• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
• Organising department: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)

Thursday 4 June 2015

• 12:00 - RESOLFT Super Resolution Microscopy: Application for Life Science
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ilaria Testa (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

Monday 7 September 2015

• 12:00 - Taste Processing in Drosophila
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Kristin Scott (University of California, Berkeley)

Friday 18 September 2015

• 12:00 - What are Fruitless proteins really doing for LOVEly fruit flies?
  Daisuke Yamamoto (Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Japan)

Tuesday 6 October 2015

• 12:00 - Motile Behaviour of E.Coli: Navigation by a single-celled Nervous System
  Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)

Monday 12 October 2015

• 12:00 - The Neurobiology of Hunger
  Professor Scott Sternson (Janelia Farm)

Thursday 12 November 2015

• 12:00 - Neural Population Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex Indicate Changes-of-mind on Single Behavioral Trials
  William Newsome (University of Stanford Medical School)

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 12:00 - Adaptation to Natural Input Statistics: a Key to Dendritic Computation and Plasticity
  Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 March 2016

• 12:00 - Neural Mechanisms Underlying State Dependent Modulation of Sexual Behaviour
  TBA

Friday 22 April 2016

• 12:00 - CANCELLED: Self-Tuning Neurons and Firing Rate Homeostasis
  CANCELLED
  Gina Turrigiano (Department of Biology, Volen Centre for Complex Systems, Brandeis University)

Monday 25 April 2016

• 12:00 - Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics
  Shaul Druckmann (Janelia Research Campus)

Monday 26 September 2016

• 12:00 - At the Physical Limit - How to Detect a Single Molecule
  Ulrich Benjamin Kaupp (Center for Advanced European Studies and Research, Max Planck Society)

Friday 7 October 2016

• 12:00 - Tracing Memory Circuits in Drosophila melanogaster Using Whole-Brain Electron Microscopy
  Davi Bock (Janelia Research Campus)

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 12:00 - Synaptic Vesicle Tethering to the Drosophila Active Zone Cytomatrix
  Robert J Kittel (Institute of Physiology, Universitat Wurzburg)

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 12:00 - From Single Cells and Columns to Cortical Networks: Coincidence Detection and Synaptic Transmission
  Professor Bert Sakmann (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)

Monday 5 December 2016

• 12:00 - Synchrony in Drosophila melanogaster: From Peripheral Cells to Group Dynamics
  Professor Joel Levine (University of Toronto)

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 12:00 - On the Impact of Genetic Variation on Molecular and Organismal (Immunological) Phenotypes
  Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)

Tuesday 21 March 2017

• 12:00 - Dissecting the Circuits and Algorithms That Process Visual Motion
  Thomas R. Clandinin (Stanford University )

Monday 3 April 2017

• 12:00 - A Circuit Architecture for Angular Integration
  Gaby Maimon (The Rockefeller University)

Monday 12 June 2017

• 12:00 - Overlapping Mechanisms of Sleep and Sedation
  Nicolas Franks (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 28 June 2017

• 12:00 - Glia Relay Differentiation Cues to Coordinate Neuronal Development in Drosophila
  Vilaiwan Fernandes (New York University )

Friday 15 September 2017

• 12:00 - Genetic Dissection of Animal Locomotion
  Richard Mann (Columbia University )

Monday 9 October 2017

• 12:00 - The Neurobiology of Drosophila Mating Behaviors
  Barry Dickson (Janelia Research Campus)

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 12:00 - Learning and Memory in Drosophila: Linking Behavior, Neuronal Circuits and Synaptic Plasticity
  André Fiala (University of Göttingen)

Friday 20 October 2017

• 12:00 - Neural circuits underlying the whole-body coordination of behaviour in Platynereis larvae
  Dr Gaspar Jekely (Living Systems Institute, Exeter University)

Monday 30 October 2017

• 12:00 - Neural Codes for the Sense of Taste
  Dr Mark Stopfer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda)

Friday 10 November 2017

• 12:00 - Ensemble Coding in Amygdala Circuits
  Andreas Luthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

Monday 20 November 2017

• 12:00 - Hippocampal Dynamics and Memory Processing
  Thanos Siapas (Caltech)

Wednesday 6 December 2017

• 12:00 - Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies
  Mala Murthy (University of Princeton)

Friday 26 January 2018

• 12:00 - The Economic Benefits of a Neural Circuit Motif
  Professor Simon Laughlin (University of Cambridge)

Friday 16 February 2018

• 12:00 - Toward Circuit Optogenetics
  Valentina Emiliani (Universite Paris Descartes)

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 12:00 - Time Units for Learning and their Implementation Through Neuronal Assemblies
  Pico Caroni (Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research)

