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Seminar series

Upcoming seminars

27/1/2025 - Dr Wolf Huetteroth (Northumbria University): Play - Voluntary Passive Movement and its adaptive value

2/2025 (date tbc) - Dr Mourad Wahba (Newcastle University and NHS Northern Centre for Mood Disorders)

23/4/2025 - Dr Noura Al Moubayed (Durham University)

Past seminars

27/11/2025 - Dr Tamara Boto (University of Bristol): Neuromodulation of olfactory inputs in memory circuits in Drosophila

4/11/2025 - Dr Mark Eldridge (Newcastle University): Manipulating memory in monkeys with molecular methods (chemogenetics & optogenetics)

24/6/2025 - Dr Stephen McHugh (University of Oxford): Optimal and suboptimal conditions for memory 

5/12/2024 - Dr Srikanth Ramaswamy (Newcastle University): What can artificial neural networks learn from biological neuromodulatory systems?

6/6/2024 - Dr Rachel Walker (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center): Neural mechanisms of aversive prediction error

6/6/2024 – Dr Vincent Croset: Post-synaptic dopamine transport in Drosophila learning and memory circuits

2/5/2024 - Dr Lena Riabinina: Insect sensory neuroscience and ecology

7/3/2024 – Prof. Paul Chazot: Prodromal biomarkers for concussion-based tauopathies and rationale for the novel retinoid drug Ellorarxine

12/5/2023 – Dr Jasmin Strickland

28/4/2023 – Dr Marco Bocchio: Inhibitory mechanisms of multi-neuron synchrony in the hippocampus