PDN Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience series
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 |
| 26 January 2026 | Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory in rhesus monkeys | Wolfram Schultz | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
| 2 February 2026 | Helen Barron, University of Oxford Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep | Máté Lengyel | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
| 9 February 2026 | Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story | Elisa Galliano | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
| 16 February 2026 | Matteo Carandini, University College London Brainwide sequences of neural activity | Wolfram Schultz | Annual Adrian Lecture Physiology Lecture Theatre |
| 23 February 2026 | Livia de Hoz, PDN, University of Cambidge The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops | Máté Lengyel | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
| 2 March 2026 | Dan Bendor, University College London A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation | Wolfram Schultz | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
| 9 March 2026 | Matthew Self, University of Glasgow The function of the top-down processes in the visual cortex: contextual processing and scene segmentation | Jasper Poort | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
| 16 March 2026 | Sam Barnes, Imperial College London Harnessing in vivo micro-circuit plasticity to target Alzheimer's disease-related pathophysiology | Elisa Galliano | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
| 11 May 2026 | Andreas Keller, University of Basel, Switzerland Task performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive in visual cortex | Riccardo Beltramo | Hodgkin-Huxley Room |
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