SWAMMERDAM LECTURES
Every year ONWAR organizes a prestigious series of seminars called the Swammerdam Lectures.
The aim of these lectures is to inform our PhD students, as well as postdocs and staff members from the associated institutions, about recent state-of-the-art neuroscience research with a high scientific impact.
The subjects span all of neuroscience, and over the years we have hosted outstanding speakers.
Jan Swammerdam was a Dutch zoologist living in the 17th century. He conducted, amongst others, experiments contradicting Cartesian concepts of mind-brain interaction.
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Department of Stem Cell & Regenertive Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA & Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
9th October 2024, 16:00 at VU Amsterdam, Hoofdgebouw (HG) A1600
SWAMMERDAM LECTURE COMMITTEE
- Prof. dr. Maarten Kole - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, KNAW (chair)
- Prof. dr. Eleonora Aronica - Amsterdam UMC, location AMC
- Dr. Vivi Heine - CNCR, Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
- Dr. Natalia Goriounova - CNCR, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Dr. Frank Jacobs - Neurosciences, SILS, University of Amsterdam
- Dr. Jorge Mejias - Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam
- Dr. Menno Schoonheim - Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
- Henrique Nogueira Pinto, MSc. - Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc (PhD representative)
PAST SWAMMERDAM LECTURES
The Swammerdam Lectures series has a rich history of great lectures, going all the way back to 1982.
2024
237. Prof. dr. Marlene Bartos – October 25th 2024 University of Freiburg The role of inhibition in shaping hippocampal spatial codes
236. Prof. dr. Paola Arlotta – October 9th 2024 Harvard University and MIT Brain Organoids as Avatars to understand Human brain Development and Disease
235. Prof. dr. Christina Granziera – May 22nd 2024 University of Basel
234. Prof. dr. Alexei Vehratsky – April 18th 2024 Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Leioa, Spain and University of Manchester, UK Pathophysiology of astroglia
233. Prof. dr. Tim Vogels – January 26th 2024 Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria On the purpose and origin of spontaneous neural activity: Action potentials that may serve neuronal energy homeostasis and protect from reactive oxygen species.
2023
232. Prof. dr. David Lyons – November 17th 2023 Goshen Lab, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for BRain Sciewnces (ELSC), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Studying Myelinated axon biology in vivo using zebrafish
231. Prof. dr. Ed Lein – July 14th 2023 Alllen Institute for Brain Science Human brain cell atlasing and its application to brain disease
230. Prof. dr. Sabine Kastner – June 14th 2023
Princeton Neuroscience Institute Neural dynamics of the primate attention network
229. Dr. Jong M. Rho – March 31st 2023
Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego & UC San Diego School of Medicine Ketosis and Neuroprotection: Mechanisms and Implications for Diverse and Mental Health Disorders
2022
228. Prof. dr. Inbal Goshen– December 2nd 2022
Goshen Lab, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Astrocytes in High Brain Function
227. Prof. dr. Georg Keller – November 17th 2022
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
The Significance of Self-generated Sensory Feedback
226. Prof. dr. Pierre Vanderhaeghen – November 8th 2022
Department of Neurosciences, Leuven Brain Institute, at KULeuven, and IRIBHM, ULB, Brussels
Mechanisms Linking Development and Evolution of the Human Brain
225. Prof. dr. David Rowitch – October 26th 2022
Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, UK
Developmental Genetics in Glia Biology
224. Prof. dr. Elizabeth Buffalo – October 11th 2022
Buffalo Lab, University of Washington, USA
Neural Dynamics of Memory Formation in the Primate Hippocampus
223. Prof. dr. Rafael Yuste – June 10th 2022
NeuroTechnology Center, Dept. Biological Sciences, Columbia University, NY, USA
Can you see a thought? – Neuronal ensembles as emergent units of cortical function
222. Dr. Silvia Cappello – March 31st 2022
Developmental Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Extracellular Signalling in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
2021
221. Prof. dr. Jürgen Knoblich – November 4th 2021
Knoblich Lab, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
Modeling human brain development and disease in stem cell derived 3D culture
220. Dr. Beth Stevens – June 17th 2021
The Stevens Lab, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA
How immune cells help wire the brain in health and disease
219. Prof. dr. Erik Jorgensen – April 23rd 2021
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Neurons that refuse to grow up: establishing and maintaining synaptic connectivity
218. Dr. Shane Liddelow – April 16th 2021
Liddelow Lab, Neuroscience Institute @NYU Langcone, NY, USA
Neurons that refuse to grow up: establishing and maintaining synaptic connectivity
2020
217. Dr. Denise Cai – November 20th 2020
Cai Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
The dynamic brain: linking memories across time
216. Prof. dr. Bernardo Sabatini – September 18th 2020
Sabatini Lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Synapses and circuits of the basal ganglia for action selection and evaluation
215. Dr. Franck Polleux – April 24th 2020
Dept. of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
A human-specific modifier of synaptic development, cortical circuit connectivity and function
2019
214. Prof. dr. Christof Koch – November 22nd 2019
Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA
Neural Correlates of Consciousness – Progress and Problems
213. Prof. dr. Sten Linnarsson – October 9th 2019
Linnarsson Lab, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Human brain development from single cell transcriptomes
212. Prof. dr. Dora. Angelaki – September 16th 2019
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain
211. Prof. dr. Hailan Hu – June 6th 2019
Hailan Hu Lab, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Neural mechanisms of social and emotional behavior: from pecking order to ketamine
2018
210. Prof. dr. W. Schultz – November 23rd 2018
Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Iconoclastic reverse engineering: from biological goal via theory-driven design to reward neurons
209. Prof. dr. C. Brody – October 26th 2018
Brodylab, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA
Neural substrates for decision making in rats
208. Prof. dr. F. Guillemot – October 23rd 2018
Neural Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Stem cell heterogeneity in the adult brain
207. Prof. dr. M. Scanziani – September 21st 2018
Scanziani Lab, Univ. of California San Francisco, HHMI, San Francisco, CA, USA
Cortical circuits of vision
206. Prof. dr. K. Tye – June 27th 2018
Tye Lab, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Neural circuits important for emotional valence
205. Prof. dr. Y. Dan – June 22nd 2018
Dept. Mol. & Cell Biology and HHMI, Univ. California at Berkeley, USA
Neural circuits controlling sleep
204. Prof. dr. L. Mucke – June 1st 2018
UCSF School of Medicine, Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA
Intriguing links between developmental and degenerative brain disorders
203. Prof. dr. G. Tononi – April 19th 2018 – in collaboration with Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC)
The Center for Sleep and Consciousness, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, MI, USA
The burden of wake and the reasons of sleep
2017
202. Prof. dr. J. Seckl – November 24th 2017
Endocrinology Unit, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Glucocorticoids, steroid metabolism and developmental programming of the brain
201. Prof. dr. M. Carandini – October 13th 2017
Cortexlab, UCL, London, UK
From vision to decisions and navigation in mouse cortex
200. Prof. dr. H. Kasai – October 9th 2017
Laboratory of Structural Physiology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dendritic spines shaping memory and behaviors
199. Prof. dr. E. Kavalali – September 22nd 2017
Department of Neuroscience, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Mechanisms of quantal neurotransmission in the central nervous system
198. Prof. dr. J. Mattick – June 26th 2017
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
RNA is the computational engine of human development and brain function
197. Prof. dr. D. Jabaudon – June 9th 2017
Dept. of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Fate and freedom in the developing neocortex
196. Prof. dr. S. Josselyn – May 23rd 2017 – in collaboration with Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC)
Josselyn Lab, Hospital for Sick Children, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Making, breaking and linking memories
195. Prof. dr. R. Livesey – April 19th 2017 – CANCELLED
Livesey Lab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Human cerebral cortex development and disease in stem cell systems
2016
194. Prof. dr. B. Richardson – November 25th 2016
Richardson Lab, University College London, London, UK
Oligodendrocytes, life-long partners of neurons
193. Prof. dr. C. Dulac – November 4th 2016
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Molecular and cellular architecture of social behavior circuits in the mouse
192. Prof. dr. A. Churchland – October 7th 2016
Churchland Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Neural circuits for perceptual decision-making
191. Prof. dr. A. Silver – September 30th 2016
The Silver Lab, University College London, London, UK
Synaptic signalling in the input layer of the cerebellar cortex
190. Prof. dr. H. Scharfman – May 12th 2016
The Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, NYU School of Medicine, Orangeburg, NY, USA
Abnormal excitability as the earliest stage in Alzheimer’s disease
189. Prof. dr. S. Murray Sherman – April 29th 2016
Dept. of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
A view of cortex from the thalamus
188. Prof. dr. S. Noctor – April 15th 2016
UC Davis MIND Institute, Sacramento, CA, USA
Evolution and regulation of neural precursor cells in the developing vertebrate brain
2015
187. Prof. dr. E. Kim – November 27th 2015
Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions, KAIST, Daejon, South-Korea
Synaptic scaffolds, NMDAR function, and autism spectrum disorders
186. Prof. dr. D. Fitzpatrick – September 25th 2015
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, FL, USA
Building cortical circuits
185. Prof. dr. D. Geschwind – June 1st 2015
Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry and Human Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Integrative genomics in Autism Spectrum Disorder
184. Prof. dr. W.B. Dobyns – May 11th 2015
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
Inside out: the nature and genetic basis of cortical malformations
183. Prof. dr. G. Tamás – February 6th 2015
University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Unprecedented connections of interneurons in the human and rodent neocortex
2014
182. Prof. dr. I. Segev – November 28th 2014
Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology, Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
What did we learn from the Blue Brain project?
181. Prof. dr. K. Harris – October 3rd 2014
Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK
Organization of neuronal assemblies in neocortex
180. Prof. dr. J. Roeper – June 27th 2014
Institute of Neurophysiology, Neuroscience Center, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Selective pathophysiology in subpopulations of dopaminergic midbrain neurons in schizophrenia and Parkinson Disease
179. Prof. dr. B. Roth – May 26th 2014
Roth Lab, Pharmacology Dept., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Chemical biology and chemogenetics as transformative technologies for neuroscience
178. Prof. dr. O. Brüstle – March 12th 2014
Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, University of Bonn, LIFE & BRAIN Center, Bonn/Germany
Stem cells for the study and treatment of neurological disease
177. Prof. dr. C.F Constant– February 10th 2014
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of remyelination
2013
176. Prof. dr. G. Holstege – November 29th 2013
Center for Uroneurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen
The central nervous system control of pelvic organs
175. Prof. dr. J. Frisén – November 21st 2013 – CANCELLED
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
New cells in old brains
174. Prof. dr. H. Eichenbaum – September 10th 2013
Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Boston University, Boston, USA
The hippocampus in space and time
173. Prof. dr. M. Larkum – May 14th 2013
Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
A cellular mechanism for cortical associations – an organizing principle for the cerebral cortex
172. Prof. dr. S. Zukin – April 26th 2013
Neuropsychopharmacology Center, Dept. of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
REST-dependent epigenetic remodelling drives the developmental switch in synaptic NMDA receptors
171. Prof. dr. A. Luthi – March 8th -> June 27th 2013
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Defining the neuronal circuitry of fear
170. Prof. dr. F. Lopes da Silva – February 15th 2013
Emeritus Center for NeuroScience, SILS-UvA, Amsterdam
Tapping the brain – brain rhythms and cognitive phenomena: from correlations to brain-computer interfaces
2012
169. Prof. dr. M. Götz – December 13th 2012
Stem Cell Research, and Physiological Genomics, München University, Germany
Neurogenesis from glial cells – new approaches towards neuronal repair
168. Prof. dr. J.D. Haynes – November 23rd 2012
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
“Brain reading”: decoding thoughts from human brain activity
167. Prof. dr. G. Fishell – September 28th 2012
Smilow Neuroscience Program, New York University Medical Center, NYC, USA
Activity-dependent gene expression directs the maturation of cortical interneurons and the assembly of cortical circuits
166. Prof. dr. T. Südhof – September 25th 2012
Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, USA
Molecular mechanisms of calcium-triggered neurotransmitter release
165. Prof. dr. Y. Ben-Ari – May 24th 2012
Inmed-Inserm, Marseille, France
Brain maturation and neurological disorders: when does the disease start?
164. Prof. dr. S. Goldman – May 11th 2012
Neurology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Human glial progenitor cell-based treatment and modelling of the myelin disorders
163. Prof. dr. J. Reynolds – May 7th 2012
Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Neuronal implementation of attentional processing in visual cortex
162. Prof. dr. G. Buzsáki – March 21st 2012
Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Neural syntax: brain rhythms parse cell assemblies
2011
161. Prof. dr. C. Keysers – November 24th 2011
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, KNAW, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From mirror neurons to empathy
160. Prof. dr. K. Deisseroth – August 26th 2011
Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Optogenetics: technology for controlling the brain with light
159. Prof. dr. J. Sanes – July 1st 2011
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Dissecting visual circuits in the visual system
158. Prof. dr. M. Bear – April 20th 2011
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Fulfilling the promise of molecular medicine in a developmental brain disorder
157. Prof. dr. K. Martin – March 4th 2011
Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Mapping the matrix: is there a greyprint for neocortex?
