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Here are some lectures, seminars and talks that may be of interest. The links reach further information on each presentation.

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31-01-2025 16:00:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Human Pain Genetics

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Geoff Woods, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

31-01-2025 16:30:00

Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

03-02-2025 12:30:00

Rethinking Academic Recruitment: Exploring the Potential of Narrative CVs

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Noam Tal-Perry, Research Strategy Office & Bennett Institute for Public Policy, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

03-02-2025 15:00:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Lipid Nanoparticles that Enable the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Gene Therapies

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Pieter Cullis, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

03-02-2025 16:15:00

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

05-02-2025 15:00:00

Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Daniel Toribio Florez (University of Kent)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge

05-02-2025 16:00:00

It’s All in the Hands — Changing Developmental Trajectories of Young Children with ASD Using the Early Social Interaction (ESI) Model

Series: ARClub Talks
Speaker: Amy M. Wetherby, Florida State University
Venue: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1

06-02-2025 14:00:00

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: John Duncan (MRC CBU)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

06-02-2025 15:00:00

Challenges and opportunities for biological network inference

Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Glass
Venue: Online

06-02-2025 16:00:00

From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour

Series: Foster Talks
Speaker: Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG

07-02-2025 13:00:00

Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

10-02-2025 12:30:00

Revealing the Spatial Pattern of Brain Hemodynamic Sensitivity to Healthy Aging through Sparse Dynamic Causal Model

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Giorgia Baron, Neuropsychology Laboratory of IRCCS San Camillo, Venice, Italy.
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

10-02-2025 16:15:00

ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland
Venue: Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience

12-02-2025 14:00:00

Using global multicohort studies to determine how genetic and environmental factors influence brain development in infancy and early childhood.

Series: ARClub Talks
Speaker: Rebecca Knickmeyer, Michigan State University
Venue: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87076030035?pwd=XUpJuh8jiR0mae1AhkV79qbg8MtlSM.1

13-02-2025 14:00:00

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Tessa Dekker (UCL)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

14-02-2025 16:00:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Developing More Effective Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Pain

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: David Hughes, University of Glasgow
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

14-02-2025 16:30:00

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

17-02-2025 16:15:00

Ancestral Sight

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

19-02-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Venue: Online

20-02-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London
Venue: Online

21-02-2025 16:00:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger, title TBC

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

21-02-2025 16:30:00

Autonomy as an Engine for Wellbeing, Engagement, and Student Performance: A Gamification Approach"

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Nathan J. Emery PhD FHEA, Dept of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

24-02-2025 12:30:00

Playing with dice: two unusual use cases for experimental randomisation in fMRI

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

27-02-2025 14:00:00

Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

28-02-2025 12:00:00

Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits – the Contribution of Rare and Common Variants

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

28-02-2025 13:00:00

Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

28-02-2025 16:00:00

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

03-03-2025 16:15:00

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

05-03-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge

05-03-2025 16:00:00

David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Zhang, MIT
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

06-03-2025 14:00:00

Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

06-03-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London
Venue: Online

07-03-2025 13:00:00

Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

07-03-2025 16:00:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, title TBC

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

07-03-2025 16:30:00

What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

10-03-2025 16:15:00

Simple principles underlying complex neural responses

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

13-03-2025 14:00:00

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Nadine Dijkstra (UCL)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

14-03-2025 12:00:00

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

14-03-2025 16:00:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Maria Maiarú, title TBC

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Maria Maiarú, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

17-03-2025 12:30:00

Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

17-03-2025 16:15:00

How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

20-03-2025 14:00:00

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

20-03-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania
Venue: Online

21-03-2025 13:00:00

The epigenetic control of variable expressivity

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

21-03-2025 16:00:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr James Reading, title TBC

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: James Reading, University College London
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

24-03-2025 12:30:00

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States.
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

31-03-2025 12:30:00

Artefacts in MEG data

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Golan Karvat, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

14-04-2025 12:30:00

osl-ephys: A Python toolbox for the analysis of electrophysiology data

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

30-04-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge

01-05-2025 10:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Making connections- brains and other complex systems
Speaker: Dr Mac Shine, University of Sydney
Venue: Online

07-05-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Lee McIntyre (Boston University)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge

14-05-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Matthew Goldberg (Yale University)
Venue: Online

16-05-2025 16:30:00

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London.
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

23-05-2025 16:30:00

To be confirmed

The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

28-05-2025 15:00:00

Title to be confirmed

Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)
Speaker: Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford)
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge