Name: Fiona Woods
University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 9 November 2018

The Importance of Harassment Advisors
Date: 9 November 2018, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Caroline Kennedy (The Harassment Advisory service )
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Host: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)

Events this person is organising:

Friday 20 March 2015

Functional Prions: A Perspective
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 March 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Eric Kandel (Columbia University, New York )
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: Professor Jonathan Flint (University of Oxford), Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2015

Motile Behavior of E. coli: Navigation by a Single-celled Nervous System
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 June 2015

RESOLFT Super Resolution Microscopy: Application for Life Science
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 June 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ilaria Testa (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building
Organisers: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour), Sara Bouskela (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG))
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 September 2015

Taste Processing in Drosophila
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 September 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Kristin Scott (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 18 September 2015

What are Fruitless proteins really doing for LOVEly fruit flies?
Date: 18 September 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Daisuke Yamamoto (Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Japan)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherring Library
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 October 2015

Motile Behavior of E. coli: Navigation by a Single-celled Nervous System
Date: 6 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Motile Behaviour of E.Coli: Navigation by a single-celled Nervous System
Date: 6 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 October 2015

The Neurobiology of Hunger
Date: 12 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Scott Sternson (Janelia Farm)
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 November 2015

Neural Population Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex Indicate Changes-of-mind on single Behavioral Trials
Date: 12 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : William Newsome (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Neural Population Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex Indicate Changes-of-mind on Single Behavioral Trials
Date: 12 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : William Newsome (University of Stanford Medical School)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 November 2015

Adaptation to Natural Input Statistics: a Key to Dendritic Computation and Plasticity
Date: 24 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 January 2016

Deconstruction and reconstruction of neuronal computations in olfaction
Date: 19 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Rainer Friedrich (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Neuronal Computations in Olfaction
Date: 19 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ranier Friedrich (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel)
Venue Details: 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 March 2016

CRISPR-Cas9: Biological Roles, Mechanisms and Evolution
Date: 7 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

CRISPR-Cas9: Biological Roles, Mechanisms, And Evolution
Date: 7 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 March 2016

Neural Mechanisms Underlying State Dependent Modulation of Sexual Behaviour
Date: 16 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 April 2016

CANCELLED: Self-Tuning Neurons and Firing Rate Homeostasis
Date: 22 April 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Gina Turrigiano (Department of Biology, Volen Centre for Complex Systems, Brandeis University)
Venue: ,
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 April 2016

Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics
Date: 25 April 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Shaul Druckmann (Janelia Research Campus)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin Schoo, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 September 2016

At the Physical Limit - How to Detect a Single Molecule
Date: 26 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Ulrich Benjamin Kaupp (Center for Advanced European Studies and Research, Max Planck Society)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, Sherrington Library, Sherrington Building
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 October 2016

Tracing Memory Circuits in Drosophila melanogaster Using Whole-Brain Electron Microscopy
Date: 7 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Davi Bock (Janelia Research Campus)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 October 2016

Synaptic Vesicle Tethering to the Drosophila Active Zone Cytomatrix
Date: 12 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert J Kittel (Institute of Physiology, Universitat Wurzburg)
Venue Details: Sherrington Library, Sherrington Building
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 November 2016

From Single Cells and Columns to Cortical Networks: Coincidence Detection and Synaptic Transmission
Date: 17 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Bert Sakmann (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 December 2016

Synchrony in Drosophila melanogaster: From Peripheral Cells to Group Dynamics
Date: 5 December 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Joel Levine (University of Toronto)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 March 2017

On the Impact of Genetic Variation on Molecular and Organismal (Immunological) Phenotypes
Date: 2 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: The Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

On the Impact of Genetic Variation on Molecular and Organismal (Immunological) Phenotypes
Date: 2 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: The Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Dissecting the Circuits and Algorithms That Process Visual Motion
Date: 21 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Thomas R. Clandinin (Stanford University )
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Dissecting the Circuits and Algorithms That Process Visual Motion
Date: 21 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Thomas R Clandinin
Venue: ,
Venue Details: The Old Martin School
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 March 2017

