2023 Seminars & Events

List of the 2023 Seminars & Events at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

'Prominent in vivo influence of single interneurons in the developing and adult cortex'

'Identifying astrocyte endfoot functions using proteomics'

Dr Steve Hill, Postdoctoral research fellow, DRI, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

Monday 4th December, 13:00,  Auditorium B, Chancellors Building (Hybrid) 

Host: Dr Blanca Díaz Castro

'TREM2 confers resilience against vascular cognitive impairment'

Dr Stefan Szymkowiak, Postdoctoral research fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

Monday 20th November 2023, 13:00,  Undergraduate Medical Teaching Room (GU318), Chancellors Building (Hybrid) 

Host: Dr Barry McColl

'TREM2 confers resilience against vascular cognitive impairment'

Dr Stefan Szymkowiak, Postdoctoral research fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

Monday 20th November 2023, 13:00,  Undergraduate Medical Teaching Room (GU318), Chancellors Building (Hybrid) 

Host: Dr Barry McColl

‘Mapping the human brain feeding circuitry using single cell and spatial approaches’

2023 Mary Pickford Lecture + Alison Douglas Prize Giving (best PhD thesis) 'The cognitive map: from neurons to architecture'

Prof Kate Jeffery, Head of School Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow

Thursday 9th November 2023, 12.30,  HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Prof David Wyllie

'Analysing the impact of extracellular vesicles on the establishment of glioma promoting functions in microglia'

Dr Julie Mazzolini, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

Monday 6th November 2023, 13:00, Auditorium B, Chancellors Building (Hybrid) 

Host:  Dr Jian Gan

Feldberg Foundation Lecture with Prof Jan Born ‘Sleep – a brain state serving memory formation’

'Deconstructing the cerebellar modules to understand their functions'

Dr Zhenyu Gao, Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

Monday 23rd October 2023, 13:00, Auditorium B, Chancellors Building (Hybrid) 

Host: Prof Dies Meijer

'Protective mechanisms of synaptic stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease and tauopathies'

‘AMPA receptor nanoscale organization and dynamics tune short and long term synaptic plasticity’

Dr. Daniel Choquet, Unity Director/Team leader, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Bordeaux University, France

Monday 9th October 2023, 13:00,  Auditorium B, Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Patricio Opazo

'Inhibitory top-down projections from zona incerta mediate neocortical memory’

Dr Anna Schroeder, Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg, Germany

Thursday 5th October 2023, 13:00, HRB Lecture Theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr. Leena Williams

'Astrocytes dynamics in APP/PS1 mice-experience in a pilot grant application’

Dr Juraj Koudelka, Research Fellow/Imaging Lead,  DRI University of Edinburgh

Monday 25th September 2023, 13:00, Auditorium A, Shirley Hall (GU108), Chancellors Building (Hybrid)

Host:  Dr Jian Gan

'Deciphering the neural circuits that underlie auditory hallucinations'

Dr Stanislav Zakharenko, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Tuesday 19th September 2023, 16:00, SIDB Boardroom, G31, HRB link Building

Host: Prof Matt Nolan

'Learning a cognitive map'

'Synaptic and circuit basis of distinct memory formation in the hippocampus’

'State-dependent patterns of neuromodulatory signaling in the cortex’

‘Midbrain circuits for flexible instinctive behaviours'

‘Engineering neuroscience with microfluidics: complex in vitro models made easy’

'Visual Cortex and Tauopathy: insights into network level dysfunction in disease'

Dr Fabio Ribeiro Rodriguez, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL

Thursday 11th May 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Tara Spires-Jones

'Neural mechanisms for emotional behavior and decision making'

Dr Andrew Macaskill, Principal Research Fellow, Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology, UCL

Thursday 13th April 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Matt Nolan

'Impact of transposable elements in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration'

'The neurobiology of individuality'

Prof Gerd Kemperman, Adult neurogenesis, speaker and research group leader - DZNE, Dresden

Tuesday 21st March 2023, 13:00, Undergraduate Medical Teaching Room (GU318), BioQuarter (Hybrid)

Hosts: Prof Seth Grant 

'A gut sense'

‘Cortical wiring by synapse type-specific control of local protein synthesis'

Dr Clémence Bernard,  Research Associate, Kings College London 

Thursday 2nd March 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Lida Zoupi

'Directed evolution of molecular tools for the mapping and manipulation of active neuronal circuits'

Dr Mateo Sanchez, Postdoctoral Fellow (Bioengineering), Imperial College London

Thursday 2nd February, 2023 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Francesco Gobbo

'Mechanisms driving joint pain'

Prof Ewan St John Smith, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge  

Thursday 19th January 2023, 13:00, HRB lecture theatre (Hybrid)

Host: Dr Carole Torsney

'Neuron Differentiation: From Chromatin to Connectivity’

Dr Adrian Moore, Riken Centre for Brain Science,  Hirosawa Wako City, Japan

Monday 9th January 2023, 13:00, QMRI - Wellcome Auditorium (E1.01), (Hybrid)

Host: Prof Seth Grant