2010
156. Prof. dr. K. Deisseroth – November 25th 2010
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Optogenetics: technology for controlling the brain with light
155. Prof. dr. A. Araque – October 15th 2010
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Tripartite synapses: astrocytes process and control synaptic information
154. Prof. dr. M. Hausser – September 17th 2010
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK
Dendritic computation
153. Prof. dr. M.E. Goldberg – July 8th 2010
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA / President of the Society for Neuroscience
Hering and Helmholtz were both right: two mechanisms for spatial accuracy in the parietal cortex
152. Prof. dr. E. Callaway – May 18th 2010
Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA
Unraveling cortical circuits with photostimulation and Rabies Virus
151. Prof. dr. B. de Strooper – May 18th 2010
Laboratory of Neuronal Cell Biology and Gene Transfer, KU Leuven, Belgium
The secretases as targets for drug development in Alzheimer’s Disease
150. Prof. dr. K. Nader – April 27th 2010
Dept. of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Exploiting the dynamic nature of memory for therapeutic purposes
149. Prof. dr. S. Grant – February 19th 2010
Gene to Cognition Programme, Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Synapse evolution
2009
148. Prof. dr. T. Tully – November 19th 2009
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Enhancing Memory
147. Prof. dr. G. Laurent – November 2nd 2009
Computation and Neural Systems Program, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, USA
Dynamics and coding in an olfactory circuit
146. Prof. dr. C. Petersen – October 30th 2009
Lab. of Sensory Processing, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception
145. Prof. dr. D. McCormick – October 7th 2009
Dept. of Neurobiology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Cortical network dynamics
144. Prof. dr. D. Ginty – September 11th 2009
Dept. of Neuroscience, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Growth and survival signals controlling development of the peripheral nervous system
143. Prof. dr. J. Dalley – August 24th 2009
Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
The behavioural neuroscience of impulsivity and compulsivity: cross-species analysis
142. Prof. dr. F. Bradke – May 6th 2009
Axonal Growth and Regeneration, MPI for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Intracellular mechanisms of axonal growth and regeneration
141. Prof. dr. F. Kirchhoff – March 3rd 2009
Dept. of Neurogenetics, MPI of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
Dynamics of the central nervous system imaging neuron-glia interactions in vivo
140. Prof. dr. S. Grant – February 6th 2009 – CANCELLED
Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Synapse complexity and the origins of the brain
2008
139. Prof. dr. S. Strittmatter – December 12th 2008 –
Dept. of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Nogo receptor function in adult brain plasticity, sprouting and axonal regeneration
138. Prof. dr. R. Goebel – November 27th 2008 –
Dept. of Neurocognition, Maastricht University, Maastricht & Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Using the BOLD signal for communication and neurofeedback: automatic decoding of real-time fMRI data
137. Prof. dr. H. Monyer – October 17th 2008 – CANCELLED
Dept. of Clinical Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Molecular and functional studies of GABAergic interneurones at the cellular and network level
136. Prof. dr. P. Jonas – June 23rd 2008
Physiological Institute, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Mechanisms of fast signalling in parvalbumin-expressing hippocampal interneurons
135. Prof. dr. J. Lisman – June 2nd 2008
Dept. of Biology, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
The hippocampal memory system: progress in understanding the critical molecular and network mechanisms
134. Prof. dr. A. Volterra – May 13th 2008
Dept. of Cell Biology and Morphology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Astrocytes as active synaptic partners: from physiology to neurodegeneration
133. Prof. dr. F. LaFerla – April 25th 2008
Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA
Studying and treating Alzheimer’s Disease in mice and its translation to humans
132. Prof. dr. J. O’Doherty – March 19th 2008
Div. of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Model-based fMRI and its application to reward-learning and decision making
2007
131. Prof. dr. S. Nelson – December 10th 2007
Dept of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
Physiological genomics of neuronal cell types
130. Prof. dr. R. Stickgold – November 22nd 2007
Center for Sleep and Cognition, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Sleep, memory, and dreams: what your brain is doing while you sleep
129. Prof. dr. E. Gundelfinger – October 22nd 2007
Dept. of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
The brain’s extracellular matrix: a 100 year-old structure still in search for functions
128. Prof. dr. P. Shaw – September 27th 2007
Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Mechanisms in motor neuron disease
127. Prof. dr. P. Seeburg – September 21st 2007
Dept. of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Of mice and memories
126. Prof. dr. M. Schwab – June 14th 2007
Brain Research Institute, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mechanisms of structural and functional repair of the injured adult CNS
125. Prof. dr. E. Moser – May 23rd 2007
Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of science and technology, Trondheim, Norway
Entorhinal grid cells and hippocampal memory: How do we keep track of where we are?
124. Prof. dr. P.M. Lledo – Janaury 19th 2007
Institut Pasteur, Department of Neuroscience, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Newborn neurons in old circuits: how, where and why?
