Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site


2007-10-04 16:00: Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegans (Dr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2007-10-11 16:00: Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning? (Prof. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL)

2007-10-18 16:00: Understanding actions. (Dr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL)

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)

2007-11-01 16:00: Teenagers: A Natural History (Dr David Bainbridge, PDN)

2007-11-01 16:30: Adapting a bacterial enzyme for gene therapy in the central nervous system. (Dr John Rogers, PDN)

2007-11-08 16:00: Mechanisms of Regulating Epidermal Stem Cell Fate (Dr Michaela Frye, PDN)

2007-11-08 16:30: Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cord (Dr Katharine Lewis, PDN)

2007-11-15 16:00: Pain processing - what the brain tells the spinal cord (Prof. Anthony Dickenson, UCL)

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))

2008-01-24 16:00: Chromatin and pluripotency (Dr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London))

2008-01-31 16:00: Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair. (Dr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair))

2008-02-07 16:00: Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope? (Dr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair))

2008-02-14 16:00: The secret life of neural stem cells (Dr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-02-14 16:30: Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia. (Dr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

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))

2008-02-28 16:00: The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identity (Dr Clare Baker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-02-28 16:30: The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury (Dr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience))

2008-03-06 16:00: Computational modelling of structural and functional development of the visual system. (Dr Stephen Eglen (DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Science))

2008-03-13 13:00: The Neuronal Circuits Underlying Odor Perception in Mice (Dr Alexander Fleischmann, Columbia University)

2008-04-24 16:00: Placental evolution, structure and function. (Dr Peter Wooding, PDN)

2008-04-24 16:30: Phototransduction in Drosophila. (Professor Roger Hardie, PDN)

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)

2008-05-08 16:00: Analysis of cell movement in early embryos. (Dr Benedicte Sanson, PDN)

2008-05-08 16:30: Imaging sub-cellular pH dynamics: from synapse to acinus. (Dr Christof Schwiening, PDN)

2008-05-15 16:00: The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility. (Dr Paul Burgoyne, NIMR, MRC, London)

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 16:30: A magnesium-inhibitable conductance hyperpolarises the resting membrane potential of the human erythroleukemia cell line (Dr Michael Mason)

2008-05-29 16:00: Why does it hurt so much? Understanding the neurobiology of pain. (Professor Steve McMahon, King’s College, London)

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)

2008-10-09 16:00: Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration (Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2008-10-16 16:00: Consider the mother as a pressure vessel: Adventures in Bioengineering and Obstetrics (Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering, Cambridge)

2008-10-23 16:00: Synaptic specificity in the visual system (Josh Sanes, Harvard University)

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)

2008-11-06 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)

2008-11-13 16:00: Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish (Catherina Becker, University of Edinburgh)

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)

2008-11-27 16:00: Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention (Mani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin)

2008-12-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Magda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge)

2009-01-15 16:00: The Music of Life: metaphors for 21st century biology (Denis Noble, University of Oxford)

2009-01-22 16:00: Tonic inhibition regulates the transfer of sensory information through the cerebellar cortex (Ian Duguid)

2009-01-29 16:00: New insights into neurogenic hypertension (Julian Paton, University of Bristol)

2009-02-12 16:00: Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord Injury (James Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)

2009-02-19 16:00: RNA-based guidance in axons (Christine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2009-02-26 16:00: Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomains (Clive Orchard, University of Bristol)

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)

2009-03-18 16:00: Molecular and computational aspects of neuronal motility (Professor Vincent Torre, SISSA, Trieste)

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)

2009-04-30 16:00: Epigenetic control of genome function - physiology development and neuroscience of genomic imprinting in mouse (Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-07 16:00: Connexins and carbonic anhydrases: pH regulators in heart and in cancer (Richard Vaughan-Jones, University of Oxford)

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)

2009-05-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge)

2009-09-28 16:00: How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIF (Professor Randall Johnson (University of California))

2009-10-08 16:00: "Shaping the amniote embryo: the cellular mechanisms of chick morphogenesis (Octavian Voiculescu, Dept of PDN)

