Seminar Series
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 1:00 pm in the Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre and fortnightly on Monday at 1:00 pm in Chancellor's Building Lecture Theatre B, unless otherwise indicated.
Our seminars are sponsored in part by The Physiological Society, the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, Alzheimer’s Research UK Scotland Network, the Edinburgh Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research and the Euan MacDonald Centre.
The Physiological Society website
Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
Alzheimer’s Research UK Scotland Network
Illuminating the TRPC gating machinery - novel aspects of photopharmacology and optochemical genetics of TRPC channels
Dr Jemeen Sreedharan, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Thursday 13th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Chris Henstridge
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building
Title TBC
Professor Thorsten Hoppe, Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany
Thursday 20th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Emanuel Busch
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Actinopathies: From Mutations To Treatment
Thursday 27th September, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Robin Beaven
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
How can I generate maximum impact from my research?
Professor Keith Finlayson, Edinburgh Innovations & Professor Mike Capaldi, Medicial Innovations - University of Edinburgh
Thursday 4th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor David Wyllie with Dr Karen Smillie & Dr Chris Henstridge
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Juvenile NMDA receptors: gate-keepers of brain development and cognition
Professor Isabel Pérez-Otaño, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain
Thursday 11th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor David Wyllie
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Mary Pickford Lecture
Professor Maria Spillantini, Professor of Molecular Neurology Dept Clinical Neurosciences - University of Cambridge
Thursday 18th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor David Wyllie
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Dr Claire Durrant, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Thursday 25th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Tara Spires-Jones
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Dr Anne Régnier-Vigouroux, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Monday 29th October 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Dirk Sieger
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Klaus Groschner, Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz
Thursday 8th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Mark Evans
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
GL BROWN LECTURE - Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space
Professor Andrew Parker, Department of Phsiologoy, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Thursday 15th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor David Wyllie
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
GL BROWN LECTURE - Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space
Professor Andrew Parker, Department of Phsiologoy, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Thursday 15th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor David Wyllie
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Professor Steve McMahon, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Kings College London
Monday 19th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Professor Peter Brophy
***Room G6, Live streamed to: Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Thursday 22nd November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Professor Richard Morris
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Professor Andras Simon, Department of Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Monday 26th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Ans van Pelt, Center for Reproductive Medicine, UMC Amsterdam
Thursday 29th November 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Federica Lopes
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Professor Rohini Kuner, Department of Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg
Thursday 13th December 2018, 1:00 pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Carole Torsney
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Monday 14th January 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Professor Peter Brophy
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Monday 28th January 2019, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Professor David Lyons
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Corinne Houart, MRC Centre - Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London
Monday 25th February 2019, 1:00 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Professor Catherina Becker
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Monday 11th March 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Professor Seth Grant
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Clea Warburton,School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol
Monday 29th April 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Szu-Han Wang
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***