Fri 09 Feb 13:00: Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Erik Clark, Department of Genetics
- Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.
- Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series; organiser: Theresa Gross-Thebing.
Mon 19 Feb 16:15: Cortical integration of vestibular and visual signals for self-motion perception and spatial navigation
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Dept of PDN, Cambridge
- Monday 19 February 2024, 16:15-18:00
- Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room.
- Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience; organiser: Dr Jasper Poort.
Wed 24 Jan 16:00: New directions in autism early detection, biomarker discovery and understanding heterogeneity using eye tracking and brain imaging
Social attention, which refers to the specific ability to attend to socially relevant information, is a key aspect of social competency and is significantly impacted in ASD . What a toddler decides to look at, listen to, and shift between are all drivers of early brain development, and foundational for early language and social skills. While difficulties in attending to and reacting to the social world are consistent challenges in ASD , symptoms are heterogenous in nature and degree across individuals. In this lecture, Dr. Pierce will discuss how metrics of social attention as indexed by eye tracking can be powerful tools to: (1) discover diagnostic biomarkers to lower the age of first diagnosis; (2) characterize social attention phenotypes in ASD and understand biological subtypes; (3) reveal prognostic markers to predict future functioning; and (4) suggest possible treatment approaches best matched to each child’s profile. Given that levels of social attention as indexed by eye tracking could be considered a proxy for social attention levels ‘in the real world’, Dr. Pierce will discuss relationships between eye tracking and neural functional levels of activation in brain regions that are critical for social and language development in toddlers with ASD . She will also discuss how bioinformatic tools can be used to reveal key biological subtypes.
- Speaker: Dr Karen Pierce, Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego; Co-Director, UCSD Autism Center of Excellence
- Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.
- Series: ARClub Talks; organiser: Saashi Bedford.
Wed 24 Jan 15:00: The paradox of virality
I will present the results from a variety of interconnected studies about intergroup conflict, the spread of (mis)information, and how these topics interact with digital technologies such as social media. First, I will present research showing how social identity motives — particularly out-group negativity — explain why content is widely shared (or goes “viral”) on social media. Then, I will present research showing that widely shared content is often not widely liked — a phenomenon I call the “paradox of virality.” I will discuss the results of a study showing how accuracy and social identity motivations causally shape the belief and spread of (mis)information. I will also present the results of a large-scale digital field experiment that tests the long-term effects of exposure to misinformation and divisive content by having participants unfollow several polarizing social media accounts and misinformation sources for one month. Finally, I will present current and future research directions demonstrating how we can explore these questions on a global scale using multi-site “global studies” and how we can enhance our methods for testing these questions using large-language models.
- Speaker: Steve Rathje (New York University)
- Wednesday 24 January 2024, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.
- Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS); organiser: Yara Kyrychenko.
Fri 08 Mar 13:00: Controlling the cell cycle
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute
- Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.
- Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series; organiser: Theresa Gross-Thebing.
Fri 01 Mar 13:00: TBA
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Neil Anthwal, Kings College London
- Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.
- Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series; organiser: Theresa Gross-Thebing.
Fri 23 Feb 13:00: The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Alessandro Mongera, University College London
- Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.
- Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series; organiser: Theresa Gross-Thebing.
Fri 09 Feb 13:00: TBA
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Erik Clark, Department of Genetics
- Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.
- Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series; organiser: Theresa Gross-Thebing.
Fri 02 Feb 13:00: TBA
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham
- Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.
- Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series; organiser: Theresa Gross-Thebing.
Wed 28 Feb 15:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Marianne Simone Aubin Le Quere (Cornell University)
- Wednesday 28 February 2024, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.
- Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS); organiser: Yara Kyrychenko.
Wed 31 Jan 16:00: Explaining regional mental health prescriptions in England through deprivation and aggregate personality profiles
In a given week, one in five adults in England take antidepressants or medication for anxiety. Despite the large variance between regions, there is little understanding of why certain regions have highly elevated prescription levels. We adopted a psycho-social model to investigate spatial prescription patterns by analysing 4.1 billion general, 95 million anxiety-specific, and 178 million depression-specific prescriptions issued in England between 2015 and 2019. We found three possible explanations for why certain regions have highly elevated mental health prescription levels per capita. Areas with elevated levels tended to be: i) smaller ii) be contextually privileged (i.e., short distance to GP); but, more interestingly, iii) affected by high work barriers. By then controlling for these three explanatory variables and matching the prescription data with England’s largest personality survey, we found strong evidence for a potential alternative to mental health drug prescriptions: social activity. Indeed, areas with large proportions of residents scoring high on the extraversion activity facet displayed significantly less anxiety and depression prescriptions. This result offers new evidence and urges the adoption of schemes similar to the social prescribing scheme recently piloted by NHS England in which doctors refer patients to non-medical treatments such as local volunteer groups (e.g., community gardens, community businesses, art and craft centres), reducing both costs and pressure on doctors.
- Speaker: Andrés Gvirtz (King’s College London)
- Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.
- Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS); organiser: Yara Kyrychenko.
Wed 14 Feb 15:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London)
- Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.
- Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS); organiser: Yara Kyrychenko.
Wed 07 Feb 15:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Mikey Biddlestone (University of Kent)
- Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.
- Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS); organiser: Yara Kyrychenko.
Wed 31 Jan 15:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Andrés Gvirtz (King’s College London)
- Wednesday 31 January 2024, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.
- Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS); organiser: Yara Kyrychenko.
Wed 24 Jan 15:00: The paradox of virality
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Steve Rathje (New York University)
- Wednesday 24 January 2024, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.
- Series: Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS); organiser: Yara Kyrychenko.
Thu 18 Jan 16:00: Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB
- Thursday 18 January 2024, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.
- Series: Foster Talks; organiser: reception.
Thu 01 Feb 12:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Wioleta Zelek, Cardiff University
- Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:00-13:00
- Venue: Seminar Room, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Forvie Site.
- Series: Clinical Neurosciences Seminars; organiser: Louise Massara.
Thu 25 Jan 14:00: The finger of blame in depression and the brain
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Roland Zahn (KCL)
- Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.
- Series: Chaucer Club; organiser: Vicky Collins.
Fri 15 Mar 16:00: Molecular insights into GABA-A receptor pharmacology
Dr Paul Miller
University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology
Biography
Paul did his PhD and a postdoc with Professor Trevor G Smart at University College London, where he applied electrophysiological and pharmacological approaches to link structure and function for, principally, glycine receptors. Subsequently, from 2010, Paul attained a Wellcome Trust OXION postdoctoral fellowship, in the Division of Structural Biology at University of Oxford, where he established methodologies for the production of membrane proteins within the department. Paul used these techniques to solve structures of GABAA Rs and for the production of antibodies with novel pharmacology and high selectivity. He joined the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge as a lecturer in 2018 to advance antibody pharmacology of ion channels, and has received funding from AMS , BBSRC, Wellcome, Rosetrees Trust, and a range of industry support.
Venue: Level 2 Seminar Room.
Zoom Link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86321175549?pwd=MnMxTWhub1ViUmhiYWJrSWQ0T25Tdz09
Meeting ID: 863 2117 5549
Passcode: 168608
- Speaker: Dr Paul Miller, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology
- Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .
- Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series; organiser: Daniel Paolo Juan.
Fri 08 Mar 16:00: PDRA Talks: Nuclear envelope integrity in health and disease | A role for the proton
Nuclear envelope integrity in health and disease
Dr Anne Janssen
University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology
Biography
Anne studied Biotechnology at Wageningen University. After finishing her Masters degree she started her PhD in the lab of Lukas Kapitein (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) working on the generation of inducible tools to study protein aggregation and degradation by the autophagy pathway. During her PhD work she got interested in the nuclear envelope which is why she joined the lab of Delphine Larrieu in 2019 to work on nuclear envelope integrity and premature aging diseases. Initially at CIMR , the lab moved to the department of Pharmacology in 2022. Currently, Anne works on an independent project for which she got a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to discover new players in nuclear envelope integrity maintenance.
Dr Luke Pattison
A role for the proton-sensing GPCR , GPR65 in inflammatory joint pain
University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology
Biography
Luke studied Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Bath. During his undergraduate degree he undertook a placement at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied the compartmentalised signalling of a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) implicated in inflammatory pain. Luke undertook his doctoral research in the Smith lab, submitting his thesis in 2021, which explored the contributions of proton-sensing GPC Rs to inflammatory pain. Luke is continuing in the Smith lab as a postdoctoral researcher working on the Advanced Discovery of Visceral Analgesics via Neuroimmune Targets and the Genetics of Extreme human phenotypes (ADVANTAGE) consortium as part of the MRC Advanced Pain Discovery Platform.
Venue: Level 2 Seminar Room
Zoom Link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89184640892?pwd=VnZXbEU4bDdtbkt5MEV2NWt0RUJtUT09
Meeting ID: 891 8464 0892
Passcode: 620598
- Speaker: Dr Anne Janssen, Dr Luke Pattison, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology
- Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .
- Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series; organiser: Daniel Paolo Juan.