Cortex Club

University of Oxford

http://cortexclub.com/

Events this person is hosting:

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

16:00 - Myelin optimizes speed and synchrony of neocortical circuit activity
One-to-one meetings This same day, there will be an opportunity for PIs and Post-docs to have a one-to-one meeting with Prof. dr. Kole If you are interested or have any questions about these meetings, please send an email to: demi.brizee@bndu.ox.ac.uk Student-Lunch To provide students with an opportunity to meet with Prof. dr. Kole, the Cortex Club will organise a student-lunch. If you are interested joining the lunch, please signup here: https://forms.gle/PbypyXjUTFLuYu5Y8 Exact time and location will be shared closer to this date. Find more details on Maarten Kole elaborate work here: https://nin.nl/research/researchgroups/kole-groep/
Dr Maarten Kole (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 22 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Neuronal representations of learned categories in mouse visual and higher cortical areas
Dr Pieter Goldstein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich, Germany)

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Hippocampus 2.0: Hebbian multisensory memory
This talk is part of the Cortex Club Welcome event and will be followed by a Cortex Club Welcome Social
TBA
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Detecting covert decision dynamics from neural population recordings in primate motor cortex
Professor William Newsome (Stanford University)

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:30 - Cellular and synaptic microcircuit principles of the human cortical layer 2-3
** Changed date, time, and venue **
Dr Yangfan Peng (University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - A unique coding of memories in the human brain
Signup for Student Lunch or one-on-one meeting! More details @ https://www.cortexclub.com/events-list/prof-quirogas-talk
Prof Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (The University of Leicester)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Events this person is organising:

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Paribas or Bury Pa? – Age-related changes in the neural representations of voice onset time in the inferior colliculus
Dr. Edward Bartlett (Purdue University)

Thursday 7 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:30 - Neuropeptides that Regulate Sleep in Zebrafish
Dr. Jason Rihel (UCL)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

16:30 - Clocks, Sleep and Light – Signalling pathways to new therapeutics
Professor Russell Foster (Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and The Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:30 - Advanced Neuroimaging of Pain, Analgesia and Anaesthesia Induced Altered States of Consciousness
Professor Irene Tracey (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Cooperation: a social strategy?
Dr Wei Song Ong (University of Pennsylvania)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Behind the scenes at Nature journals
Dr Leonie Welberg (Nature Neuroscience)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Frank Sengpiel, Cardiff University
Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Neural circuits underlying motor skill learning and execution
Please contact Lukas Krone (lukas.krone@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you’d like to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Bence Ölveczky. Change of Venue: Small Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building
Prof. Bence Ölveczky (Harvard University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
16:00 - Movement-related activity dominates cortex during sensory-guided decision making
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Anne Churchland
Prof Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - A computational and neural model for happiness
Afterwards, we will go to a pub with the speaker, if you would like to join us, please sign up at: https://goo.gl/forms/HsIEQW0Qxy6WMfM82
Dr Robb Rutledge (University College London)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Cognitive ontogeny in health and disease: a story of right communication
Prof. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Combining mGRASP and Optogenetics for High-Resolution Functional Mapping of Descending Cortical Projections
Dr Paul Chadderton (Imperial College London & Bristol University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - The neural fingerprints of the missing hand
Please contact Paula Kaanders (paula.kaanders@wadham.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings.
Dr Tamar Makin (University College London)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Andrew Parker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Professor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Oxmas Lecture: Henry Marsh - “Is Brain Surgery Difficult?”
Dr. Henry Marsh
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 5 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Brain-scale neural circuits for visual motion processing in zebrafish
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Eva Naumann
Prof Eva Naumann (Duke University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 10 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - The price of being awake and the function of sleep: synaptic homeostasis
Please contact Fiona Woods (fiona.woods@cncb.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Chiara Cirelli
Prof Chiara Cirelli (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - Prof Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Prof Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:15 - The Somnostat: Neuronal Machinery for Balancing Sleep Need and Sleep
Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Technical workshop on the function and utility of two-photon microscopy in neuroscience
Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Molecular mechanisms of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity
To arrange individual meetings with Prof. Oscar Marin, please contact Matthew Buchan (matthew.buchan@chch.ox.ac.uk)
Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

09:00 - Decision-making Symposium
Change of Venue
Various Speakers
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 15 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Principles of Science Writing that Can Help Your Science
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
Dr Grace Lindsay
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 18 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - The Dynamic Memory Connectome
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
Prof Ann-Shyn Chiang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 26 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

12:00 - Contextualised auditory processing in subcortical circuits
Dr Michael Lohse (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Sensory History in Perceptual Decision Making and Working Memory Tasks
To arrange individual meetings with Dr Athena Akrami, please contact Diego Asua (diego.asua@bnc.ox.ac.uk)
Dr Athena Akrami (UCL)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Engineering brain activity patterns for therapeutics of disorders
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
Please sign up at: https://forms.gle/qE62VitfTtsbDkeD7
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

