Seminar Archives

"Basic Neuroscience department seminars"

2024

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
22.01.24 CMU C07.1732	Anindya Bhattacharjee Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "The Claustrum stores information used for working memory"	Group Alan Carleton
29.01.24 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Philippe Faure CNRS, Paris	"Determinant of inter-individual variability in Reward seeking"	Christian Lüscher & Sami El-Boustani
05.02.24 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Guy Bouvier CNRS, Paris	"The Mouse Primary Visual Cortex: a Vestibular or Visual cortex?"	Denis Jabaudon
12.02.24 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Chunyu Ann Duan Sainsbury Welcome Center UCL	"Probing economic decision preferences in mice"	Sami El-Boustani
26.02.24 Campus Biotech, Auditorium H8-01	Prosper Fiave Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "A cognitive node for allocentric-space perception within the ventro-temporal cortex"	Ilaria Sani
11.03.24 Room Neurolounge C07.1520.A	Alexis Hervais-Adelman University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Chalk talk"	-
Tuesday 12.03.24 Room B04.2222	Thomas Hnasko University of California, San Diego	"Heterogeneous cell types in VTA reinforce behaviors through distincts mechanisms"	Camilla Bellone
18.03.24 CMU A. Franceschetti (old C150)	Olivier Collignon Université Catholique de Louvain	"Crossmodal plasticity: Recycling the multisensory scaffolding of functional brain networks"	Sami El-Boustani
25.03.24 CMU C07.1732	Fiorenzo Artoni / Jonathan Monney / Lora Fanda Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	Intra-department Seminars "Towards multi-scale investigations of the neuronal basis of epileptic seizures in humans"	Pierre Megevand
15.04.24 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Nachum Ulanovsky Weizmann Institute of Science	"Neural codes for natural behaviors in the hippocampus of flying bats"	Daniel Huber
22.04.24 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Emmanouil Froudarakis Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology FORTH	"Using object recognition in mice as a model for studying cortical computations"	Sami El-Boustani & Ilaria Sani
29.04.24 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Christian Lüscher / Eva Xia Wang Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	"Neurobiology of feeding"	Christian Lüscher
13.05.24 Campus Biotech, Auditorium H8-01	Abele Michela Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	Intra-department Seminars "Neuro-biofeedback: self-regulation of brain and bodily signals"	Christoph Michel
27.05.24 Campus Biotech Building H4, H4-02-A (steam at CMU P. Boymond B02.2226.A)	Marco Buiatti NeuroSpin, Gif-sur-Yvette	"Frequency tagging: a powerful method to investigate neurocognitive development with EEG."	Sophie Schwartz & Valentina Borghesani
Thursday 30.05.24 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Nathalie Rochefort University of Edinburgh	"Internal state regulation of visual cortex function"	Sami El-Boustani
17.06.24 CMU Room J-L. Campus Biotech H04-02-A (and streamed in CMU Reverdin B02.2526.A)	Oscar Marin King's College London	"Maturation and plasticity of cortical interneurons"	Denis Jabaudon
24.06.24 at 10:00 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Mriganka Sur MIT	"Cortical plasticity and neurodevelopmental disorders"	Sami El-Boustani
01.07.24 at 11:00 Room C07.1732.A At 14:00 Campus Biotech Room H8-01-F	Enrico Varano, Zirui Huang and Natalia Bekemeier Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva Laura Felon University of Queensland	"Speech Perception from Sound to Meaning" "How can marsupials help us to understand neocortical evolution and plasticity?"	Alexis Hervais-Adelman Denis Jabaudon
Tuesday 02.07.24 at 11:00 Campus Biotech Room H8-01-C	Rodrigo Suarez University of Queensland	"Marsupial joeys illuminate the onset of neural activity patterns in the developing neocortex."	Denis Jabaudon
Thursday 04.07.24 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Bruce Hope National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)	"Cell types and transcriptomes in mPFC neuronal ensembles activated during cocaine seeking"	Maria Reva / Christian Lüscher
16.09.24 Room B04.2222	Athena Akrami University College London	"Learning and exploiting sensory statistics across multiple species"	Sami El-Boustani & Ilaria Sani
Tuesday 17.09.24 at 11:00 Campus Biotech Room H8-01-D	Anthony Flamier CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal	"Early Transcriptional Dysregulation and Ciliogenesis Defects in MECP2-Mutant hESC-Neurons"	Denis Jabaudon & Théo Ribierre
07.10.24 Room C07.1732.A	Özge Yüzgec Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	Intra-department Seminars "Eyes wide shut: What the pupil tells us during sleep and anesthesia"	Daniel Huber

2023

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Friday 13.01.23 Room B04.2222	Michael Platt University of Pennsylvania	"Decoding Natural Social Interactions from Neuronal Population Activity in Primates"	A. Pouget
23.01.23 CMU Room C07.1732	Pedro Espinosa Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Insular cortex to ventral striatum synapses encode valence of social interaction"	Camilla Bellone
30.01.23 CMU A. Franceschetti (old C150)	Antoine Adamantidis University of Bern	"All-optical dissection of sleep circuits dynamics - structures & functions"	Sami El-Boustani
13.02.23 CMU J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Christelle Baunez Aix Marseille University	"The presence of a peer can modulate drug intake: an influence under the subthalamic nucleus influence"	Sami El-Boustani
20.02.23 CMU C07.1732.A	Reidar Riveland Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Generalization in Networks Configured with Natural Language Instructions"	Alexandre Pouget
27.03.23 Campus Biotech building H8-01	Lampros Perogamvros Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "The emotional functions of sleep and dreams: implications for psychiatry"	Sophie Schwartz
Wednesday 29.03.23 Room B02.2226 (Auditoire Boymond)	Gabrielle Devienne Stanford University	"Developmental progression of prefrontal circuit dysfunction in a SHANK3-/- mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder"	Camilla Bellone
03.04.23 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Nadine Gogolla Max Planck Institute	"Two sides of emotion expressions: readouts and regulators"	Camilla Bellone
17.04.23 Room A. Franceschetti (old C150)	Flavio Donato Unversity of Basel	"Multiple memory traces in the hippocampal engram"	Sami El-Boustani
Thursday 20.04.23 at 11:00 CMU C01.2745 (D60)	Jozsef Fiser Central European University	"Complex human perceptual decision making"	Alexandre Pouget
24.04.23 Room C07.1732.A	Ginna Uruena Mendez Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Presynaptic Dopamine Neurotransmission in Impulsivity: Implications for Understanding Vulnerability to Drug Abuse"	Nathalie Ginovart
08.05.23 Room B04.2222	Elena Taverna Human Technopole, Milan	"Choosing to be different: cell identity and fate choice in the developing brain"	Denis Jabaudon
15.05.23 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Gary Lewin Max Delbrück Center, Berlin	"New mechanically-gated ion channels and tethers for touch"	Daniel Huber
Wednesday 17.05.23 at 11:00 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Yulong Li Pekin University Life Sciences & Michael Halassa MIT	"Spying on neuromodulation by constructing new genetically-encoded GRAB sensors" "Thalamocortical interactions in hierarchical reasoning"	Christian Lüscher
22.05.23 Room C07.1732.A	Sergi Roig Puiggros Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Cortical heterotopias and brain function: out of place but not out of order"	Denis Jabaudon
Friday 26.05.23 at 11:00 Room A-F. Muller (A250)	Garret D. Stuber University of Washington & Michael Bruchas University of Washington (Seattle)	"Neural Circuitry and Cell Types for Instinctual Motivation" "Activity Dependent Constraints on Catecholamine Signaling"	Christian Lüscher
19.06.23 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Lisa Roux University of Bordeaux	"Why “pauses” matter: breaks in respiratory behavior orchestrate piriform network dynamics"	Sami El-Boustani
04.09.23 Room C07.1732.A	Klaus Zuberbühler Université de Neuchâtel	"The primate roots of human language"	Daniel Huber
Wednesday 06.09.23 Room A04.3011	Toru Takumi Kobe University School of Medicine	"Modeling autism and understanding social behavior"	Camilla Bellone
11.09.23 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Shankar Sachidhanandam University of Bern	"Representation of sensory stimuli and mismatch in mouse posterior parietal cortex"	Anthony Holtmaat
Wednesday 13.09.23 Room C07.1732.A	Lampros Perogamvros	"Sleep and dreaming: from basic neurosciences to clinical application"	Denis Jabaudon
Tuesday 19.09.23 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Francisco Clascá La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)	"What is a thalamic nucleus?"	Anthony Holtmaat
25.09.23 Room C07.1732.A	Maëlle Guyoton Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Cortical circuits for cross-modal transfer learning"	Sami El-Boustani
02.10.23 Room B04.2222	Christian Mayer Max Planck Institute	"Single-cell delineation of lineage and genetic identity in the mouse forebrain"	Denis Jabaudon
09.10.23 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Julia Fuchs Collège de France	"Deleterious, beneficial or both –retrotransposon expression in brain function and dysfunction"	C. Lüscher
Wednesday 11.10.23 Room P. Boymond B02.2226.A	Hyungbae Kwon Johns Hopkins University	"Neural circuit dissection by cells and synapses during cognitive learning"	A. Holtmaat
16.10.23 Campus Biotech H8-01	Riccardo Galli Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Understanding the Neural Substrates of Neurofeedback Modulations of Visual Attention: Multimodal Brain Imaging and Application to Hemispatial Neglect Syndrome"	Patrik Vuilleumier
30.10.23 Room J-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Matthias Liechti University of Basel	"Studies with psychedelics in healthy subjects and patients"	C. Lüscher
06.11.23 Room B04.2222	Micah Murray University of Lausanne	"Making Sense of Our Senses: Multisensory Processes across the Human Lifespan"	S. El-Boustani
14.11.23 CANCELLED	~~Andreas Olsson~~ ~~Karolinska Institutet~~
20.11.23 Room J.-L. Reverdin B02.2526.A	Adrian Wanner Paul Scherrer Institute	"Probing the structure and function of the brain with X-rays, electrons and light."	Sami El-Boustani
11.12.23 Room C07.1732.A	Kok Sin Lee Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva	*Intra-department Seminars* "Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy for the Structural Characterization of Synaptic Circuit"	Anthony Holtmaat

2022

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
17.01.22	Paul Cisek University of Montreal, Canada	"Rethinking behavior in the light of evolution"	Sami El-Boustani
24.01.22	Hayriye Cagnan University of Oxford, UK	"Dynamic Neuromodulation"	Sami-El-Boustani
31.01.22	Nadine Gogolla Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany	"Keeping the balance- A role for the insular cortex in emotion homeostasis"	Sami-El-Boustani
07.02.22	Eric Hosy Bordeaux Neurocampus, France	"Why nanoscale (co-)organization of glutamate receptors is essential to understand synaptic physiology?"	Camilla Bellone
14.02.22 at 13:00	Edmund Lalor University of Rochester Medical Center, USA	"Electrophysiological investigations of natural speech and language processing"	Pierre Megevand
28.02.22	Ewelina Knapska Nencki Institute in Warsaw, Poland	"Social learning about rewards. How do rodents learn about the world from their peers?"	Sami-El-Boustani
07.03.22	Wieland Huttner Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany	"Neural stem cells, human-specific genes, and neocortex expansion in development and human evolution"	Denis Jabaudon
14.03.22	Panayiota Poirazi Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete	"Learning with dendrites in brains and machine"	Sami-El-Boustani / Anthony Holtmaat
28.03.22	Peter Scheiffele University of Basel, Switzerland	"Molecular Codes for Neuronal Connectivity"	Camilla Bellone
11.04.22	Emi Nagoshi University of Geneva, Switzerland	"Mechanism, regulation and prevention of dopaminergic neurodegeneration"	Christian Lüscher
CANCELED Wednesday 20.04.22 at 14:00 Auditorium A. Franceschetti	Boyan Bonev LMU in Munich	"Dissecting the regulatory landscape of the developing cerebral cortex using single-cell epigenomics"	Denis Jabaudon
02.05.22	Andrea Volterra University of Lausanne	"New insight into how astrocytes integrate hippocampal memory circuits"	S. El-Boustani
16.05.22	Sebastien Haesler NERF, Leuven	"Neural circuits for olfactory perceptual curiosity"	A. Carleton
23.05.22	Sebastian Jessberger University of Zurich	"How old brains generate new neurons throughout life"	D. Jabaudon
30.05.22	Marlen Knobloch University of Lausanne	"Novel insights into the metabolic regulation of neural stem cells"	C. Bellone & S. El-Boustani
13.06.22	Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou University of Lausanne	"Roles and regulation of autophagy at synapses"	S. El-Bousrani
14.06.22 at 14:00	Ariel Gilad The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	"Mesoscale neuronal dynamics during different cognitive functions"	A. Hollmaat
20.06.22	Bernhard Bettler University of Basel	"Physiology and Pathophysiology of GABA-B Receptor Signaling Complexes"	A. Carleton
27.06.22	Leopoldo Petreanu Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Portugal	"The cortical circuits for hierarchical computation"	A. Holtmaat
05.07.22	David Kleinfeld UC San Diego	"Signals and circuits that code and control active sensing"	A. Pouget
27.07.22	Alexandre Charlet Institute of cellular and integrative neurosciences of Strasbourg	"Oxytocin-mediated regulation of amygdala circuits through astrocytes"	Olivier Baud
05.09.22 at 14:00 C07.1732	Gabrielle Pouchelon CSHL, New York	"The development of cortical networks: circuit specific coupling of nature and nurture"	D. Jabaudon
26.09.22 CMU P. Boymond B02.2226	Joris De Wit VIB-KU Leuven Center, Belgium	"Dissecting the molecular connectome in developing circuits"	A. Holtmaat
Friday 30.09.22 Room B04.2222	Tim Harris Janelia Research Campus	"High capacity electrophysiology: Lots more data, problematic analysis"	A. Pouget
10.10.22 CMU P. Boymond B02.2226	Julia Sliwa ICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord, France	"From agents, to actions, to interactions, to societies: primates' brain networks for social processing"	S. El-Boustani
31.10.22 Room C07.1732	Jérémy Marozeau Technical University of Denmark	"How to restore music perception for people with a cochlear implant"	D. Huber
07.11.22 Room A. Renold B01.2426	Valentina Borghesani FAPSE, University of Geneva	"Bringing clinical and cognitive neuroscience together to investigate semantics, above and beyond language"	S. El-Boustani
14.11.22 Room P. Boymond B02.2226	Eduardo Gascon Aix-Marseille Université	"Using non-human primates to unravel the neuronal circuits involved in stress-related disorders"	C. Bellone
05.12.22 Room A-F. Muller (250)	Eelke Snoeren UiT, University of Norway	"The neural regulation of sexual behavior"	C. Bellone C. Lüscher
12.12.22 Room B04.2222	Pierre Megevand University of Geneva	"Invasive neurophysiology to elucidate the neural correlates of speech and epilepsy"

2021

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
11.01.21	Rosa Cossart Inmed, Marseille	"The birth of hippocampal memory circuits"	Sami El-Boustani
18.01.21	Tania Barka Basel University	"Cortical progenitor-specific transcriptional mechanisms control thalamocortical innervation and cell fate"	Alan Carleton
25.01.21	Tim Vogels IST, Austria	"A meta-learning approach to (re)discover plasticity rules that carve a desired function into a neural network"	Sami El-Boustani
08.02.21	Olivier Marre Institut de la Vision, Paris	"A perturbative approach to retinal processing"	Sami El-Boustani
22.02.21 at 5 pm CANCELLED	Nick Steinmetz University of Washington	"Large-scale approaches for distributed circuits underlying visual decision-making"	Sami El-Boustani
01.03.2021	Seth Grant Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh	"The synaptome in time and space"	A. Holtmaat
08.03.2021 at 15:00	Adrien Peyrache McGill University, Canada	“The origin of symmetry: how animals orient themselves in space”	S. El-Boustani
15.03.21 at 15:00	Annegret Falkner Princeton University, USA	"Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat"	S. El-Boustani
22.03.21 at 16:00	Nick Steinmetz University of Washington, USA	"Large-scale approaches for distributed circuits underlying visual decision-making"	A. Pouget
29.03.21	Anthony Herrel Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris	“Drivers of brain size and shape in lizards: do diet, habitat complexity and defensive structures impact brain size and shape?”	D. Huber
12.04.21	David Choquet Bordeaux Neurocompus	"Linking nanoscale synapse organization, function and plasticity"	S. El-Boustani
19.04.21	Claudia Clopath Imperial College, UK	"Coordinated hippocampal-thalamic-cortical communication crucial for engram dynamics underneath systems consolidation"	S. El-Boustani
26.04.21	Viola Priesemann Max Planck Institute Göttingen	"Spreading dynamics and homeostatic regulation in neural networks"	S. El-Boustani
03.05.21	Tim Behrens Oxford University	"Abstraction and inference in the prefrontal hippocampal circuitry"	A. Pouget
10.05.21	Tobias Hauser Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, UK	“Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying developmental psychiatric disorders”	C. Lüscher
17.05.21 CANCELED	Jack Mellor University of Bristol	"Shaping hippocampal networks by synaptic plasticity and neuromodulation"	C. Bellone
31.05.21	Valentin Wyart Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris	"Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function"	S. E-Boustani
07.06.21	Cornelius Gross EMBL, Rome	"Territory cells in the mammalian hypothalamus"	C. Bellone
14.06.21	David Dupret University of Oxford	"Joining-the-dots in Memory"	S. El-Boustani
21.06.21	Tiago Branco UCL, Sainsbury, Wellcome Center	"Neural Circuit Mechanisms for Navigating to Shelter During Instinctive Escape"	C. Bellone
06.09.21 at 10:00	Daeyeol Lee Johns Hopkins University, USA	"Uncertainty and Timescales of Learning and Decision Making"	Sami El-Boustani & Alexandre Pouget
13.09.21	Nathalie Rochefort University of Edinburgh, UK	“Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity”	Sami El-Boustani
20.09.21	Pedro Espinosa Department of Basic Neurosciences,Unige	Progress report: "Social valence dependent synaptic plasticity instructs approach/avoidance behavior"	Group Camilla Bellone
27.09.21	Brice Bathellier Institut de l’Audition de Paris, France	"Distinctive computational features of a sensory cortex and their role in perception"	Sami El-Boustani
04.10.21 CANCELLED	CANCELLED Michael Platt University of Pennsylvania, USA	"Climate Change and the Social Brain"	Alexandre Pouget
11.10.21	Jack Mellor University of Bristol, UK	"Plasticity of interneuron networks within the hippocampus"	Camilla Bellone
18.10.21	Anna Beyeler Bordeaux Neurocampus, France	"Linking valence and anxiety in circuits of the anterior insular cortex"	Sami El-Boustani
08.11.21	Julijana Gjorgjieva Max Planck Institute, Germany	"Organization and Computation in Neural Circuits"	Sami El-Boustani
22.11.21	Lisa Giocomo Stanford University, USA	"Multiple maps for navigation"	Alexandre Pouget
29.11.21	Sonja Hofer Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UK	"Inhibitory circuits in sensory processing and behaviour"	Sami El-Boustani
06.12.21	Valentina Emiliani Institut de la Vision, France	"Optical manipulation of neuronal circuits using holographic optogenetics"	Sami El-Boustani
13.12.21	Carrie Mahoney Harvard Medical School, USA	"Neurobiology of Narcolepsy: effects of the oxytocin system on cataplexy"	Sami El-Boustani

