Previous Events

Below are some of the previous events that the Cortex Club has hosted:

Stem cell models for studying human cortical development, evolution and disease
Wednesday 24th of April, 2013
Dr. Rick Livesey, <University of Cambridge
Drink, Drugs and Disasters: Disrupting Memory Reconsolidation to Treat Addiction and PTSD
Friday 19th of April, 2013
Dr. Amy Milton, <University of Cambridge
Oxford Neuroscience Symposium Afterparty
Wednesday 20th of March, 2013
Cortex Club, <University of Oxford
Temporal embryonic origin critically determines the organization of adult hippocampal microcircuits
7th of March, 2013
Dr. Rosa Cossart, Inmed, Université de la Mediterranée, Marseille
Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception
5th of March, 2013
Prof. Carl Petersen, EPFL Lausanne
Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future
20th of February, 2013
Prof. Kai Kaila, University of Helsinki
Molecular mechanisms of thalamus development
18th of January, 2013
Tomomi Shimogori, RIKEN Institute
Genomic imprinting, epigenetics and risky decisions
17th of January, 2013
Anthony Isles, Cardiff University
A neural circuit controlling motor learning in larval zebrafish
14th of December, 2012
Florian Engert, Harvard University
The synaptic development of circuits in the sensory cortex
29th of November, 2012
Michael Ashby, University of Bristol
Moving with motor cortex: Controlling behaviour in unpredictable environments
7th of November, 2012
Adam Kampff, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon
Q and A session with Fred Gage
2nd of November, 2012
Fred Gage, Salk Institute
Light and time: The discovery of a new photoreceptor system within the eye
18th of October, 2012
Russell Foster, University of Oxford
Fresher's Welcome Event
10th of October, 2012
Cortex Club, University of Oxford
The Evolution of the Large, Complex Human Brain.
10th July, 2012
Jon Kaas, Vanderbilt University
Experience-dependent plasticity in layer V of the cerebral cortex
4th July, 2012
Kevin Fox, School of Biosciences, University of Cardiff
The flow of activity through cortical circuits
18th Jun, 2012
Andy Trevelyan, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle
Out of Africa: Can studies of migration and crude brain and body size give any additional perspective on the timeline of Human cognitive and cultural evolution?
29th May, 2012
Stephen Oppenheimer, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford
Beyond columns and areas: gradients and regionalization in the neocortex , their developmental sources and computational consequences.
24th May, 2012
Barbara Finlay, Cornell University
Making Mirror Neurons
22nd May, 2012
Celia Heyes, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours.
14th May, 2012
Tamas Freund, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Lessons learned from bending the mind of the fruit fly.
8th May, 2012
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford
Archicortex club: Everything you ever wanted to know about the hippocampus but were afraid to ask.
19th April, 2012
David Bannerman, University of Oxford
Needles in haystacks: electrophysiological assays of cognitive processing in health and disease
4th April, 2012
Matt Jones, University of Bristol
Inhibition and Odour Discrimination in Mice
23rd March, 2012
Andreas Schaefer, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg
Neuronal Hubs in Normal and Pathological Network Functions
7th March, 2012
Ivan Soltesz, University of California Irvine
Actions of GABA in the developing cortex
1st March, 2012
Heiko Luhmann, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
What philosophy can contribute to neuroscience
1st February, 2012
Peter Hacker, St. John’s College, University of Oxford
Contrast encoding in Auditory Cortex
25th January, 2012
Neil Rabinowitz, Auditory Group, University of Oxford
Functional micro-organization of synaptic connections in visual cortex
13th January, 2012
Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, University College London
The structure and function of long-range cortical connections
30th November, 2011
Leopoldo Petreanu, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, Portugal
Creating the cortex and the hippocampal organizer
8th November, 2011
Shubha Tole, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
From Pluripotent Stem Cells to Cortical Circuits: Mechanisms and Implications for Neural Diseases
4th November, 2011
Pierre Vanderhaegen, University of Brussels
Treating experimental focal neocortical epilepsy with viral manipulation of neuronal excitability
18th October, 2011
Dimitri Kullman, University College London
Cortex Club Freshers Welcome Event
12th October, 2011
Cell types, circuits and repair
3rd October, 2011
Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute
Can Statistical Learning Theory produce a unified theory of the evolution and development of the nervous system?
15th September, 2011
Blake Richards, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University
Self-organization of neural patterns and structures in 3D culture of ES cells
8th September, 2011
Yoshiki Sasai, RIKEN Institute
Translational aspects of stem cell research: new challenges and new prospects
23rd August, 2011
Dr. Olivier Raineteau, University of Zurich
Transcriptomic Architecture of Neocortical Layers
July 5th, 2011
T. Grant Belgard, University of Oxford/National Human Genome Research Institute
Sorting of cortical interneurons during their migration in the ventral and dorsal forebrain
June 15th, 2011
Prof. John Parnavelas, University College London
The good, the bad and the ugly - a fistful of interneuron subtypes
May 31st, 2011
Dr. Simon Butt, University of Oxford
Towards Tools For Understanding the Brain as a Computational Circuit
May 25th, 2011
Dr. Ed Boyden , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Genetic Dissection of Forebrain Neuron Circuit Formation
April 28th, 2011
Dr. Denis Jabaudon , University of Geneva
Statistical optimality in the nervous system: from synapses to population codes
April 28th, 2011
Dr. Máté Lengyel , University of Cambridge
Neurogenesis in the mouse brain, from transcriptional programmes to cell behaviours
March 24th, 2011
Dr. François Guillemot , National Institute for Medical Research
The neurodevelopmental implications of PI3K/mTor signalling: Novel players and approaches
March 10th, 2011
Dr. Britta Eickholt , King's College London
When less is more: Translating synaptic long-term depression to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's Disease
February 24th, 2011
Prof. Kei Cho , University of Bristol

Structure in neuronal noise: the functional role of spontaneous brain activity
10th February, 2011
Dr. Marieke Schölvinck, University College London

Role of planar cell polarity proteins Celsr1-3 in cortical development
27th January, 2011
Prof. André Goffinet, Université Catholique de Louvain

Investigating hippocampal memory mechanisms using mutant mice
1st December, 2010
Prof. Karl Peter Giese, King's College London

Tuning of synaptic integration: an organizing principle for optimization of neural circuit function?
19th November, 2010
Dr. Matthew Nolan, University of Edinburgh

Concept neurons in the human medial temporal lobe - from Grandmother to Jennifer Aniston
5th November, 2010
Prof. Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology

How to get it up and keep it that way: persistent activity states in cortex
28th October, 2010
Dr. Michael Kohl & Dr. Joseph Raimondo, University of Oxford

How small changes in inhibition create large changes in neuronal circuits
15th October, 2010
Prof. Melanie Woodin, University of Toronto

How to build a mammalian cortex? Cortical evolution from a developmental viewpoint
6th October, 2010
Dr. F. G. Moreno, Franziska Oeschger & Navneet Vasistha, University of Oxford

Opening the gray box
23rd September, 2010
Prof. Kevan Martin, Institute of Neuroinformatics

Will there ever be a neuroscientific account of aesthetics?
15th June, 2010
Prof. Semir Zeki, University College London & Prof. Colin Blakemore, University of Oxford

Chromatin remodelling mechanisms in neuronal development and plasticity
3rd June, 2010
Prof. Antonella Riccio, University College London