2006
123. Prof. dr. L. Steinman – December 12th 2006
Dept. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Interdept. Program in Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Genomics and proteomic analysis of brain tissue from inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases
122. Prof. dr. B. Sakmann – November 23rd 2006
Dept. of Cell Physiology, MP for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Microcircuits in the neocortex
121. Prof. dr. R. Wong – September 1st 2006
Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, WA, USA
Imaging circuit assembly in the vertebrate retina
120. Prof. dr. M.H. Tuszynski – June 15th 2006
Center for Neural Repair, University of California-SanDiego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Growth factor gene delivery for Alzheimer’s disease
119. Prof. dr. B.B. Fredholm– April 24th 2006
Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
The many roles of adenosine in the brain
118. Prof. dr. M.A.L. Nicolelis – February 6th 2006
Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Computing with neural ensembles
2005
117. Prof. dr. R. Mailnow – November 24th 2005
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Synaptic plasticity mechanisms
116. Prof. dr. M. D’Esposito – October 10th 2005
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute & Dept. of Psychology, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Towards understanding the role of the frontal lobes in cognition
115. Prof. dr. G. Buzsáki – October 3rd 2005
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Brain rhythms and their content
114. Prof. dr. S. Smith – June 24th 2005
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Beckman Center, Stanford University Medical School, USA
Seeing circuits assemble: imaging structure, dynamics and function in developing zebrafish brain
113. Prof. dr. G. Tononi – May 13th 2005
Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: from molecules to networks
112. Prof. dr. O. Paulsen – April 1st 2005
University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, UK
Hippocampal network oscillations: gaining functional insights from underlying mechanisms
111. Prof. dr. A.R. Kriegstein – January 21st 2005
Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Patterns of neurogenesis and migration in cortical development
2004
110. Prof. dr. P. Mombaerts – November 25th 2004
Lab. of Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Olfaction targeted
109. Prof. dr. R.L. Buckner – October 12th 2004
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Images of memory in health and disease
108. Prof. dr. F.M. Rieke – September 6th 2004
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Seeing in the dark: retinal processing and absolute visual sensitivity
107. Prof. dr. R.G.M. Morris – July 6th 2004
Center for Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Memory and the hippocampus: elements of a neurobiological theory
106. Prof. dr. B.D. Trapp – March 14th 2004
Dept. of Neurosciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinical Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
Pathogenesis of neurological disability in multiple sclerosis
105. Prof. dr. J.D. Schall – January 16th 2004
Dept. of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Neural selection and control of visually guided saccades
2003
104. Prof. dr. S.E. Fischer – November 27th 2003
Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
The neurogenetic basis of a sever speech and language disorder
103. Prof. dr. R.M. Nitsch – October 30th 2003
Division of Psychiatric Research, University of Zurich Medical School, Zurich, Switzerland
Vaccination against beta-amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease
102. Prof. dr. M. Steriade – July 14th 2003
Lab. of Neurophysiology, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Neuronal plasticity during states of vigilance leading to paroxysmal events in corticothalamic systems
101. Prof. dr. B. van der Horst – June 27th 2003
Dept. of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tick-tock of the mammalian circadian clock
100. Prof. dr. M. Brecht – March 21st 2003
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Identified neurons and cortical representations
99. Prof. dr. H. Cline – February 14th 2003
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA
Activity drives the structural and functional development of the visual system
98. Prof. dr. M. Mayster – January 13th 2003
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
The neural code of the retina
2002
97. Prof. dr. A. Matus – November 28th 2002
Dept. of Neurobiology, The Friedrich Mayscher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Actin dynamics regulate the morphological plasticity of synaptic connections in the brain
96. Prof. dr. E.K. Miller – November 18th 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA
Prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognitive control
95. Prof. dr. S.A. Small – October 23rd 2002
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
The rise and fall of memory: imaging hippocampal circuits with MRI
94. Dr. P. Seeburg – May 24th 2002
Dept. of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Manipulating LTP and learning in mouse
93. Prof. dr. A. Aguzzi – February 28th 2002
Institute for Neuropathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
