Upcoming talks

24/06/2016 - 10am
Speaker: Prof Mark Richardson

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Title: Brain networks in epilepsy: models and clinical applications

01/07/2016
Speaker: Prof Jonathan Mill
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Title: Epigenomic trajectories across brain development: implications for neuropsychiatric disease

08/07/2016
Speaker: Prof David Edwards

Centre for the Developing Brain, King's College London
Title: The Connectome Vision

15/07/2016
Speaker: Dr Laura Andreae

King's College London
Title: TBC

15/07/2016
Speaker: Dr David Cox
King's College London

Title: TBC

29/07/2016
Speaker: Dr Joel Winston
University College London

Title: Explaining medically-unexplained symptoms

Previous talks

4/07/2014 

Speaker: Gareth Ball
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Connecting the Developing Brain"

11/07/2014 
Speaker: Jonathan O'Muircheataigh
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "White matter in typically developing infants and toddlers and it's relationship to developing cognitive function"

18/07/2014 
Speaker: Hammad Khan
Consultant Neonatologist, Evelina London Children's Hospital
Title: "Big data and neonatal physiology - the challenges and opportunities"

22/08/2014
Speaker: Dr Jessica Dubois
Cognitive Neuroimaging group, INSERM
Title: "Exploring normal brain development in infants with advanced imaging techniques"

29/08/2014
Speaker: Dr Rita Nunes
Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Fast distortion mapping and alternative sequences for MRI"

5/09/2014
Speaker: Dr James Hetherington
Research Software Development Team, UCL
Title: "The Craftsperson and the Scholar"


12/09/2014

Speaker: William Dawes
Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University London

Title: 'Messing with the master plan: The effect of germinal matrix haemorrhage on neural stem progenitor cells and early cortical development'

19/09/2014

Speakers: PhD Students, Centre for the Developing Brain
Rui Teixeira
Title: Motion tolerant fetal MRI part1: Evaluation of signal properties of TSE with long echo trains and assessment of tissue properties optimisation
Piergiorgio Salvan
Title: Early development of hemispheric specialisation in preterm infants

26/09/2014
Speaker: Professor Guy Brown
Professor of Cellular Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Title: "The brain in flames! Microglia in inflammatory & ischaemic brain damage"

03/10/2014
Speaker: Assistant Professor Martijn van den Heuvel
Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht
Title: "fMRI and graph theory in development"

10/10/2014
Speaker: Dr Orla Doyle 
Centre for NeuroImaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry
Title: "Machine learning"

17/10/2014
Speaker: Professor Guillemina Girardi
Chair in Women's Health, King's College London
Title: "Effects of complement activation in abnormal fetal brain development in preterm birth and anti-phospholipid syndrome"

24/10/2014
Speaker: Dr Gary Zhang
Centre for Medical Image Computing, UCL
Title: "Diffusion analysis (DTI-TK) and modelling (NODDI)"

31/10/2014
Speaker: Dr Bobbi Fleiss
Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Halloween Special: Microglia interpretative dance"

7/11/2014
Grant Planning Day
Centre for the Developing Brain Staff

4/11/2014
Speakers: Dr Tom Arichi and Dr Lorenzo Fabrizi
Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL and Division of Biosciences, UCL. 
Title: "Multimodal study of the development of somatosensory processing in humans"

21/11/2014
No presentation: 
TRPG education day
Evalina Hospital

13/02/2015
Speaker 1: Thomas Alderliesten
Visiting Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Simultaneous fMRI and functional Arterial Spin Labeling (fASL) in neonates: Don't try this at home"

Speaker 2: Marc Jones
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Magnetic resonance of trees, bitumen and brains"

20/02/2015
Speaker: Karen Mullinger
Joint Nottingham and Birmingham Lecturer and Ann McLaren Research Fellow
Title: "Investigating haemodynamic and neuronal responses after stimulation ceases with EEG/fMRI"

27/02/2015
Speaker: Arian Beqiri
PhD Student, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Parallel transmission MRI for Cardiac Imaging"

06/03/2015
No Seminar this week

13/03/2015
Speaker: Andre Marques-Smith
Research Associate, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, KCL
Title: "Shedding light on neuronal circuits: a primer on laser-scanning photostimulation"