2020

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
13.01.20 Cancelled	Julie Perroy Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, CNRS Montpellier	"D1-mGlu5 heteromers mediate non-canonical dopamine signaling in Parkinson’s disease"	C. Bellone
Friday 17.01.20 at 11 am, ROOM B01.2426	Shubha Tole Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	"Cortical progenitor-specific transcriptional mechanisms control thalamocortical innervation and cell fate"	D. Jabaudon
20.01.20	Valerio Zerbi Integrative Translational Imaging Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) - ETH Zürich	"Combining fMRI with chemo- and optogenetics in the mouse to deconstruct brain network activity"	C. Bellone
23.01.20 at 5 pm, room B02.2526 Green seminar series Videocast from Caltech	Doris Tsao Caltech	"How the Brain Represents Objects"	D. Huber
Friday 24.01.20 at 11 am, ROOM B02.2526	Guillermina Lopez-Bendito Instituto de Neurociencias · UMH-CSIC Campus San Juan · Alicante	"Inheritance of regional signatures by astrocytes enable subtype specific neuronal reprogramming"	D. Jabaudon
27.01.20	Patrik Verstreken VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research, KU Leuven	"The cellular basis of Parkinson's disease"	D. Jabaudon
24.02.20	Clément Prévost-Solié & Benoit Girard Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Unige	Progress report: « Dopamine neurons of the VTA support social reinforcement learning»	C. Bellone
02.03.20	Frédéric Charron Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM)	"Wiring the visual system: axon guidance and binocular depth perception"	P. Fabre
09.03.20	Grégoire Courtine Brain Mind Institute, EPFL	"Deconstruction of the circuitry restoring walking after spinal cord injury "	D. Jabaudon
20.04.20	Flavio Donato - To be rescheduled University of Basel	"TBA"	C. Bellone
11.05.20	Tiago Branco - To be rescheduled Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL	"TBA"	C. Bellone
25.05.20	Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy - Canceled Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University	"TBA"	A. Holtmaat
08.06.20	Jonathan Pillow Princeton Neuroscience	"Inferring the dynamics of learning from sensory decision-making behavior"	A. Pouget
15.06.20	Timothée Proix Department of Basic Neurosciences, Unige	Progress report: " Can we decode intended speech from neural activity?"	Group A.-L. Giraud
22.06.20	Daniel Huber Department of Basic Neurosciences, Unige	Progress report: "Pallesthesia 2.0"	Group D. Huber
29.06.20	Esther Klingler Department of Basic Neurosciences, Unige	Progress report: "Single-cell molecular connectomics of intracortically-projecting neurons"	Group D. Jabaudon
06.07.20	Christophe Bernard - To be rescheduled INS - Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes UMR INSERM 1106, Aix-Marseille Université	"The dynamic epileptic brain"	C. Lüscher
13.07.20 at 14:00	Kenneth Harris University College London, UK	"How learning changes visual cortical population codes"	S.El-Boustani
07.09.20	Kenji Doya Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University	"Neural circuits for mental simulation"	A. Pouget
14.09.20	Ronan Chereau Holtmaat Lab	"Dynamic perceptual feature selectivity in primary somatosensory cortex upon reversal learning"
28.09.20	Masaya Harada Lüscher lab	"Cortico-striatal synaptic plasticity controlling compulsive reward seeking".
05.10.20	Stefano Musardo Bellone Lab	Progress report: "Inhibition of TRPV4 rescues circuit and social deficits unmasked by an acute inflammatory response in a Shank3 mouse model of Autism"
19.10.20	Nisheet Patel (Pouget lab - UNIGE)	"Normative strategies for simple and complex decision-making"
26.10.20	Mackenzie Mathis (CNP - EPFL)		Benoît Girard (Bellone lab)
02.11.20	Johannes Gräff (BMI – EPFL)	“Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation”	Camilla Bellone
09.11.20	Matthew Larkum (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin - Germany)	"Cellular mechanisms of conscious perception"	Alan Carleton
16.11.20	Manuel Mameli (DNF – UNIL)	“Habenular circuits in deciding actions”	Sami El-Boustani
23.11.20	Adam Packer (University of Oxford, UK)	"Technologies for all-optical interrogation of neural circuits in behaving animals"	Alan Carleton
30.11.20	Gilad Silberberg (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)	"Basal ganglia circuits underlying sensorimotor function"	Alan Carleton
07.12.20	Emilie Macé (Max Planck Institute, Munich - Germany)	“Bridging scales – combining functional ultrasound imaging, optogenetics, and electrophysiology to study neuronal networks underlying behavior”	Sami El-Boustani

2019

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
07.01.19	Yi Rao Peking University IDG / McGovern Institute for Brain Research	"Chemoconnectome and Chemoconnectomics: a Novel Concept and New Approach Based on Chemical Transmission and Their Associated Tools"	C. Lüscher
14.01.19	Elodie Ey & Fabrice de Chaumont Institut Pasteur	"Social phenotyping of mice using Live Mouse Tracker"	C. Bellone
11.02.19	Randall Platt ETH Zürich	"Development and applications of CRISPR-Cas for genetic screening and transcriptional recording"	D. Jabaudon
04.03.19 C07.1732	Adriano Aguzzi University Hospital of Zurich	"Biology of Mammalian Prions"	C. Lüscher
11.03.19 B02.2526	Bita Moghaddam Oregon Health and Science University	"Impact of anxiety on action encoding"	C. Bellone & A. Dayer
18.03.19 B02.2526	Christian Mayer Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology	"Developmental diversification of inhibitory forebrain neurons"	D. Jabaudon
25.03.19	Carl Petersen Brain Mind Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL	"Neuronal circuits for goal-directed sensorimotor transformation"	C. Lüscher
01.04.19 B02.2526	Ana João Rodrigues University of Minho	"The role of different neuronal populations of the reward circuit in behavior: Not everything is what it seems"	C. Bellone
08.04.19 at 11 am C07.1732	Victor Tarabykin Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin	"Cell fate and axon navigation in the developing neocortex"	D. Jabaudon
15.04.19 B04.2222	Mark Anderson EPFL	"Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury"	A. Holtmaat
06.05.19 B04.2222	Ron Stoop University of Lausanne	"Pathways in the rodent and human amygdala underlying passive freezing and active avoidance and their modulation by oxytocin"	C. Bellone
13.05.19	Jan Philipp Junker Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin	"Simultaneous lineage tracing and cell type identification using CRISPR/Cas9 induced genetic scars"	A. Dayer
Wednesday 22.05.19 B02.2526	Minmin Luo National Institute of Biological Science, Beijing	"Reward processing by the dorsal raphe"	C. Lüscher
03.06.19	Bassem Hassan ICM Institute	"Temporal control of neurogenesis"	D. Jabaudon
Tuesday 18.06.19 at 11 am, room B02.2226	William Debello Davis University	"Toric spines in the barn owl auditory system"	A. Holtmaat
24.06.19	Gray Camp Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel	"Reconstructing uniquely human development using organoids and single-cell genomics"	D. Jabaudon
01.07.19 B04.2222	Stéphanie Lacour EPFL	"Soft multimodal neural probes: from design to in vivo implementation"	D. Jabaudon
09.09.19	Tatiana Korotkova Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research	"Dynamic regulation of innate behaviors by hypothalamic circuits"	C. Bellone & D. Jabaudon
Friday 13.09.19 room B01.2426 (A. Renold)	Jennifer Zenker Monash University	"Live imaging of microtubule remodelling controlling early mammalian development"	A. Holtmaat
07.10.19	Bosiljka Tasic Allen Institute	"Cell types of adult mouse neocortex"	A. Dayer
Wednesday 09.10.19, room B02.2226	Fiona Francis Institut du Fer à Moulin	"Perturbed neural progenitor mechanisms leading to cortical malformations"	D. Jabaudon
14.10.19	Tara Keck UCL London	"Synapse specific homeostatic responses to sensory deprivation"	A. Holtmaat
28.10.19	Ole Kiehn Karolinska Institutet	"Circuits for Movements"	D. Jabaudon
04.11.19	Barbara Treutlein Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich	"Dissecting development, regeneration and reprogramming using single-cell genomics"	D. Jabaudon
Tuesday 05.11.19 at 11 am, ROOM B02.2526	Peter Dayan Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics	"Replay and Preplay in Human Planning"	A. Pouget
11.11.19	Matthew Botvinick University College London	"A distributional representation of value in dopamine-driven renforcement learning"	A. Pouget
18.11.19	Dan O’Connor Johns Hopkins Medicine	"A functional cortical network for sensorimotor sequence generation"	A. Holtmaat
25.11.19	Reza Kalhor Johns Hopkins Medicine	"Developmental lineage mapping by genomic barcoding in the mouse"	A. Dayer
02.12.19	Pavan Ramdya EPFL	"Reverse-engineering Drosophila limb control circuits"	D. Jabaudon
Thursday 19.12.19 at 4 pm Room JL Reverdin (B02.2526) Green seminar series (live videocast)	Catherine Dulac Havard University	"Molecular, Cellular and « Molecular, Cellular and Harvard University Circuit-Level Control of Circuit-Level Control of Social Behaviors"	Department NEUFO

2018

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

08.01.18

Sliman Bensmaia

Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago

"Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception"

D. Huber

05.02.18

Suellen Walker

Developmental Neurosciences Program, UCL Great Ormond St Institute of Child Health
Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Great Ormond St Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

"Plasticity of developing nociceptive pathways: impact of neonatal surgical injury"

L. Vutskits

Friday 09.03.18 at 4 pm, Campus Biotech

Eberhard Fetz

University of Washington

"Bidirectionnel interactions between the brain and implantable computers"

J. Donoghue / Wyss Center

13.04.18

Emi Nagoshi

Dept. of Genetics and Evolution
Sciences III, University of Geneva

"Drosophila models of neurodegenerative disorders and beyond"

D. Jabaudon

26.03.18

Katja Reinhard

Euro-Illectronisme Research Flanders, Leuven

"Routing of visual information by the superior colliculus"

C. Lüscher

09.04.18

Patrizia D’Adamo

Head of the Molecular Genetics of Intellectual Disabilities Unit
Division of Neuroscience
San Raffaele Scientific Institute

"The X-linked Intellectual Disability RAB39B protein: a key molecule for a correct synaptic pruning"

C. Bellone

23.04.18

Jorrit Montijn

Department of Basic Neurosciences, Unige

Progress report: "Is the brain efficient?"

A. Pouget

Tuesday 15.05.18 at 4 pm

Johannes J. Letzkus

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

"Learning-related plasticity in dendrite-targeting layer 1 interneurons"

A. Holtmaat

28.05.18

Michaël Loureiro
Department of Basic Neurosciences, Unige

Progress report: "A cortico-striatal circuit for social learning influence on food preference"

C. Lüscher

04.06.18

Valerio Mante

University of Zurich

"Large-scale behavioral recordings reveal multiple time-scales of vocal learning"

D. Huber

11.06.18

Guli Agirman

Polina Oberst

Department of Basic Neurosciences, Unige

"Linking progenitor and neuron diversity in the developing neocortex"

D. Jabaudon

18.06.18

Paul Hoyningen-Huene

Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Philosophy

Universität Zürich, Department of Economics

"Medical science and pseudoscience"

C. Lüscher

25.06.18

Nathalie Ginovart Laboratory for Translational Imagine in Psychiatric Neuroscience, University of Geneva

"Dopaminergic substrates and personality traits predisposing to addiction"

J. Kiss

02.07.18

Vitaly Klyachko

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine

"Mechanisms of synaptic transmission at nanoscale resolution"

A. Carleton

10.09.18

11:00 - 13:00

Symposium «Multi-sensory integration»

Sophie Bouton
Itsaso Olasagasti

Mario Prsa

Sophie Mutel

« Audiovisual speech categories :
cross-modal conflict resolution
and recalibration»

«Illuminating the cortical representation of vibrotactile perception»

«Brain circuits involved in
attentional set-shifting»

C. Bellone & A.-L. Giraud

Thursday 04.10.18 at 11 am

Kazuo Emoto

University of Tokyo

"Molecular and cellular mechanisms for neural remodeling"

D. Jabaudon

Thursday 11.10.18 at 14:00 - Auditoire Louis Jeantet

Symposium in honor of Jozsef Kiss « from brain development to disease »

Speakers:

Jean-Michel Aubry
Valérie Castellani
Alexandre Dayer
Eduardo Gascon
Petra Hüppi
Denis Jabaudon
Jozsef Kiss
Pierre Megevand
Eva Mezey
Geneviève Rougon
Carmen Sandi
Laszlo Vutskits

A. Dayer & D. Jabaudon

29.10.18, room B04.2222

Nadine Gogolla

Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology

"Insular cortical circuits mediating emotion regulation"

C. Bellone

12.11.18

Leena Williams

Department of basic neurosciences, Unige

Progress report: "Higher-order thalamocortical inputs gate synaptic long-term potentiation via disinhibition"

Group A. Holtmaat

19.11.18

Salle B04.2222

Alessandra Pierani

Université Paris Descartes

"Transient moving organizers: life and death
in cortical development, evolution and pathology"

A. Dayer

26.11.18

Gioele La Manno

EPFL

"RNA velocity in single cells: concept, estimation and applications"

D. Jabaudon

03.12.18

Michael Halassa

MIT

"Thalamocortical interactions in cognitive control and flexibility"

C. Lüscher

14.01.19

Elodie Ey & Fabrice de Chaumont

Institut Pasteur

"Social phenotyping of mice using Live Mouse Tracker"

C. Bellone

2017

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

09.01.17

Francesco Papaleo

Departement of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia

"Developmental trajectories of schizophrenia-relevant abnormalities in a mouse model of 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome"

C. Bellone

16.01.17

Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir

Cambridge University

"Neuronal regulation of (re)myelination"

C. Bellone / D. Jabaudon

23.01.17

Olivier Baud

INSERM, Université Paris-Diderot

Service Réanimation et Pédiatrie Néonatales, Hôpital Robert Debré

"New concepts in perinatal brain injury and brain function assessment"

J. Kiss

30.01.17

Pieter Roelfsema

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

"Training the brain’s Turing machine: the role of cortical feedback connections in learning"

A. Holtmaat

13.02.17

Asya Rolls

Department of Immunology and the
Center for Science and Engineering of Neural Systems
Technion, Israel institute of Technology

"Brain-regulated immunity: specific brain circuits that alter immune response to bacteria and tumors"

C. Bellone / D. Jabaudon

27.02.17

David Belin
Cambridge University

"The psychological and neural basis of incentive habits: relevance for our understanding of addiction"

C. Bellone / D. Jabaudon

06.03.17

Antoine Adamantidis

University of Bern

"Functional dissection of sleep circuits and functions"

A. Carleton

Wednesday 15.03.17 at 11 am room 160 (CMU 5-6)

Mini Symposium Prof. boursiers

Dario Cazzoli (University of Bern)

Aaron Schurger (Inserm)

Dario Cazzoli: "Bridging the gap between structure and function to understand inter- and intra-individual differences in attention"

Aaron Schurger: "Temporal uncertainty in decision making and the neural antecedents of uncued voluntary movement"

J. Kiss

Thursday 16.03.17 from 3 pm, room B04.2222 (CMU 5-6)

David Heeger - New York University

Quentin Huys - ETH Zürich and University of Zürich

David Heeger: "Reliability of Sensory-Evoked Activity in Autism"

Quentin Huys: "Computational account of alcohol addiction"

A. Pouget

20.03.17

Mini Symposium Neufo "Neuroscience approaches to sleep and dreaming"

Département des neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Anne-Laure Wenger Combremont: "Microcircuit of wakefulness: the orexin system and the cortical L6b neurons"

Virginie Sterpenich: "Reactivation of rewarded memories during sleep: a neural decoding approach"

Lampros Perogamvros: "A high-density EEG investigation of dreaming"

S. Schwartz

23.07.17

Costas Anastassiou

Allen Institute

"Biophysical simulations of neural circuits"

J. Kiss

03.04.17

Jean-Claude Béïque

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

"Spatiotemporal feature detection and plasticity rules in developing CA1 neurons"

C. Bellone

Wednesday 05.04.17 at 4 pm

Zoltan Molnar

Oxford

"Cortical layer with no known function"

J. Kiss

10.04.17

Sebastiano Bariselli
Département des neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Progress report "Orienting, seeking and learning: de-construction of social motivation hypothesis in mice"

C. Bellone

24.04.17

Theofanis Karayannis

Brain Research Institute, University of Zurch

"The functional integration of interneurons into cortical circuits"

A. Dayer

Tuesday 25.04.17 at 17:15, room B01.2426.A

May-Britt Moser

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience / NTNU

"Entorhinal maps for cortical space"

C. Lüscher

08.05.17, room B02.2226

Mini symposium Neufo "Progress in Neurofeedback"

Département des neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Mario Prsa (Huber lab, UNIGE): "In-cerebro" learning in mice

Tomas Ros (Vuilleumier lab, UNIGE): Tuning pathological oscillations with neurofeedback

Luca Tonin (Millán lab, EPFL): Attention driven Brain-Computer Interface operations in Spatial Neglect

D. Huber

15.05.17

Debby Silver
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center

"Dynamic post-transcriptional mechanisms controlling cortical development"

D. Jabaudon

22.05.17

Jay Bertran-Gonzalez
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney

"Slow down, Old -Timer! How ageing is making us rush"

L. Simmler / C. Lüscher

29.05.17

Mini symposium Neufo " The 22q11 deletion syndrome from mouse to man"

Département des neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Tonia Rihs: "Sensory processing and resting state in 22q11.2 DS assessed with hd-EEG"

Aude Chenu: "Role of 22q11 SZ-risk gene on cortical neuron development"

Thomas Marissal: "Restoring wild type-like network dynamics and behavior during adulthood in a mouse model of schizophrenia"

A. Carleton / A. Dayer

Friday 02.06.17 at 11 am

Garret Stuber

Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Dissecting the neural circuits of motivated behavior"

C. Lüscher

03.07.17

Jayeeta Basu

NYU Neuroscience Institute

"Gating Hippocampal Activity with Cortical Long-range Disinhibition"

V. Pascoli

Wednesday 13.09.17 at 11 am, room B02.2226

Brett Benedetti

Nature Medicine

"Communicating your research: Demystifying the editorial and peer review process at Nature Research Journals."

D. Jabaudon

23.10.17

Balazs Hangya

Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

"Cell-type specific signals in the basal forebrain"

D. Jabaudon

30.10.17

Jan Schulz

Institute of Physiology, University of Basel

"Dendrite-targeting interneurons control synaptic NMDA receptor activation via nonlinear α5-GABAA receptors"

A. Dayer

06.11.17

Filippo Del Bene

Unité de Génétique et Biologie du Développement, Institut Curie

"Genetic dissection of neural circuits in the visual system of larval zebrafish"

D. Jabaudon

Tuesday 07.11.17 at 11 am, HUG Marcel Jenny

Alim Louis Benabid

Clinatec Biomedical Research Center.
CEA Grenoble

"Deep Brain Stimulation at High Frequency: Past, Present, and Future"

C. Lüscher

13.11.17

Jinhyun Kim

Center for Functional Connectomics at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology

"mGRASP for mapping synaptic connectivity at multiple scales"

D. Huber

20.11.17

Mario Prsa Department of Basic Neurosciences, Unige

"Frequency selective tuning of somatosensory cortex neurons to forelimb vibration"

D. Huber

04.12.17

Tanya Sippy

EPFL

"Reward Based Learning: A View from the Sensory Striatum"

A. Dayer

Tuesday 05.12.17 at 4 pm

Quentin Huys

University of Zurich

"Computational models for theory, prediction and therapy in depression and
addiction "

A. Pouget

Thursday 21.12.17, 9 am

room B02.2226

MINI SYMPOSIUM Sélection candidats Eccellenza 2018

Leonie Koban, University of Colorado

Quentin Huys, ETH Zürich

Sami El Boustani, ETH Lausanne

Leonardo Beccari, University of Geneva

Brain systems mediating social context effects on pain and emotion

Computational psychiatry

Brain circuit dissection of selective and divided attention during multisensory integration

From Hox genes to neurogenesis: how enhancers and chromatin architecture coordinate gene expression

2016

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

Thursday 07.01.16 at 11 am

Dora Angelaki
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

"A computational perspective on autism"

A. Pouget

18.01.16

Mario Prsa
Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Progress report "Probing cortical circuit function with neuroprosthetic learning"

D. Huber

Tuesday 19.01.16 at 2pm

Anthony Zador
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

"Cortical mechanisms underlying auditory decisions"

A. Pouget

25.01.16

Carlos Ribeiro
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

"The gourmet fly - the neuronal basis of nutrient homeostasis"

D. Jabaudon

01.02.16

Laurent Sheybani
Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Progress report "Emergence of a focus-independent epileptic network associated with neocortical fast-ripples in the mouse-model of temporal lobe epilepsy"

C. Michel

08.02.16

Jan Drugowitsch
Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Progress report "Ice cream or chocolate cake? Why does it take us so long to choose between two equally-good options?"

A. Pouget

Thursday 18.02.16 at 3pm

Paul Smolensky
Johns-Hopkins University

"Two challenges for the neural basis of symbolic cognition"

A. Pouget

Thursday 18.02.16 at 5pm

Josh Tenenbaum
MIT

"Reverse engineering common sense in the human mind and brain "

A. Pouget

07.03.16

Vincent Pascoli
Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Progress report "Dopamine-dependent synaptic plasticity underlying motivated behaviors"

C. Lüscher

14.03.16

Shihab Shamma
Ecole normale supérieure de Paris

"Rapid adaptive mechanisms in the perception of complex acoustic scenes"

A. Pouget

21.03.16

Minisymposium "SNF professorship candidates"
Adil Khan / Jan Gruendemann / Stuart Trenhold

"TBA"

J. Kiss

04.04.16

David Rowitch
University of California, San Francisco

"Heterogeneous origins and diversified functions of astrocytes"

P. Hüppi

11.04.16

Xiao Jing Wang
New York University

"What does it mean to build a large-scale brain circuit model?"

A. Pouget

Tuesday 12.04.16 at 10.30 am

Seung-Hee Lee
KAIST Institute, Korea

"Neural circuits for sensory integration and modulation"

A. Holtmaat

18.04.16

Almut Schüz
Max Planck Institute, Tübingen

"Network structure of the cerebral cortex: quantitative studies on the grey and white matter in rodents, monkeys and humans"

A. Holtmaat

25.04.16

Claudia Bagni
VIB, Ku Leuven / Department of basic neuroscience Lausanne

The multi-tasking CYFIP1 protein orchestrates brain wiring and behaviour"

C. Lüscher

02.05.16

Ilaria Vitali
Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Progress report "Activity-dependent control of neocortical cell fate"

D. Jabaudon

09.05.16

Mathieu Niquille
Département des Neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Progress report "Molecular dissection of cortical interneuron subtypes"

A. Dayer

23.05.16

Josh Huang
Cold Spring Harbor

"Genetic dissection of cortical circuits: chandeliers light up pyramids"

Sean Hill

06.06.16

Etienne Audinat
Inserm, Paris Descartes

"Microglial cells influence synapse maturation in the developing neocortex"

D. Jabaudon

20.06.16

Ingo Willuhn
Hinterlands Institute for Neuroscience

"Striatal dopamine dynamics during flexible behavior and compulsive actions"

V. Pascoli/C. Lüscher

Friday 26.08.16 at 2pm

Kunal Ghosh
Inscopix, Inc.

"Catalyzing Neuroscience Discovery through Entrepreneurship"

C. Lüscher

05.09.16

Joris De Wit
VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, University of Leuven

"Synaptic receptor sorting in neural circuit development"

A. Holtmaat

26.09.16

Itamar Kahn
Department of Cellular and Systems Neuroscience, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

"Novel Imaging Tools to Study the Brain in Health and Disease"

A.-L. Giraud

17.10.16

Takeo Watanabe
Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Brown University

"Roles of attention and reward in perceptual learning"

A. Pouget

07.11.16

Alessandro Furlan

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet

"Visceral motor neuron diversity delineates a cellular basis for nipple- and pilo-erection muscle control"

D. Jabaudon

21.11.16

Andrea Burgalossi

Cellular and Synaptic Basis of Behaviour
Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)

"Microcircuits and plasticity of hippocampal spatial representations"

P. Mendez /

C. Lüscher

28.11.16

Philippe Faure
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

"Nicotinic modulation of dopaminergic system: consequence on decision making and exploratory behaviours"

C. Bellone

05.12.16

Emre Yaksi

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim

"Studying neural computations in zebrafish brain"

C. Bellone / D. Jabaudon

19.12.16

Mini Symposium “Neurobiology of social behaviour”

Département des neurosciences fondamentales, Unige

Riccardo Bocchi: "Delayed migration of callosal projection neurons alters interhemispheric connections causing abnormal somatosensory functions and social behavior"

Luc Arnal: "How to auditorily hijack others' brain"

Marie Schaer: "Using eye-tracking and brain imaging to follow early development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder"

C. Bellone / J. Kiss

2015

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
12.01.15	Eoin O'Connor Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	"Defining boundaries of reward consumption"	C. Lüscher
26.01.15	Laura Frangeul Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	"Encoding class and hierarchy in developing neuronal networks"	D. Jabaudon
Friday 30.01.15 at 3 pm, CMU S1-S2	Philip Sabes Department of Physiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience , UCSF	"From cortical activity to movement: the roles of learning, representation, and dynamics"	A. Pouget
Friday 30.01.15 at 4.45 pm, CMU S1-S2	Marc Churchland Columbia University	"Motor cortex and the neural dynamics of pattern generation"	A. Pouget
20.04.15	Simon Butt Oxford	"Do GABAergic interneurons act as a scaffold for emergent neocortical networks?"	D. Jabaudon
20.04.15 at 4pm	Stéphane Ciocchi Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna	"Specialised projection pathways in the ventral CA1 hippocampus"	D. Muller
04.05.15	Natalia De Marco Garcia Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College	"Sensory inputs control the integration of neurogliaform interneurons into cortical circuits"	A. Dayer
11.05.15	Rafael Fernandez-Chacón Institute of Biomedicine and CIBERNED, Seville	"Synaptic and extrasynaptic functions of a molecular co-chaperone"	C. Lüscher
18.05.15	Jean Livet Institut de la Vision, Paris	"Probing neural cell lineage and connectivity in situ with Brainbow"	D. Jabaudon
Thursday 21.05.15 at 11 am, room S1-S2	Benjamin Grewe Stanford	"Aversive experiences transform amygdalar ensemble coding during the formation of associative fear memories"	C. Lüscher
Tuesday 26.05.15 at 11 am	Abhishek Banerjee MIT	"Studying and Ameliorating Cell-type and Circuit-wide Defects in Rett syndrome "	D. Jabaudon
15.06.15	Jens Hjerling-Leffler Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet	"Single cell transcriptomics and neuronal diversity"	D. Jabaudon
Wednesday 16.09.15 at 3 pm	Gordon Shepherd Northwestern University	"Synaptic circuit organization of mouse motor cortex"	D. Jabaudon
21.09.15	Anna Beyeler Brain and Cognitive Science Department, MIT	"Positive and negative valence coding in amygdala circuits"	C. Lüscher
Wednesday 07.10.15 at 2 pm	Madeline Lancaster Cambridge University	"New directions for modelling disease with cerebral organoids"	D. Jabaudon
12.10.15	Karen Zito University of California Davis and Université de Genève, Professeure Invitée	"Sculpting the nervous system: cellular and molecular mechanisms of neural circuit refinement"	A. Holtmaat
26.10.15	Simon Hippenmeyer Institute of Science and Technology Austria	"Genetic Dissection of Neural Development using Mosaic Analysis with Double Markers (MADM)"	D. Jabaudon
09.11.15	Johannes Gräff Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL	"Histone acetylation: Molecular memory aids on the chromatin"	D. Jabaudon
Friday 13.11.15 at 1 pm	Tony Movshon NYU	"Brain mechanisms of visual form perception"	A. Pouget
16.11.15	Laura Cancedda Italian Institute of Technology	"Cellular environment: implication for brain development and maldevelopment."	D. Jabaudon

2014

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
13.01.14	Stéphane Pagès Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	Progress report: "Sensory-evoked LTP driven by dendritic plateau potentials in the somatosensory cortex in vivo "	A. Holtmaat
20.01.14	Christopher Cederroth Karolinska Institute, Stockholm	"Flavones for the treatment of hearing loss and tinnitus"	A.-L. Giraud
27.01.14	Emmanuel Valjent Department of Neurobiology, IGF Montpellier, Inserm	"New insights into anatomo-functional organization of the striatum and the extended amygdala"	C. Bellone
10.02.14	Thomas Mrsic-Flogel Universität Basel, Biozentrum	"The organization of functional microcircuits in the visual cortex "	K. Tan
Tuesday 11.02.14, at 12:30 room 9078	Fritjof Helmchen Brain Research Institute, Uni Zürich	"Prospects of fiber-optic recordings of brain activity"	C. Lüscher
17.02.14	Anne Churchland Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	"A multisensory decision task exposes mixed selectivity in posterior parietal cortex "	A. Pouget
24.02.14	Jeroen Pasterkamp Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, UMC Utrecht	"Molecular mechanisms of dopaminergic circuit development "	C. Bellone
10.03.14	François Georges Institut interdisciplinaire de Neurosciences, Université de Bordeaux	"The ventral subiculum controls dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area"	C. Bellone
17.03.14	Simon Rumpel IMP, Vienna	"Stability and volatility in circuits of the mouse auditory cortex"	A. Pouget
Tuesday 18.03.14	Aaron McGee University of Southern California, USC	"Nogo Receptor limits visual plasticity and perceptual learning but not the set point for synaptic turnover"	A. Holtmaat
24.03.14	Steven Hillyard University of California, San Diego	"Tracking allocations of visual attention with steady-state evoked potentials"	A. Pouget
Tuesday 25.03.14 at 5pm, room A250	David Anderson California Institute of Technology	"The Neural Circuitry of Sex and Violence"	A. Pouget
31.03.14	Jean Terrier Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	Progress report: "Optogenetic dissection of addiction circuitry in mouse"	C. Lüscher
Wednesday 02.04.14 at 2pm	Julien Courchet Columbia University	"Polarity and beyond: investigating the role of AMPK and related kinases in cortical development"	D. Jabaudon
14.04.14	Uwe Maskos Institut Pasteur, Paris	"The human genetics of the nicotinic receptor—from 15q25 polymorphisms to personalised medication"	C. Lüscher
28.04.14	Jack Mellor School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol	"Multiple calcium sources are required for spike timing-dependent synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus"	C. Bellone
05.05.14	Kwanghun Chung The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT	"CLARITY and beyond: towards integrative understanding of the brain in health and disease"	C. Lüscher
12.05.14	Laura Busse Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen	"Contextual influences on information processing in the mouse early visual system"	J. Britz
19.05.14	Gabrielle Pouchelon Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	"Input-specific differentiation of cortical neurons and circuits"	D. Jabaudon
26.05.14	Bernard Thorens Center for Integrative Genomics, Unil	"Brain glucose sensing in the control of pancreatic islet cell function"	C. Lüscher
16.06.14	Samuel Lagier Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	"Sensory-evoked intrinsic imaging signals in the olfactory bulb are independent of neurovascular coupling"	A. Carleton
01.09.14	Meaghan Creed Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	Progress report "Optogenetically-inspired DBS reverses cocaine-evoked plasticity and drug-adaptive behaviour"	C. Lüscher
08.09.14	Nicolas Tritsch Harvard Medical School	"Lost in translation - what do dopamine neurons tell the brain?"	C. Lüscher
15.09.14	Shubha Tole Tata Institute of Neuroscience, Mumbai	"Control of cell fate and neurocircuitry in the developing cerebral cortex"	D. Jabaudon
06.10.14	Olivier Gschwend Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	"Neuronal pattern separation in the olfactory bulb improves odor discrimination learning"	A. Carleton
Monday 06.10.14 at 2pm	Nao Uchida Havard University	"Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit"	C. Lüscher
13.10.14	Rui Costa Champalimaud Center for the Unknown	"Generating and shaping novel action repertoires"	C. Lüscher
Tuesday 14.10.14 at 1pm	Tim Bliss MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London	"LTP and the neural basis of memory: a 40 year perspective"	C. Lüscher
20.10.14	Karen Zito UC Davis, California	"Sculpting the nervous system: Mechanisms of structural remodeling during synaptic plasticity"	A. Holtmaat
27.10.14	Joshua Johansen Riken, Japan	"A neural circuit mechanism for triggering and setting the strength of fear memories"	C. Lüscher
10.11.14	Helmut Kessels Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience	"Synaptic plasticity of GluA3-containing AMPA-receptors, in anxiety and Alzheimer's disease"	A. Holtmaat
01.12.14	Sonja Hofer Biozentrum, Basel	"Neural dynamics in visual cortex during learning"	A. Holtmaat
08.12.14	Nadine Gogolla Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich	"Sensory integration in mouse insular cortex: Development and implications"	D. Jabaudon
15.12.14	Bertrand Degos Département des Maladies du Système Nerveux, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris	"Effects and mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in rats with parkinsonism"	C. Lüscher
Tuesday 16.12.14 at 11am	Michael Platt Duke University	"The Biology of Strategic Social Decision-making"	A. Pouget

