts) (Roland Benoit (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-10-04 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-10-04 15:30: New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation (Professor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland)) 2012-10-05 16:30: Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition. (Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh) 2012-10-08 16:00: How children's cognitive abilities vary: methods for understanding individual differences (Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU)) 2012-10-09 13:00: "Listen to me, because I'm your mother"-Chinese mothers' parental authority and children's compliance (Soar Huang, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-09 18:00: "Synaptic transfer of visual information in the retina" & "Molecules that sense taste, force, and temperature in neurons" (Leon Lagnado (MRC-LMB) & William Schafer (MRC-LMB)) 2012-10-10 12:30: Machine learning for auditory neuroscience (Richard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-11 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-10-11 15:30: Person identification and speech recognition in human communication (Dr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany)) 2012-10-11 16:00: The Promises of a Polychrome Retina (Professor Bill Harris. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University ) 2012-10-12 13:15: Deciphering gene regulatory circuitry underlying early steps of neural crest development (Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) 2012-10-12 16:30: Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling (Dr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2012-10-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex) 2012-10-15 16:00: Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU)) 2012-10-16 16:00: Distributed, Real-Time Bayesian Learning in Online Services (Ralf Herbrich (Facebook)) 2012-10-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-16 16:00: The future of myPersonality and research using Online Social Networks (David Stillwell, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-16 16:30: Cambridge Neuroscience Technical Lecture in association with Life Technologies (Dr David Bourdon, Life Technologies) 2012-10-17 12:30: Bayesian modelling of the interaction between long- and short-term memory (Kristjan Kalm (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-10-18 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-10-18 13:00: Emotion, Cognition, and “Rational” Embodiment. (Piotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego) 2012-10-18 15:30: Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning (Professor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London)) 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. ) 2012-10-19 13:15: Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo (Veronique Azuara, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London) 2012-10-19 16:30: Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling (Dr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter) 2012-10-22 11:00: Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulations (Jes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen)) 2012-10-22 16:00: Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU)) 2012-10-23 13:00: Sex, Love, and Goodness (Alex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-24 12:30: Testing orientation information for different category exemplars in the human visual pathway (Hamed Nili (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-10-24 12:30: Face space in the primate visual system (Jonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-10-25 11:00: Categorical data analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-10-25 14:30: Identification of causal effects (Nevena Lazic) 2012-10-25 15:30: Asymmetric Belief Formation (or why humans discount bad news) (Dr Tali Sharot (University College London)) 2012-10-25 16:00: Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory (Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.) 2012-10-26 13:15: Dissection of the cellular and molecular hierarchy of the bronchioalveolar epithelium in homeostasis and disease (Juan-Jose Ventura, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-26 16:30: The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory (Professor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London) 2012-10-29 16:00: The psychology of gambling and gambling addiction (Luke Clark (Dept of Psychology)) 2012-10-30 16:00: Aggregating Minds (Dr Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-10-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-30 19:30: 'Losing your world while falling asleep' (Dr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2012-10-31 12:30: Subjective experiences and cognition in unresponsive states (Valdas Noreika (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-11-01 13:00: How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see? (Denis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC)) 2012-11-01 16:00: Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants (Dr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. ) 2012-11-02 13:15: The role of Dicer and miRNAs in regulating neural stem cell multipotency (Therese Andersson, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.) 2012-11-02 16:30: Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks (Dr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 2012-11-05 16:00: Neuroscience and the law (Nicholas Mackintosh (Department of Psychology)) 2012-11-06 13:00: Optimising eyewitness testimony by matching witness chronotype and time of interview (Katrin Mueller-Johnson, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-06 16:00: Coding with Dendrites (Panayiota Poirazi) 2012-11-07 12:00: Genetic Models of Peripheral Regeneration Defects (Professor Gennadij Raivich, Inst. for Women's Health, University College London) 2012-11-07 12:30: Face perception and functional pathways in the temporal lobe (Nick Furl (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-11-08 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-11-08 15:30: Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making (Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)) 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) 2012-11-09 13:15: How variable clones build an invariant retina (Benjamin Simons, Cavendish Laboratory/ Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-09 16:30: Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisions (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 2012-11-12 16:00: Measuring theory of mind in late childhood (Clare Hughes (Dept of Psychology)) 2012-11-12 16:30: Genetic Dissection of the Fly Visual Course Control (Axel Borst) 2012-11-13 16:00: The Differential Effects of Different Categories of War Events, Age at Capture, and Duration in Captivity on Depression in a Ugandan Cohort of War-affected Youth - The WAYS Study (Dr Kennedy Amone-P'Olak (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-13 18:00: Determinants of broadband signaling at a central synapse (Angus Silver, University College London) 2012-11-14 12:30: Cortical and subcortical contributions to social cognition (Andrew Bell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-11-15 11:00: Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-11-15 11:30: Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-variate Data in a New Gaussian Process-based Method (Dr Dalia Chakrabarty (University of Warwick)) 2012-11-15 15:30: Interactions between form and meaning in language processing (Dr Anna Woollams (University of Manchester)) 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.) 2012-11-16 13:00: Some social logics of sharing: From Web 2.0 to the therapeutic narrative (Nicholas John, Ben-Gurion University, Israel & The London School of Economics and Political Science) 2012-11-16 13:00: Embodied Morality (Dr Simone Schnall, Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory) 2012-11-16 13:15: Decoding the Notch signal (Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-16 16:30: ERP evidence of reduced perceptual filtering predicts superior visual search in individuals with high levels of autistic traits. (Dr Elizabeth Milne, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield) 2012-11-19 16:00: Public communication of science in the media (Emily Holmes (MRC CBSU)) 2012-11-19 16:30: Adrian Lecture Cancelled (Eve Marder. Brandeis University, Mass. USA) 2012-11-20 13:00: The combinatorial structure underlying a beta processes is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemes (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-21 12:30: The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning (Moos Peeters (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-11-21 12:30: Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features (Seyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-11-22 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-11-22 15:30: Imaging and stimulating learning and recovery in the human motor system (Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford)) 2012-11-22 16:00: An as-if model of economic decision making (Dr Ian Krajbich. Department of Economics, University of Zurich ) 2012-11-23 13:15: Functional nuclear organization of the genome: from cell populations to single cell analyses (Peter Fraser, Babraham Institute) 2012-11-23 16:30: A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior (Professor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh) 2012-11-26 16:00: Circularity and selection bias in neuroscience and beyond: double dipping, publication bias, and the decline of significant effects (Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC CBSU)) 2012-11-27 16:00: Online Personality Trends in Love and Friends - A Big-Five Facebook Study (Koen De Couck, Ghent University) 2012-11-28 12:00: Hippocampal plasticity: synaptic left-right asymmetry and implications for Alzheimer’s disease (Professor Ole Paulsen, PDN) 2012-11-28 12:30: Recent research updates (CBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2012-11-29 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-11-29 15:30: Representation of motor skills in cortical networks (Dr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London)) 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) 2012-12-05 11:00: Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action (Fred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin) 2012-12-05 12:00: Formation of earliest cortical circuits (Professor Zoltan Molnar, DPAG, University of Oxford) 2012-12-06 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2012-12-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Luigi Acerbi) 2012-12-11 18:00: "Dynamics of AMPAR assembly: from formation to channel function" & TBC (Ingo Greger (MRC-LMB) & Ole Paulsen (PDN)) 2013-01-07 13:00: Individual differences in human perception (Dr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA) 2013-01-08 18:00: Seeing what the brain sees: functional imaging in the zebrafish retina (Martin Meyer, King's College London) 2013-01-14 13:00: Disturbing vision: neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasis (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex) 2013-01-16 12:30: Mental health and mental imagery: from experimental psychopathology to treatment innovation (Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-01-17 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3) (Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-17 15:30: Volition and Agency (Professor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2013-01-17 15:30: Volition and Agency (Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London)) 2013-01-17 16:00: The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders (Professor Philippa Saunders. University of Ediburgh. ) 2013-01-18 13:15: Dissecting the role of stem cells in tissue development and maturation (Kim Jensen, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-21 16:00: Strategies for cognitive translation from animal to human: Knock-outs, neurogenesis, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease (Tim Bussey (Department of Psychology)) 2013-01-21 16:30: Inhibition and Odour discrimination in mice (Andreas Schaefer Heidelberg) 2013-01-22 13:00: Mothers' depressive symptoms and young children's problem behaviours: The roles of executive function and emotion regulation (Gabriela Roman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-23 12:30: Pattern signatures of spatial and object-based attention in the dorsal and ventral visual streams (Johan Carlin (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-01-23 12:30: Mix & Match, two tools that can help you create better experiments (Maarten van Casteren (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-01-24 15:30: Is specific language impairment a procedural learning deficit? (Professor Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford)) 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) 2013-01-25 13:15: Spindle orientation and cell division in Drosophila epithelial cells (Dan Bergstrahl, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-25 16:30: Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning (Professor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven) 2013-01-28 16:00: Science: How not to do it (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU)) 2013-01-28 16:30: Memory codes and their transformation in bee brain (Randolf Menzel, Frieie University of Berlin) 2013-01-29 16:30: Combining micro and macro analyses to observe interaction in longitudinal studies: The case of children's emotion regulation in early childhood (Gabriela Roman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-30 11:00: Structural Expectation Propagation (SEP): Bayesian structure learning for networks with latent variables (Nevena Lazic (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2013-01-30 12:00: Mitophagy in neurodegeneration caused by mitochondrial diseases (Professor Joanna Poulton) 2013-01-30 12:30: The consequences of intentional forgetting (Jonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-01-30 12:30: Depression and training positive future imagery (Simon Blackwell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-01-30 12:30: “Personality and social learning in wild baboons” (Dr Alecia Carter (Large Animal Research Group, Department of Zoology) 2013-01-30 19:30: Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer (Haley Frend, Department of Pathology) 2013-01-31 15:30: Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation (Professor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre)) 2013-02-01 12:00: Bio-behavioral Synchrony and the Cross-Generation Transmission of Social Adaptation and Psychopathology (Dr. Ruth Feldman, Bar Ilan University) 2013-02-01 13:15: Transcriptional Control of Cell Fate Choice in Blood Stem Cells (Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-01 16:30: Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents (Professor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of Sussex) 2013-02-04 16:00: Significance, power and replication: why statistical life gets harder as a post-doc (Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry)) 2013-02-04 16:30: Neuropharmacology of visual attention in visual cortex (Alex Thiele University of Newcastle) 2013-02-05 13:00: Performances in psychiatric hospitals: a social psychological perspective (Dr. Juliet Foster (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge) 2013-02-06 12:30: Prior knowledge, expectations and the perception of speech (Ediz Sohoglu (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-02-06 12:30: “Play and creativity” (Prof Sir Patrick Bateson (Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology) 2013-02-06 17:00: Systems Pathobiology and Personalized Cardiovascular Medicine (Dr Joseph Loscalzo - Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Harvard Medical School) 2013-02-07 16:00: The microvasculature - an early marker/driver of CVD risk across the life-course (Professor Geraldine Clough. University of Southampton. ) 2013-02-08 13:15: Cytoplasmic streaming in the female germline and stem cell fate in the male germline of Drosophila (Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-08 16:30: Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers (Professor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol) 2013-02-11 16:00: Computational models and theories – who needs them? (Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU)) 2013-02-11 16:00: Computational models and theories – who needs them? (Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU)) 2013-02-11 16:30: Circuit mechanisms of oscillations and representation of space in the entorhinal cortex (Matt Nolan, University of Edinburgh) 2013-02-12 15:00: The Odd Pair of Autism and Transsexualism (Dr. Annelou de Vries, Department of Paediatrics, VUmc) 2013-02-12 16:30: Applying principles of item response theory to produce efficient ultra-short form questionnaires (Prof. Mark Haggard, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-12 18:00: "The presynaptic side of synapse formation" & TBC (Christine Holt (PDN) & Greg Jefferis (MRC-LMB)) 2013-02-13 12:30: Exploring the relationship between attention and short-term memory (Duncan Astle (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-02-14 15:30: Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex (Professor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris)) 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.) 2013-02-15 13:15: Coping with life changing events: Stem cells, regeneration, and plasticity (Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London) 2013-02-15 16:30: Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system (Professor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester) 2013-02-18 16:00: Age old issues, new challenges, and emerging methods for psychological science (Alex Kogan (Department of Psychology)) 2013-02-18 16:30: On the Evolution of Reward Signals: A Computational Just-So Story (Andy Barto, University of Massachusetts) 2013-02-19 13:00: (How) does attentional control matter? (Dr. Gaia Scerif, University of Oxford) 2013-02-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jonathan O'Keeffe ) 2013-02-20 12:00: "Preventing neurodegeneration through control of proteostasis" (Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Leicester) 2013-02-20 12:30: Decision-making with and without rules (Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-02-21 15:30: Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions (Professor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society)) 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. ) 2013-02-22 11:00: Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes Processes (Charles Blundell (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2013-02-22 13:15: Using bacterial pathogens to explore immunity and development in the nematode C. elegans (Jonathan Hodgkin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford) 2013-02-22 16:00: Are glioma stem cells radioresistant, and if so, can we do anything about it? ( Professor Chalmers) 2013-02-22 16:30: Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism (Professor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University) 2013-02-25 16:00: Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to understand brain function (Daniel Mitchell (MRC CBSU)) 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) 2013-02-26 16:30: There is accounting for taste! Detecting Age and Gender Variations in Music Taste using MIMIC Model (Arielle Bonneville-Roussy (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-27 11:30: Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxes (Tamara Broderick (UC Berkeley)) 2013-02-27 12:00: Glutamate receptors in dopaminergic neurons and Huntington's disease (Dr Susan Jones, Cambridge) 2013-02-27 12:30: Things I don't understand about task difficulty and the multiple-demand system (John Duncan (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-02-28 15:30: Neurocognitive and social-affective development in adolescence (Professor Eveline Crone (University of Leiden)) 2013-02-28 16:00: Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and disease (Dr Sue Ozanne) 2013-02-28 16:00: Morality in the Body: Influences of Bodily Experience on Moral Judgments and Decisions (Dr. Chen-Bo Zhong, University of Toronto) 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) 2013-03-01 13:15: Chromatin organisation in embryonic stem cells (Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2013-03-01 16:30: All work and no play (Prof. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands) 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) 2013-03-04 14:00: Part A: Humanitarian Work Psychology: Addressing Global Concerns through the Science of Work; Part B: Examining the Five Factor Model of Personality across Twenty-Seven Countries: The Influence of Development and Culture (Dr. Lori Foster Thompson and Dr. Adam W. Meade ( North Carolina State University) ) 2013-03-04 16:00: Sex differences in mind (Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Psychiatry)) 2013-03-05 13:00: From Research Setting to Parents: The Role of Parent Social Networks in the Choices they Make about Interventions for their Child with ASD (Katherine Pickard, Michigan State University) 2013-03-06 12:30: Flexible coding of object images and words in visual and multiple-demand cortex (Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-03-07 15:30: Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory (Professor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA)) 2013-03-07 16:00: Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures (Professor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. ) 2013-03-08 11:00: Using Context and Insight for the Analysis of LittleData? (Philipp Moritz (U Cambridge)) 2013-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London) 2013-03-11 11:30: An application of HDP And IBP for stream-based action recognition and high dimensional data (Ava Bargi : University of Technology, Sydney) 2013-03-11 16:00: A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems (John Duncan (MRC CBSU)) 2013-03-11 16:30: Imaging Tools To Reverse Engineer The Brain (Winfried Denk. Director of Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) 2013-03-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2013-03-12 16:30: Investigating Cognition using CANTAB (Dr. Charlotte Housden, Cambridge Cognition, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2013-03-12 18:00: Title to be confirmed (Juan Burrone, King's College London) 2013-03-12 19:30: Making a difference across the globe (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian) 2013-03-13 12:00: Metabolic reprogramming in iPS cells and neuronal derivatives (Dr Alessandro Prigione, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin) 2013-03-13 12:30: Tinnitus and cochlear implants (Phil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-03-13 12:30: Representational geometry modelling (Alex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit)) 2013-03-13 12:30: “Cause and effect in biology revisited” (Prof Kevin Laland (School of Biology, University of St Andrews)) 2013-03-14 15:30: Neuroimaging of ADHD: disorder-specificity and medication effects (Professor Katya Rubia (King's College, London) ) 2013-03-15 13:00: Dopaminergic Modulation of Reward Learning in Social Contexts (Dr Christoph Eisenegger, Department of Psychology) 2013-03-18 14:30: University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talks (Claudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt)) 2013-03-19 17:30: Benign Intracranial Hypertension (Professor John Pickard, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2013-03-25 11:00: Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family (James Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience) 2013-03-25 12:30: "Evolution cannot explain how minds work" (Professor Johan J. Bolhuis (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)) 2013-04-02 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2013-04-08 11:00: Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State Segmentation (Will Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB)) 2013-04-10 12:00: Studies on Abeta (1-42) toxicity (Professor Vilma Borutaite, Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania) 2013-04-15 11:00: Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable data (Nick Foti (Dartmouth College)) 2013-04-15 18:00: CANCELLED! (Josef Kittler, University College London) 2013-04-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2013-04-22 13:00: Overlooked and Undiagnosed: The female expression of the autistic phenotype (Alexandra Head, PhD Candidate at Deakin University, Australia) 2013-04-22 16:30: The self-tuning neuron- homeostatic plasticity in visualcortical circuitry (Gina Turrigiano. Brandeis University, Massachusetts) 2013-04-24 12:00: The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease. (Dr Lisa Sksida, Dep. Psychology, Cambridge) 2013-04-24 12:00: Demixing scents: Sampling-based inference in olfaction. (Agnieszka Grabska Barwinska, The Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2013-04-24 12:30: Globally coherent forms are reflected in global V1 patterns, but fMRI orientation decoding does not require either (Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-04-24 15:00: Is the brain in a critical state? (Peter Latham ( Gatsby, UCL)) 2013-04-25 15:30: The role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision-making: A model-based approach (Dr Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam)) 2013-04-26 13:15: Regulation of neural and intestinal stem cell differentiation (Axel Behrens, CR-UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London) 2013-04-26 16:30: The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease (Dr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2013-04-29 17:00: Studying the therapeutic plasticity of neural stem cells at nanoscale (Stefano Pluchino, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge) 2013-04-30 11:00: Approaches to statistical modeling of network data (Maxim Nazarov (Bocconi University)) 2013-04-30 13:00: How Do Mindreaders Model Minds? (Dr. Stephen Butterfill, University of Warwick) 2013-04-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge)) 2013-04-30 16:30: Using Rasch Analysis in Neurological and Community Rehabilitation - The SARDINE Project (Secondary Analysis of Routine Data in Neurorehab Evaluations) (Dr Andrew Bateman (Dept of Psychiatry and Oliver Zangwill Centre, Ely)) 2013-05-01 12:30: Activity in the multiple demand network during word and pseudoword reading: Domain general or domain specific? (Joanne Taylor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-05-01 15:00: Deep Gaussian Processes (Prof. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield)) 2013-05-02 15:30: The role of the posterior lateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive control: From implementing instructions to cognitive flexibility (Professor Marcel Brass (University of Ghent)) 2013-05-02 16:00: Sheep Models of Human Neurodegenerative Disease. How, where and why? (Prof Jenny Morton. PDN, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-03 13:15: A fine balance: Self-renewal and differentiation of single stem cells amidst tumour heterogeneity (David Kent, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-03 16:30: Emotional disorders and mental imagery (Professor Emily A. Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2013-05-08 12:30: Neurofeedback using real-time fMRI: implementation and results (Tibor Auer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-05-08 16:00: Understanding the molecular principles of protein misfolding. (Prof Erich Wanker, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin) 2013-05-09 13:00: Brain imaging findings in BPD (Dr Robert Dudas, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-09 15:30: What can brain imaging tells us about psychology? (Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford)) 2013-05-09 16:00: Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable Pairs (Professor Michael I Jordan (UC Berkeley)) 2013-05-10 13:15: Nutrient sensing in the central brain of Drosophila larvae controls feeding behavior (Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose, University of Nice, France) 2013-05-10 16:30: Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging (Professor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany) 2013-05-14 13:00: 'Has multiculturalism failed?' Challenging representations of difference in schools. (Dr. Caroline Howarth, LSE) 2013-05-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2013-05-14 18:00: "GABA-A receptor membrane dynamics and the tuning of inhibitory transmission" & "Connectivity in a motor circuit: interplay of developmental plasticity and opportune wiring?" (Josef Kittler (UCL) & Jan Felix Evers (COS Heidelberg)) 2013-05-15 12:30: Using Bayes to get the most out of null results (Zoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex)) 2013-05-16 10:00: Dendritic computation in pyramidal neurons. (Tiago Branco (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology)) 2013-05-16 15:30: Heterogeneity in the biology of developmental disorders (Professor Sarah Durston (University of Utrecht)) 2013-05-16 16:00: The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning (Dr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-17 10:00: Molecules and mechanisms of olfactory-mediated behaviour (Dr Darren Logan, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2013-05-17 13:15: Organ morphogenesis: Cell movement and communication in liver development (Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London) 2013-05-17 16:30: "Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making". (Dr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2013-05-20 17:00: Astrocytic glutamine release and the maintenance of glutamatergic neurotransmission (Brian Billups, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-22 10:20: Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J Harper (Dr David J Harper ) 2013-05-22 12:00: Modelling Parkinson's with iPS cells and transgenic human ES cells. (Dr Tilo Kunath, University of Edinburgh) 2013-05-23 15:30: Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of age-related changes in memory across the adult life span (Professor Lars Nyberg (Umeå Universit)) 2013-05-23 16:00: Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis (Prof Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London) 2013-05-24 09:30: Optimal compensation for neuron death (David Barrett (ENS Paris)) 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) 2013-05-24 13:15: A genomic survey of the machineries that control & link cell shape, microtubules & cell cycle progression (Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-28 13:00: Shaping neural circuits by early experience. (Professor Takao Hensch, Center for Brain Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University) 2013-05-28 13:00: Flourishing: from science to policy (Professor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Friedrich, CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.) 2013-05-28 16:30: Psychometric application of bifactor modelling for multidimensional mental health phenotype: a population based genotype‐trait association study (Dr. Kate M. Xu, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-29 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-05-30 15:30: MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases (Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge)) 2013-05-30 16:00: Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Prof Paul Martin. School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. ) 2013-05-31 13:15: Self-organization of pluripotent cells to establish the mouse embryo (Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-31 14:00: Fair testing in Web 2.0 – where psychometricians’ and candidates’ interests meet (Katharina Lochner, cut-e Group and Free University of Berlin) 2013-06-04 16:30: Learning to Interact with Humans (Dr. Pushmeet Kohli (Microsoft Research)) 2013-06-04 17:30: Ear reconstruction for microtia (Henning Frenzel, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany) 2013-06-05 12:00: Spatiotemporal control of motor circuit assembly and function. (Dr Marco Tripodi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2013-06-05 12:30: Why is work with infants and young children important in translational neuroscience? Attention outside the scanner: individual differences in the micro-dynamics of naturalistic attentional control (Sam Wass (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-06-06 13:00: The combinatorial structure of conditionally i.i.d. negative binomial processes directed by a beta process (Creighton Heaukulani (University of Cambridge)) 2013-06-06 15:30: Sources of variation in developmental language disorders: Evidence from eye-tracking studies (Dr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London)) 2013-06-06 17:00: The development of the neural code for space in the hippocampal formation (Dr Tom Wills, UCL) 2013-06-07 13:00: Talk has been cancelled! (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-06-11 13:00: The role of temperament in attention, motor and language development (Dr. Kate Ellis-Davies, University of Cambridge) 2013-06-11 16:30: From situation to cognition --- A discovery process (Dr Wei Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) 2013-06-11 17:00: Intrinsic biophysical diversity and connectivity of neuronal circuits (Troy Margrie, NIMR) 2013-06-11 18:00: Title to be confirmed (Christian Lohmann, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) 2013-06-12 12:30: A smörgåsbord of data on the inhibitory control of memory: Connectivity- and meta-analyses (Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) ) 2013-06-13 15:30: Cortical mechanisms of cognition: A view from direct brain recordings (Professor Bob Knight (University of California, Berkeley)) 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) 2013-06-14 14:30: Geographical perspectives on personality and wellbeing (Dr. Markus Jokela, University of Helsinki) 2013-06-18 14:15: Children's construction play complexity and the building blocks of maths (Dr Miles Richardson, University of Derby) 2013-06-19 12:00: Intra-tumour heterogeneity in human glioblastoma. (Dr Sara Piccirillo, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge) 2013-06-19 12:30: Fancy some PIMMS? Or want to stay SLIMM? Memory theories worthy of their acronyms? (Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-06-20 12:30: A new phenotype for an old mouse: A critical role for inflammation near axotomized cell bodies in the neuronal response to injury. (Professor Richard Zigmond, Dept of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland OH, USA) 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) 2013-06-24 17:00: Why should we study tau in diseases with glial pathology (Maria Grazia Spillantini, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge) 2013-06-25 12:00: The Effects of Attention and Visual Input on the Representation of Natural Speech in EEG (Dr Ed Lalor, Trinity College Dublin ) 2013-06-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Neil Houlsby , CBL) 2013-06-26 12:30: The manuscript selection process at SCIENCE (Peter Stern (Senior Editor SCIENCE) ) 2013-06-26 19:30: Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’ (Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry) 2013-07-01 11:00: Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies (Dr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute)) 2013-07-01 11:00: Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies (Dr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute)) 2013-07-03 12:30: Changes in functional and structural connectivity across adult lifespan: implications for neurocognitive ageing (Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-07-10 12:00: Toll-like receptor-mediated neuronal injury. (Dr Seija Lehnardt, Dept of Neurology, Charité-University Medicine Berline, Germany) 2013-07-16 18:00: TBD & Rab8, a regulator of synapse growth in Frontotemporal Dementia? (Sue Jones (PDN) & Sean Sweeney (University of York)) 2013-07-19 12:00: Müller glia on the move during retinal regeneration. (Dr Manuela Lahne, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA) 2013-07-31 14:00: Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality (Richard Socher - Stanford University) 2013-08-02 11:00: Annealing Between Distributions by Averaging Moments (Chris Maddison (U Toronto)) 2013-08-06 11:00: Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency Situations (Hannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS)) 2013-08-08 11:00: Non-Parametric Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision and Image Processing (Jeremy Jancsary (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2013-09-05 16:00: The story of what was hidden in our genes (Prof Dr James Flynn (University of Otago, New Zealand)) 2013-09-10 16:00: Genetic dissection of Polarization Vision Circuitry in Drosophila (Mathias Wernet, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University) 2013-09-13 11:00: Clustering Based on Predictive Variances in Gaussian Process Regression Models (Dr Hyun-Chul Kim ) 2013-09-13 14:00: Insights in the metabolic control of T cell migration and function: implications for immune inflammation in metabolic diseases (Dr Claudio Mauro, Queen Mary, University of London) 2013-09-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian (University of Cambridge)) 2013-09-17 18:30: The Spark of Life - The story of Ion Channels (Professor Fran Ashcroft) 2013-09-26 12:30: Motion sensitive circuits in the retina (Dr Keisuke Yonehara, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland) 2013-09-27 11:00: CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 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) 2013-10-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-09 12:00: "Mitochondrial dynamics as a potential therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease?" (Dr Kim Tieu, Centre for Biomedical Research - Translational & Stratified , Medicine Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth) 2013-10-09 12:30: High Resolution fMRI – Is it worth it at 3T? (Marta Correia (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-10-09 12:30: Sleep and EEG as biological markers in animal models of Huntington's disease (Sandor Kantor (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-10 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) ) 2013-10-10 11:00: Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationships (Oliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)) 2013-10-10 15:30: Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) ) 2013-10-10 17:00: Wakefulness, locomotion, and navigation: a look from visual cortex (Professor Matteo Carandini, GlaxoSmithKline - Fight for Sight Professor of Visual Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) 2013-10-11 12:00: Nonparametric Bayesian statistics with exchangeable random structures (Daniel Roy) 2013-10-11 16:30: Benefits and limitations of hearing aids (Professor Brian Moore, Professor of Auditory Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-14 16:00: How children's cognitive abilities vary: methods for understanding individual differences (Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU)) 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) 2013-10-15 13:00: Visual and Audiovisual Perception in Adults with Autism (Professor Frank Pollick, University of Glasgow) 2013-10-15 13:00: Plasticity, and its limits, in the adult visual system: Contrast adaptation from 4 minutes to 4 days (Stephen Engel, University of Minnesota) 2013-10-16 12:00: "Modelling cellular autonomy and neurodegeneration” (Prof Siddharthan Chandran, Director of Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh) 2013-10-17 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-10-17 15:30: Don't believe everything you read in the papers... (Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol) 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) 2013-10-18 16:30: Re-contextualizing the hippocampus (Dr Charan Ranganath,Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, USA) 2013-10-21 16:00: Has neuroscience abolished free will (or even criminal responsibility) (Nicholas Mackintosh (Department of Psychology)) 2013-10-21 16:30: Functional Modules: How do we get them and what good are they? (Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School) 2013-10-22 12:00: Learning of a Formation Principle for the Secondary Phonemic Function of a Syllabic Orthography (Claire Fletcher-Flinn, Associate Professor, University of Otago, NZ) 2013-10-22 14:00: Cancer Metastasis: Collective Invasion and Cell. Guidance in Heterogeneous Multicellular Systems (Mr Adrien Hallou, CUED) 2013-10-22 14:00: Magneto-mechanical actuation of human foetal osteoblast cells (Ms Antonia Symeonidou, CUED) 2013-10-22 16:00: What the Rat's Whiskers Tell the Rat's Brain (Dr Rasmus Petersen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester) 2013-10-22 16:30: Improving patient reported outcome measures for use in primary care (Dr. Chris Gibbons, Centre for Primary Care: Institute of Population Health, CLAHRC, University of Manchester) 2013-10-23 12:30: Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback (Annette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-23 12:30: Desire-state attribution in non-human animals: insights from Eurasian jay food-sharing behaviour (Dr Ljerka Ostojic, Dept Psychology/Sub-Dept Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-24 15:30: Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence? (Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London)) 2013-10-25 13:15: Chiefs call in the Reserves: Differentiated Troy+ Chief cells act as ‘Reserve’ stem cells to generate all lineages of the stomach epithelium (Bon-Kyoung Koo, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-25 16:30: Economical brain networks (Professor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Dept Psychiatry, University of Cambridge GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Cambridge Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust) 2013-10-28 11:00: A talk of two distinct parts: 1) a parametric empirical Bayesian approach to integration of fMRI, EEG and MEG data, 2) prediction error in episodic memory encoding (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-10-28 16:00: Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU)) 2013-10-29 13:00: Exploring young children's understanding of their own peer-directed behaviour at school (Katie Rix, PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich) 2013-10-29 14:00: Assembly and function of motor circuits for automatic and goal oriented movements (Dr. Marco Tripodi (MRC-LMB)) 2013-10-30 12:30: PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma (Richard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-10-31 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-10-31 15:30: Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction (Dr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge ) 2013-11-01 13:00: Leo Kanner 70 years on - A History of Autism (Adam Feinstein) 2013-11-01 13:00: The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light (Dr Juliette McGregor, University of Bristol) 2013-11-01 13:15: Nuclear actin and nuclear actin-binding protein as new players in embryonic development and reprogramming (Kei Miyamoto, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-01 16:30: Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits (Professor Barry Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-04 16:00: Science: How not to do it (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU)) 2013-11-04 16:30: Peripheral Pain Mechanisms (John Wood, University College Londaon (UCL) ) 2013-11-04 17:00: Towards Rejuvenation of the Brain (Prof. Dr. Ludwig Aigner - University of Salzburg) 2013-11-05 16:00: "Phagocytosis executes delayed neuronal death after focal brain ischemia" (Dr Jonas Neher, Department of Cellular Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany ) 2013-11-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-05 16:30: Nash and the degree heuristic in network games: An online experiment (Dr. Edoardo Gallo, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-06 12:00: "Parkinson's disease modelling of transgenic mice" (Dr Simon Stott, John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair) 2013-11-06 12:00: Sparse coding in the mushroom body enables odour-specific memories (Dr Andrew Lin, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford) 2013-11-06 12:30: Intellectual disability of known genetic origin - new journeys toward the unexpected (Kate Baker (Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-06 12:30: "Non-human great apes may not need the skill that it takes to develop cumulative culture" (Dr Claudio Tennie, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 2013-11-06 13:30: Contrastive Learning Using Spectral Methods (James Zou (Harvard)) 2013-11-07 11:00: Categorical data analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-11-07 15:30: Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) ) 2013-11-07 17:00: Brain power: Where does it come from and how is it used? (Professor David Attwell FRS, Jodrell Professor of Physiology, UCL) 2013-11-08 11:15: Neuronal processing of continuous sensory streams (Robert Gütig, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany) 2013-11-08 13:15: Drosophila p53, growth control and metabolism (Marco Milan, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona) 2013-11-08 16:30: What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not' (Dr Wendy Johnson, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh.) 2013-11-11 16:00: Computational models and theories – who needs them? (Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU)) 2013-11-12 16:00: Learning sensory and spatial representations from interacting excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity (Henning Sprekeler (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-13 12:30: The brain of the beholder – inferior temporal representations of visual objects are individually unique and predict perceived similarity (Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-11-13 13:00: Psychology and Medicine: Critical friendship or uncomfortable bedfellows? (Dr Charlotte Paddison, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-13 14:00: Intrabodies for Huntington's and Parkinson's disease therapeutics (Anne Messer, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany Senior Scientist, Neural Stem Cell Institute Albany/ Rensselaer, NY, USA) 2013-11-14 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-11-15 13:00: CANCELLED (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-11-15 13:15: Patterning ensembles of mouse ES cells: the embryo redux (Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-15 16:30: Risk, uncertainty and feedback: How and what we learn from observing the outcome of our choices (Dr Tim Rakow, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Essex) 2013-11-18 16:00: Measuring theory of mind in late childhood (Clare Hughes (Department of Psychology)) 2013-11-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ronald van den Berg, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-20 12:00: Neurobiological mechanisms underlying emotion regulation: insights from behavioural and genetic traits." (Prof Angela Roberts, Dept Physiology, Development of Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-20 12:30: On the Frequency Following Response, a measure of phase locking in the auditory brainstem (Hedwig Gockel (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-11-21 11:00: Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-11-21 15:00: The relation between non-symbolic and symbolic number processing (Prof. Bert Reynvoet, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven) 2013-11-21 15:30: Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour (Professor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis)) 2013-11-22 13:15: The sins of your maternal grandparents: Transgenerational epigenetic effects of folate metabolism on development (Erica Watson, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-22 16:30: The miswired brain – from altered neurodevelopment to psychopathology (Dr Kevin J. Mitchell, Institutes of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin) 2013-11-25 16:00: The psychology of gambling and gambling addiction (Luke Clark (Department of Psychology)) 2013-11-25 16:30: Sifting Circuits for Motor Control. (Tom Jessell. Columbia University, New York City) 2013-11-26 13:00: Eating disorders in the classroom: Designing and testing a new universal prevention programme for secondary schools (Dr Helen Sharpe, KCL) 2013-11-26 17:00: When is a movement a ‘gesture’? (Professor Adam Kendon) 2013-11-27 12:00: "Does Imaging tell us anything we didn't already know?" (Dr Adrian Carpenter, WBIC, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge) 2013-11-27 12:30: Memory control deficits in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ana Catarino (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-11-27 12:30: "Mammalian evolution - a biased role for the matriline" (Prof Barry Keverne, Dept Zoology/Sub-Dept Animal Behaviour, University of Cambirdge) 2013-11-27 16:00: TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments) (Dr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology)) 2013-11-28 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-11-28 15:30: Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trials (Professor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University)) 2013-11-29 13:00: The Role of Empathy in Musical Preferences (David Greenberg, PhD Student Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-29 13:15: Molecular alchemy: How to make one cell type into another (David Tosh, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath) 2013-11-29 16:30: Hermann Lotze and Local Sign (Professor Michael Morgan, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at City University (Optometry) London and a Max-Planck Senior Fellow at the Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne) 2013-12-02 16:00: Circularity and selection bias in neuroscience and beyond: double dipping, publication bias, and the decline of significant effects (Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC CBSU)) 2013-12-02 17:00: The Mesodermal-derived Cell Lineage: Contribution to Myelin Repair? (Francisco J. Rivera - University of Cambridge) 2013-12-03 14:00: IMAGiNG and MATHEMATiCS workshops (Hendrik Dirks (DAMTP Cambridge/University of Münster), Kirsty Wan (DAMTP, Cambridge), Joan Lasenby (Engineering Department, Cambridge), Patrice Mascalchi (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Siru Virtanen (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Isabel Peset Martin (CRUK CI, Cambridge)) 2013-12-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2013-12-03 16:30: Multilevel Analysis: Application in Large Scale Assessments (Prof. Dr. Igor G. Menezes, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) 2013-12-04 12:30: Working memory and Specific Language Impairment (Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-12-05 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-12-05 15:30: A spectrum of sociability: Discussing social attention, social cognition and social behaviours in Williams syndrome and autism (Dr Debbie Riby (Durham University)) 2013-12-11 12:30: "The genetics of adaptive evolution: insights from colour and pattern in birds and butterflies" (Dr Nicola Nadeau, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2013-12-11 13:00: Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brain (Dr. B. M. Harvey, University of Utrecht) 2013-12-12 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-12-16 18:00: Resonance and Entrainment in the Synchronous Reproduction of Musical Pulse: Developments in Childhood (Leon van Noorden, Institute for Psycho-acoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM) Ghent University) 2014-01-10 11:00: Sparse discriminative latent characteristics for predicting cancer drug sensitivity (David Knowles (Stanford University)) 2014-01-10 17:00: Drosophila olfactory neuroecology (Marcus Stensmyr, Lund University, Sweden) 2014-01-13 13:00: The Impact of Visual Cues on the Judgment of Performance (Dr Chia-Jung Tsay) 2014-01-13 16:15: Intertissue crosstalk: Regulation of organismal proteostasis by transcellular chaperone signaling (Dr Patricija van Oosten-Hawle, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA) 2014-01-13 17:00: The role of Muller glia cells in the development and function of the zebrafish retina (Ryan MacDonald PDN Cambridge) 2014-01-15 11:00: Neuropeptides, sexually dimorphic neurons, and male aggression (Kenta Asahina, California Institute of Technology) 2014-01-15 11:00: Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic Programs (Jan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University)) 2014-01-15 12:30: Language, intelligence and the brain - a developmental perspective (Fiona Richardson (Anglia Ruskin) ) 2014-01-15 12:30: “Developing quantitative methods for studying social transmission in the field” (Dr William Hoppitt, Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University) 2014-01-15 19:30: The Saga of Alemtuzumab in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (Professor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2014-01-16 15:30: Cortical specialisation for language and auditory processing in the congenitally-blind (anophthalmic) brain (Kate Watkins (University of Oxford)) 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) 2014-01-17 11:00: Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3) (Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-17 16:30: Conditioned Nausea: Experimental Analysis and Practical Applications (Professor Geoffrey Hall, University of York, University of New South Wales, and University of Plymouth.) 