NEUReka! Seminar Series

Dr. Athena Akrami, of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, gave a seminar at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology as part of the 2019-2020 “NEUReka!” seminar series. Dr. Akrami’s research focuses on understanding how incoming sensory information is integrated with our prior experiences, and how this process informs our choices and behaviours. During the seminar Dr. Akrami presented … More NeuroWire – Contraction bias: How previous experiences influence our perception

Take a look at our latest blog post by Hannah Bruce which has been posted on the Scientifica website! Hannah’s post explores the impact of the current COVID-19 lockdown on research at the Center for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London. Scientifica sponsors the Neureka! seminar series, enabling the committee to organise researchers from around … More NeuroWire – Emerging stronger: The impact of COVID-19 on the work of scientists

Check out our latest blog post by Dr. Thomas Shallcross which has been posted on the Scientifica website! Professor Simon Laughlin, the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, recently gave a seminar at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London as part of the 2019/2020 NEUReka! seminar series. Prof. Laughlin has … More NeuroWire: The energy cost of the brain

Check out our latest blog post by Dr. Guilherme Neves which has been posted on the Scientifica website! Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience recently gave a talk as part of the NEUReka! seminar series at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London. She shed light on the changes happening … More NeuroWire: Teenager’s changing brains

Check out our latest blog post by Dr. Guilherme Neves which has been posted on the Scientifica website!  Prof John F Cryan, from the APC Microbiome Ireland at the University College Cork, recently gave a talk as part of the NEUReka! seminar series at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London. He highlighted the … More NeuroWire: How the bugs in your gut control your emotions: The emerging science of the microbiome

Dr. Clémence Bernard and Thomas Shallcross are presidents of the NEUReka! committee at the Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London. This committee of PhD students and Postdocs organise the NEUReka! seminar series, which has the aim of increasing proximity between world-leading neuroscientists and students and postdocs. Scientifica sponsor the seminar series, enabling the committee to organise researchers from … More Neurowire: Scientifica Meets – Dr. Clémence Bernard and Thomas Shallcross, presidents of NEUReka

Dr Joris de Wit from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research recently gave a talk as part of the NEUReka! seminar series at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London. He explained the importance of adhesion molecules in defining the structure and function of synaptic connections.   https://www.scientifica.uk.com/neurowire/the-role-of-adhesion-molecules-in-synaptic-function

NEUReka! (King’s College London, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology) and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre are hosting their second, discussion focused, joint symposium, this year with the title: “From synapses to behaviour: what is the quantum of neural computation?” Abstract: Currently there is no agreement between neuroscientists as to what can be described as a computational unit of the brain. … More Neureka! / SWC joint symposium!

Professor Matteo Carandini, who runs a joint research group with Professor Kenneth Harris at University College London, kicked off the 2018 NEUReka! seminar series at the Centre for Developmental Neuroscience, King’s College London. During his talk he illustrated how brain areas outside the hippocampus, such as the primary visual cortex and the posterior parietal cortex, … More Navigation: More than a hippocampal affair

Professor Zhaoping Li of the Department of Computer Science at University College London gave a really thought provoking seminar explaining how the brain creates saliency maps for what the retina sees and how the map for exogenous attentional guidance has ‘migrated’ from the optic tectum to the primary visual cortex during evolution. Check out the NEUReka! … More Looking without seeing: Exogenous attentional guidance from primates to fish