Tal Kachmann | “Chemical AI” 

Donders Institute

March 25th, 2026 – 15h

CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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Stamatina Tzanoulinou | “Decoding stress vulnerability” 

University of Lausanne

April 16th, 2026 – 12h

UC-Biotech Auditorium 

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Dick Swaab | “Dead Brains tell lively stories” 

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

April 24th, 2026 – 14h

CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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Antoine Adamantidis | “All-optical dissection for sleep structure and function” 

University of Bern

June 19th, 2026 – 14h

CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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Past seminars

Silvana Valtcheva | “Postpartum (re)shaping of neural circuits” 

Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research

March 6th, 2026 – 12h

UC-Biotech Auditorium

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Andrew MacAskill | “A role for hippocampus in hidden state inference” 

University College of London (UCL)

February 11th, 2025 

CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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Barna Zajzon | “Sequential information processing in modular spiking networks”

Forschungszentrum Jülich @Germany

June 24th, 2024 – 14h

CNC Polo I – Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

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