2014-01-20 16:15: Human stem cell models of Alzheimer's disease initiation and progression (Dr Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-22 12:30: Functional connectivity changes in the ageing brain (Linda Geerligs (MRC CBSU) ) 2014-01-22 16:15: B-arrestin modulation of GPCR function in Alzheimer's Disease (D Amantha Thathiah, Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium) 2014-01-23 15:00: Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-23 15:30: The neural basis of semantic cognition: Convergence of neuropsychology, fMRI, MEG and TMS (Beth Jefferies (University of York) ) 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) 2014-01-24 13:00: Emotion Processing and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Dr Sarah Cassidy, Research Coordinator, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge,) 2014-01-24 13:15: CANCELLED: Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control (Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2014-01-24 15:00: Watching single molecules (Dr David Klenerman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University) 2014-01-24 16:30: Fairness, trust & reciprocity: insights from decision neuroscience (Professor Alan Sanfey, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior) 2014-01-27 16:30: The first steps in vision: computation and repair. (Botond Roska. Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.) 2014-01-28 13:00: Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensions (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute)) 2014-01-28 14:00: Biomimetic-inspired joining of composite with metal structures: a survey of natural joints and application to single lap joints (Vangelis Avgoulas) 2014-01-28 14:30: Micromechanics of Carotid Plaque Rupture (Graeham Douglas) 2014-01-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-28 16:30: Differential Item and Bundle Functioning in Educational Testing Contexts (Josip Sabic, National Centre for External Evaluation of Education, Croatia) 2014-01-29 12:00: "Neuroprosthetics: Using microchannels to improve nerve-electrode interfacing" (Dr Daniel Chew, Cambridge) 2014-01-29 12:30: Brain-computer interfaces: applications in communication, mental-state monitoring, and perception (Matthias Treder (MRC CBSU)) 2014-01-30 15:30: Brain control: new developments in neurofeedback and neuromodulation (David Linden (Cardiff University)) 2014-01-31 13:15: Axis specification in Drosophila: mRNA transport and translational control (Timothy Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-31 16:30: Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism & synaesthesia, & their application to multisensory marketing (Professor Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford & Head of Sensory Marketing, JWT Ad Agency ) 2014-02-03 11:00: Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible sets (Botond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology)) 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) 2014-02-03 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Keith Murphy Conway Institute University College Dublin) 2014-02-05 12:00: “Genetics of stroke and vascular cognitive impairment” ( Professor Hugh Markus, Stroke Research Group, Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge, Addenbrooke's) 2014-02-05 12:30: The roles of linguistic knowledge and attention in auditory streaming (Alex Billig ) 2014-02-06 15:30: How do antidepressants work? (Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford) ) 2014-02-07 13:00: The Anatomy of Violence (Prof Adrian Raine, University of Pennsylvania Dept Psychology, Visiting Professor University of Cambridge) 2014-02-07 13:15: The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Clare Baker, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-07 16:30: The role of "means selection" and "outcome selection" information in infants' goal attribution (Dr Szilvia Biro, Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, NL and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition) 2014-02-10 16:30: Choice and value: a behavioural ecologist's perspective on animal preferences (Alex Kacelnik. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2014-02-11 14:00: Nanofibre-reinforced hydrogels : tough biomimetic scaffolds for corneal tissue engineering (Khaow Tonsomboon) 2014-02-11 14:30: Low Cost Bioreactor Design for Bone Tissue Engineering (Mark Varley) 2014-02-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.)) 2014-02-11 16:30: Automatic transcription of music using machine learning, and an study into privacy settings of users on Facebook. (Arman Idani, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-12 11:00: Probabilistic machine learning for knowledge extraction from videos and text (Kevin Murphy (Google)) 2014-02-12 12:00: "Genetic and epigenetic control of axonal regeneration" (Professor Simone Di Giovanni, Imperial College, Dept. Medicine, Division of Brain Sciences ) 2014-02-12 12:30: How things are adding up: The neural dynamics of arithmetic problem solving as revealed by fMRI and EEG-MEG (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC CBSU)) 2014-02-13 12:45: Applying for Clinical Psychology Training & Clinical Psychology Training at UEA (Professor Kenneth Laidlaw, University of East Anglia) 2014-02-13 15:30: Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction (Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-14 13:15: Extrinsic forces and cell shape changes in gastrulation (Bénédicte Sanson, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-14 16:30: The role of the motor system in action perception (Dr James Kilner, Senior Lecturer in Human Motor Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London ) 2014-02-17 11:00: Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power Disaggregation (Isabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid)) 2014-02-17 16:30: Ten Ways To A Better Brain (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-19 12:30: PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma (Richard Meiser-Steadman (MRC CBSU)) 2014-02-20 10:00: Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint Modeling (Changyou Chen (ANU)) 2014-02-20 15:30: Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory (Chris Jarrold (University of Bristol) ) 2014-02-20 16:00: Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation (Dr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2014-02-21 13:00: How do young brains mature? UCHANGE design, techniques and some early results (Prof John Suckling, Director of Research, BCNI) 2014-02-21 13:15: Molecular mechanisms of Wnt signalling (Mariann Bienz, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2014-02-21 14:00: Particle filters and curse of dimensionality (Patrick Rebeschini (Princeton)) 2014-02-21 16:30: Limits to Goal-Directed Action Control - Implications for Psychopathologies (Dr Sanne de Wit, Assistant Professor Dept. of Clinical Psychology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ) 2014-02-24 11:00: Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideas (Yura Perov (Oxford)) 2014-02-24 12:30: ‘Developmental programming of cognitive impairment in adulthood: role of chronic fetal hypoxia and oxidative stress’ (Dr Emily Camm, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-24 16:30: The different perceptual worlds in which we live (Prof. John Mollon, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-25 09:00: Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-02-25 13:00: The assessment of sexual arousal and sexual orientation (Dr Gerulf Rieger, University of Essex) 2014-02-25 14:00: IMPACT OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES ON PLAQUE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOURS: A 3D FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION STUDY (Jianmin Yuan) 2014-02-25 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Rose Spear) 2014-02-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ronald van den Berg, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-25 16:30: ‘Product-orientation’ among psychometric criteria in development and application (Professor Mark Haggard, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-26 12:00: “Understanding and treating neurodegeneration in lysosomal storage diseases” (Dr Alessandro Fraldi, TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) Italy ) 2014-02-26 12:30: Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations (Ronald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-27 15:30: Hierarchical mechanisms of face processing (Galit Yovel (Tel Aviv University) ) 2014-02-27 16:00: Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition (Prof Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London) 2014-02-27 19:30: The peculiarities of the naked mole-rat – what can we learn from them? (Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology) 2014-02-28 11:00: Bayesian canonical correlation analysis (Seppo Virtanen (Aalto University)) 2014-02-28 12:00: Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights. (Prof. Nando de Freitas (Oxford)) 2014-02-28 13:15: The role of pituitary stem cells in homeostasis and tumour formation (Cynthia Andoniadou, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London) 2014-02-28 16:30: Investigating cognitive mechanisms in major depressive disorder using novel translational animal models (Dr Emma Robinson, University of Bristol) 2014-03-03 16:30: Brain power: where does it come form and how is it used. (David Attwell, University College, London) 2014-03-03 17:00: Hungry microglia: Microglial neurotoxicity in inflammation, stroke and neurodegeneration (Guy Brown, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-04 11:00: Bayesian nonparametric dynamic-clustering and genetic imputation (Lloyd Elliott (Gatsby Unit, UCL / Oxford)) 2014-03-04 16:30: Why do people respond inconsistently? Low person-fit on a personality test reflects suspicion and imagination (Dr. David Stillwell, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-05 12:00: "Emerging roles for tau in Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies" (Dr Diane Hanger, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London ) 2014-03-05 12:30: Deconstructing inhibitory control and general intelligence - a functional network perspective on the organisation of human abilities (Adam Hampshire (Imperial) ) 2014-03-05 12:30: "Costs of resistance and costs of infections on the fitness of the mosquito Aedes aegypti infected with the filarial nematode Brugia malayi" (Cristina Ariani, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-06 13:00: Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organization (Dr Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) 2014-03-06 15:30: Strategic offloading of prospective memory to the external environment (Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)) 2014-03-06 16:00: Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity (Dr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy) 2014-03-07 12:00: Shedding Light on the Newborn Brain (Dr Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist, Cambridge Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience) 2014-03-07 13:15: Arc stress: a novel mechanism for epithelial bending (Jeremy Green, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London) 2014-03-07 16:30: Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Neurocomputation of Value (Dr Benedetto de Martino, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge ) 2014-03-10 16:00: Neural Circuits Controlling Innate Behavior (Professor Mike Nitabach, Yale University) 2014-03-10 16:00: Neural Circuits Controlling Innate Behavior (Professor Mike Nitabach, Yale University) 2014-03-10 16:30: Adaptive Coding in the Auditory System (Andrew King, University of Oxford) 2014-03-11 11:00: Learning to Learn for Structured Sparsity (Nino Shervashidze (INRIA)) 2014-03-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Suresh Neelakantan) 2014-03-11 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Ming Patharagulpong) 2014-03-12 12:30: Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury (Virginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-12 13:00: How health beliefs influence the symptom experience and treatment decisions at menopause (Helena Rubinstein, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-12 14:00: "Evolution of Prions" (Professor Charles Weissman, Department of Infectology, Scripps Florida (emeritus) ) 2014-03-13 15:30: Subcortical contributions to cognition and behaviour: human imaging and lesion model evidence (Michael Hornberger (University of New South Wales, Australia) ) 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) 2014-03-13 16:30: Studies of the human brain during experimental and natural conditions using intracranial recordings and electrical brain stimulation (Professor Josef Parvizi, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University) 2014-03-14 16:00: Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and Methodologies (Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford) 2014-03-17 11:30: Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric Optimization (Suvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU)) 2014-03-24 14:00: "Modeling GBA1-associated Parkinson's disease using patient iPSCs" (Michela Deleidi, MD, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University of Tübingen ) 2014-03-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-26 12:30: The configural processing hypothesis revisited: The role of shape and reflectance in familiar face recognition (Stefan R. Schweinberger DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) 2014-03-27 14:00: "Extrinsic and intrinsic control of axon regeneration" (Professor Zhigang He, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children's Hospital, and Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA) 2014-03-28 11:00: Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences (Christoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt)) 2014-04-02 11:00: Machine Learning and Order Book Dynamics (Tristan Fletcher ) 2014-04-02 12:00: "Metabolic Regulation of Inflammation" (Prof Luke O'Neil, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin ) 2014-04-02 13:30: Probabilistic computing for Bayesian inference (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT)) 2014-04-04 11:00: Probabilistic computing applications: BayesDB and stochastic digital circuits (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT)) 2014-04-07 17:00: Intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of myelination (Charles ffrench-Constant University of Edinburgh) 2014-04-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge)) 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) 2014-04-22 14:00: Should I Stick Or Should I Go? A molecular switch at the neuronal surface (A. Radu Aricescu, PhD MRC Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics) 2014-04-23 12:30: Stimulating speech: tDCS in the healthy brain and as an adjunct to anomia treatment in aphasic stroke patients (Jenny Crinion (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) ) 2014-04-24 15:30: From cortical inhibition and excitation to cognitive enhancement (Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford)) 2014-04-24 16:00: Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states (Shahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development) 2014-04-24 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr David Magis) 2014-04-24 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr David Magis) 2014-04-25 13:15: Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control (Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2014-04-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (To be confirmed) 2014-04-29 13:00: The daily behaviour of happy people (Dr Gillian Sandstrom, University of Cambridge) 2014-04-29 16:30: Crowd IQ: Weighting Votes in Crowdsourcing and Multi-Agent Systems using Item Response Theory (Dr. Michal Konsinski) 2014-04-30 12:00: "Biophysics of Protein Aggregation" (Dr Tuomas Knowles, Dep. Chemistry, Cambridge) 2014-04-30 12:30: How the brain uses information from face and voice to recognize other people (Helen Blank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-04-30 13:00: Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects (Katherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL)) 2014-05-01 15:30: Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughter (Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) ) 2014-05-02 13:15: Liver and pancreas Stem/progenitor cells and organoid cultures (Meritxell Huch, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-02 16:30: The Conscious Phenotype (Professor Geraint Rees, Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London) 2014-05-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-07 12:00: "Schwann cell c-Jun and Notch control nerve repair" (Prof Kristjan Jessen, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London ) 2014-05-07 12:30: Joint determinants of prefrontal ageing: Selective frontal grey and white matter differentially mediate age-related changes in fluid intelligence and multitasking (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-05-08 11:00: Stable Poisson-Kingman species sampling priors generated by general ordered size biased generalized gamma mixing distributions (Prof. Lancelot James (HKUST)) 2014-05-08 15:30: Life as we know it (Karl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London)) 2014-05-08 16:00: Hippocampal network dynamics underpinning the emergence and persistence of spatial memories (David Dupret - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford) 2014-05-09 13:15: Going round in circles: development of the zebrafish vestibular system (Tanya Whitfield, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield) 2014-05-09 16:30: The integration of sensory cues across development (Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London ) 2014-05-12 16:30: Insights into the moecular basis of of neurodegenerative disease. (Prof. Graham Collingridge, University of Bristol) 2014-05-12 17:00: Ca2+ -dependent signal integration by astroglia: Deciphering the key players (Dimitri Rusakov UCL) 2014-05-13 13:00: Factors that influence the sex difference in young children's physical aggression (Dr Debra Spencer, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-14 11:00: Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families (Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-14 12:30: Understanding fronto-polar function: An intracranial EEG study of flexibility in human decision-making (Philippe Domenech (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, France)) 2014-05-14 12:30: "Armed with information: how learning influences coevolution" (Dr Rose Thorogood, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-15 12:00: "Brain Repair - Centering on stem cell therapy and neuroplasticity in stroke" (Professor Simon A Koblar, Director, Stroke Research Programme and Adelaide Centre for Neuroscience Research, University of Adelaide, Australia) 2014-05-15 13:00: From yeast to human patients - a powerful discovery platform for neurodegenerative diseases (Susan Lindquist - Professor of Biology at MIT) 2014-05-15 15:30: Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me? (Sarah Byford) 2014-05-16 10:30: Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modelling (Andrea Cremaschi (Kent)) 2014-05-16 13:15: A bistable transcriptional switch modulated by signalling drives the choice between embryonic and extraembryonic cell fate (Christian Schroeter, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-16 16:30: A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour (Dr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-20 11:00: Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt. (Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook)) 2014-05-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-21 12:00: Genome wide characterization of Foxa1/2 binding sites reveals multiple mechanisms for regulating neuronal specification and differentiation in midbrain dopamine cells. (Dr Emmanouil Metzakopian, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2014-05-21 12:30: Title to be confirmed (tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-05-22 10:30: Adaptation, coding and Bayesian computations in single neurons and neural populations (Alessandro Ticchi, Imperial College London) 2014-05-22 15:30: Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways (Stephanie Van Goozen) 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.) 2014-05-23 13:00: Influence of facial expressions on attention to gaze in autism: Neural correlates and development (Dr Amandine Lassale, Autism Research Centre) 2014-05-23 13:15: Mechanisms controlling primary germ layers specification in human (Ludovic Vallier, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-23 14:00: Math anxiety: who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it (Sian Beilock, PhD. Professor of Psychology. The University of Chicago) 2014-05-27 13:00: Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experience (Professor Zoë Kourtzi, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-28 12:00: Making 'Dopamine Movies' of Cigarette Smoking in the PET Scanner. Finding differences between Men and Women Smokers (Evan D Morris, Associate Professor Yale University) 2014-05-28 12:30: Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development (Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-05-28 12:30: Symbiont-mediated protection against viruses: insights from a comparative analysis of Wolbachia strains (Dr Julien Martinez, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-29 15:30: Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awareness (Marie Smith (Birkbeck)) 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 10:30: The proteome of native AMPA-receptors and its significance for excitatory neurotransmission (Bernd Fakler, University of Freiburg) 2014-05-30 13:15: Good night and good luck: the role of sleep in dementia (Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-30 16:00: Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction (Prof. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute) 2014-06-02 11:00: Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence? (Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley)) 2014-06-02 17:00: Oligodendrogenesis from the adult brain stem cell niche (Ilias Kazanis University of Cambridge) 2014-06-03 11:00: Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley)) 2014-06-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge)) 2014-06-04 12:00: "A new generation of iNeurons waiting in translation" (Dr Vania Broccoli, Stem Cells & Neurogenesis Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Inst. Milan, Italy) 2014-06-04 12:30: Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions (Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-06-04 12:30: "The effects of developmental stress on avian social learning and exploration" (Dr Neeltje Boogert, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-04 13:00: Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything (Professor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota) 2014-06-05 15:30: Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhood (Torkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden)) 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) 2014-06-06 13:00: Autism: what the genes tell us (Varun Warrier, MPhil Student at the ARC, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-10 08:30: Workshop: « What’s beyond Concerto: an introduction to the R package catR » (Dr. David Magis) 2014-06-10 11:00: Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian Processes (Roman Garnett, University of Bonn) 2014-06-11 12:00: "Hypoxia inducible factor hydroxylases in pain and epilepsy" (Matt Ramer, The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, The University of British Columbia, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), Vancouver, Canada ) 2014-06-11 12:30: Title to be confirmed (tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) ) 2014-06-12 11:00: The wiring diagram of the CNS of Drosophila larva: structure and function (Albert Cardona, HHMI) 2014-06-12 13:00: A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception. (Prof Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) ) 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) 2014-06-13 16:30: Switching between affect and ratio: The basolateral amygdala (Dr David Terburg, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University ) 2014-06-16 12:30: "Social reaction to distress in others - exploratory work in chickens" (Professor Christine Nicol, School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol) 2014-06-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.)) 2014-07-01 11:00: Scalable Deep Gaussian Processes (James Hensman (University of Sheffield)) 2014-07-01 16:00: Nervous system variability and robustness from cellular feedback control (Tim O'Leary, Brandeis University) 2014-07-02 11:00: Implicit Representation Networks (David Barber (University College London)) 2014-07-10 11:00: From Cells to Seizures: Intrinsic Changes in Sodium Channel Expression and Activity in Epilepsy (Professor Manoj Patel, University of Virginia Health Science Center, USA.) 2014-07-16 11:00: Gaussian process regression on graphs (Peter Sollich (King's College London)) 2014-08-11 11:00: On the Bethe approximation (Adrian Weller (Columbia University)) 2014-08-11 13:00: Do all the connections count? Structural brain networks and cognition in cerebral small vessel disease (Dr. Andrew Lawrence, Stroke Research Group, University of Cambridge) 2014-08-11 13:30: CATChES: Computerised Aphasia Therapy for Chronic Aphasia (Ms. Brielle Stark, Stroke Research Group, University of Cambridge) 2014-09-04 14:00: The genetics and neural circuitry of behaviour in Drosophila (Dr Marta Zlatic and Dr Albert Cardona, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus.) 2014-09-05 12:00: EM-based connectomics of motion detection pathways in the lobula of Drosophila melanogaster (Dr Kazunori Shinomiya, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada.) 2014-09-08 16:30: Imaging experience dependent structural plasticity (Heidi Johansen-Berg University of Oxford) 2014-09-08 18:00: Myelin, movement and motor skills (Professor William Richardson) 2014-09-09 16:00: Towards a science of intelligence: Raven's reconsidered (Professor James Flynn) 2014-09-11 11:00: Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging community (Philipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen)) 2014-09-11 14:30: "Cell transplantation and gene therapy approaches for the treatment of retinal degenerative disorders" (Dr. Dominic Eberle, Technische Universität Dresden, Biotechnology Center, Dresden.) 2014-09-12 11:00: Unsupervised Many-to-many Object Matching (Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT)) 2014-09-12 12:00: Deep Time and Modern Brains (Professor Nicholas Strausfeld, FRS, Regents Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona) 2014-09-15 13:00: Stroke in young adults: risk factors and long-term consequences (Dr. Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands) 2014-09-16 10:00: A Study of Certain Models of Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum and Neocortex (David Higgins (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)) 2014-09-17 11:00: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 2014-09-17 16:30: Effects of Titin truncations on the heart in health, populations and cardiomyopathy patients (Prof Stuart Cook (Professor of clinical and molecular cardiology - Director, National Heart Research Institute Singapore)) 2014-09-24 11:00: A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models (Maria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2014-09-24 12:00: “Neuroprotection/neurorepair for TBI: experimental studies" (Dr Elisa Zanier,Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Department of Neuroscience, Italy.) 2014-09-25 11:00: New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine Learning (Jasper Snoek (Harvard University)) 2014-09-25 17:00: Myelin Disposal (Hartmut B. Frederik Pohl - IDIBELL Institute Barcelona and Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2014-09-30 13:00: Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesis (Wei Ji Ma (New York University)) 2014-10-01 13:00: Color Transformations Across the Life Span: Two Hypotheses about Modulation by Light (Professor John S. Werner, University of California, Davis) 2014-10-06 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Dr. Thomas Bourgeron, Génétique Humaine et Fonctions Cognitives Institut Pasteur) 2014-10-06 13:00: High-throughput Digital Brain Atlasing for Model Systems: Worm, Fly, Mouse, and Human (Dr Hanchuan Peng, Allen Brain Institute) 2014-10-06 17:00: Myelin Disposal (Dr. Hartmut B. Frederik Pohl - IDIBELL Institute Barcelona and University of Cambridge) 2014-10-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2014-10-08 12:30: Ageing, memory and altered cortical recruitment (Alexa Morcam (University of Edinburgh)) 2014-10-09 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-10-09 15:30: Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understanding (Fred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London)) 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) 2014-10-10 15:00: Thinking about thinking about thought: Neural mechanisms for understanding other minds (Professor Rebecca Saxe, Associate professor of cognitive neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT) 2014-10-13 15:00: The Marshmallow Test: Understanding self-control and how to master it (Professor Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology, Columbia University, USA) 2014-10-13 16:00: Language processing in a neurobiological context (Mirjana Bozic (Department of Psychology)) 2014-10-13 16:30: The neuroeconomics of complex social valuation (Colin Camerer. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) 2014-10-14 09:30: Sensory processing in neocortical networks: randomness, specificity and learning (Sadra Sadeh, Imperial College, London, UK) 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) 2014-10-14 13:00: Evolution of vertebrate photoreception and retinoid cycle: Clues from the eye transcriptome of basal vertebrates (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University, Canberra) 2014-10-14 13:00: Evolutionary perspectives on sex differences in behaviour (Dr Gillian Brown, University of St Andrews) 2014-10-15 12:00: "Promoting axon regeneration in the adult CNS by targeting intrinsic mechanisms" (Professor Patrice Smith, Carleton University/University of Ottawa, Canada) 2014-10-15 12:30: “How does natural selection shape development?” (Dr Willem Frankenhuis, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands) 2014-10-15 12:30: The Memory Maestros study – addressing working memory problems at a population-level in primary schools (Jon Quach (University of Melbourne)) 2014-10-16 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-10-16 15:30: Exploring neural correlates of object formation in Auditory Cortex (Jennifer Bizley (Ear Institute, UCL)) 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) 2014-10-17 15:00: Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and Depression (Anthony A. Grace, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, USA) 2014-10-20 13:00: The Brief Memory and Executive Test – BMET: a brief cognitive screening tool for cognitive impairment in small vessel disease (Dr. Matthew Hollocks, Stroke Research Group, University of Cambridge) 2014-10-20 13:30: More than a blocked pipe: the role of carotid atheroma inflammation in stroke severity and recovery. (Dr. Nicholas Evans) 2014-10-20 16:00: How to design good experiments and analyse the results (Bob Carlyon (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-10-20 16:30: Inhibition and adaptationin the outer retina - Intiguing synaptic mechanisms with unexpected molecular players (Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) 2014-10-21 14:30: Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective. (Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London) 2014-10-21 16:00: Using the Ekman 60 Faces Test to Detect Emotion Recognition Deficit in Brain Injury Patients (Luning Sun) 2014-10-21 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2014-10-22 12:30: Top-down visual processing and feature extraction in healthy observers and early psychosis (Christoph Teufel (University of Cambridge) ) 2014-10-23 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-10-23 14:00: A Tutorial on Probabilistic Programming (Prof. Frank Wood (Oxford)) 2014-10-24 13:15: Bridging cell-cell contact and cell fate in the early mouse embryo (Chuen Yan Leung (Zernicka-Goetz lab), PDN, University of Cambridge) 2014-10-24 15:00: Thinking flexibly and enhancing cognition (Professor Verity Brown, FRSE, Provost of St Leonard¹s College, University of St Andrews) 2014-10-24 16:00: The auxetic nucleus: nuclear mechanics and its role in regulating stem cell differentiation (Dr Kevin Chalut, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2014-10-27 13:00: Conjoint Measurement for assessing the contributions of different stimulus dimensions within a signal detection framework. (Dr Kenneth Knoblauch, Inserm, Bron) 2014-10-27 16:00: Intelligence and the frontal lobes (John Duncan (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-10-28 13:00: Emotional and cognitive empathy: from heritability to neurotransmitters (Florina Uzefovsky, Post Doc at the Autism Research Centre) 2014-10-28 14:00: "Affording brain protection and functional recovery after brain ischaemia in mice" (Christoph Harms, Charité, Center for Stroke Research Berlin) 2014-10-29 12:30: Prefrontal neuronal activities reflecting capacity constraints and emergent flexibility of cognition in varying-load working memory tasks (Kei Watanabe (University of Oxford)) 2014-10-29 13:00: Fading and Filling-in (Professor Lothar Spillmann, Freiburg) 2014-10-30 15:30: Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds (Stuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL)) 2014-10-30 16:00: Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach (Professor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology) 2014-10-31 13:15: The Zebrafish Mutation Project (Derek Stemple, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge) 2014-10-31 15:00: Neural Systems for Navigation (Dr. Hugo Spiers, Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, University College London) 2014-11-03 16:00: Emotion and mental imagery: from experiments to therapeutic applications (Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-11-03 17:00: Are oligodendrocyte progenitors in the adult brain generating oligodendrocytes? In vivo approaches to understand precursor cells outside the neurogenic niches (Dr. Leda Dimou-Rörentrop Physiological Genomics LMU Munich) 2014-11-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-05 12:00: "A functional network perspective on human cognitive control" (Dr Adam Hampshire, Senior Lecturer in Restorative Neurosciences, The Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London ) 2014-11-05 12:30: Rebuilding spatial awareness following stroke, can home-based training help? (Polly Peers (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-11-06 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-11-06 15:30: The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memory (Eva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading)) 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) 2014-11-07 13:15: A blueprint for cell fate: Network biology applied to stem cell engineering (Samantha Morris (George Daley lab), Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School) 2014-11-07 15:00: Genes and environment in adolescent attachment: a challenge to the received wisdom? (Professor Pasco Fearon, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London) 2014-11-07 16:00: Mechanobiology at the bone-joint interface: 'stopping the osteoarthritis flood' (Prof. Andrew Pitsillides (The Royal Veterinary College, London)) 2014-11-07 16:00: GluA3-containing AMPA receptors are crucial for cerebellar LTP and motor learning (Nicolas Gutierrez Castellanos, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam) 2014-11-10 10:30: Chaos and entropy production in spiking networks (Rainer Engelken) 2014-11-10 16:00: Sex differences in the mind and brain (Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Psychiatry)) 2014-11-11 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Amber Ruigrok, Autism Research Centre) 2014-11-11 13:00: What is Happiness and What Determines it? Integrating Perspectives from Philosophy, Social Science, and Psychology (Professor Alex Wood, University of Stirling) 2014-11-11 16:00: Aspects of adversarial and defensive psychology in complex settings (Paul Britton, Consultant Psychologist) 2014-11-12 12:00: "Organisation of PI3K/PTEN signalling in space and time: Implication for neuronal development and regeneration." (Professor Britta Eickholt, Insitute of Biochemistry, Charite Universitatsmediz in Berlin) 2014-11-12 12:30: Motivated forgetting: Insights from patients with focal brain lesions (Shanti Shanker (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-11-13 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-11-13 15:30: The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice information (Pascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université) 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) 2014-11-14 10:00: Nitric Oxide controls a switch between degenerative and regenerative phases of developmental neuronal remodelling (Oren Schuldiner, Ph.D, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) 2014-11-14 11:00: Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometers (Prof. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs)) 2014-11-14 13:15: Unreliable organizers: Canalization and robustness in C. elegans vulva development (Jeroen van Zon, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam) 2014-11-14 15:00: How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from Semantic Dementia (Dr Karalyn Patterson, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and MRC-CBU, Cambridge) 2014-11-17 13:00: The Eye Contact Effect: Mechanism and Development (Dr Atsushi Senju, Birkbeck, University of London) 2014-11-17 13:00: Cognitive Impairment after Stroke (Dr Mike O’Sullivan) 2014-11-17 16:00: Motor control (Jörn Diedrichsen (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)) 2014-11-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-19 12:30: The search for neurophysiological biomarkers of dementia using MEG and (Laura Hughes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-11-20 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-11-20 15:30: Specificity of effects of early parent-infant interactions in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and implications for intervention (Lynne Murray (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading)) 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) 2014-11-21 13:15: Order out of chaos - how does membrane traffic help organise the cell? (Sean Munro, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2014-11-21 15:00: Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and policy-makers (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk ) 2014-11-24 16:00: How to write good papers (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 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) 2014-11-25 13:00: Investigating recollection in autism spectrum disorder (Rose Cooper, Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-25 13:00: ‘I can get that song out of your head: Decoding perceptual representations with retinotopic and tonotopic maps.’ (Geoffrey M. Boynton, Jessica Thomas, and Ione Fine, University of Washington) 2014-11-25 16:00: Why latent varaibles in SEM do not always work well (Kasia Julia Doniec) 2014-11-26 11:00: Oracle Variational Inference (James McInerney (Columbia University)) 2014-11-26 12:30: Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments (Michael Browning (University of Oxford) ) 2014-11-27 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-11-27 15:30: The role of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations for episodic memory – Association vs information (Simon Hanslmayr (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)) 2014-11-28 10:30: Machine Translation with LSTMs (Ilya Sutskever (Google)) 2014-11-28 13:15: Single molecule studies of mRNA localisation and motor activation (Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2014-11-28 15:00: Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspective on Phonology and Dyslexia (Professor Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-28 16:00: TBA (Prof. Robert Brown, UCL) 2014-11-28 16:00: Synaptic plasticity of GluA3-containing AMPA-receptors, during anxiety and in Alzheimer’s disease (Helmut Kessels, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam) 2014-12-01 16:00: Methods and math in Cognitive Neuroscience (Olaf Hauk (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-12-01 16:30: The Annual Adrian Lecture. "The flow of information underlying a tactile decision." (Dr Karel Svoboda. Janelia Farm, USA.) 2014-12-02 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.)) 2014-12-03 12:00: "Development and disorders of axon wiring in the ocular motor system: the role of alpha2-chimaerin " (Professor Sarah Guthrie, Kings College London.) 2014-12-03 12:30: The effect of the APOE genotype on brain function (Nicola Filippini (University of Oxford)) 2014-12-03 13:00: Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity (Professor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg) 2014-12-04 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-12-04 15:30: Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desire (Jackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology)) 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) 2014-12-05 13:15: Hedgehog signalling and cell polarity in killer lymphocytes (Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2014-12-05 16:00: Tracking doses to material elements in radiotherapy treatment of cancer (Karl Harrison) 2014-12-08 13:00: Seeing through the eyes of stroke patients (Dr Daniela Petrova, University of Cambridge, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2014-12-09 13:00: White matter correlates of visual imagery in synesthesia (Dr Kirstie Whitaker, Research Associate Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2014-12-09 16:00: A ground state for cancer’ (Prof. Richard J. Gilbertson MRCP PhD, Scientific and Comprehensive Cancer Centre Director, Executive Vice President, Director of the Division of Brain Tumour Research - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis) 2014-12-10 12:30: Decision processes and decision deficits: Insights from response time data (Jiaxang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2014-12-11 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2014-12-15 10:00: The Blended Paradigm: A Bayesian Approach to Handling Outliers and Misspecified Models (Prof. Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University)) 2014-12-17 12:00: "Glycolipids in nervous system maintenance and disease" (Dr Hugh Willison, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow) 2015-01-05 09:15: "Past PhD student symposium" (Mixture of speakers - see programme) 2015-01-13 16:00: Aspects of Adversarial and Defensive Psychology in Complex Settings – Part Two (Paul Britton (Consultant Psychologist)) 2015-01-14 12:00: "Trisomy of chromosome 21 and Alzheimer Disease" (Dr Frances Wiseman, University College London, Institute of Neurology, London) 2015-01-14 12:30: Threat, or mere distraction? Anxiety-related attentional vigilance to threat distractors (Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford)) 2015-01-15 15:30: Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7T (David Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen) 2015-01-15 16:00: Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix (Dr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes) 2015-01-16 11:00: Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3) (Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2015-01-16 13:15: Polarization of ciliated node cells along the anterior-posterior axis by graded expression of Wnts and their inhibitors (Hiroshi Hamada, Osaka University, Japan) 2015-01-16 15:00: The application of psychological theories to clinical practice (Professor Barbara Wilson, OBE, Founder, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropyschological Rehabilitation and Honorary Consultant Psychologist) 2015-01-19 13:00: The Fathers' Affection Display in Contemporary Chinese Families (Xuan Li, University of Cambridge) 2015-01-19 16:00: How to give good talks (Tom Manly (MRC CBSU)) 2015-01-19 16:30: How developmental origin determines microcircuit function in the hippocampus. (Rosa Cossart Institute for Neuroscence, Montpellier) 2015-01-21 12:30: Decoding face exemplar representations across visual cortex: from shape to identity (Johan Carlin (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2015-01-22 16:00: How do listeners use their past experience to improve access to word meanings? (Jennifer Rodd (Experimental Psychology, UCL) ) 2015-01-23 11:00: Experiments with Non-parametric Topic Models (Prof. Wray Buntine (Monash University)) 2015-01-23 13:15: Cell-based modelling of epithelial morphogenesis: towards an integrative approach (Alexander Fletcher, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford) 2015-01-23 15:00: Upstairs-Downstairs- The Gut Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour (Professor John F. Cryan, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland) 2015-01-26 13:00: Cognitive Impairment in Small Vessel Disease: The RUN-DMC Study (Dr Anil Man Tuladhar, Department of Neurology, Center for Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) 2015-01-26 16:00: Theory in the cognitive and brain sciences (Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU)) 2015-01-26 16:30: Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Branching and Synoptogenicsm in Fly and Frog CNS (Dietmar Schmucker. VIB Vesalius Research Centre, KULeuven) 2015-01-27 16:00: Therapeutic Assessment: When a Clinical Psychologist Stands at the Crossroads of Psychological Assessment and Psychotherapy (Chia-Chi Chang (Clinical Psychologist; PhD. Candidate, Dept of Management, LSE)) 2015-01-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge)) 2015-01-28 12:00: "Looking at vision and behavior from visual cortex" (Dr Matteo Carandini, University College London.) 2015-01-28 12:30: Cognitive and neurobiological markers of anxiety and treatment success (Andrea Reinecke (University of Oxford)) 2015-01-28 18:00: The organised mind: thinking straight in the age of information overload (Daniel J Levitin, James McGill Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal) 2015-01-29 12:00: Latent Branching Trees (Dr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham)) 2015-01-29 13:00: Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of gloss (Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology) 2015-01-29 15:30: How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherry (Alan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham) ) 2015-01-30 13:15: Genome-wide loss-of-function screening using the CRISPR-Cas9 system (Kosuke Yusa Wellcome, Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge) 2015-01-30 15:00: How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment? (Professor Dorothy V. M. Bishop. 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(Zoe Kourtzi. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ryutaro Tanno (University of Cambridge)) 2015-02-11 11:00: Orthologous networks in biological systems (Dr Christopher Penfold (Warwick)) 2015-02-12 00:00: *CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB* (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-02-12 15:30: Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory (Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) ) 2015-02-12 16:00: An Evaluation of procedures to Assess Cognitive Effort in Malingering of Memory (Dr. Barry Tam (Clinical Psychologist; Hong Kong Hospital Authority; UCL) ) 2015-02-13 13:15: The collective cell biology of organ formation (Darren Gilmour, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany) 2015-02-13 15:00: The Evolution of Culture (Professor Kevin N. 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(Professor Chris Miller, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London) 2015-02-18 12:30: Developmental differences in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD (Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2015-02-19 15:30: Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory (Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) ) 2015-02-19 16:00: Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual System (Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden) 2015-02-20 13:15: Transcriptional networks in the developing Xenopus embryo (Jim Smith, MRC National Institute for Medical Research London) 2015-02-20 14:00: “Functional circuit plasticity after spinal cord injury: the role of Wnt signaling” (Edmund Hollis, University of California, San Diego) 2015-02-20 15:00: Active Sensing and Brain oscillations (Professor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) 2015-02-23 13:00: Genetic and vascular risk factors of lacunar stroke and its subtypes (Dr. Loes Rutten-Jacobs, Stroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-23 16:00: Bayesian inference and primary visual cortex: An introduction (Richard Turner (Department of Engineering)) 2015-02-23 17:00: "Gene therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases" (Professor Mimoun Azzouz) 2015-02-24 11:00: A* Sampling (Chris Maddison (U Toronto)) 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) 2015-02-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alec Greaves-Tunnell (University of Cambridge)) 2015-02-24 16:00: "Experimental therapeutics for neuromuscular disease" (Professor Matthew Wood) 2015-02-25 12:30: Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? 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Newaz) 2015-03-02 11:00: Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations (Dan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London)) 2015-03-02 16:00: From research to practice in working memory: The challenges of making a difference (Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU) ) 2015-03-02 16:30: Local Transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons (Erin Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) 2015-03-03 13:00: The brain of the beholder: Honouring individual representational idiosyncrasies. (Ian Charest, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2015-03-03 13:00: Children's Perceptions of their Sibling Relationships: Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Comparisons (Naomi White, University of Cambridge) 2015-03-04 11:00: Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity (Genevera I. 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(Prof. Florian Engert. Harvard University) 2015-04-28 13:00: Thoughts on sex and violence - using indirect measures in Forensic Psychology (Professor Robert Snowden, Cardiff University) 2015-04-28 13:00: IMFAR Practice Talks (Dorothea Floris, PhD Student, Autism Research Centre) 2015-04-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-29 12:30: Representational dynamics: object responses in monkey inferior temporal cortex (Marieke Mur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2015-04-30 11:00: Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital Management (Creighton Heaukulani, Matt Hoffman, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Andrew Baxter, ) 2015-04-30 15:30: Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain (Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 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) 2015-05-01 13:15: Trafficking and regulation of Wnt proteins in developing epithelia (Jean-Paul Vincent, The Francis Crick Institute - NIMR, London) 2015-05-01 15:00: Adult age differences in social cognition (Professor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen) 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) 2015-05-06 11:00: Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural Networks (Mark Rowland (Cambridge)) 2015-05-06 12:30: Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users (Stefano Cosentino (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2015-05-07 15:30: Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning (Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) ) 2015-05-08 13:15: Navigating through tissue mazes: how leukocytes find their way to functional destinations (Milka Sarris, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-08 15:00: Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact (Professor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford) 2015-05-11 16:30: NMDA receptors: diversity, molecular mechanisms and synaptic regulation. (Prof. Pierre Paoletti. École Normale Supérieure, Paris.) 2015-05-12 11:00: Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way down (Michael Osborne (Oxford University)) 2015-05-12 13:00: How do infants learn from us? 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(Ottoline Leyser, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-22 15:00: Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognition (Dr Antonia Hamilton, Reader in Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2015-05-26 11:00: Rogue states: altered dimensionality of neural circuit activity in Fragile-X mice (Cian O'Donnell, Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute, La Jolla) 2015-05-26 13:00: The emotional modulation of gaze-oriented attention and its influence by autistic-like traits (Dr Amandine Lassalle) 2015-05-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-27 12:30: Predictive coding in the brain in health and disease - how intracranial EEG helps validate non-invasive in vivo methods (Holly Phillips (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2015-05-27 13:00: Social processing in response to autobiographical memories of rejection and inclusion in depression (Julia Gillard (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2015-05-28 15:30: Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: Thinking outside of the boxes (Lisa Saksida (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 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) 2015-05-29 13:15: Converting temporal information into spatial information in an early vertebrate embryo (Caroline Hill, The Francis Crick Institute - Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London) 2015-06-01 17:00: Glutathione-dependent blood flow regulation by astrocytes (Dr Clare Howarth, University of Sheffield) 2015-06-02 11:00: Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? 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(Ramki Gummadi) 2015-06-09 11:00: Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMC (Dr Simon Byrne) 2015-06-09 13:00: The MInT study: Effectively communicating about, and intervening with, overweight in young children (Dr Deirdre Brown, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 2015-06-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-06-09 16:00: Big data for gender equality: digital records of gendered interests are associated with state-level gender equality in the US (Youyou Wu) 2015-06-09 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge)) 2015-06-10 12:30: Why do we jump the gun? 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(Dr Yoshi Aso, HHMI Janelia Farm) 2015-07-03 12:30: Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling Regression (Prof Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen)) 2015-07-06 11:00: "The C1q complement family serve as essential synaptic organizers in the CNS” (Professor Michisuke Yusaki, Department of Neurophysiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan) 2015-07-06 17:00: Multiple sclerosis viewed from a tissue energy perspective (Prof. Kenneth J. Smith) 2015-07-08 16:00: Contextual modulation of gamma rhythms in inhibition stabilized cortical networks (Yashar Ahmadian, Columbia University) 2015-07-09 12:00: "The genetic aetiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease" (Matthew Farrer, Professorof Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia) 2015-07-16 11:00: A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models (Maria Lomeli-Garcia, UCL) 2015-07-17 11:00: Rich Component Analysis (James Zou (Microsoft Research New England)) 2015-07-20 11:00: Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learning (Dr David Duvenaud (Harvard)) 2015-07-20 12:00: Idas and Lynkeas control Radial glial cells commitment to ependymal lineage (Stavros Taraviras Ph.D, Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras ) 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) 2015-07-22 12:00: "Idas and Lynkeas control Radial glial cells commitment to ependymal lineage" (Stavros Taraviras Ph.D, Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras ) 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 ) 2015-07-27 15:00: MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences (Alex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto)) 2015-07-29 11:00: Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific Discovery (Dr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University) 2015-07-30 15:00: Neuroprotective and axogenic properties of mesenchymal stem cells (Ben Mead, University of Birmingham ) 2015-07-31 14:00: Promoting axon growth in the CNS after injury (Dr Barbara Haenzi, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London ) 2015-08-21 13:00: Visual perceptual learning: A new perspective (Professor Cong Yu, Peking University) 2015-08-24 16:00: A normative account of episodic memory in online learning over open model spaces (Gergo Orban, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest) 2015-08-27 15:00: The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphs (Dr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge)) 2015-08-28 15:00: Should there be limits to academic freedom? (Professor James Flynn) 2015-09-07 11:00: Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality (Pedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania)) 2015-09-09 11:00: Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and Perception (Jason Yosinski (Cornell)) 2015-09-10 11:00: Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours (Stefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh) 2015-09-14 11:00: Convex Factorization Machines (Mathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie)) 2015-09-14 12:00: A-Star Sampling Review (Chris Maddison (U Toronto)) 2015-09-15 10:30: Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped Parameters (Koh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)) 2015-09-15 12:00: Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time (Professor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY) 2015-09-16 11:00: Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution Networks (Taco Cohen (University of Amsterdam)) 2015-09-18 12:00: "Intrinsic regulators of axon regeneration – an exciting role for 14-3-3 adaptor proteins" (Professor Alyson Fournier, Montreal Neurological Institute ) 2015-09-22 16:00: Sensing our way to motor recovery (Aya Takeoka, University of Basel) 2015-09-23 12:00: "Microtubule-based therapy for spinal cord injury and Alzheimer's disease" (Professor Peter Baas, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Philadelphia, USA) 2015-09-25 11:00: Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studies (Francesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute) 2015-09-30 13:00: Four Key Words: Making Autism Research Work for Women (Dena Gassner) 2015-10-01 16:00: Career Stories (Dr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson) 2015-10-07 09:30: Complementary approaches to Synaptic Plasticity: Objective Functions and Biophysics (Rodrigo Echeveste, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt) 2015-10-07 10:15: Decoding of complex stimuli from large retinal populations (Vicente Botella-Soler) 2015-10-07 12:00: "A subclass of neocortical fast spiking parvalbumin (FS-PV) interneurons enwrapped by PeriNeuronalNet (PNN) expresses ADAMTS peptidases. Possible roles of these metallo-peptidases in plasticity and critical period." (Dr Jean Rossier) 2015-10-08 16:00: Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (Dr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France) 2015-10-09 16:30: The Importance of Feeling Honest : A Candid Take on Moral Motivation (Professor Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stamford University, USA) 2015-10-12 11:30: Dale’s principle and the neural processing of latent factors (Alberto Bernacchia, Jacobs University, Bremen) 2015-10-12 12:00: C. elegans Lose It and Use It: One Story of Neuronal Proteostasis and One Story of Exercise in the Context of Aging Well (Dr. Monica Driscoll, Rutgers University, New Jersey) 2015-10-12 13:00: Monogenic Causes of Stroke: Bridging the Gaps with Next Generation Sequencing (Rhea Tan, Stroke Research Group, University of Cambridge.) 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) 2015-10-13 13:00: How Sex Offenders Groom Minors on the Internet (Dr Evianne van Gijn, University of Cambridge) 2015-10-13 13:00: Preterm infants build different brains (Professor Axel Heep) 2015-10-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-14 11:00: Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please. (Diederik P. Kingma (University of Amsterdam)) 2015-10-14 12:00: Approximate nonlinear filtering with a neural network (Jean-Pascal Pfister, ETH Zurich) 2015-10-14 16:00: Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Cell Tracking (Professor Gang Bao (Department of Bioengineering, Rice University)) 2015-10-15 10:30: Does testosterone predict autistic traits? 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(Matthew Rushworth. University of Oxford) 2015-11-10 13:00: Becoming a Viking:Processes of Identification with the Remote Past (Dr Marc Scully, Loughborough University) 2015-11-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-10 16:30: Do romantic partners or friends have similar personality after all? 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Director of the MRC - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2015-11-12 15:30: The integrative self (Glyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford) 2015-11-13 13:15: The origin of Metazoa, a genomics and cell biology approach…or why things are never ever so simple (Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, CSIC-UPF and Univeristy of Barcelona) 2015-11-13 16:30: Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEG (Dr Edmund Lalor, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin) 2015-11-16 16:00: Motor Control (Daniel Wolpert, Cambridge University) 2015-11-18 12:30: Gained in translation (Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2015-11-19 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2015-11-19 15:30: The Dyslexia Debate (Joe Elliott, Durham) 2015-11-19 16:00: Migration of neuronal and immune cells in forebrain wiring (Dr Sonia Garel, INSERM, France) 2015-11-20 13:15: Building a Platform for Cell Division (Paul Conduit, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-20 16:30: Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activation (Dr Juan J Canales, Reader in Behavioural Neurosciences Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester) 2015-11-23 13:00: B cells, Antibodies and Atherosclerosis (Dr. Andrew Sage, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-23 16:00: Emotion and mental imagery: from experiments to therapeutic applications (Emily Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2015-11-23 16:30: Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Social Behavior Circuits in the Mouse (Catherine DuLac, Harvard University) 2015-11-24 13:00: What dancing robots might teach us about the development of form and motion understanding in the human brain (Dr Emily Cross, Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University | Behavioural Science Institute & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud 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analyses of neuromesodermal progenitor dynamics in vivo (Ben Steventon, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-27 16:30: Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brain (Professor Masud Husain, Department of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford) 2015-11-30 16:00: Executive control and its disorders (James Rowe, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2015-11-30 16:30: Temporal Expectations in the Human Brain (Professor Kia Nobre) 2015-12-02 12:30: The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all (Rogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit) 2015-12-03 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2015-12-03 16:00: From mesoderm mechanotransductive evolutionary origins to tumourogenic mechanical induction (Emmanuel Farge, Institute Curie, Paris) 2015-12-04 16:30: Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal Women (Dr Nadine Kaslow, Professor and Vice Chair 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Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health) 2016-01-12 13:00: Programming of heart disease by developmental hypoxia, glucocorticoids and oxidative stress (Professor DIno Giussani, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-13 12:00: "Accelerating cell creation with CombiCult, a high throughput combinatorial cell culture technology" (Dr. Aaron Chuang, Plasticell) 2016-01-14 13:00: Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual information (Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner) 2016-01-14 15:30: Human brain networks from functional MRI (Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge) 2016-01-14 16:00: Evolution of color and motion vision (Claude Desplan- NYU Biology) 2016-01-15 16:30: New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false. (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) 2016-01-18 16:30: Human cerebral cortex development and disease in stem cell systems (Dr Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-19 13:00: Forming Beliefs: information seeking, avoidance & integration in the human brain (Dr Tali Sharot, University College London) 2016-01-21 15:30: How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics (Professor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford) 2016-01-21 16:00: How the sins of your grandparents affect your health (Dr Erica Watson PDN, Cambridge) 2016-01-22 13:15: Roles and mechanisms of the drivers of reprogramming (Jose Silva, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-25 16:00: Autism Spectrum condition (Florina Uzefovsky (University of Cambridge)) 2016-01-25 16:30: "Plastic Transcriptomes and Proteomes at Synapses" (Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) 2016-01-28 15:30: Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language (Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL) 2016-01-29 13:15: TF-mediated epigenetic memory in ES cells (Pablo Navarro, Institut Pasteur Dep. of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Paris, France) 2016-01-29 16:30: Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics (Professor Morten L. Kringelbach Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark ) 2016-02-01 13:00: Probing Visual System Organization after Injury with fMRI (Dr Stelios Smirnakis, Baylor College of Medicine) 2016-02-01 16:00: Intelligence and the Frontal lobes (Professor John Duncan ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2016-02-02 12:00: "Schwann cell reprogramming in peripheral nerve repair" (Mr Peter Arthur-Farraj, Norwich University Hospital, UK) 2016-02-02 13:00: HIV and the "dirty" other: Living with a spoiled identity (Dr Poul Rohleder, University of East London) 2016-02-02 16:00: Roles of cytoskeleton in hippocampal synaptic plasticity (Dr. Yasunori Hayashi, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) 2016-02-02 16:30: Money buys happiness when spending fits our personality (Sandra Matz, the Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge ) 2016-02-03 12:00: "What painlessness tells us about pain" (Professor Geoff Woods, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-03 12:30: Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis (Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-04 15:30: Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption (Prof Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-05 13:15: Using outbred genetics to explore Drosophilia development (Ewan Birney, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge) 2016-02-05 16:30: Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again) (Professor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University ) 2016-02-08 13:00: Physiological Imaging in Acute Stroke: CT perfusion and beyond (Dr. Smriti Agarwal, Honorary Clinical Research Associate/SpR in Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital/Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital) 2016-02-08 16:00: Functional MRI: physics and physiology (Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-02-08 16:30: "Function and modulation of sensory TRP channels" (Thomas Voets, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, University of Leuven, Belgium) 2016-02-09 13:00: Family influences on the health risk behaviours and well-being of African American adolescents (Prof Cleopatra Howard Caldwell) 2016-02-09 13:00: Impact of neuroinflammation on brain development  (Professor Pierre Gressans, King's College London) 2016-02-10 14:00: Predicting Psychology from Social Media Data (Dr David Stillwell - Judge Management School, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-11 15:30: Human neuroscience in the wild (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial) 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) 2016-02-12 12:00: Probabilistic synapses (Laurence Aitchison) 2016-02-12 13:15: Two for the price of one: twinning – the ultimate regeneration (Claudio Stern, Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London) 2016-02-12 16:30: A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions. (Professor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University) 2016-02-15 16:00: How to make good scientific figures (Matthew Davis, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-02-16 13:00: A discourse of ‘we’: gendered subjectivities and caregiving in UK ‘stay-at-home-dads’ (Dr Abigail Locke, University of Bradford) 2016-02-16 16:30: Assessment of enterprising personality in youth (Dr Javier Suárez-Álvarez; Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo) 2016-02-17 12:00: "Developing novel therapies for the childhood motor neuron disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)". (Professor Thomas H. Gillingwater, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Uk) 2016-02-17 12:30: A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-02-17 13:00: Colour perception in synaesthesia (Professor Katsuaki Sakata, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan) 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) 2016-02-18 16:00: Parietal cortex and action space (Prof. Roberto Caminiti) 2016-02-19 11:30: A more Automated Statistician (David Janz, Oxford University) 2016-02-19 13:15: Period and pattern in the embryo (Andrew Oates The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2016-02-19 16:30: How rational are we? (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London) 2016-02-22 16:00: Vision (Katherine Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2016-02-22 16:30: "Breaking symmetry in the brain – from genes to circuits and behaviour" (Steve Wilson, University College London) 2016-02-24 12:30: Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing? (Felix Hill (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-25 15:30: The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons (Dr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge) 2016-02-26 13:15: Live imaging and genetic analyses of transformed cell extrusion from the zebrafish embryonic epithelium (Masazumi Tada Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London) 2016-02-26 16:30: New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain (Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL) 2016-02-29 16:00: Interindividual variation of brain and cognition (Rogier Kievit, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-02-29 16:00: Measuring impacts of the economic crisis on well-being in Europe using a comprehensive measure (Kai Ruggeri, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-29 16:30: "Neurobiology of Economic Decisions" (Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Washington University, St Louis) 2016-03-02 12:00: "Stability and plasticity of synapses: new concepts in the light of super-resolution microscopy " (Antoine Triller, IBENS, Institut de Biologie de L'ENS, Paris) 2016-03-02 12:30: Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli (Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-03-03 13:00: CANCELLED (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-03-03 15:30: The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies (Professor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne) 2016-03-03 16:00: Astrocyte-like glia during visual circuit assembly in Drosophila (Iris Salecker) 2016-03-04 13:15: Pair-rule patterning in Drosophila: how does it work, and what does it tell us about short-germ segmentation (Erik Clark (Akam lab) Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2016-03-04 16:30: The typical and atypical development of the social brain (Mark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.) 2016-03-07 16:00: Working memory and its disorders (Joni Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2016-03-07 16:30: "Pathways specifying cell fates in the Drosophila CNS”. (Stefan Thor, Linkoping University, Sweden) 2016-03-08 13:00: The role of stigma in the pursuit of personal projects: Implications for the health and well-being of marginalized individuals (Dr David Frost, University of Surrey) 2016-03-09 12:00: "Dendropathy and retinal repair?" (Professor James Morgan, Cardiff Centre for Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK) 2016-03-09 12:30: The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2016-03-09 14:00: The geometry of uncertainty (Fabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University) 2016-03-10 09:00: Bioengineering Seminar (Various) 2016-03-10 09:00: Bioengineering Seminar (Various) 2016-03-10 12:00: "Neural stem/progenitor cells in development and disease" (Dr Stefano Stifani, Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.) 2016-03-10 15:30: The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCT (Dr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) 2016-03-10 16:00: Endothelial Cells and HIF transcription factors regulating lung pre-disposition for metastatic events (Dr Cristina Branco, PDN Cambridge) 2016-03-11 11:00: "Enhancing axonal transport: New approaches to promote axonal regeneration and neuronal repair" (Romain Cartoni, Harvard Medical School) 2016-03-11 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow) 2016-03-16 10:00: It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrine (Tom Dean, Google Research) 2016-03-16 11:00: The stabilized supralinear network: A simple "balanced network" mechanism explaining nonlinear cortical integration (Ken Miller, Columbia University) 2016-03-16 14:00: Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions (Jacob Steinhardt (Stanford University)) 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) 2016-03-18 16:00: Neural mechanisms underlying motor programme switching (Wenchang Li, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, UK) 2016-03-18 16:00: Multifunctional wing motor control in Drosophila (Anne Von Philipsborn, Dandrite, Aarhus University, Denmark) 2016-03-21 11:00: Brain State Control by Closed-Loop Environmental Feedback (Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute) 2016-03-22 11:00: Approximate Message Passing Algorithms (Dr Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge)) 2016-03-23 12:00: “Neutrophils: key players in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease” (Professor Gabriela Constantin, Department of Pathology and Diagnostics, University of Verona, Italy ) 2016-04-05 11:00: Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming System (Jan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford)) 2016-04-07 13:00: Cultivating Speech in Non-Verbal Children with Autism (Dr Aaron Ralby, Linguisticator Ltd) 2016-04-07 15:30: Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming (Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands) 2016-04-07 15:30: Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming (Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands) 2016-04-12 11:00: Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2016-04-14 13:00: Natural statistics and human perception of shape and gloss (Wendy J. Adams, Southampton University) 2016-04-18 11:00: Animal magnetic orientation (Dr Hervé Cadiou, University of Strasbourg) 2016-04-20 10:00: Synaptic origins of working memory capacity ( Misha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel ) 2016-04-20 12:00: "The use of clonal stem cells in CNS disease models: what can we learn from stem cells?" (Dr Antal Nogradi, University of Szeged, Hungary) 2016-04-20 12:30: The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition (Alpar Lazar, Cambridge) 2016-04-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Michael Strkyer, UCSF) 2016-04-22 16:00: Colour vision in dim light (Almut Kelber, Dept of Biology, Lund University) 2016-04-22 16:00: Flower signalling and pollinator behaviour (Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge)) 2016-04-22 16:30: Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control. (Professor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford) 2016-04-25 10:00: Control of the energy flux in the drosophila memory center (Thomas Preat, Director Brain Plasticity Unit, ESPCI-CNRS, Paris) 2016-04-26 13:00: The Early Development of Joking and Pretending (Dr Elena Hoicka, Sheffield University) 2016-04-26 13:00: Flight, flow and gaze control: Design principles of fly stabilization reflexes (Professor Holger G. Krapp, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College, London) 2016-04-27 12:00: "Neuropathological Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Disease" (Dr Kieren Allinson, Consultant neuropathologist and head of the Cambridge Brain Bank ) 2016-04-27 12:30: Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency (Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit) 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) 2016-04-28 15:30: Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memory (Professor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham) 2016-04-29 13:00: Sensory receptor diversity and colour vision range in butterflies and diptera (Dr Mike Perry, NYU) 2016-04-29 16:30: The Invention of Consciousness (Professor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge) 2016-05-03 11:00: From Sensation to Conception: Theoretical Perspectives on Multisensory Perception and Cross-Modal Transfer (Prof Robert Jacobs (University of Rochester) ) 2016-05-04 12:30: Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory (Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2016-05-05 15:30: Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula? (Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) 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) 2016-05-06 13:15: Division versus differentiation in development and disease (Anna Philpott, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/ MRC Research Centre, Cambridge ) 2016-05-06 16:30: An engineering approach to aversive learning. (Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2016-05-09 16:30: "Hijacking of NMDA receptor signalling by tumors" (Professor Douglas Hanahan, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) 2016-05-10 11:00: A role for circadian rhythms in maintaining neuronal properties (Timothy O'Leary) 2016-05-10 13:00: The construction of extremism in ‘The Trojan Horse’ affair: implications for identity and citizenship (Dr Caroline Howarth, London School of Economics) 2016-05-11 12:30: Cognitive control in affective contexts (Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit) 2016-05-12 15:30: Helping the police with their enquiries (Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle) 2016-05-13 11:00: MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical Models (Kui Tang, Columbia University) 2016-05-13 13:15: Dissecting mammalian 3D genome architecture with Capture Hi-C (Stefan Schoenfelder (Fraser lab) Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2016-05-13 16:00: Transient cortical dynamics: the role of excitation/inhibition balance (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-13 16:00: Processing of temporal patterns in the auditory system of grasshoppers (Bernd Ronacher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 2016-05-13 16:30: Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder." (Dominic M. Dwyer – Cardiff University) 2016-05-17 10:00: Cell-type tailored efference copy signals in Drosophila (Dr Lisa Fenk, Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, Rockefeller University ) 2016-05-18 12:00: "Long-term imaging of axon growth and calcium activity in human iPSC-derived neurons transplanted into the adult mouse cortex" (Vincenzo De Paola, ) 2016-05-18 12:30: Executive functions during abstract problem solving (Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2016-05-18 13:00: “Why are rods more sensitive than cones?” (Professor Gordon Fain (UCLA and PDN)) 2016-05-19 15:30: Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects (Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol) 2016-05-20 12:00: Perception as a closed-loop convergence process (Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute)) 2016-05-20 13:15: Building integrin adhesions in development and evolution (Nick Brown Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2016-05-20 16:30: Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective (Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience; Wellcome Trust Sernior Research Fellow in Clinical Science Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation T) 2016-05-23 13:00: Diet, lifestyle and risk of stroke: results from Swedish and Finnish cohort studies (Dr Susanna Larsson, Stroke Research Group, University of Cambridge and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) 2016-05-24 14:00: Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic Modeling (Robert Peharz (TU Graz)) 2016-05-26 13:00: CANCELLED - Prenatal estrogens and autism risk (Alexa Pohl, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge) 2016-05-26 15:00: Regulation of AMPA receptor trafficking and synaptic plasticity by PICK1: a BAR domain protein and actin modulator (University of Bristol, School of Biochemistry) 2016-05-26 16:00: Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency (Prof Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield) 2016-05-27 11:00: Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech Recognition (Gabriel Synnaeve) 2016-05-27 13:15: Balancing forces during mitosis: from molecular motors up to tissue mechanics (Sarah Woolner, Faculty of life sciences, University of Manchester) 2016-05-31 11:30: Towards a theory of layered neural circuit architectures (Alireza Alemi (École Normale Supérieure)) 2016-05-31 16:00: Perceptual decision-making: models of the decision-making process and formulation of uncertainty (David Zoltowski, University of Cambridge) 2016-06-01 12:30: High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain (Evelina Fedorenko, MIT) 2016-06-02 09:30: Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in Julia (Hong Ge (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-02 10:30: Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models (Maria Lomeli (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-02 11:30: Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations (Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-02 13:00: Neuroinflammation in autism (Dr John Suckling, Director of MRI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2016-06-03 13:15: Cell fate imbalance in the Oesophageal Epithelium: mutant cell competition (Maria Alcolea Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge ) 2016-06-03 14:00: Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal Mathematics (Josef Urban) 2016-06-07 09:30: Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networks (Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki)) 2016-06-07 10:30: Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical Models (Stephen Pasteris (UCL)) 2016-06-08 12:30: Large-scale brain networks in cognition and consciousness: focus on the default mode network (Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-09 11:00: Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity (Isabel Valera ) 2016-06-09 13:00: CANCELLED (Dr Florina Uzefovsky, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge) 2016-06-09 15:30: The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience (Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford) 2016-06-09 16:00: The roles of dopamine in perceptual and economic decision making (Dr Armin Lak, UCL) 2016-06-14 10:00: Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learning (Sixin Zhang (NYU)) 2016-06-14 11:00: Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task Learning (Yu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)) 2016-06-14 15:00: A modular architecture for Unicode text compression (Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (József Fiser (Central European University)) 2016-06-15 12:30: Developmental disorders of working memory (Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2016-06-16 15:30: Explorations in structural and functional compensation: Examples from aphasia and dyslexia (Dr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester) 2016-06-16 16:00: Learning from Nature - Development and Test Running of 500 Series Shinkansen Trainset ( Dipl. Ing. Nakatsu Eiji, former Director of the Test Operation Department of the West Japan Railway Company) 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) 2016-06-17 10:00: Tracing memory circuits in Drosophila using whole-brain electron microscopy (Dr. Davi Bock, Janelia Research Campus ) 2016-06-17 10:30: A decision-theoretic framework for active cognition (Angela J. Yu, UCSD Cognitive Science) 2016-06-17 16:00: Destiny of retrieved associative memories in vertebrates and invertebrates (Emiliano Merlo (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-17 16:00: Are bigger brains better? (Lars Chittka, Queen Mary, University of London) 2016-06-20 16:30: Mapping higher-order olfactory connectivity using two-photon optogenetics (James M. Jeanne, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School) 2016-06-23 16:00: Gene duplication and ion channel evolution in weakly electric fish (Prof Harold Zakon, UT Austin) 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) 2016-07-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL)) 2016-07-06 13:00: Wings inform: mechanosensing in insect flight control. (Tom Daniel (U. Washington, USA)) 2016-07-08 11:00: "Are astrocytes key players in neuronal cell death?" (Professor Maeve Caldwell, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Dublin) 2016-07-12 11:00: Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian Inference (Prof. David Blei (Columbia University)) 2016-07-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2016-07-18 13:00: Attention filters for features (Professor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine) 2016-07-21 11:00: Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series Methodology (Professor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University)) 2016-07-25 11:00: Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured Data (Prof Le Song (Georgia Tech)) 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) 2016-07-29 11:00: Interpretable and interactive machine learning (Dr Been Kim) 2016-08-08 11:00: Inference as Learning (George Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-08-19 11:00: Internal models and the neural control of prey interception (Anthony Leonardo, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus / HHMI) 2016-08-23 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2016-08-31 12:00: "Under Construction: Developmental Mechanisms and the Modification of Mature Brain Function" (Timothy E Kennedy, Montreal Neurological Institute) 2016-09-02 11:00: Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success Stories (Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 2016-09-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Matthew Kerr (CBL)) 2016-09-08 11:00: Learning with Memory Embeddings (Professor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)) 2016-09-09 12:00: Phosphatidylserine signaling in developmental synaptic pruning (Urte Neniskyte, EMBL & Vilnius University) 2016-09-09 13:00: "Proteostasis imbalance and neurodegenerative diseases" (Claudio Hetz, Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Santiago, Chile. ) 2016-09-12 11:00: Dynamic Models for Health Data (Professor Katherine A Heller (Duke University)) 2016-09-13 11:00: Multiresolution Matrix Factorization (Prof Risi Kondor (U Chicago)) 2016-09-14 09:00: Imaging Technologies for the Developing Brain (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-09-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (James Heald (CBL)) 2016-09-21 15:00: Reflections about intelligence over 30 years (Professor James Flynn ( University of Otago)) 2016-09-28 10:30: Facial masculinisation in the autism spectrum (Diana Tan, School of Psychology and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia) 2016-09-28 15:00: "Structure, Biology and Therapeutic Potential of Novel ER Located Growth Factors (Professor Mart Saarma) 2016-10-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Hannah Sheahan (CBL)) 2016-10-05 12:30: Open Science at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2016-10-06 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-10-06 11:00: Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCA (Professor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS)) 2016-10-06 15:30: Improving access to treatments for childhood anxiety disorders (Cathy Creswell, University of Reading) 2016-10-06 16:00: The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythms (Dr John O'Neill, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-07 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Trevor Wardill (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-07 16:00: Neural basis of seismic communication in courting Drosophila (Caroline Fabre (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-07 16:30: The psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to compulsive disorders: new insights from preclinical studies. (Dr David Belin) 2016-10-10 13:00: Glycoprotein VI in atrial fibrillation and thrombus formation (Dr Isuru Induruwa, Clinical Research Fellow) 2016-10-10 16:00: Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience (Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) 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) 2016-10-11 13:00: Dementia care through the lens of social representations: A discussion of anchoring and framing processes (Nils Töpfer, University of Jena, Germany) 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) 2016-10-12 12:30: Testing the potential of Modafinil to improve cognition in patients with remitted depression (Muzaffer Kaser, Cambridge University) 2016-10-13 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-10-13 15:30: Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamics (Maria Wimber, Birmingham University) 2016-10-13 16:00: Learning flights in bumblebees (Dr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University) 2016-10-14 16:30: Visual Attention Without Visual Awareness (Professor Robert Kentridge) 2016-10-17 16:00: Visual semantics and visual cognition (Dr Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)) 2016-10-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2016-10-19 12:00: “NMNAT2 in neural circuit formation and maintenance”. (Hui-Chen Lu, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University) 2016-10-19 12:30: Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind (Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute) 2016-10-20 10:00: Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors (Manon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University) 2016-10-20 15:30: Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning (Steve Kennerley, UCL) 2016-10-21 13:15: “Shaping Cells and Tissues: from Embryonic Development to Synthetic Biology” (Stefano de Renzis, EMBL, Heidelberg) 2016-10-21 16:30: See what you hear - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses - (Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK) 2016-10-24 16:00: Memory (Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 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) 2016-10-25 13:00: Understanding radicalisation (Dr Noemie Bouhana, University College London) 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) 2016-10-27 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-10-27 16:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery, UCL) 2016-10-28 13:15: "Patterns and logic of actomyosin planar polarisation during Drosophila axis extension" (Benedicte Sanson, PDN department, Cambridge) 2016-10-28 16:30: Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations ( Philippe Peigneux, PhD, Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016 Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec) 2016-10-31 16:00: Methods and math in cognitive neuroscience (Olaf Hauk ( MRC-CBU)) 2016-11-02 11:00: Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration (Dushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute) 2016-11-02 12:30: Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset (Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-11-03 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-11-03 11:00: Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models (Tomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan) 2016-11-03 15:30: Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control (Tim Behrens, Oxford) 2016-11-04 13:15: "Shaping cell contacts during tissue morphogenesis" (Pierre-Francois Lenne, IBDM, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France) 2016-11-04 16:00: From Sensory Perception to Foraging Decision Making, the Bat's Point of View (Depart. of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 2016-11-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Susana Lima, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal) 2016-11-04 16:30: Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets? (Professor Gregor Thut, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) 2016-11-07 11:00: A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals. (Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming)) 2016-11-07 16:00: Cognitive Ageing (Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2016-11-08 13:00: The Reluctant Altruist (Prof Eamonn Ferguson) 2016-11-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL)) 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) 2016-11-09 12:30: Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia (Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University) 2016-11-10 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-11-10 12:00: "The Fragile X granule and circuit-selective translational machinery in mature CNS axons" (Justin Fallon) 2016-11-10 15:30: Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes (Richard Turner, Cambridge) 2016-11-10 16:00: Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans (Dr Martin How, Bristol University) 2016-11-11 13:15: Domain architecture in the Drosophila genome (Rob White PDN, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-11 16:30: The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition (Axel Cleeremans, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 2016-11-14 09:00: Grid cells get back to the memory game (Alessandro Treves (SISSA)) 2016-11-14 16:00: Consciousness (Tristan Beckstein (Cambridge University)) 2016-11-15 09:00: Prospective coding by spiking neurons (Johanni Brea (EPFL)) 2016-11-15 16:30: Face Anonymity-Perceptibility Paradigm and an Application in Online Dating Industry (Dr. Shasha Lu, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-16 12:30: Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory (Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-11-17 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-11-17 11:00: Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept? (Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick)) 2016-11-17 12:15: Neural representations of uncertainty: the right tool for the right job (Cristina Savin (IST Austria)) 2016-11-17 15:30: How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech (Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario) 2016-11-17 16:00: Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear (Professor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark) 2016-11-18 13:15: "Why is the intestinal epithelia particularly susceptible to transformation by oncogenic APC mutations?" (Marc de la Roche, Biochemistry department, Cambridge) 2016-11-18 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) 2016-11-21 13:00: Cognitive function and disconnection of white matter networks in small vessel disease (Dr Andrew Lawrence, Stroke Research Group, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-21 16:00: How to give good talks (Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 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) 2016-11-22 11:30: Rejection Sampling Variational Inference (Francisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-22 13:00: Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (Prof Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany ) 2016-11-22 14:30: How smart does your profile image look? Estimating intelligence from social network profile images (Xingjie Wei, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge ) 2016-11-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Brian Trippe (CBL)) 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) 2016-11-23 12:30: Social rank processing in depression (Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2016-11-24 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-11-24 11:00: A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddings (Krzysztof Choromanski, Google NY) 2016-11-24 14:30: Innovative approaches to mindfulness and new applications in the clinical field (Dr. Francesco Pagnin, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan) 2016-11-24 15:30: Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus? (David Baguley, University of Nottingham) 2016-11-24 16:00: Stem cells, gene editing, and cellular models of human neurological disease (Dr Florian Merkel, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-25 13:15: Lung Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease (Joo-Hyeon Lee Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-25 16:30: Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity (Professor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2016-11-28 16:00: Deep Neural Networks (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2016-12-01 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-12-01 11:00: Learning with limited supervision (Stefano Ermon, Stanford) 2016-12-01 15:30: On sensing what is not there (Andrew Welchman, Cambridge) 2016-12-01 16:00: Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicators (Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London) 2016-12-02 13:15: Coping with a stressful start in life (Alex Gould The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2016-12-02 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Jenny Read, Newcastle University) 2016-12-02 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido (University of Cambridge)) 2016-12-02 16:30: Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain (Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University) 2016-12-05 16:30: "Negative-feedback control of cortical activity by the neuromodulator adenosine" PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE (Magnus Richardson, University of Warwick) 2016-12-08 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-12-09 16:30: Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development (Professor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. ) 2016-12-12 10:30: One day meeting on vision and neuroscience (One day meeting on vision and neuroscience) 2016-12-13 11:00: Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models (Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto)) 2016-12-14 13:00: Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perception (Dr Lynne Kiorpes (NYU)) 2016-12-14 15:00: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot Collaboration (Elena Corina Grigore (Yale University)) 2016-12-15 11:00: Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated models (Daniel Roy (University of Toronto)) 2016-12-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Matthew Kerr (CBL)) 2016-12-16 13:00: When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decoding (Alan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania)) 2016-12-16 16:30: ‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’ (Dr Rosalind Ridley) 2016-12-19 13:00: Intensive blood pressure control and cerebral blood flow in small vessel disease (Dr. Iain Croall, Stroke Research Group, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-12 13:00: "Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing" (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute)) 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) 2017-01-18 12:30: Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding (Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)) 2017-01-18 12:30: Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding (Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)) 2017-01-20 16:00: From virtual screening to mode of action analysis: How computers can help chemical biology and drug discovery (Andreas Bender, Centre for Molecular Informatics, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-20 16:30: Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints. (Professor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.) 