Unit Science Day, Winter 2019

16 December 2019

Photo of attendees at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day in winter 2019.

The Unit held its eighth Science Day on Friday 13th December 2019. Ongoing and future work provided the focus for discussion, and Unit members and visitors eagerly took the opportunity to give the constructive criticism needed for fostering collaborative, world-leading research.

There were 12 short talks, almost all of which were given by the Unit’s students and postdoctoral researchers. Attendees were also treated to two Special Lectures; the first given by Professor Mark Richardson of Kings College London, and the second by Professor Pascal Fries of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany.

Unit Director Professor Peter Brown commented “Science Day was as engaging as ever, and it was particularly exciting to see how the creativity of the Unit’s early-career researchers is advancing innovative brain research.”

Photo of audience at MRC BNDU winter Science Day 2019.

The audience gives enthusiastic feedback to presenters at the winter Science Day 2019.

Unit postdoctoral researcher Zita Patai elucidates the role of neuronal oscillations in decision making.

Unit student Ioana Grigoras explains her research on brain chemistry and motor learning.

Unit postdoctoral researcher Tim West communicates discoveries arising from his in silico interrogation of Parkinsonian brain rhythms.

Unit postdoctoral researcher Tulika Nandi explains her innovative use of non-invasive ultrasound for modulating deep brain structures.

An attentive audience at the MRC BNDU’s Science Day, winter 2019.

Unit postdoctoral researcher Julien Carponcy sheds new light on the functional organisation of basal ganglia circuits.

Unit researcher Mayela Zamora explains the progress made in developing a brain co-processor.

Professor Mark Richardson from Kings College London gives a Special Lecture on brain dynamics in epilepsy.

Unit postdoctoral researcher Petra Fischer discusses the results of her latest work on alternating Deep Brain Stimulation.

Unit postdoctoral researcher Majid Memarian Sorkhabi talks the audience through his approach for programmable Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the brain.

Professor Pascal Fries of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience gives a Special Lecture on brain rhythms for cognition.

Unit postdoctoral researcher Mohamady El-Gaby describes candidate mechanisms for writing and reading a neural code for memory.