BioMed Calendar

11 Feb. 2016, 14:00

Helene Benveniste

CBTN, Title: "Animal MRI and PET imaging of the Glymphatic Pathway"

9 Mar. 2016, 15:00

Arne Schousboe

Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Title: “Astrocytes in GABA homeostasis and epilepsy”

30 Mar. 2016, 9:00

Alexei Verkhratsky

Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Title: “Ion signalling in astroglia”

6 Apr. 2016, 9:00

Martin Fredensborg Rath

DNP, Title: "Development and identification of the melatonin-producing pinealocyte"

7 Apr. 2016, 10:00-11:00

CPR Seminar by Professor Jeffrey Toretsky

Research seminar by Dr. Jeffrey Toretsky from Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC), Georgetown University, Washington, U.S.A.

20 Apr. 2016, 9:00

Jens Bo Nielsen

DNP/SCIENCE, Title: "What makes humans special? Insights from the evolution and development of the human motor system"

21 Apr. 2016, 15:00

Karel Svoboda

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA, Title: "Using light to illuminate brain function"

29 Apr. 2016, 9:00

Lindy Rae

Neuroscience Research Australia, Title: "Eternal vigilance: your brain and energy metabolism"

2 May 2016, 15:00

Ole Petersen

Cardiff University, Title: "Calcium Signalling in Exocrine Gland Cells: Physiology and Pathophysiology"

4 May 2016, 9:00

Bente Klarlund

Director of Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism and Center for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Title: "Myokines: regulation and biological function"

18 May 2016, 15:00

Martin Lauritzen

Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, SUND and Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Glostrup Hospital, Title: "Cerebrovascular control in health and disease"

15 June 2016, 9:00

Arne Astrup

Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen, Title: "A novel view on meals, foods and nutrients for management of obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease"

29 June 2016, 9:00

Irene Tracy

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Title: "Advanced Neuroimaging of Pain, Analgesia and Altered States of Consciousness in Humans"

7 July 2016

Nicolas Vitale

Inserm Strasbourg, Title: "Phospholipase D1 generated phosphatidic acid and membrane fusion in neurosecreting cells : from normal to pathological aspects"

7 Sept. 2016, 15:00

Albert Gjedde

DNP, Title: "On the brain's ‘dark’energy and aerobic glycolysis: the energy turnover isn't dark and the aerobic glycolysis isn't plasticity"

20 Sept. 2016, 11:00-12:00

CPR Seminar by Professor Bruce Stillman

Research seminar by Professor Bruce Stillman from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, U.S.A. The seminar will take place in the Haderup auditorium, building 20 from 11:00 to 12:00 on September 20. Host: CPR Student and…

20 Sept. 2016, 15:00

Alex McLellan

Dept. Microbiology & Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Title: "Lymphocyte and tumour derived extracellular vesicles in immunity and thrombosis"

22 Sept. 2016, 14

CPR Seminar by Professor Pope Moseley

Research seminar by Professor Pope Moseley from University of New Mexico, U.S.A. The seminar will take place in Faculty Club from 14:00 to 15:00 on September 20. Host: Professor Søren Brunak. The title of the seminar…

2 Oct. - 6 Oct. 2016

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research Copenhagen Bioscience Conference on Protein Signaling

Sign up for the next Copenhagen Bioscience Conference - Protein Signaling from pathways to networks

5 Oct. 2016, 16:00

Christina Kruuse

Department of Neurology, Herlev Hospital, Title: "Cyclic nucleotide signaling in migraine and stroke-from bedside to bench"

2 Nov. 2016, 12:45-16:10

Symposium with Professor Graham Collingridge

Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology will host a symposium honoring this year’s winner of the Brain Prize.

24 Nov. 2016, 15:00

David Burke

Sydney Medical School, Australia. Title: “Biophysical properties of human sensory and motor axons and the implications for disease”

7 Dec. 2016, 15:00

Steen Hasselbalch

The Neurocenter, Rigshospitalet, Title: "Physical exercise and Alzheimer’s disease"

4 Jan. 2017, 15:00

Hans Hultborn

Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, KU, Title: How Do We Approach the Locomotor Network (the Central Pattern Generator - CPG) in the Mammalian Spinal Cord?

31 Jan. 2017, 15:00-16:00

Mark H. Tuszynski

Center for Neural Repair, Department of Neurosciences, University of California - San Diego Title: Neural Stem Cell Therapy in Spinal Cord Injury: Spinal Cord “Replacement” Enables Host Axonal Regeneration

1 Feb. 2017, 15:00

Kjeld Møllgård

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU, Title: "Sequential establishment of brain barrier interfaces during early human development"

17 Feb. 2017, 14:00

Dietmar Schmitz

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Title: Differential embedding of hippocampal output neurons during high-frequency oscillations

1 Mar. 2017, 15:00

Gitte Moos

Neurobiological Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Title: "Multimodal neuroimaging of pharmacological interventions"

8 Mar. 2017, 14:00

Yuki Mori

Biofunctional Imaging Lab., Osaka University, Japan Title: Noninvasive 4D cellular tracking with high field preclinical MRI scanner

14 Mar. 2017, 10:00

David Parker

Cambridge University Title: The influence of short-term synaptic plasticity on rhythmic network activity

16 Mar. 2017, 15:00

NeuroGrad afternoon

The brain on psychedelics

3 Apr. 2017, 15:00-16:00

Dan Geschwind

Center for Autism Research and Treatment, Semel Institute, UCLA - Lundbeck. Title: “Gene networks and systems biology in neuroscience”

5 Apr. 2017, 15:00-16:00

Duda Kvitsiani

Dandrite, Aarhus University. Title: "Prefrontal circuits for foraging decisions in mice"

24 Apr. 2017, 10:00-11:00

Mark Schnitzer

Departments of Biology and Applied Physics, Howard Huges Medical Institute, Stanford University. Title: “Ensemble neural codes underlying long-term memory”

3 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Marianne Juhler

Clinical professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Rigshospitalet. Title: “Clinical, experimental, and technological research in intracranial pressure measurements”

15 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Robert Thorne

University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy. Title: “Central nervous system delivery and distribution of macromolecules: prospects, mechanisms, and enhancement strategies”

6 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Michele Bellesi

Department Of Experimental And Clinical Medicine, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Antona, Italy. Title: “Effects of sleep and wake on glial cells”

13 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Ru-Rong Ji

Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University, Title: “Pain control by glial cells”

15 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

Susan Amara

Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, National Institute of Menthal Health (NIMH), Bethesda, Maryland. Titled: “Transport and channel functions in EAATs: the missing link”

17 Aug. 2017, 10:00

Mai Marie Holm & Ruud Toonen

Aarhus Universitet and VU University Amsterdam. Titles: "Aspects of altered hippocampal synaptic transmission and plasticity in transgenic mouse models" and "Molecular mechanisms of neuropeptide transport and release in…

6 Sept. 2017

Jakob Kisby Dreyer

Center for Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen Title: "Swiss army knife model of dopamine signaling"

11 Oct. 2017

Anne von Philipsborn

Dandrite, Aarhus University Title: "Neuronal circuits for fly sexual behaviour"

1 Nov. 2017

Konstantin Khodosevich

Bric, University of Copenhagen Title: "Maturation of inhibitory neurons and its impairment in neurodevelopmental disorders"

6 Dec. 2017

Hartwig Siebner

Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance, Hvidovre Hospital Title: "Causality and human brain mapping"

3 Jan. 2018

Tune H. Pers

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen Title "Prioritizing brain cell types for obesity using human genetics and single-cell transcriptomics"

17 Jan. 2018, 15:00

Bruce Ransom

Chair of Neurology, Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. Title: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Brain Glycogen* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)”

7 Feb. 2018, 15:00

Jens Damsgaard Mikkelsen

Neurobiological Research Unit, Rigshospitalet Faculty club, 7 February 2018, 15:00 Title: "The human a7 nicotine acetylcholine receptor. From evolution and basic neuroscience to drug development"

7 Mar. 2018

Poul Jennum

Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Denmark Title: "Regulatory mechanism for sleep wake pattern in health and disease?"

