The Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Neuroscience Research Network at the University of Bristol is delighted to host this afternoon event on 13 January 2022 to welcome new neuroscience research staff at the institution. The event will comprise a series of presentations by University of Bristol staff and two invited, external keynote speakers, and will be followed by a pizza and drinks reception. 

Keynotes

• Prof Loren Frank (University of California at San Francisco)

Loren's lab focuses on the circuitry of the hippocampus and anatomically related regions. We use a combination of techniques, including large scale multielectrode recording, real-time signal processing and targeted optogenetic interventions and behavioral manipulations of awake, behaving animals to understand how the brain learns, remembers and decides.

• Prof Essi Viding (UCL)

Essi's research combines cognitive experimental measures, twin model-fitting, brain imaging, and genotyping to study different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour and mental health problems more generally.

Programme

	Welcome: Prof Matt Jones (Director, Bristol Neuroscience)
	Chair: Matt Jones
	Session 1
13.30-13.50	Dr Karla Holmboe (Lecturer, School of Psychological Science)	Neural correlates of inhibitory control in infancy
13.50-14.10	Dr James Armstrong (UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Bristol Medical School: Translational Health Sciences)	Organoid bioengineering: Building complex cell models of the human brain
14.10-14.30	Dr Emma Cahill (Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience)	Individual differences of learning and memory for threat detection in rats
14.30-14.50	Prof Michael Banissy (Head of School of Psychological Science)	How do we share the experiences of others? Understanding and modulating empathy in humans
14.50-15.15	Essi Viding (Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, UCL)	Children and young people’s mental health: Making the case for the study of the ‘embedded brain’
15.15-15.45	Break and refreshments
	Session 2
15.45-16.05	Dr Valentina Mosienko (MRC Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience)	Beyond serotonin: astrocyte mechanisms in stress response
16.05-16.25	Dr Edwin Dalmaijer (Lecturer, School of Psychological Science)	When the gut steers the eyes: Pharmacological normalisation of gastric state reduces disgust avoidance
16.25-16.45	Dr Petra Fischer (Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience)	Controlling if and how to move: The translational potential of studying neural synchronization phenomena in movement disorders
16.45-17.05	Dr Konstantinos Tsetsos (Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science)	Computational and neural mechanisms of decision irrationality
17.05-17.30	Loren Frank (Professor, Kavli Institute for Fundmamental Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco)	Memories and mental simulation
17.30-18.30	Drinks and pizza reception

 

Registration

• This event will take place in-person and spaces are therefore limited
• Registration is now closed. To take part, contact Catherine Brown