Past Speakers

The Cortex Club is open to the entire academic community from undergraduates to professors and attracts large and enthusiastic audiences. Many renowned neuroscientists have previously given talks at the Cortex Club when they have visited Oxford including:

2018–2019

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Athena Akrami UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Centre	Mackenzie Mathis Harvard University	Loren Frank UC San Francisco
Michael Lohse University of Oxford	Ann-Shyn Chiang National Tsing Hua University	Grace Dent Columbia University
David Bannerman University of Oxford	Kerry Walker University of Oxford	Teresa Burt De Perera University of Oxford
Oscar Marin King’s College London	Madgalena Sauvage Ruhr University Bochum	Adam Packer University of Oxford
Holly Bridge University of Oxford	Claus Hilgetag  UKE Hamburg	Gero Miesebock  University of Oxford
Giulio Tononi  University of Wisconsin-Madison	Chiara Cirelli University of Wisconsin-Madison	Eva Naumann  Duke University
Henry Marsh with University College Science Society	Andrew Parker University of Oxford	Tamar Makin  University College London
Paul Chadderton University of Bristol	Ileana Hanganu-Opatz  University MC Hamburg-Eppendorf,	Robb Rutledge University College London
Anne Churchland Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Tara Keck University College London	Bence Ölveczky Harvard University
Leonie Welberg Nature Neuroscience	Wei Song Ong University of Pennsylvania	Yaniv Ziv Weizman Institute of Science

2017–2018

Claire Gillan Trinity College Dublin	John Rothwell University College London	Guillermina López-Bendito UMH-CSIC Campus San Juan, Alicante
Francisco Clasca Universidad Autonoma de Madrid	Edward Bartlett Purdue University	Jason Rihel University College London
Michael J Hawken New York University	Russell Foster University of Oxford	Sabine Kastner Princeton University
Laura Lopez-Mascaraque Cajal Institute, Madrid	John Cryan University College Cork	David Attwell University College London
Frank Sengpiel Cardiff University	Irene Tracey University of Oxford	Alexander Thiele Newcastle University
Emre Yaksi Kavil Institute	Mu-Ming Poo Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai	Israel Nelken Edmond and Lily Safra Center
Sonja Hofer Universität Basel/UCL	Laura Busse LMU München	David Dupret University of Oxford
Igor Timofeev Université Laval	Ole Paulsen University of Cambridge	Reto Huber University of Zürich
Madeline Lancaster University of Cambridge	Christopher Petkov Newcastle University	Tobias Langenhan Leipzig University
Alessio Delogu King’s College London	Michael Halassa MIT

2016–2017

Richard Hahnloser University of Zurich	Karl Friston University College London	Suresh Jesuthasan A*Star, Singapore
Vlad Vyazovskiy University of Oxford	Sophie Scott University College London	Daniel Wolpert University of Cambridge
Richard Mooney Duke University	Dorothy Bishop University of Oxford	Michael Yartsev UC Berkeley
Xiao-Jing Wang New York University	Simon Rumpel University of Mainz	Catherine Tallon-Baudry Ecole Normale Supérieure
Christian Machens Champalimaud Centre	Daniel Bendor University College London	Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge
Jeff Lichtman Harvard University	Simon Laughlin University of Cambridge

2015–2016

Daniel Salzman Columbia University	Fritjof Helmchen University of Zurich	Troy Margrie University College London
Georg Keller Friedrich Miescher Institute	Mario de Bono University of Cambridge	Adam Packer University College London
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge	Johannes Gräff EPFL	Andreas Schaefer Francis Crick Institute
Marco Tamietto Tilburg University	Adam Kampff University College London	Christian Lüscher University of Geneva
Hannah Clarke University of Cambridge	Douglas Fields NIH	Daniel Polley Harvard University
Sam Solomon University College London	Eve Marder Brandeis University	Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute
Joni Wallis UC Berkeley	Marcos Frank WSU

2014–2015

Tim Bliss NIMR	Anne Churchland CSHL	John Richer University of Oxford
Blake Richards University of Toronto	Thomas McHugh RIKEN	Tiago Branco University of Cambridge
Robert Gütig University of Göttingen	Valentin Nägerl Université de Bordeaux	Matt Jones University of Bristol
Peter Dayan University College London	Michael Crair Yale University	Haruo Kasai University of Tokyo
Eleni Vasilaki University of Sheffield	Todd Sacktor SUNY Downstate	Tara Keck University College London
Richard Brown Dalhousie University	Paul Matthews Imperial College London	Jason Kerr Caesar
Nenad Sestan Yale University	Moritz Helmstaedter MPI for Brain Research	Stanislav Zakharenko St Jude
Angus Silver University College London

2013–2014

Kenji Morita University of Tokyo	Alex Huk University of Texas	Gian Michele Ratto Scuola Normale, Pisa
Richard Brown Dalhousie University	Jennifer Linden University College London	David Dupret University of Oxford
Jonathan Fritz University of Maryland	Kenneth Harris University College London	Juan Burrone King’s College London
Thomas Knöpfel Imperial College London	Matteo Carandini University College London	Heidi-Johansen Berg University of Oxford
Stephen Engel University of Minnesota	Colette Dehay SBRI Lyon	Roi Cohen Kadosh University of Oxford
Arnold Kriegstein UC San Francisco	Ray Guillery	Michael Brand Technische Universität Dresden
Takao Hensch Harvard University	Lizzie Burns University of Oxford

2012–2013

Yongsoo Kim Pennsylvania State University	Ed Lein Allen Institute	Gordon Fishell NYU Neuroscience Institute
Steven Rose The Open University	Michael Spedding Spedding Research Solutions	Denis Jabaudon University of Geneva
Patrick Kanold University of Maryland	Rick Livesey University of Cambridge	Amy Milton University of Cambridge
Rosa Cossart Inmed, Marseilles	Carl Petersen EPFL	Kai Kaila University of Helsinki
Tomomi Shimogori RIKEN Institute	Anthony Isles Cardiff University	Florian Engert Harvard University
Michael Ashby University of Bristol	Adam Kampff University College London	Fred Gage Salk Institute
Russell Foster University of Oxford

2011–2012

Jon Kaas Vanderbilt University	Kevin Fox Cardiff University	Andy Trevelyan Newcastle University
Stephen Oppenheimer University of Oxford	Barbara Finlay Cornell University	Cecilia Heyes University of Oxford
Tamás Freund Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Scott Waddell University of Oxford	David Bannerman University of Oxford
Matt Jones University of Bristol	Andreas Schaefer Francis Crick Institute	Ivan Soltesz Stanford University
Heiko Luhmann University of Mainz	Peter Hacker University of Oxford	Neil Rabinowitz DeepMind
Thomas Mrsic-Flogel University College London	Leopoldo Petreanu Champalimaud Centre	Shubha Tole TIFR, Mumbai
Pierre Vanderhaeghen University of Brussels	Dimitri Kullmann University College London	Botond Roska Friedrich Miescher Institute
Blake Richards University of Toronto Scarborough	Yoshiki Sasai	Olivier Raineteau SBRI, Lyon

2010–2011

T Grant Belgard Verge Genomics	John Parnavelas University College London	Simon Butt University of Oxford
Edward Boyden MIT	Denis Jabaudon University of Geneva	Máté Lengvel University of Cambridge
François Guillemot Francis Crick Institute	Britta Eickholt Charité Berlin	Kei Cho University of Bristol
Marieke Schölvinck Ernst Strüngmann Institute	André Goffinet University of Louvain	Peter Giese King’s College London
Matthew Nolan University of Edinburgh	Christof Koch Caltech	Michael Kohl University of Oxford
Joseph Raimondo University of Cape Town	Melanie Woodin University of Toronto	Fernando Garcia-Moreno University of Oxford
Franziska Oeschger Swiss Academy of Sciences	Navneet Vasistha University of Edinburgh	Kevan Martin University of Zürich
Semir Zeki University College London	Colin Blakemore University of Oxford	Antonella Riccio University College London