2009-10-15 16:00: Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (David Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge)

2009-10-22 16:00: Cancelled (Enrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich)

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)

2009-11-05 16:00: "Chromatin architecture and transcription: a view form the fly genome" (Steve Russell, Dept of Genetics, Cambridge)

2009-11-12 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Steve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge)

2009-11-19 16:00: Clockwork in the embryo (Julian lewis)

2009-11-26 16:00: The importance of context in protein misfolding and aggregation (Anne Bertolotti, MRC LMB, Cambridge)

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)

2010-01-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lopez-Barneo)

2010-01-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Emma Rawlins)

2010-02-11 16:00: "Useful or just trendy? Using physics to solve biological problems" (Dr Miodownik- King's College London)

2010-02-18 16:00: Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’ (Prof Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, Cambridge)

2010-02-25 16:00: "Development and organisation of connectivity in an embryonic motor (Dr Matthias Landgraf)

2010-03-04 16:00: ‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’ (Prof Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast)

2010-03-11 16:00: Molecular and cellular mechanisms for cold sensing' (Prof Carlos Belmonte)

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)

2010-11-04 16:00: Analysis of synaptic connectivity and function in the cerebellum in vivo (Prof Henrik Jörntell, Lund University, Sweden)

2010-11-11 16:00: The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration (Prof Jeremy Brockes, University College London)

2010-11-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-11-25 16:00: Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts (Prof Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela)

2010-12-02 16:00: On the Role of Nitrogen Oxides in Acclimatization/Adaptation to Hypoxia (Prof Martin Feelisch, University of Warwick)

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)

2011-01-27 16:00: Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis (Dr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine)

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)

2011-02-10 16:00: Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thing (Prof
. Anne 
Cooke, 
Dept 
of 
Pathology, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-02-17 16:00: Physical aspects of collective cell migration (Dr 
Alexandre 
Kabla, 
Dept 
of 
Engineering, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-03-03 16:00: Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets? (Dr 
John 
Coates, 
Judge 
Business 
School, Univ of 
Cambridge)

2011-03-10 16:00: Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons (Dr
 Karri 
Lamsa,
 Dept 
of 
Pharmacology, 
Univ 
of 
Oxford)

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)

2011-05-05 16:00: Loopy Lungs in Alligators (Prof Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)

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)

2011-05-19 16:00: Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology (Dr
 Brian 
Billups, 
Dept of 
Pharmacology, Univ 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)

2011-10-13 16:00: Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues. (Prof. Enrico Coen, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre)

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)

2011-10-20 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL)

2011-10-27 16:00: The egress mechanism of malaria parasites: surprising active participation of the host red cell membrane (Dr Virgilio Lew, PDN)

2011-11-03 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)

2012-02-09 16:00: A sixth sense: the development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Dr Clare Baker, Dept. of PDN)

2012-02-16 16:00: Decision-making in animal collectives (Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain)

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)

2012-03-01 16:00: Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development (Prof. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex)

2012-03-08 16:00: Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance (Prof. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester)

2012-04-26 16:00: How much calcium does caffeine release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a large snail neurone? (Prof. Roger Thomas, PDN)

2012-05-03 16:00: Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands)

2012-05-10 16:00: Epo's impact on exercise performance (Prof. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland)

2012-05-24 16:00: Mechanism regulating neural differentiation (Prof. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee)

2012-06-07 16:00: Sequencing nucleic acids: from chemistry to life sciences and personalised medicine (Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, Dept of Chemistry)

2012-06-14 16:00: Food for thought: visceral control of nutritional decisions in Drosophila (Dr Irene Miguel-Aliag, Dept of Zoology)

2012-10-11 16:00: The Promises of a Polychrome Retina  (Professor Bill Harris.  Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University )

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. )

2012-10-25 16:00: Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory (Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.)