15:30 - Cortex Club Birthday - Cognitive control mechanisms in brain disorders
If wish to DJ in our SOCIAL, please contact cortex.club@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk
Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Abhishek Banerjee (NARSAD Young Investigator, Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich), Dr Dennis Kätzel (Assistant Professor of Neurophysiology, Institute for Applied Physiology, Medical Faculty, Ulm University, Germany)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University)
Please sign up at: https://forms.gle/nEbD1uBEysHazozk9
Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (Department of Neuroscience, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, The Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain and Behavior, Columbia University, New York)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Deep learning tools for pose estimation in the laboratory
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE HAS CHANGED TO THE SMALL LECTURE THEATRE AT THE SHERRINGTON BUILDING. Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
Dr Mackenzie Mathis (Harvard University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Understanding the brain’s model of the external world
In collaboration with the Oxford Neurotheory Forum
Prof Loren Frank (UCSF)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Q&A lunch with Prof. Gareth Leng
Please sign up at: https://forms.gle/REnxCevHnGYruxxt6
Gareth Leng (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The Univerity of Edinburgh)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Population Codes, Behavior, and Hierarchical Sparse Coding: an Unsupervised Learning Approach and its Connections to Artificial Neural Networks
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
Prof Demba Ba (Harvard University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Linking Memories Across Time
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker.
Prof Denise Cai (Mount Sinai - New York)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Dendritic mechanisms for somatosensory perception
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with the speaker.
Dr Naoya Takahashi (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Seeing and deciding
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
Professor Kristine Krug (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - The emergence of time, place, and shape across layer of primary somatosensory cortex
Please contact Raffaele Sarnataro (raffaele.sarnataro@cncb.ox.ac.uk) if you want to arrange individual meetings with the speaker.
Prof Samuel Andrew Hires (University of Southern California)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 16 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - High-speed optical imaging and microscopy of whole-brain activity
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker.
Prof Elizabeth Hillman (Columbia University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 9 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Open Access and Open Science: the Insiders's View
Please contact Marta Blanco Pozo (marta.blancopozo@psy.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Dr John R Inglis
Dr John R Inglis (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Dr Mark Patterson (eLife), Dr Elisa de Ranieri (Nature Communications, Springer Nature), Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
16:00 - Open Access and Open Science: The Insiders’ View
Various Speakers

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Envisioning the reward: contextual signals in mouse visual cortex
Please contact Paula Kaanders paula.kaanders@wadham.ox.ac.uk if you would like to arrange individual meetings with Nathalie Rochefort
Dr Nathalie Rochefort (University of Edinburgh)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Assessing Cortical Dynamics and Function despite the Subsampling Problem
Please contact Marta Blanco Pozo (marta.blancopozo@psy.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Viola Priesemann.
Prof Viola Priesemann (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Circuits for care - deconstructing parental behaviour
Johannes Kohl (The Francis Crick Institute)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - OFF-periods, causality and complexity in cortical networks during loss and recovery of Consciousness
Due to limited space capacity, if you would like to attend this talk, please sign up on Eventbrite at https://cortex-club-massimini.eventbrite.co.uk
Marcello Massimini (University of Milan)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Synaptic proteins guide cortical migration and influence cortex folding
Dr. Daniel del Toro (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany and University of Barcelona, Spain.)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 11 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Panel discussion on "Sleep: Features and Functions"
The Panel discussion will be followed by a Christmas-themed drinks reception, and then interested students, postdocs and faculty members can join the speakers to a local pub for dinner.
Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania), Prof. Penelope Lewis (University of Cardiff), Dr Jason Rihel (UCL), Professor Stuart Peirson (Associate Professor in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - What happens to neuronal circuits in Alzheimer’s Disease?
Dr Marc Busche (UCL)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Imaging mRNA localisation in memory-relevant neurons of the Drosophila brain
Pizza will be provided
Dr Jessica Mitchell (University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Using Enhancer-Driven Gene Expression (EDGE) to Study the Circuitry of Memory
Please contact marta.blancopozo@exeter.ox.ac.uk to arrange individual meetings with the speaker
Prof. Clifford Kentros (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Optical dissection of the thalamocortical circuits underlying the processing of sensory information in the mouse somatosensory system
Dr Tommaso Fellin (Italian Institute of Technology)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Algorithms for learning in the mammalian neocortex
Please contact marta.blancopozo@exeter.ox.ac.uk to arrange individual meetings with the speaker
Prof. Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Coordinated cerebellar dynamics during goal-directed behaviour
Please contact marta.blancopozo@exeter.ox.ac.uk to arrange individual meetings with the speaker
Dr Dimitar Kostadinov (University College London)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 9 April 2020 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

