Neuroscience Seminars

Here are some lectures, seminars and talks that may be of interest. The links reach further information on each presentation.

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July
Mon 8th Jul 1:00pm	STaR (Stress Timing affects Relapse): A model of the effects of stress/glucocorticoids on extinction and relapse Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars	Dr Shira Meir Drexler - Department of Cognitive Psychology Ruhr-University Bochum Germany	Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge
November
Wed 20th Nov 12:30pm	When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Dr Athena Akrami (University College London)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Wed 20th Nov 3:00pm	Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)	Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London	Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Thu 21st Nov 11:00am	Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson, MRC CBU	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 21st Nov 12:30pm	The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen	Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 21st Nov 2:00pm	Neuroinflammation and gut microbiota in AD progression Dementia Journal Club	Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge)	Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC
Thu 21st Nov 3:30pm	Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work Chaucer Club	Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 21st Nov 4:00pm	Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation Foster Talks	Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 22nd Nov 12:00pm	Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines Zangwill Club Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm	Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Fri 22nd Nov 1:15pm	Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Mon 25th Nov 2:00pm	Functional MRI: physics and physiology Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Mon 25th Nov 4:30pm	Circuit dynamics of a memory representation in the hippocampus and beyond Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience	David Dupret, Oxford Neuroscience	Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Wed 27th Nov 10:30am	Can the face predict the brain? The association between facial morphology and autism spectrum disorder ARClub Talks	Dr Diana Tan, School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Wed 27th Nov 12:30pm	Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Wed 27th Nov 3:00pm	Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)	Joseph Marks	Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Thu 28th Nov 11:00am	Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson, MRC CBU	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 28th Nov 3:30pm	Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain Chaucer Club	Anthony Wagner (Stanford University)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Fri 29th Nov 1:15pm	Epithelial cell plasticity during tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Kyra Campbell Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 29th Nov 4:30pm	Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system. Zangwill Club PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!	Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
December
Mon 2nd Dec 2:00pm	How to give good talks Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Tom Manly	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Mon 2nd Dec 4:30pm	The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience	Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France	Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Tue 3rd Dec 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed ARClub Talks	Deborah Oakley	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 5th Dec 11:00am	Power analysis Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson, MRC CBU	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 5th Dec 12:30pm	Food for health - food for thought Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Graham Murray	Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 5th Dec 4:00pm	Thalamic Calcium waves regulate the development & plasticity of sensory cortical maps Foster Talks	Guillermina Lopez Bendito, Institute of Neuroscience, Alicante	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 6th Dec 4:30pm	Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors Zangwill Club	Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 9th Dec 12:30pm	Resting-State fMRI Pre-processing and Denoising Imagers Interest Group	Joff Jones and Rik Henson, MRC CBU; Vasilis Karlaftis, Department of Psychology	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Mon 9th Dec 4:30pm	Blood is thicker than water Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience	Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin	Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Wed 11th Dec 12:30pm	The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Wed 11th Dec 12:30pm	The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 12th Dec 11:00am	Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson, MRC CBU	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 12th Dec 12:30pm	Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Nikolett Kabacs	Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
January
Wed 15th Jan 10:30am	An update on progress for the Autism Centre of Excellence ARClub Talks	Speaker to be confirmed	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 16th Jan 12:30pm	The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian	Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 16th Jan 4:00pm	Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding Foster Talks	Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Mon 20th Jan 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Imagers Interest Group	Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Thu 23rd Jan 12:30pm	Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice. Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin	André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf blog website	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 23rd Jan 4:00pm	Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing Foster Talks	Steve Harridge, King's College London	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Wed 29th Jan 10:30am	Voice processing in autism ARClub Talks	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	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Wed 29th Jan 3:00pm	Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)	Dr Cory Clark, Durham University	Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Thu 30th Jan 12:30pm	Epigenetics in ageing and dementia Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Prof John O'Brien	Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
February
Mon 3rd Feb 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Imagers Interest Group	Marta Correia, MRC CBU	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Thu 6th Feb 12:30pm	Predicting addiction: myth or reality? Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Karen Ersche	Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 6th Feb 4:00pm	Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency Foster Talks	Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Wed 12th Feb 10:30am	Title to be confirmed ARClub Talks	Speaker to be confirmed	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 13th Feb 12:30pm	Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology? Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Prof Jesus Perez	Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Mon 17th Feb 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Imagers Interest Group	Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Mon 24th Feb 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Imagers Interest Group	Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Wed 26th Feb 10:30am	Title to be confirmed ARClub Talks	Speaker to be confirmed	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 27th Feb 12:30pm	The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson	Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 27th Feb 4:00pm	Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells Foster Talks	Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
March
Thu 5th Mar 12:30pm	Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Mon 9th Mar 12:30pm	Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI Imagers Interest Group	David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Wed 11th Mar 10:30am	Title to be confirmed ARClub Talks	Speaker to be confirmed	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 12th Mar 12:30pm	Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Prof Peter Jones	Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 12th Mar 4:00pm	3D Genomics in development and disease Foster Talks	Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Thu 19th Mar 12:30pm	Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Wed 25th Mar 10:30am	Title to be confirmed ARClub Talks	Speaker to be confirmed	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 26th Mar 12:30pm	Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea	Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
April
Thu 2nd Apr 12:30pm	A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal	Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 30th Apr 4:00pm	The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps Foster Talks	Francesca Cacucci, UCL	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
May
Mon 4th May 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Imagers Interest Group	Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Thu 7th May 12:30pm	Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 7th May 4:00pm	Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos Foster Talks	Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Thu 14th May 4:00pm	Mechanobiology of cell shape control Foster Talks	Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site
June
Mon 1st Jun 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Imagers Interest Group	Elena Boto, University of Nottingham	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

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