2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
07.01.13	Peter Scheiffele Biozentrum of the University of Basel	"Organization is everything: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Synapse Formation"	C. Lüscher
14.01.13	Alain Destexhe UNIC, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette	"Dynamics of excitation and inhibition inferred from human and rat high-density recordings in neocortex "	A.-L. Giraud
21.01.13	Laurent Nguyen GIGA Neurosciences, Developmental Neurobiology Unit, University of Liège	"New insight into the molecular regulation of neuron migration in the cerebral cortex"	A. Dayer
28.01.13	Marta Nieto Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid	"Transcriptional control of neuronal networks of the cerebral cortex. The role of Cux in the upper layer neurons."	D. Jabaudon
18.02.13	Neural Circuits and Behavior series - Zachary Mainen Champalimaud Center for the unknown, Lisbon	"On the neural and behavioral dynamics of action timing"	A. Pouget
25.02.13	Michael Ashby School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol	"Synaptic development of circuits in the sensory cortex"	C. Lüscher
Wednesday 27.02.13	Gerlinde Metz University of Lethbridge, Canada	"Stress Programming: How Experience Shapes Brain Function and Disease "	D. Huber
04.03.13	Eiman Azim Columbia University	"A cerebellar-directed copy of premotor interneuron activity ensures reach fidelity"	D. Jabaudon
11.03.13	Laura Kehoe Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "GluN3A regulates elimination and stabilization of dendritic spines"	D. Muller
25.03.13	Mike Shadlen Columbia University	"Believing and Time. A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making"	A. Pouget
08.04.13	Neural Circuits and Behavior series - Nikos Logothetis Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen	"Studying Large-Scale Brain Networks: Electrical Stimulation and Neural-Event-Triggered fMRI"	A. Pouget
Tuesday 16.04.13	Thomas Jentsch Leibniz-Institut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie	"Role of Cl and K channels in hearing, touch and olfaction"	A. Carleton
22.04.13	Eero Castren Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki	"Regulation of neuronal plasticity by a synergy between pharmalogical and environmental treatments"	A. Dayer
29.04.13	Roberta Tatti Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "A novel peripheral view of sensory gating in the mouse olfactory system"	A. Carleton
06.05.13	Georg Keller FMI, Basel	"Active visual processing in behaving mice"	D. Huber
13.05.13	Bruno Golding Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "Hooking inhibition into excitatory visual circuits"	D. Jabaudon
Friday 24.05.13 at 2pm	Michael Crair Yale University	"Spontaneous Activity in Neonatal Sensory Map Development"	D. Jabaudon
27.05.13	Tomomi Shimogori Riken Brain Science Institute, Tokyo	"Molecular mechanism of experience dependent thalamus-cortex circuit development"	D. Jabaudon
Wednesday 29.05.13 at 12pm	Osman Ratib Département de Radiologie et Informatique, Service de médecine nucléaire, HUG	"Présentation de l'Institut d'Imagerie Moléculaire Translationelle"	D. Muller
03.06.13	Mathieu Niquille Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "5-HT3A receptor regulates cortical interneuron migration and positioning"	A. Dayer
10.06.13	Romain Cartoni F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children's Hospital and Department of Neurology, Havard Medical School	"Role of Mitochondrial Transport During Axonal Regeneration"	D. Muller
Wednesday 19.06.13 at 4.30pm	Christophe Mulle Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux	"Activity-dependent plasticity of NMDARs"	C. Lüscher
01.07.13	Carmen Flores Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "Activity-mediated remodeling of inhibitory synapses on hippocampal pyramidal neurons"	D. Muller
Tuesday 02.07.13 at 2pm	Patricia Gaspar Institut du Fer à Moulin	"Specific wiring in a diffuse neurotransmitter system"	D. Jabaudon
02.09.13	Jean-Pascal Pfister Theoretical Neuroscience Group Physiology Department, University of Bern	"Computational perspectives on synaptic dynamics and plasticity"	A. Pouget
16.09.13	Kevin Mitchell Trinity College Dublin	"The emergence of cortical areas – from semaphorins to synaesthesia"	D. Jabaudon
Wednesday 25.09.13 at 12pm	Antonio Rangel Computation & Neural Systems, Caltech	"The neuroeconomics of simple choise "	A. Pouget
21.10.13	Y. Bernardinelli Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	Progress Report: "Synaptic activation drives local Ca2+-mediated restructuring of astrocytic processes to stabilize central synapses"	D. Muller
04.11.13	Philippe Schyns Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow	"Information Processing States and their Transitions Inferred from Brain Activity "	A.-L. Giraud
25.11.13	Surya Ganguli Stanford University	"Evidence for a causal inverse model in an avian cortico-basal ganglia circuit"	A. Pouget
02.12.13	Pierre Vanderhaeghen Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB	"Mechanisms of corticogenesis: from stem cells to neural circuits"	D. Jabaudon
09.12.13	Frank Scharnowski Neurosciences Fondamentales, Unige	Progress report:"Neurofeedback based on real-time fMRI"	P. Vuilleumier
16.12.13	Victor Borrell Instituto de Neurociencias, Alicante	"Genetic regulation of Cerebral Cortex folding"	D. Jabaudon

2012

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
16.01.12	Paola Bezzi Cellular Biology and Morphology Department, University of Lausanne	"Dopaminergic properties of astrocytes in prefrontal cortex: structural and functional evidence"	C. Lüscher
23.01.12	Christiaan Levelt Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam	"Disinhibition as a major component of plasticity in the adult visual cortex"	A. Holtmaat
du 13.02.12 au 17.02.12	Vacances de février
20.02.12	Daquing Ma Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London	"Abnormal Brain Following Surgery"	L. Vutskits
27.02.12	Frédérique Varoqueaux Max-Planck-Institute of experimental Medicine, Department of molecular Neurobiology, Goettingen	"Neuroligin deversity at the synapse"	D. Muller
26.03.12	Ivica Kostovic Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb	"Development of neuronal pathways in the human fetal cortex"	P. Hüppi
02.04.12	Igor Allaman BMI, EPFL, Lausanne	"The glyoxalase system in neural cells: Implications for neuroprotection"	D. Muller
du 05.04.12 au 13.04.12	Vacances de Pâques
30.04.12	Andres de la Rossa Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "In vivo reprogramming of circuit connectivity in postmitotic neocortical neurons"	D. Jabaudon
07.05.12	Gregorio Galinanes Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires	"Dysfunctional cortical control of striatal activity in neonatal dopamine neuron depleted mice"	D. Huber
21.05.12	Moritz Jacobshagen Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	The role of the serotonin receptor 6 in pyramidal neuron development	A. Dayer
04.06.12	Jose Esteban Department of Neurobiology, Centro de Biologia Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC), Madrid	"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and their relevance for cognitive performance"	D. Muller
11.06.12	Thomas Nevian Department of Physiology, University of Bern	"Astrocytes control spike-timing dependent plasticity"	A. Carleton
18.06.12	Arbora Resulaj Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn	"Rapid perception of olfactory intensity cues"	D. Huber
25.06.12	Vanessa Schubert Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "Peripheral nerve lesion-induced large-scale functional rearrangements in the adult cortex are associated with small-scale dendritic structural changes"	A. Holtmaat
09.07.12	Jean-Didier Breton Greg Stuart Lab, Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, Canberra	"Somatic and dentritic GABA-B receptors regulate cortical neurons excitability via different mechanisms"	D. Muller
Jeudi 19.07.12	Meaghan Creed Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto ON	"Deep brain stimulation in an animal model of tardive dyskinesia"	C. Lüscher
Mardi 04.09.12 à 14h	Patrick Kanold University of Maryland	"Circuits controlling brain development and plasticity"	D. Jabaudon
Vendredi 14.09.12 à 14h	Michael Breakspear University of New South Wales and Queensland Institute of Medical Research	"Multistability and scale invariance in the human brain: Mechanisms and function"	C. Michel
17.09.12	Alexandre Pouget Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	"Not noisy, just wrong: the computational and neural cause of behavioral variability"
24.09.12	Christina Bocklisch Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "Cocaine evoked synaptic plasticity of inhibitory transmission in the VTA"	C. Lüscher
Mardi 25.09.12	Neural Circuits and Behavior series - Karel Svoboda Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn	"Neural coding underlying active object localization"	A. Pouget - D. Huber
01.10.12	Gijs Plomp Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "Laminar mechanisms of local and large-scale information transfer"	C. Michel
thursday 18.10.12	Venkatesh Murthy Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University	"Neural circuits and coding in the mammalian olfactory system"	A. Pouget
05.11.12	Christophe Bernard Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, INSERM UMR	"Role of hub GABA neurons during normal and pathological oscillations"	A. Carleton
19.11.12	Laurent Groc Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux	"Plasticity of the glutamate synapse: the dynamic view from the NMDA receptor"	C. Lüscher
26.11.12	Lisa Boulanger Department of Molecular Biology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University	"MHC class I regulation of NMDAR function and synaptic plasticity"	A. Pouget
03.12.12	Valérie Castellani CGphiMC University of Lyon	"A developmental program sets left-right asymmetry of phrenic motoneuron projections in the diaphragm"	A. Dayer
10.12.12	Silvia Arber FMI and Biozentrum, University of Basel	"Organization and Function of Motor Circuits"	D. Jabaudon
Tuesday 18.12.13	Benjamin Suter Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago	"Corticospinal neurons in the mouse: intrinsic properties and long-range circuitry"	D. Huber