20/03/2015
Speaker: Adeel Razi
Research Associate, Imaging Neuroscience, UCL
Title: "Dynamic causal modelling of the resting brain"

27/03/2015
Speaker: Robert Hindges
Senior Lecturer, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, KCL
Title: "Wiring the brain - plasticity and functional specificity"

10/04/2015
Speaker: Silvia De Santis
Research Associate, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Title: "Exploring white matter microstructure using advanced diffusion MRI at 7T"

17/04/2015
Speaker: Emma Robinson
Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Title: "MSM: A new tool for multimodal surface-based registration of brain images"

01/05/2015
Speaker: Clare Howarth
Henry Wellcome Fellow, University of Sheffield
Title: "Understanding BOLD fMRI signals: Imaging from cell level to whole brain"

06/05/2015
Speaker: Eleftheria Pervolaraki
BHF Fellow, University of Leeds
Title: "Bioimaging and modelling of the foetal heart for earlier diagnosis of defects and evaluation of their treatment"

08/05/2015
Speaker: Carina Mallard
Professor in Physiology, University of Gothenburg
Title: "Role of toll-like receptors in perinatal brain injury"

15/05/2015
Speaker: Dafnis Batalle
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Networks, graph theory and perinatal brain damage"

22/05/2015
Speaker: Jonna Kuntis
Reader in Cognitive Development Psychology, KCL
Title: "ADHD: cognitive-neurophysiological impairments and association with preterm birth"

29/05/2015
Speaker 1: Prachi Patkee
PhD Student, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "The developing brain in Trisomy 21"
Speaker 2: Madeleine Barnett
PhD Student, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Developing Twin Brain"

05/06/2015
Speaker: Heidi Feldman
Professor in Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrics, Stanford
Title: "White matter microstructure in children born preterm: structure and function"

12/06/2015
Speaker 1: Chris Kelly
PhD Student, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "The developing brain in congenital heart disease"
Speaker 2: Ana Baburamani
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "The role of caspase-6 in perinatal brain injury"

19/06/2015
no seminar this week

26/06/2015
Speaker: Matt Silver

MRC Investigator Scientist, MRC International Nutrition Group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Title: "Periconceptional nutrition and the offspring epigenome”

03/07/2015
Speaker: Dr Sam Behjati
Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge
Title: "Reconstructing embryology from mosaic mutations"

10/07/2015
Speaker: Professor Steven Levison
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University -New Jersey Medical School
Title: "TGF-beta: Friend or foe during the resolution of perinatal brain injury"

16/07/2015 at 12:00 noon
Speaker: Dr James Boardman
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Neonatologist, University of Edinburgh
Title: "Epigenomic profiling of preterm infants reveals DNA methylation differences at sites associated with neural function"


17/07/2015 at 11:15 am
Speaker: Dr James Boardman
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Neonatologist, University of Edinburgh
Title: "Preterm birth is associated with altered social cognition in infancy"

30/07/2015 at 13:00
Speaker: Jordynne Ropat
M.Sc. Candidate in Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Institute, Western University
Title: "The Emergence of the Motor Network in the First Year"

The CDB seminar series will be on summer break during August


04/09/2015
Speaker: Dr Matt Brookes
Assistant Professor, SPMIC, University of Nottingham
Title: "Mapping electrophysiological functional connectivity using magnetoencephalography"


11/09/2015
Speaker 1: Ronald Mooiweer
PhD Student, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
Title: "Subject Specific RF Pulses for High Field MRI"

Speaker 2: Dr Gareth Ball
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain 
Title: "Predicting Outcome in Preterm Babies"

18/09/2015
Speaker 1: Maximilian Pietsch
PhD Student, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Effect of Demyelination on Diffusion Tensor Indices: a Monte Carlo Simulation Study"

Speaker 2: Diliana Pecheva
PhD Student, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "White Matter Analysis in Preterm Infants"


25/09/2015
No Seminar (GGKT Meeting brain theme)


02/10/2015
Speakers: Anita Montagana, Christina Malamateniou and Jenny Cook
Centre for the Developing Brain and Biomedical Research Centre, KCL
Title: "Public Engagement Activities"


