Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience 2025
Blakemore Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building, Sherrington Rd, Oxford OX1 3PT
This is a scientific conference suitable for active researchers and students. We will not be able to provide certificates of attendance.
Thursday 9th October
09.15 Welcome: Associate Professor Miriam Klein-Flügge, Chair Autumn School in Neuroscience
Translational neuroscience: what can we learn from the animal model?
Chair: Professor Rogier Mars, Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
09.30 - 10.10 Professor Leah Krubitzer, Laboratory of Evolutionary Neurobiology, University of California, Davis
Combinatorial creatures: Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes
10.10 - 10.50 Professor, Dr. Nicola Palomero-Gallagher, Cécile & Oskar Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Düsseldorf
Cross species analyses of receptor architecture
10.50 - 11.30 Professor Zoltan Moltán, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford
Altered transient cortical circuits as an underlying cause of cognitive dysfunctions
11.30 - 12.10 Dr Jason Lerch, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford
Assigning Targetable Molecular Pathways to Transdiagnostic Subgroups Across Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders
12.10 - 13.30 Break
Motivated behaviour at different timescales
Chair: Associate Professor Miriam Klein-Flügge, Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
13.30 - 14.10 Professor John Salamone, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
Exertion of effort over time: The role of dopamine in motivational decision-making in health and pathology
14.10 - 14.50 Professor Camilla Nord, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
The influence of bodily signals on motivation and mental health
14.50 – 15.30 Dr Jan Grohn, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Mechanisms of task-independent motivation in the macaque cortex
15.30 - 16.10 Associate Professor Miriam Klein-Flügge, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Human Motivation Across Timescales: Subcortical-cortical Circuits and Relationships with Mental Health
Friday 10th October
Building and using internal world models
Chair: Associate Professor Helen Barron, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
09.30 - 10.10 Associate Professor H. Freyja Ólafsdóttir, Donders Centre for Neuroscience & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
What can development tell us about the neuronal code for spatial memory?
10.10 - 10.50 Dr Eleanor Spens, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London
Learning to imagine: Generative models and offline learning
10.50 - 11.30 Associate Professor Helen Barron, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep
11.30 - 12.10 Dr Matthew Nour, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford
Making the invisible, visible. Decoding cognitive organisation in psychiatry
12.10 - 13.20 Break
Circuits for visual learning & decision-making
Chair: Associate Professor Armin Lak, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford
13.20 - 14.00 Professor Andrea Benucci, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Unifying Sensory, Cognitive, and Motor Processing Through Hierarchical Predictive Coding in the Mouse Posterior Cortex
14.00 - 14.40 Prof. Laura Busse, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Effects of corticothalamic feedback on responses in visual thalamus
14.40 - 15.20 Dr Rebecca Jordan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Uni
Circuit mechanisms of predictive visuomotor learning in mouse V1
15.20 - 16.00 Associate Professor Armin Lak, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford
Circuits for visual learning & decision-making
16.00 - 16.15 Closing remarks