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
Circuits controlling initiation and maintenance of hunting behaviour in larval zebrafish
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
Neural mechanisms of volitional movement
Dr Nuo Li, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA
Tuesday 26th March 2019, 12.30pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square
Host: Prof Ian Duguid
AMPA receptor dysfunction in cognitive disorders
Thursday 28th March 2019, 1pm,Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Emily Osterweil
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Mapping the dynamic structure of reflexive behaviour
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***
University of Edinburgh - Digital Research Services Overview
David Fergusson, Head of Research Services & Kerry Miller, Research Data Management Support Officer, University of Edinburgh
Friday 5th April 2019, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Prof David Wyllie
Insights on the tectum's functional connectivity in the zebrafish larva.
Dr German Sumbre, National Centre for Research, Paris
Monday 8th April 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Leah Herrgen
***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***
An architectonic type principle integrates mammalian cortical architecture and connectivity
Dr Claus C. Hilgetag, Department of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg
Thursday 9th May, 1pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr Gedi Luksys
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Prof Kevin Fox, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Thursday 16th May 2019, 1pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre - Doorway 4 - Teviot
Host: Prof Richard Ribchester
***Live streamed to: Seminar Room 6 Chancellor's Building***
Title TBC
Dr Martin Meyer, Reader of Neuroscience, Kings Collage London
Monday 20th May 2019, 1pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellor's Building
Host: Dr Leah Herrgen
***Live streamed to: Room G6, Hugh Robson Building***
Genes & Development Symposium
Speakers include Dr Denis Jabaudon, University of Geneva
Wednesday 29th May 2019, 1.00 - 5.00pm, Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre
Host: Dr John Mason
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***