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2012/13 Seminar Series (in Gaddum Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square unless specified)

Semester 1, 2012  

31 August 2012 13.00-14.00

Professor Jes Olesen
University of Copenhagen

Title: The cost of brain disorders

Host: Richard Morris (ccns@ed.ac.uk)

 

 

Semester 2, 2013  

24 January 2013 16.00-17.00

in Anatomy Lecture Theatre

Professor Colin Blakemore
Professor of Neuroscience & Philosophy, London, and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, Oxford

Title: But och! I backward cast my e'e (A seminar for Burns Night)

Host: Richard Morris (ccns@ed.ac.uk)

7 February 2013 16.00-17.00

Dr. George Dragoi
Tonegawa Lab, MIT

Title: Selection of specific preplay sequences during encoding of novel spatial experiences

Host: Richard Morris (ccns@ed.ac.uk)

28 February 2013 17.00-18.00

Dr. Bruno Poucet
Laboratory of Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Marseilles

Title: Spatial navigation and goal coding in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex

Host: Richard Morris (ccns@ed.ac.uk)

8 March 2013
16.00-17.00

In the Whitteridge Room (1GS)

Dr. David Bannerman
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Title: Genetic fractionation of spatial memory: Everything you ever wanted to know about the hippocampus but were afraid to ask

Host: Richard Morris (ccns@ed.ac.uk)

29 May 2013
12.30-13.30

Professor Shona Chattarji
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

Title: Fragile X and the Amygdala: the mGluR Theory reloaded

Host: Richard Morris (ccns@ed.ac.uk)

19 June 2013
12.30-13.30

Dr. Mark Schnitzer
Stanford University, California, USA

Title: TBA

Host: Richard Morris (ccns@ed.ac.uk)