• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
• Web Address: https://cortexclub.com/

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Cooperation: a social strategy?
  Dr Wei Song Ong (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Behind the scenes at Nature journals
  Dr Leonie Welberg (Nature Neuroscience)

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Frank Sengpiel, Cardiff University
  Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Neural circuits underlying motor skill learning and execution
  Please contact Lukas Krone (lukas.krone@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you’d like to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Bence Ölveczky. Change of Venue: Small Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building
  Prof. Bence Ölveczky (Harvard University)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
• 16:00 - Movement-related activity dominates cortex during sensory-guided decision making
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Anne Churchland
  Prof Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A computational and neural model for happiness
  Afterwards, we will go to a pub with the speaker, if you would like to join us, please sign up at: https://goo.gl/forms/HsIEQW0Qxy6WMfM82
  Dr Robb Rutledge (University College London)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Cognitive ontogeny in health and disease: a story of right communication
  Prof. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Combining mGRASP and Optogenetics for High-Resolution Functional Mapping of Descending Cortical Projections
  Dr Paul Chadderton (Imperial College London & Bristol University)

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The neural fingerprints of the missing hand
  Please contact Paula Kaanders (paula.kaanders@wadham.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings.
  Dr Tamar Makin (University College London)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Andrew Parker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Professor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxmas Lecture: Henry Marsh - “Is Brain Surgery Difficult?”
  Dr. Henry Marsh

Wednesday 5 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Brain-scale neural circuits for visual motion processing in zebrafish
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Eva Naumann
  Prof Eva Naumann (Duke University)

Monday 10 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The price of being awake and the function of sleep: synaptic homeostasis
  Please contact Fiona Woods (fiona.woods@cncb.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Chiara Cirelli
  Prof Chiara Cirelli (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Prof Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  Prof Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The Somnostat: Neuronal Machinery for Balancing Sleep Need and Sleep
  Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Technical workshop on the function and utility of two-photon microscopy in neuroscience
  Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Molecular mechanisms of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity
  To arrange individual meetings with Prof. Oscar Marin, please contact Matthew Buchan (matthew.buchan@chch.ox.ac.uk)
  Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London)

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Neural processes for experiencing a musical note
  Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Decision-making Symposium
  Change of Venue
  Various Speakers

Friday 15 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Principles of Science Writing that Can Help Your Science
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
  Dr Grace Lindsay

Thursday 18 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Dynamic Memory Connectome
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
  Prof Ann-Shyn Chiang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Sensory History in Perceptual Decision Making and Working Memory Tasks
  To arrange individual meetings with Dr Athena Akrami, please contact Diego Asua (diego.asua@bnc.ox.ac.uk)
  Dr Athena Akrami (UCL)

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
  Please sign up at: https://forms.gle/qE62VitfTtsbDkeD7
  Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Cortex Club Birthday - Cognitive control mechanisms in brain disorders
  If wish to DJ in our SOCIAL, please contact cortex.club@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk
  Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Abhishek Banerjee (NARSAD Young Investigator, Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich), Dr Dennis Kätzel (Assistant Professor of Neurophysiology, Institute for Applied Physiology, Medical Faculty, Ulm University, Germany)

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University)
  Please sign up at: https://forms.gle/nEbD1uBEysHazozk9
  Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (Department of Neuroscience, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, The Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain and Behavior, Columbia University, New York)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Deep learning tools for pose estimation in the laboratory
  PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE HAS CHANGED TO THE SMALL LECTURE THEATRE AT THE SHERRINGTON BUILDING. Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
  Dr Mackenzie Mathis (Harvard University)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Understanding the brain’s model of the external world
  In collaboration with the Oxford Neurotheory Forum
  Prof Loren Frank (UCSF)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Population Codes, Behavior, and Hierarchical Sparse Coding: an Unsupervised Learning Approach and its Connections to Artificial Neural Networks
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
  Prof Demba Ba (Harvard University)

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Linking Memories Across Time
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Denise Cai (Mount Sinai - New York)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Dendritic mechanisms for somatosensory perception
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with the speaker.
  Dr Naoya Takahashi (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Seeing and deciding
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker
  Professor Kristine Krug (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The emergence of time, place, and shape across layer of primary somatosensory cortex
  Please contact Raffaele Sarnataro (raffaele.sarnataro@cncb.ox.ac.uk) if you want to arrange individual meetings with the speaker.
  Prof Samuel Andrew Hires (University of Southern California)

Tuesday 16 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - High-speed optical imaging and microscopy of whole-brain activity
  Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Elizabeth Hillman (Columbia University)

Wednesday 9 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Open Access and Open Science: the Insiders's View
  Please contact Marta Blanco Pozo (marta.blancopozo@psy.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Dr John R Inglis
  Dr John R Inglis (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Dr Mark Patterson (eLife), Dr Elisa de Ranieri (Nature Communications, Springer Nature), Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Envisioning the reward: contextual signals in mouse visual cortex
  Please contact Paula Kaanders paula.kaanders@wadham.ox.ac.uk if you would like to arrange individual meetings with Nathalie Rochefort
  Dr Nathalie Rochefort (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Assessing Cortical Dynamics and Function despite the Subsampling Problem
  Please contact Marta Blanco Pozo (marta.blancopozo@psy.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Viola Priesemann.
  Prof Viola Priesemann (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Circuits for care - deconstructing parental behaviour
  Johannes Kohl (The Francis Crick Institute)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - OFF-periods, causality and complexity in cortical networks during loss and recovery of Consciousness
  Due to limited space capacity, if you would like to attend this talk, please sign up on Eventbrite at https://cortex-club-massimini.eventbrite.co.uk
  Marcello Massimini (University of Milan)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Synaptic proteins guide cortical migration and influence cortex folding
  Dr. Daniel del Toro (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany and University of Barcelona, Spain.)

Wednesday 11 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel discussion on "Sleep: Features and Functions"
  The Panel discussion will be followed by a Christmas-themed drinks reception, and then interested students, postdocs and faculty members can join the speakers to a local pub for dinner.
  Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania), Prof. Penelope Lewis (University of Cardiff), Dr Jason Rihel (UCL), Professor Stuart Peirson (Associate Professor in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - What happens to neuronal circuits in Alzheimer’s Disease?
  Dr Marc Busche (UCL)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Imaging mRNA localisation in memory-relevant neurons of the Drosophila brain
  Pizza will be provided
  Dr Jessica Mitchell (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Using Enhancer-Driven Gene Expression (EDGE) to Study the Circuitry of Memory
  Please contact marta.blancopozo@exeter.ox.ac.uk to arrange individual meetings with the speaker
  Prof. Clifford Kentros (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Optical dissection of the thalamocortical circuits underlying the processing of sensory information in the mouse somatosensory system
  Dr Tommaso Fellin (Italian Institute of Technology)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Algorithms for learning in the mammalian neocortex
  Please contact marta.blancopozo@exeter.ox.ac.uk to arrange individual meetings with the speaker
  Prof. Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon University)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Coordinated cerebellar dynamics during goal-directed behaviour
  Please contact marta.blancopozo@exeter.ox.ac.uk to arrange individual meetings with the speaker
  Dr Dimitar Kostadinov (University College London)

Thursday 9 April 2020 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Q&A with Prof. Yael Niv: Model-based predictions for dopamine
  Talk will be at 1pm (online link will be provided soon), afterwards, at 6pm everyone is welcome to join for a Q&A session with Prof. Yael Niv
  Professor Yael Niv (Princeton University)

Monday 20 April 2020 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cell Fate Determination in the Retina
  After the talk, at 5.15pm everyone is welcome to join for an informal Q&A chat with Prof. Constance Cepko. Details on how to join the talk and the informal Q&A will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Constance Cepko (Harvard Medical School)

Thursday 30 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - A paradoxical kind of sleep in Drosophila melanogaster
  After the talk, at 12.15pm, everyone is welcome to join for an informal Q&A chat with Prof. Bruno van Swinderen. Details on how to join the talk and the informal Q&A will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Bruno van Swinderen (University of Queensland)