2012-11-01 16:00: Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants (Dr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. )

2012-11-15 16:00: Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory Networks (Professor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego.  )

2012-11-22 16:00: An as-if model of economic decision making (Dr Ian Krajbich.  Department of Economics, University of Zurich )

2013-01-17 16:00: The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders (Professor Philippa Saunders.  University of Ediburgh. )

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)

2013-02-07 16:00: The microvasculature - an early marker/driver of CVD risk across the life-course (Professor Geraldine Clough.  University of Southampton.  )

2013-02-14 16:00: Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila (Dr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.)

2013-02-21 16:00: Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future (Professor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. )

2013-02-28 16:00: Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and disease (Dr Sue Ozanne)

2013-03-07 16:00: Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures (Professor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. )

2013-05-02 16:00: Sheep Models of Human Neurodegenerative Disease. How, where and why? (Prof Jenny Morton. PDN, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-23 16:00: Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis (Prof Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London)

2013-05-30 16:00: Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Prof Paul Martin.  School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. )

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)

2013-07-17 14:00: Athena SWAN Data Surgery (Gina Warren)

2013-11-27 16:00: TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments) (Dr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology))

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)

2014-01-23 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)

2014-02-20 16:00: Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation (Dr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2014-02-27 16:00: Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition (Prof Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London)

2014-03-06 16:00: Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity (Dr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy)

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)

2014-04-24 16:00: Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states (Shahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development)

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.)

2014-05-30 16:00: Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction (Prof. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute)

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)

2014-06-12 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)

2014-10-09 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)

2014-10-16 16:00: Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular Disease (Professor David Paterson, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)

2014-10-30 16:00: Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach (Professor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology)

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)

2014-11-13 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)

2014-11-20 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)

2014-12-04 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)

2015-01-15 16:00: Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix (Dr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes)

2015-02-05 16:00: Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron Homeostasis (Dr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France)

2015-02-12 00:00: *CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB* (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-02-19 16:00: Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual System (Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden)

2015-02-26 16:00: Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain (Dr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London)

2015-03-05 16:00: Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction (Professor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany)

2015-03-12 16:00: Visual information processing and its role in fly and cephalopod behaviour. (Dr Trevor Wardill,  Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-23 16:00: Neuroimmune interactions in early development and the biological embedding of health disparities (Professor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA)

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)

2015-07-23 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 )

2015-09-15 12:00: Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time (Professor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY)

2015-10-01 16:00: Career Stories (Dr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson)

2015-10-08 16:00: Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (Dr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France)

2015-10-15 16:00: CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions (Prof Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

2015-10-22 16:00: Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Professor Dino Giussani - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2015-10-29 16:00: The Achilles' heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system (Professor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester)

2015-11-05 16:00: Concept cells (Prof Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester)

2015-11-19 16:00: Migration of neuronal and immune cells in forebrain wiring (Dr Sonia Garel, INSERM, France)

2015-11-26 16:00: Circuit adaptations underlying drug addiction: mechanisms and therapeutic implications (Prof Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva)

2015-12-03 16:00: From mesoderm mechanotransductive evolutionary origins  to tumourogenic mechanical induction (Emmanuel Farge, Institute Curie, Paris)

2016-01-14 16:00: Evolution of color and motion vision (Claude Desplan- NYU Biology)

2016-01-21 16:00: How the sins of your grandparents affect your health (Dr Erica Watson PDN, Cambridge)

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)

2016-02-18 16:00: Parietal cortex and action space (Prof. Roberto Caminiti)

2016-03-03 16:00: Astrocyte-like glia during visual circuit assembly in Drosophila (Iris Salecker)

2016-03-10 16:00: Endothelial Cells and HIF transcription factors regulating lung pre-disposition for metastatic events (Dr Cristina Branco, PDN Cambridge)

2016-04-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Michael Strkyer, UCSF)

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)

2016-05-26 16:00: Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency (Prof Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield)

2016-06-09 16:00: The roles of dopamine in perceptual and economic decision making (Dr Armin Lak, UCL)

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)

2016-06-23 16:00: Gene duplication and ion channel evolution in weakly electric fish (Prof Harold Zakon, UT Austin)

