NEWS
LOOPs Webinars take place on a regular basis every second Wednesday of each month at 4 pm CET
2nd Wednesday of a month at 4pm CET 40' talk + 20' discussion
over 2100
people registered
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Resume of thriving Brain Loops Webinar Series
In October we will resume the highly successful seminar series “Brain Loops Seminars”, which was first established in 2020-22 by Dr. Livia de Hoz (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and Dr. Julio Hechavarria (Goethe Universität Frankfurt), both part of the SPP now. This series has hosted over 70 talks of outstanding neuroscientists, and will now continue under the umbrella of our DFG priority program, SPP2411.
The monthly online seminar will host an excellent selection of international speakers who will discuss their work on subcortical-cortical loops in the brain from the perspective of various sensory modalities. The webinar will take place every second Wednesday of the month at 4pm CET, with one speaker giving a 40-45 minutes talk, followed by 20 minutes for questions, hosted on crowdcast.
There are over 1,800 people registered, and we typically have 100 +/- 40 live attendees at any given talk. The talks are recorded and can be viewed at a later stage.
For a full list of all past online Brain Loops Webinars, please follow the link.
Online Programm
July Webinar
Dr. Roselyne Chauvin, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
"Using Precision Functional Mapping to study motor cortex plasticity."
July 9th, 2025
August Webinar
summer break
September Webinar
summer break
June Webinar
Dr. Bruno Averbeck, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
"Developmental and evolutionary perspectives on thalamic function."
June 11th, 2025
November Webinar
Prof. Dr. Johannes Letzkus, Universität Freiburg
"Top-Down Control of Neocortical Threat Memory."
Nov 12th, 2025
December Webinar
Dr. Antonio Greco, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research
"Computational Mechanisms of Predictive processing in Brains and Maschines."
Dec 10th, 2025
Januar Webinar
Prof. Dr. Hiryu Shizuko, Doshisha University, Kyoto
"Active Sensing in Bats: Behavioral and Engineering Perspectives."
Jan 21th, 2026
10.30 am CET
February Webinar
Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch, FIAS Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
"Predictive Coding Light"
Feb 11th, 2026
3:30 pm CET
October Webinar
Dr. Yuranni Cabral-Calderin, Freie Universität Berlin
"Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment."
Oct 8th, 2025
March Webinar
no webinar in march
March 11th, 2026
April Webinar
tba
April, 8th, 2026
May Webinar
Dr. Jasper Poort, University of Cambridge, UK
title tba
May, 13th, 2026
June Webinar
Dr. Sarah Ruediger, University College London, UK
title tba
June, 10th, 2026
July & August Webinar
Summer Break
September Webinar
Dr. Matthew Self, University of Glasgow, UK
title tba
Sept 9th, 2026
October Webinar
Dr. Ana Gonzales Rueda, University of Glasgow, UK
title tba
Oct 14th, 2026
Dezember Webinar
tba
title tba
Oct 14th, 2026
November Webinar
Florencia Iacaruso, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
title tba
Nov 11th, 2026
May Webinar
Prof. Dr. Dr. Florian Mormann, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
"Single-neuron correlates of perception and memory in the human medial temporal lobe."
May 14th, 2025
April Webinar
Prof. Dr. Jens Kremkow, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
"Retinal input integration in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the mouse superior colliculus in vivo."
April 9th, 2025
March Webinar
no seminar
February Webinar
Prof. Dr. Ziad Hafed, Centrum für integrative Neurowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen
"Vision for perception versus vision for action: dissociable contributions of visual sensory drives from primary visual cortex and superior colliculus neurons to orienting behaviors."
Feb 12th, 2025
January Webinar
no seminar
December Webinar
no seminar
November Webinar
Prof. Dr. Zhaoping Li, Max Planck Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen.
"The VBC framework on how vision works in primate brain, and its extension to multisensory domains across species."
Nov 13th, 2024
Kick-off Webinar
Kirk Leech, Executive Director of the European Animal Research Association (EARA)
"Animal Research: Time to Talk!"
Oct 16th, 2024