Monday 26 March 2018

• 12:00 - Specific impairments of consolidation, reconsolidation and LTMm lead to memory erasure. Targeting memories as a new therapeutic approach to psychopathologies.
  Karim Nader (McGill University )

Friday 6 April 2018

• 12:00 - Self-Tuning Neurons, Firing Rate Homeostasis, and Sleep/Wake States
  Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University)

Thursday 12 April 2018

• 12:00 - Temporal Coding-Induced Synaptic Plasticity Determines Clock-Driven Sleep Quality
  Dr Mark Wu (Johns Hopkins University)

Monday 8 October 2018

• 12:00 - Operating Principles of a Learning Network in Electric Fish
  Larry Abbott (Columbia University )

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 12:00 - The Neuromodulatory Connectome: Wire and Wireless Networks
  William Schafer (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge )

Tuesday 11 December 2018

• 12:00 - Sleep: A Window on Consciousness
  Prof Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA))

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 12:00 - Mind the Gap: Super-resolution Imaging of the Extracellular Space of the Brain
  Valentin Nagerl (University of Bordeaux)

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 12:00 - Cell-autonomous and Circuit-level Mechanisms of Circadian Timekeeping in Mammals: Genes, Neurons and Astrocytes
  Michael Hastings (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge )

Friday 29 March 2019

• 12:00 - Deciphering Mechanisms of Perceptual Silencing: From Molecules to Neural Systems
  Mani Ramaswami (Trinity College, Dublin)

Wednesday 17 April 2019

• 16:00 - 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.
  Hans-Ulrich Dodt (Center for Brain Science, Medical University of Vienna )

Friday 26 April 2019

• 12:00 - Cocaine Place Conditioning Strengthens Location-Specific Hippocampal Inputs to the Nucleus Accumbens
  Luke Sjulson (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 12:00 - Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Drosophila
  Alexander Stark

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 12:00 - Prefrontal Network Dynamics for Cognition
  Thomas Klausberger (Medical University of Vienna)

Monday 9 December 2019

• 12:00 - Active Sensation in Drosophila
  Lisa Fenk (The Rockefeller University)

Thursday 12 December 2019

• 12:00 - How Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Interact with Basic Physiology
  Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 7 January 2020

• 16:00 - Lipid Deuteration against Neurodegeneration
  Dr Mikhail Shchepinov (Chief Scientific Officer, Retrotope Inc), Mikhail Shchepinov (Retrotope Inc)

Friday 17 January 2020

• 12:00 - How to Make a Plastic Brain
  Alicia Hidalgo (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 12:00 - Neural Evolution of Context-Dependent Fly Song
  David Stern (Janelia Research Campus)

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 12:00 - From Connectomes to Nanowires - the Quest to Understand the Central Complex across Insect Species
  Stanley Heinze (Lund University)

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 12:00 - Investigating the Role for Sleep in Responses to Neural Injury
  Jeff Donlea (University of California Los Angeles)

Thursday 23 June 2022

• 12:00 - Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity
  Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 7 July 2022

• 12:00 - Single cell resolution of a sleep-regulating circuit in Drosophila
  Stephane Dissel (University of Missouri)

Monday 25 July 2022

• 12:00 - Coordination of neuropeptide signaling in the Drosophila clock output network
  Annika Barber (Rutgers, University of New Jersey)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 12:00 - A Link Between Stress and Restorative Sleep
  Professor William Wisden (Imperial College London)

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 15:00 - 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
  Gerry Rubin (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 12:00 - Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals that Glial Cells Integrate Homeostatic and Circadian Processes To Drive Sleep-Wake Cycles
  Sha Liu (Center for Brain and Disease Research VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 12:00 - High-speed 3D light-sheet microscopy
  Christopher Dunsby (Imperial College London)

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 12:00 - Fit for this world? - Critical periods of development specify cellular properties
  Matthias Landgraf (University of Cambridge)
• 16:00 - Ontogeny of hippocampus-dependent memory
  Paul Frankland (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 16 April 2024

• 12:00 - Should I mate or should I go: cyclical control of female rejection behavior
  Susana Lima (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 14:00 - Command, Connect, Clean: Mapping neural circuts for fly grooming as a model motor sequence
  Julie H Simpson (UC Santa Barbara)

Friday 3 May 2024

• 11:00 - Mechanism of Autophagy in Health and Disease
  Professor Zvulun Elazar (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Friday 24 May 2024

• 15:00 - Evolutionary Implications of Drosophila Social Networks
  Joel Levine (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 14:00 - Complex control of complex behavior by the cerebellum
  Megan Carey (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 12:30 - Mechanisms of parallel processing in the brain
  James Jeanne (Yale University School of Medicine)

Friday 22 November 2024

• 11:00 - Multimodal Multiscale Microscopic Imaging of the Brain: Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
  Mark H. Ellisman (Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences Director, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), UCSD )