2016-10-06 16:00: The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythms (Dr John O'Neill, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-13 16:00: Learning flights in bumblebees (Dr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University)

2016-10-27 16:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery, UCL)

2016-11-10 16:00: Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans (Dr Martin How, Bristol University)

2016-11-17 16:00: Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear (Professor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark)

2016-11-24 16:00: Stem cells, gene editing, and cellular models of human neurological disease (Dr Florian Merkel, University of Cambridge)

2016-12-01 16:00: Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicators (Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London)

2017-01-26 16:00: Retinal functomics: What the eye tells the brain, and how it got there (Dr Tom Baden, University of Sussex)

2017-02-09 16:00: Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain (Professor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh)

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)

2017-02-23 16:00: Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Professor Paul Martin, University of Bristol)

2017-03-02 16:00: Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviour (Professor Ewa Paluch, University College London)

2017-03-09 16:00: Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth (Professor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany))

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)

2017-04-27 16:00: Removing tumours from within and around the brain (Dr Thomas Santarius)

2017-06-01 16:00: Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair (Professor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid)

2017-06-15 16:00: The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammals (Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham))

2017-06-22 16:00: Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective (Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland))

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)

2017-10-26 14:00: TODAY “Somatosensory cortex is essential for adaptive motor control in mice”. (Dr Mackenzie Mathis, Harvard University)

2017-11-09 16:00: TODAY: Foster Talk "Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours" Professor Richard Benton (Professor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)

2017-11-23 16:00: Foster Talk: Professor Wolfram Schultz "How my brain is getting me the best reward"  (Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge)

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)

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)

2018-01-25 16:00: TODAY! “Oscillations in mitochondrial ROS production regulate the early embryonic cell cycle in Xenopus” (Dr Javier Iglesias-Gonzalez, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Manchester University)

2018-02-01 16:00:  Foster Talk - "Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease" (Meritxell Huch, The Gurdon Institute)

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)

2018-03-01 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)

2018-03-15 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)

2018-05-03 16:00: Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork (Professor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London)

2018-05-17 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring (Professor Christine Holt)

2018-06-06 13:00: One spiral to rule them all: and in the darkness bind them (Roman Klapauch (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)

2018-10-11 16:00: FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex (Dr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh)

2018-10-16 16:00: “Imaging Tumour Redox Biochemistry with Positron Emission Tomography”. (Dr Tim Witney, Kings College London)

2018-10-25 16:00: Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination. (Robin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2018-11-06 13:00: Using Revision Control - an introduction (Mark Williamson ( Department of Chemistry))

2018-11-08 16:00: Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids. (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB)

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)

2018-12-06 16:00: Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis. (Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute)

2019-01-17 16:00: Neural progenitors and neural tube defects. (Andy Copp, University College, London)

2019-01-31 16:00: The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation (James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

2019-02-14 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2019-02-28 16:00: Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis (Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School)

2019-03-28 16:00: Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis (Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen)

2019-05-02 16:00: An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature (Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London)

2019-11-25 16:30: Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond (David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience)

2019-12-02 16:30: The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale (Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France)

2020-01-27 16:30: The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits (Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience)

2020-02-03 16:30: Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of working memory and decision making (Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)

2020-02-10 16:30: Where does value come from? (Chris Summerfield, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2023-12-01 14:00: Insights and strategies during sensorimotor learning (Kishore Kuchibhotla - Johns Hopkins University)

2024-10-17 16:00: Building synapses in the hippocampus (Prof Laura Andreae, King's College)

2024-10-31 16:00: Recurrent circuits involving motoneurons in the spinal cord  (Prof Marco Beato - UCL)

2024-11-12 16:00: Principles of sexually dimorphic experience dependent plasticity (Sonu Peedikayil-Kurien, Oren-Suissa Lab, Weizmann Institute)

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.)

2026-01-19 16:15: CANCELLED Patterned optogenetics to probe perceptual representations (Dr Edmund Chong, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre)