Neuroscience talks

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Last updated Wed Feb 10 02:13:42 2010

February
Wed 10th Feb 12:30pmFunctional specialisation within rostral prefrontal cortex
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series
Roland Benoit (MRC CBSU)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Wed 10th Feb 4:30pmStats Clinic Lent II
Cambridge University Statistics Clinic
Speaker to be confirmed Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)
Thu 11th Feb 3:30pmInferotemporal cortex and face recognition learning
Chaucer Club
Prof Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Thu 11th Feb 4:00pm"Useful or just trendy? Using physics to solve biological problems"
Foster Talks
Dr Miodownik- King's College LondonHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 12th Feb 12:30pmDEVELOPING AND DISSEMINATING EFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS: SCIENCE, POLICY AND ECONOMICS
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Prof. David Clark (Institute of Psychiatry, London)Lecture Theatre of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.
Fri 12th Feb 1:15pmThe development of brain asymmetry - from genes to circuits
Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Steve Wilson, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College LondonBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 12th Feb 2:00pmPreprocessing of fMRI data and computational morphometry (VBM)
Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)
Rik Henson (MRC CBSU)Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre
Fri 12th Feb 4:30pmMapping the parts of higher level cortex
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Professor Marty Sereno, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College LondonGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
Mon 15th Feb 4:00pmMeasurement error modelling through SEM: Applications in epidemiology and health
Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Tim Croudace (Dept of Experimental Psychology)Department of Experimental Psychology Seminar Room
Wed 17th Feb 12:00pmMolecular control of cellular differentiation and specification in the adult CNS
BRC Seminar Series
Dr Olivier Raineteau, Brain Research Institute Zurich, SwitzerlandBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way
Wed 17th Feb 12:30pmThe syntactic mismatch negativity (sMMN) in second language speakers and potential behavioural correlates
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series
Jeff Hanna (RCEAL)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Wed 17th Feb 12:30pmProcessing lexical complexity in Polish
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series
Zanna Szlachta (MRC CBSU)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Thu 18th Feb 3:30pmFOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language
Chaucer Club
Dr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Thu 18th Feb 4:00pmAutocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’
Foster Talks
Prof Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, CambridgeHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 19th Feb 1:00pmHow do we learn to read? An artificial orthography paradigm.
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series
Dr. Jo Taylor (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
Fri 19th Feb 1:15pmShaping and patterning the embryo: Gastrulation in higher vertebrates
Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of CambridgeBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 19th Feb 2:00pmThe General Linear Model for fMRI analysis
Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)
Rik Henson (MRC CBSU)Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre
Fri 19th Feb 4:30pmDeficits in processing sensory context in schizophrenia
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Dr Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College LondonGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
Mon 22nd Feb 11:00amTitle to be confirmed
Inference Group
Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge)TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics
Mon 22nd Feb 1:05pmEffects of early life stress on emotional-cognitive function: studies in rodents and primates
Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars
Host: Professor Angela Roberts
Dr Christopher Pryce – Preclinical Laboratory for Translational Research into Affective Disorders Clinic for Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, SwitzerlandAlternate Mondays (unless otherwise stated), 13.05 – 14.00 in the Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site
Mon 22nd Feb 4:00pmA roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems
Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
John Duncan (MRC CBSU)Department of Experimental Psychology Seminar Room
Mon 22nd Feb 4:30pm"Wiring the brain: how axons are guided to their targets"
Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Prof. Christine Holt, PDN.Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Tue 23rd Feb 4:00pmComputational Neuroscience Journal Club
Computational Neuroscience
Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge)Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
Wed 24th Feb 12:30pmWhat the heck is priming and what's a shoebox got to do with it?
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series
Aidan Horner (MRC CBSU)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Wed 24th Feb 1:00pm“Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time”
Craik Club
Tatiana Selchenkova, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. PetersburgKenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site
Wed 24th Feb 4:30pmStats Clinic Lent III
Cambridge University Statistics Clinic
Speaker to be confirmed Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)
Thu 25th Feb 4:00pmChromatin architecture and transcription: a view form the fly genome’
Foster Talks
Dr Matthias LandgrafHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 26th Feb 1:00pmTitle to be confirmed
ARClub Talks
Dr. Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education, London)Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road
Fri 26th Feb 1:00pmNetworking to Charisma or Inspiring to Centrality? Comparing Models of How Leaders Affect Team Performance
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series
Prof. Martin Kilduff (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
Fri 26th Feb 1:15pmLung epithelial progenitor cells in development and repair
Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of CambridgeBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 26th Feb 2:00pmExperimental design, Efficiency and Connectivity in fMRI
Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)
Rik Henson (MRC CBSU)Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre
Fri 26th Feb 4:00pmHuman Cerebral Cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, Segregation of Function and Transmitter Receptors
Chaucer Club
Joint Chaucer Club and Zangwill Club - Note the FRIDAY date, time and venue
Prof Karl Zilles (Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf, Germany)Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site
Fri 26th Feb 4:30pmHuman cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptors
Zangwill Club
This is the special joint Zangwill-Chaucer Club presentation for 09-10. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Professor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, GermanyGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
March
Mon 1st Mar 11:00amLatent Force Models with Gaussian Processes
Inference Group
Dr Neil Lawrence (University of Manchester)TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics
Mon 1st Mar 4:00pmFrom impulsivity to compulsivity: cross-species studies in humans and other animals relevant to neuropsychiatric disorders.
Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Trevor Robbins (Dept of Experimental Psychology)Department of Experimental Psychology Seminar Room
Mon 1st Mar 4:30pm"Context is everything: how auditory-evoked responses in cortex are influenced by what came before".
Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Katrin Krumbholz, University of Nottingham.Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Wed 3rd Mar 12:00pmMolecular mechanisms of degeneration: understanding function and dysfunction ot tau, alphasynuclein and LRRK2
BRC Seminar Series
Dr Richard Wade-Martins, Dept Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of OxfordBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way
Wed 3rd Mar 12:30pmDifferentiating lexical complexity in fronto-temporal language networks
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series
Mirjana Bozic (MRC CBSU)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Thu 4th Mar 3:30pmMorpho-phonological Processing in the Human Brain
Chaucer Club
Prof Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Thu 4th Mar 4:00pm‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’
Foster Talks
GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE
Prof Graham McGeown, Queen's University, BelfastHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 5th Mar 12:30pmPOST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: IS THERE A ROLE FOR EARLY INTERVENTION?
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Dr Richard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke’s
Fri 5th Mar 1:00pmEmotional awareness, rational action, and self-understanding.
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series
Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University)PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
Fri 5th Mar 1:15pmCoupling organelle capacity to the cell's needs
Developmental Biology Seminar Series
David Ron, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, University of CambridgeBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 5th Mar 2:00pmEEG and MEG analysis
Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)
Rik Henson (MRC CBSU)Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre
Fri 5th Mar 4:30pmGlutamate, GABA and the neurobiology of reward conditioning
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Professor David Stephens, Department of Psychology, University of SussexGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
Mon 8th Mar 11:00amTitle to be confirmed
Inference Group
Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics
Mon 8th Mar 1:05pmWas that me? Using subjective time to probe the neurocognitive basis of sense of agency
Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars
Host: Professor Tony Dickinson
Dr James Moore –Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of CambridgeAlternate Mondays (unless otherwise stated), 13.05 – 14.00 in the Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site
Mon 8th Mar 4:00pmSchizophrenia and psychotic disorders
Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry)Department of Experimental Psychology Seminar Room
Tue 9th Mar 11:00amBayesian Inference in Networks of Queues
Machine Learning @ CUED
Dr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh)Engineering Department, CBL Room 438
Tue 9th Mar 4:00pmComputational Neuroscience Journal Club
Computational Neuroscience
Neil Housby (Cambridge University)Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
Tue 9th Mar 4:30pmSocial, educational and new media engagement in adolescents with a history of Specific Language Impairment
Psychology and Neuroscience in Education
ALL WELCOME
Professor Kevin Durkin, Department of Psychology, University of StrathclydeFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS4
Wed 10th Mar 12:30pmDoes motor cortex necessarily contribute to speech perception?
Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series
Gayaneh Szenkovits (MRC CBSU)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Wed 10th Mar 4:30pmStats Clinic Lent IV
Cambridge University Statistics Clinic
Speaker to be confirmed Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)
Thu 11th Mar 3:30pmFronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulation
Chaucer Club
Prof Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road
Thu 11th Mar 4:00pmMolecular and cellular mechanisms for cold sensing'
Foster Talks
Prof Carlos BelmonteHodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 12th Mar 1:00pmNormal clinical visual function in individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions
ARClub Talks
Dr Keziah Latham, Department of Vision & Hearing Sciences and Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin UniversityLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road
Fri 12th Mar 4:00pmThe ethical brain
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
All welcome.
Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara)Mill Lane Lecture Room 3
Mon 15th Mar 11:00amTitle to be confirmed
Inference Group
Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics
Wed 17th Mar 12:00pmTransgenic studies of gliogenesis in the healthy and damaged CNS
BRC Seminar Series
Prof Bill Richardson, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College LondonBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way
Mon 22nd Mar 11:00amTitle to be confirmed
Inference Group
Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics
April
Tue 6th Apr 4:00pmComputational Neuroscience Journal Club
Computational Neuroscience
Dr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
Fri 9th Apr 12:30pmTOWARDS A STEPPED CARE APPROACH TO THE TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD ANXIETY
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Dr Cathy Creswell (University of Reading)Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke’s
Fri 23rd Apr 1:00pmTitle to be confirmed
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series
Sarah Kuppen (University of Bedfordshire)PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
Fri 23rd Apr 4:30pmTitle to be confirmed
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Dr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of SussexGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
Mon 26th Apr 4:30pm“A core neural circuit mechanism of decision making”.
Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
 Xiao-Jing Wang, Yale University.Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Fri 30th Apr 4:30pmNew ways of thinking about how we read other people's mind
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Dr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of NottinghamGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
May
Mon 3rd May 4:30pm“To switch, or not to switch: how the brain answers the question”.
Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Angela Roberts, PDN.Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Fri 7th May 12:30pmLOST IN TRANSLATION: THE BASIC SCIENCE – CLINICAL PRACTICE DIALOGUE
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Dr. Tim Dalgleish (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit and C2AD)Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke’s
Fri 7th May 4:30pmTitle to be confirmed
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Speaker to be confirmedGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
Mon 10th May 4:30pm“Building the cognitive map - integration of metric and non-metric inputs by entorhinal and hippocampal neurons”.
Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Kate Jeffery, UCL.Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Fri 14th May 1:00pmDialogical knowing and believing
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series
Prof. Ivana Markova (University of Stirling)PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
Fri 14th May 4:30pmTitle to be confirmed
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Professor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College LondonGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
Mon 17th May 4:30pm“Auditory processing in a "simple" nervous system: Lessons learned from crickets”.
Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology.Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Tue 18th May 4:30pmThe cognitive underpinnings of different mathematical skills
Psychology and Neuroscience in Education
ALL WELCOME
Dr Fiona Simmons, School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores UniversityFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ
Fri 21st May 4:30pmTitle to be confirmed
Zangwill Club
Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
Speaker to be confirmedGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology
June
Tue 1st Jun 4:30pmThe psychology of number: developmental, evolutionary and cognitive-neuroscientific considerations
Psychology and Neuroscience in Education
ALL WELCOME
Dr Claudia Uller, Faculty of Education, University of CambridgeFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ
Fri 11th Jun 12:30pmTREATMENT OF DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Prof Ian Goodyer (Dept. of Psychiatry, Cambridge and C2AD)Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke’s
September
Fri 3rd Sep 9:30amBIPOLAR DISORDER WORKSHOP
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Dr Warren Mansell (University of Manchester)Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke’s
November
Fri 5th Nov 12:30pmUSING COGNITIVE ANALYTIC THERAPY IN LIAISON PSYCHIATRY
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Dr. Alison Jenaway (CAMH, Huntingdon & Liaison Psychiatry Team, Cambridge)Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke’s
December
Fri 3rd Dec 12:30pmDEPRESSION AND COMPASSION FOCUSED THERAPY
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
Prof. Paul Gilbert (Mental Health Research Unit, Derby)Herchel Smith Building for Brain and Mind Sciences, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke’s