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Dragons, Sleep, and the Claustrum
  After the talk, at 5.30pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Dr. Lorenz Fenk. Details on how to join the talk and the informal Q&A will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Dr Lorenz Fenk (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair
  Please, note that this talk is accessible only to members of the University of Oxford. Please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdu2rqDwsG93MYXuHFgpeHYN357ItVUpD using an Oxford email address. The day of the talk, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the meeting. The platform will be Zoom. After the talk, at 3.30pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Magdalena Götz. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Magdalena Götz (LMU Department of Physiological Genomics Helmholz Center Munich, Institute Stem Cell Research)

Thursday 4 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - High precision coding in visual cortex
  After the talk, at 4pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Dr. Carsen Stringer. Details on how to join the talk and the informal pub chat will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Dr Carsen Stringer (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Striatal circuits for reward learning and decision-making
  After the talk, at 6.45 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Ilana Witten. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Ilana Witten (Princeton University)

Tuesday 23 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Mini-symposium on the Neuroscience of Cognitive Development
  After the talks, at 3.30pm, students and postdocs are welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Scerif and Donald. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford), Prof. Kirsten Donald (University of Cape Town)

Thursday 25 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Hippocampal disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function
  After the talk, at 7pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Lisa Topolnik. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Lisa Topolnik (Université Laval)

Tuesday 30 June 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cortical population coding of consumption decisions
  Details on how to join the talk will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com). After the talk, at 5.15 pm, students and postdocs are welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Don Katz.
  Prof. Donald B. Katz (Brandeis University)

Friday 3 July 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Networks thinking themselves
  After the talk, at 5.15 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Danielle S. Bassett. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Danielle S. Bassett (University of Pennsylvania & the Santa Fe Institute)

Thursday 9 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Machine reasoning in histopathologic image analysis
  After the talk, at 6.45 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Phedias Diamandis. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Phedias Diamandis (University of Toronto)

Friday 17 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Neural coding in the auditory cortex - Emergent Scientists Seminar Series
  After the talk, at 5.15 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with dr Jennifer Lawlor and Aleksandar Ivanov. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Aleksandar Ivanov (University of Oxford), Dr Jennifer Lawlor (Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Baltimore)

Thursday 23 July 2020 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - How sleep remodels the brain
  After the talk, at 6.45 pm, everyone is welcome to join for a virtual "pub chat" with Prof. Gina Poe. Details on how to join the talk and the informal "pub chat" will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com)
  Prof. Gina Poe (University of California, Los Angeles)

Friday 31 July 2020 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Growing up in Science @Oxford
  Details on how to join the event will be released via our mailing list (info on how to subscribe on https://cortexclub.com/join-us/)
  Dr Andrè Marques-Smith (CoMind)

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Basal ganglia output pathways for selection amongst incompatible actions
  Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to join at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
  Dr Bernardo Sabatini (Harvard University)

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Emergent scientists discuss Alzheimer's disease
  Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
  Christiana Bjørkli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Dr Siddharth Ramanan (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Protein Synthesis at Neuronal Synapses
  Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
  Prof Dr Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Consciousness and Fear
  Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84210761432 Meeting ID: 842 1076 1432 Passcode: 993279 YouTube livestream: https://youtu.be/EGiteNhuOEg
  Dr. Hakwan Lau (University of California, Los Angeles)

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: Practical advice for reproducibility in neuroscience
  Details on how to join will be distributed on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
  Dr Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford), Dr Verena Heise (University of Oxford), Dr Russ Poldrack (Stanford University), Dr Guillaume Rousselet (University of Glasgow)

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes
  Details on how to join will be distributed the day of the talk on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
  Prof Leah Krubitzer (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, USA)

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Sleep circuitry: linking homeostasis, sedation and stress
  Professor William Wisden MA PhD FRSB FMedSci (Dept. Life Sciences, Imperial College London)

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Cortex club emergent scientist seminar series
  TBA

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A journey around octopus ‘plasticity’, research on its cognitive capagilities and possible future avenues
  Dr Graziano Fiorito (Department of Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli, Italy)
• 17:00 - A journey around octopus ‘plasticity’, research on its cognitive capagilities and possible future avenues
  TBA

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Flexible neuronal mitochondrial dynamics control sleep
  Dr Raffaele Sarnataro (University of Oxford)