
Brain Zoom
2021 Seminars
Thursday Neuroscience Talks run by UCL, QMUL, CLSS &
The 7th Affiliated Hospital (SYSU, Shenzhen)
Supported by Shenzhen Sanming Project
Zoom Link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/2469477222
Talks every Thursday at:
12:00pm GMT
8:00pm Beijing Time
All welcome - just click the link above!
Organizers
Huiliang Li (UCL) | Guifen Chen (QMUL) | Ningning Li (SYSU)
04 November 2021 | Postoperative delirium: Mechanisms and prevention
Prof Daqing Ma | Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London
11 November 2021 | On the structure and function of circuits underlying innate social behaviours
Dr Yoh Isogai |Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London
18 November 2021 | Hypothalamic microglia-neuron interaction in obesity and diabetes
Dr Chun-Xia Yi | Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Past Seminars
12 June 2020 | Microglia’s role in the regulation of memory forgetting.
Dr Yan Gu | Principle Investigator, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
19 June | Hippocampal Spatial System: Allocentric vs. Egocentric Framework
Professor Cheng Wang | Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
26 June | A circuit-level framework of progression in Alzheimer’s Disease
Dr Marc Busche | UK Dementia Research Institute, University College London
3 July | Protocadherin 15 – balancing oligodendrocyte progenitor cell proliferation and self-repulsion
A/Prof Kaylene Young | Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Australia
10 July | Brain tumor stem cells
Dr Hai-Kun Liu | Division head of Molecular Neurogenetics, German Cancer Research Center ( DKFZ)
17 July | Where do ideas come from? A journey from the newborn mind to artificial intelligence
Dr Elisabetta Versace | School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
24 July | T-type Ca2+ channels in mEC layer II stellate neurons
Prof Mala Shah | School of Pharmacy, University College London
31 July | Shared and unique developmental trajectories of cortical inhibitory neurons
Dr Lynette Lim | VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium
7 August | How reward and speed may shape the spatial code?
Dr Charlotte Boccara | Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
14 August | Myelin formation in adulthood and aging
Prof Feng Mei | Department of Histology and Embryology, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, TMMU, Chongqing, China.
28 August | Brain Repair through In Vivo Astrocyte-to-Neuron Conversion
Prof Gong Chen | Director of Brain Repair Center, GHM Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan University, China
04 September | Myelination, from nano- to microcircuits
Prof Maarten Kole | Head Research Group Axonal Signalling, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), KNAW, The Netherlands
11 September | Tuning microglial activity by purinergic signaling
Prof Zhihua Gao | School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
18 September | Cellular determinants of CA1 pyramidal cells activation or silencing during locomotion
Dr Jerome Epsztein | Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée, France
25 September | Differential relation between neuronal and behavioral discrimination during hippocampal memory encoding
Dr Christoph Schmidt-Hieber | The Institut Pasteur, France
9 October | Microglia, the synaptic pruners gone awry
Dr Soyon Hong | UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL, UK
16 October | Structural and functional development of the neocortex
Prof Songhai Shi | School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
23 October | Embryonic origin of cortical interneuron diversity
Dr Da Mi | IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
30 October | Repopulation and replacement: a tale of two microglia (*this talk only: 9:30am GMT; 5:30pm Beijing Time)
Prof Bo Peng | Fudan University, Shanghai, China
05 November | Vision in Action
Dr Aman saleem | Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL
19 November | What is the Role of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells in the Central Nervous System?
Dr Tim Czopka | Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
26 November | Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases with Multimodal Imaging: 20 Years Before Dementia Onset
Professor Li Su | Department of Neuroscience, The University of Sheffield
03 December | New insights into entorhinal-hippocampal connectivity
Dr Gülşen Sürmeli | Centre For Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
10 December | Oligodendroglia in neurodegenerative diseases (*this talk only: 1:00pm GMT; 9:00pm Beijing Time)
Professor Anna Williams | Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
2021
14 January | 2021 Stem cell biology and transcriptomics in human white matter diseases
Professor David Rowitch | The Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge
21 January | Molecular mechanisms underlying early global crossmodal neural circuit development and plasticity
Professor Xiang Yu | Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, IDG McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University
28 January | Studying Cortical Development Through The Lens of Human Disorders
Professor Gaia Novarino | Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
04 February | Research Progress in Spinal Cord Injury
Prof Xuhua Wang | School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University
04 February | Research Progress in Spinal Cord Injury
Prof Xuhua Wang | School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University
18 February | The mechanical regulation of neuronal development and regeneration
Professor Kristian Franze | Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
25 February | Myelin regeneration in the CNS - reversing the ravages of time
Prof Robin Franklin | Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge
4 March | Chandelier cells: shining a light on the emergence and plasticity of GABAergic synapses
Professor Juan Burrone | Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
11 March | Behavioral and neural mechanisms of vocal production in marmoset monkeys
Dr Joji Tsunada | Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing
18 March | Control of cerebral and systemic circulation by an intracranial baroreceptor
Professor Alexander Gourine | The Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
8 April | A new neuronal circuit regulates chronic stress-induced anxiety-like behavior
Prof Jie Tu | The Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS
15 April | From sensation to action in the rodent neocortex
Dr Petr Znamenskiy | The Francis Crick Institute, London
22 April | Thermoregulation via Temperature-dependent PGD2 Production in Mouse Preoptic Area
Professor Tongfei Wang | Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing
29 April | Visual selection: circuits for learning and attention in mouse visual cortex & eye movements in freely moving mice
Dr Jasper Poort | Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
6 May | State transitions in brain and behavior (*this talk only: starting from 12:15pm BST; 7:15pm Beijing Time)
Professor Hamid R Noori | Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai
13 May | Control of feeding behaviour via hippocampal ghrelin receptor signalling
Dr Andrew Macaskill | The Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
20 May | The new frontiers of neuroimmune regulation
Professor Jing Yang | The IDG McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University
27 May | Molecular Basis of Mechanosensory Transduction in Mammalian Hearing and Worm’s Touch
Prof Yiquan Tang | Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University
3 June | Consequences of cortical and subcortical tau pathology in the ageing brain
Dr Tim Viney | Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
10 June | Studying myelinated axon biology in vivo using zebrafish
Prof David Lyons | Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
01 July | When the spark goes out: The neurology of motivation and apathy
Professor Masud Husain | Nuffield Dept Clinical Neuroscience & Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
08 July | Toward a Molecular Interpretation of Sleep Pressure
Professor Gero Miesenboeck | Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford
15 July | Genetic and epigenetic basis for human brain evolution
Professor Zhenge Luo | School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
22 July | Molecular basis of reversible protein phase transition in neurodegenerative diseases
Prof Cong Liu | Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
14 October | Organization of neuronal population activity amongst fine neuronal subtypes of mouse visual cortex
Professor Kenneth Harris | Cortical Processing Laboratory, University College London
28 October | A model of head direction and landmark coding in complex environments
Dr Andrej Bicanski | School of Psychology, Newcastle University
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