Tal Kachmann | “Chemical AI”
Donders Institute
March 25th, 2026 – 15h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Stamatina Tzanoulinou | “Decoding stress vulnerability”
University of Lausanne
April 16th, 2026 – 12h
UC-Biotech Auditorium
Dick Swaab | “Dead Brains tell lively stories”
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
April 24th, 2026 – 14h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Antoine Adamantidis | “All-optical dissection for sleep structure and function”
University of Bern
June 19th, 2026 – 14h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Silvana Valtcheva | “Postpartum (re)shaping of neural circuits”
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
March 6th, 2026 – 12h
UC-Biotech Auditorium
Andrew MacAskill | “A role for hippocampus in hidden state inference”
University College of London (UCL)
February 11th, 2025
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Raül Andero Galí | “Translational Mechanisms of Fear Memory”
Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences @Autonomous University of Barcelona, Carlos III Health Institute, CIBERSAM, Spain
November 15th, 2024 – 12h
Auditorium Euclides Pires – UC-Biotech, Cantanhede
Fleur Zeldenrust | “Heterogeneity, dimensionality and non-linearity: how neurons and networks shape information transfer”
Donders Center for Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior @Radboud University, The Netherlands
October 28th, 2024 – 12h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Thomas Morvan | “Experimental and theoretical investigation of vigor dynamics in an ethological foraging task – Contribution of the dorsal striatum in setting effort sensitivity”
Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology (INMED) @Marseille, France
October 8th, 2024 – 12h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Tiago Monteiro | “Using time, choice and movement as windows into cognition (across species)”
Domestication Lab, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences @University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna Austria
William James Center for Research @University of Aveiro, Portugal
September 24th, 2024 – 12h
Auditorium Euclides Pires – UC-Biotech, Cantanhede
Barna Zajzon | “Sequential information processing in modular spiking networks”
Forschungszentrum Jülich @Germany
June 24th, 2024 – 14h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Angela Vincent | “Antibodies behaving badly: autoimmune forms of neurological disorders”
University of Oxford @United Kingdom
June 21st, 2024 – 10h
Neuroscience and Disease 6th CiBB Retreat, Cineteatro Municipal Messias, Mealhada
Mark Shapiro | “Deciphering the regulation and molecular interplay among ion channels critical to brain and peripheral nerve and as therapeutic targets in pathophysiology”
University of Texas Health Science Center @United States of America
June 14th, 2024 – 10h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Nicolas Gutierrez | “To reject or to mate? The neural substrate of sexual rejection in female mice”
Champalimaud Research @Portugal
June 16th, 2024 – 12h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Carmen Sandi | “A neurometabolic nexus linking anxiety and low motivation”
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology @Lausanne, Switzerland
November 23rd, 2023 – 14h
CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)
Mitsuko Uchida | “Shaping behavioral choice with parallel dopamine systems”
Harvard University @United States of America
October 20th, 2023 – 11h30
Auditorium Euclides Pires – UC-Biotech, Cantanhede
Alexandre Charlet | “Oxytocin, astrocytes and amygdala: a triptych for emotional adaptation?”
Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (ICIN) @Strasbourg, France
May 19th, 2023 – 14h
Auditorium Euclides Pires – UC-Biotech, Cantanhede