2017-01-23 16:00: How to write good papers (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-01-23 16:30: "The visual cortex as a cognitive blackboard" (Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) 2017-01-24 11:00: Julia: Introduction and new developments (Dr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing)) 2017-01-24 13:00: Social representations and political thought (Prof Christian Staerklé, University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 2017-01-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL)) 2017-01-25 12:30: Unitization effects on memory (Roni Tibon (CBSU)) 2017-01-25 15:00: Variational Bayes In Private Settings (Mijung Park, University of Amsterdam) 2017-01-26 15:30: Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury (Alan Carson (Edinburgh)) 2017-01-26 15:30: Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury (Alan Carson (Edinburgh)) 2017-01-26 16:00: Retinal functomics: What the eye tells the brain, and how it got there (Dr Tom Baden, University of Sussex) 2017-01-27 16:00: Macrocyclized extended peptides: Inhibiting the substrate-recognition domain of tankyrase (Wenshu Xu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-27 16:30: Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it) ( Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley) 2017-01-30 16:00: Functional MRI: physics and physiology (Marta Correia and Danny Mitchell (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-01-31 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs (Group Discussion) 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) 2017-02-01 12:00: Textual sentiment, option information and stock predictability (Cathy YH Chen, Yanchu Liu and Wolfgang Karl Härdle) 2017-02-01 12:30: Training working memory is learning to do something new (Sue Gathercole (CBSU)) 2017-02-02 15:30: Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex (Matteo Carandini (UCL)) 2017-02-03 13:15: Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in brain development and cancer (Eugene Makeyev, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London) 2017-02-03 16:00: How does CGRP activate its receptor? An odyssey of a family B G-protein coupled receptor (David Poyner, Aston University) 2017-02-03 16:30: Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal Cortex (Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London) 2017-02-06 16:00: Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator) (Bob Carlyon (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-02-07 13:00: Uncovering the Glass Cliff: Women's leadership roles in times of crisis (Prof Michelle Ryan, University of Exeter and University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 2017-02-07 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization (Group Discussion) 2017-02-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2017-02-08 12:30: Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU (Bob Carlyon (CBSU)) 2017-02-09 15:30: Confidence and adaptive decision making (Nick Yeung (Oxford)) 2017-02-09 16:00: Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain (Professor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh) 2017-02-10 11:00: Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programs (Valentin Dalibart) 2017-02-10 13:15: Pluripotency at the multicellular level (Marta Shahbazi, PDN, University of Cambridge ) 2017-02-10 16:00: A reductionist approach to cardiovascular disease: Inorganic nitrate to nitrite to NO (Amrita Ahluwalia, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London) 2017-02-10 16:30: Learning to learn: lessons from action video games (Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva) 2017-02-13 16:00: Theory in the cognitive and brain sciences (Dennis Norris (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-02-13 16:30: "Turning glia into neurons - from scar formation to repair" (Magdalena Goetz, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen) 2017-02-14 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization (Group Discussion) 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) 2017-02-16 16:00: In vivo studies of cellular and subcellular mechanisms that build the vertebrate brain (Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London) 2017-02-17 13:15: Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level (Ana Cvejic, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-17 16:00: Decoding the hidden regulatory landscape of the proteome (Norman Davey, University College Dublin) 2017-02-17 16:30: Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making? (Professor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France) 2017-02-20 10:00: Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortex (Laura Driscoll (Harvard University)) 2017-02-20 16:00: How to make good scientific figures (Matt Davis (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 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) 2017-02-21 13:00: Social Identity: The enactment and performance of religious identities (Dr Nicholas Hopkins, University of Dundee, Scotland) 2017-02-21 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2017-02-22 12:30: We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward (Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)) 2017-02-23 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks (Group Discussion) 2017-02-23 15:00: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning (Dylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley) 2017-02-23 16:00: Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Professor Paul Martin, University of Bristol) 2017-02-24 13:15: Highlights from the “Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD) consortium” – novel insights into gene function during embryogenesis (Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2017-02-24 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Margaret Ashcroft, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-24 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino) 2017-02-27 16:00: Intelligence and the frontal lobes (John Duncan (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-02-27 16:30: "Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity" (Oscar Marin, King's College London) 2017-02-28 13:00: Attitudinal Influences on Moral Judgments (Prof Bogdan Wojciszke, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland) 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) 2017-03-01 12:30: Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network (Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU)) 2017-03-01 13:00: “How does melanopsin help us to see?“ (Dr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester) 2017-03-01 13:30: Multidimensional IRT models and their applications to psychological testing (Igor Menezes (University of Cambridge)) 2017-03-02 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets (Group Discussion) 2017-03-02 15:30: Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it? (Essi Viding (UCL)) 2017-03-02 15:30: Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it? (Essi Viding (UCL)) 2017-03-02 16:00: Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviour (Professor Ewa Paluch, University College London) 2017-03-03 13:15: Transcription as a driver of epigenetic transitions during oocyte development (Gavin Kelsey, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2017-03-03 16:00: Neutrophil transmigration in vivo: Modes, mechanisms and pathogenesis (Sussan Nourshargh, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London) 2017-03-03 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London) 2017-03-06 16:00: Developmental cognitive neuroscience (Joe Bathelt (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-03-06 16:30: "Variability, robustness and modulation in neurons and networks" (Eve Marder, Brandeis University USA) 2017-03-07 13:00: Developmental changes after early adversity: lessons from adoption research (Prof Jesus Palacios, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) 2017-03-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sebastian Schneegans (Bays Lab)) 2017-03-08 12:30: New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression (Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU)) 2017-03-09 13:30: Differential Privacy Tutorial (Alex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-09 15:30: Social brain development in adolescence (Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL)) 2017-03-09 16:00: Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth (Professor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany)) 2017-03-10 11:00: Control, inference and learning (Prof. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen)) 2017-03-10 13:15: Human embryogenesis and the first trimester intrauterine environment (Graham Burton, Centre for Trophoblast Research, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-10 16:00: The role of neutrophil-endothelial interactions in modulating lung inflammation (Charlotte Summers, Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-10 16:30: Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making (Professor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2017-03-13 12:00: Epigenetic microglial memory of peripheral inflammation shapes neurological disease (Dr Jonas Neher, University of Tübingen) 2017-03-13 16:00: Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis (Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-03-14 11:00: Differentially Private Bayesian Learning (Dr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki) 2017-03-14 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks (Group Discussion) 2017-03-15 11:00: Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic Programs (Tom Rainforth, University of Oxford) 2017-03-15 12:30: Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks (Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) ) 2017-03-16 09:00: CUED PhD and Post-doc Bioengineering Seminar (University of Cambridge) 2017-03-16 15:30: Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction (Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires)) 2017-03-16 15:30: Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction (Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires)) 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) 2017-03-17 13:00: “Axon death pathways converge on Axed to promote functional and structural axon disassembly” (Dr Lukas Neukomm, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States ) 2017-03-17 16:30: Observations from the Edge of Beauty (Mr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-20 16:00: Dysregulation of a novel nerve growth factor metabolic pathway causes cholinergic atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (Dr. Claudio Cuello, McGill University, Montreal, Canada) 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.) 2017-03-21 13:00: "The koniocellular visual pathway" (Dr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London) 2017-03-21 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs (Group Discussion) 2017-03-22 10:30: Genetic connections between neurodevelopment, autism & schizophrenia (Jeffrey Barrett, Group Leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Director, Open Targets) 2017-03-24 11:00: Allosteric regulation and biased signaling at class B GPCRs (Professor Patrick Sexton, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences) 2017-03-30 10:00: Insights into ligand recognition and desensitization from the x-ray structure of a nicotinic receptor (Ryan Hibbs, UT Southwestern) 2017-04-04 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders (Group Discussion) 2017-04-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Hannah Sheahan (CBL)) 2017-04-06 09:00: Accelerating Development in Biomedical Engineering (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-04-11 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning (Group Discussion) 2017-04-12 12:30: Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry (Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain ) 2017-04-12 15:00: Longevity and anticancer mechanisms in the naked mole rat (Prof. Vera Gorbunova) 2017-04-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (James Heald (CBL)) 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) 2017-04-26 12:30: Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry (Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham)) 2017-04-27 15:30: Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction (Antonia Hamilton (UCL)) 2017-04-27 16:00: Removing tumours from within and around the brain (Dr Thomas Santarius) 2017-04-28 16:30: Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction (Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria) 2017-05-02 13:00: Ritual, Community, and Conflict (Prof Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford) 2017-05-03 12:30: Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process? (Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-05-03 13:00: Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man. (Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham) 2017-05-04 15:30: I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains. (Jennifer Lau (KCL)) 2017-05-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2017-05-05 13:15: Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance (Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-05 16:30: Do we control language or does language control us? (Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales.) 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) 2017-05-10 12:30: The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention (Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-05-10 16:00: A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex (Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento) 2017-05-11 15:30: CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind? (Mark Stokes (Oxford)) 2017-05-12 10:30: Drosophila Aggression: Agonistic interaction as a strategic action (Kenta Asahina, Assistant Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies ) 2017-05-12 13:15: Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells (Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-12 16:30: The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour. (Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex) 2017-05-15 16:30: "Circular Inference in schizophrenia...and all of us" (Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris) 2017-05-16 13:00: Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives (Dr Sophie Zadeh, University of Cambridge, Prof Nikos Kalampalikis, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France), & Marjolaine Doumergue, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France)) 2017-05-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Brian Trippe (CBL)) 2017-05-17 12:30: Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation (Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-05-18 15:30: Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity (Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford)) 2017-05-19 13:15: Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A (Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState) 2017-05-19 16:30: Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system (Dr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands)) 2017-05-24 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-05-24 12:00: "Polymerase Chain Reaction: Methods, Principles and Application" (Dr Romina Vuono, John Van Geest Centre For Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2017-05-24 12:30: Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI (Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-05-25 11:00: On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks (Martin Arjovsky) 2017-05-25 15:30: Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy (Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham)) 2017-05-26 13:15: Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro (Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL)) 2017-05-31 12:30: A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain (Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-06-01 16:00: Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair (Professor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid) 2017-06-02 13:15: Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain (Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2017-06-07 10:30: The story of the infinity principles: a link between autism and a person's potential (Rhys Jenkins) 2017-06-07 12:30: Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating (Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-06-08 15:30: Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications (Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin)) 2017-06-09 13:15: A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission (Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) 2017-06-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Matthew Kerr (CBL)) 2017-06-14 10:00: Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction times (Yul Kang (Columbia University)) 2017-06-14 10:45: Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigation (Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute)) 2017-06-14 11:30: motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networks (Vincent Fortuin (ETH)) 2017-06-14 12:30: Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000) (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-06-15 15:30: The typical and atypical development of the human social brain (Mark Johnson (UoC)) 2017-06-15 16:00: The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammals (Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham)) 2017-06-20 12:00: "In Vivo Glia-to-Neuron Conversion For Brain Repair" (Gong Chen,Professor and Verne M. Willaman Chair in Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University) 2017-06-20 16:00: Ion Channels as Targets for CNS Disease (Prof. Derek Bowie,Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University) 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) 2017-06-21 12:30: How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations? (Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-06-22 15:30: Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition (Kate Jeffrey (UCL)) 2017-06-22 16:00: Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective (Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland)) 2017-06-26 13:00: Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex (Dr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford)) 2017-06-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dhruva Raman (Control Group)) 2017-07-03 11:00: Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks (Francesco Caravelli (LANL)) 2017-07-03 11:00: Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks (Francesco Caravelli (LANL)) 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) 2017-07-05 12:00: “Innate Immunity in Injury and Disease in the Nervous System” (Professor Shlomo Rotshenker,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2017-07-05 12:30: Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain (Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire) 2017-07-06 11:00: A simple neural network module for relational reasoning (David Barrett, DeepMind) 2017-07-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Timothy O'Leary (Control Group)) 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) 2017-07-20 14:00: Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions (Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University) 2017-07-27 15:30: The 2017 Flynn Lecture: Male and Female IQ- A balance sheet (Professor James Flynn, Department of Politics, University of Orago) 2017-09-04 12:00: “Translational control of axonal mRNAs can accelerate regeneration” (Jeff Twiss, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina) 2017-09-04 13:00: Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning (Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside) 2017-09-08 11:00: Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation (Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) ) 2017-09-08 11:00: Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting (Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) ) 2017-09-08 11:00: Deep learning for autonomous driving (Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) ) 2017-09-12 11:00: The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness (Dr Matt Kusner) 2017-09-14 11:00: Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices (Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton) 2017-09-26 15:00: A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care (Dr Cheng Zhang) 2017-09-27 18:30: How to Deploy Psychometrics Successfully in an Organisation (David Stillwell) 2017-10-02 13:00: Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision (Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University) 2017-10-03 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2017-10-04 12:30: Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events (Andrea Greve (MRC CBU)) 2017-10-05 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-10-05 15:30: Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageing (Rik Henson (MRC CBU)) 2017-10-06 16:30: Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering (Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-09 16:00: Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience ( Robert Turner (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)) 2017-10-09 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task" (Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas) 2017-10-10 13:00: Sex-typed preferences are not universal: An experimental test of children's toy and colour preferences in Peruvian Amazon Basin and Vanuatu kastom villages (Jac Davis, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-11 12:30: Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory (Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge)) 2017-10-12 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-10-12 15:30: Perspective taking during communication (Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York)) 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) 2017-10-13 13:15: Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates (Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany)) 2017-10-13 14:00: Transfer Learning for NLP (Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre) 2017-10-13 16:30: The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status (Dr Pranjal Mehta, University College London) 2017-10-16 16:00: Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught (Olaf Hauk (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-10-17 11:00: Spike timing in motor control (Ilya Nemenman (Emory University)) 2017-10-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL)) 2017-10-18 12:30: Large scale network interactions in consciousness (Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge)) 2017-10-19 11:00: Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning (Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen) 2017-10-19 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-10-19 15:30: How memory guides value-based decisions (Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia)) 2017-10-20 13:15: Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates (Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-20 16:30: How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation (Dr Ana Guinote, University College London) 2017-10-23 12:30: Phase-coupling Resting-State Networks (RSNs) from human intra-cranial recordings comprise functionally related, spatially contiguous regions (Nitin Williams, University of Helsinki) 2017-10-23 16:00: Visual cognition (Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-10-24 13:00: Researching social problems: Putting the cart before the horse? (Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton) 2017-10-25 12:30: Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity (Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge)) 2017-10-26 10:00: From the olfactory cocktail party to markerless tracking ( Alexander Mathis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University) 2017-10-26 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-10-26 14:00: Somatosensory cortex is essential for adaptive motor control in mice (Mackenzie Mathis, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University) 2017-10-26 15:30: Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health (Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie)) 2017-10-27 13:15: Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain (Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-27 16:30: An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory (Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich) 2017-10-30 16:00: Mechanisms of forgetting (Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-10-30 16:30: TODAY: Adrian Seminar - "Functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mammalian CNS" - David Rowitch (David Rowitch, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-31 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2017-11-01 11:00: Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-making (Joshua Kroll) 2017-11-01 12:30: Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions (Marieke Mur (MRC CBU)) 2017-11-02 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-11-02 12:00: Twenty years of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies (Prof Maria Grazia Spillantini - Clifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre - University of Cambridge) 2017-11-02 15:30: Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications (Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel)) 2017-11-03 13:15: Detecting death and damage: understanding macrophage migration in Drosophila (Will Wood, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol) 2017-11-03 16:30: Touch: The sensory scaffold of development? (Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London) 2017-11-06 12:30: Non-invasive electrophysiological recordings of human hippocampus (Sofie Meyer, UCL) 2017-11-06 16:00: Emotion (Haakon Engen (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 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) 2017-11-07 13:00: Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa (Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics ) 2017-11-07 13:00: The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory (Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University) 2017-11-08 12:30: High-risk strategies, suicidality and the meaning of p (Peter Jones (University of Cambridge)) 2017-11-09 12:00: Systemic α-synuclein injection triggers the selective pathology of Parkinson’s disease (Dr William Kuan - University of Cambridge) 2017-11-09 15:30: The brain isn't porridge (Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford)) 2017-11-09 16:00: TODAY: Foster Talk "Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours" Professor Richard Benton (Professor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) 2017-11-10 13:15: Cartilage by 3D bioprinting of iPS cells (Stina Simonsson, Institute of Biomedicine, Göteborg (Sweden)) 2017-11-10 16:30: Information networks, truth and value. (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London) 2017-11-13 14:30: How much to gain: Controlling space and time via gain modulation in cortical networks (Jake Stroud (Tim Vogels Lab. University of Oxford)) 2017-11-13 16:00: Consciousness (Tristan Bekinschtein (University of Cambridge)) 2017-11-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mahdieh Sadabadi (CBL)) 2017-11-15 12:30: Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech (Matt Davis (MRC CBU)) 2017-11-16 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-11-16 12:00: Modelling synucleinopathy in mouse (Dr Michal Wegrzynowicz - Clifford Allbutt Building, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-16 15:30: Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease (Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge)) 2017-11-17 11:00: Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization (Dr Frank Hutter) 2017-11-17 13:15: Decoding the Notch signal (Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-17 16:30: Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia (Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London) 2017-11-20 16:00: How to give good talks (Tom Manly (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2017-11-21 13:00: Spaces for citizen involvement in healthcare: an ethnographic study (Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 2017-11-21 13:00: Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system (Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL) 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) 2017-11-22 12:30: Learning and plasticity in adolescence (Delia Fuhrmann (UCL)) 2017-11-23 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-11-23 12:00: Central nervous system pericytes: new insight on their identity and potential role in brain repair (Dr Ilknur Ozen - Lund University) 2017-11-23 13:00: Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain (Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford) 2017-11-23 15:30: The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory (Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) ) 2017-11-23 16:00: Foster Talk: Professor Wolfram Schultz "How my brain is getting me the best reward" (Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge) 2017-11-24 11:00: Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent (Yutian Chen, DeepMind) 2017-11-24 13:15: Mechanisms of filopodia regulation (Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) 2017-11-24 16:30: Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control (Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands) 2017-11-27 11:00: Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation. (Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto)) 2017-11-27 16:00: Functional MRI: physics and physiology (Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 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) 2017-11-28 13:00: Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates. (Dr Janine Mendola (McGill)) 2017-11-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2017-11-30 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-11-30 12:00: Modulation of Astroglial Lipocalin 2 Expression with RNA Nanotherapeutics (Dr Jayden Smith - Clifford Allbutt Building, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-30 15:30: Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention (David Shanks (UCL)) 2017-12-01 11:00: AI for Inclusive Finance (Alan Qi and Le Song) 2017-12-01 16:30: Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory (Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton) 2017-12-07 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2017-12-07 12:00: Down syndrome cathepsin deficits and Alzheimer’s disease (Dr Frances Wiseman - University College London) 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) 2017-12-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dhruva Raman (Control Group)) 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) 2017-12-13 11:00: Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks (Professor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University) 2017-12-13 13:30: Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priors (Manfred Opper, TU Berlin) 2018-01-11 12:00: Milner Therapeutics Institute: a global therapeutic alliance based in Cambridge (Kathryn Chapman and Tony Kouzarides - Milner Therapeutics Institute) 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) 2018-01-17 12:30: Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making (Fabian Grabenhorst (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2018-01-18 12:00: Induction of a transmissible tau pathology by traumatic brain injury (Elisa Zanier - Mario Negri Institute (Italy)) 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) 2018-01-19 16:30: Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise (Dr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2018-01-22 12:00: Heterogeneity in hearing loss and its impact on development of treatments (Prof Karen Steel, King's College London) 2018-01-22 16:00: Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator) (Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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) 2018-01-23 13:00: The role of attachment in cults and radicalization (Dr Alexandra Stein, Mary Ward Centre, London) 2018-01-23 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL)) 2018-01-24 12:30: Functional MRI across the lifespan: challenges and perspectives (Kamen Tsvetanov (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology) ) 2018-01-25 14:30: The role of DNAJB6 in protein Homeostasis (Harm H. Kampinga Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 2018-01-25 15:30: Towards large-scale analyses of genes, brains and language (Prof Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen)) 2018-01-26 16:30: Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening (Dr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester) 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) 2018-01-29 16:00: Computational Models—who needs them? (Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-01-29 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - A remarkable combination of skills in hunting archerfish (Stefan Schuster, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena) 2018-01-31 12:30: Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school (Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-02-01 12:00: Role of microRNAs in axonal development and neuronal connectivity (Federico Dajas-Bailador - University of Nottingham) 2018-02-01 15:30: Imaging in an era of multi-scale neuroscience: challenges and opportunities (Karla Miller (U. of Oxford)) 2018-02-01 16:00: Foster Talk - "Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease" (Meritxell Huch, The Gurdon Institute) 2018-02-02 13:15: Cell polarity remodelling by the RASSF protein family (Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2018-02-02 17:00: A conversation on his life and work with Prof David Spiegelhalter (Prof Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University ) 2018-02-05 16:00: How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory? (Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-02-05 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory" (Tim Bliss, University College London) 2018-02-06 13:00: What constitutes 'discrimination' in everyday talk? Argumentative lines and the social representations of discrimination (Dr Katy Greenland, Cardiff University ) 2018-02-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Calvin Kao (CBL)) 2018-02-07 12:30: Value generalization during human avoidance learning (Agnes Nobury (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering)) 2018-02-08 12:00: Building cortical networks: from molecules to function (Prof Beatriz Rico - King's College London) 2018-02-08 14:00: Engineering Biomaterials to Enhance Stem Cell-based Tissue Regeneration: from 'outside-in' and from 'inside-out' (Dr Fan Yang, Associate Professor, Stanford University) 2018-02-08 15:30: Attentional episodes and cognitive control (John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-02-09 13:15: Modulating developmental signals allows establishment of cultures of expanded potential stem cells (Liu Pentao, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2018-02-09 16:30: Using narratives to understand human conscious experience (Dr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin) 2018-02-12 16:00: How to write good papers (Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-02-12 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Starting new actions and learning from it" (Rui Costa, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia) 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) 2018-02-15 11:00: Interfacing with the brain using organic electronics (George Malliaras (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,)) 2018-02-15 15:30: How language variation contributes to reading difficulties and “achievement gaps” (Mark Seidenberg (U. of Wisconsin-Madison)) 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) 2018-02-16 11:00: Lipschitz Global Optimization (Professor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria) 2018-02-16 13:00: Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech (Milena Bonte, University of Maastricht) 2018-02-16 13:15: Primary liver tumor organoids: a new pre-clinical model for drug sensitivity analysis (Laura Broutier, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2018-02-16 16:30: From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis. (Prof Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands ) 2018-02-19 16:00: Intelligence and the frontal lobes (John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-02-20 13:00: Internal Displacement in Cyprus and childhood: The view from genetic social psychology (Dr Charis Psaltis, University of Cyprus, Nicosia) 2018-02-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Robert Taylor (Bays Lab)) 2018-02-21 12:30: MRI in large animals: a new imaging model (Arsene Ella (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-02-21 13:00: Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains (Professor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas) 2018-02-22 12:00: "Epigenetic studies in Alzheimer's disease" (Katie Lunnon - University of Exeter) 2018-02-22 15:30: Finding meaning in English writing (Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway)) 2018-02-23 13:15: A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis (Edouard Hannezo, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) 2018-02-23 16:30: : Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties (Prof. Roland W. Fleming, PhD Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology, Justus-Leibig University Giessen ) 2018-02-26 16:00: How to make good scientific figures (Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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) 2018-02-28 10:30: New Insights in Immunopsychiatry (Provisional Title) (Professor Ed Bullmore, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2018-02-28 12:30: Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing (Claire O’Callaghan (U. of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences)) 2018-03-01 12:00: Keeping axons alive: from mice, flies and fish to people (Michael Coleman, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge) 2018-03-01 15:30: CANCELLED: The cognitive neuroscience of antidepressant drug action (Catherine Harmer (U. of Oxford)) 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) 2018-03-02 13:15: The genetic framework of germline stem cell development (Karam Teixeira, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2018-03-02 16:30: How is visual perception biased (Dr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) 2018-03-05 12:30: Fast validation of LDA classifiers for cross-validation and permutation testing + new MVPA toolbox (Matthias Treder (University of Birmingham)) 2018-03-05 16:00: Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis (Rogier Kievit (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-03-05 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Physiological and genetic heterogeneity in hearing loss" (Karen Steel, King's College London) 2018-03-06 11:00: Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena? (John P. Cunningham) 2018-03-06 13:00: Bringing Personality Theory Back to Life: On Persons-in-Context, Idiographic Strategies, and Lazarus (Prof Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)) 2018-03-07 12:30: UK 7T travelling-head study: pilot results (Catarina Rua (U. of Cambridge, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre)) 2018-03-08 12:00: Anti-scarring therapies for ocular fibrosis (Ann Logan, University of Birmingham) 2018-03-08 15:30: The persistence and transience of memory (Paul Frankland (U. of Toronto)) 2018-03-09 13:15: Organoid systems to study the maternal-fetal dialogue of early pregnancy (Margherita Turco, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge) 2018-03-09 16:30: What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception? (Prof Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2018-03-12 16:00: Developmental cognitive neuroscience (Joe Bathelt (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-03-12 16:30: Adrian Seminar: Ensemble coding in amygdala circuits (Andreas Luthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute Basel, Switzerland) 2018-03-14 10:30: Autism Imaging & Genetics (Dr Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2018-03-14 12:30: All-resolutions inference for brain imaging (Wouter Weeda (Leiden University)) 2018-03-15 08:45: Bioengineering Conference: Innovation through convergence (Clemens Kaminski. Lisa Hall. Jag Srai. Sarah Bohndiek. Christopher Procter. Joan Lasenby. Ruth Cameron. Shery Huang. Róisín Owens. Alexandre Kabla.) 2018-03-15 12:00: Macrophage-derived extracellular succinate licenses neural stem cells to suppress chronic neuroinflammation (Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti (S Pluchino Group), University of Cambridge) 2018-03-15 15:30: Neurodevelopment disorders of genetic origin – what can we learn? (Kate Baker (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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) 2018-03-16 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Prof Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University) 2018-03-19 13:00: Building sophisticated and reproducible neuroimaging pipelines with NiPyPe (Joe Bathelt (MRC CBU)) 2018-03-20 10:00: Conformational and oligomeric rearrangements control intercellular signalling (Dr. Bert Janssen, Utrecht University) 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) 2018-03-22 12:00: ”Huntington´s disease and autophagy - insights from human and mouse model systems” (Johan Jakobbson - Lund University) 2018-03-26 16:00: Aspects of the earliest AD pathology and the NGF metabolic deregulation (Claudio Cuello, McGill University) 2018-03-29 12:00: On the morphology and vulnerability of dopamine neurons in Parkinson's disease (Louis-Eric Trudeau, University of Montreal) 2018-04-03 18:00: The Believing Brain: Neuroscience of Belief panel discussion (Prof. Alasdair Coles, Dr. Joseph Tennant, Dr. Harvey McMahon FRS, Dr. Lee de Wit) 2018-04-09 12:30: Do we have a problem with methods skills in cognitive neuroscience? (Olaf Hauk, MRC CBU) 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) 2018-04-15 11:00: Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks (Ana Stoica, Columbia University) 2018-04-17 11:00: A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD (Dr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain) 2018-04-19 12:00: Imaging and characterising the protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative diseases (David Klenerman) 2018-04-24 13:00: Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics (Mehrdad Jazayeri) 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) 2018-04-25 12:30: Personality Neuroscience: looking for the neurological roots of individual differences in behavioural traits (Dr Luca Passamonti (U. of Cambridge, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience)) 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) 2018-04-26 12:00: Deficits in axonal transport in ALS and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease models (Giampietro Schiavo - UCL) 2018-04-27 18:00: CamBRAIN careers event for neuroscience students/ graduates (Experts from a wide range of sectors ) 2018-05-01 13:00: Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania (Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge) 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) 2018-05-02 12:30: No WLTS on 2 May - Talk has been postponed until 20 June (Talk has been postponed until 20 June) 2018-05-02 14:00: ‘City Rhythm’ Workshop (Caroline Nevejan, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research) 2018-05-03 12:00: Modelling mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: mitophagy, calcium and beyond (Alex Whitworth, Mitochondrial Biology Unit - University of Cambridge) 2018-05-03 15:00: Alpha-actinin dynamically anchors PSD-95 and AMPARs at postsynaptic sites (Johannes Hell, University of California, Davis) 2018-05-03 15:30: What is sleep’s contribution to the language system? (Gareth Gaskell (U. of York)) 2018-05-03 15:30: Information Efficacy of a Dynamic Synapse (Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)) 2018-05-03 16:00: Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork (Professor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London) 2018-05-04 13:15: Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening (Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany) 2018-05-04 16:30: Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex (Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London) 2018-05-09 11:00: Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks (Ana Stoica, Columbia University) 2018-05-09 12:30: Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study) (Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-05-09 13:00: You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity: a biologically inspired and implemented motion model (Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute) 2018-05-10 15:30: Title TBC (Speaker TBC) 2018-05-11 13:15: Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila (François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) 2018-05-11 16:30: Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2018-05-15 13:00: Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory (Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent) 2018-05-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Andrey Stoychev (Control Group)) 2018-05-16 12:30: Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds (Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-05-17 12:00: Complement and microglia mediated sensory-motor synaptic loss in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (George Mentis - Columbia University) 2018-05-17 15:30: Remembering complex events (Chris Bird (U. of Sussex)) 2018-05-17 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring (Professor Christine Holt) 2018-05-18 13:15: Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo (Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York) 2018-05-18 16:30: Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms (Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London) 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) 2018-05-23 11:30: Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect Features (Julius von Kugelgen) 2018-05-23 12:30: Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system (Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-05-24 15:30: Why are we so bad at face recognition? (Mike Burton (U. of York)) 2018-05-25 13:15: Hedgehog signalling in immune cells (Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2018-05-25 16:30: Metacognition of internally-generated processes (Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany) 2018-05-29 13:00: Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis (John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.) 