Name: Professor Zoltan Molnar
DPAG, University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 12 May 2015

History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex
Date: 12 May 2015, 13:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 June 2015

Translational neuroscience of the developing cerebral cortex
Date: 25 June 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6
Organiser: Jacqueline Pumphrey (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 November 2016

The earliest cortical circuits and cognitive disorders
Date: 8 November 2016, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Warneford Hospital, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Organiser: Tracy Lindsey
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 April 2022

Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations
Date: 7 April 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD (Yale School of Medicine), Joy Hirsch, PhD (Yale School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 June 2023

Evolution and Development of Mammalian Brains
Date: 26 June 2023, 9:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 12 May 2015

History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex
Date: 12 May 2015, 13:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2015

Development and Evolution of Neocortical Projection Systems
Date: 15 May 2015, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD (Departments of Neurobiology, Genetics and Psychiatry, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine )
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 June 2015

Professor Oscar Marin, KCL : 'Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity'
Date: 12 June 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, ground floor
Organiser: Sarah Noujaim (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 19 June 2015

Building a Nanoscale Bushy Cell Connectome: Wiring Diagrams, Big Data Challenges and Hearing In Silico
Date: 19 June 2015, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr George Spirou (Director, Center of Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: In the Small Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 August 2015

The impact of phrenology in Edinburgh, past, present and future
Date: 28 August 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor David J Price (Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road, OX1 3QX
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 September 2015

Understanding how alterations in cortical circuitry modify behavioral outputs
Date: 10 September 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Angelique Bordey, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, USA)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 September 2015

The role of the subplate layer in radial neuronal migration and cortical
Date: 18 September 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 16 October 2015

Novel behavioural phenotypes in the Neuroligin-3 genetic mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: 16 October 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Emma Burrows PhD (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne )
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2015

Astrocyte roles in CNS injury and disease
Date: 29 October 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Michael Sofroniew, MD PhD (Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 6 November 2015

Guest Speaker: Professor Jean Rossier - ‘Cortical fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons enwrapped in the perineuronal net express the metallopeptidases Adamts8, Adamts15 and Neprilysin’
Date: 6 November 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jean Rossier (INSERM, Hôpital St Anne, Paris)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, DPAG Sherrington Building, OX1 3PT
Organiser: Sarah Noujaim (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 25 April 2016

Just how smart are dolphins and whales in reality? Challenging an ingrained sciento-social preconception
Date: 25 April 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Pual Manger (University of the Witwatersrand)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Moving beyond injury: Prenatal hypoxia ischemia diffusely disrupts cerebral development via neuronal dysmaturation
Date: 15 June 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D (Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Clyde and Elda Munson Professor of Pediatric Research)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 16 June 2017

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’
Date: 16 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Giampietro Schiavo (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: DPAG, Large Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building, off South Parks and Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT - 01865 272500
Organiser: Sarah Noujaim (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 16 March 2018

Forebrain development in health and disease
Date: 16 March 2018, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor David Price (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Isabella Renehan (Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Deciphering SP8 regulative network for cortical development
Date: 16 March 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ugo Borello (University of Lyon)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Isabella Renehan (Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 16 April 2018

Studying the function and connectivity of neural networks in zebrafish brain
Date: 16 April 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Emre Yaksi (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Isabella Renehan (Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 May 2018

Pavlov in America: The influence of Pavlov on Lashley and Hebb
Date: 31 May 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 8 June 2018

Dynamic post-transcriptional events shaping development of the cerebral cortex
Date: 8 June 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Debbie Silver (Duke Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 June 2018

Structural Basis for Centrifugal Regulation of the Olfactory Bulb ~individual labeling and correlated Laser and volume/high-voltage EM microscopies~
Date: 19 June 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Kazunori Toida MD, PhD (Kawasaki Medical School)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Isabella Renehan (Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Hosts: Shuichi Hayashi (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

DEVELOPMENTAL LINK BETWEEN FETAL AND ADULT LEYDIG CELLS
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 19 June 2018, 16:00 - 16:45
Speaker : Yuichi Shima MD PhD (Kawasaki Medical School, Japan)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Isabella Renehan (Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Hosts: Shuichi Hayashi (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 25 June 2018

Mechanisms Generating Cell-Type Diversity in Cerebral Cortex
Date: 25 June 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Simon Hippenmeyer, PhD (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Isabella Renehan (Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 7 December 2018

Development of the human insula
Date: 7 December 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Gundela Meyer (Department of Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy and Histology Universidad de La Laguna ULL)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

