Unit Science Day, Summer 2018

3 July 2018

Attendees at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day in summer 2018.

The Unit held its seventh Science Day on Friday 29th June 2018. Ongoing, unpublished and future research projects were the centre of discussion, and Unit members and visitors eagerly took the opportunity to give the constructive criticism that is needed to foster world-leading collaborative research.

There were 10 short talks and 6 poster presentations, all of which were given by the Unit’s early-career scientists. Attendees were also treated to a Special Lecture by Professor Matt Jones of the University of Bristol, in which he gave an entertaining and insightful account of cortical activity dynamics during learning and decision making.

Unit Director Professor Peter Brown commented "Another great Science Day at the Unit. We were all energised by the fantastic discoveries being made by the younger generations of talented scientists in the Unit. Their creative and collaborative thinking epitomises our scientific culture, and continues to reveal exciting new insights into brain function and dysfunction."

Unit postdoctoral scientist Flavie Torrecillos discusses the results of her latest clinical research on movement disorders.

Unit student Alex Morley talks the audience through some of the sophisticated behavioural experiments in his research.

Detailed discussions during the poster session at summer Science Day 2018.

Unit student Rahul Shah (left) takes the opportunity to give feedback at the summer Science Day 2018.

Unit scientist Madalena Baaske explains her latest discoveries on neuronal dynamics in the human basal ganglia.

An attentive audience at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day, summer 2018.

Unit scientist Kouichi Nakamura demonstrates a web-based interface for sharing his chemoarchitectonic atlas of the mouse brain.

Unit student Giulio Spagnol (centre right) takes the opportunity to ask some key questions at the summer Science Day 2018.

Unit student Naomi Berry takes questions elaborates on her mapping of the connections of cortical interneurons.

Unit scientist and new Group Leader Hayriye Cagnan expands on her scientific vision for dynamic neuromodulation.

Unit student Moritz Moller presents his latest research on computational models of reward learning in the basal ganglia.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Riccardo Avvisati answers audience questions after presenting his latest research on dopamine neurons.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Vitor Lopes dos Santos sheds new light on the parsing of hippocampal oscillations.

Unit student Benoit Duchet uses his computational models to illustrate the complex interplay between therapeutic stimulation and rhythmic activity in the brain.

Professor Matt Jones from the University of Bristol gives a Special Lecture on the neuronal dynamics supporting learning and decision making.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Flavie Torrecillos discusses the results of her latest clinical research on movement disorders.

Unit student Alex Morley talks the audience through some of the sophisticated behavioural experiments in his research.

Detailed discussions during the poster session at summer Science Day 2018.

Unit student Rahul Shah (left) takes the opportunity to give feedback at the summer Science Day 2018.

Unit scientist Madalena Baaske explains her latest discoveries on neuronal dynamics in the human basal ganglia.

An attentive audience at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day, summer 2018.

Unit scientist Kouichi Nakamura demonstrates a web-based interface for sharing his chemoarchitectonic atlas of the mouse brain.

Unit student Giulio Spagnol (centre right) takes the opportunity to ask some key questions at the summer Science Day 2018.

Unit student Naomi Berry takes questions elaborates on her mapping of the connections of cortical interneurons.

Unit scientist and new Group Leader Hayriye Cagnan expands on her scientific vision for dynamic neuromodulation.

Unit student Moritz Moller presents his latest research on computational models of reward learning in the basal ganglia.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Riccardo Avvisati answers audience questions after presenting his latest research on dopamine neurons.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Vitor Lopes dos Santos sheds new light on the parsing of hippocampal oscillations.

Unit student Benoit Duchet uses his computational models to illustrate the complex interplay between therapeutic stimulation and rhythmic activity in the brain.

Professor Matt Jones from the University of Bristol gives a Special Lecture on the neuronal dynamics supporting learning and decision making.