4 Apr. 2018, 15:00

Ole Kjærulff

Department of Neuroscience, UCPH. Title: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods – the nervous system and beyond, as modeled in Drosophila"

2 May 2018, 15:00

Troels Wesenberg Kjær

Neurophysiological Center, Sjælland’s University Hospital, Roskilde. Title: TBA

30 May 2018, 15:00

Birgitte Kornum

Assistant professor, Center for Basal Metabolic Research Title: Autoimmunity towards neurons

8 June 2018, 10:00

Erwin Neher

Professor, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Titled: ‘Short-term Synaptic Plasticity at the Calyx of Held'

13 June 2018, 15:00

Tomonori Takeuchi

Department of Biomedicine and Dandrite, Aarhus University. Titled: ‘Dopaminergic memory modulation by two distinct novelty systems’

23 Aug. 2018, 15:00

Keisuke Yonehara

Dandrite, Aarhus University Title: Visual motion processing in mice: cell types, circuits, and diseases

5 Sept. 2018, 15:00

Guillermo Montoya

Novo Nordisk Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen Title: Structural Biology of Genome Editing: How RNA-guided endonucleases cut specific regions of the Genome?

26 Sept. 2018, 15:00

Professor Joe Z. Tsien

Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute, Augusta University, US Title: On the Wiring Logic of Cell Assemblies: How does the Brain Compute?

3 Oct. 2018, 15:00

Claus Juul Løland

Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen. Title: Structural Dynamics and Ligand Binding Properties in Neurotransmitter Transporters

7 Nov. 2018, 15:00

Merab Kokaia

Department of Neurology, Lund University Title: Novel treatment strategies for epilepsy

12 Dec. 2018, 15:00

Thomas Werge

Psychiatric Center Skt Hans and University of Copenhagen (iPsych) Title: The Genetic Architecture of Brain Disorders: Studies of the Entire Population of Denmark

9 Jan. 2019, 15:00

Michael Kjær

Department of Sports Medicin, Bispebjerg Hospital and University of Copenhagen Title: Adaptation of skeletal muscle to aging: Role of physical activity

16 Jan. 2019, 15:00

Frederic Meunier

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Title: Dynamic nanoscale organization of a vesicular release site

18 Jan. 2019, 15:00

Soheila Karimi

Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada Title: Novel repair mechanisms for spinal cord injury

21 Jan. 2019, 15:00

Christian Holscher

Henan University of Chinese Medicine Title: Novel dual GLP-1/GIP agonists are neuroprotective in Parkinson’s disease

23 Jan. 2019, 15:00

Agnete Kirkeby

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology, DanStem, University of Copenhagen Title: Building human fetal brains and neurons from stem cells

6 Feb. 2019, 15:00

Kristian Strømgaard

Center for Biopharmaceuticals, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology Title: Targeting receptor complexes in the brain

7 Feb. 2019, 15:00

Alexander M. Walter

Leibniz-Institut für Molekulære Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany Title: On the fly: Quantitative imaging of neurotransmission, nanoscopic synapse topology and plasticity

21 Mar. 2019, 10:00

Jaideep Bains

The Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Canada Title: Social transmission and buffering of stress

3 Apr. 2019, 15:00

Per Roland

Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen Title: Space-time dynamics of excitation-inhibition balance in the cerebral cortex of ferrets and humans

10 Apr. 2019, 15:00

Anders Fink-Jensen

Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen Title: Schizophrenia and ADHD - symptomatology and pharmacological intervention

24 Apr. 2019, 15:00

Anna Mathia Klawonn

Department for Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University with professor Robert C. Malenka Title: Neuromodulators of Motivational and Affective Neurocircuits - Aversive, Rewarding and Hedonic features

7 May 2019, 14:00

Jacques Olivier Coq

Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix Marseille University, France Title: ‘Postnatal movement restriction deteriorates locomotion and sensorimotor circuitry: implications for developmental coordination disorders’

7 May - 8 May 2019

NeuroGrad Synergy Prize

This exciting event organized by the NeuroGrad Student Coordinators will take place at Panum the afternoon of May 7th an morning of May 8th – and finalized with a joint participation in the Brain Prize event that…

15 May 2019, 15:00

Anders Nykjær

Dandrite, Aarhus University Title: Regulated sortilin-shedding balances synaptic input and mood states

3 June 2019, 15:00

Peter Soba

Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg University Medical Center Title: Maintain your network: Connectivity and Circuit Function during Growth

12 June 2019, 15:00

Bente Finsen

University of Southern Denmark Title: Innate Immunity and Serotoninergic Neurotransmission in Alzheimer’s Disease

4 Sept. 2019, 15:00

Hajime Hirase

Center for Translational Neuromedicine, KU Title: Astrocytic activity and activation in behaving mice

2 Oct. 2019, 15:00

Ray Dolan

Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London Title: TBA

8 Oct. 2019, 15:00

Yingxi Lin

Psychiatry and Neuroscience & Physiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University Title: Transcribing Memories: Memory Encoding by Transcriptionally-defined Active Neuronal Ensembles

25 Oct. 2019, 15:00

Stephen Prouxl

Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern Title: A bulk flow of cerebrospinal fluid from the ventricles to the lymphatic system (not to the brain)

6 Nov. 2019, 15:00

Bering, Bellardita & Sørensen

Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen (Rath + Kiehn + Gether groups)

4 Dec. 2019, 15:00

Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University Title: Translational Pain Research: From cell to patient

11 Dec. 2019, 10:00

Shelley Fried

Harvard Medical School & Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, US Title: Customized axon initial segments in retinal ganglion cells optimize neuronal function Efforts towards a micro-coil-based…

8 Jan. 2020, 15:00

Poul Henning Jensen

Dandrite, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University Title: ”Twist and shout – when alpha-synuclein aggregates meets the nervous system”

5 Feb. 2020, 15:00

Jean-Francois Perrier

Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen Title: Control of tremor by endocannabinoids released from spinal interneurons

6 Feb. 2020, 15:00

Brian MacVicar

Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada Title: Microglia sensing and modulation of synaptic plasticity in neuronal circuits

26 Feb. 2020, 15:30

Nikos Logothetis

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen Title: Multidisciplinary Approaches for the Study of Self-Organization Principles in the Primate Brain

4 Mar. 2020, 15:00

Shohreh Issazadeh-Navikas

BRIC, University of Copenhagen Title: Immuneregulation & Neurodegeneration; the intimate romance

19 Aug. 2020, 15:00

Niels Plath

Lundbeck A/S Title: “Bridging the translational gap”

2 Sept. 2020, 15:00

Stephan Pless

Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, KU Title: Molecular basis for calcium regulation of the background sodium conductance in neurons

7 Oct. 2020, 15:00

Rune Berg

Department of Neuroscience, KU Title: “A new theory of the neural generation of movement.”

2 Dec. 2020, 15:00

Cordelia Imig and Barbara L. Lind

Department of Neuroscience, KU Cordelia Imig: Dissecting the Molecular and Structural Basis of Neurosecretion Barbara L. Lind: Study of functional interactions at the astrocyte-vascular interface with fast 3D two-photo…

1 Sept. 2021, 15:00

Malin Parmar

Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University Title: Using single cell omics to assess graft composition and developmental trajectory of stemcell-derived dopamine neurons in a rat model of Parkinsons…

20 Sept. 2021, 16:00

Poul Nissen

Professor and director of Dandrite, Aarhus University Title: Structural neurobiology - ion transport

21 Sept. 2021, 15:00

Merete Nordentoft

CORE- Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health, Department of Clinical Medicine, Rigshospitalet Title: How early is too late? Possibilities for prevention and early intervention in psychosis

6 Oct. 2021, 15:00

Claire Meehan

Department of Neuroscience, KU Title: Going Out With a Bang? Excitability, Motoneurone Disease and the Mid-Life Crisis

17 Nov. 2021, 15:00

Kasper Lage

Harvard Medical School, Stanley Center at the Broad Institute, and Institute for Biological Psychiatry, Region H Title: Using brain cell type-specific protein interactomes to interpret genetic data in schizophrenia

1 Dec. 2021, 15:00

Gunhild Waldemar

Danish Dementia Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet Title: Health care and mortality in dementia

8 Dec. 2021, 15:00

Petrine Wellendorph

Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology Title: “Identification of the long-sought GHB high-affinity binding site in the mammalian brain”

5 Jan. 2022, 15:00

Junior Faculty

Department of Neuroscience, KU Trine L. Toft-Bertelsen: TRPV4 – the bridge over troubled (brain) water Anna Kadkova: Human disease mutations in SNAP-25 abolish binding to synaptotagmin-1 Jessica Pingel: TBA

2 Mar. 2022, 15:00

Christoffer Clemmensen

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Scienes, University of Copenhagen Title: Investigating Regulatory Pathways of Energy Balance: Implications for Obesity Treatment

5 Apr. 2022, 15:00

Florence Kermen

Newly-appointed associate professor at Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen Title: Effect of early life stress on neural circuits and maladaptive behaviors in the zebrafish