2011

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
10.1.11	Adrian Briner Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève,	Progress report : "Anesthesia and neuronal circuitry development: molecular and cellular mechanisms"	L. Vutskits
17.1.11	Stéphane Oliet Neurosciences Institut , INSERM, Bordeaux	Contribution of astrocytes to NMDA receptor functions	D. Muller
24.1.11	Jean-Claude Platel University of Saarland School of Medicine Department of Physiology, Homburg	Neurotransmittor signaling during adult neurogenesis: Role of glutamate receptors and the release of glutamate by SVZ atrocytes	J. Kiss
31.1.11	Richard van Wezel University of Utrecht, The Netherlands	Neural plasticity in visual cortex	A. Holtmaat
10.2.11	Valentina Emiliani Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies - CNRS UMR8154, INSERM S603, Université de Paris Descartes	Two photon optogenetics by wave front shaping of ultrafast pulses	A. Carleton
28.2.11	Olivier Pertz Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Basel	Tales about spatio-temporal signaling mechanisms to the cytoskeleton during neuronal outgrowth	A. Carleton
7.3.11	Charles Quairiaux Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report : "Developmental and lesion-induced plasticity in large-scale networks of the rodent cerebral cortex during prenatal period"	J. Kiss
14.3.11	Filippo M. Rijli Friedriech Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel	Mapping the face in the somatosensory brainstem	D. Jabaudon
21.3.11	Marta Navarrete Llinàs Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid	Neuron-Astrocyte Communication	D. Muller
28.3.11	Kai Kaila Department of Biosciences, Laboratory of Neurobiology, University of Helsinki	GABAergic transmission and spontaneous network events in the neonatal hippocampus	L. Vutskits
31.3.11	Alla Karpova HHMI / Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, USA	Neural circuits of behavioral adaptation in variable and competitive environments	A. Holtmaat
4.4.11	Gabor Tamas Departement of Physiology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Szeged, Hungary	Local microcircuit control by functional extremes of GABAergic neurotransmission	D. Muller
11.4.11	Francisco Clasca Autonoma University Medical School, Madrid	Thalamic input to distal apical dendrites: adult organization and development	D. Jabaudon
18.4.11	Olivier Gschwend Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report : "Encoding odors by neuronal assemblies in the mouse olfactory bulb"	A. Carleton
19.4.11	Alexandre Pouget Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY	Neural basis of probabilistic perceptual learning	D. Muller
26.4.11	Noam Sobel Departement de Neurobiology Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel	Predicting odor perception and neural activity from odor structure	A. Carleton
9.5.11	Gabrielle Pouchelon et Bruno Golding Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report : "Genetic Dissection of Cortical Input Circuit Formation"	D. Jabaudon
16.5.11	Sahana Murthy Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève, groupe A. Dayer	Progress report : "Novel insights into cortical interneuron development"
30.5.11	Yann Cojan Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurology, Uni Hospital and Department of Neurosciences	Progress report : "HYPNOSIS AND THE BRAIN"	P. Veuilleumier
6.6.11	Vesna Cvetkovic-Lopes et Laurence Bayer Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "Hypocretin (orexin) neurons and narcolepsy": V. Cvetkovic-Lopes; "Role of rhythmic swinging on human sleep": L. Bayer	M. Mühlethaler
7.6.11	David House University of Berkeley	Experience co-regulates excitation and inhibition during developmental Whisker map plasticity	L. Lüscher
20.6.11	Frédéric Gambino Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève, groupe A. Holtmaat	Progress report: "Rapid metaplasticity is associated with correlation-based surround potentiation in somatosensory cortex"
11.7.11	Harold Cremer IBDML - Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille Luminy, Campus de Luminy, Marseille	Molecular regulation of adult neurogenesis: From neuronal determination to synaptic integration	J. Kiss
26.08.11	Marina Wolf Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Frankin University of Medicine and Science	"AMPA receptor plasticity: A target for treating cocaine addiction"	C. Lüscher
05.09.11	Shiva Tyagarajan Instititute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich	"Molecular characterization of synaptic plasticity at GABAergic synapses"	D. Müller
03.10.11	Alberto Pereda Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx New-York	"Degeneracy of synaptic potentiation at a primary auditory afferent"	D. Müller
04.10.11	Tania Rinaldi Barkat Hensch Lab, Havard University, Boston	"A critical period for auditory thalamocortical connectivity"	D. Jabaudon
31.10.11	Arnaud Lalive d'Epinay Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: "Depression of GABABR-GIRKs signaling induced by psychostimulants"	C. Lüscher
21.11.11	Pico Caroni Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel	"How mice learn to navigate a maze"	A. Dayer
28.11.11	Christopher Pryce Clinic for Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich	"Mouse models for depression: from helpless to helpful"	D. Jabaudon
05.12.11	Dan Feldman Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Berkeley, California	"Circuit mechanisms for plasticity in rodent somatosensory cortex"	C. Lüscher
12.12.11	Christelle Baunez Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de la Cognition, Université de Provence, Marseille	"Frontal cortex-like functions of the subthalamic nucleus"	C. Lüscher
19.12.11	I rina Nikonenko Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report:" The role of nitric oxide signaling in spine and synapse formation"	D. Muller
19.12.11	Pablo Mendez Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report:" Direct alteration of a specific inhibirory circuit of the hippocampus by antidepressants"	D. Muller

2010

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
25.01.10	*Isabel Perez-Otano* University of Navarra, Medical School, Spain	Non-conventional NMDARs shape synapse maturation	CL
08.02.10	*Guy Orban* Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, KU Leuven Medical School	The extraction of 3D shape in the primate visual system: a tale of gardients, neurons and images	PV
15.02.10	*Guillermina Lopez Bendito* Instituto de Neurosciencias, CSIC&Universitad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante	Dissecting the Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Wiring	DJ
01.03.10	*Rick* *Dijkhuizen* Image Sciences Institute University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands	MRI of changes in functional and structural connectivity after experimental stroke	AH
08.03.10	Pierre Paoletti Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Normale Superièure, Paris	Control of NMDA receptor activity: from amino acids to synapses	CL
15.03.10	*Ehud Ahissar* Weizman Institute of Science, Israel	Thalamocortical convergence on object location in whisking rats	DJ
25.03.10	*Narly Golestani* Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives	Brain structural and functional bases of language learning and expertise	DM
03.05.10	*Tania Vitalis* Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, ESPCI, Paris Tech	New insights into the development and physiology of cortical neurons expressing the serotonin 3A receptor subtype (5-HT3A)	AD
10.05.10	*Sonia Garel* Department of Biology, Brain Development and Plasticity, INSERM, Paris	Building thalamo-cortical projections: roles of migrating guidepost cells	DJ
26.05.10	*Pablo Castillo* Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medecine, Yeshiva University, New York City	Postsynaptic determinants of transmission: lessons from the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse	CL
31.05.10	*Alexandre Pouget* Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York	Probabilistic inference in neural circuits: from insects to humans	PV
31.05.10	*Simon Rumpel* Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna	Function and plasticity of neuronal circuits mediating auditory cued fear learning	AH
07.06.10	*Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic* Anesthesiology and Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medecine	Anesthesia-induced development neuroapoptosis - mechanism and protection	LV
14.06.10	*Andreas Frick* Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, Université de Bordeaux	The use of pseudotyped rabies to label the monosynaptic input map of cortical neurons	CL
28.06.10	*Patricio O'Donnell*	Postnatal maturation of the prefrontal cortex and rodent models of shizophrenia	CL
06.09.10	*Andrès E. Chàvez* Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Department of Neuroscience, Bronx, USA	T RPV1 activation by endogenous anandamide triggers postsynaptic LTD in dentate gyrus	CL
16.09.10	*David C. Spray and Eliana Scemes* from Dominick P. Purpura, Department of Neurosciences / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York	11.00am: "Bidirectional neuron-glial signalling mediated by pannexins and connexins in trigeminal ganglia" 11.30am: "Pannexinl-mediated ATP release: implication for status epilepticus"	DM
04.10.10	*Klaas Enno Stephen* Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Inst. for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich	Towards model-based inference on subject-specific pathophysiological mechanisms	CL
11.10.10	*Cho Min* Associate Editor Nature Neuroscience, Nature Publishing Group, New York	Publishing in Nature Neuroscience	CL
18.10.10	*Michael Patterson* Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham	Spatiotemporal Dynamics of AMPA Receptor Trafficking in Single Spines	AC
25.10.10	*Aline Dubos* Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: The mental retardation gene PAK3 regulates spine dynamics acting on spine formation	DM
01.11.10	*Laszlo Acsady* Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest	Thalamus inhomogenized - spatio-temporal heterogeneity of thalmatic circuits	DJ
08.11.10	*Vincent Pascoli* Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: Cocaine, synaptic plasticity and addiction: how drugs change the reward system	CL
24.11.10	*Daniel Huber* HHMI, Janelia Farm, Ashburn, VA, USA	Learning under the microscope: A window into cortical ensemble dynamics	CL
29.11.10	*Miguel Condés Lara* Instituto de Neurobiologia, Universitad Nacional Autonoma de México	Oxytocin: pain and analgesia. A homeostatic mechanism	ET
13.12.10	*Juliane Britz* Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève	Progress report: Chaos in the brain!	CM
20.12.10	*Stéphane Pagès* Neurobiologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG)	New Optical approaches to monitor functional activity in neurons. from a single dendritic spine in vitro to a neural network in a moving tissue inside a breathing animal	AH

2009

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
11.09.09	*Robert Ewards* UCSF, University of California San Francisco	The Presynaptic Regulation of Quantal Size	CL
14.09.09	*Alberto Bacci* European Brain Research Institute, Rome	Self-inhibiting neurons of the neocortex	AC
12.10.09	Joshua Trachtenberg Depart of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles	Regulation of cortical structure and function by the Pten tumor suppressor	AH
19.10.09	**Giovann i M arsic ano** Centre de recherche INSERM, Bordeaux	Bimodal control of food intake by the endocannabinoid system	AC
23.11.09	Cécile Lebrand DBCM Uni Lausanne	Transient Neuronal Populations Are Required to Guide Callosal Axons: A role for Semaphorin3	DJ
14.12.09	*Olivier Raineteau* Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich	Molecular control of cellular differentiation and specification in the adult CNS	DJ

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