2022
Neuroscience and Special Lectures
February 09 – Special Lecture
Dr. Expósito-Alonso, Stanford University, USA: Genetic Adaptation to Climate Change. Host: Claudia Fusco
March 29 – Connecting Brains Lecture
Suhita Nadkarni, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India: The synaptic underpinning of pattern separation and working memory at the mossy fibers in the hippocampus. Host: Mathieu Renard
May 03 – Connecting Brains Lecture
Lucy Palmer, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and mental health, Melbourne, Australia: Dynamic activity in cortical dendrites during learning. Host: Teresa Spanò
May 17 – Connecting Brains Lecture
Lihle Qulu, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa: Why do Men Rape? A Translational Approach. Host: Simone Rencken
May 24 – Special Lecture
Malin Ah-King, Stockholm University, Sweden: The female turn – how evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females. Host: Ashley Bourke
May 26-27 – Symposium
Various: Neural Dynamics Across Species: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead. Host: Vivek Jayaraman, Mala Murthy
June 16 – Neuroscience Lecture
Kristen Harris, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin: Waiting for Plasticity. Host: Erin Schuman
June 21 – Connecting Brains Lecture
Liset de la Prida, Instituto Cajal, Madrid, Spain: Dissecting hippocampal activities underlying memory consolidation. Host: Christoph Miehl
June 29 – Special Lecture
Jayeeta Basu, Neuroscience Institute, New York University, USA: Cortical Sensory Modulation of Hippocampal Activity and Spatial Representation. Host: Erin Schuman
July 04 – Panel Discussion
Various: Cécile Vogt: Gender, Politics and the Perception of Excellence in Brain Sciences. Host: Erin Schuman, Gilles Laurent
July 26 – Special Lecture
Viviana Gradinuaru, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, USA: Getting across barriers: Gene delivery across the blood-brain barrier for precise and minimally-invasive study and repair of nervous systems. Host: Erin Schuman
July 27 – Special Lecture
Sivakumar Sambandan, MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany: Getting across barriers: Regulation of glutamatergic neurotransmission by zinc and the implication for synaptic energy homeostasis. Host: Erin Schuman
September 16 – Special Lecture
Mattieu Louis, UC Santa Barbara, USA: Getting across barriers: Neural computations directing odor-driven behaviors in the Drosophila larva. Host: Gilles Laurent
September 20 – Special Lecture
Jennifer Li and Drew Robson, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany: Rethinking REM: The Neural and Behavioral Organization of Sleep Related Eye Movements in Zebrafish. Host: Gilles Laurent
September 30 – Special Lecture
Kei Igarashi, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, USA: Circuit mechanisms of associative memory in health and Alzheimer’s disease. Host: Hiroshi Ito
October 04 – Special Lecture
Timothy Harris, HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, USA: High capacity electrophysiology: Lots more data, problematic analysis. Host: Gilles Laurent
October 11 – Connecting Brains Lecture
Mahmoud Bukar Maina, University of Sussex, UK: Accelarating breakthroughs in Dementia research by filling the African brain gap. Host: Mathieu Renard
October 17 – Special Lecture
Katrin Karbstein, Integrative structural and computational biology department, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, USA: Ribosome repair and remodeling under stress. Host: Erin Schuman
October 18 – Connecting Brains Lecture
Michael Halassa, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, USA: Thalamocortical interactions in cognitive control and flexibility. Host: Adbelrahman Khalifa
November 24 – External Postdoctoral Seminar Lecture
Jerome Beetz, University of Würzburg, Germany: Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly central complex. Host: NA
December 01 – External Postdoctoral Seminar Lecture
Anda Chirila, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA: Mechanoreceptor signal convergence and transformation in the dorsal horn flexibly shape a diversity of outputs to the brain. Host: NA
December 06 – External Postdoctoral Seminar Lecture
Hovy Wong, McGill University, Montréal, Canada: Local translation in axons sustains synapse-type-specific neurotransmission. Host: NA
December 09 – Special Lecture
Kishore Kuchibhotla, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, John Hopkins University, USA: Revealing latent knowledge in cortical networks during goal-directed learning. Host: Vanessa Stempel