27 Apr. 2022, 15:00

Messoud Ashina

Professor and Director of the Human Migraine Research Unit, the Danish Headache Center and Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet Glostrup Title: Targeting downstream intracellular signaling in migraine

14 June 2022, 15:00

Anthony Vernon

Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London Title: Application of hiPSC microglia for psychiatric and neurological disease modelling

13 July 2022, 15:00

Grant Kusick

Hay Fellow, Department of Cell Biology and BCMB Graduate Program, Laboratory of Shigeki Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Title: Transient docking of synaptic vesicles

18 Aug. 2022, 15:00

Ilary Allodi & Changsi Cai

Department of Neuroscience, KU Ilary Allodi: Rewriting the role of interneurons in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Changsi Cai: Visual prosthesis and brain capillary mechanism in ischemic stroke

25 Aug. 2022, 15:00

Frank Kirchhoff

Center for Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Saarland, Germany Title: Distinct signaling pathways between interneurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells determine brain function and social…

7 Sept. 2022, 15:00

Kenneth Lindegaard Madsen

Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen Title: Amphipathic helices in transmembrane proteins drive endocytosis through association with curved membranes – a novel paradigm for membrane trafficking

21 Sept. 2022, 15:00

Louis-Eric Trudeau

University of Montreal. An exploration of the molecular mechanisms of axonal and dendritic dopamine reveals a few surprizes

5 Oct. 2022, 15:00

Vanessa Hall

Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen Title: Navigating through the Entorhinal Cortex

26 Oct. 2022, 9:15

Stephan Sigrist

Institute for Biology and Genetics, Freie Universität Berlin & NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin Title: An active zone state switch concentrates and immobilizes voltage-gated Ca2+…

2 Nov. 2022, 15:00

Coen Elemans

University of Southern Denmark. Vocal neuromechanics: Embodied motor control of the animal voice

8 Nov. 2022, 15:00

Bart De Strooper

Director of the UK Dementia Research institute, Professor at Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, Professor at Department for Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Head VIB Laboratory for the Research of Neurodegenerative Diseases Title…

22 Nov. 2022, 13:00

Hanna Hörnberg

Max Delbrück Center in Berlin Title: Molecular mechanisms of social behaviors

24 Nov. 2022, 15:00

Nora Volkow

Professor, MD, Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, US Title: Research Advances on the Social Determinants of Drug Use and Addiction

30 Nov. 2022, 12:00

Abhishek Banerjee

Head of Adaptive Decisions Lab, Newcastle University, UK Title: Building a flexible sensory cortex: Function and dysfunction

1 Dec. 2022, 14:00

Åsa Mackenzie

Department of Organismal and Comparative Physiology, Upsala University, Sweden Title: Neuronal and functional heterogeneity of the basal ganglia, subthalamic nucleus

7 Dec. 2022, 15:00

Young Faculty

Department of Neuroscience, KU Jessica Justinussen: Hypocretin signaling in sickness behavior Solveig Gaarde Schmidt: Trying to understand how the dopamine transporter drives reuptake Paola Barbagallo and Maiken Ø.…

4 Jan. 2023, 15:00

John Vissing

Director of the Copenhagen neuromuscular center and Professor at Department of Neurology at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen Title: From genes to function in hereditary muscle diseases

1 Feb. 2023, 15:00

Hans Braüner-Osborne

Head of the PhD school and Professor at Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen Title: The orphan GPR139 G protein-coupled brain receptor: identification of ligands, signaling pathways and…

1 Mar. 2023, 15:00

Jelena Radulovic

Professor, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University and Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein college of Medicine Title: The Neurobiology of Psychiatric Phenotypes…

14 Mar. 2023, 12:30-14:30

Paul Franken & Rune Enger

Associate Professor Paul Franken (University of Lausanne, Schwitzerland) titled: ‘Reassessing the state variables used to study the processes regulating sleep’ and Associate Professor Rune Enger (University of Oslo,…

22 Mar. 2023, 13:00

Elizabeth Coulson

Elizabeth Coulson (University of Queensland, Australia) Title: Causes and consequences of cholinergic basal forebrain degeneration in Dementia

31 Mar. 2023, 13:00

Nicolas Tritsch

Nicolas Tritsch (Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine) Title: Intrinsic dopamine and acetylcholine dynamics in the striatum of mice

12 Apr. 2023, 15:00

Jens C. Rekling

Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen Title: Breathe in

25 Apr. 2023, 9:00

Britta Engelhardt

Britta Engelhardt (Director of the Theodor Kocher Institute at the University of Bern, Switzerland) Title: How the brain barriers maintain CNS immune privilege

3 May 2023, 15:00

Kamilla Miskowiak

Department of Psychology, UCPH. Targeting cognitive impairment in mood disorders: Can neuroimaging studies aid identification of new treatments?