The immunology of prion diseases
92. Prof. dr. W. Singer – January 28th 2002
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Hirnforschung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Complementary strategies for the encoding of relations in the cerebral cortex
2001
91. Prof. dr. D.I. Boomsa – December 6th 2001
Dept. of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Genes and behaviour
90. Dr. E. Gundelfinger – October 29th 2001
Dept. of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibnitz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
Assembly of chemical synapses of the central nervous system
89. Dr. R.J. Dolan – July 17th 2001
Dept. of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
Functional brain imaging in depression
88. Dr. M. Segal – June 11th 2001
Dept. of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Functional plasticity in dendritic spines of cultured hippocampal neurons
87. Prof. dr. G. Bloch – April 25th 2001
NSF Center for Biological Timing, University of Virginia, USA
Circadian timing within the mammalian nervous system
86. Prof. dr. P. Sterling – April 9th 2001
Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
How visual perception depends on circuits, synapses, and vesicles
85. Prof. dr. A. Konnerth – March 2nd 2001
Physiologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, München, Germany
Large-scale calcium waves in the developing brain
2000
84. Prof. dr. B.L. McNaughton – December 6th 2000
Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
In what sense the hippocampus is and is not a cognitive map
83. Prof. dr. S.G.N. Grant – December 1st 2000
Center for Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
A new molecular basis for learning and memory
82. Prof. dr. B.S. Meldrum – October 19th 2000
King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, London, UK
Glutamate metabotropic receptors and epilepsy
81. Dr. G.L. Collingridge – April 4th 2000
MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Long-term potentiation and glutamate receptors in the hippocampus
80. Prof. dr. J. O’Keefe – February 18th 2000
Dept. of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK
Spatial functions of the hippocampus
79. Prof. dr. R.K.S. Wong – January 21st 2000
Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY at Brooklyn, NY, USA
Glutamate receptors and epilepsy
1999
78. Dr. J.M.J. Murre – December 2nd 1999
Dept. of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“TraceLink”: a model of learning, memory, amnesia and semantic dementia
77. Dr. G.J. van Ommen – June 18th 1999
Dept. of Genetics, Section Antropogenetics, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
Human genome and health care: medical biology
76. Prof. dr. R. Plasterk – June 11th 1999
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Functional genomics of C. elegans: application to neurogenetics of perception
75. Prof. dr. B.J. Everitt – February 26th 1999
Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Learning and drug addiction: an exploration of neural mechanisms underlying drug-seeking in animals and human
1998
74. Dr. P.R. Roelfsema & dr. V.A.F. Lamme – December 2nd 1998
Replacing prof. dr. A.R. Damasio
73. Prof. dr. P.G. Strange – March 23rd 1998
School of Animal and Microbiological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, UK
Dopamine receptors, structure and function
1997
72. Prof. dr. R. Nicoll – December 12th 1997
Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Aminoacid neurotransmission in the brain
71. Dr. G. Schütz – October 15th 1997
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Analysis of glucocorticoid and cAMP by gene targeting
70. Dr. A. Wirz-Justice – July 4th 1997
Chronobiology Laboratory, Psychiatric University Clinic, Basel, Switzerland
Melatonin, the marvellous molecule for miracular medicine: what do we know about it, actually?
69. Dr. M. Mayford – March 27th 1997
University of California, San Diego, USA
Genetic control of learning and memory from the cellular to the systems level
1996
68. Dr. E.B. De Souza – December 3rd 1996
Research and Development, Neurocrine Biosciences Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
Neurogenetics and the discovery of novel inflammatory mediators in the central nervous system
67. Prof. dr. K. Unsicker – November 7th 1996
Dept. of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Multiple facets of trophic factors and cytokines in nervous system development and regeneration
66. Prof. dr. G.M. Martin – June 25th 1996
Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genetics, Director Alzheimer Disease Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Gene action in the pathobiology of aging in man
65. Dr. M.P. Mattson – June 11th 1996
Sanders Brown Research Center on Aging and Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Novel excitoprotective signal transduction mechanisms that suppress calcium influx
1995
64. Prof. dr. M.A. Corner – October 5th 1995
Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam
Spontaneity of neuronal discharges as a new (and ontogenetically early) principle. In ‘neuroplasticity’ research
63. Prof. dr. T.A. Wehr – June 6th 1995
Clinical Psychobiological Branch, NIMH, Bethesda, USA
Influence of light on sleep and circadian rhythms in controls and depressed patients