2018-05-29 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Adrianna Loback (Control Group)) 2018-05-30 12:30: Re-thinking cognitive training research (Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-05-31 15:30: The structure and function of visual working memory (Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology)) 2018-06-01 13:15: Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach (Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2018-06-01 16:30: Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations (Professor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) 2018-06-04 12:30: Investigating directed phase couplings from multivariate EEG/MEG time series (Alessio Basti, MRC CBU) 2018-06-06 12:30: Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it? (Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience)) 2018-06-07 12:00: Development and activity-dependent plasticity of olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons (Elisa Galliano KCL/University of Cambridge) 2018-06-07 15:30: The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients (Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) ) 2018-06-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Xizi Li (CBL)) 2018-06-13 12:30: The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline (James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney)) 2018-06-14 11:00: Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)) 2018-06-14 15:30: Concept learning as compression (Bradley Love (UCL)) 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) 2018-06-19 12:00: "Activity-dependence of myelination" and "Relating Entropy and Integration in Anaesthesia and Disorders of Consciousness" (Jennifer Jia and Andrea Luppi, Dep Clinical Neuroscience, 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) 2018-06-20 12:30: Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach (Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) ) 2018-06-21 11:00: Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond (Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam)) 2018-06-21 12:00: Neuron-glia signalling mechanisms regulating brain development, homeostasis and pathological cascades (Hardingham Giles - University of Edinburgh) 2018-06-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang (CBL)) 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) 2018-06-29 12:00: "Highlighting the benefit of a dual vector construct " & "Fractal Dimension as a Measure of Complexity & Consciousness" (Terance Mensah & Thomas Varley, Dep of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2018-07-04 11:00: Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models (George Tucker, Google Brain) 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) 2018-07-06 12:00: "EEG correlates of entorhinal cortex dysfunction in MCI" & "TBC" (Zoe Adler and David Nesbitt, Dep Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2018-07-11 10:30: Mechanistic insights from genome-wide association studies of reproductive traits (Professor Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge) 2018-07-12 12:00: TBC (Thomas Misgeld, Technical University of Munich) 2018-07-12 12:00: "Mitochondrial Dynamics and Diversity in the Nervous System" (Thomas Misgeld, Chair of the Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology, Technical University of Munich) 2018-07-13 12:00: "to be confirmed" (Shamma Qarin, Dep Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2018-07-16 11:00: Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models (Emtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo) 2018-07-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (CBL)) 2018-07-26 12:00: How do mitochondrial DNA mutations arise and cause neurological disease? (Professor Patrick Chinnery, Dep Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2018-08-24 11:00: Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD) (Biwei Huang, CMU) 2018-09-06 12:00: Neuron-glia signalling mechanisms regulating brain development, homeostasis and pathological cascades (HARDINGHAM Giles - University of Edinburgh) 2018-09-10 11:00: Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answers (Been Kim, Google Brain) 2018-09-11 10:00: Reactivation in biological and artificial neural networks (Gido van de Ven, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine) 2018-09-11 11:45: Neuronal Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Modulating Axon Growth After Spinal Cord Injury in Young and Aged Mice (Cédric G Geoffroy - Texas A&M University) 2018-09-13 12:00: POSTPONED: Chaperone networks coping with protein aggregates and amyloids (Prof Bernd Bukau - Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH)) 2018-10-02 12:00: Boosting functional recovery in the optic nerve (Jonathan Crowston, University of Melbourne) 2018-10-02 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2018-10-03 12:00: The Development of Epistemic Trust: Systematic Reviews, Experimental Findings and Implications for Service Development (Prof. Peter Fonagy, University College London) 2018-10-03 12:30: From cognitive neuroscience to the clinic: Translational concerns for mental health research (Camilla Nord (MRC CBU) ) 2018-10-04 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-10-04 15:30: The cognitive, computational and neural bases of semantic representation and its disorders (Matt Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2018-10-05 16:30: Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging) (Dr Rebecca Lawson, Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Affiliated Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-08 16:00: Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience (Robert Turner (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)) 2018-10-08 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Neural motion" (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) 2018-10-10 10:30: Investigating Sensory Prediction in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Johanna Finnemann, PhD Student, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-10 12:30: The framework behind the Kymata Atlas: Mapping early sensory processing in the human brain and nervous system (Andrew Thwaites (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) ) 2018-10-11 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-10-11 11:00: Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms (Mihaela van der Schaar ) 2018-10-11 12:00: Redefining microglia states in health and disease (Hammond Timothy - Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School) 2018-10-11 15:30: Lifestyle factors and cognitive ageing: From observation to intervention (Alan Gow (Heriot-Watt University)) 2018-10-11 16:00: FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex (Dr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh) 2018-10-12 13:15: Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis (Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London) 2018-10-12 16:30: How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and Behaviour (Prof Nichola Raihani Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London) 2018-10-15 13:00: Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representations (Dr Wei Wang) 2018-10-15 16:00: Consciousness (Tristan Bekinschtein (U. of Cambridge, Dept. of Psychology)) 2018-10-15 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Probing computations in neural circuits using single-neuron perturbations" (Chris Harvey, Harvard Medical School) 2018-10-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2018-10-17 12:30: What cognitive mechanisms underlie multi-target search organisation in children and adults? (Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU) ) 2018-10-18 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-10-18 15:30: Processing Multi-Constituent Units during Reading: Non-alphabetic languages, word segmentation, and serialism and parallelism in oculomotor control (Simon Liversedge (University of Central Lancashire)) 2018-10-18 16:00: Optimal Design for Item Response Theory Models (Professor Heinz Holling, University of Muenster, Germany) 2018-10-19 13:15: Using Drosophila to understand mitochondrial biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration (Alex Whitworth, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge) 2018-10-19 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-22 16:00: Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught (Olaf Hauk (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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) 2018-10-24 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) 2018-10-24 12:30: Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts (Anaïs Rouanet (MRC Biostatistics Unit) ) 2018-10-25 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-10-25 12:00: Engineered neural networks as self-organised computational substrates in the healthy and lesioned CNS (Ioanna Sandvig - Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2018-10-25 15:30: Interference and memory capacity limitations (Ansgar Endress (City University)) 2018-10-25 16:00: Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination. (Robin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2018-10-26 13:15: Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation (Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-26 16:30: Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences (Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany) 2018-10-29 16:00: Mechanisms of forgetting (Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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) 2018-10-30 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Adriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group)) 2018-10-31 12:00: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. A vascular problem? (Steve Gentleman - Imperial College London) 2018-10-31 12:30: Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks (Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) ) 2018-11-01 14:00: Introductory Journal Club Meeting - Tau filament structures (Veronica and Antonina, CIMR) 2018-11-02 13:15: Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation (Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-02 16:30: Sleep for Systems Consolidation (Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands) 2018-11-05 16:00: Emotion (Caitlin Hitchcock (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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) 2018-11-07 11:00: How amyloid pathology induces a long pathological cellular response in the Alzheimer’s brain (Professor Bart De Strooper - Director of UK Dementia Research Institute) 2018-11-07 12:30: Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise (Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) ) 2018-11-08 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-11-08 15:30: 'The architecture of the semantic network' and 'From pixels to semantics - machine learning as a key to understanding the dynamic computations along the human ventral stream' (Becky Jackson and Tim Kietzmann (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2018-11-08 16:00: Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids. (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB) 2018-11-09 13:15: Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division (Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2018-11-09 16:30: Social timing in autism spectrum disorders (Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich) 2018-11-12 16:00: Functional MRI: physics and physiology (Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-11-12 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks". (William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2018-11-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Michael Rule (Control Group)) 2018-11-14 12:30: Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load (John Duncan (MRC CBU) ) 2018-11-15 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-11-15 12:00: Investigating mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in an organotypic slice culture model of Alzheimer's disease (Claire Durrant (née Harwell), University of Cambridge) 2018-11-15 14:00: PET tracers for Tau (Nisha, Stephen, and Selena) 2018-11-15 15:30: Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion (Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow)) 2018-11-16 13:15: Escape from pluripotency (Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-16 16:30: Making sense of time in the Human mind (Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France ) 2018-11-19 16:00: How to give good talks (Tom Manly (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-11-19 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Circuit principles of memory-based behaviour choice". (Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-20 11:00: Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the rat (Kevin Miller, University College London) 2018-11-21 11:00: A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamics (Karen E. Schroeder, Columbia University) 2018-11-21 12:30: Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches (Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU)) 2018-11-22 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-11-22 15:30: A Bayesian approach to internal models (Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. 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) 2018-11-23 13:15: Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt? (Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences) 2018-11-23 15:00: Chaperone networks coping with protein aggregates and amyloids (Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH)) 2018-11-23 16:30: Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know (Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel) 2018-11-26 16:00: Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis (Rogier Kievit (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2018-11-26 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus". (Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London) 2018-11-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marcelo Mattar (CBL)) 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 ) 2018-11-28 12:30: CANCELLED Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment (Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) ) 2018-11-28 13:00: Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms (Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex) 2018-11-29 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-11-29 12:00: Graded levels of Schwann cell c-Jun in vivo determines effects on development, remyelination and tumorigenesis (Shaline Fazal, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-29 14:00: Autophagy and neural stem cell therapy; a new tool for dementia (Michele Frison, MRC-MBU) 2018-11-29 15:30: Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control (Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2018-12-05 14:00: Sensory Reactivity in Autism Spectrum Conditions (Dr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading) 2018-12-06 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2018-12-06 16:00: Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis. (Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute) 2018-12-11 11:00: Whole-Tissue 3D Imaging to Decipher the Neuro-Immune Interplay in Physiology and Disease (Jing Yang, Peking University) 2018-12-11 11:00: Making the brain's own brake ---Molecular mechanisms of inhibitory synapse development--- (Wei Lu; NIH (USA)) 2018-12-11 13:00: "Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision" (Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil) 2018-12-13 12:00: The coding and non-coding transcriptome of the human fetal striatum from a single-cell perspective (Vittoria Bocchi - University of Milan) 2018-12-13 14:00: DJC Holiday Networking Event (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-12-14 13:00: Using Drosophila models to decipher rare and common neurological disorders (Zhai, Grace R. University of Miami) 2018-12-18 10:30: Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models (Martin Tegner) 2019-01-10 12:00: Gene therapy for glaucoma (Keith Martin, University of Cambridge) 2019-01-10 14:00: Cofactor-assisted seeding of tau fibrils (Alexander Epstein, LMB) 2019-01-14 12:30: Deep Learning in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience – A Brief Introduction (Tim Kietzmann, MRC CBU) 2019-01-16 10:30: Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions (Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University) 2019-01-16 12:30: Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting (Maite Crespo-Garcia (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-01-17 11:00: Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms (Hoda Heidari) 2019-01-17 13:00: Visual categorization of simple stimuli (Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University) 2019-01-17 16:00: Neural progenitors and neural tube defects. (Andy Copp, University College, London) 2019-01-17 16:00: The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental health (David Rowitch (Dept of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge)) 2019-01-18 11:00: Local and global synaptic credit assignment (Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol)) 2019-01-18 16:30: Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life (Prof. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)) 2019-01-21 16:00: Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator) (Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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) 2019-01-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL)) 2019-01-23 12:30: Time course of memory updating in running span (Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-01-24 14:00: Amyloid-β ‘seeds’ in old vials of growth hormone (Ryan Prestil, CIMR) 2019-01-24 15:30: Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques? (John Rothwell (UCL)) 2019-01-25 11:00: Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems (Tom Everitt (DeepMind)) 2019-01-25 13:00: Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies (Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen) 2019-01-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary) 2019-01-28 16:00: Computational Models—who needs them? (Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2019-01-28 16:30: Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior ( Fritjof Helmchen, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich) 2019-01-30 12:30: Mindfulness training for mental health promotion (Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-01-31 13:30: Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds (Taco Cohen) 2019-01-31 15:30: The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery (Adam Zeman (University of Exeter)) 2019-01-31 16:00: The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation (James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2019-02-01 12:30: High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay (Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford) 2019-02-01 13:15: Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development (Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-01 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York) 2019-02-04 16:00: How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory? (Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2019-02-04 16:30: Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations (Troy Margrie) 2019-02-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2019-02-06 12:30: Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective (Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-02-07 12:00: Exploring disease mechanisms in a novel group of neurological diseases caused by mutations in the RNA exosome (Juliane Muller, University of Cambridge (previously Newcastle University)) 2019-02-07 14:00: AD-associated variants identified by whole exome sequencing (Alexander Mörseburg, Department of Archaeology) 2019-02-07 15:30: Shattered lives: Understanding and treating post traumatic stress in children and adolescents (Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBU, U.of Cambridge)) 2019-02-08 13:15: RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer (Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-08 16:30: Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity (Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo) 2019-02-11 16:00: How to write good papers (Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2019-02-11 16:30: Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila (Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) 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) 2019-02-13 12:30: The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection (Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-02-13 13:00: Adaptation Produces Change-Salience (Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London) 2019-02-14 11:00: Online Meta-Learning (Massimiliano Pontil, University College London) 2019-02-14 12:00: Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury (Mark A. Anderson - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles) 2019-02-14 15:30: Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing (Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL)) 2019-02-14 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2019-02-15 10:00: Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in mice (Dr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge)) 2019-02-15 13:15: Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling (Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge) 2019-02-15 16:30: Animal models of episodic memory (Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University) 2019-02-18 16:00: Intelligence and the frontal lobes (John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2019-02-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-20 12:30: CANCELLED: Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment (Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-02-20 13:45: Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks (Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind)) 2019-02-20 15:00: From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors (Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London) 2019-02-21 15:30: Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics (Thalia Eley (Kings College London)) 2019-02-22 13:15: Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate (Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-22 16:30: In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry (Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes) 2019-02-25 16:00: How to make good scientific figures (Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 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)) 2019-02-27 10:30: Experience of Motherhood for Autistic Women (Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-27 11:00: Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex (Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics)) 2019-02-27 12:30: You literally cannot pay me to look at poop: The astounding lack of habituation to disgust as measured through oculomotor avoidance (Dr Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-02-28 12:00: Long-term stability of human neurons in an organotypic slice culture system – a new model to study disease mechanisms of neurological disorders (Henner Koch, University of Tübingen) 2019-02-28 15:30: The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs (Tamar Makin (UCL)) 2019-02-28 16:00: Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis (Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School) 2019-03-01 13:15: Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary (Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester) 2019-03-01 16:30: From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices. (Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy) 2019-03-04 16:00: Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition (Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2019-03-06 12:30: An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population (Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-03-06 15:00: The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization (Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. ) 2019-03-07 12:00: Neurons without batteries: Dissecting cell type-specific neuronal contribution to mitochondrial disease (Albert Quintana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 2019-03-07 14:00: Leptin and AD risk (Selena Sephton, WBIC) 2019-03-07 15:30: Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed? (Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) ) 2019-03-07 16:30: Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration (Frank Bradke, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.) 2019-03-08 13:15: Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics (Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France) 2019-03-08 16:30: Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception (Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam) 2019-03-11 12:30: Blueprint: The DNA revolution and a lifespan approach to psychological traits (Professor Robert Plomin) 2019-03-13 12:30: The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations (Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-03-13 15:00: Comparing nudges and boosts for financial decisions under uncertainty (Matija Franklin ) 2019-03-14 13:00: "Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex." (Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck) 2019-03-14 14:00: The K-FAC method for neural network optimization (James Martens, Google Deep Mind) 2019-03-14 15:30: Far beyond the back of the brain (Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) ) 2019-03-15 10:00: Practical Power Estimation for fMRI (Tom Nichols, University of Oxford) 2019-03-18 16:00: How to write a Fellowship proposal (Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2019-03-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ta-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL) 2019-03-20 15:00: Persistent Topics - How persons shape language that is about to stay. (Peter Romero) 2019-03-21 14:00: Recognition of the amyloid precursor protein by human γ-secretase (Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge)) 2019-03-22 16:00: SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour (Steve Wilson, University College, London) 2019-03-25 17:00: The new framework in European Family Law (Lucia Ruggieri, University of Camerino) 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) 2019-03-27 11:00: Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care (David Sontag, MIT) 2019-03-28 12:00: Calcium-mediated processes as a potential common denominator in motor neuron degeneration (Roland Patai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 2019-03-28 16:00: Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis (Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen) 2019-04-01 12:30: Towards a theory of functional MRS (Paul Mullins, Bangor University) 2019-04-04 11:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud) 2019-04-04 11:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud) 2019-04-04 12:00: Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts: a new approach to study idiopathic Parkinson's disease (Janelle Drouin-Ouellet, University of Montreal) 2019-04-04 14:00: Blood Brain Barrier breakdown in Neurodegeneration (Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI) 2019-04-04 16:00: Global model explainability via aggregation (Umang Bhatt, CMU) 2019-04-05 11:00: Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision making (Professor Jason Mattingley) 2019-04-08 11:00: NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs (Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) 2019-04-11 12:00: Phenomapping mtDNA. New perspectives in personalised medicine (Aurora Gomez-Duran, University of Cambridge) 2019-04-24 12:30: Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions (Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian & Daisy Follett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-04-24 13:00: Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms (Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge) 2019-04-24 15:00: Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions (Dr Marwa El Zein) 2019-04-25 15:30: Learning to read words: from novice to expert (Kate Nation (University of Oxford)) 2019-04-26 12:00: Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making (Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin) 2019-04-29 12:30: Directed dynamical connectivity in neuroimaging data: approaches, promises, and pitfalls (Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University) 2019-04-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Gido van de Ven) 2019-05-01 12:30: Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudoword (Carol Wang (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-05-01 13:00: Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations (Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University) 2019-05-02 12:00: To initiate and share opportunities for people to participate in activities linked to research on Parkinson’s disease (East of England Research Interest Group - Parkinson's UK) 2019-05-02 14:00: Exploring the amyloid beta secretome in 2D and 3D culture models of AD (Laura Pellegrini (MRC-LMB)) 2019-05-02 15:30: Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain (Matt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London)) 2019-05-02 16:00: An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature (Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London) 2019-05-03 13:15: Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey (Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London) 2019-05-07 11:00: Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees (Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech) 2019-05-07 13:00: Binocular vision and the control of hand movements (Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University) 2019-05-08 12:30: Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning (Sue Gathercole (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-05-09 15:30: Getting the gist: memory confusability in young and older people (Alexa Morcom ) 2019-05-10 12:00: Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice. (Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-10 13:15: Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium (Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2019-05-14 16:00: Machine Learning in Readability Assessment (Ekaterina Kochmar (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Xizi Li (CBL)) 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) 2019-05-15 12:30: Talk 1. Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance Talk 2. Multivariate approaches to understanding the brain-behaviour relationships in cognitive ability (Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-05-15 15:00: Why do we cry? (Dr Eric Vanman, University of Queensland) 2019-05-16 12:00: Microglia-mediated synapse loss in neurodegeneration: novel roles for TDP-43 (Rosa Chiara Paolicelli, University of Lausanne) 2019-05-16 13:00: The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection (Michael Shadlen MD, PhD, Columbia University) 2019-05-16 15:30: Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory (Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex)) 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) 2019-05-17 11:00: Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence? (Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths) 2019-05-17 12:00: Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project (Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-17 13:15: Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila (Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge) 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) 2019-05-21 11:00: How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and deceleration (Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine)) 2019-05-22 12:30: Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury Talk 2. 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(Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London) 2019-05-23 12:00: The Ultrastructure of Retinal Circuitry in Health and Disease (Bryan Jones - University of Utah) 2019-05-23 15:30: The emergence of cognitive ability in childhood (Rogier Kievit, MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-05-24 13:15: Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening (Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 2019-05-24 16:30: Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows (Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK) 2019-05-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Thomas Burger (Control Group)) 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) 2019-05-29 12:30: Visual nonlinearities (Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-05-29 15:00: Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face (Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London) 2019-05-30 15:30: Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning (Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin)) 2019-05-31 13:15: Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo (Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-06-05 12:30: Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement (Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-06-05 15:00: The Role of Social Media in Health Prediction and Prevention: Digital Methods in Public Health and Behavior Change (Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) 2019-06-06 12:00: Crossing over OMICS in mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve (Guy Lenaers, University of Angers - France) 2019-06-06 14:00: VCAM1, brain ageing, and the 'vampire hypothesis' (Veronica Kane Dickson) 2019-06-06 15:30: Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning (Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)) 2019-06-11 15:00: Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and Divisiveness (Reza Babaei) 2019-06-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dhruva Raman (University of Cambridge)) 2019-06-12 12:30: Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception (Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL)) 2019-06-12 15:00: Digitally Distracted (Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL)) 2019-06-13 13:00: First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in utero (Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster) 2019-06-13 15:30: Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens (Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York)) 2019-06-17 16:30: New ideas on the organization of neural circuitry (Larry Swanson, University of Southern California) 2019-06-19 15:00: Dr Heejung Kim & Dr David Sherman (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-06-20 11:00: Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition (Konstantinos P. Panousis) 2019-06-26 11:00: Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference (Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia) 2019-07-01 13:00: Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids (Professor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine)) 2019-07-11 12:00: Designing for Collaborative Data Analysis, a Crime Solving story (Dr Tesh Goyal) 2019-07-12 11:00: Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks (Amos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) 2019-07-15 15:00: Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience (Lynne Cooper) 2019-07-15 15:00: Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience (Dr Lynne Cooper) 2019-07-17 14:00: Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks (Matthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute) 2019-07-25 12:00: Starting a research project at the Clinical School - Ethics and other considerations (Carolyn Read - Research Governance Officer, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2019-07-25 14:00: Hot science: a peak into the living brain (Nisha Ramakrishnan) 2019-08-05 12:30: The representational dynamics of visual objects in rapid serial visual processing streams (Tijl Grootswagers; School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia) 2019-08-23 11:00: Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning (Wesley Maddox (New York University)) 2019-09-04 11:00: Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA (Rajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt) 2019-09-09 12:30: Linear Dynamical Systems Models of Adult Lifespan Data (Will Penny, University of East Anglia) 2019-09-10 10:00: Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution (Dan Wetmore, PhD, Director of Clinical and Research partnerships, CTRL-labs) 2019-09-10 10:00: Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution (Patrick Kaifosh, PhD, Chief Science Officer, CTRL-labs) 2019-09-18 10:00: Neural mechanisms of proprioception and motor control in Drosophila (John Tuthill, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington) 2019-09-24 10:00: Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles (Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project) 2019-09-30 12:30: Imaging Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Martin Tik, Vienna Medical School) 2019-10-01 13:15: How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis (Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-04 16:30: The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseases (Professor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy) 2019-10-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Calvin Kao) 2019-10-09 10:00: Neurotransmitter spillover modulates neuronal information transmission (Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)) 2019-10-09 10:30: Autism and the criminal justice system (Dr Clare Allely, Reader in Forensic Psychology, University of Salford) 2019-10-09 12:30: What's new in PsychoPy3? 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(Matthew Brett, University of Birmingham) 2019-10-28 14:00: Consciousness (Tristan Bekinschtein) 2019-10-28 16:30: Synapse specific homeostatic responses to sensory deprivation (Tara Keck, Division of Biosciences, University College London) 2019-10-30 10:00: Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency (Haitham Ammar, Huawei) 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 ) 2019-10-30 12:30: Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder (Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-10-31 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson, MRC CBU) 2019-10-31 15:30: The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making (Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam)) 2019-11-01 12:00: Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity (Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium ) 2019-11-01 13:15: How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis (Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-11-04 14:00: Mechanisms of forgetting (Michael Anderson) 2019-11-05 11:30: Neural information processing during behavior and sleep (Mayank Mehta (UCLA)) 2019-11-05 16:00: Computational neuroscience journal club (Monika Jozsa) 2019-11-06 12:30: Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments (Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London)) 2019-11-07 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson, MRC CBU) 2019-11-07 15:30: Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progress (James Rowe (U.of Cambridge, MRC CBU)) 2019-11-07 16:00: The amazing world of the GnRH neuron (Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge) 2019-11-08 13:15: "CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features (Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2019-11-08 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading) 2019-11-11 12:30: An Introduction to Linear Mixed Effects (LME) models (Delia Fuhrmann, Roni Tibon & Alex Quent, MRC CBU) 2019-11-12 11:00: Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes (William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland) 2019-11-12 16:30: Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way (Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania) 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) 2019-11-13 12:30: A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-11-13 15:00: Of flies and men: synaptic and metabolic alterations in ALS. (Prof. Daniela Zarnescu, University of Arizona) 2019-11-14 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson, MRC CBU) 2019-11-14 11:00: Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks (Omri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)) 2019-11-14 15:30: Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence (Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg)) 2019-11-14 16:00: Activin signaling and the regulation of Drosophila metabolism, body size and appendage scaling (Michael O'Connor, University of Minnesota) 2019-11-15 13:15: Dendritic Cell Migration at Various Scales (Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil Institut Curie, Paris, France) 2019-11-15 16:30: The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight (Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)) 2019-11-18 12:30: Extracting Universal Representations of Cognition from fMRI mega-analyses (Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin, INRIA) 2019-11-18 14:00: Emotion and memory (Deborah Talmi) 2019-11-18 16:30: In search of the molecules of memory - ANNUAL LECTURE (Roger Nicoll, University of California San Francisco) 2019-11-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang (University of Cambridge)) 2019-11-20 12:30: When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory (Dr Athena Akrami (University College London)) 2019-11-20 15:00: Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction (Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London) 2019-11-21 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson, MRC CBU) 2019-11-21 14:00: Neuroinflammation and gut microbiota in AD progression (Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge)) 2019-11-21 15:30: Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work (Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour)) 2019-11-21 16:00: Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation (Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen) 2019-11-22 12:00: Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines (Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA) 2019-11-22 13:15: Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo (Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham) 2019-11-25 14:00: Functional MRI: physics and physiology (Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell) 2019-11-25 16:30: Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond (David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience) 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) 2019-11-27 12:30: Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths (Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2019-11-27 15:00: Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why (Joseph Marks) 2019-11-28 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson, MRC CBU) 2019-11-28 15:30: Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain (Anthony Wagner (Stanford University)) 2019-11-29 13:15: CANCELLED: Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis (Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield) 2019-11-29 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system. (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands) 2019-12-02 14:00: How to give good talks (Tom Manly) 2019-12-02 16:30: The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale (Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France) 2019-12-03 12:30: Public perceptions of genetic research and autism (Deborah Oakley) 2019-12-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge)) 2019-12-05 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson, MRC CBU) 2019-12-05 16:00: Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps (Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante) 2019-12-06 16:30: Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors (Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2019-12-09 12:30: Resting-State fMRI Pre-processing and Denoising (Joff Jones and Rik Henson, MRC CBU; Vasilis Karlaftis, Department of Psychology) 2019-12-09 18:30: Blood is thicker than water (Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin) 2019-12-11 12:30: The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales (Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) ) 2019-12-11 12:30: The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales (Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) ) 2019-12-12 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson, MRC CBU) 2019-12-12 14:00: Cryo-EM structures of Aß amyloid fibrils (Veronica Kane Dickson (University of Cambridge)) 2020-01-09 13:00: Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making (Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University)) 2020-01-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Torp Jensen) 2020-01-15 12:30: Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks (Moataz Assem (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-01-15 15:00: Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making (Dr. Patricia Lockwood, MRC Fellow, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford) 2020-01-16 14:00: From gut to brain: An alpha-synuclein Parkinson’s model (Katrina Räty (University of Cambridge)) 2020-01-16 15:30: What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs? (Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison)) 2020-01-16 16:00: Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding (Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia) 2020-01-17 12:00: Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2020-01-20 12:30: Issues in Interpreting Cluster-Based Permutation Tests (Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt) 2020-01-20 14:00: Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis (Rogier Kievit (MRC CBU)) 2020-01-22 12:30: The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration (Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-01-23 15:30: Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences (Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf)) 2020-01-23 16:00: Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing (Steve Harridge, King's College London) 2020-01-24 11:00: Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift (Zack Lipton, CMU) 2020-01-24 16:30: Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease (Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London) 2020-01-27 10:30: The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology (Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania) 2020-01-27 14:00: Intelligence and the frontal lobes (John Duncan (MRC CBU)) 2020-01-27 16:30: The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits (Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience) 2020-01-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Simon Schug (University of Cambridge)) 2020-01-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Simon Schug (University of Cambridge)) 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) 2020-01-29 12:30: Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning (Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford)) 2020-01-29 16:00: Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science (Dr Cory Clark, Durham University) 2020-01-30 15:30: Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields (Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)) 2020-01-31 13:15: Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis (Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2020-01-31 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading) 2020-02-03 14:00: How to make good scientific figures (Matthew Davis (MRC CBU)) 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) 2020-02-05 12:30: Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination (Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-02-06 15:30: Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits (Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL)) 2020-02-06 16:00: Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency (Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland) 2020-02-07 13:15: Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells (Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2020-02-07 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system. (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands) 2020-02-10 14:00: How to write good papers (Michael Anderson (MRC CBU)) 2020-02-10 16:30: Where does value come from? (Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2020-02-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Wayne Soo (University of Cambridge)) 2020-02-12 12:30: Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment (Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-02-12 16:00: Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality (Dr. Claudia Schneider) 2020-02-13 15:30: How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry (Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL)) 2020-02-14 12:00: Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment (Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University) 2020-02-14 13:15: The mechanical regulation of brain development (Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2020-02-17 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin) 2020-02-17 14:00: Consciousness (Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2020-02-19 14:00: Cryo-EM structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils (Janin Lautenschläger) 2020-02-21 12:30: The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research (Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne) 2020-02-21 13:15: Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo (Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2020-02-24 14:00: Computational Psychiatry of Autism (Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-02-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marine Schimel) 2020-02-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marine Schimel) 2020-02-26 10:30: Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach (Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu ) 2020-02-26 12:30: Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science (Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) ) 2020-02-27 15:30: The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval (Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York)) 2020-02-27 16:00: Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells (Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK) 2020-02-28 13:15: Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders (Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT) 2020-02-28 16:30: Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry (Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) 2020-03-02 14:00: Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition (Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU)) 2020-03-04 12:30: Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them? (Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-03-05 11:00: Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play (wellman@umich.edu) 2020-03-05 15:30: Translating basic science on autobiographical memory to improved clinical practice (Caitlin Hitchcock (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-03-06 13:15: Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence (Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2020-03-06 16:30: Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake) (Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London) 2020-03-09 12:30: Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI (David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University) 2020-03-09 14:00: Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator) (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU)) 2020-03-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Xizi Li (University of Cambridge)) 2020-03-11 12:30: Exploiting neural nonlinearity and temporal smoothing to measure the brain’s response to electrical stimulation (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-03-11 16:00: A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data (Dr David Stillwell) 2020-03-12 15:30: Predictive oscillations in speech perception (Matt Davis (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)) 2020-03-12 16:00: 3D Genomics in development and disease (Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany) 2020-03-13 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge) 2020-03-18 12:30: An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts (Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) ) 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) 2020-03-26 14:00: Cryo-EM structures of patient-derived alpha-synuclein fibrils - CANCELLED (Manuel Schweighauser - LMB) 2020-04-03 14:00: Blind, Naked, and Feeling No Pain: The Neurobiology of the Naked Mole-Ra (Prof. Thomas Park, UIC) 2020-04-07 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel) 2020-04-21 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang (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) 2020-04-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting)) 2020-04-27 16:30: Why do neurons spike spontaneously? (Tim Vogels (University of Oxford)) 2020-04-27 16:30: Why do neurons spike spontaneously? (Tim Vogels (University of Oxford)) 2020-04-30 16:00: The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps (Francesca Cacucci, UCL) 2020-05-05 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge)) 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) 2020-05-19 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2020-05-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting)) 2020-05-29 16:30: The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic representation and its disorders (Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) 2020-06-01 12:30: Multi-channel MEG measurements with a wearable OPM system (Elena Boto, University of Nottingham) 2020-06-02 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department)) 2020-06-05 16:30: Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement (Brian D. Earp, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.) 