• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Prof. Andrew Sharott (MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit)
• Timing: Mostly Wednesdays at 3pm, but some variation
• Organising department: MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 15:00 - Human brain oscillations in perception/attention: A mosaic of perceptually relevant rhythms is concealed in the “canonical” alpha frequency band
  Prof. Gregor Thut (University of Glasgow)

Friday 22 March 2024

• 10:00 - Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow waves: Development of the rodent technique and preclinical implementation
  Dr Daniela Noain (Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich)

Wednesday 10 April 2024

• 15:00 - Biophysical models of human cortical function in dementia
  Prof. James Rowe (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 13:30 - Sniffing out circuit changes during sleep
  Dr Julia Harris (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 14:30 - Decoding Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation Using Explainable AI
  Prof. Christopher Rozell (Georgia Tech)

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 15:00 - Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by repetitive transcranial ultrasound stimulation in humans
  Dr Elsa Fouragnan (University of Plymouth)

Wednesday 17 July 2024

• 15:00 - Closed-loop modulation of neural activity at different timescales
  Prof. Dimitri Kullman (University College London)

Wednesday 14 August 2024

• 15:00 - Closed-loop auditory stimulation of alpha oscillations in different vigilance states and possible implications for sleep dynamics
  Dr Ines Violante (University of Surrey)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 15:00 - Mesoscale modules for working memory in primate frontoparietal cortex
  Prof Simon Jacob (Technical University of Munich)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 15:00 - Mapping the thalamus’s role in reinforcement learning with Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy
  Dr Tom Gilbertson (University of Dundee)

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 15:00 - Changing Connectomes: Towards Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Techniques to Improve Cognitive Performance
  Prof. Markus Kaiser (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 15:00 - Disruption of neural periodicity predicts clinical response after deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder
  Asst. Prof. Nicole Provenza (Baylor College of Medicine)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 15:00 - Information flow across hippocampal circuits during memory reactivation
  Prof. Tristan Geiller (Yale School of Medicine)

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 10:00 - Inhibitory interneurons participate in reactivated memory engrams during sharp wave ripple replay
  Dr. Silvia Viana da Silva (DZNE Berlin)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 14:00 - Intelligent neural interface systems-on-chip for neuromodulation and brain-machine interfacing
  Dr Mahsa Shoaran (EPFL, Lausanne)

Wednesday 2 April 2025

• 15:00 - Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain: State-of-the-Art and Knowledge Gaps Hindering Future Progress
  Prof. Scott Lempka (University of Michigan)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 10:00 - Uncovering the neural mechanisms of spatial attention and working memory supporting natural vision and language comprehension
  Prof. Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)