Using zebrafish to study myelinated axons in vivo
Date: 23 January 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor David Lyons (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 February 2019

Adhesion-dependent modulation of signalling in neural differentiation, axon guidance and medulloblastoma
Date: 27 February 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Furley (Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 8 March 2019

Mitochondrial dysfunction in neonatal brain injury
Date: 8 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Claire Thorton (King’s College London.)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 April 2019

Impact of neuroinflammation on brain development in premature infants
Date: 2 April 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Pierre Gressens MD PhD (Inserm U1141 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris & Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL, London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2019

Music, reward and clinical applications
Date: 28 May 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr. Noèlia Martínez-Molina (Department of Psychology and Logopedics Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 August 2019

Developmental brain disorders caused by Zika virus
Date: 1 August 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Patricia Pestana Garcez, PhD (Neuroplasticity Lab, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 October 2019

Schizophrenia as a disease of brain energy metabolism: The promise of therapeutic ketosis
Date: 17 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : 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 )
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2019

Mutual exclusive interactions between typical absence and limbic epilepsy
Date: 13 November 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Filiz Onat (Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2019

Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
Date: 22 November 2019, 9:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
Date: 22 November 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 6 December 2019

Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
Date: 6 December 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 26 February 2021

Excitatory neurons of the cortex: similarities and variations
Date: 26 February 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rajeevan Narayanan Therpurakal (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 March 2021

Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of neuronal circuit development and maturation
Date: 4 March 2021, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Taro Kitazawa, Ph.D. (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 7 March 2022

A quick introduction to digital monitoring in health and disease - Zoom Webinar
Date: 7 March 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Organiser: Dr Nicholas Irving (Oxford Neuroscience)
Hosts: Chrystalina Antoniades (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 March 2022

Photobiomodulation for neurodegenerative disease: a journey from bench to clinic
Date: 18 March 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor John Mitrofanis (Université Grenoble Alpes Saint Martin d'Hères, France, and University College London, UK)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations
Date: 15 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Anthony J. Hannan (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 17 June 2022

Team Science, Big Science, and Open Science In the Service of Understanding Cortex
Date: 17 June 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Christof Koch, PhD (Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Santa Monica)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 August 2022

The orexinergic signalling as a potential tool for therapeutic target in childhood absence epilepsy
Date: 12 August 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Nihan Carcak Yilmaz (Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 August 2022

High-Content Electrophysiology Platforms for Functional Characterization of Neurons
Date: 16 August 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Zhuoliang Li (MaxWell Biosystems, Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 5 September 2022

Mild intrauterine hypoperfusion in rats reproduces neurodevelopmental disorders observed in children with fetal growth restriction
Date: 5 September 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Masahiro Tsuji, MD, PhD (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 September 2022

3Brain CorePlate and Accura-3D Technologies, modern functional imaging for next-gen neuroscience
Date: 14 September 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Sercan Deniz (3Brain AG, Switzerland)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 14 October 2022

Ηarnessing PTEN’s growth controlling potential in neuronal development and disease
Date: 14 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
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)

Thursday 24 November 2022

Small molecules that restore GABAergic function as a potential therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: 24 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Associate Professor James P Clement Chelliah, PhD (Neuroscience Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 20 January 2023

Reconstructing Human Evolutionary History
Date: 20 January 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
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 24 February 2023

Calcium and metabolic activity in cortical astrocytes during locomotion in mice
Date: 24 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Alexey Semyanov (Jiaxing University College of Medicine, China)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 April 2023

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
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)

Thursday 11 May 2023

Anatomical organization and function of oxytocin system in the mouse brain
Date: 11 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Yongsoo Kim (Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Prof Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 22 May 2023

Diabetes associated gene TCF7L2 links brain energy metabolism with social deficits
Date: 22 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Marta B. Wiśniewska (Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 June 2023

Evolution and Development of Mammalian Brains
Date: 26 June 2023, 9:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 October 2023

Editing the Developing Brain: from in utero CRISPR knockins to broadly-accessible personalized patient models
Date: 3 October 2023, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr. Alexandros Poulopoulos (University of Maryland)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 October 2023

Neuronal activity-dependent gene regulation in the developing neocortex
Date: 10 October 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Nobuhiko Yamamoto (Institute of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2
Date: 22 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Sajikumar Sreedharan (National University of Singapore)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 19 January 2024

Neural circuits underlying sleep structure and functions
Date: 19 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Antoine Adamantidis (University of Bern)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 9 February 2024

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'
Date: 9 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: J-Olivier Coq (CNRS/Aix-Marseille University), Atsuto Onoda (Sanyo-Onoda City University, Japan)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Masahiro Tsuji (Visiting Academic, Molnar's Group), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 March 2024

Mechanisms of Brain State Control: Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
Date: 19 March 2024, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Cell type evolution in the primate brain
Date: 23 April 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Alex Pollen, PhD (University of California)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 17 June 2024

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycle: The roles of Calcium and Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep
Date: 17 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Hiroki Ueda (School of Medicine, University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 July 2024

Polygenic Regulation of Cortical Circuit Development in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from a “Model” Copy Number Variant
Date: 3 July 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anthony-S. LaMantia (Virginia Tech)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 August 2024

Capturing functional stem and immune cell states in early cortical development
Date: 6 August 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Balazs V Varga (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 September 2024

MRI of Brain Plasticity
Date: 17 September 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Alan P. Koretsky, PhD (National Institutes of Health)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

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Tuesday 12 May 2015

History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex
Date: 12 May 2015, 13:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2015

Development and Evolution of Neocortical Projection Systems
Date: 15 May 2015, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD (Departments of Neurobiology, Genetics and Psychiatry, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine )
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 19 June 2015

Building a Nanoscale Bushy Cell Connectome: Wiring Diagrams, Big Data Challenges and Hearing In Silico
Date: 19 June 2015, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr George Spirou (Director, Center of Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: In the Small Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 August 2015

The impact of phrenology in Edinburgh, past, present and future
Date: 28 August 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor David J Price (Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road, OX1 3QX
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 September 2015

Understanding how alterations in cortical circuitry modify behavioral outputs
Date: 10 September 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Angelique Bordey, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, USA)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 September 2015

The role of the subplate layer in radial neuronal migration and cortical
Date: 18 September 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 16 October 2015

Novel behavioural phenotypes in the Neuroligin-3 genetic mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: 16 October 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Emma Burrows PhD (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne )
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2015

Astrocyte roles in CNS injury and disease
Date: 29 October 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Michael Sofroniew, MD PhD (Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 25 April 2016

Just how smart are dolphins and whales in reality? Challenging an ingrained sciento-social preconception
Date: 25 April 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Pual Manger (University of the Witwatersrand)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 May 2016

Thalamocortical Interactions
Date: 4 May 2016, 14:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library, DPAG
Organisers: Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 May 2016

Advanced Cell Culture Technology for Generation of In Vivo-like Tissue Models
Date: 24 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 31 May 2016

The Evolution of Cortical Development
Date: 31 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr André M. Goffinet (Institute of Neuroscience)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Moving beyond injury: Prenatal hypoxia ischemia diffusely disrupts cerebral development via neuronal dysmaturation
Date: 15 June 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D (Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Clyde and Elda Munson Professor of Pediatric Research)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 June 2016

Offspring phenotypes influenced by paternal environmental factors
Date: 22 June 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 July 2016

Gene-environment interactions mediating experience-dependent plasticity in the healthy and diseased brain
Date: 8 July 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Tony Hannan
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 August 2016

Molecular and cellular basis of a neuro-developmental disorder caused by SYNGAP1 haploinsufficiency
Date: 22 August 2016, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Martin Berryer PhD (Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Synaptic Organization of the Olfactory Bulb; individual labeling and correlated Laser-volume EM microscopy, from one neuron to circuit.
Date: 21 March 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Kazunori Toida MD, PhD (Kawasaki Medical School)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 July 2017

One rule to fold them all: The developmental implications of a simple universal model for cortical morphology
Date: 14 July 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Bruno Coelho Cesar Mota (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 October 2017

Synaptic transmission from subplate neurons controls radial migration of neocortical neurons
Date: 2 October 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2018

Primary cilium, a remote control of neuronal growth and connectivity in the developing brain
Date: 30 January 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : ES Anton (Univ of North Carolina)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 June 2018

Dynamic post-transcriptional events shaping development of the cerebral cortex
Date: 8 June 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Debbie Silver (Duke Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 7 December 2018

Development of the human insula
Date: 7 December 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Gundela Meyer (Department of Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy and Histology Universidad de La Laguna ULL)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

Using zebrafish to study myelinated axons in vivo
Date: 23 January 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor David Lyons (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 February 2019

“Autism and Perception” Pedagogy, behaviour and cognitive development
Date: 14 February 2019, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Robert Kaddouch (Ecole Kaddouch & Music Paris)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 February 2019