09/10/2015
Speaker: Dr Peter Uhlhaas
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow
Title: "The role of neural oscillations during brain development and psychosis"


16/10/2015
No Seminar



23/10/2015
Speaker: Professor Denis Azzopardi

Centre for the Developing Brain

Title: "The impact of NMR in the development of neural rescue for neonates"


30/10/2015
Speaker: Dr Olivier Mougin
Research Fellow, SPMIC, University of Nottingham 
Title: "Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer at 7T: Developments and Applications to Pathology " 


06/11/2015
Speaker: Dr Michael Daw
Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
Title: "Experience-Dependent Cortical Development in Mouse Model of Intellectual Disabilities"

 

13/11/2015
Speaker: Dr Helen Stolp
Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL
Title: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Optically-Clear Histology: 3D mapping of diffusion MRI and microstructure in mouse brain"


20/11/2015
Speaker: Dr Andrée Delahaye-Duriez
Research Fellow, Imperial College London  
Title: "Gene networks disrupted by de novo mutations in patients presenting with Epileptic Encephalopathy or Intellectual Disabilities"


27/11/2015
Speaker: Dr Donald Tournier
Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering,KCL
Title: "Recent advances in diffusion MRI analysis: multi-tissue spherical deconvolution and fixel-based group-wise analysis"

The CDB seminar series will be on break during December.

15/01/2016 @ 15:30
Speaker: Professor Hein Odendaal
Department of Obstetrics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Title: "The Safe Passage Study"

22/01/2016
No CDB Seminar 

29/01/2016 at Lambeth Palace Room, ECH
Speaker: Professor Dieter Wolke
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Title: "Long term follow-up of preterm children from birth into adulthood"

05/02/2016
Speaker: Daan Christiaens 
PhD Researcher at KU Leuven 
Title: “Local and global white matter fibre reconstruction in diffusion-weighted imaging.”
 
12/02/2016
Speaker:  Judit Ciarrusta 
PhD Candidate, Centre for the Developing Brain & IOP
Title: "Early Brain Chemistry and Connectomics."

19/02/2016
Speaker: Rui Pedro Teixeira
PhD Candidate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Maximising Information of DESPOT-type Relaxometry."

26/02/2016
Speaker: Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "Mapping the Functional and Cognitive Architecture of the Brain using Tractography". 

04/03/2016
Speaker: Dr Saad Jbabdi
MRC career development fellow, Associate Professor, NDCN, University of Oxford
Title: “Predicting individual variations in task FMRI".

11/03/2016
Speaker: Piergiorgio Salvan
PhD Candidate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: Emergence of language brain architecture in infancy

18/03/2016
Speaker: Dr Chinthika Payasena
Clinical Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Title: The 5th base: a primer on epigenetics

Easter Break: There is no CDB Seminar on 1st of April.

08/04/2016
Speaker: Dr Regina Vontell
Research Associate, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: Cellular mechanisms of toll-like receptor-3 activation are associated with white matter injury in the developing brain

15/04/2016
Speaker: Dr Ai Wern Chung

Centre for the Developing Brain/Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Group
Title: "Hot, hot, heat: An exploration of heat kernels for characterising brain network topologies"

22/04/2016

Speaker: Prof Mary Rutherford
Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "The Placenta imaging Project"

5/05/2016 (Thursday 4pm)

Speaker: Dr Christina Malamateniou
Lecturer of Perinatal Imaging, Centre for the Developing Brain
Title: "13 years in a nutshell"

13/05/2016

Speaker: Lauren Capron
King's College London
Title: "Maternal antenatal stress and offspring outcome: What about the placental mechanisms?"

20/05/2016

No seminar this week

27/05/2016 - 4pm

Speaker: Eleni Demetriou

University College London
Title: TBC

3/06/2016
Speaker: Gastao Cruz

King's College London
Title: Respiratory motion correction for coronary magnetic resonance

10/06/2016
Speaker: Samy Abo Seada

King's College London
Title: Multiband RF pulse design for spin-echo sequences

17/06/2016
Speaker: Prof David Sharp

Imperial College London
Title: Developing novel approaches to treating cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury