Bristol Neuroscience will be hosting a number of high-profile speakers for the 2024-25 academic year. 

Organisers: Dr Paul Anastasiades (Bristol Medical School) and Dr Seán Froudist-Walsh (School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology)

Upcoming talks:

• 19 March 2025: Camilla Nord (Programme Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge), What does the body have to do with mental health?
• 16 April 2025: Tobias Donner (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), title TBC
• 28 May 2025: Gero Miesenbock (Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford), title TBC
• 29 November 2025: Tim Behrens (Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford), title TBC

Past speakers:

• 22 January 2025: Jianfeng Feng (Professor of Computer Science, University of Warwick), From multi-omic data to digital twin brain
• 5 December 2024: Brent Doiron (Heinrich Kluver Professor, University of Chicago), Neuronal firing rate diversity lowers the dimension of population covariability
• 16 October 2024: Simon Butt (Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford): Neuromodulation and interneurons: understanding how global influences target local circuits to regulate cortical development
• 8 May 2024: Panayiota Poirazi (Research Director, IMBB-Forth, Greece), Computing with dendrites in biological and artificial brains
• 6 March 2024: Sonja Hofer (Professor of Neuroscience, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre), Neural circuits for visual processing and visually guided behaviours
• 6 December 2023, Kenneth Harris (University College London): Secondary motor cortex drives perseveration in mice
• 8 November 2023, Katharina Schmack (The Crick Institute): Hallucinating mice, dopamine and immunity – towards mechanistic treatments for psychosis