2020-06-15 12:30: Reconsidering population inference from a prevalence perspective (Robin Ince, University of Glasgow) 2020-06-22 12:30: Challenges of building clinical biomarkers from M/EEG: multimodal modeling with missing data and robust regression on power spectra (Denis Engemann, Parietal, INRIA) 2020-06-30 16:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yashar Ahmadian) 2020-07-13 12:30: Faster than the speed of BOLD: what can we gain from ultra-fast multiband fMRI? 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(Professor Paul Fletcher) 2020-10-15 14:00: Flexible redistribution in the language network (Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)) 2020-10-16 15:00: Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortex (Abhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University) 2020-10-16 16:30: The case for formal methodology in scientific reform (Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho.) 2020-10-20 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang and Wayne Soo) 2020-10-20 16:00: NeuroCOVID: Epidemiology, biomarkers, and pathophysiology (Professor David Menon) 2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Dr Lasana Harris (UCL)) 2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Professor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London) 2020-10-22 14:00: How do our brains form maps of the world? (Alexandra Constantinescu (University College London)) 2020-10-23 16:30: This talk happens earlier this week. in a shared event between Zangwill and SPSS (.) 2020-10-27 16:00: The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of children and young people. (Professor Tamsin Ford) 2020-10-29 08:00: Cambridge-Fudan Cognitive Neuroscience Online Meeting (Jianfeng Feng, Edward Bullmore, Jintai Yu, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) 2020-10-30 13:15: Imaging and reconstructing mouse development at the cellular level using light-sheet microscopy (Kate McDole, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2020-10-30 16:30: Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA.) 2020-11-02 16:00: Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID (Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care)) 2020-11-04 16:00: Prosocial Motivation Increases Framing Bias in Risky Decisions for Others (Professor Vincent Mak (University of Cambridge)) 2020-11-05 14:00: Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins (Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ) 2020-11-06 13:15: Epithelial-mesenchymal cell plasticity during normal development and cancer progression (Kyra Campbell, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield) 2020-11-06 16:30: Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents (Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires) 2020-11-10 16:00: The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients’ mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK (Dr Rudolf Cardinal) 2020-11-12 14:00: Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening (Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2020-11-12 16:00: Woofing it Down: Lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend (Eleanor Raffan, PDN, Cambridge) 2020-11-13 13:15: Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain (Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge) 2020-11-13 16:30: Understanding Fallism (Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town) 2020-11-17 15:00: Probing and Rescuing Dysfunctional Brain Circuits in Depression (Dr Conor Liston) 2020-11-17 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jasmine Stone (University of Cambridge)) 2020-11-18 16:00: How to talk about your feelings: The peculiar relationship between words and emotions (Dr Ryan Boyd (Lancaster University)) 2020-11-19 14:00: Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study (Damien Fair (University of Minnesota)) 2020-11-20 13:15: Re-generating the principles of appendage regeneration in the single-cell era (Can Aztekin, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) 2020-11-24 08:30: Cambridge-Fudan Cognitive Neuroscience Online Meeting (Xiao Xiao - Associate Professor at Fudan University, Amy Milton - Senior Lecturer at University of Cambridge) 2020-11-24 16:00: Development of the social brain in adolescence and effects of social distancing (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) 2020-11-26 12:00: Genetic modifiers in Huntington’s disease: an expanding tale (Professor Lesley Jones, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University) 2020-11-26 14:00: The interpersonal function of emotional expressions (Julie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles)) 2020-11-26 16:00: TBC (Kevin Chalut, Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge) 2020-11-27 13:15: Enhancers get ERKed around by chromatin remodellers during lineage commitment (Brian Hendrich, MRC Stem Cell Institute, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2020-11-27 16:30: Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation (Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland) 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) 2020-12-01 15:00: How humans build models of the world through temporal contingencies (Prof Danielle Bassett) 2020-12-01 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Gido van de Jen) 2020-12-01 16:00: Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried? (Dr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Dept. of Psychology) ) 2020-12-02 16:00: The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction (Professor Linda Skitka (University of Illinois at Chicago)) 2020-12-03 12:00: Chromatin remodelling determines cell-type specific Notch activity in the developing mouse brain (Dr Jelle van den Ameele, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge) 2020-12-03 14:00: Working Memory 2.0 (Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)) 2020-12-04 16:30: Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism (Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy) 2020-12-08 16:00: Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies (Dr. David Belin) 2020-12-09 14:00: The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing (Matthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)) 2020-12-10 12:00: Physiological, humanised mouse models for neurodegenerative disease (Professor Elizabeth Fisher, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) 2020-12-11 16:30: [NEW DATE:11th of December] Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development (Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London ) 2020-12-15 15:00: Combined imaging-genomics approaches to investigate psychiatric risk (Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch) 2020-12-15 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Calvin Kao and Marine Schimel) 2020-12-18 09:00: A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networks (Samuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)) 2020-12-21 19:00: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Gut Feelings About the Brain (John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland ) 2021-01-07 12:00: The impact of systemic inflammation on the vulnerable brain: at the interface of dementia and delirium (Dr Colm Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin) 2021-01-12 15:00: Connectomics and Network Neuroscience: From Topology to Dynamics (Prof Olaf Sporns) 2021-01-14 12:00: fMRI across the lifespan: is it good enough to be BOLD? (Dr Kamen Tsvetanov, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, University of Cambridge) 2021-01-15 16:30: - Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness (Prof Hakwan Lau) 2021-01-19 09:00: Cambridge-Fudan Cognitive Neuroscience Online Meeting (Qiang Luo, Associate Principal Investigator at Fudan University, Jonathan Kanen - Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cambridge University) 2021-01-21 12:00: “Autoantibodies, receptors and ion channels in stiff person syndromes” (Dr Sarah Crisp, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2021-01-21 14:00: Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across development (Deanna Barch (Washington University, St. Louis)) 2021-01-21 16:00: Lineage tracing through somatic mutations in human development (Flora Vaccarino, Yale University) 2021-01-22 16:30: Social Minds in Joint Action (Professor Natalie Sebanz) 2021-01-25 16:00: Restless engrams: the origin of continually reconfiguring neural representations (Tim O'Leary, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2021-01-27 16:00: Narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and immigration-policy preferences (Associate Professor Mina Cikara (Harvard University)) 2021-01-28 12:00: Human pain channelopathies (Professor David Bennett, Nuffield Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford) 2021-01-28 16:00: Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networks (Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis)) 2021-01-29 16:30: The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism (Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK) 2021-02-01 16:00: From visual representation of space to schemas in the primate hippocampus (Sylvia Wirth) 2021-02-01 16:00: Microglia shape neuro-vascular responses via compartment-specific mechanisms (Adam Denes, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest) 2021-02-03 16:00: Misinformation and the distinct psychologies of believing and sharing (Professor Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University)) 2021-02-03 16:00: GABA relates to functional connectivity changes and retention in visuomotor adaptation (Caroline Nettekoven, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge) 2021-02-04 14:00: The human language system in the mind and brain (Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)) 2021-02-04 16:00: Will the Real Preeclampsia Patient Please Stand Up? ( Brian Cox, University of Toronto) 2021-02-05 13:15: Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis (Ramanujan S. Hegde, MRC Labortory of Molecular Biology) 2021-02-08 16:00: Tools for Analyzing and Repairing the Brain (Ed Boyden, MIT Department of Biological Engineering) 2021-02-10 16:00: Two pathways to self-harm in adolescence (Stepheni Uh, MRC CBU) 2021-02-11 14:00: A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscience (Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota)) 2021-02-11 17:00: Directed Evolution of Adeno-associated Viral Variants Optimized for Clinical Gene Therapy (Professor David Schaffer, University of California at Berkeley) 2021-02-11 17:00: Directed Evolution of Adeno-associated Viral Variants Optimized for Clinical Gene Therapy (Professor David Schaffer, University of California at Berkeley) 2021-02-12 13:15: Fluorogenetic Interrogation of Chromatin Position Effects (Iva Tchasovnikarova, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2021-02-12 16:30: Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” models (Dr. Roy Salomon) 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) 2021-02-16 16:00: Recurrent problems in spinal-cord and cerebellar circuits (Dr Steve Edgley, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2021-02-17 16:00: Quantifying and nudging collective intelligence (Associate Professor Anita Woolley (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2021-02-17 16:00: Associations between brain interoceptive network dysconnectivity and heightened peripheral inflammation in depression (Athina Aruldass, Brain Mapping Unit) 2021-02-18 12:00: Perineuronal net (PNN): an exoskeleton for neurons (Dr Jessica Kwok, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds) 2021-02-19 13:15: Antagonistic effects of ionising radiation in cell competition (David Fernandez-Antoran, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2021-02-19 16:30: Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences? (Dr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London) 2021-02-22 12:30: Big data solutions to mapping typical and atypical development (Richard Bethlehem, ARC) 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) ) 2021-02-23 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (David Liu and Jeroen Olieslagers) 2021-02-23 16:00: Electronics on the brain (Professor George Malliaras, Department of Engineering) 2021-02-24 15:00: How we know what not to think (3pm start) (Dr Fiery Cushman (Harvard University)) 2021-02-24 16:00: A generative n​etwork model of neurodevelopment (Dr Danyal Akarca, MRC CBU) 2021-02-25 12:00: Imaging the locus coeruleus in Parkinsonian disorders (Dr Luca Passamonti, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2021-02-25 14:00: Imaginative reinforcement learning (Sam Gershman (Harvard University)) 2021-02-25 16:00: Functional evolution of Hox proteins: Regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation (Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for medical research) 2021-02-26 13:15: Understanding the structure-function relationships in asymmetric stem cell division (Mayu Inaba, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut) 2021-02-26 16:30: An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity (Emily BJ Coffey, PhD ) 2021-03-01 15:30: Quality of life and mental health in autism (Beth Oakley (King's College London)) 2021-03-01 16:00: Microglia at the interface of chronic neurodegeneration and systemic inflammation (Colm Cunningham, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.) 2021-03-02 16:00: A developmental-cognitive perspective on the impact of adolescent social media use (Dr Amy Orben, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 2021-03-03 16:00: The anterior insular cortex in the rat exerts an inhibitory influence over the loss of control of heroin intake and subsequent propensity to relapse (Dhaval Joshi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-03 16:00: PhD Research Talks - Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge)) 2021-03-04 14:00: Mechanisms of distal axon degeneration and neuroprotection in peripheral neuropathies (Ahmet Hoke, Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) 2021-03-04 16:00: How cells integrate chemical and mechanical cues during cell migration in vivo (Roberto Mayor, UCL) 2021-03-04 16:00: Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression (Michelle Craske (UCLA)) 2021-03-05 13:15: Continued development: the plasticity of adult organs (Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London) 2021-03-08 15:30: Understanding the substance use of autistic adults: a mixed methods approach (Elizabeth Weir (University of Cambridge)) 2021-03-08 16:00: The real-time formation of the hippocampal cognitive map (Julija Krupic, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-09 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen) 2021-03-09 16:00: Organization of Midbrain Serotonin System (Dr Jing Ren, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2021-03-10 16:00: Myelination: another form of brain plasticity (Dr Giulia Bonetto, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2021-03-11 14:00: Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex (Dora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota)) 2021-03-11 15:00: Structure-function coupling in brain networks (Dr Bratislav Misic, McGill University) 2021-03-12 13:15: Gut induced vascular plasticity drives stem cell adaptation during intestinal regeneration ( Julia Cordero, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow) 2021-03-12 16:00: PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality (Professor Craig M. Crews, Yale University) 2021-03-12 16:00: PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality (Professor Craig M. Crews, Yale University) 2021-03-12 16:30: Rethinking food reward (Dr Dana Small Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center) 2021-03-15 16:00: Adaptive brain computations for perceptual decisions (Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-16 16:00: Data-driven Artificial Social Intelligence: From Social Appropriateness to Fairness (Dr Hatice Gunes, Computer Science and Technology) 2021-03-17 16:00: Do We Report the Information that is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? (Bharathy Premachandra (Cornell University)) 2021-03-17 16:00: Early constipation predicts faster dementia onset in Parkinson’s disease (Marta Camacho, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2021-03-18 12:00: Immune/inflammatory mechanisms in stroke (Professor Stuart Allan, University of Manchester) 2021-03-18 14:00: The role of content-free pointers in online visual memory (Ed Awh (University of Chicago)) 2021-03-18 16:00: Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations (Andre Fenton, New York University) 2021-03-22 15:30: Family-based study of Autism Spectrum Disorders (Maja Bućan, University of Pennsylvania) 2021-03-23 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud and Marine Schimel) 2021-03-24 16:00: Cortical and subcortical grey matter micro-structure is associated with polygenic risk for schizophrenia (Eva-Maria Stauffer, Department of Psychiatry) 2021-03-25 15:00: Transdiagnostic mapping in neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Duncan Astle, Cambridge CBU) 2021-04-06 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang and Jonathan So) 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) 2021-04-12 16:00: Not just corpse removal: How microglial phagocytosis maintains tissue homeostasis (Amanda Sierra, Basque Center for Neuroscience, Spain) 2021-04-20 16:00: Learning in pain: probabilistic inference and (mal)adaptive control. (Dr Flavia Mancini, Engineering) 2021-04-22 15:00: Statistical analysis and optimality of biological systems (Prof Gasper Tkacik) 2021-04-22 17:00: “Chemical genetic approaches for elucidating PARP function in cells” (Dr Michael Cohen, Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, Oregon Health and Science University) 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) 2021-04-27 16:00: Unpacking Nature from Nurture: Understanding how Family Processes Affect Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Professor Gordon Harold, Education) 2021-04-27 17:00: The suprachiasmatic nucleus: the brain's circadian clock (Michael Hastings (University of Cambridge)) 2021-04-28 16:00: Brief Sensory Deprivation Triggers Cell Type-Specific Structural and Functional Plasticity in Olfactory Bulb Neurons (Li Huang, Joseph Innes, Emily Winson-Bushby, University of Cambridge) 2021-04-28 16:00: Facing the epidemics of hate speech. (Professor Michal Bilewicz (University of Warsaw)) 2021-04-29 12:00: The suprachiasmatic body clock: circadian genes, cells and circuits (Dr Michael Hastings, Division of Neurobiology, University of Cambridge) 2021-04-29 12:00: Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordings (Riki Matsumoto (Kobe University) ) 2021-04-29 16:00: Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces. (Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki) 2021-05-04 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Zahara Girones and Ivan Tomic) 2021-05-04 16:00: Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain? (Professor Roger Barker, Clinical Neurosciences) 2021-05-05 16:00: For better or worse: The role of social identity in the Pandemic (Dr Jay van Bavel (NYU)) 2021-05-06 12:00: From mechanisms to treatment, in disorders of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (Professor James Rowe, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2021-05-06 14:00: The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networks (Stefano Fusi (Columbia University)) 2021-05-06 16:00: Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems. (Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona) 2021-05-07 13:15: New roles for Golgi-derived PI(4)P-containing vesicles in mitochondrial division (Julien Prudent, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge) 2021-05-07 16:30: Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors (Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami) 2021-05-10 16:00: Microglia as modulators of CNS inflammation (Trevor Owens, University of Southern Denmark) 2021-05-10 16:00: Functions of the primate amygdala in decision-making and social cognition (Fabian Grabenhorst, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2021-05-11 16:00: Covid And Cognition (Dr Lucy Cheke, Psychology) 2021-05-12 16:00: Application of Airy beam light sheet microscopy to examine early neurodevelopmental structures in 3D hiPSC-derived human cortical spheroids (Dr Deep Adhya, Department of Psychiatry) 2021-05-12 16:00: Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs (Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2021-05-12 16:00: Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs (Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2021-05-13 14:00: Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity (Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley)) 2021-05-14 13:15: Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration (Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge) 2021-05-14 16:30: Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge (Marie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin) 2021-05-17 16:00: The social brain in adolescence (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2021-05-17 16:00: So you want to be a neuroscientist? (Dr Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego) 2021-05-18 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li) 2021-05-18 16:00: Bedside to bench and back again, a path to translational pain research? (Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology) 2021-05-19 16:00: Meta-analytic evidence of differential prefrontal and early sensory cortex activity during non-social sensory perception in autism (Nazia Jassim, Department of Psychiatry) 2021-05-20 12:00: Genomically Humanised Mouse Models For ALS Research (Dr Thomas Cunningham, MRC Harwell Institute) 2021-05-20 14:00: How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention (Mariam Aly (Columbia University)) 2021-05-20 15:00: Human brain functional genomics and the mechanisms underlying genetic risk for schizophrenia (Dr Michael Gandal) 2021-05-21 13:15: From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse (Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany) 2021-05-21 16:30: Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership ( Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland) 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) 2021-05-25 16:00: AI-guided solutions for early detection of neurodegenerative disorders (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology) 2021-05-26 16:00: Psychological mechanisms and functions of 5-HT and SSRIs in potential therapeutic change: Lessons from the serotonergic modulation of action selection, learning, affect, and social cognition (Clark Roberts, Department of Psychology) 2021-05-27 12:00: Molecular traits of cell type-specific reactivity in neuroinflammation (Dr Lucas Schirmer, Manheim Center for Translational Neuroscience, Heidelberg University) 2021-05-27 14:00: Carving the world into useful task representations (Yael Niv (Princeton University)) 2021-05-28 13:15: Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function (Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute) 2021-05-28 16:15: Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience (Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal) 2021-06-01 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone) 2021-06-01 16:00: Regenerative Neuroimmunology - a stem cell perspective (Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences) 2021-06-02 16:00: Bridging brain and cognition: A multilayer network analysis of brain structural covariance and general intelligence in a developmental sample of struggling learners (Ivan Simpson-Kent) 2021-06-02 16:00: Having a Voice in Your Group: Field Experiments on Behavioral and Attitudinal Changes (Dr Sherry Wu (UCLA)) 2021-06-03 10:00: Capacity and errors in classification of object manifolds (Uri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2021-06-04 13:15: CANCELLED: Replication control during the cell cycle and development (Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) 2021-06-04 16:30: Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections (Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 2021-06-07 15:30: The connection between epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder: pearls from the clinical side (Sarah Spence, Harvard Medical School) 2021-06-07 16:00: Innate immunity in chronic neurodegenerative disease (Michael Heneka, University of Bonn & DZNE) 2021-06-09 16:00: Parp mutations protect from mitochondrial toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease (Yizhou Yu) 2021-06-10 14:00: A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression (Jonathan Roiser (UCL)) 2021-06-11 13:15: Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes (Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 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) 2021-06-15 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo) 2021-06-16 16:00: Learning under uncertainty in autism and anxiety (Timothy Sandhu, MRC CBU) 2021-06-17 14:00: Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research? (Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University)) 2021-06-17 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Marta Zlatic) 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) 2021-06-23 16:00: Developing a mouse incentive delay task (Miao Ge, Fudan University) 2021-06-24 12:00: “Truncated tau as a model of human tauopathy” (Professor Diane Hanger, King's College London) 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) 2021-06-29 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Jensen and Georgia Turner) 2021-07-01 15:00: The turbulent brain: Discovering the homogeneous, isotropic functional core organisation of the brain (Prof Gustavo Deco) 2021-07-05 15:30: Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism (Varun Warrier, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge) 2021-07-05 16:00: More the bystanders: Learning how microglia eliminate synapses in the Alzheimer brain (Soyon Hong, UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London) 2021-07-05 16:00: More the bystanders: Learning how microglia eliminate synapses in the Alzheimer brain (Soyon Hong, UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London) 2021-07-08 12:00: “Glucose, Diabetes and the Brain" (Dr Mark Evans, Institute of Metabolic Medicine and Department of Medicine, 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)) 2021-07-15 10:00: Quantifying Brain Dynamics and Structure Across Scales (Dr Ben Fulcher, The University of Sydney) 2021-07-15 12:00: "Pathogenesis and Prevention of Retinal Detachment" (Martin Snead, Consultant Ophthalmic and Vitreoretinal Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) 2021-07-15 15:00: ADDI Neurodegeneration Meeting, Jason Gestwicki Plenary Lecture - Role of Chaperones In Tau Proteostasis (Jason Gestwicki, UCSF) 2021-07-19 11:00: **CANCELLED*** Everyday Autism (Liz Pellicano, Macquarie University) 2021-07-22 12:00: “B cell diversity in neuroinflammation” (Dr Anne-Katrin Proebstel, University of Basel) 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)) 2021-09-28 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marine Schimel and David Liu) 2021-09-28 16:00: Developments in therapeutic remyelination: the clemastine story and biological validation of biomarkers (Dr Ari.Green - University of California San Francisco) 2021-09-30 09:00: “Facing the impact of dementia globally with a focus on translational studies to reduce risk” (Professor James Vickers, University of Tasmania) 2021-10-04 16:00: Microglial and myeloid mechanisms of resilience and repair in cerebrovascular disease (Barry McColl, University of Edinburgh) 2021-10-05 16:00: From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Brain: Understanding the Role of Inflammation in Vascular Health, Stroke, and Cerebrovascular Disease (Dr Nicholas Evans, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2021-10-07 14:00: The function of spontaneous brain activity (Maurizio Corbetta (University of Padua)) 2021-10-07 15:00: Neuroanatomical Sex Differences in the Human Brain: Maps, Mechanisms and Meanings (Dr Armin Raznahan) 2021-10-07 16:00: “Biology in balance: human diploid genome integrity, gene dosage & genomic medicine” (Dr James Lupski, Baylor-Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics, Houston, US) 2021-10-11 16:15: Neuronal heterogeneity and plasticity in the olfactory bulb (Elisa Galliano (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-12 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen) 2021-10-12 16:00: Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration? (Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute) 2021-10-13 15:00: Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think (Dr Hugo Mercier (Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS)) 2021-10-14 12:00: "Altered synaptic ingestion by human microglia in Alzheimer's disease" (Dr Makis Tzioras, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh) 2021-10-15 13:15: Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids (Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-15 16:15: Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect (David Bannerman (University of Oxford)) 2021-10-18 16:15: Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit (Indira Raman, Dept Neurobiology, Northwestern Univ, Evanston IL) 2021-10-19 16:00: In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis (Professor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology) 2021-10-20 16:00: Saying “No” Is Harder Than We Think: Implications for Compliance and Consent (Dr Vanessa Bohns (Cornell)) 2021-10-21 13:00: Investigating the fundamental circuit pathology in schizophrenia using computational modelling of brain imaging data (Dr Rick Adams) 2021-10-21 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory (Tim Buschman (Princeton University)) 2021-10-21 16:00: Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines (David Sheppard, Bristol University) 2021-10-22 13:15: A finger on the pulse of regeneration (Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2021-10-22 16:15: Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking (Richard Holton (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)) 2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-26 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang and Wayne Soo) 2021-10-26 16:00: Role of astrocytes in CNS inflammation (Francisco J. Quintana - Harvard University ) 2021-10-27 17:00: A universal probabilistic spike count model reveals ongoing modulation of neural variability in head direction cell activity in mice (David Liu, Department of Engineering) 2021-10-29 13:15: Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis (Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2021-11-01 16:00: Understanding microglial dynamics from development to age-related neurological diseases (Diego Gomez-Nicola, University of Southampton, U.K.) 2021-11-01 16:15: Using the marmoset prefontal cortex to understand psychiatric symptoms: schizophrenia and hippocampal-prefrontal circuitry (Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn)) 2021-11-02 16:00: 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) 2021-11-03 17:00: The generation of cortical novelty responses through inhibitory plasticity (Nicholas Gale, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2021-11-04 12:00: Passive brain tumour visualisation during surgery using computer vision (Dr Gita Khalili Moghaddam, University of Cambridge) 2021-11-04 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham)) 2021-11-04 15:00: Multiscale network neuroscience: linking cells, networks and symptoms in brain disease (Dr Linda Douw) 2021-11-04 16:00: Mechanisms of Aging (Anne Brunet, Stanford University) 2021-11-04 16:00: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them (Dr Jessica Kay Flake (McGill)) 2021-11-05 13:15: Zooming into the sarcomere: from single molecules to molecular forces (Frank Schnorrer, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) 2021-11-05 16:15: Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour (Dominik Bach (University College London)) 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) 2021-11-09 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven) 2021-11-09 16:00: Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment (Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 2021-11-10 17:00: Keeping axons alive after injury: Inhibiting programmed axon death (Dr Stacey Gould, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2021-11-11 12:00: The Interplay between Local Protein Synthesis and Axon/NMJ Maintenance and Degeneration in ALS (Professor Eran Perlson, Tel Aviv University) 2021-11-11 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University)) 2021-11-12 13:15: Towards a cellular and molecular understanding of mammalian anterior patterning (Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford) 2021-11-12 16:15: Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies (Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) ) 2021-11-15 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten) 2021-11-16 16:00: Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots (Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering) 2021-11-17 16:00: Field Social Psychology (Dr Séamus A. Power, University of Copenhagen) 2021-11-17 17:00: Networking—the key to success… especially in the brain. (Mr Alexander Dunn (University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-18 12:00: "What did organoids do for us? - mechanistic & therapeutic discoveries at single cell resolution in ALS/FTD” (Dr Andras Lakatos, University of Cambridge) 2021-11-18 14:00: 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)) 2021-11-18 16:00: Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis (Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge) 2021-11-19 13:15: 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) 2021-11-19 16:15: Time perception as accumulation of salient events (Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex)) 2021-11-22 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten) 2021-11-23 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Georgia Turner and Falvia Mancini) 2021-11-24 17:00: A transdiagnostic data-driven study of children’s behaviour and the functional connectome (Dr Jonathan Jones) 2021-11-25 12:00: "Prion diseases: risk factors, experimental treatments, and ways to improve care" (Professor Simon Mead, University College London) 2021-11-25 14:00: Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation (Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford)) 2021-11-25 15:00: Infusing Structure and Knowledge Into Biomedical AI Algorithms (Dr Marinka Zitnik) 2021-11-25 16:00: Regenerative Neuroimmunology: a neural stem cell perspective’ (Dr Stefano Pluchino – University of Cambridge) 2021-11-25 16:00: Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ ( Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin) 2021-11-26 14:00: Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cells (Simon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) 2021-11-26 16:15: What does magic tell us about free will? (Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London)) 2021-11-29 16:15: Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits (Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-30 16:00: Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration (Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2021-12-01 16:00: Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena (Dr Alin Coman (Princeton)) 2021-12-01 17:00: Finding needles in the neural haystack: unsupervised analyses of noisy data (Marine Schimel, Kris Jensen, Department of Engineering) 2021-12-02 12:00: “Distinctive gene expression distribution in microglia and astrocytes in relation to distance from plaques in NLF knockin mice, where differences are undetectable in bulk RNAseq.” (Professor Frances Edwards, University College London) 2021-12-02 14:00: New models of human hearing via machine learning (Josh McDermott (MIT)) 2021-12-02 15:00: Hierarchical Neurodevelopment: Patterns, Plasticity, and Implications for Mood Psychopathology (Valerie Sydnor) 2021-12-02 16:00: What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex (Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge) 2021-12-03 14:45: The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations (Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)) 2021-12-06 16:00: The many roles of microglia in brain wiring: a developmental perspective (Sonia Garel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) 2021-12-06 18:00: How does the brain figure out the structure of problems? (Tim Behrens, University of Oxford) 2021-12-07 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern) 2021-12-08 17:00: ​Improving the identification of cardiometabolic risk in early psychosis (Benjamin Perry (University of Cambridge)) 2021-12-09 14:00: 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)) 2021-12-09 16:00: Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-01-10 16:00: Microglial function and dysfunction of TREM2 and ABI3, two major risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (Christian Haass, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich) 2022-01-10 16:00: Microglial function and dysfunction of TREM2 and ABI3, two major risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (Christian Haass, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich) 2022-01-10 16:00: Microglial function and dysfunction of TREM2 and ABI3, two major risk factors for late onset Alzheimer’s disease (Christian Haass, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich) 2022-01-17 15:30: The ‘autism advantage’ in the workplace: what the latest research tells us (Adam Feinstein) 2022-01-18 16:00: Common elements: An innovative methodology for identifying effective interventions in early childhood education (Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) 2022-01-19 17:00: Stress deceleration theory: chronic adolescent stress exposure results in decelerated neurobehavioral maturation (Kshitij Jadhav, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2022-01-20 12:00: "Can we improve human nerve regeneration?” (Dr Peter Arthur-Farraj, University of Cambridge) 2022-01-20 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory (Timothy Buschman (Princeton University) ) 2022-01-20 16:00: CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris) 2022-01-21 16:00: Keap1/Nrf2 as a druggable target (Professor Albena Dinkova-Kostova, University of Dundee) 2022-01-21 16:30: Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research (Irene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova)) 2022-01-24 15:30: The ADHD polygenic score (Angelica Ronald, Birkbeck University of London) 2022-01-25 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel) 2022-01-27 12:00: "Targeting axon transport to support axon regeneration in the adult CNS” (Dr Richard Eva, University of Cambridge) 2022-01-27 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) ) 2022-01-28 16:00: What drugs do to our bugs (Dr Kiran Patil, MRC Toxicology Unit, Cambridge) 2022-01-28 16:30: Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments (Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt)) 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) 2022-02-01 16:00: How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention (Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-03 12:00: "Fumarate hydratase and cancer: a paradigm of oncometabolism” (Professor Christian Frezza, University Hospital Cologne) 2022-02-03 14:00: Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models (Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham) ) 2022-02-03 15:00: Chromatin contact networks: towards a structure-function relationship in epigenomics (Dr Vera Pancaldi) 2022-02-03 16:00: Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools (Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia) 2022-02-04 13:15: Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting (Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2022-02-04 16:00: The Dynamic Spatial Organisation Of The Cell (Professor Kathryn Lilley, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics) 2022-02-04 16:30: Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior (Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus)) 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) 2022-02-07 16:00: Effect of nutrients on microglial function (Agnès Nadjar, University of Bordeaux, France) 2022-02-07 16:15: Neural control of innate behaviors and internal states (David J Anderson, Calthech, Pasadena, CA) 2022-02-08 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud and Michal Wojcik) 2022-02-08 16:00: Why is the suprachiasmatic nucleus such a brilliant circadian time-keeper? (Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2022-02-10 12:00: “Targeting astrocytes to protect the brain in Vascular Cognitive Impairment” (Dr Jill Fowler, University of Edinburgh) 2022-02-10 14:00: Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity (Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) ) 2022-02-11 13:15: Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage (Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-11 16:00: Vascular adenylyl cyclase: New roles for an old enzyme (Professor Caroline Dart, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool) 2022-02-14 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal) 2022-02-15 16:00: Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate (Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2022-02-17 12:00: “Presynaptic dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders” (Professor Mike Cousin, University of Edinburgh) 2022-02-17 15:00: Genomic insights about the prenatal origins of behavioral disorders (Prof Daniel Weinberger) 2022-02-18 13:15: In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development (Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-18 16:00: Effects of Z-⍺1-antitrypsin on the endoplasmic reticulum (Professor Stefan Marciniak, CIMR, Cambridge) 2022-02-18 16:30: Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields (John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University)) 2022-02-21 16:15: Neurodegeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model (Andras Lakatos, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2022-02-23 17:00: Apathy and Anhedonia in Adult and Adolescent Cannabis Users and Controls Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown (Martine Skumlien (University of Cambridge)) 2022-02-24 12:00: Structure-function of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and neuronal de/regeneration (Dr Edward Avezov, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-24 16:00: Fructose as a survival signal: Implications for cancer and obesity (Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY) 2022-02-24 16:00: Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors (Lucina Uddin (UCLA) ) 2022-02-24 16:00: Reparative inflammation in remyelination (Prof. Mikael Simons - Technical University Munich) 2022-02-25 13:15: Dynamics of starvation-induced and selective autophagy in mammalian cells (Nicholas Ktistakis, Babraham Institute) 2022-02-25 16:00: Actin remodelling: from molecular mechanism to disease models (Dr Jenny Gallop, Gurdon Institute) 2022-02-25 16:30: Covid and Cognition (Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) ) 2022-02-28 15:30: Novel Digital Health Approaches to Early Autism Screening (Geraldine Dawson, Duke University School of Medicine) 2022-03-01 16:00: Cross-modality imaging of the neural systems that support executive functions (Dr Yaara Erez, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2022-03-02 16:00: The Cooperative Animal (Michael Tomasello (Duke)) 2022-03-03 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) ) 2022-03-04 13:15: Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development (Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2022-03-04 16:00: The COVID Moonshot: Open Science Discovery of Oral Non-Covalent SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitor Therapeutics (Dr Alpha Lee, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2022-03-04 16:30: A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird. (Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania)) 2022-03-07 16:00: Role of microglia in myelin repair (Mikael Simons, DZNE Munich, Germany) 2022-03-07 16:15: Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons - dendrites, soma and axons (Zayd Khaliq, NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD) 2022-03-08 09:30: Child Development Forum (March 2022) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-03-08 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley) 2022-03-09 16:00: Reconsidering the relationship between personality and politics (Bert Bakker (Amsterdam)) 2022-03-10 12:00: “Beyond proteinopathies, in vivo clinical markers for inflammation and synaptic loss in frontotemporal lobar degeneration” (Dr Maura Malpetti, University of Cambridge) 2022-03-10 16:00: Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish ( Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai) 2022-03-11 13:15: Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans (Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2022-03-11 16:15: Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition (Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL)) 2022-03-14 16:15: Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions (Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) 2022-03-15 16:00: Network science and network medicine: New strategies for understanding and treating the biological basis of mental ill-health (Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry) 2022-03-16 15:00: Understanding the effects of repetition on belief (Lisa Fazio (Vanderbilt)) 2022-03-17 12:00: “Functional transcriptomics in neurodegenerative disorders” (Dr Roberto Simone, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL) 2022-03-17 14:00: Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory (Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University)) 2022-03-17 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Aldo Faisal) 2022-03-17 16:00: Development of interneurons in visual cortex (Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY) 2022-03-18 13:15: Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation (Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany) 2022-03-18 16:30: Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19 (Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) ) 2022-03-24 12:00: “Myelin's highway to the axon and implications for axonal support” (Professor Julia Edgar, University of Glasgow) 2022-03-24 16:00: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris) 2022-03-25 16:30: Thinking the right thoughts (Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University)) 2022-03-31 16:00: Inflammation and mental health: questions of causality (Prof Ed Bullmore) 2022-04-04 16:00: Microglial extracellular vesicles (Claudia Verderio, CNR Vedano al Lambro, Italy.) 