15 May 2023, 15:00

Mei Zhen

Mei Zhen (Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hosptital, Toronto, Canada) Title: Membrane excitability and neural control: what we learn from the C. elegans nervous system

16 May 2023, 13:30

Bruce Ransom

Bruce Ransom (Director of Gerald Choa Neuroscience Institute and Professor at School of Biomedical Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Emeritus at Department of Neurology, University of Washington,…

26 May 2023, 14:00

Brian Kobilka

Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine Title: The role of protein dynamics in GPCR signaling

1 June 2023, 15:00

Leif Østergaard

Center of functional integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University. Title: The microcirculation in stroke and dementia

14 June 2023, 15:00

Christian Henneberger

Institute of Cellular Neurosciences at the University of Bonn, Germany Title: Astrocytic control of glutamatergic synaptic crosstalk and dendritic integration in the hippocampus

16 Aug. 2023, 15:00

Andrew Holmes

National Institute of Health, US “Amygdala astrocytes enable neuronal representations of memory”

6 Sept. 2023, 15:00

Per Borghammer

Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET, Aarhus University Hospital “Brain-first and body-first Parkinson's disease - the hypothesis and validation studies”

4 Oct. 2023, 15:00

Morgane Thomsen

Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen and Department of Neuroscience, UCPH “Unusual long-lasting modulation of cocaine effects by muscarinic cholinergic receptor stimulation”

23 Oct. 2023, 15:00

Min Xu

Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences “Basal forebrain control of sleep-wake cycle: from neural circuits to sleep homeostasis”

1 Nov. 2023, 15:00

Jesper F. Bastlund

Senior Director for Pathology, Circuits & Symptoms and Global Translational Research Lead at H. Lundbeck A/S “Inflammation in the brain: Drug discovery and cross-species translational research.”

6 Dec. 2023, 15:00-16:00

Young Faculty

Freja Herborg (assistant professor, Gether lab), Kavya Vinayan Pushpalatha(postdoc, Walter lab) and Salif Axel Komi (postdoc in Berg lab).

10 Jan. 2024, 15:00

Daniel Kondziella

Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet “Understanding, detecting, and stimulating consciousness recovery in the intensive care unit”

7 Feb. 2024, 15:00

Celia Kjærby and Peter C. Petersen

Celia Kjærby, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, UCPH Peter C. Petersen, Department of Neuroscience, UCPH)

29 Feb. 2024, 15:00

Sara Mednick

Professor, University of California Irvine, US “Sleep as a mediator of emotional and cognitive health across men, women, and menstrual cycles”

6 Mar. 2024, 15:00

Anders A. Jensen

Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, UCPH “Molecular pharmacology of neurotransmitter receptors: Usual Suspects, Black Sheep & Notorious Off-Targets”

15 Mar. 2024, 13:30

Samuel Sober

Professor, Director, Simons-Emory International Consortium on Motor Control and Center for Advanced Motor Bioengineering and Research (CAMBER) and Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Emory University, USA “Neural,…

18 Mar. 2024, 14:00

Lauren Whitehurst

Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, US “Physiological correlates of "good sleep": implications for cognition, health, and aging”

3 Apr. 2024, 15:00

TBA

TBA “TBA”

5 Apr. 2024, 15:00

Hiroku Ueda

Professor, Systems Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo and Laboratory for Synthetic Biology, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN “Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles:…

8 May 2024, 15:00

Kristine Freude

Department for Veterinary and Animal Science, UCPH “Microglia specific sex differences and their impact in Alzheimer’s disease”

21 May 2024, 12:00

Carl Petersen

Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland “Cortical circuits controlling orofacial movement”

23 May 2024, 15:00

Kimberly J. Dougherty & Martin Oudega

“Regaining Control of Spinal Locomotor Circuit Interneurons after Spinal Cord Injury” & "Bioengineering Strategies to Optimize Cell-based Repair of the Contused Spinal Cord"

4 June 2024, 13:00

Lindy Barrett

Senior Group Leader, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard “Leveraging iPSC models to study neural development and disease”

