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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May
Mon 21st May 1:00pm	Flexible Drug-Seeking and the Development of Addiction-Like Behaviour Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars	Dr Bryan Singer - School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes	Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Fri 25th May 1:15pm	Hedgehog signalling in immune cells Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 25th May 4:30pm	Metacognition of internally-generated processes Zangwill Club	Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Tue 29th May 1:00pm	Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis Craik Club	John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.	Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site
Tue 29th May 4:00pm	Computational Neuroscience Journal Club Computational Neuroscience	Adrianna Loback (Control Group)	Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
Wed 30th May 12:30pm	Re-thinking cognitive training research Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 31st May 12:30pm	Tackling mental illness where it begins Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Andrea Danese, Senior Lecturer in Development Psychobiology and Psychiatry, MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 31st May 3:30pm	The structure and function of visual working memory Chaucer Club	Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
June
Fri 1st Jun 1:15pm	Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 1st Jun 4:30pm	Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations Zangwill Club	Professor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 4th Jun 12:30pm	Investigating directed phase couplings from multivariate EEG/MEG time series Imagers Interest Group	Alessio Basti, MRC CBU	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Wed 6th Jun 12:30pm	Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it? Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 7th Jun 12:00pm	Development and activity-dependent plasticity of olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons rv254's list	Elisa Galliano KCL/University of Cambridge	James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building (formerly 'the library')
Thu 7th Jun 12:30pm	How can we improve and maintain child mental health; lessons from interventional epidemiology Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Exeter Medical School	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 7th Jun 3:30pm	The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients Chaucer Club	Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Wed 13th Jun 12:30pm	The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 14th Jun 11:00am	Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness Machine Learning @ CUED	Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)	Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4
Thu 14th Jun 3:30pm	Concept learning as compression Chaucer Club	Bradley Love (UCL)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 14th Jun 4:00pm	Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity" Foster Talks	Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge	Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Wed 20th Jun 10:30am	Self-Other Processes in ASD - the Case of Empathy ARClub Talks	Dr Idalmis Santiesteban, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Wed 20th Jun 12:30pm	Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 21st Jun 12:00pm	TBC rv254's list	Hardingham Giles - University of Edinburgh	Institute of Public Health (IPH)
Thu 21st Jun 12:30pm	How can we beat the government's 10% target for suicide prevention? Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Louis Appleby, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester; Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Wed 27th Jun 10:30am	A longitudinal study on the effect of testosterone and estradiol on empathy and systemizing (EQ-SQ): from amniotic fluid to adolescence. ARClub Talks	Tess Beking, PhD Student, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
July
Thu 5th Jul 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr James MacCabe, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Kings College London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Wed 11th Jul 10:30am	Mechanistic insights from genome-wide association studies of reproductive traits ARClub Talks	Professor Ken Ong, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 12th Jul 12:00pm	TBC rv254's list	Thomas Misgeld, Technical University of Munich	TBC
September
Mon 10th Sep 12:00pm	TBC rv254's list	Karen Horsburgh - University of Edinburgh	TBC
Thu 20th Sep 12:30pm	Can 24 months of high dose minocycline change disease course in mild Alzheimer's disease? Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Rob Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University College, London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

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