Neuroscience Division Seminar Series 2012-13
Seminars to take place in the 6th Floor Seminar Room, Life Sciences Building (BIOSI 3) at 13.10-14.00hrs on Fridays. (except where marked).
When there is an external speaker a buffet lunch will be provided at 12.30pm in the 6th Floor Seminar room.
Tuesday 4th September 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.10pm (buffet lunch in new BIOSI Foyer area)
Dr Zane Andrews, Neuronal Metabolism and Degeneration Lab, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Title: How metabolic status affects ghrelin function in the brain
Tuesday 25th September 2012 at 1.10pm in 6th Floor Seminar Room, (Joint Seminar with Pathophysiology & Repair)
Dr. Thorsten Hornemann, University Hospital Zurich
Title: About sugar, sushi and sphingolipids
5th October 2012
Professor Vlad Vyazovskiy, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, University of Surrey
Title: The local and global mechanisms of sleep regulation in the neocortex
Tuesday 16th October 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr Laura Howard
Title: Neurotrophins and the Developing Peripheral Nervous System
2nd November 2012
Dr Tiago Branco, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London
Title: Dendritic computation in cortical pyramidal cells
Tuesday 6th November 2012 at 1.10pm in 6th Floor Seminar Room (Joint Seminar with Pathophysiology & Repair)
Dr Alex Gourine, Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London
Title: Astroglial control of the respiratory and autonomic activities
Tuesday 6th November 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 - by Prof Anne Rosser
Title: Brain Repair Research
16th November 2012
Professor Nigel Emptage, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
Title: Learning from failure: How plasticity is regulated by the probability of transmitter release
Tuesday 20th November 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 by Dr Kerrie Thomas
Title: Molecular basis of memory
23rd November 2012
Professor Peter Kind, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
Title: Cortical development in mouse models of intellectual disability
7th December 2012
Title: Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors and stargazer mice – a tale of two TARPs
Tuesday 11th December 2012 at 1.10pm in 6th Floor Seminar Room (Joint Seminar with Pathophysiology & Repair)
Dr Rob Wykes, Department of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy, University College London
Title: Optogenetic and potassium channel gene therapy in a rodent model of focal neocortical epilepsy
1st February 2013
Dr Liset Menedez de la Prida, Instituto Cajal - CSIC, Madrid
Title: High-frequency rhythmopathies in temporal lobe epilepsy
15th February 2013 - John Pryde Lecture Theatre (C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr Neil Hardingham
Title: Development of the cortex in a model of schizophrenia
8th March 2013
Dr Paul Le Tissier, Institute of Child Health, London
Title: Mechanisms underlying functional plasticity of endocrine gland function
19th April 2013
Dr Meng Li, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Programming neuronal fate of pluripotent stem cells
17th May 2013
Prof. Mark Hübener, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Title: How Sensory Deprivation and Learning Change Neuronal Responses in Mouse Visual Cortex
Details of more speakers and titles to follow shortly.