18:00 - Q&A with Prof. Yael Niv: Model-based predictions for dopamine
Talk will be at 1pm (online link will be provided soon), afterwards, at 6pm everyone is welcome to join for a Q&A session with Prof. Yael Niv
Professor Yael Niv (Princeton University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 20 April 2020 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Cell Fate Determination in the Retina
After the talk, at 5.15pm everyone is welcome to join for an informal Q&A chat with Prof. Constance Cepko. Details on how to join the talk and the informal Q&A will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Constance Cepko (Harvard Medical School)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 30 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - A paradoxical kind of sleep in Drosophila melanogaster
After the talk, at 12.15pm, everyone is welcome to join for an informal Q&A chat with Prof. Bruno van Swinderen. Details on how to join the talk and the informal Q&A will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Bruno van Swinderen (University of Queensland)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Dragons, Sleep, and the Claustrum
After the talk, at 5.30pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Dr. Lorenz Fenk. Details on how to join the talk and the informal Q&A will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Dr Lorenz Fenk (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair
Please, note that this talk is accessible only to members of the University of Oxford. Please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdu2rqDwsG93MYXuHFgpeHYN357ItVUpD using an Oxford email address. The day of the talk, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the meeting. The platform will be Zoom. After the talk, at 3.30pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Magdalena Götz. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Magdalena Götz (LMU Department of Physiological Genomics Helmholz Center Munich, Institute Stem Cell Research)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 4 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - High precision coding in visual cortex
After the talk, at 4pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Dr. Carsen Stringer. Details on how to join the talk and the informal pub chat will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Dr Carsen Stringer (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

17:30 - Striatal circuits for reward learning and decision-making
After the talk, at 6.45 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Ilana Witten. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Ilana Witten (Princeton University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 23 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Mini-symposium on the Neuroscience of Cognitive Development
After the talks, at 3.30pm, students and postdocs are welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Scerif and Donald. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford), Prof. Kirsten Donald (University of Cape Town)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 25 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

17:30 - Hippocampal disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function
After the talk, at 7pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Lisa Topolnik. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Lisa Topolnik (Université Laval)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 30 June 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Cortical population coding of consumption decisions
Details on how to join the talk will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com). After the talk, at 5.15 pm, students and postdocs are welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Don Katz.
Prof. Donald B. Katz (Brandeis University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 3 July 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Networks thinking themselves
After the talk, at 5.15 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Danielle S. Bassett. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Danielle S. Bassett (University of Pennsylvania & the Santa Fe Institute)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 9 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

17:30 - Machine reasoning in histopathologic image analysis
After the talk, at 6.45 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Phedias Diamandis. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Phedias Diamandis (University of Toronto)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 17 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Neural coding in the auditory cortex - Emergent Scientists Seminar Series
After the talk, at 5.15 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with dr Jennifer Lawlor and Aleksandar Ivanov. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Aleksandar Ivanov (University of Oxford), Dr Jennifer Lawlor (Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Baltimore)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 23 July 2020 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

17:30 - How sleep remodels the brain
After the talk, at 6.45 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Gina Poe. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
Prof. Gina Poe (University of California, Los Angeles)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 31 July 2020 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Growing up in Science @Oxford
Details on how to join the event will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com/join-us/)
Dr Andrè Marques-Smith (CoMind)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Basal ganglia output pathways for selection amongst incompatible actions
Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to join at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Dr Bernardo Sabatini (Harvard University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Emergent scientists discuss Alzheimer's disease
Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Christiana Bjørkli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Dr Siddharth Ramanan (University of Cambridge)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Protein Synthesis at Neuronal Synapses
Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Prof Dr Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

18:00 - Consciousness and Fear
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84210761432 Meeting ID: 842 1076 1432 Passcode: 993279 YouTube livestream: https://youtu.be/EGiteNhuOEg
Dr. Hakwan Lau (University of California, Los Angeles)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Panel discussion: Practical advice for reproducibility in neuroscience
Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Dr Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford), Dr Verena Heise (University of Oxford), Dr Russ Poldrack (Stanford University), Dr Guillaume Rousselet (University of Glasgow)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Axonal transport in ageing and neurodegenerative disease
Dr Simon Bullock (Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Growing up in Science event with Prof Mark Humphries
Prof. Mark Humphries (University of Nottingham)

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes
Details on how to join will be distributed the day of the talk on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Prof Leah Krubitzer (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, USA)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Growing up in Science featuring Ashley Juavinett
Ashley Juavinett (UC San Diego)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Oxford University Cortex club presents Dr Peyman Golshani: Seminar on New imaging tools to decipher neural network dysfunction underlying cognitive deficits in epilepsy.
Dr Peyman Golshani (UCLA)