Hunger-Driven Motivational State Competition
Date: 30 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Michael Krashes (National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 April 2017

A Circuit Architecture for Angular Integration
Date: 3 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Gaby Maimon (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

A Circuit Architecture for Angular Integration
Date: 3 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Gaby Maimon (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: ,
Venue Details: The Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 June 2017

Overlapping Mechanisms of Sleep and Sedation
Date: 12 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Nicolas Franks (Imperial College London)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 June 2017

Glia Relay Differentiation Cues to Coordinate Neuronal Development in Drosophila
Date: 28 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Vilaiwan Fernandes (New York University )
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 September 2017

Genetic Dissection of Animal Locomotion
Date: 15 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Richard Mann (Columbia University )
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 October 2017

The Neurobiology of Drosophila Mating Behaviors
Date: 9 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Barry Dickson (Janelia Research Campus)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 October 2017

INTERNATIONAL GUEST SPEAKER - 14TH ANNUAL BURDON SANDERSON CARDIAC SCIENCE LECTURE: Optogenetic, tissue clearing, and viral vector approaches to understand and influence whole-animal physiology and behaviour
Date: 16 October 2017, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Viviana Gradinaru (California Institute of Technology)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour), Sally Rennick (Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Learning and Memory in Drosophila: Linking Behavior, Neuronal Circuits and Synaptic Plasticity
Date: 18 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : André Fiala (University of Göttingen)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Venue Details: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 October 2017

Neural circuits underlying the whole-body coordination of behaviour in Platynereis larvae
Date: 20 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gaspar Jekely (Living Systems Institute, Exeter University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 October 2017

Neural Codes for the Sense of Taste
Date: 30 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Mark Stopfer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 November 2017

Ensemble Coding in Amygdala Circuits
Date: 10 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Andreas Luthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 November 2017

Hippocampal Dynamics and Memory Processing
Date: 20 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Thanos Siapas (Caltech)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 6 December 2017

Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies
Date: 6 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Mala Murthy (University of Princeton)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 26 January 2018

The Economic Benefits of a Neural Circuit Motif
Date: 26 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Laughlin (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 February 2018

Toward Circuit Optogenetics
Date: 16 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Valentina Emiliani (Universite Paris Descartes)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 March 2018

Time Units for Learning and their Implementation Through Neuronal Assemblies
Date: 7 March 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Pico Caroni (Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 March 2018

Specific impairments of consolidation, reconsolidation and LTMm lead to memory erasure. Targeting memories as a new therapeutic approach to psychopathologies.
Date: 26 March 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Karim Nader (McGill University )
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 April 2018

Self-Tuning Neurons, Firing Rate Homeostasis, and Sleep/Wake States
Date: 6 April 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 April 2018

Temporal Coding-Induced Synaptic Plasticity Determines Clock-Driven Sleep Quality
Date: 12 April 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Mark Wu (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 October 2018

Operating Principles of a Learning Network in Electric Fish
Date: 8 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Larry Abbott (Columbia University )
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 November 2018

The Neuromodulatory Connectome: Wire and Wireless Networks
Date: 15 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : William Schafer (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge )
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 December 2018

Sleep: A Window on Consciousness
Date: 11 December 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA))
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 January 2019

Mind the Gap: Super-resolution Imaging of the Extracellular Space of the Brain
Date: 22 January 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Valentin Nagerl (University of Bordeaux)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 February 2019

Cell-autonomous and Circuit-level Mechanisms of Circadian Timekeeping in Mammals: Genes, Neurons and Astrocytes
Date: 20 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Michael Hastings (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge )
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 March 2019

Deciphering Mechanisms of Perceptual Silencing: From Molecules to Neural Systems
Date: 29 March 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Mani Ramaswami (Trinity College, Dublin)
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building, South Parks Road
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 April 2019

Nearly Isotropic 3D-Imaging of Mouse Brains, Fly Brains and Human Tumors with Light Sheets Beyond the Diffraction Light - Please note new date and time.
Date: 17 April 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Hans-Ulrich Dodt (Center for Brain Science, Medical University of Vienna )
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 26 April 2019

