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Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

 

 

The Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience are dedicated to Lord Edgar Adrian, renowned Cambridge physiologist and Nobel laureate.

All talks will take place on Mondays at 4.15pm, in the Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room (and/or Zoom), unless stated otherwise.

Calendar

Date Speaker Hosted by Location
13 October 2025

Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute, London

Plasticity of the Parental Brain

Allan Herbison

Hodgkin-Huxley Room

20 October 2025

Pascal Fries, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Visual cortex gamma reflects stimulus experience and stimulus reward value

Keita Tamura Hodgkin-Huxley Room
27 October 2025

Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Conscious visual perception, perceptual organization and how to restore it in blindness

Keita Tamura Hodgkin-Huxley Room
24 November 2025

Simon Luckman, University of Manchester

Brainstem peptides: for better for worse, in sickness and in health

Allan Herbison

Hodgkin-Huxley Room

1 December 2025

Petr Znamenskiy, The Francis Crick Institute, London

Seeing in three dimensions: how the visual cortex uses motion to parse 3D scenes

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi 

Hodgkin-Huxley Room

15 December 2025

Redouan Bshary, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Christmas lecture at 6:30 for 7PM

A fishy study: from ecology to cognition to brains

Wolfram Schultz Lightfoot Room, St John's College, Cambridge

 

Adrian Lecture and Seminars Committee

Riccardo Beltramo, Steve Edgley, Elisa Galliano, Allan Herbison, Susan Jones, Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Simon Laughlin (coopted), Máté Lengyel (coopted), Jenny Morton, Jasper Poort (Co-Chair), Hugh Robinson, Wolfram Schultz (Chair), Keita Tamura. The committee is supported by Aileen Jordan, Rosana Gonzalez Garcia, Mariyana Chardakova.

 

 

Video of the latest Adrian Seminar