12 June 2024, 15:00

Søren GF Rasmussen

Department of Neuroscience, UCPH “Molecular basis for the selective G protein signaling of GPCRs”

4 Sept. 2024, 15:00

Morten Mørup

Professor of machine learning, Section for Cognitive Systems, DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark “Modeling Functional Neuroimaging Data using Machine Learning”

10 Sept. 2024, 11:00

Louis Kang

Riken Center for Brain Science, Japan “Distinguishing examples while building concepts in hippocampal and artificial networks”

25 Sept. 2024, 12:15-13:15

DIWG reNEW Seminar: Phaedria St. Hilaire

The Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (DIWG) invite all of you to the upcoming reNEW Copenhagen seminar on September 25, 2024, at 12:15 at the Henrik Dam Auditorium. Speaker: Phaedria St. Hilaire, Title of the…

2 Oct. 2024, 15:00

Benjamin Hall

Director of Circuit Biology at H. Lundbeck A/S “Visualizing Drug Effects With in Vivo Imaging to Advance Therapeutic Development”

24 Oct. 2024, 15:00

Nadja Hümpfer

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany “Nanoscale spatiotemporal organization of cytokinesis revealed by multidimensional microscopy”

6 Nov. 2024, 15:00

Finn Sellebjerg

Chief physician, Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen “Multiple sclerosis: Insights from genetics, epidemiology…

19 Nov. 2024, 13:30

Jan Drugowitsch

Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School “Reasoning under uncertainty for decision-making and navigation”

4 Dec. 2024, 15:00

Junior Faculty

Eliska Waloschková (Post-doc, Meehan lab) Nikolay Kutuzov (Assistant Professor, Lauritzen lab) Kathrine L Jensen (Senior Scientist, Zyneyro, and Madsen lab)

9 Dec. 2024, 15:00

Philip Ahring

The Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney University “Genetic variants in GABAA receptors and epilepsy: from old paradigms towards precision medicine”

8 Jan. 2025, 15:00

Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

Professor, Chief Physician, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet & Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen “The role of cardiovascular risk factors for dementia – genomic, biochemical an…

22 Jan. 2025, 12:15-13:15

reNEW Copenhagen seminar: Fredrik Lanner

We invite all of you to the upcoming reNEW Copenhagen seminar on January 22, 2024, at 12:15 at the Hannover Auditorium at Panum. Our speaker, Fredrik Lanner, is a Group Leader at Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Title…

22 Jan. 2025, 15:00

Morten L. Kringelbach

Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, UK and Principal Investigator at Center for Music in the Brain, University of Aarhus, Denmark “Thermodynamics of Mind: Eudaimonia and…

27 Jan. 2025, 15:00

Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

Shanghai Tech University “IP3R/Ca2+ channel at ER in physiological and pathophysiological condition ”

28 Jan. 2025, 15:00

Charlotte Boccara

Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, Oslo “Hippocampal and Cortical Dynamics across Learning and Developmental sleep”

5 Feb. 2025, 15:00

Jakob Balslev Sørensen

Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen “The neurotransmitter release machinery: an update”

5 Mar. 2025, 15:00

Nanna Finnerup

Professor, Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University “The neurotransmitter release machinery: an update”

2 Apr. 2025, 15:00

Thomas Habekost

Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen “Cognition in elite sport”

2 Apr. 2025, 19:00-21:00

Forelæsning: Stamceller – nye lovende behandlinger

Kan stamceller erstatte medicin og helbrede komplekse og hidtil uhelbredelige sygdomme? Og sker det allerede nu, eller først engang i fremtiden?

24 Apr. 2025, 15:00

Jan Ache

Group Leader, Neurobiology and Genetics, University of Würzburg “Neuronal mechanisms for sensorimotor flexibility”

24 Apr. 2025, 17:00-19:00

Dialogmøde om stamceller – fremtidens medicin

Kan stamceller erstatte medicin og helbrede komplekse og hidtil uhelbredelige sygdomme? Nu? Eller først engang i fremtiden? Hvad kan stamceller egentlig reparere? Kan vi lave organer fra stamceller? Eller ændre vores…

7 May 2025, 15:00

David Gloriam

Professor, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen “Data-driven drug design tools and databases”

30 May 2025, 15:30-16:30

Alexei Verkhratsky

Professor of neurophysiology at the University of Manchester, UK. “Neuroglial advances: New roles for established players - from CSF flow through peripheral nerves to Cx43 hemichannels in microglia”

4 June 2025, 15:00

Jakob Lorentzen

Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet and Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen “Bridging Clinical Insight and Objective Measurement: Advance…

18 Aug. - 22 Aug. 2025

15th MiPschool: O2 transport and utilization

From the atmosphere to the mitochondria in health and disease

18 Aug. - 21 Aug. 2025

European Chemokine and Cell Migration Conference 2025

The 5th European Chemokine and Cell Migration Conference will take place at Panum, University of Copenhagen, 18–21 August 2025.

3 Sept. 2025, 15:00

Søren Paludan

Professor, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University “Viral infections in the brain - immune defence and priming for neurodegenerative diseases”

9 Sept. 2025, 12:30-13:30

reNEW Copenhagen Seminar: Shahragim Tajbakhsh

We invite all of you to the upcoming reNEW Copenhagen special seminar on September 9, 2025, at 12:30 at the Holst Auditorium. Our speaker, Shahragim Tajbakhsh Head of dept. of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at…

1 Oct. 2025, 15:00

Jakob E. Bardram

Professor, Section Head, Section of Digital Health, DTU Health Tech “Digital phenotyping – Technologies for collection and identification of digital biomarkers in neurology and mental health”

6 Oct. - 7 Oct. 2025

From Excel to R (Fall 2025)

A 2-day introductory course targeted towards SUND researchers with no (or very limited) experience in R The course will spend time on making participants familiar with Rstudio, directory paths, scripts, R-projects,…

15 Oct. 2025, 12:15-13:15

reNEW Copenhagen Seminar: Lydia Findley

We invite all of you to the upcoming reNEW Copenhagen seminar on October 15, 2025, at 12:15 at the Adolf Hannover Auditorium. Our speaker, Lydia Findley is Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering…

6 Nov. 2025, 8:00-17:00

Health Data Science Day 2025

Health Data Science Day 2025 will take place on 6 November 2025 at the University of Copenhagen! Health Data Science Day (HDSD) aims to bring together students, researchers, and industry employees that work across the…

10 Nov. - 14 Nov. 2025

Introduction to Bulk RNAseq analysis (Fall 2025)

A 3-day introductory course targeted towards SUND researchers to learn how to do RNA-seq analysis This course is an introduction for how to approach bulk RNAseq data, starting from the sequencing reads. It will provide…

12 Nov. 2025, 15:00

Bjarne Winther Kristensen

Professor at BRIC and Department of Clinical Medicine, UCPH and Senior Consultant Neuropathologist, Department of Pathology, The Bartholin Institute, Rigshospitalet) “Insights into the heterogeneity of tumor cells and…

24 Nov. - 26 Nov. 2025

Python I (Fall 2025)

A 3-day introductory course that will make Python your favorite programming language The Python I is an introductory course to programming in the language Python. It is intended for researchers at SUND who are intereste…

3 Dec. 2025, 15:00

Three young Faculty

Neuroseminar with three young Faculty members from the Department of Neuroscience – to be announced later.

14 Jan. 2026, 15:00

Ulrik Gether

Professor of Neuropharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, UCPH “Dopamine: a never-ending story”

4 Feb. 2026, 15:00

Christina Kruuse

Clinical Professor at Department of Clinical Medicine, UCPH and Head of Research, Senior Consultant Neurologist, Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury, Neuroscience Centre, Rigshospitalet “Modulating…

4 Mar. 2026, 15:00

Carmelo Bellardita

Associate professor, Department of Neuroscience, UCPH “Decoding motor hierarchies: How the brain controls, fails, and repairs movement”

8 Apr. 2026, 15:00

Zach Gerhart-Hines

Associate Professor, NNF Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, UCPH “Leveraging peripheral and central neurokinin signalling for the development of novel therapeutics in cardiometabolism”

6 May 2026, 15:00

Lars Pinborg

Clinical Professor at Department of Clinical Medicine, UCPH and Consultant Neurologist, Head of the Danish Epilepsy Surgery Program, Epilepsy Clinic, Department of Neurology and Senior Researcher, Neurobiology Research…

3 June 2026, 15:00

Hanne Borger Rasmussen

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, UCPH “Axon initial segment proteome dynamics homeostatically tunes neuronal excitability”