Adhesion-dependent modulation of signalling in neural differentiation, axon guidance and medulloblastoma
Date: 27 February 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Furley (Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 8 March 2019

Mitochondrial dysfunction in neonatal brain injury
Date: 8 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Claire Thorton (King’s College London.)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 April 2019

Impact of neuroinflammation on brain development in premature infants
Date: 2 April 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Pierre Gressens MD PhD (Inserm U1141 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris & Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL, London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2019

Music, reward and clinical applications
Date: 28 May 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr. Noèlia Martínez-Molina (Department of Psychology and Logopedics Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 August 2019

Developmental brain disorders caused by Zika virus
Date: 1 August 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Patricia Pestana Garcez, PhD (Neuroplasticity Lab, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 October 2019

Schizophrenia as a disease of brain energy metabolism: The promise of therapeutic ketosis
Date: 17 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : 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 )
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2019

Mutual exclusive interactions between typical absence and limbic epilepsy
Date: 13 November 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Filiz Onat (Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2019

Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
Date: 22 November 2019, 9:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
Date: 22 November 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 6 December 2019

Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
Date: 6 December 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 March 2021

Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of neuronal circuit development and maturation
Date: 4 March 2021, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Taro Kitazawa, Ph.D. (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 March 2022

Photobiomodulation for neurodegenerative disease: a journey from bench to clinic
Date: 18 March 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor John Mitrofanis (Université Grenoble Alpes Saint Martin d'Hères, France, and University College London, UK)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 April 2022

Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations
Date: 7 April 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD (Yale School of Medicine), Joy Hirsch, PhD (Yale School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 June 2022

Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations
Date: 15 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Anthony J. Hannan (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 August 2022

The orexinergic signalling as a potential tool for therapeutic target in childhood absence epilepsy
Date: 12 August 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Nihan Carcak Yilmaz (Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 August 2022

High-Content Electrophysiology Platforms for Functional Characterization of Neurons
Date: 16 August 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Zhuoliang Li (MaxWell Biosystems, Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 5 September 2022

Mild intrauterine hypoperfusion in rats reproduces neurodevelopmental disorders observed in children with fetal growth restriction
Date: 5 September 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Masahiro Tsuji, MD, PhD (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 September 2022

3Brain CorePlate and Accura-3D Technologies, modern functional imaging for next-gen neuroscience
Date: 14 September 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Sercan Deniz (3Brain AG, Switzerland)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 November 2022

Small molecules that restore GABAergic function as a potential therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: 24 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Associate Professor James P Clement Chelliah, PhD (Neuroscience Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 24 February 2023

Calcium and metabolic activity in cortical astrocytes during locomotion in mice
Date: 24 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Alexey Semyanov (Jiaxing University College of Medicine, China)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 May 2023

Anatomical organization and function of oxytocin system in the mouse brain
Date: 11 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Yongsoo Kim (Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Prof Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 22 May 2023

Diabetes associated gene TCF7L2 links brain energy metabolism with social deficits
Date: 22 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Marta B. Wiśniewska (Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 June 2023

Evolution and Development of Mammalian Brains
Date: 26 June 2023, 9:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room (second floor)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 13 November 2023

Stem cell therapy for perinatal brain injuries
Date: 13 November 2023, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Yoshiaki Sato (Nagoya University Hospital)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Masahiro Tsuji (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2
Date: 22 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Sajikumar Sreedharan (National University of Singapore)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 19 January 2024

Neural circuits underlying sleep structure and functions
Date: 19 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Antoine Adamantidis (University of Bern)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 9 February 2024

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'
Date: 9 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: J-Olivier Coq (CNRS/Aix-Marseille University), Atsuto Onoda (Sanyo-Onoda City University, Japan)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Masahiro Tsuji (Visiting Academic, Molnar's Group), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 March 2024

Mechanisms of Brain State Control: Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
Date: 19 March 2024, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Cell type evolution in the primate brain
Date: 23 April 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Alex Pollen, PhD (University of California)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 17 June 2024

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycle: The roles of Calcium and Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep
Date: 17 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Hiroki Ueda (School of Medicine, University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 July 2024

Polygenic Regulation of Cortical Circuit Development in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from a “Model” Copy Number Variant
Date: 3 July 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anthony-S. LaMantia (Virginia Tech)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 August 2024

Capturing functional stem and immune cell states in early cortical development
Date: 6 August 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Balazs V Varga (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 September 2024

MRI of Brain Plasticity
Date: 17 September 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Alan P. Koretsky, PhD (National Institutes of Health)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)