2012 seminars
Archived list of the 2012 seminars at the Centre for Integrative Physiology (CIP).
January 2012
Friday 13th January
- 'SNARE-mediated exocytosis and new botulinum molecules' - Dr Bazbek Davletov (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Cambridge)
Friday 20th January
- 'Anatomy and physiology of oxytocin and vasopressin brain circuits, evaluated by the use of recombinant viruses' -Dr Valery Grinevich (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany)
Friday 27th January
- 'Remote control of developmental gene expression' - Prof Bob Hill (MRC Human Genetics Unit)
February 2012
Friday 3rd February
- 'Transcriptional control of neural stem cell fates in the embryonic and adult mouse brain' - Dr Francois Guillemot (National Institute for National Research, London)
Tuesday 7th February
- "Neocortical information processing" - Christan Wozny (Neuroscience Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Friday 10th February
- 'Organ patterning: the power of self-loathing' - Prof Jamie Davies (Centre for Integrative Physiology)
- 'Title tbc' - Prof Mike Shipston (Centre for Integrative Physiology)
Tuesday 14th February
- 'Pituitary Plasticity' - Dr Paul le Tissier (MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London)
Friday 17th February
- 'Seeing in depth: axon guidance mechanisms controlling the development of the binocular visual pathways' - Dr Lynda Erskine (University of Aberdeen)
Wednesday 22nd February
- 'New kidneys for old; a challenge for surgery and tissue engineering'- Prof Jamie Davies (and Mr John Casey). **This talk is part of the 'Let's talk about Healthy Futures' series at QMRI, Little France Crescent.
Friday 24th February
- 'Specification, maintenance and elimination of neuromesodermal axial progenitors' - Dr Val Wilson (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine)
March 2012
Friday 2nd March
- 'GABAergic interneurons in circuit function and behaviour' - Prof Peer Wulff (University of Aberdeen)
Monday 5th March
- 'How spontaneous activity wires the developing brain prior to experience' - Dr Christian Lohmann (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Friday 9th March
- 'Old hormones - new insights' - Prof Mike Ludwig (Centre for Integrative Physiology)
Friday 16th March
- 'What are you looking at? Changing a visual cortex neuron's view' - Dr Jason Kerr (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
Friday 23rd March
- 'Receptor signalling pathways regulating melanocyte development and function' - Dr Ian Jackson (MRC Human Genetics Unit)
- 'Making blood from stem cells: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications' - Dr Lesley Forrester (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research)
Wednesday 28th March
- Getting Acquainted: Selective Habituation through Perceptual Learning - Dr Sam Cooke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Friday 30th March
- Extrasynaptic GABA-A receptors as a therapeutic drug target - Dr Stephen Brickley (Imperial College, London)
- Spatially Standardized Cell Biology - Dr Jonathan West (Miniaturisation Group Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften, Germany)
April 2012
Friday 13th April
- 'Synaptic plasticity in hippocampal inhibitory interneurons' - Dr Karri Lamsa (University of Oxford)
Thursday 19 April
- 'Exploring the mouse visual cortex in vivo with two photon calcium imaging' - Dr. Nathalie Rochefort (Institute of Neuroscience, Germany)
Friday 20th April
- 'CRACing a Role for Cholesterol in the Salvador Tumour Suppressor Pathway' - Dr Mark Ditzel (Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre)
- 'A twist in the tail: ligand-induced selective signalling at the 5-HT2A receptor' - Dr Rory Mitchell (Centre for Integrative Physiology)
Friday 27th April
- 'Central regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis in non-thyroidal illness syndroma' - Dr Csaba Fekete (Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
May 2012
Friday 4th May
- 'Living in the balance with WT1 and beta-catenin' - Dr Peter Hohenstein (MRC Human Genetics Unit)
- 'NMDAR subtypes: pharmacology and function' - Prof David Wyllie (Centre for Integrative Physiology)
Tuesday 11th May
- Antipsychotic drugs in synaptic vesicle recycling - Dr. Teja Groemer (University of Erlangen)
Friday 18th May
- 'Local Translation in Neurons' - Prof Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany) - Joint seminar with Informatics Forum (12.30)
- 'Forming sparse olfactory memories' - Prof Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany) - Joint seminar with Informatics Forum (4pm)
November 2012
Friday 2nd November
- Sharpey Schafer lecture: Dr Patrice Mollard
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