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Business School - Entrepreneurship Club
no neuroscience-related event currently scheduled
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Cardiovascular Sciences
no neuroscience-related seminars currently scheduled
Series Organiser: Heather Laing

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Clinical Brain Sciences - Academic Half Day
Recreating retinal architecture in a dish to model human disease
Dr Shyamanga Boorooah
Lacunar stroke and cognition
Dr Stephen Makin, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 16th May 2013
1.15 pm, DCN Seminar Room, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital

sandwich lunch from 1 pm
Series Organiser: Suvanka Pal
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Clinical Brain Sciences - Brain Research Imaging Centre
Knowing your boundaries: The frontal lobes
Natalie Royl, Univeristy of Edinburgh
Thursday 6th June 2013
1 - 1.30 pm, Teaching and Research Seminar Room, Department of Neurosciences, Western General Hospital

Series Organiser: Maria Valdes Hernandez and Moira Henderson
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Clinical Brain Sciences - Psychiatry
Against Global Mental Health
Dr Derek Summerfield, Institute of Psychiatry
Wednesday 15th May 2013
4 pm, Jordanburn Lecture Theatre, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside
Host: Stephen Lawrie
Series Organiser: Stephen Lawrie
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Clinical Brain Sciences - Stroke Research Group
Small vessel disease in Maastricht and Edinburgh
Dr Julie Staals, Department of Neurology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Wednesday 15th May 2013
2.10 pm, DCN Seminar Room, Division of Clnical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital
tea/coffee available from 2 pm
Series Organiser: Will Whiteley

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Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology
The genetic analysis of depression
Prof Jonathan Flint, Professor of Molecular Psychiatry, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.
Wednesday 5th June 2013
5 pm, Lecture Theatre F21, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, University of Edinburgh
Series Organiser: Beverly Roberts
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Cognitive and Neural Systems
Fragile X and the Amygdala: the mGluR Theory reloaded

Professor Shona Chattarji, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Wednesday 29th May 2013
12.30 pm, Gaddum Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square

Series Organiser and Host: Richard Morris
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Cognitive Neuroimaging
no seminar currently scheduled

Series Organisers: Alexa Morcom, and Cyril Pernet
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College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine - Inaugural Lectures (open to the public)
no neuroscience-related inaugural lectures currently scheduled
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College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine - Medical Detectives (open to the public)
Medical Detectives is now finished for this year and will return in 2013
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Evolutionary Biology
no neuroscience-related seminars currently scheduled
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Genetics and Molecular Medicine
Antisense Modulation of Alternative Splicing: from the Bench to the Clinic
Professor Adrian Kraine,r Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thursday 23rd May 2013
1 pm, 4th Floor Lecture Theatre, Outpatients Buidling, Western General Hospital
Host: Professor Javier Caceres
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Geriatric Medicine
No seminar currently scheduled
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Inflammation Research
The brain in flames! Microglial mechanisms of inflammatory neurodegeneration
Dr Guy Brown, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Friday 24th May 2013
12 noon, Wellcome Audotrium, Queen's Medical Research Institute, Little France
Host: Ian Dransfield
Series Organiser: Sonia Rafferty
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Informatics - Adaptive and Neural Computation Workshop
Unifying anatomical, psychophysical, and developmental circuit models of primary visual cortex
Philipp Rudiger
Multiple-source cross-validation
Krzysztof Geras

Tuesday 14th May 2013
11 am, room 4.31/4.33, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street
Series Organiser: Charles Sutton

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Informatics - Hamming Seminar
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Informatics - Perception, Action and Behaviour
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Integrative Physiology
Gastric inhibitory peptide (GIP) and the vasculature: A reminder of the central role of the gut in the pathophysiology of T2D and its complications
Dr Maria Gomez, Lund University, Sweden
Friday 17th May 2013
12.30pm, Lecture Theatre, Hugh Robson Building, George Square
Series organisers: Mandy Jackson and Ian Duguid
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Law School Mason Institute Lunch
The future for biomedical collections: ethics, law and social connections in health-related research
Tuesday 28th May 2013
4 - 5.30 pm, McEwan Hall Reception Room, Teviot Place
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Monday Neuroscience Seminar Series
Synaptic organisation of neural circuits for encoding location
Dr Matthew Nolan, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
Monday 13th May 2013
1 pm, Lecture Theatre B, Chancellors Building, Little France
Host: David Lyons
Series organisers
: David Lyons and Noboru Komiyama
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Please note: the seminar schedule for Monday 6th May has been cancelled.
Music in Human and Social Development - Music Informatics and Cognition group (MusIC)
no neuroscience-related semianrs currently scheduled
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Neurological Student Society (Edinburgh University)
no seminar currently scheduled
Series Organiser: Jamie Loan
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Pharmacology Student Society
no seminar currently scheduled
Philosophy, Psychology and Informatics Reading Group
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
Series Organiser
: Mark Sprevak

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Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Seminar
no seminar currently scheduled
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Philosophy Student Society
no neuroscience-related event currently scheduled
The lectures have a £2 entry fee

Postgraduate Social Seminar Series (SBMS)
no seminar currently scheduled
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Psychology - Cognitive Ageing Journal Club
no seminar currently scheduled
Series Organiser
: Simon Cox
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Psychology Colloquia
no seminar currently scheduled
Series Organiser: Thomas Bak

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Psychology - Human Cognitive Neuroscience
Fronto-temporo-Insular Networks for Contextual Social Cognition and their relevance for Neuropsychiatry

Agustín Ibañez, director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology & Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neurology in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Friday 7th June 2013
4 pm, Room S1, Psychology Building, 7 George Square

Series Organiser: David Carmel
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Queen's Medical Research Institute Seminar
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Regenerative Medicine
no neuroscience-related seminars currently scheduled
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Please ensure you have your university or NHS ID card with you for SCRM seminars as you will be asked to present it when signing in
Reproductive Biology
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Roslin Institute - Easter Bush Research Consortium
no neuroscience-related seminars currently scheduled
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Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - Grand Round
no neuroscience-related grand round currently scheduled
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Scottish TSE Network (STN) Meeting
no meeting currently scheduled
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Synthetic Systems Edinburgh (formally Systems Biology Edinburgh)
no seminar currently scheduled
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility Seminar
no neuroscience-related seminar currently scheduled
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Western General Hospital - Grand Round
Awaiting notification
Series organisers: Ms Kelly Black /Dr Brian Campbell

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