Unit Science Day, Winter 2017

18 December 2017

Attendees at the BNDU’s Science Day in winter 2017.

The Unit held its sixth Science Day on Friday 15^th December 2017. Ongoing and future research projects were the focus of discussion, and Unit members and visitors enthusiastically took the chance to offer the constructive criticism that is vital for nurturing collaborative, world-leading research.

There were 13 short talks and 7 poster presentations, all of which were given by the Unit’s students and postdoctoral scientists. Attendees were also treated to a Special Lecture on competition and sharing in computational neuroscience by Dr Stephen Eglen from the University of Cambridge.

Unit Director Professor Peter Brown commented “It was inspiring to see how the creative thinking and innovative experiments of the Unit’s early-career scientists are driving back the frontiers of brain research. It was also excellent to hear from Stephen Eglen as the Unit prepares for the launch of its new resource for open science and data sharing.”

Unit student Eszter Kormann explains her latest discoveries on the encoding of movement by single neurons in the human basal ganglia.

Unit student Anders Meidahl talks the audience through his sophisticated data analysis.

Unit student Giulio Spagnol takes the opportunity to ask some key questions at the winter Science Day 2017.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Emilie Syed reiterates the importance of correlating electrical activity with neurotransmitter release in the intact brain.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Helen Barron gives macroscopic and microscopic accounts of hippocampal activity during learning.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Gihan Weerasinghe uses his computational models to illustrate some of the fundamentals of rhythmic activity in the brain.

An attentive audience at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day, winter 2017.

Unit student Giuseppe Pietro Gava explains the need for innovation in data analysis.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Jennifer Kaufling sheds new light on the functional organisation of basal ganglia circuits.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Petra Fischer takes questions from the audience after her presentation on human brain oscillations during stepping.

Unit scientist Gerd Tinkhauser discusses the results of his latest clinical research on movement disorders.

Enthusiastic discussions at winter Science Day 2017.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Mohamady El-Gaby skilfully makes the link between learning, behaviour and brain dynamics.

Unit scientist Huiling Tan explains how to decode movements from brain activity in humans.

Dr Stephen Eglen from the University of Cambridge gives a Special Lecture on competition and sharing in computational neuroscience.

Unit student Eszter Kormann explains her latest discoveries on the encoding of movement by single neurons in the human basal ganglia.

Unit student Anders Meidahl talks the audience through his sophisticated data analysis.

Unit student Giulio Spagnol takes the opportunity to ask some key questions at the winter Science Day 2017.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Emilie Syed reiterates the importance of correlating electrical activity with neurotransmitter release in the intact brain.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Helen Barron gives macroscopic and microscopic accounts of hippocampal activity during learning.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Gihan Weerasinghe uses his computational models to illustrate some of the fundamentals of rhythmic activity in the brain.

An attentive audience at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day, winter 2017.

Unit student Giuseppe Pietro Gava explains the need for innovation in data analysis.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Jennifer Kaufling sheds new light on the functional organisation of basal ganglia circuits.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Petra Fischer takes questions from the audience after her presentation on human brain oscillations during stepping.

Unit scientist Gerd Tinkhauser discusses the results of his latest clinical research on movement disorders.

Enthusiastic discussions at winter Science Day 2017.

Unit postdoctoral scientist Mohamady El-Gaby skilfully makes the link between learning, behaviour and brain dynamics.

Unit scientist Huiling Tan explains how to decode movements from brain activity in humans.

Dr Stephen Eglen from the University of Cambridge gives a Special Lecture on competition and sharing in computational neuroscience.