62. Prof. dr. J.C. Gillin – June 6th 1995
Dept. of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
PET scanning and sleep studies in depressed patients
61. Dr. M. Palkovíts – April 28th 1995
Laboratory of Neuromorphology, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary & Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Stress‑conducting neuronal pathways: somatosensory‑autonomic interrelationships
60. Dr. P. Somogyi – February 20th 1995
Medical Research Council, Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Compartmentalised distribution of GABA and glutamate receptors in relation to transmitter release sites
59. Dr. J. Epelbaum – January 19th 1995
Centre Paul Broca, Paris, France
Somatostatin deficit in Alzheimer’s disease
58. Prof. dr. C. Trevarthen – January 6th 1995
Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Human brain embryology and childhood empathic disorders
1994
57. Prof. dr. H. Lassmann – December 1st 1994
Research Unit for Experimental Neuropathology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Patterns of cell death in inflammatory and degenerative disorders of the nervous system
56. Dr. H.G. Wiezer – November 21st 1994
Neurology Clinic, Dept. of Epileptology and EEG, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
Epilepsy surgery: what did we learn
55. Dr. D. Hamer – November 2nd 1994
Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Genes, hormones and human sexuality
54. Prof. dr. D.W. Pfaff – April 22nd 1994
cancelled
53. Dr. A. Rosina – March 8th 1994
Instituto di Neuroscienze e Bioimmagini, Milano, Italy
Developmental plasticity in the olivocerebellar system; an in situ and immunohistochemical confocal study
52. Dr. T.F. Freund – February 8th 1994
Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Inhibitory circuits of the hippocampus, their local and subcortical control
1993
51. Dr. B. Pakkenberg – October 21st 1993
Neurological Research Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark
When do humans lose neurons: new results and new problems in the quantitation of the central nervous system
50. Dr. S.J. Watson – September 10th 1993
Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Glutamate receptors in the central nervous system
49. Dr. H. Monyer – June 14th 1993
Laboratory of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Glutamate receptors in the central nervous system
48. Dr. J.B. Hutchison – April 28th 1993
MRC Neuroendocrine Development and Behaviour Group, IAPGR, Babraham, Cambridge, UK
Organisational influence of androgen metabolism in the brain: the roles of active and inactive metabolite formation
47. Dr. N.G. Seidah – March 29th 1993
Clinical Research Institute of Montréal, Québec, Canada
The mammalian kexin/subtilisin-like family of pro-hormone and pro-protein convertases
46. Prof. dr. C. Duyckaerts – March 19th 1993
Laboratoire de Neuropathologie R. Escourolle, La Salpetrière, Paris, France
Why do neurofibrillary changes in Alzheimer’s disease conform to neuroanatomy
45. Prof. dr. W.W. Tourtelotte – March 19th 1993
National Neurological Research Specimen Bank, USA
7 Steps to ideal brain banking for the neuroscientist
Lecture to celebrate the foundation of the Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam (ONWA)
Prof. dr. C. Blakemore – March 8th 1993
Department of Physiology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
The self-made brain
44. Prof. dr. G.L. Ruskell – January 5th 1993
City University, London, United Kingdom
The cavernous sinus plexus: its composition and its relationship to the eye, orbit and cerebral arteries
1992
43. Prof. dr. H.G. Heinzel – December 11th 1992
Institute of Zoology, University Bonn, Division of Neurobiology, Germany
The cooperation of several central pattern generators in the crustacean stomatogastric system
42. Prof. dr. M. O’Shea – November 25th 1992
Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Neuropeptide biosynthesis and the regulation of peptide ratios in insect neurosecretory cells
41. Dr. R. Worden – November 17th 1992
Logica Cambridge Ltd, Cambridge, UK
The hippocampus: assembling memory fragments in space
40. Dr. R.G.M. Morris – November 17th 1992
Laboratory for Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Does long term potentiation have anything to do with learning
39. Prof. dr. C.E. Finch – June 22nd 1992
Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
New roles for inflammatory mediators in the brain: TGF-beta and complement factors during responses to experimental and age-related lesions
38. Prof. dr. K.P. Hoffmann – June 9th 1992
Lehrstuhl für Allgemene Zoologie und Neurobiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Parallel processing in the visuo-motor system of primates
37. Prof. dr. N.K. Gonatas – April 16th 1992
Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Organelle specific antibodies as tools for cell biology and neuropathology
1991
36. Dr. H.S. Schmale – November 22nd 1991
Institute for Cell Biochemistry, Hamburg, Germany
Hereditary diabetes insipidus in rat and man
35. Prof. dr. G. Buzsáki – June 27th 1991
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Network cooperation and memory trace formation in the hippocampus
34. Dr. C.A. Ingham – June 24th 1991
Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Morphological changes in the rat neostriatum after removal of the dopamine input – light and EM studies
Snellius Lecture: prof. dr. Andersen – May 21st 1991
University of Oslo, Norway
Integrative and plastic properties of individual central synapses
33. Dr. S. Laroche – February 18th 1991
Département de Psychophysiologie, Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Long-term potentiation of synaptic transmission and its role in memory mechanisms: facts and hypotheses
1990
32. Dr. G.W. Arbuthnott – September 27th 1990
Medical Research Council, External Scientific Staff, Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
The ‘thorny’ problem of what dopamine does in the brain
31. Dr. B. Julesz – August 30th 1990
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ & California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA Early vision is bottom-up, except for focal attention
30. SWAMMERDAM LECTURES SERIES – Augst 24th 1990
- Dr. L.K. Kaczmarek
Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Long-term changes in neuronal ion channels and release sites induced by protein kinases - Dr. I. Kuperfermann
Center for Neurobiology and behavior, N.Y. State Psychiatric Inst. & Columbia University, USA
Feeding behavior in the sea hare, aplysia californica: a model for the neural behavioral study of behavioral states - Dr. D.L. Alkon
National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Neural Systems Section, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
A G-protein substrate of protein kinase c induces long-term memory-specific transformations of neurons
29. Prof. dr. A. Kaneko – July 12th 1990
National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
Transformation of colour signals in the retina: from trichromacy to opponency
28. Prof. dr. J. Glowinski – May 10th 1990
Collège de France, Paris, France
Pharmacological properties of astrocytes. Heterogeneity and functional application
27. Prof. dr. Y. Laporte – February 6th and 13th 1990
Collège de France, Paris, France
Recent observations on muscle receptors and motor units
1989
26. Prof. dr. A.N. Popper – September 20th 1989
College Park, MD, USA
Peripheral anatomy of the auditory system: structure, function, innervation and post-embryonic development
25. Dr. M.C. Raff – August 23rd 1989
London, United Kingdom
Glial cell diversification in the rat optic nerve
24. Dr. E. Kowler – July 7th 1989
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Cogito ergo moveo: the control of human eye movement
23. Dr. B.B. Lee – April 11th 1989
Göttingen, Germany
Primate ganglion cells and psychophysical channels
22. Dr. David Nicholls – March 13th 1989
Dundee, Scotland
The mechanism and regulation of glutamate exocytosis from isolated nerve terminals
21. Prof. dr. J.I. Simpson – March 6th 1989
New York, USA
The accessory optic system: a visual system in vestibular coordinates
20. Dr. C. Sotelo – January 31st 1989
Paris, France
Embryonic-adult neural interactions in cerebellar grafting
1988
19. Prof. dr. L.W. Swanson – November 30th 1988
La Jolla, USA
Neural and molecular mechanisms underlying the stress response
18. Prof. dr. U. Heinemann – November 7th 1988
Köln, Germany
Synaptic and non-synaptic mechanisms in epileptogenesis
17. Dr. L. Wiklund – October 5th 1988
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Cerebellar climbing fibers
16. Dr. A. Schousboe – September 12th 1988
Copenhagen, Denmark
Neurotrophic activity of GABA
15. Prof. dr. E.A. Barnard – May 17th 1988
Cambridge, United Kingdom
The family of ligand receptors
14. Dr. R. Balázs – April 18th 1988
London, United Kingdom
Effect of excitatory amino acids in the developing brain
13. Dr. T.V.P. Bliss – March 21st 1988
London, United Kingdom
Synaptic machinery for information storage: long-term potentiation in the hippocampus
12. Prof. dr. J.E. Desmedt – February 23rd 1988
Brussels, Belgium
Evoked potentials analysis of somatic sensation in man
11. Prof. dr. W. Singer – January 18th 1988
Frankfurt, Germany
Neuronal mechanisms of experience-dependent development of visual cortex functions
1987
10. Prof. dr. H.G.J.M. Kuijpers – October 2nd 1987
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Axonal transport and the study of fiber connections of the brain
Baltimore, MD, USA
Plasticity of the oculomotor system
1986
Boston, USA
Circadian and other long lasting programs of neuronal activity in molluscs and other invertebrates: mechanisms and relevance for neuropsychiatry
1985
Department of Behavioural Biology Research School of Biological Science Australian National University Canberra City, ACT, Australia
Stereopsis
1984
National Hospital, Queen Square London, England
Critical perfusion of brain and retina
1983
New York University Medical Center New York, USA
Positron emission and computed tomography in dementia and cognitive impairments
Laboratory of Physiology University of Oxford, England
Interaction of genes and the environment in the development of the visual system
1982
Dept. of Histology University of Lund, Sweden
The anatomy of the ascending catacholamine neural system
Institute of Neuropsychology University of Oslo Oslo Norway
Impuls patterns in fast and slow muscles and their role in determining the contractile properties of these muscles
Research School of Biological Sciences Department of Neurobiology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Visual systems in the brains of arthropods