skip to content

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
27 January 2025

Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle

Ole Paulsen

Hodgkin-Huxley Room

3 February 2025

Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

Máté Lengyel Hodgkin-Huxley Room
10 February 2025

Annual Lecture in the Physiology Lecture Theatre

Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Opthamology Basel (IOB), Switzerland

Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi Physiology Lecture Theatre
17 February 2025

Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, University of Cambridge 

Ancestral Sight

Máté Lengyel

Hodgkin-Huxley Room

3 March 2025

Allan Herbison, PDN, University of Cambridge 

Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control

Wolfram Schultz 

Hodgkin-Huxley Room

10 March 2025

Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Simple principles underlying complex natural responses

Ole Paulsen Hodgkin-Huxley Room
17 March 2025

Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London

How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses

Ole Paulsen Hodgkin-Huxley Room

Adrian Lecture and Seminars Committee

Riccardo Beltramo, Hannah Clarke, Steve Edgley, Kristian Franze, Susan Jones, Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Simon Laughlin (coopted), Máté Lengyel (coopted), Jenny Morton, Ole Paulsen (Co-Chair), Jasper Poort, Hugh Robinson, Wolfram Schultz (Chair), Ian Winter, Marta Zladic (coopted). The committee is assisted by Aileen Jordan.

 

 

Video of the latest Adrian Seminar