Cocaine Place Conditioning Strengthens Location-Specific Hippocampal Inputs to the Nucleus Accumbens
Date: 26 April 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Luke Sjulson (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 May 2019

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Drosophila
Date: 16 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Alexander Stark
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 November 2019

Prefrontal Network Dynamics for Cognition
Date: 13 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Thomas Klausberger (Medical University of Vienna)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 December 2019

Active Sensation in Drosophila
Date: 9 December 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Lisa Fenk (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Venue Details: Mansfield Road, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 December 2019

How Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Interact with Basic Physiology
Date: 12 December 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 January 2020

Lipid Deuteration against Neurodegeneration
Date: 7 January 2020, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Mikhail Shchepinov (Chief Scientific Officer, Retrotope Inc), Mikhail Shchepinov (Retrotope Inc)
Venue Details: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 January 2020

How to Make a Plastic Brain
Date: 17 January 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Alicia Hidalgo (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Neural Evolution of Context-Dependent Fly Song
Date: 4 February 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : David Stern (Janelia Research Campus)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2020

From Connectomes to Nanowires - the Quest to Understand the Central Complex across Insect Species
Date: 26 February 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Stanley Heinze (Lund University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2020

Investigating the Role for Sleep in Responses to Neural Injury
Date: 10 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Jeff Donlea (University of California Los Angeles)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street, Oxford
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 June 2022

Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity
Date: 23 June 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, South Parks Road
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 July 2022

Single cell resolution of a sleep-regulating circuit in Drosophila
Date: 7 July 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Stephane Dissel (University of Missouri)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 July 2022

Coordination of neuropeptide signaling in the Drosophila clock output network
Date: 25 July 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Annika Barber (Rutgers, University of New Jersey)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 October 2022

A Link Between Stress and Restorative Sleep
Date: 31 October 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor William Wisden (Imperial College London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Phase II Ground Floor Seminar Room, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, South Parks Road
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 May 2023

Part 1: Context-dependent gating of visual attention in Drosophila Part 2: Strategies for annotating the fly connectome with information on neuropeptide signaling and gap junctions
Date: 11 May 2023, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Gerry Rubin (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 May 2023

Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals that Glial Cells Integrate Homeostatic and Circadian Processes To Drive Sleep-Wake Cycles
Date: 18 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sha Liu (Center for Brain and Disease Research VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 January 2024

Fit for this world? - Critical periods of development specify cellular properties
Date: 18 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Matthias Landgraf (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: CCMN Seminar Room
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Ontogeny of hippocampus-dependent memory
Date: 18 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Paul Frankland (University of Toronto)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 April 2024

Should I mate or should I go: cyclical control of female rejection behavior
Date: 16 April 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Susana Lima (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 1 May 2024

Command, Connect, Clean: Mapping neural circuts for fly grooming as a model motor sequence
Date: 1 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Julie H Simpson (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Host: Prof. Scott Waddell (University of Oxford)

Friday 3 May 2024

Mechanism of Autophagy in Health and Disease
Date: 3 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Zvulun Elazar (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, (20-138)
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 May 2024

Evolutionary Implications of Drosophila Social Networks
Date: 24 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Joel Levine (University of Toronto)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Host: Professor Stephen Goodwin (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

Complex control of complex behavior by the cerebellum
Date: 4 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Megan Carey (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Host: Prof. Scott Waddell (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

Mechanisms of parallel processing in the brain
Date: 16 October 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : James Jeanne (Yale University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 22 November 2024

Multimodal Multiscale Microscopic Imaging of the Brain: Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
Date: 22 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Mark H. Ellisman (Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences Director, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), UCSD )
Venue Details: Department of Biochemistry, Courtyard Entrance, Phase 1
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Structural complexity of brain architecture underlies behavioural complexity
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Ana Marija Jaksic (EPFL School of Science, Brain Mind Institute)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 August 2025

Behaviour prioritization through sensory filters in Drosophila
Date: 29 August 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr David Owald (Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Respiration coordinates the cortical olfactory code
Date: 7 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Kevin Franks (Duke University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA