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
L1CAM - a new player in neuroinflammation
Monday 14th January 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Peter Brophy
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Thursday 17th January 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Giles Hardingham, Prof Andrew Jarman & Dr Guisy Pennetta
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Monday 28th January 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof David Lyons
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Professor Michael Sendtner, Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University of Würzburg
Monday 11th February 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Sidharthan Chandran
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Thursday 14th February 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Norah Spears
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Mechanisms involved in dopaminergic circuitry formation and maintenance
Dr Lia Panman, MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester
Thursday 21st February 2019, 1pm, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Teviot
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Professor Corinne Houart, MRC Centre - Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London
Monday 25th February 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Catherina Becker
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title tbc
Dr Laura Andreae, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London
Thursday 28th February 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Professor Andrew Trevelyan, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
Thursday 7th March 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Dynamic Control of Synaptic Strength by the Synaptic Vesicle Priming Machinery
Monday 11th March 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Seth Grant
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Neural dynamics of a memory trace in the hippocampus circuit, and beyond
Dr David Dupret, University of Oxford
Thursday 21st March 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Emma Wood & Prof Matt Nolan
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Dr Isaac Bianco, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, University College London
Monday 25th March 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof David Lyons
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Title TBC
Thursday 28th March 2019, 1pm,Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Emily Osterweil
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Dr Liam Browne, Wellcome Trust & Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, University College London
Thursday 4th April 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Carole Torsney
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Prof Ilka Diester, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
Thursday 11th April 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Ian Duguid
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's 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***
Title TBC
Dr Martin Meyer, Reader of Neuroscience, King's College London
Monday 20th May 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Leah Herrgen
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Arc/Arg3.1 as a major coordinator of cognition
Thursday 30th May 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Lucy Privitera
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***