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Dr. Matthew Lennon: A History of Self-Experimentation in Neuroscience
Dr Matthew Lennon (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain
Dr Usha Goswami (Centre for Neuroscience in Education University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

16:30 - Sleep circuitry: linking homeostasis, sedation and stress
Professor William Wisden MA PhD FRSB FMedSci (Dept. Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

17:30 - Cortex club emergent scientist seminar series
TBA
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - GABA and gamma: Studying motor plasticity in vivo
Dr Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - The role of the lOFC in inferring reference points
Dr. Christine Constantinople (NYU)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Cortical-amygdala circuitry in reward learning and decision making
Dr. Kate Wassum (UCLA)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Using large scale physiology to study the functional organization and dynamics of the mouse visual cortex
TBA
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 7 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Serial dependencies in visual perception: How does our brain use the past to predict the future?
Dr. Matthias Fritsche (University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 12 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

17:30 - From bench to clinic - Translating fundamental neuroscience into real-life healthcare practices, and developing nationally recognised life science companies with Dr. D'Arcy
More information can be found on the HealthTech Connects Inc. website, Dr. D'Arcy's ResearchGate and Wikipedia.
Dr. Ryan D' Arcy (HealthTech Connex)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - A bright future for the tree shrew in neuroscience research
Dr. Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Neural circuits for novel choices and for choice speed and accuracy changes in macaques
Pub chat after talk. Details will be announced at the beginning of the talk.
Dr. Alessandro Bongioanni (University of Oxford, Experimental Psychology)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Functional Analysis of ASD Risk Genes in Zebrafish
Dr. Ellen Hoffman (Yale School of Medicine)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Effects of pathological Tau on hippocampal neuronal activity and spatial memory in ageing mice
Pub chat after the talk. Details will be announced at the beginning of the talk
Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Emerging Treatment Options in Psychiatry
Dr Erik Wong (The University of British Columbia)

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

16:00 - Myelin optimizes speed and synchrony of neocortical circuit activity
One-to-one meetings This same day, there will be an opportunity for PIs and Post-docs to have a one-to-one meeting with Prof. dr. Kole If you are interested or have any questions about these meetings, please send an email to: demi.brizee@bndu.ox.ac.uk Student-Lunch To provide students with an opportunity to meet with Prof. dr. Kole, the Cortex Club will organise a student-lunch. If you are interested joining the lunch, please signup here: https://forms.gle/PbypyXjUTFLuYu5Y8 Exact time and location will be shared closer to this date. Find more details on Maarten Kole elaborate work here: https://nin.nl/research/researchgroups/kole-groep/
Dr Maarten Kole (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 1 April 2022 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Exosome-mediated intercellular signaling in the brain
Contact cortex.club@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk if you need help with accessing the building.
Professor Hollis Cline (Scripps Institute)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 5 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Visual processing in active behaviours
If you need help with entering the building - please email cortex.club@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk
Dr Aman Saleem (University College London)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 31 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - The Many (Cortical) Layers of Touch
Randy M. Bruno, Ph.D. (Dept. of Neuroscience, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University)

Wednesday 22 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Neuronal representations of learned categories in mouse visual and higher cortical areas
Dr Pieter Goldstein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich, Germany)

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Hippocampus 2.0: Hebbian multisensory memory
This talk is part of the Cortex Club Welcome event and will be followed by a Cortex Club Welcome Social
TBA
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Detecting covert decision dynamics from neural population recordings in primate motor cortex
Professor William Newsome (Stanford University)

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:30 - Cellular and synaptic microcircuit principles of the human cortical layer 2-3
** Changed date, time, and venue **
Dr Yangfan Peng (University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - A unique coding of memories in the human brain
Signup for Student Lunch or one-on-one meeting! More details @ https://www.cortexclub.com/events-list/prof-quirogas-talk
Prof Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (The University of Leicester)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Distinct and Dynamic Growth Cone vs. Soma RNA and Local Translational Regulation in Cerebral Cortex Projection Neurons.
Professor Jeffrey D. Macklis (Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Probing economic decision preferences in mice
Dr Chunyu Ann Duan (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

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

15:00 - Computational analysis of microcircuit mechanisms supporting hippocampal dynamics
Andrea Navas-Olive
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Flexible neuronal mitochondrial dynamics control sleep
Note this talk will be held in the Sherrington Room NOT the library
TBA
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
16:00 - Flexible neuronal mitochondrial dynamics control sleep
Dr Raffaele Sarnataro (University of Oxford)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Neural Circuits of Kinship Behaviour
Dr Ann Clemens (The University of Edinburgh)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - The MAST Proteins in Neurodevelopment and Disease
this talk is CANCELLED!!
TBA
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Cortex Club

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

Thursday 7 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 7 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 12 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 22 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

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

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 7 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 5 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 10 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 15 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 18 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 26 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Tuesday 16 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 9 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 11 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)