• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Mr Michael Lohse
• Timing: Friday 4 - 5.30pm
• Organising department: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)

Friday 18 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Odour representation in the awake mouse and a scalable approach to neural recordings in vivo
  Professor Andreas Schaefer (Francis Crick Institute)

Tuesday 22 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Neural mechanisms of emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex
  Marco Tamietto (Tilburg University)

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - What does cortex do (in a rat)?
  Adam Kampff (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The emergence of a circuit model for addiction
  After the talk we will go to the pub for some food and drinks. If you want to join for the pub, please write an email to sofia.deleniv@balliol.ox.ac.uk, so we have an estimate of how many people are coming.
  Christian Luscher (University of Geneva)

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Is your glass half empty or half full? The role of medial prefrontal-hippocampal circuitry in negative emotion and cognition
  Hannah Clarke

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - A new mechanism of nervous system plasticity: activity-dependent myelination
  TBA

Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Roles and representations for visual motion
  Sam Solomon (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL)

Friday 1 July 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Variability, Neuromodulation and Robustness of Neurons and Networks
  Eve Marder from Volen Center, Brandeis University

Tuesday 12 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Coding in high dimensional state space? A novel interpretation of cortical processing
  Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (MPI)/Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience)

Tuesday 13 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Sleep and Cortical Plasticity: Living the Dream
  Dr Marcos Frank (Washington State University)

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Social learning in songbirds: dissecting neural algorithms using behavioural experiments
  We are very pleased to be hosting Dr Richard Hahnloser, from the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Richard will be discussing, on Monday, 10th of October, about Social learning in songbirds: dissecting neural algorithms using behavioural experiments. The talk will be held in the Le Gros Clark Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building DPAG 4-5:30pm. After the talk we will go to the pub for some food and drinks. Please write an email to monzilur.rahman@psy.ox.ac.uk if you would like to join us. Don’t forget, feel free to send us any speaker suggestions you might have.
  Dr Richard Hahnloser (Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - I am therefore I think
  Professor Karl Friston (University College of London)

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Schreckstoff and the regulation of brain state
  Prof Suresh J. Jesuthasan (A*Star - Institute of Molecular an Cell Biology, Singapore)

Thursday 8 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sleep: so familiar, so elusive
  Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - [Cortex Club special Christmas event] Neuroscience Model Organisms Panel
  cortex
  Various Speakers

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Science of Laughter
  Prof Sophie Scott (University College of London)

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Probabilistic models of sensorimotor control and decision making
  Prof Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Motor - auditory interactions for listening and learning
  TBA

Monday 13 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Improving reproducibility in neuroscience
  Prof Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Michael Yartsev (University of California, Berkeley,)

Wednesday 29 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  TBA

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Dynamics of the mouse auditory cortex and the perception of sounds
  Prof Simon Rumpel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - CANCELLED
  Professor Sliman Bensmaia (University of Chicago)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Efficient codes and balanced networks
  Prof Christian Machens (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown)

Thursday 22 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - How my brain is getting me the best reward
  Professor Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - From cases and controls to dimensional psychiatry: novel methods for understanding the neurobiology of mental health
  Dr. Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin )

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Is non-invasive brain stimulation in danger of becoming a pseudo-science?
  Professor John Rothwell (UCL)