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