Neurotechnology Seminars

Check our Events page for the most up-to-date listing of events. Details of past Neurotechnology seminars are below but can also be found here.

2021

2021 Seminars
Date	Photo	Speaker	Title
7 July 2021		Various	Imperial Neurotechnology 2021
22 June 2021		Suhasa Kodandaramaiah \| University of Minnesota	Technologies for large scale cortical imaging and electrophysiology
25 May 2021		Alain Goriely \| University of Oxford	Mathematical models of neurodegenerative diseases
27 Apr 2021		Devika Narain \| Erasmus Medical Centre	Neural dynamics underlying temporal inference
23 Mar 2021		Tobias Reichenbach \| Friedrich-Alexander-University	Decoding the neural processing of speech
23 Feb 2021		Miguell Maravall \| University of Sussex	Sensory and metasensory responses during sequence learning in the mouse somatosensory cortex
27 Jan 2021		Emery Brown \| Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Deciphering the Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia

2020

2020 Seminars
Date	Photo	Speaker	Title
14 Dec 2020		Johanna Jackson \| Imperial College London	Targeting the synapse in Alzheimer’s Disease
23 Nov 2020		Fei Chen \| Broad Institute	Novel Tools for Spatial and Temporal Genomics
9 July 2020		Various	Imperial Neurotechnology 2020 \| Centre Annual Research Symposium
18 Feb 2020		Tim Ragan \| TissueVision	Serial Two-Photon Tomography and Multiplexed 3D Whole Tissue Analysis

2019

2019 Seminars
Date	Photo	Speaker	Title
10 Dec 2019		Kiryl Piatkevich \| Westlake University	Engineering tools for mapping brain computations
26 Nov 2019		Parastoo Hashemi \| Imperial College London	Eavesdropping on the brain: Fundamentally novel perspectives on psychiatric diseases with microengineered, electrochemical detection platforms
29 Oct 2019		Athena Akrami \| Sainsbury Wellcome CentreUCL	Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of working memory
10 July 2019		Imperial Neurotechnology 2019	Centre for Neurotechnology Annual Research Symposium
18 June 2019		Diego Ghezzi \| EPFL	Wireless photovoltaic neural prostheses
21 May 2019		Tim O'Leary \| University of Cambridge	Degenerate feedback control in the nervous system
30 Apr 2019		Jennifer Linden \| UCL Ear institute	Neural Mechanisms of Temporal Processing in Central Auditory System: A Neurotheory of Gap Detection
19 Mar 2019		Heidi Johansen-Berg \| Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging	Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity
19 Feb 2019 \| Joint seminar with EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare & Biomaths Group		Mario Chavez \| CNRS	Differential Geometry Applied to Monitoring of Brain States From EEG Signals
22 Jan 2019		Amanda Foust \| Department of Bioengineering & Centre for Neurotechnology, Imperial College London	Negotiating the photon budget for neuronal membrane potential imaging

2018

2018 Colloquia/seminars
Date	Photo	Name	Title
5 Dec 2018		Fabien Wagner, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute, EPFL	Targeted neurotechnologies for restoring walking after spinal cord injury
14 Nov 2018		Sam Barnes, Imperial College London	Functional signatures of homeostatic plasticity in health and disease
24 Oct 2018		Konstantinos Meletis, Karolinksa Instituet	Mapping brain circuits
26 Sept 2018		Anthony Burkitt, University of Melbourne	The quest to restore vision: Optimizing neural activation in retinal implants
30 May 2018		Alvaro Fernandez, SharpBrains	Why the Future of Brain Enhancement is Digital and Pervasive
26 April 2018		Mehrdad Jazayeri Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics
25 April 2018		Oliver Thorn-Seshold Department of Pharmacy, Centre for Drug Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich	Chemical tools for high-precision control of cytoskeletal functions
11 April 2018		Esra Neufeld, Computational Life Sciences Group at the IT'IS Foundation (ETH)	Neuro-functionalized computable anatomical models
24 Jan 2018 \| Mini Symposium: Neural Enhancement		Mina Teicher (Bar-Ilan University)	Synchronization in brain activity and applications to Medicine
		Anna Wexler (University of Pennsylvania)	Outside the Ivory Tower: the Use of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Contexts and “Brain Wellness” Centers

2017

2017 Colloquia/seminars
Date	Photo	Name	Title
29 November 2017 Mini-symposium: Speech Processing & Neuromodulation		Jonas Obleser, University of Lübeck	Neural filters for the listening challenge in time and space
		Christoph S. Herrmann, University of Oldenburg	Transcranial alternating current stimulation: Models, EEG/MEG, and cognition
9 August 2017		Karim Oweiss, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida	Targeted Neuroplasticity: Natural and Artificial Shaping of Neural Correlations for Cognitive Neural Interfaces
25 July 2017		Vincent Hayward Professor of Tactile Perception & Technologies, Leverhulme Fellow School of Advanced Study, University of London	Neurotechnology of Touch: Early haptic processing and tactual curiosities
7 June 2017 MINI SYMPOSIUM on NEURO-PROSTHESES		Patrick Degenaar, Reader in Neuroprosthesis, Newcastle University
		Nick Donaldson, Professor of Neuroprosthesis Engineering, UCL
9 May 2017 MINI SYMPOSIUM on Human Sensorimotor Control		Sliman Bensmaia, University of Chicago	Biological and Bionic hands: Natural neural coding and artificial perception
		Shlomi Haar, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel	Encoding of Movement and the Learning of Movement in the Human Brain
2 May 2017		Andrew Schwartz, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh	A new view of motor cortical function
26 April 2017MINI SYMPOSIUM: Spinal cord injury		Lawrence Moon, Kings College London	In-cage automation of a test for reaching and grasping in rodents
		Gregoire Courtine, IRP Chair on Spinal Cord Repair, EPFL	Title tbc
25 Jan 2017 MINI SYMPOSIUM: Harder, better, faster, stronger: advanced tools to study brain circuitry		Angus Silver, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL	New technologies for predicting and measuring circuit function
		Adam R. Kampff, Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre, UCL	Distributed, whole-brain, single-unit electrical recordings
16 January 2017 Joint CfN/Bioengineering seminar		Lee Miller, Northwestern University	Reverse Engineering Proprioception

2016

2016 Colloquia/seminars
Date	Photo	Name	Title
25 November 2016 Joint CfN/Bioengineering seminar		Ethan Scott, University of Queensland	Sensory Processing in Larval Zebrafish: Perspectives From Whole-brain Calcium Imaging
26 October 2016 MINI-SYMPOSIUM on AUDITORY PROCESSING		Daniel Bendor, UCL	The role of inhibition in auditory cortex for encoding temporal information
		Richard Turner, Cambridge Neuroscience	Gaussian Processes for Auditory Neuroscience
15th June 2016 MINI-SYMPOSIUM on DECISION		Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL	*Reverse Replay during Human Decision Problem Solving*
		Mark Humphries, University of Manchester	Population activity in rule-learning prefrontal cortex reveals signatures of internal models
9 May 2016 MINI SYMPOSIUM on Spinal Cord Injury		Julian Taylor, Research Director, Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research	*Biomarkers of Motor Neuroplasticity and Neurorehabilitation after Spinal Cord Injury*
		Bethel A Osuagwu, Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research/University of Glasgow	*Neurorehabilitation of hand function using brain computer interface in spinal cord injury*
4th May 2016 MINI-SYMPOSIUM - THE ADDICTIVE ENGRAM		David Dupret, MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Oxford University	*Temporal dynamics of neuronal activity engaged in the expression of hippocampal representation of space*
		Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva	*The emergence of a circuit model for addiction*
23rd March 2016 MINI-SYMPOSIUM ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE		Francesco Tamagnini, University of Exeter Medical School	*Alzheimer’s disease and the noisy brain: amyloidopathy correlates with hippocampal hyperexcitability*
		Roxana Carare, University of Southampton	*Perivascular clearance of interstitial fluid from the brain. Significance for Alzheimer’s disease*

2015

2015 Colloquia/seminars
Date	Photo	Name	Title
25th November 2015		Antoine Adamantidis	Optogenetic dissection of sleep-wake circuits in the brain
29th October 2015		Etienne Koechlin	A computational approach to prefrontal executive function and human adaptive behavior
30th September 2015		John Duncan	Frontoparietal control systems in the assembly of cognitive episodes
29th July 2015		Peter Brown	Novel temporally-patterned electrical stimulation techniques to treat Parkinson’s disease and Tremor
24th June 2015		Richard Wade-Martins	Translating Parkinson's: Modelling disease in human iPS cell and transgenic rodents for target discovery
19 June 2015		Atsushi Yokoi	The mechanism of flexible bimanual coordination
27th May 2015		Dario Farina	Bionic Reconstruction of Upper Limb Function
29th April 2015		Tobias Moser	Optogenetic stimulation of the auditory pathway for research and future prosthetics
26 March 2015		Gasper Tkacik	Beyond sensory bottleneck: Efficient coding of elements of visual form
25th March 2015		Silvestro Micera	Closing the loop in neuroprosthetics
25th February 2015		Andrew Jackson	Applications of low-frequency local field potentials for Brain-Machine Interfaces
20 February 2015		Ian Howard	Past and future actions influence motor learning
28th January 2015		Rodolphe Sepulchre	Sensitivity analysis of neuronal behaviors

2014

Table summary
Date	Photo	Speaker	Title
10 December 2014		Tamar Makin	Adaptive and maladaptive brain plasticity in amputees
8 December 2014		Tracy Cui	Bioengineering Strategies Towards a Seamless and Stable Neural Tissue-Electrode Interface
6th November 2014		Ted Milner	Robot-assisted rehabilitation of hand function following stroke