Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience

Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience 2020

Monday 28th September

09.25 Welcome, Professor Masud Husain, Chair Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience

The power of Drosophila research: Neural mechanisms at cellular resolution

Chair: Professor Scott Waddell, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford

09.30 - 10.10 Dr Gregory Jefferis, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge

Whole brain circuits for learned and innate behaviour

10.10 - 10.50 Dr Lucia Prieto-Godino, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Evolution of olfactory circuits on the fly

10.50 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 11.40 Dr Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon

Dissecting the neuronal basis of nutritional decisions

11.40 - 12.20 Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College, London.

The second brain of a simpler gut

12.20 - 13.00 Lunch break

Deep learning theories in neuroscience: Potential and pitfalls

Chair: Dr Andrew Saxe, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

13.00 – 13.40 Dr Tim Kietzmann, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University

Deep neural networks as a framework for understanding the dynamic computations of the human visual system

13.40 - 14.20 Dr Rebecca Jackson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge

Reverse-Engineering the Neural Architecture for Controlled Semantic Cognition

14.20 - 14.30 Break

14.30 - 15.10 Dr Andrew Saxe, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Dynamics of learning contextual, controlled, and abstract representations in deep neural networks and the brain

15.10 - 15.50 Professor Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab, Stanford University

Human visual cortex as a window into the developing brain