Name: Dr Armin Lak
DPAG, University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Dopaminergic and prefrontal basis of learning from sensory confidence and reward value. Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar
Date: 3 December 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: Schlich Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Nick Myers (University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Pint of Science 2021: Hear or here?
Date: 17 May 2021, 18:00 - 19:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker s: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This show is live streamed to YouTube - register below to get the link
Organiser: Nikita Ved (DPAG, University of Oxford, 1928 Institute Co-founder)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Fellows Lecture in Pairs
Date: 26 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker s: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A normative perspective on the diversity of dopamine neurons
Date: 4 December 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Professor Naoshige Uchida (Harvard University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Spying on neuromodulation with new genetically encoded fluorescent sensors
Date: 22 October 2021, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Yulong Li (Peking University, China)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Hallucinating mice, dopamine and immunity – towards mechanistic treatment targets for psychotic disorders
Date: 5 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Katharina Schmack (Francis Crick Institute and University College London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Neural circuits underlying flexible behaviour
Date: 10 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Dr Adil Khan (King's College, London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A normative perspective on the diversity of dopamine neurons
Date: 4 December 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Professor Naoshige Uchida (Harvard University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 2 September 2022 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

Engineering extracellular microenvironment through Intravital 3D bioprinting
Date: 2 September 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 19th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Nicola Elvassore (Developmental Biology & Cancer Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Ηarnessing PTEN’s growth controlling potential in neuronal development and disease
Date: 14 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Prof Dr Britta Eickholt (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Cortical Layers in Context and Learning
Date: 21 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Mechanisms driving lipid droplet biogenesis during adipocyte differentiation
Date: 4 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Manuela Zaccolo MD (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: ‘Macrophage function in the regenerating heart’ and ‘Transposons diversify the wired- and wireless neural network of a complex brain’
Date: 11 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker s: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Christoph D. Treiber (CNCB, DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Optogenetic dissection of local and long-range connections in prefrontal circuits
Date: 18 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Associate Professor Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

On the network influence of single interneurons from development into adulthood
Date: 25 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Dr Rosa Cossart, INMED, INSERM (Aix-Marseille University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Engineering extracellular microenvironment through Intravital 3D bioprinting
Date: 2 December 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Professor Nicola Elvassore (Developmental Biology & Cancer Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Reconstructing Human Evolutionary History
Date: 20 January 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 1st week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Principles of astrogliopathology: Challenging common mythologies
Date: 27 January 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor Alexei Verkhratsky (University of Manchester)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: 'Neuroproteomic approaches to identifying novel mechanisms of cognitive resilience in neurodegeneration’ and ‘Using high-throughput biology approaches to understand mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s’
Date: 3 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker s: Dr Becky Carlyle, ARUK Coordinator (University of Oxford), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford )
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Neural circuits underlying flexible behaviour
Date: 10 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Dr Adil Khan (King's College, London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: ‘Identifying druggable targets and exploring their therapeutic potential in complex iPSC-derived models of Parkinson’s’ and ‘Cooperation in the cortex-basal ganglia circuit’
Date: 24 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 6th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker s: Dr Charmaine Lang (OPDC, DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Andy Peters (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Detecting Death and Damage; Understanding Macrophage Migration in vivo
Date: 3 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Will Wood (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Building, Maintaining, or Regenerating Brain Circuitry is Complex: Subtype- and Context-Dependent Subcellular Molecular Machinery in Cerebral Cortex
Date: 28 April 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey D. Macklis (Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, and DPAG Academic Visitor, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Subcellular-resolution electrophysiology with high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs)
Date: 5 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Andreas Hierlemann (Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Advanced imaging to visualize nuclear pore formation during cell division
Date: 12 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Gokul Upadhyayula, PhD (Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Biophysicist Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Form and fate: How shape influences human brain development and evolution
Date: 19 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Madeline Lancaster (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)