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
Leukodystrophies: much more than diseases of myelin
Dr Marianna Bugiani, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam
Monday 25th November 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Anna Williams
***Live Streamed to: Room G6 HRB***
Plasticity and the Engram
Tuesday 3rd December 2019, 1pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Francesco Gobbo
***Live Streamed to: Micro Lab 2 (GU303), Chancellor's Building***
The hunt for the mechanotransduction ion channel and noise-induced hearing loss in a tympanal insect ear
Thursday 5th December 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Andrew Jarman
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
SIDB Seminar - Hippocampal CA2 control of social behaviors
Dr Félix Leroy, Columbia University, New York City, NY, United States
Monday 9th December 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Matt Nolan
Mini Symposium - Inflammation In Neurological Conditions
Dr Sukhvir Wright, Dr Clare Pridans, Dr David Hunt, Dr Jay Shetty & Dr Karen Mackenzie
Thursday 12th December 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Hosts: Prof Mike Cousin + Dr Richard Chin
Title tbc
Monday 16th December 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof Seth Grant
***Live Streamed to: Room G6 HRB***
Title tbc
Prof Ellen Nollen, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, ERIBA (Netherlands)
Thursday 23rd January 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Maria Doitsidou
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Thursday 6th February 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Lucy Privitera
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Dr Maria-Cecilia Angulo, Research Director at CNRS, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and New Microscopies, École des Neurosciences de Paris Île-de-France
Monday 17th February 2020, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Prof David Lyons
***Live Streamed to: Room G6 HRB***
Adaptive neural circuits underlying flexible visual behaviour
Thursday 20th February 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Matthew Nolan
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Dr Natalia Kononenko, Research Group Leader, CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne
Thursday 5th March 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof Mike Cousin
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Title tbc
Thursday 2nd April 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Carole Torsney
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***
Generation of episodic activity in a neuroendocrine motor neuron controlling fertility
Thursday 14th May 2020, 1pm, Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Nicola Romano
***Live Streamed to: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building***