2022-04-05 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (David Liu and Edward Young) 2022-04-05 19:00: Neurotalks: Lifelong Brain Development (Yizhou Yu (MRC Toxicology Unit) and Nejc Kejzar (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2022-04-07 12:00: “Myelinated axon formation, health and function” (Professor David Lyons, University of Edinburgh) 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) 2022-04-21 11:00: Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination (University of Cambridge) 2022-04-21 15:00: A Connectomic Hypothesis for the Hominization of the Brain (Prof Claus Hilgetag) 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) 2022-04-26 16:00: Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity (Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry) 2022-04-28 09:00: CCMR Annual Symposium (Prof. Anna Williams; Prof. Brian Popko; Prof. Robin Franklin; Dr Omar de Faria Jr; Dr Alexandra Nicaise; Dr Nick Cunniffe; Dr Andras Lakatos; Dr Andrea Lareto; Dr Madeline Lancaster; Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti) 2022-04-28 16:00: Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time (Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) ) 2022-04-29 13:15: Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain (Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2022-04-29 16:30: Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development (Professor Pasco Fearon) 2022-04-29 17:00: Protein Design Using Deep Learning (Professor David Baker, Institute of Protein Design, Washington University) 2022-05-02 16:15: Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair (Magdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) 2022-05-05 11:00: ENIGMA at 10: What have we learned from a decade of large scale collaborative meta-analysis in neuroimaging (Prof Sarah Medland) 2022-05-05 12:00: “Can we block axon degeneration in disease?” (Dr Andrea Loreto, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-05 14:00: Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS) (Cathy Price (UCL)) 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) 2022-05-06 13:15: Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency (Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-06 16:30: Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition (Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University)) 2022-05-09 16:00: Diversity of brain macrophages (Josef Priller, University of Edinburgh & Technical University of Munich) 2022-05-09 16:15: Aversive cognition: inference, learning and control of aversive states in the human brain (Flavia Mancini, Department of Engineering) 2022-05-11 16:00: Face and feeling: Examining the role of facial feedback in emotional feeling (Dr. Nicholas Coles, Stanford University,) 2022-05-13 11:30: Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks (Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley) 2022-05-13 13:15: Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration (Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London) 2022-05-13 16:30: Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles (Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex)) 2022-05-16 15:30: Neuroplacentology (Anna Penn, Columbia University & NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital) 2022-05-16 16:15: On the neural language of the cerebellum (Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA) 2022-05-17 15:00: How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference (Wen-Hao Zhang) 2022-05-17 16:00: Exploring mechanisms of human brain expansion in cerebral organoids (Dr Madeline Lancaster MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2022-05-19 12:00: "HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE- Where has our research taken us to date?" (Professor Roger Barker, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-20 13:15: Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer (Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge) 2022-05-23 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal) 2022-05-24 16:00: Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease – cause, effect and treatment (Professor James Rowe) 2022-05-26 11:00: LMB Seminar - Using connectomes to accelerate studies of the neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila (Gerald M. Rubin, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, LMB Fellow) 2022-05-26 12:00: "The prohibitin proteins in myelination" (Dr Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-26 14:00: Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings (Joel Voss (University of Chicago) ) 2022-05-27 13:15: Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila (Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-31 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo) 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) 2022-06-06 16:00: How microglia shape synapse homeostasis (Michela Matteoli, Milan, Italy.) 2022-06-07 16:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry) 2022-06-08 16:00: Publishing your work in Nature Human Behaviour and other Nature portfolio journals (Marike Schiffer, PhD (Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour)) 2022-06-09 12:00: “Sickness behaviour and depression: an updated model of peripheral central immune interactions” (Professor Federico Turkheimer, King's College London) 2022-06-09 14:00: Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control (Sven Bestmann (UCL)) 2022-06-10 13:15: Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level (Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge) 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) 2022-06-14 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang) 2022-06-15 16:00: Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks (Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics) 2022-06-16 11:00: Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study (Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) 2022-06-16 12:00: “Inducing mtDNA alterations in mouse dopaminergic neurons to study if and how they contribute to Parkinsons disease like phenotype” (Professor Rudolf Wiesner, University of Cologne) 2022-06-16 15:00: Discovering and quantifying patterns in networks with coloured nodes (Dr Vincenzo Nicosia) 2022-06-20 15:30: Theory of mind, gender, and human progress | Empathy, psychopathy, and brain structure (Marcin A. Radecki) 2022-06-23 12:00: “In vivo assessment of synaptic loss in non-AD tauopathies” (Dr Negin Holland, University of Cambridge) 2022-06-27 15:30: Perception and learning in autism (Nazia Jassim, PhD candidate, Autism Research Centre) 2022-06-27 16:00: Somewhere over the Brainbow: super-multicolour imaging to automate neural circuit reconstructions (Dr Marcus Leiwe, Kyushu University, Japan) 2022-06-28 11:00: Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data (Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki) 2022-06-29 12:30: Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains (Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario)) 2022-06-30 12:00: “Axoptosis: Mechanisms for coordinating axonal degeneration” (Professor Leonard A. Levin, McGill University) 2022-06-30 14:00: Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies (Karen Campbell (Brock University)) 2022-06-30 15:00: Network function in human cerebral organoids as a platform for mechanistic and therapeutic advances in cognitive disorders (Dr Susanna Barrett Mierau) 2022-06-30 16:00: Mechanisms of NSC differentiation: from Coagulation to Immunomodulation (Dr Christian Schachtrup, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) 2022-07-04 16:00: Spatial heterogeneity of microglia in CNS disease (Bart Eggen, University of Groningen, Netherlands) 2022-07-20 12:30: Taking heterogeneity seriously: Towards new research and support strategies (Beatriz Lopez, University of Portsmouth) 2022-09-12 16:00: Integrated epigenomics reveal dysregulated chromatin landscapes in aged hematopoietic stem cells underlying aberrant transcription (Dr Isabel Beerman– National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD) 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 ) 2022-10-05 16:00: Building a remyelination trial in pediatric MS (Professor Ann Yeh, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto) 2022-10-06 14:00: Tidying up working memory (Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin)) 2022-10-07 13:15: Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication (Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) 2022-10-07 16:30: What kind of network is the brain? (John Mollon (University of Cambridge)) 2022-10-10 13:00: “Gene Therapy and beyond – hopes and challenges in therapy development for neurological disorders” (Dr Kathrin Meyer, Ohio State University) 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.) 2022-10-11 09:30: Child Development Forum Michaelmas 2022 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-10-11 16:00: Designing the BEARS (Both Ears) Virtual Reality Training Package to Improve Spatial Hearing in Young People with Bilateral Cochlear Implant (Dr Deborah Vickers, Clinical Neurosciences) 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) 2022-10-13 14:00: Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning (Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford)) 2022-10-14 12:30: Power to the protein: analyse, signal and protect with bacterial superglues (Professor Mark Howarth, University of Cambridge) 2022-10-14 13:15: Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications (Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2022-10-14 16:30: Plastic brains for flexible decisions (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge)) 2022-10-17 16:15: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Paul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge) 2022-10-18 16:00: Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built (Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2022-10-20 14:00: Neurocomputational basis of anxiety (Oliver Robinson (UCL)) 2022-10-21 16:00: Translating Proteostasis Mechanisms to Therapeutics of Diseases of Protein Conformation and Aging (Prof Rick Morimoto, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Northwestern University, US) 2022-10-21 16:30: Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes (Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge)) 2022-10-24 10:30: Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons (Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK) 2022-10-24 16:15: Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour (Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and German Primate Center, Göttingen) 2022-10-25 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud and David Liu) 2022-10-27 15:00: Network-based approaches towards studying context-specific cell signalling (Dr Evangelia Petsalaki) 2022-10-28 12:30: Engineering insights into the strange world of cancer (Dr Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard Medical School, US) 2022-10-28 13:15: Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species (Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute) 2022-10-28 16:30: Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder (Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich)) 2022-11-03 14:00: Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits (Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris)) 2022-11-04 13:15: Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis (Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany) 2022-11-04 16:00: Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging, Therapeutics (Dr Katerina Akassoglou) 2022-11-04 16:30: Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation (Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)) 2022-11-07 16:00: Microglial states and nomenclature (Prof. Amanda Sierra. Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience, Spain) 2022-11-07 16:15: Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders (Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge) 2022-11-08 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian) 2022-11-08 16:00: Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility (Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2022-11-10 12:30: What have we learned about autism from infants? (Tony Charman, King's College London) 2022-11-10 14:00: Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition (Steve Fleming (UCL)) 2022-11-10 14:00: Analyzing artificial neural networks to understand the brain (Dr Grace Lindsay) 2022-11-11 13:15: Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila (Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-11 16:30: Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing (Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington)) 2022-11-14 13:00: Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement (Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations) 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 ) 2022-11-17 11:00: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction (Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh) 2022-11-17 14:00: Talk title tbc (Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research)) 2022-11-18 13:15: Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development (Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology) 2022-11-18 16:30: Disruption of Information in Working Memory (Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin)) 2022-11-22 11:00: Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport (Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile) 2022-11-22 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel) 2022-11-23 16:00: Developmental disorders of presynaptic vesicle cycling - Synaptotagmin-1 and beyond (Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2022-11-24 11:30: Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances (Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland ) 2022-11-24 14:00: The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity (Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC)) 2022-11-24 15:00: Changing Connectomes: How Brain Network Changes are Linked to Cognition in Health and Disease (Prof. Marcus Kaiser (University of Nottingham, UK)) 2022-11-24 16:30: Myelin regeneration - from gene therapy to energy metabolism (Dr Vanja Tepavčević, Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Bilbao, Spain) 2022-11-25 16:30: Brain charts for the human lifespan. (Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge)) 2022-11-26 13:00: Using AI to Discover Dual-purpose Therapeutics Targeting Aging and Disease at the same time (Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD - Insilico Medicine) 2022-11-28 16:15: The enigmatic and integrative claustrum (Adam Packer, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford) 2022-11-29 14:00: Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour (Juan Alvaro Gallego) 2022-11-29 16:00: How can we treat visceral pain? (Dr David Bulmer, Department of Pharmacology) 2022-12-01 16:00: Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss (Tamar Makin (MRC CBU)) 2022-12-02 13:15: Epigenetic resetting during human germline development (Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute) 2022-12-05 16:00: Microglia in Neurodegeneration (Prof. Jochen Herms. LMU Munich, Germany) 2022-12-05 18:00: Metabolic control of myeloid cell function in chronic central nervous system inflammation (Dr. Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti - Clinical Neurosciences) 2022-12-05 18:30: Neuroscience in artistic cartoons (Paul Apicella, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France ) 2022-12-06 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Edward Young, Zahara Girones) 2022-12-08 16:00: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis (Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA)) 2022-12-08 16:00: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis (Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA)) 2022-12-15 11:00: Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs (David Duvenaud (University of Toronto)) 2023-01-09 16:00: Microglial control of synaptic and neuronal network activity (Dr. Christian Madry. Charité Berlin, Germany) 2023-01-12 12:00: "White matter in dementia; from lesions to plasticity" (Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir, University of Cambridge) 2023-01-17 16:00: Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow? Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research (Dr Ben Underwood, Department of Psychiatry) 2023-01-19 12:00: "Neuronal and glial responses to the absence of microglia" (Professor Josef Priller, University of Edinburgh, DRI & Technical University Munich) 2023-01-19 14:00: Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex (Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge)) 2023-01-19 15:00: Neural network models as mechanistic explanations of brain information processing (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Columbia University) 2023-01-20 13:15: Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development (Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 2023-01-20 16:30: Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet? (Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge)) 2023-01-23 11:30: Ageing on the Autism Spectrum (Prof Francesca Happe) 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) 2023-01-26 12:00: "Leveraging transcriptomic maps to navigate human brain diseases" (Dr Mina Ryten, Professor of Clinical Genetics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) 2023-01-26 14:00: Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being (Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford)) 2023-01-27 12:30: Pharmaceutical nanotechnology and the control of in vivo drug transport (Prof Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu University College London ) 2023-01-27 13:15: Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury (Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London) 2023-01-27 16:30: Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy (Peter John (King's College London)) 2023-01-30 11:00: Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle (Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual) 2023-01-30 16:15: Of odour plumes and synchrotrons - structure and function in neural circuits (Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2023-01-31 16:00: Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease (Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2023-02-02 12:00: "Autophagy and neurodegeneration" (Professor David Rubinsztein, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2023-02-02 14:00: Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines (Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind)) 2023-02-02 15:00: Linking cortical microstructure to in vivo measures of cortical structure in health and disease (Dr. Konrad Wagstyl, University College London) 2023-02-03 12:30: Aurora kinase A: from basic biology to PROTAC-mediated Targeted Protein Degradation (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-02-03 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University)) 2023-02-06 16:00: Microglia in health and disease (Prof. Helmut Kettenmann. Charité Berlin, Germany) 2023-02-06 16:15: Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive embodiment of artificial limbs (Tamar Makin, MRC-CBSU, Cambridge ) 2023-02-07 13:30: The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning (Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience) 2023-02-07 16:00: Children-Agent Interaction For Assessment and Rehabilitation: From Linguistic Skills To Mental Well-being (Dr Micole Spitale, Department of Computer Science and Technology) 2023-02-09 14:00: Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice (Helen Barron (U. of Oxford)) 2023-02-10 12:00: Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality (Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)) 2023-02-10 12:30: The Pharmacology of Pain (Dr Kirsty Bannister King’s College London ) 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) 2023-02-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Puria Radmard and David Liu) 2023-02-14 16:00: Valentine’s Day for people with multiple sclerosis: promoting brain repair through remyelination (Professor Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2023-02-16 16:00: Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors (Dr. Lucina Uddin, UCLA) 2023-02-17 12:30: Endogenous and immunological mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain (Dr Shafaq Sikander Queen Mary University of London ) 2023-02-17 13:00: New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years (Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US) 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.) 2023-02-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo) 2023-02-23 14:00: Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand (Ken Valyear (Bangor University)) 2023-02-23 16:00: Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins (Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel) 2023-02-23 16:30: Fuels and drivers of smouldering brain disease (Dr Stefano Pluchino, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2023-02-24 12:30: ANNUAL DAVID JAMES SEMINAR DNA graffiti: Mutation patterns in human DNA and how to use them in medicine (Prof Serena Nik-Zainal Academic Dept of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge ) 2023-02-24 13:00: Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients (Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London) 2023-02-24 16:30: The Neuroscience of Reading: Tracing words from the page through the brain (Dr Geoffrey M. 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(Thora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge) 2023-02-28 16:00: Fidelity and Replication: Modelling the Impact of Protocol Deviations on Effect Size (Professor Michelle Ellefson) 2023-03-02 14:00: Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex (Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) ) 2023-03-02 15:00: Relations and Predictions in Brains and Machines (Dr. Kim Stachenfeld, Deep Mind) 2023-03-03 12:30: How PROTACs work: why the ternary complex matters and how it impacts degrader design (Prof Alessio Ciulli School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee ) 2023-03-03 13:00: Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation (Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2023-03-03 16:30: Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations (Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow)) 2023-03-06 16:00: Microglial immunophenotype in the human brain (Prof. Delphine Boche. University of Southampton, UK) 2023-03-07 09:30: Child Development Forum (March 2023) (TBA) 2023-03-07 16:00: Integrative Neuromodulation: from biomarker identification to optimizing neuromodulation (Dr Valerie Voon, Department of Psychiatry) 2023-03-09 18:00: Exploiting nuclear envelope dysfunction in progeria syndromes to identify new therapeutic targets for ageing (Delphine Larrieu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2023-03-10 01:00: The structural polymorphism of alpha-synuclein in conditions resembling the cellular environment (Post doc: Dr Maria Zacharopoulou (Itzhaki Lab) Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge ) 2023-03-10 12:30: Dysregulation of ADAM10 Shedding activity in naked mole-rat fibroblasts is due to deficient phosphatidylserine externalisation (Post doc: Dr Paulina Urriola Munoz (Smith Lab) Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge ) 2023-03-10 13:00: Form and function during early heart development (Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2023-03-10 16:30: Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention (Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience)) 2023-03-14 16:00: Fragile minds in a scary world: trauma and post traumatic stress in very young children (Dr Tim Dalgleish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2023-03-16 15:00: Network approaches to psychopathology: An overview (Prof. Denny Borsboom, University of Amsterdam ) 2023-03-16 15:30: “The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action” (Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) ) 2023-03-17 16:30: Choice under Computational Complexity (Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge)) 2023-03-20 16:15: Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis (Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford) 2023-03-23 14:00: Somatosensory participation in human motor learning (David Ostry (McGill University) ) 2023-03-24 12:30: Gender equality in academia: why and how (Prof Paul Walton Dept of Chemistry, University of York ) 2023-03-27 11:30: A functioning neuroanatomy of autism (Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute) 2023-03-28 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud)) 2023-03-30 12:00: Oligodendroglia during development and disease: insights from single-cell and spatial epigenomics (Professor Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.) 2023-04-03 16:00: How microglia shape synapse homeostasis (Prof. Michela Matteoli. Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy) 2023-04-17 16:00: Aberrant circuitry underlying olfaction in the face of severe olfactory bulb degeneration" (Dan Rokni, The Hebrew University, Israel) 2023-04-19 15:00: Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory (Adam Triabhall) 2023-04-20 15:00: From Connectome to Computation Through the Genomic Bottleneck (Prof. Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.) 2023-04-21 16:30: The glymphatic system and Alzheimer's disease (Iben Lundgaard, Associate Professor, Lund University) 2023-04-25 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis) 2023-04-25 18:00: The Naked Mole Rat: Blind and Naked, but oh so cool! (Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2023-04-26 15:00: Stereotypes as Shifting Standards: Implications for Social Judgment, Communication, and the Interpretation of Feedback (Monica Biernat (University of Kansas)) 2023-04-27 14:00: Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from working memory (Marie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde)) 2023-04-28 16:30: What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa (Professor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York) 2023-05-02 16:00: Microglia and astrocyte involvement in synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease (Prof. Tara Spires-Jones. University of Edinburgh, UK) 2023-05-03 15:00: Prejudice is Affect: Divorcing Prejudice from Propositional Representations? (Chris Crandall (University of Kansas)) 2023-05-04 14:00: Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life (Joseph Ledoux (New York University) ) 2023-05-05 13:00: Decision making without genes? (Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL) 2023-05-05 16:30: The DNA revolution and psychology (Professor Robert Plomin (King's College, London)) 2023-05-05 17:00: In Our Lifetime! AI, Robotics, and Global Collaboration for Aging Research and Drug Discovery (Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD) 2023-05-09 16:00: Targeting Maladaptive Emotional Memories to Treat Mental Health Disorders: Insights from Rodent Models (Professor Amy Milton, Department of Psychology) 2023-05-09 16:15: Neural mechanisms for credit assignment and model building (Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University ) 2023-05-10 15:00: When Is Morality Black and White? (Joshua D. Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania)) 2023-05-11 11:00: Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry (Sam Power, University of Bristol) 2023-05-11 14:00: The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour (Martina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London)) 2023-05-12 13:00: Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-05-12 16:30: Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts (Professor Josep Call, University of St Andrews) 2023-05-15 16:15: Advanced optical approaches to reveal the neural code underlying sensory perception (Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova) 2023-05-16 14:00: Feedback control in the nervous system: from cells and circuits to behaviour (Dr Timothy O'Leary, Department of Engineering) 2023-05-17 15:00: Civilians on Fire: Moral Injury and Associated Mental Health Symptoms in Ukrainians Under the Russian Invasion (Larysa Zasiekina (University of Cambridge; Ukrainka Volyn National University)) 2023-05-18 14:00: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting (Lili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)) 2023-05-18 15:00: Broad Transcriptomic Dysregulation Occurs Across the Cortex in ASD (Prof. Michael Gandal, UPenn) 2023-05-19 13:00: Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids (Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB) 2023-05-19 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University)) 2023-05-22 11:30: Autism Research for Autistic Flourishing (Liz Pellicano, University College London) 2023-05-24 15:00: Snacks & Drinks! (Postgrads & Postdocs) (Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room) 2023-05-25 14:00: Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts (Mike Anderson (MRC CBU)) 2023-05-26 13:00: Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond (Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London) 2023-05-30 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Will Greedy, University of Bristol) 2023-05-31 15:00: Rational Belief Polarisation: A Bayesian Network Model of Bias Attributions (David Young (University of Cambridge)) 2023-06-02 13:00: Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts (Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute ) 2023-06-02 14:00: Mechanical brain: The force of dendritic spine synapses for memory and cognition (Professor Hauro Kasai at The University of Tokyo) 2023-06-05 16:00: Dysfunctional microglia: key players in the pathogenesis of brain diseases (Prof. Rosa Paolicelli. UNIL Lausanne, Switzerland) 2023-06-06 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia and David Lui) 2023-06-06 16:00: Immunosuppression for Parkinson's disease - a new therapeutic strategy? (Dr Caroline Williams-Gray, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2023-06-07 15:00: Behavioural and Neural Dynamics of Learning in Social Interaction (Sara De Felice (University College London)) 2023-06-08 14:00: Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia (Dan Bush (UCL) ) 2023-06-09 13:00: Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B (Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience) 2023-06-14 15:00: Exploring the Analgesic Effect of Social Power on Empathy for Pain (Ekim Luo (University of Cambridge)) 2023-06-15 14:00: Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world (Rhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast)) 2023-06-19 11:30: Increased autism diagnosis in the UK (Ginny Russell, University of Exeter) 2023-06-20 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard) 2023-06-22 12:00: “Molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuron-glia interactions” (Professor Kelly Monk, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University) 2023-06-22 14:00: Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy (Dorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) ) 2023-06-29 16:30: Astrocytic decline and paralysis, rather than reactivity, contribute to brain ageing and age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases. (Professor Alexei Verkhratsky, Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Manchester) 2023-06-30 16:00: K2P channels in sensory transduction and neuromodulation (Professor Niels Ringstad, New York University School of Medicine) 2023-07-03 16:00: Epigenetic profiling reveals mechanisms of microglial reprogramming in models of Alzheimer’s disease pathology (Dr. Jonas Neher. DZNE Tübingen, Germany) 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) 2023-07-11 16:00: “Energy Matters: Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics to power neural regeneration” (Dr Zu-Hang Sheng, NINDS, NIH) 2023-07-11 16:00: “Energy Matters: Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics to power neural regeneration” (Dr Zu-Hang Sheng, NINDS, NIH) 2023-07-14 11:00: Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent (Jeremy Bernstein, MIT) 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) 2023-09-14 15:00: Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence" (Jay McClelland, Stanford University ) 2023-09-19 17:30: Taking Rejuvenation to Longevity Escape Velocity (Dr. Aubrey de Grey) 2023-09-28 16:30: Establishing hPSC-derived Schwann cells for modeling metabolic disorders of the PNS (Dr Homa Majd) 2023-10-02 13:00: A new approach to understanding eye design (Professor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge)) 2023-10-02 13:30: Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away (Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK) 2023-10-05 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson) 2023-10-05 12:00: “Thoughts on the interaction of different memory systems: evidence from semantic dementia” (Professor Karalyn Patterson, University of Cambridge ) 2023-10-05 14:00: Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures (Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) ) 2023-10-06 16:30: Decoding the neural processing of speech (Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg)) 2023-10-09 16:15: Cortical Layers in Context and Learning (Randy Bruno, DPAG, University of Oxford) 2023-10-10 14:00: A new look at eye design (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2023-10-10 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2023-10-10 16:30: “Unexpected physiologic role of alpha-synuclein Serine-129 phosphorylation” (Professor Subhojit Roy, University of California, San Diego) 2023-10-12 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson) 2023-10-12 14:00: When language typology meets dementia (Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) ) 2023-10-13 12:00: Motor cortex circuits for learned movements (Takaki Komiyama ) 2023-10-13 12:30: Third-generation approaches of antibody discovery and optimisation (Dr Pietro Sormanni, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-13 13:00: Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells (Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University) 2023-10-13 16:30: Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope (Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)) 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) 2023-10-18 17:30: The 'Tock Tick' of Senescence (Cleo Bishop - Queen Mary University of London) 2023-10-19 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson) 2023-10-19 14:00: How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view (Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College)) 2023-10-20 12:30: Exploiting nuclear envelope dysfunction in progeria to identify new therapeutic targets for ageing (Dr Delphine Larrieu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-20 16:30: Cortical gradients of functional integration (Dr Daniel Margulies ) 2023-10-23 16:15: From Modulation of Neurons and Small Networks to Climate Change (Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.) 2023-10-24 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia, Edward Young) 2023-10-26 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson) 2023-10-27 12:00: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge) 2023-10-27 12:30: Title to be Confirmed (Dr Alastair Brown, Heptares, Cambridge) 2023-10-27 13:00: The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction (Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London) 2023-10-30 11:30: Autism-CHIME: Can music therapy support autistic children’s communication skills or anxiety? (Claire Howlin, Trinity College Dublin) 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 ) 2023-10-31 09:30: Child Development Forum Michaelmas I (Thomas Allen, Carly Hood, Alisa Anokhina) 2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann) 2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann) 2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann) 2023-11-02 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson) 2023-11-02 14:00: A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex (Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford)) 2023-11-02 15:00: Exploring the human connectome (Prof. Martijn van den Heuvel, CNCR, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-11-03 12:00: Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity (Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex) 2023-11-03 12:30: GABA-A receptor subtypes controlling pain and itch (Professor Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich) 2023-11-03 13:00: Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress (Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience) 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 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson) 2023-11-09 12:00: “Translational applications of human brain charts: from clinical to population neuroscience” (Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge) 2023-11-09 14:00: Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control (Jan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) ) 2023-11-09 15:00: Idiosynchrony: Using naturalistic stimuli to draw out individual differences in brain and behavior ( Dr. Emily Finn, Darmouth, USA) 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) 2023-11-10 12:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge) 2023-11-10 12:30: Implications and molecular mechanisms of MOK, a new signaling kinase in neurodegenerative neuroinflammation (Dr Cintia Roodveldt University of Seville ) 2023-11-10 13:00: Circuit basis of learning and decision-making (Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 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) 2023-11-13 12:30: A primer on relating Age, Brain and Cognition: As easy as “ABC”? (Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2023-11-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-11-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-11-16 10:00: Network effects in the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders (Prof. Alex Fornito, Monash University, Australia) 2023-11-16 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson) 2023-11-16 14:00: Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside (Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)) 2023-11-17 12:00: Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation (Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL)) 2023-11-17 12:30: A novel mechanism of selective inhibition of Glycine receptors observed by Cryo-EM | Controlling and combining signal activation for adhesion and receptor bridging (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-11-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard) 2023-11-21 16:00: Capability-oriented Evaluation in AI: From IRT to Measurement Layouts (Prof Jose Hernandez-Orallo) 2023-11-21 17:30: Unlocking Safe Reprogramming with Deep Learning (Brendan Swain - Shift Bioscience) 2023-11-23 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson) 2023-11-23 14:00: Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy (Quentin Huys (UCL)) 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) 2023-11-23 16:30: Myelin turnover, maintenance and disease: Insight from electron microscopy and 3D imaging by FIB-SEM (DR. WIEBKE MÖBIUS, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Göttingen, Germany) 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) 2023-11-24 12:30: Engineering post-translational regulation of ion channels: basic mechanisms to translation (Professor Henry Colecraft, University of Columbia) 2023-11-24 13:00: TBC (Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London) 2023-11-24 16:30: How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language (Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)) 2023-11-24 16:30: Myelin turnover, maintenance and disease: Insight from electron microscopy and 3D imaging by FIB-SEM ( Wiebke Möbius, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany) 2023-11-27 12:30: Brain geometry and dynamics (James Pang (Monash University)) 2023-11-27 16:15: The many faces of stress: from developmental impacts to stress-related brain disorders (Jeff Dalley, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge) 2023-11-28 09:30: Child Development Forum Michaelmas II (Rachel Knight, Jean Heng, and Dianna Ilyka) 2023-11-28 11:00: Modern Bayesian Experimental Design (Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford) 2023-11-30 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson) 2023-11-30 14:00: Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research (Essi Viding (UCL) ) 2023-11-30 16:30: Myelin turnover, maintenance and disease: Insight from electron microscopy and 3D imaging by FIB-SEM (DR. WIEBKE MÖBIUS; Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Göttingen, Germany) 2023-12-01 11:00: Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics (Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) 2023-12-01 13:00: New models to study human embryo implantation and early development (Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute) 2023-12-01 14:00: Insights and strategies during sensorimotor learning (Kishore Kuchibhotla - Johns Hopkins University) 2023-12-04 09:30: Methods In Cognitive Neuroscience Day (Multiple) 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 ) 2023-12-04 18:30: Adrian Christmas Lecture: Wiring the Brain and Local Translation (Christine Holt, PDN, Cambridge ) 2023-12-07 14:00: Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants (Ruth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison)) 2023-12-07 15:00: Robust brain functional connectivity network estimation (Dr. Hanâ Lbath, Université Grenoble Alpes) 2023-12-07 16:00: Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease (Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge) 2023-12-12 12:45: The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved (Michael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto)) 2023-12-12 14:00: The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition (Dr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland)) 2024-01-11 12:00: “Are Toll-like receptors and inflammasomes therapeutic targets for neuroinflammation?” (Prof Clare Bryant, University of Cambridge) 2024-01-17 16:00: The failure of Russian propaganda in Ukraine and Russian PsyOps ads on Facebook (Jon Roozenbeek (Cambridge), Tetiana Haiduchyk and Uliana Hresko (Trementum), Anton Dek (Judge Business School)) 2024-01-18 14:00: Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children (Torsten Baldeweg (UCL)) 2024-01-18 16:00: Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes (Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB) 2024-01-19 13:00: "The Importance of Behavioural Bioassays in Neuroscience" (Prof Richard Brown, Dalhousie University, Canada ) 2024-01-24 15:00: The paradox of virality (Steve Rathje (New York University)) 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) 2024-01-25 12:00: “Ambient Mass Spectrometry in Neuroscience: From spatial biology to neurosurgery” (Prof Zoltan Takats, Imperial College London) 2024-01-25 14:00: The finger of blame in depression and the brain (Roland Zahn (KCL)) 2024-01-26 12:00: What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition (Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge)) 2024-01-26 16:00: Why it’s important to think about equity, diversity and inclusion when designing, running, analysing and reporting clinical trials (Professor Shaun Treweek University of Aberdeen, Health Services Research) 2024-01-30 09:30: Child Development Forum Lent I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-01-31 11:30: Sensory hypersensitivity and poor sleep - understanding neural mechanisms during early development (Teodora Gliga, University of East Anglia) 2024-01-31 16:00: Explaining regional mental health prescriptions in England through deprivation and aggregate personality profiles (Andrés Gvirtz (King’s College London)) 2024-02-01 12:00: “Complement in Alzheimer’s Disease” (Dr Wioleta Zelek, Cardiff University) 2024-02-01 14:00: Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems (Anna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) ) 2024-02-02 13:00: TBA (Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham) 2024-02-02 16:00: Biophysical methods in small molecule drug discovery (Dr Stanislava Panova, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Senior Research Associate) 2024-02-02 16:30: When Art meets Psychology ( Prof. Clive Wilkins) 2024-02-05 12:30: BOLD & Non-BOLD Contrasts in Human fMRI (Sriranga Kashya (Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto)) 2024-02-05 16:15: The Impact of Individual GABA Cells in Developing and Adult Cortex (Rosa Cossart, INMED, Marseille, France) 2024-02-07 11:30: Jason Arday (Jason Arday, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-07 15:00: Understanding and managing conspiracy beliefs (Mikey Biddlestone (University of Kent)) 2024-02-08 14:00: Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments (Cath Harmer (U. of Oxford) ) 2024-02-09 13:00: Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness (Erik Clark, Department of Genetics) 2024-02-09 16:00: Not just an affair of the heart: A look at ERG channels and Kv7 channels in (Professor Iain Greenwood, St George’s University, Department of Life and Environmental Science) 2024-02-09 16:30: Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts (Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh) 2024-02-12 16:15: Using brain organoids to understand cell fate (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, Cambridge) 2024-02-13 13:00: Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep ( Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France)) 2024-02-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Changmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK)) 2024-02-14 15:00: A closer look at testimony: Scope, challenges, and consequences (Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London) ) 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. ) 2024-02-15 16:00: Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep (Dr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR) 2024-02-16 16:00: StaRs™ and Structures – a door to the GPCR pharmacological and drug discovery universe (Dr Alastair Brown, Sosei Heptares, Translational Biosciences) 2024-02-19 12:30: Resting State fMRI & Recent Advances (Marta Bianciardi (Harvard University)) 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) 2024-02-21 11:30: Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and Others (Sarah Douglas) 2024-02-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-21 15:00: How Can the Behavioral Sciences Inform the Climate Crisis Response? (Madalina Vlasceanu (New York University)) 2024-02-22 12:00: “Enhancing Insight into Neurodegenerative Disease-Associated Genes via Long-Read RNA-Sequencing” (Dr Emil Gustavsson, University College London) 2024-02-22 14:00: Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations (Gustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth)) 2024-02-22 15:30: Exploring microcircuit properties for memory, from rodents to the human brain (Jake Watson, IST Austria (Klosterneuburg AT)) 2024-02-23 13:00: The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction (Alessandro Mongera, University College London) 2024-02-23 13:00: Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings (David Burt, MIT) 2024-02-23 16:00: David James Seminar: Molecular mechanisms regulating human weight regulation (Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS, University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Biochemistry Abstract) 2024-02-23 16:30: Cortical interneurons in health and disease. (Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London) 2024-02-26 16:15: ANNUAL LECTURE: Saving the Synapse in Development and Alzheimer’s Disease (Carla Shatz, Stanford University, U.S.A. ) 2024-02-27 09:30: Child Development Forum Lent II (Jiayin Zheng (Education@Cambridge), Kate Merritt (IMH@UCL), Ceci Qing Cai (ICN@UCL)) 2024-02-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-27 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-28 15:00: When Curiosity Gaps Backfire: Effects of Headline Concreteness on Information Selection Decisions (Marianne Simone Aubin Le Quere (Cornell University)) 2024-02-29 12:00: “Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in clinical routine - a pretty Swedish perspective” (Prof Michael Schöll, University of Gothenburg) 2024-02-29 14:00: Consolidation of memory and model-based planning (Neil Burgess (UCL) 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) 2024-03-01 12:00: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation (Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-01 13:00: The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint (Neil Anthwal, Kings College London) 2024-03-01 16:00: A novel type of proteasome condensates that can target toxic protein aggregates (Dr Yu Ye, Imperial College London, Department of Brain Science) 2024-03-04 12:30: Harnessing Visual Studio Code for Your Research (Máté Aller & Dace Apšvalka, MRC CBU) 2024-03-04 16:15: Estradiol feedback on the reproductive neuroendocrine system (Sue Moenter, University of Michigan, U.S.A. ) 2024-03-06 15:00: Student Spotlight: Yan Xia, James Ackland, and Nikolay Petrov (Yan Xia (Aalto University), James Ackland (Cambridge), and Nikolay Petrov (Cambridge)) 2024-03-07 14:00: Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces (Jaimie Henderson (Stanford University)) 2024-03-07 14:00: “Atomic pathology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-EM of amyloid filaments” (Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-08 13:00: Controlling the cell cycle (Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute) 2024-03-08 16:00: PDRA Talks: Nuclear envelope integrity in health and disease | A role for the proton (Dr Anne Janssen, Dr Luke Pattison, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology) 2024-03-08 16:30: Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults. (Dr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex) 2024-03-11 11:00: Psychological Intergroup Interventions: The Motivation Challenge (Eran Halperin (Hebrew University)) 2024-03-11 16:15: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces (Christian Doeller, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany ) 2024-03-12 10:00: Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning (Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2024-03-12 10:00: Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning (Jonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge) 2024-03-13 11:30: Neural Sociometrics: Precision assessment of parent-child brain-behaviour interaction dynamics (Professor Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-14 14:00: Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production (Kate Watkins (U. of Oxford) ) 2024-03-14 16:00: Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast (Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research) 2024-03-15 16:00: Molecular insights into GABA-A receptor pharmacology (Dr Paul Miller, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology) 2024-03-15 16:30: The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory (Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva) 2024-03-18 12:00: “The all ‘A’s: ageing, Alzheimer, autophagy, AI, and an ‘A’ compound in brain health and longevity” (Dr Evandro Fei Fang, University of Oslo) 2024-03-18 12:30: Studies with Single Subjects or Large Numbers of Volunteers - Why, & How? (Wietske van der Zwaag (Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam)) 2024-03-19 10:00: Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition (Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol) 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) 2024-03-20 16:00: Political Polarization, Social Norms, and Sorting: An Agent-based Social Sampling Model (Gordon Brown (University of Warwick)) 2024-03-28 12:00: “Tools for studying variation in the dark genome” (Dr Michael Eberle, PacBio Computational Biology Group) 2024-04-11 12:00: “Translational applications of human brain charts: from clinical to population neuroscience” (Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge) 2024-04-12 13:00: A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma (Dr Omer Bayraktar) 2024-04-12 13:00: A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma (Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute) 2024-04-15 12:30: fMRI vs. Electrophysiology in Humans (Patricia Figueiredo (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon) ) 2024-04-17 11:30: Sex differences in co-occurring conditions among autistic individuals (Miriam Martini, Karolinska Institutet) 2024-04-18 12:00: The sound of noise in auditory midbrain and cortex (Livia de Hoz - Charite Berlin) 2024-04-22 12:30: Handling missingness in cognitive variables using multiple imputation (Peter Watson (MRC CBU)) 2024-04-24 15:00: Social and political change in diverse societies: Insights from largescale panel studies (Nikhil Sengupta (University of Kent)) 2024-04-25 14:00: Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation (Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth)) 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) 2024-04-26 12:00: Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers" (Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University)) 2024-04-26 13:00: Differential tissue deformability underlies fluid pressure driven shape divergence of the embryonic brain and spinal cord (Susannah McLaren, Gurdon Institute) 2024-04-29 12:50: Brain age prediction using diffusion MRI data (James Bacon (University of Cambridge)) 2024-04-29 16:15: Egocentric and allocentric representations in cortical structures (Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 2024-04-30 09:30: Child Development Forum Easter I (Kelsey Graber (Education), Eireann Attridge (Education), Jessica van de Grint (Psychology)) 2024-05-01 11:30: Perceptual decision-making in autism: From neurochemistry to cognition (Nazia Jassim, University of Cambridge) 2024-05-01 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia, Youjing Yu) 2024-05-01 15:00: Behavioural Science and Security: Informing Evidence-based Policy and Practice (Brooke Rogers (King's College London)) 2024-05-02 12:00: “On Brains and Vessels: How perivascular fibroblasts contribute to ALS neurodegeneration” (Sebastian Lewandowski, Karolinska Institutet) 2024-05-02 14:00: Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust (Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford)) 2024-05-03 13:00: An ancient regulatory network sets the position of the forebrain in chordates (Elia Benito-Gutierrez, Department of Zoology/Genentech) 2024-05-03 16:30: Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts (Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh) 2024-05-08 12:15: Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps (James Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University) 2024-05-08 15:00: Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Trends, Drivers, Solutions (Julia Ebner (Oxford)) 2024-05-09 13:00: “Protecting and regenerating the diseased nervous system: Lessons from development” (Prof Michel Cayouette, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM)) 2024-05-09 14:00: Learning and memory in developmental amnesia  (Rachael Elward (London South Bank University)) 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. ) 2024-05-10 13:00: Multi-tissue tectonics enable self-assembly of the vertebrate body axis (Benjamin Steventon, Department of Genetics) 2024-05-10 16:30: Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders (Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge) 2024-05-14 12:00: “Herpes and dementia: the enemy within” (Prof Ruth Itzhaki) 2024-05-16 14:00: Sleep to forget unwanted memories (Scott Cairney (U. of York)) 2024-05-17 16:30: The Cognitive Biology of Language (Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University) 2024-05-20 10:00: Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision making (Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science) 2024-05-20 12:30: ISMRM highlights (Multiple) 2024-05-22 15:00: Tin Foil Confessions: Escaping The Cult Of Conspiracy (Brent Lee) 2024-05-23 14:00: How does the human brain recognize faces? (Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine)) 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)) 2024-05-24 10:00: Circuit for memory-based action selection (Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2024-05-29 15:00: Cambridge Overcoming Polarisation Initiative (Ceejay Hayes (Cambridge) ) 2024-05-30 14:00: The problem with mental health awareness (Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford)) 2024-06-03 12:30: Advances in fMRI Data Acquisition Techniques (Benedikt Poser (Maastricht University)) 2024-06-03 15:00: The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain (Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley)) 2024-06-05 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-06-05 15:00: Social robots: an experimental apparatus in fundamental psychological research and a support tool in healthcare (Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology)) 2024-06-06 14:00: The role of reward in language learning (Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway)) 2024-06-06 16:00: Identifying mechanisms of, and countermeasures to, muscle decline in ageing (Dr Colleen Deane, University of Southampton) 2024-06-07 10:30: Lessons from a lifetime of leading with autism (Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science) 2024-06-10 12:30: Preregistration: When great ideas meet reality (can we avoid the hiccups?) (Roni Tibon (University of Nottingham)) 2024-06-11 09:30: Child Development Forum Easter II (Abigail Agyemang (Psychology), Irena Tetkovic (Psychiatry), Keith Liang (Psychology)) 2024-06-12 15:00: Large Language Models or Large Models of the Human Mind? (Michal Kosinski (Stanford University)) 2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 2024-06-13 12:00: “Rincell-1: first-in-human, pluripotent stem cell-based therapy for hearing loss” (Profs Marcelo Rivolta & Douglas Hartley, University of Sheffield / University of Nottingham) 2024-06-18 10:00: Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processing (Rodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina) 2024-06-20 12:00: “Leveraging transcriptomics to understand neurodegeneration” (Prof Mina Ryten, UK-DRI, Cambridge Centre & University College London) 2024-06-20 15:00: Tackling global social issues: Understanding what shapes and motivates pro-environmental behaviour (Claudia R Schneider (University of Canterbury)) 2024-06-24 10:00: Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis (Ralf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester) 2024-07-01 16:00: How is Association Cortico-Cortical Circuit Construction Compromised in a Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorder? (Prof Anthony LaMantia - Virginia Tech (USA)) 2024-07-04 12:00: “A novel role at organelle contacts for protrudin, a protein that promotes axonal regeneration” (Prof Evan Reid, University of Cambridge) 2024-07-08 12:30: Estimating across-site PAC, delays, and complex network properties under source mixing (Stefan Haufe (Technical University of Berlin)) 2024-07-10 12:30: Nine Minds; Inner Lives on the Spectrum (Daniel Tammet) 2024-07-15 12:30: Therapeutic ultrasound to treat and modulate against brain diseases (Sophie Morse (Imperial College London)) 2024-07-17 11:30: Synthetic Life: Music Therapy, Active Noise Cancelling and Neonatal Intensive Care (Dr. Artur C Jaschke, University of Cambridge) 2024-07-19 13:00: “Compartmentalized intrathecal inflammation in multiple sclerosis as driver of disease progression: from neuropathology to clinical correlates” (Prof Roberta Magliozzi, University of Verona & Imperial College London) 2024-07-22 12:30: FSL-MRS as an alternative to MRspa for 1H MRS processing (Carina Graf) 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) 2024-07-25 12:00: “Psychedelics: how do they work?” (Prof Robin Carhart-Harris, University of California San Francisco) 2024-09-03 14:00: Myelin plasticity is required for opioid reward (Dr. Belgin Yalçın (Michelle Monje group, Stanford University)) 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) 2024-10-09 15:00: Sleepless and Alone: The Impact of Sleep Loss on Human Social Behavior (Eti Ben Simon, The Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California Berkeley) 2024-10-10 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson) 2024-10-10 14:00: Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control (Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) ) 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) 2024-10-11 13:00: Fate versus free will; how does the environment shape early tumour survival? (Maria Alcolea - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2024-10-11 16:30: Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering (Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada) 2024-10-11 17:00: Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations (Ken Harris, University College London) 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) 2024-10-17 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson) 2024-10-17 14:00: The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events (Adrian Horner (U. of York) ) 2024-10-17 16:00: Building synapses in the hippocampus (Prof Laura Andreae, King's College) 2024-10-18 13:00: Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells (Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2024-10-18 16:00: Not too big and not too small – Bicycle peptides for precision targeted therapies (Dr Liuhong Chen, Bicycle Therapeutics) 2024-10-18 16:30: Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics. (Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2024-10-21 12:30: Determining the direction of communication between the hippocampus and neocortex with layer-specific fMRI. (Oliver Warrington (UCL) ) 2024-10-21 16:15: Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours (Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS), University of Edinburgh ) 2024-10-23 11:30: How Autistic minds become Hackers and Cybersecurity Specialists (Jonathan Scott-Lee, HSBC) 2024-10-23 15:00: What does psychology have to do with climate change? Challenges, evidence, and opportunities (Jacob Rode (University of Cambridge)) 2024-10-24 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson) 2024-10-24 14:00: Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition (Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience)) 2024-10-25 16:30: Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights (Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 2024-10-28 16:15: Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices (Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo) 2024-10-29 13:30: Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits (Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel) 2024-10-30 13:00: Cellular and circuit mechanisms of cortical function in humans and rats (Dr Sam Booker, University of Edinburgh) 2024-10-31 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson) 2024-10-31 14:00: Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions (Tim Denison (U. of Oxford)) 2024-10-31 16:00: Recurrent circuits involving motoneurons in the spinal cord (Prof Marco Beato - UCL) 2024-11-01 16:00: Computational Microbiology of the E. coli cell envelope (Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford) 2024-11-01 16:30: The Atomic Human (Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-07 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson) 2024-11-07 14:00: Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity (Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University)) 2024-11-07 16:00: Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development (Kathy Niakan, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-08 16:00: Harnessing the principles of cellular resilience for therapeutics (Dr Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-08 16:30: Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions (Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway) 2024-11-12 13:30: Geometry of neural representations (Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge) 2024-11-12 16:00: Principles of sexually dimorphic experience dependent plasticity (Sonu Peedikayil-Kurien, Oren-Suissa Lab, Weizmann Institute) 2024-11-13 15:00: The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions (Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-14 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson) 2024-11-14 14:00: Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust (Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol)) 2024-11-15 13:00: Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach (Clare Buckley - University of Manchester) 2024-11-15 16:00: Delaying and Measuring ageing (Dr Ivana Bjedov, University College London Cancer Institute) 2024-11-18 12:30: How to version control your scientific code using Git and GitHub (Máté Aller (CBU)) 2024-11-18 16:15: Towards understanding adaptive intelligence (Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland ) 2024-11-20 11:30: Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside the lab (Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading ) 2024-11-21 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson) 2024-11-21 14:00: Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present (Avital Hahamy (University College London) ) 2024-11-22 13:00: Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis (Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute) 2024-11-22 16:00: Redirecting innate immune mechanisms against aggregated proteins (Dr William McEwan, University of Cambridge UK Dementia Research Institute) 2024-11-22 16:30: Deconstruction of the social brain (Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany) 2024-11-26 13:30: State space models (as alternatives to Transformers) (Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen) 2024-11-27 15:00: Quantifying the persuasive impact of ad-targeting using an archive of real campaigns’ ad experiments (Ben Tappin (London School of Economics)) 2024-11-28 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson) 2024-11-28 14:00: Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today (Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews) ) 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) 2024-11-29 13:00: Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta  (Norah Fogarty - King's College London) 2024-11-29 16:00: Postdoctoral Researcher Talks (Dr Javier Aguilera Lizarraga, Dr Anwit Pandit) 2024-11-29 16:30: From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination (Professor Peter Ulric Tse, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA) 2024-12-02 09:00: Cognitive Neuroscience Methods Day (Multiple) 2024-12-03 14:00: Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks (Brent Doiron, University of Chicago) 2024-12-04 11:30: Cognitive aging in (older) autistic adults (Prof. Hilde M. Geurts, University of Amsterdam) 2024-12-05 14:00: Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex (Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) ) 2024-12-06 13:00: How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question (Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2024-12-06 16:30: Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies (Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London) 2024-12-11 11:30: Self-harm in secondary schools; Prevalence, School Level Influences, and Interventions (Rasanat Fatima Nawaz, University of Cambridge) 2024-12-12 11:00: Analysis of Longitudinal Data (Peter Watson) 2024-12-16 18:30: Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany ) 2025-01-07 11:00: Modelling C. elegans pharynx (Dana Sherman, Weizmann) 2025-01-07 15:00: Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex (Lea Duncker, Columbia) 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) 2025-01-16 14:00: Cognitive-Motor Borderlands (Sam McDougle (Yale University)) 2025-01-21 15:00: Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning (N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure) 2025-01-21 16:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Title TBC (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-01-23 14:00: Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments (Emma Holmes (UCL)) 2025-01-23 15:00: The Genetics of Person-specific fMRI Networks (Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch) 2025-01-24 13:00: Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation (Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics) 2025-01-24 16:15: The Marmoset Monkey as a Model Species for Spatial Navigation and Vestibular Function ( Dr. Jean Laurens, The Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience.) 2025-01-27 12:30: Detectability and cortical depth dependence of stimulus-driven high-frequency BOLD oscillations in the human primary somatosensory and motor cortex (Dr Shota Hodono, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands.) 2025-01-27 16:15: The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle (Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 2025-01-29 11:30: Reflecting upon the double empathy problem: new directions and practical implications. (Damian Milton, University of Kent) 2025-01-29 13:00: CANCELLED: How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI (Helen Margetts (University of Oxford)) 2025-01-30 14:00: Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy (Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool)) 2025-01-31 16:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Human Pain Genetics (Geoff Woods, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) 2025-01-31 16:30: Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs (Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.) 2025-02-03 12:30: Rethinking Academic Recruitment: Exploring the Potential of Narrative CVs (Dr Noam Tal-Perry, Research Strategy Office & Bennett Institute for Public Policy, UK) 2025-02-03 15:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Lipid Nanoparticles that Enable the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Gene Therapies (Pieter Cullis, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC) 2025-02-03 16:15: Principles of learning in distributed neural networks (Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL) 2025-02-05 15:00: Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships (Daniel Toribio Florez (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) 2025-02-06 14:00: Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving (John Duncan (MRC CBU)) 2025-02-06 15:00: Challenges and opportunities for biological network inference (Dr Kimberly Glass) 2025-02-06 16:00: From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour (Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich) 2025-02-07 13:00: Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension (John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin) 2025-02-10 12:30: Revealing the Spatial Pattern of Brain Hemodynamic Sensitivity to Healthy Aging through Sparse Dynamic Causal Model (Dr Giorgia Baron, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.) 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 ) 2025-02-11 15:00: Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action (Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt) 2025-02-11 15:45: Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience (Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics) 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) 2025-02-12 15:00: Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks. (Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral) 2025-02-13 14:00: Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue (Tessa Dekker (UCL)) 2025-02-14 16:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Developing More Effective Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Pain (David Hughes, University of Glasgow) 2025-02-14 16:30: Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains. (Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain ) 2025-02-17 16:15: Ancestral Sight (Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge ) 2025-02-18 15:00: Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back (Youjing Yu; Tim Lin) 2025-02-19 15:00: The Microtargeting Manipulation Machine (Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)) 2025-02-20 15:00: Algorithmic Information Dynamics (Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London) 2025-02-21 16:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger, Milk it! The Cambridge Lactation Lab Vision (Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab) 2025-02-24 12:30: Playing with dice: two unusual use cases for experimental randomisation in fMRI (Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK) 2025-02-27 14:00: Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample (Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge)) 2025-02-28 12:00: Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts (Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK) 2025-02-28 13:00: Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease (Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2025-02-28 16:00: Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-03-03 12:30: Probabilistic Functional Modes: population-informed individual specific modelling of brain networks (Rezvan Farahibozorg, University of Oxford, UK) 2025-03-03 16:15: Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control (Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge ) 2025-03-04 15:00: The Continual Learning (CL) Theory (Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita) 2025-03-05 15:00: Encouraging sustainable food choices on food-delivery apps: which interventions work, when, and do consumers want them? (Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge)) 2025-03-05 15:00: David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang - Exploration of Biological Diversity (Zhang, MIT) 2025-03-06 14:00: Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice? (Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) ) 2025-03-06 15:00: Revolutionizing Connectomics using Generative, Federated and Holistic Learning (Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London) 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) 2025-03-07 13:00: Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation (Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield) 2025-03-07 16:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, Drug Discovery, Action, and Repurposing in iPSC-derived Neurons (Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-07 16:30: What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic (Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth) 2025-03-10 16:15: Simple principles underlying complex neural responses (Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge ) 2025-03-11 15:00: Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-03-13 14:00: A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain (Nadine Dijkstra (UCL)) 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) 2025-03-14 12:00: : Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention (Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK) 2025-03-17 12:30: Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales (Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany) 2025-03-17 15:00: The place to be? At the nexus of psychology and geography (Friedrich Goetz (University of British Columbia)) 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) 2025-03-19 11:30: Sex differences in the placenta and autism (Dr Alex Tsompanidis, University of Cambridge ) 2025-03-20 14:00: Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices (Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London)) 2025-03-20 15:00: Reproducible Brain Charts: Accelerating Studies of Brain Development with Open Science (Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania) 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) 2025-03-21 13:00: The epigenetic control of variable expressivity (Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics) 2025-03-24 12:30: Principles of intensive human neuroimaging (Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States.) 2025-03-31 12:30: Artefacts in MEG data (Dr Golan Karvat & Dr Olaf Hauk, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK) 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) 2025-04-14 12:30: Analysing electrophysiology data with osl-ephys (Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK ) 2025-04-15 15:00: In-Context Learning (Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar) 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 ) 2025-04-25 13:00: Echoes of the Embryo: A stem cell model of human gastrulation and post-gastrulation lineage emergence (Jitesh Neupane) 2025-05-01 10:00: Multiscale Organization of Neuronal Activity Unifies Scale-Dependent Theories of Brain Function (Dr Mac Shine, University of Sydney) 2025-05-01 14:00: From survival in the wild to music enjoyment - how the human brain discovers structure in sound sequences (Maria Chait (UCL)) 2025-05-02 13:00: Coordination of Protrusions in Migrating Immune Cells (Michael Sixt) 2025-05-02 16:30: How the Built Environment Affects Spatial Behavior, Brain Activity and Aesthetics (Professor Hugo Spiers) 2025-05-06 15:00: The successor representation, its neural substrate, and behavioural consequences. (Puria Radmard; Daniel Kornai) 2025-05-07 16:00: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Misinformation and Disinformation (Lee McIntyre (Boston University)) 2025-05-08 14:00: The human sense of smell: From hunter-gatherers to wine experts (Asifa Majid (U. of Oxford) ) 2025-05-08 16:00: Potassium channel activators - a possible anti-seizure treatment. (Prof Frederik Elinder - Linköping University, Sweden) 2025-05-09 16:30: The Functions of Episodic Memory (Ali Boyle) 2025-05-12 16:15: Normalisation, adaptation, and the balance of excitation and inhibition (Yashar Ahmadian, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-13 14:00: Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations (Alex Williams (NYU)) 2025-05-14 11:30: Masking: the fine line between fitting in and exhaustion (Andrew Whitehouse, SEND Network ) 2025-05-14 15:00: Strategic Climate Change Communication: The Questions Few are Asking (Matthew Goldberg (Yale University)) 2025-05-14 15:00: Structural characterisation of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens for diagnostic and therapeutic applications (Ivan Campeotto, Assistant Professor in Microbial Biotechnology) 2025-05-15 14:00: Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements (Katja Kornysheva (U. of Birmingham) ) 2025-05-15 15:00: Comprehensive profiling of anaesthetised brain dynamics across phylogeny (Dr Andrea Luppi) 2025-05-15 16:00: From nuclear swelling to chemoattractant production during tissue damage (Dr Balázs Enyedi - Semmelweis University, Budapest) 2025-05-16 13:00: Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis (Lakshmi Balasubramaniam) 2025-05-16 14:00: Connectome-based Echo State Networks (James McAllister (Ulster)) 2025-05-16 16:30: How do (and don't) we take other perspectives? (Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. ) 2025-05-21 11:30: Autism in Midlife and Older Age (Dr Gavin R. Stewart, King’s College London) 2025-05-22 14:00: A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry (Lilian Weber (U. of Oxford)) 2025-05-22 16:00: It is not all in your genes - epigenetic regulation of human lung repair (Dr Renata Jurkowska, Cardiff University) 2025-05-23 13:00: Decoding the Notch Signal (Sarah Bray) 2025-05-23 16:30: Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will (Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA ) 2025-05-27 11:00: Dendrites, Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampal Place Fields​ (Carl Ashworth; Saeyeon Kwon) 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) 2025-05-28 15:00: The Long-Term Effectiveness of Gamified Inoculation: Mapping Decay, Booster Interventions, and Diffusion Messages (Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford)) 2025-05-30 16:30: "Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues” (Peter Godfrey Smith) 2025-06-02 12:30: Brain Digital Twins for Neurological Disorders (Dr. Nitin Williams, Department of Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland) 2025-06-03 11:00: Discovering reward-guided learning strategies from large-scale datasets (Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia)) 2025-06-04 11:30: Advancing precision health in neurodevelopmental conditions (Evdokia Anagnostou, University of Toronto) 2025-06-05 14:00: From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome (Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute)) 2025-06-09 12:30: Robust and replicable effects of ageing on resting state brain electrophysiology measured with MEG (Dr. Andrew Quinn, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK) 2025-06-09 15:00: Climate beliefs across borders: National patterns and digital interventions (Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland)) 2025-06-10 11:00: Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making (Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin) 2025-06-10 11:00: Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making (Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin) 2025-06-12 14:00: Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function (Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa) 2025-06-12 15:00: Neurotransmitter receptor gradients enable flexible control of cortex-wide network dynamics during cognition (Dr Seán Froudist-Walsh) 2025-06-17 11:00: Multitasking and compositionality in brain and in neural networks (Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge) 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) 2025-06-19 14:00: Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology (Mary-Ellen Lynall (U. of Cambridge, Psychiatry Dept.) ) 2025-06-20 13:00: Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation (Tony Southall) 2025-06-23 12:30: How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing (Dr Nick Souter, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK) 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 ) 2025-06-25 15:00: The Role of Voting Advice Applications in Combatting Misinformation (Clifton van der Linden (University of Oxford and McMaster University)) 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) 2025-07-21 12:30: Gentle introduction to causal inference and estimation of causal effects in the wild (Dr Yordan Raykov, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK) 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) 2025-08-26 16:00: Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans. (Rina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School) 2025-09-02 14:00: Attention under challenge: Addressing the consequences of modern environments (Anina Rich (Macquarie University, Sydney)) 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) 2025-09-16 13:15: The Fruit Fly Connectome and Beyond (Yijie Yin; Saeyeon Kwon) 2025-09-17 12:00: LLM Social Simulation is a Promising Research Method (Tiancheng Hu (University of Cambridge)) 2025-09-23 13:15: Cerebellum Computation (Carl Ashworth; Youjing Yu) 2025-09-25 18:00: In Your Hands – a celebration of artwork created by neurodivergent individuals (Alice Nicholls, artist) 2025-09-29 12:30: Relating age, brain and cognition: As easy as ABC! (Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.) 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) 2025-10-07 12:00: Feedback Forensics: Measuring AI Personality By Comparing Observed Behaviour (Arduin Findeis, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-09 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson) 2025-10-09 14:00: Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans (Biyu He (NYU) ) 2025-10-10 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Tuomas Knowles, Protein Phase Transitions (Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-13 16:15: Plasticity of the Parental Brain (Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute London) 2025-10-15 17:00: The 5th Annual Cambridge Autism Research Lecture: Presented by John Harris (John Harris, journalist, critic, and author) 2025-10-16 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson) 2025-10-16 14:00: Towards realistic and understandable models of human speech processing (Jim Magnuson (U. of Connecticut and BCBL)) 2025-10-17 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Sarah Teichmann, Translating the Human Cell Atlas (Sarah Teichmann, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2025-10-17 13:00: Sense and Sensibility in Cognition: Unraveling the Neural Basis of Emotional Regulation (Dr Xiao Xiao, Fudan University) 2025-10-17 16:30: Mental Navigation and the Default Mode Network: From Spatial Maps to Conceptual Knowledge (Dr Deniz Vatansever, Fudan University) 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) 2025-10-21 13:15: Thalamocortical Interactions for Flexible Cognition (Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai) 2025-10-22 11:30: The Biology and Impact of Sensory Differences in Autism (Nick Puts, King's College London) 2025-10-23 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson) 2025-10-23 14:00: Grasping the invisible: Multidimensional meanings for abstract concepts (Penny Pexman (Western University, Canada) ) 2025-10-23 15:00: The Divided Mind (Prof. Ed Bullmore) 2025-10-24 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: David Hodson, Interrogating GPCRs from the Single Molecule to the Whole Animal (David Hodson, University of Oxford) 2025-10-24 13:00: Regeneration at your fingertips (Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge)) 2025-10-24 16:30: Revisiting Hebb and the Hippocampal Index in Humans: Toward a Neurotechnology of Memory (Prof Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow) 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) 2025-10-29 16:00: From Data to Models to Understanding: Evaluating Neural Latents and Finding Decision Boundaries in Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) (Kabir Dabholkar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) 2025-10-30 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson) 2025-10-31 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Natalie Krahmer, Elucidating the Cell Architecture of Metabolic Liver Disease via Spatial Proteomics (Natalie Krahmer, Helmholtz Diabetes Center ) 2025-10-31 13:00: A novel RASopathy caused by hyperactive Wnt signalling (Dr. Ian Mcgough, Babraham Institute) 2025-10-31 15:00: Do Contemporary Psychological Inoculation Interventions Psychologically Inoculate against Misinformation? (Dan Loughnan; Radboud University) 2025-10-31 16:30: Trust in “Moral” Machines (Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent) 2025-11-06 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson) 2025-11-06 14:00: A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism (Sarah White (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)) 2025-11-06 15:00: Causal Discovery and Network Inference for Biological and Biomedical Data (Prof. Hervé Isambert, Institut Curie) 2025-11-07 13:00: Uncovering how the genome directs development (Julie Ahringer) 2025-11-07 15:00: Behavioral research on climate change mitigation (Kristian Steensen Nielsen; Copenhagen Business School) 2025-11-07 16:30: Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language (Prof Kate Watkins, University of Oxford) 2025-11-11 13:15: Neural basis of decision making (Guillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen) 2025-11-13 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson) 2025-11-13 14:00: How would I feel tomorrow: Towards a computational understanding of subjective pain experiences (Deborah Talmi (U. of Cambridge) ) 2025-11-14 13:00: Nonsense Mediated Decay in Early Embryonic Development (Claire Senner, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research) 2025-11-14 16:00: The Causal Effects of Political Incivility in Social Media Discussions (Chris Bail (Duke University)) 2025-11-14 16:30: Naive Wisdom: Behavioral Evidence from Newborn Chicks (Prof Lucia Regolin, University of Padua) 2025-11-17 12:30: How to version control your scientific code using Git and GitHub (Máté Aller (CBU)) 2025-11-18 13:15: Lazy-rich learning (Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge) 2025-11-18 13:15: Lazy-rich learning (Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge) 2025-11-20 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson) 2025-11-20 14:00: Building efficient & useful knowledge systems (Tali Sharot (University College London) ) 2025-11-20 15:00: Changing Connectomes: Changes during development as well as changes after brain stimulation interventions to improve cognition (Prof. Marcus Kaiser, University of Nottingham, UK) 2025-11-21 12:00: Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities (Prof Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick) 2025-11-21 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Helen Walden, Understanding Parkin’s E3 Ligase Activity (Helen Walden, University of Glasgow) 2025-11-24 09:00: Cambridge Methods In Cognitive Neuroscience Day (multiple) 2025-11-24 16:15: Brainstem peptides: for better for worse, in sickness and in health (Simon Luckman, University of Manchester) 2025-11-26 11:30: Diversity in Social Communication within and between Autistic and Non-autistic Adults (Prof. Danielle Ropar, University of Nottingham) 2025-11-27 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson) 2025-11-27 14:00: The neurocognition of dance (Guido Orgs (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) ) 2025-11-28 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Nikita Gamper, Peripheral Gate in Somatosensory System (Nikita Gamper, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds) 2025-11-28 13:00: Heads or tails? Decoding the regulatory logic of body plan patterning (Vicki Metzis, Imperial College London) 2025-11-28 16:30: What does the high heritability of psychological traits mean for psychologists and educators? (Prof Michael Thomas, Birkbeck, University of London) 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) 2025-12-02 13:15: Tiny & Gigantic Neural Networks (Puria Radmard; Nicolas Anguita) 2025-12-03 10:30: Minimally Speaking Autistic People Who Understand More than They Can Say: Identification and Targeted Intervention (Matthew Belmonte) 2025-12-04 11:00: Analysis of Longitudinal Data (Peter Watson) 2025-12-04 14:00: Reconnecting with the body: Repairing interoception in physical illness and mental health (Lauren Heathcote (Kings College London) ) 2025-12-04 15:00: Complex Structure and Dynamics in Brain Networks (Prof. Olaf Sporns, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405, USA) 2025-12-05 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Hugh Robinson, Ion Channels, Electrical Activity and Energy Consumption in Neuroendocrine Cancer Cells (Hugh Robinson, PDN) 2025-12-05 13:00: Modelling self-organisation: Beyond Turing (Jeremy Green) 2025-12-08 12:30: An Introduction to Psychtoolbox (Celia Foster (CBU)) 2025-12-10 12:30: Semantic Drivers of Gaze in Natural Environments (Associate Professor Caroline Robertson, Dartmouth ) 2025-12-15 18:30: A fishy study: from ecology to cognition to brains (Adrian Christmas lecture) (Redouan Bshary, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 2026-01-08 15:00: The Krakencoder: a multi-modal connectome fusion tool for brain-behavior mapping (Prof. Amy Kuceyeski) 2026-01-09 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture Talk: Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library) (Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library)) 2026-01-16 13:00: Department of Pharmacology: David James Lecture 2026, Prof Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (Professor Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Head of IDEA and Chief Scientific Advisor at Novo Nordisk) 2026-01-16 16:30: Earth, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Shapes the Mind (Gunter Schumann, Fudan University Shanghai, and Charité University Medicine, Berlin) 2026-01-19 16:15: CANCELLED Patterned optogenetics to probe perceptual representations (Dr Edmund Chong, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre) 2026-01-20 12:00: Beyond the Hype: Distinguishing LLM Agents from Generative AI Startups Through a Natural Experiment (Dequn Teng) 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 ) 2026-01-22 14:00: Scales of injustice: Why a balance metaphor can be misleading when weighing evidence (David Lagnado, UCL) 2026-01-22 14:30: Frugal computation (Xaq Pitkow (CMU)) 2026-01-22 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University, Boston) 2026-01-23 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Meritxell Canals Buj, Pharmacology, signalling and regulation of the mu-opioid receptor (Professor Meritxell Canals Buj) 2026-01-23 16:30: Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view (Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven) 2026-01-26 16:15: Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory (Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University) 2026-01-28 15:00: AI and the Democratic Information Environment (Helen Margetts (University of Oxford)) 2026-01-29 09:00: Infinite Hidden Semi-Markov Models (Carl Ashworth; Vince Velkey) 2026-01-29 14:00: Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning (Stefano Palminteri, Ecole Normale Superieure) 2026-01-30 11:30: POSTPONED, new date t.b.c. Degrading Proteins in the Brain: Can we get there and how can we make it work? (Will Farnaby, University of Dundee Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation) 2026-01-30 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki, From data towards Digital Twins of biological systems: Network-based approaches to study context-specific cell signalling (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-01-30 13:00: Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes (Patrick Cai, University of Manchester) 2026-02-02 12:30: Efficient fMRI design for activations and patterns (Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.) 2026-02-02 16:15: Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep (Helen Barron, University of Oxford) 2026-02-03 09:00: Mind-body dualism: A perceptual core (Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute for Science) 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) 2026-02-05 14:00: Exploring high-level cognition through large language models (Ariel Goldstein, U. of Cambridge) 2026-02-06 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Clare Bryant, Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation (Professor Clare Bryant) 2026-02-06 13:00: Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters (Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute) 2026-02-06 16:30: BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness (Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg) 2026-02-09 12:30: Leveraging large-scale datasets in boutique MEG studies (Chetan Gohil, University of Oxford, UK.) 2026-02-09 16:15: Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story (Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds) 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) 2026-02-11 15:00: Behaviour change to achieve net zero (Lorraine Whitmarsh (University of Bath)) 2026-02-12 09:00: Compositional Generalization and Learning (Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai) 2026-02-12 14:00: Understanding, predicting and reducing dementia risk: insights from the heart and brain (Sana Suri, U. of Oxford) 2026-02-13 12:00: Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on (Marcus Munafò, University of Bath) 2026-02-13 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Ron, How is Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Recognised? (Professor David Ron) 2026-02-13 13:00: Lineage architecture of the human and avian spinal cord revealed by single cell genomic barcoding (Giulia Boezio, Francis Crick Institute) 2026-02-16 12:30: BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex (Samira M. Epp, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany) 2026-02-16 16:15: Brainwide sequences of neural activity (Matteo Carandini, University College London) 2026-02-17 12:00: Novel Latent Variable Modeling and Methods for Complex Large-scale Assessments (Chun Wang) 2026-02-18 11:30: The genetic architecture of autism: from medicine to neurodiversity (Prof. Thomas Bourgeron, Université Paris Cité, Institut Pasteur, ) 2026-02-18 15:00: Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain (Nicholas Wright (University College London; Georgetown University)) 2026-02-20 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor David Shorthouse, AI (and robots!) for Accelerated Discovery in Pharmaceutical Science (Professor David Shorthouse) 2026-02-20 16:30: Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine (Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-23 16:15: The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops (Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-25 15:00: Algorithm-mediated social learning (William Brady (Northwestern University)) 2026-02-26 09:00: Multiplexed representations of decision content and uncertainty in visual processin (Dominik Straub; Ishan Kalburge) 2026-02-26 14:00: Translational psychological science for youth mental health (Tim Dalgleish, U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) 2026-02-27 12:00: A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics (Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL)) 2026-02-27 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Elle McDonagh, Variant interpretation at scale for safer and more effective disease treatment (Dr Elle McDonagh) 2026-02-27 13:00: To divide or differentiate, that is the question (Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2026-03-02 12:30: Brain age prediction and early neurodegeneration detection using contrastive learning on brain biomechanics (Jakob Träuble, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge) 2026-03-02 15:00: Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion (Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI)) 2026-03-02 16:15: A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation (Dan Bendor, University College London) 2026-03-05 12:00: Special Guest Lecture: Professor Bill DeGrado, De Novo Design of Protein Catalysts, Drug-Delivery Vehicles and Nanopores (Professor Bill DeGrado, School of Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco) 2026-03-05 12:00: Hierarchical modular organization in the brain: segregation, integration and their balance underlying cognitive diversity (Prof. Changsong Zhou. Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Life Science Imaging Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University.) 2026-03-05 14:00: Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics (Devin Terhune, KCL) 2026-03-06 12:00: The complexity of platform power (Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development) 2026-03-06 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Postdoctoral Research Associate Talks, Shanlin Rao | Dalila Boi (Dr Shanlin RaoD, Dr Dalila Boi, Department of Pharmacology) 2026-03-06 13:00: Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila (Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School) 2026-03-09 12:30: MNE-RSA: Representational Similarity Analysis on EEG and MEG data (Marijn van Vliet, Aalto University, Finland) 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) 2026-03-11 11:30: Understanding ethical challenges in research with autistic children who have complex additional support needs. (Dr Sarah Donald, University of Birmingham) 2026-03-11 15:00: Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere (Manon Revel (Google DeepMind)) 2026-03-12 14:00: Building Word Meanings from Memories and Predictions (Jenni Rodd, UCL) 2026-03-12 15:00: Convergence Rate of Efficient MCMC with Ancillarity-Sufficiency Interweaving Strategy for Panel Data Models (Teruo Nakatsuma, Keio University) 2026-03-13 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture: Professor Yeun Joon Kim, Culture Creation and Change in Medical Institutions: Stage 1 Findings at IMS-MRL (Professor Yeun Joon Kim, JBS) 2026-03-13 13:00: Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo (Kate McDole (LMB)) 2026-03-13 16:30: Emotions as Moral Character Trackers (Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury) 2026-03-16 16:15: Targeting AD-related pathophysiology with non-invasive brain stimulation (Sam Barnes, Imperial College London) 2026-03-19 14:00: The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions (Peter Kok, UCL) 2026-03-19 15:00: Beyond Networks: Functional Connectivity as Eigenmode Resonance (Dr Joana Cabral, Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal) 2026-03-20 13:00: Aneuploidy and its impact on human embryo development (Marta Shahbazi) 2026-03-20 16:30: Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning (Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford) 2026-03-23 12:30: A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology (Niels Van Santen, Ghent University, NL) 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) 2026-03-26 09:00: Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans (Changmin Yu) 2026-03-27 13:00: Pharmacology Seminar Series: Professor Gopal Sapkota, Induced-proximity approaches for targeted protein degradation and dephosphorylation (Professor Gopal Sapkota) 2026-03-30 12:50: Data-Driven Approaches for Addressing Head Motion Bias in Structural MRI Brain Morphometry (Ruben Klinger, Technical University of Munich) 2026-03-31 12:00: Research and Assessment of Occupational Personality Scales Based on Large Language Models (Dr Chanjin Zheng, East China Normal University) 2026-04-15 11:30: When feelings don’t look typical: Divergent manifestations of emotion and their relation to our current understanding of autistic mental health (John Herrington, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)) 2026-04-16 15:00: Intrinsic Neural Timescales - Do they shape the brain's mind? (Prof Georg Northoff. Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Canada) 2026-04-28 12:00: Geometry and Generalization: The case of Grokking (Matthieu Tehenan, Department of Computer Sciences and Technology) 2026-04-29 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford)) 2026-04-30 15:00: Coming soon (Prof Michelle Girvan, Department of Physics, University of Maryland) 2026-05-11 16:15: Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex (Andreas Keller, University of Basel) 2026-05-13 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics)) 2026-05-14 15:00: Coming soon (Prof Manlio De Domenico. Department of Physics, University of Padua) 2026-05-15 12:00: TBC (Mohsen Mosleh, University of Oxford) 2026-05-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jens Madsen (London School of Economics)) 2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh) 2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh) 2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh) 2026-06-10 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Leor Zmigrod) 2026-06-11 15:00: Coming soon (Prof Claus Hilgetag. Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg)