Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University), Professor Lorenzo Lorusso (Mellino Mellini Hospital Trust, Brescia Italy), Professor Colin Blakemore (Centre for the Study of the Senses School of Advanced Study, University of London), Professor Marco Piccolino (Italian Institute of Neurosciences University of Ferrara, Italy), Dr Damion Young (University of Oxford), Dr Tom Quick (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Professor Gordon M Shepherd (Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine), Silke Ackermann (Museum of the History of Science), Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Translational neuroscience of the developing cerebral cortex
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The earliest cortical circuits and cognitive disorders
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 7 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations
  Oxford Book Launch of “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation”
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD (Yale School of Medicine), Joy Hirsch, PhD (Yale School of Medicine)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 26 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Evolution and Development of Mammalian Brains
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño (Institute for Paediatric Regenerative Medicine at Shriners Hospitals for Children, Institute for Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - MIND, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis), Professor Stephen Charles Noctor (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, UC Davis), Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan), Professor Paul R. Manger (School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Associate Professor Rogier B. Mars (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen), Jasper E. Hunt (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University), Professor Lorenzo Lorusso (Mellino Mellini Hospital Trust, Brescia Italy), Professor Colin Blakemore (Centre for the Study of the Senses School of Advanced Study, University of London), Professor Marco Piccolino (Italian Institute of Neurosciences University of Ferrara, Italy), Dr Damion Young (University of Oxford), Dr Tom Quick (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Professor Gordon M Shepherd (Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine), Silke Ackermann (Museum of the History of Science), Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Development and Evolution of Neocortical Projection Systems
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar
  Professor Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD (Departments of Neurobiology, Genetics and Psychiatry, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine )
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 12 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Oscar Marin, KCL : 'Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity'
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 19 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Building a Nanoscale Bushy Cell Connectome: Wiring Diagrams, Big Data Challenges and Hearing In Silico
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr George Spirou (Director, Center of Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 28 August 2015 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The impact of phrenology in Edinburgh, past, present and future
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor David J Price (Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 10 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding how alterations in cortical circuitry modify behavioral outputs
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Angelique Bordey, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 18 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The role of the subplate layer in radial neuronal migration and cortical
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Novel behavioural phenotypes in the Neuroligin-3 genetic mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Cellular & Systems Neuroscience Seminars
  Emma Burrows PhD (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne )
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Astrocyte roles in CNS injury and disease
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Michael Sofroniew, MD PhD (Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker: Professor Jean Rossier - ‘Cortical fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons enwrapped in the perineuronal net express the metallopeptidases Adamts8, Adamts15 and Neprilysin’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Jean Rossier (INSERM, Hôpital St Anne, Paris)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Just how smart are dolphins and whales in reality? Challenging an ingrained sciento-social preconception
  Dr Pual Manger (University of the Witwatersrand)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Moving beyond injury: Prenatal hypoxia ischemia diffusely disrupts cerebral development via neuronal dysmaturation
  Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D (Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Clyde and Elda Munson Professor of Pediatric Research)

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Giampietro Schiavo, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology : ‘Basal lamina components as determinants of the uptake and axonal transport of pathogens and growth factors’
  Professor Giampietro Schiavo (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 16 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Forebrain development in health and disease
  Professor David Price (University of Edinburgh)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Deciphering SP8 regulative network for cortical development
  Ugo Borello (University of Lyon)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 16 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Studying the function and connectivity of neural networks in zebrafish brain
  Professor Emre Yaksi (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Pavlov in America: The influence of Pavlov on Lashley and Hebb
  Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Dynamic post-transcriptional events shaping development of the cerebral cortex
  Professor Debbie Silver (Duke Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Tuesday 19 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Structural Basis for Centrifugal Regulation of the Olfactory Bulb ~individual labeling and correlated Laser and volume/high-voltage EM microscopies~
  Please note that this lecture is now taking place from 4pm
  Professor Kazunori Toida MD, PhD (Kawasaki Medical School)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - DEVELOPMENTAL LINK BETWEEN FETAL AND ADULT LEYDIG CELLS
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Yuichi Shima MD PhD (Kawasaki Medical School, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 25 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mechanisms Generating Cell-Type Diversity in Cerebral Cortex
  Simon Hippenmeyer, PhD (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 7 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Development of the human insula
  Professor Gundela Meyer (Department of Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy and Histology Universidad de La Laguna ULL)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Using zebrafish to study myelinated axons in vivo
  Professor David Lyons (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Adhesion-dependent modulation of signalling in neural differentiation, axon guidance and medulloblastoma
  Professor Andrew Furley (Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mitochondrial dysfunction in neonatal brain injury
  Dr Claire Thorton (King’s College London.)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 2 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Impact of neuroinflammation on brain development in premature infants
  Pierre Gressens MD PhD (Inserm U1141 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris & Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL, London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Music, reward and clinical applications
  Dr. Noèlia Martínez-Molina (Department of Psychology and Logopedics Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 1 August 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Developmental brain disorders caused by Zika virus
  Assistant Professor Patricia Pestana Garcez, PhD (Neuroplasticity Lab, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Schizophrenia as a disease of brain energy metabolism: The promise of therapeutic ketosis
  Zoltán Sarnyai, M.D, Ph.D. (Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Professor of Pharmacology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia )
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Mutual exclusive interactions between typical absence and limbic epilepsy
  Professor Filiz Onat (Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
  Various Speakers
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
  Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
  Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Excitatory neurons of the cortex: similarities and variations
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Rajeevan Narayanan Therpurakal (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of neuronal circuit development and maturation
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Taro Kitazawa, Ph.D. (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - A quick introduction to digital monitoring in health and disease - Zoom Webinar
  Zoom Webinar
  Various Speakers

Friday 18 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Photobiomodulation for neurodegenerative disease: a journey from bench to clinic
  Professor John Mitrofanis (Université Grenoble Alpes Saint Martin d'Hères, France, and University College London, UK)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations
  Professor Anthony J. Hannan (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Team Science, Big Science, and Open Science In the Service of Understanding Cortex
  Christof Koch, PhD (Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Santa Monica)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 12 August 2022 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The orexinergic signalling as a potential tool for therapeutic target in childhood absence epilepsy
  Associate Professor Nihan Carcak Yilmaz (Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 August 2022 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - High-Content Electrophysiology Platforms for Functional Characterization of Neurons
  Dr Zhuoliang Li (MaxWell Biosystems, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 5 September 2022 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mild intrauterine hypoperfusion in rats reproduces neurodevelopmental disorders observed in children with fetal growth restriction
  Professor Masahiro Tsuji, MD, PhD (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 14 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 3Brain CorePlate and Accura-3D Technologies, modern functional imaging for next-gen neuroscience
  Dr Sercan Deniz (3Brain AG, Switzerland)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - Ηarnessing PTEN’s growth controlling potential in neuronal development and disease
  Prof Dr Britta Eickholt (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Small molecules that restore GABAergic function as a potential therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Please note rescheduled date.
  Associate Professor James P Clement Chelliah, PhD (Neuroscience Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - Reconstructing Human Evolutionary History
  Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Calcium and metabolic activity in cortical astrocytes during locomotion in mice
  Professor Alexey Semyanov (Jiaxing University College of Medicine, China)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - Building, Maintaining, or Regenerating Brain Circuitry is Complex: Subtype- and Context-Dependent Subcellular Molecular Machinery in Cerebral Cortex
  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)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Anatomical organization and function of oxytocin system in the mouse brain
  Associate Professor Yongsoo Kim (Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Diabetes associated gene TCF7L2 links brain energy metabolism with social deficits
  Marta B. Wiśniewska (Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 26 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Evolution and Development of Mammalian Brains
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño (Institute for Paediatric Regenerative Medicine at Shriners Hospitals for Children, Institute for Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - MIND, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis), Professor Stephen Charles Noctor (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, UC Davis), Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan), Professor Paul R. Manger (School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Associate Professor Rogier B. Mars (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen), Jasper E. Hunt (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 3 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Editing the Developing Brain: from in utero CRISPR knockins to broadly-accessible personalized patient models
  Dr. Alexandros Poulopoulos (University of Maryland)

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Neuronal activity-dependent gene regulation in the developing neocortex
  Professor Nobuhiko Yamamoto (Institute of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2
  Dr Sajikumar Sreedharan (National University of Singapore)

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Neural circuits underlying sleep structure and functions
  Professor Antoine Adamantidis (University of Bern)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Seminar in Pairs: 'Maladaptive plasticity related to early movement restriction in rats to better understand neurodevelopmental disorders' and 'Early predictive biomarkers for abnormal brain development induced by fetal growth restriction'
  J-Olivier Coq (CNRS/Aix-Marseille University), Atsuto Onoda (Sanyo-Onoda City University, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Mechanisms of Brain State Control: Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cell type evolution in the primate brain
  Alex Pollen, PhD (University of California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University), Professor Lorenzo Lorusso (Mellino Mellini Hospital Trust, Brescia Italy), Professor Colin Blakemore (Centre for the Study of the Senses School of Advanced Study, University of London), Professor Marco Piccolino (Italian Institute of Neurosciences University of Ferrara, Italy), Dr Damion Young (University of Oxford), Dr Tom Quick (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Professor Gordon M Shepherd (Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine), Silke Ackermann (Museum of the History of Science), Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Development and Evolution of Neocortical Projection Systems
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar
  Professor Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD (Departments of Neurobiology, Genetics and Psychiatry, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine )
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 19 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Building a Nanoscale Bushy Cell Connectome: Wiring Diagrams, Big Data Challenges and Hearing In Silico
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr George Spirou (Director, Center of Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 28 August 2015 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The impact of phrenology in Edinburgh, past, present and future
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor David J Price (Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 10 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding how alterations in cortical circuitry modify behavioral outputs
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Angelique Bordey, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 18 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The role of the subplate layer in radial neuronal migration and cortical
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Novel behavioural phenotypes in the Neuroligin-3 genetic mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Cellular & Systems Neuroscience Seminars
  Emma Burrows PhD (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne )
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Astrocyte roles in CNS injury and disease
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Michael Sofroniew, MD PhD (Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Just how smart are dolphins and whales in reality? Challenging an ingrained sciento-social preconception
  Dr Pual Manger (University of the Witwatersrand)

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Thalamocortical Interactions
  Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (University of Oxford ), Dr Tim Vogels, Dr Holly Bridge (University of Oxford ), Professor Simon Butt (University of Oxford ), Miss Jacqui Stacey (University of Oxford ), Dr Anna Hoerder Suabedissen (University of Oxford), Dr Louise Upton (University of Oxford), Mr Michael Lohse (University of Oxford), Mr Sebastian Vásquez-López, Dr Tommas Ellender (University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Advanced Cell Culture Technology for Generation of In Vivo-like Tissue Models
  TBA

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Evolution of Cortical Development
  Dr André M. Goffinet (Institute of Neuroscience)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Moving beyond injury: Prenatal hypoxia ischemia diffusely disrupts cerebral development via neuronal dysmaturation
  Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D (Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Clyde and Elda Munson Professor of Pediatric Research)

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Offspring phenotypes influenced by paternal environmental factors
  TBA
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Friday 8 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Gene-environment interactions mediating experience-dependent plasticity in the healthy and diseased brain
  Professor Tony Hannan
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Monday 22 August 2016 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Molecular and cellular basis of a neuro-developmental disorder caused by SYNGAP1 haploinsufficiency
  Martin Berryer PhD (Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada)

Tuesday 21 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Synaptic Organization of the Olfactory Bulb; individual labeling and correlated Laser-volume EM microscopy, from one neuron to circuit.
  Professor Kazunori Toida MD, PhD (Kawasaki Medical School)

Friday 14 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - One rule to fold them all: The developmental implications of a simple universal model for cortical morphology
  Professor Bruno Coelho Cesar Mota (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 2 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Synaptic transmission from subplate neurons controls radial migration of neocortical neurons
  Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Primary cilium, a remote control of neuronal growth and connectivity in the developing brain
  ES Anton (Univ of North Carolina)

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Dynamic post-transcriptional events shaping development of the cerebral cortex
  Professor Debbie Silver (Duke Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Friday 7 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Development of the human insula
  Professor Gundela Meyer (Department of Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy and Histology Universidad de La Laguna ULL)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Using zebrafish to study myelinated axons in vivo
  Professor David Lyons (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - “Autism and Perception” Pedagogy, behaviour and cognitive development
  Robert Kaddouch (Ecole Kaddouch & Music Paris)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Adhesion-dependent modulation of signalling in neural differentiation, axon guidance and medulloblastoma
  Professor Andrew Furley (Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mitochondrial dysfunction in neonatal brain injury
  Dr Claire Thorton (King’s College London.)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 2 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Impact of neuroinflammation on brain development in premature infants
  Pierre Gressens MD PhD (Inserm U1141 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris & Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL, London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Music, reward and clinical applications
  Dr. Noèlia Martínez-Molina (Department of Psychology and Logopedics Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 1 August 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Developmental brain disorders caused by Zika virus
  Assistant Professor Patricia Pestana Garcez, PhD (Neuroplasticity Lab, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Schizophrenia as a disease of brain energy metabolism: The promise of therapeutic ketosis
  Zoltán Sarnyai, M.D, Ph.D. (Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Professor of Pharmacology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia )
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Mutual exclusive interactions between typical absence and limbic epilepsy
  Professor Filiz Onat (Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
  Various Speakers
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
  Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
  Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of neuronal circuit development and maturation
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Taro Kitazawa, Ph.D. (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 18 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Photobiomodulation for neurodegenerative disease: a journey from bench to clinic
  Professor John Mitrofanis (Université Grenoble Alpes Saint Martin d'Hères, France, and University College London, UK)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 7 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations
  Oxford Book Launch of “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation”
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD (Yale School of Medicine), Joy Hirsch, PhD (Yale School of Medicine)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations
  Professor Anthony J. Hannan (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 12 August 2022 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The orexinergic signalling as a potential tool for therapeutic target in childhood absence epilepsy
  Associate Professor Nihan Carcak Yilmaz (Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 August 2022 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - High-Content Electrophysiology Platforms for Functional Characterization of Neurons
  Dr Zhuoliang Li (MaxWell Biosystems, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 5 September 2022 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mild intrauterine hypoperfusion in rats reproduces neurodevelopmental disorders observed in children with fetal growth restriction
  Professor Masahiro Tsuji, MD, PhD (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 14 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 3Brain CorePlate and Accura-3D Technologies, modern functional imaging for next-gen neuroscience
  Dr Sercan Deniz (3Brain AG, Switzerland)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Small molecules that restore GABAergic function as a potential therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Please note rescheduled date.
  Associate Professor James P Clement Chelliah, PhD (Neuroscience Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 16:00 - Calcium and metabolic activity in cortical astrocytes during locomotion in mice
  Professor Alexey Semyanov (Jiaxing University College of Medicine, China)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Anatomical organization and function of oxytocin system in the mouse brain
  Associate Professor Yongsoo Kim (Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Diabetes associated gene TCF7L2 links brain energy metabolism with social deficits
  Marta B. Wiśniewska (Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 26 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Evolution and Development of Mammalian Brains
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño (Institute for Paediatric Regenerative Medicine at Shriners Hospitals for Children, Institute for Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - MIND, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis), Professor Stephen Charles Noctor (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, UC Davis), Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan), Professor Paul R. Manger (School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Associate Professor Rogier B. Mars (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen), Jasper E. Hunt (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Stem cell therapy for perinatal brain injuries
  Dr Yoshiaki Sato (Nagoya University Hospital)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2
  Dr Sajikumar Sreedharan (National University of Singapore)

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Neural circuits underlying sleep structure and functions
  Professor Antoine Adamantidis (University of Bern)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Seminar in Pairs: 'Maladaptive plasticity related to early movement restriction in rats to better understand neurodevelopmental disorders' and 'Early predictive biomarkers for abnormal brain development induced by fetal growth restriction'
  J-Olivier Coq (CNRS/Aix-Marseille University), Atsuto Onoda (Sanyo-Onoda City University, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Mechanisms of Brain State Control: Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cell type evolution in the primate brain
  Alex Pollen, PhD (University of California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)