A long-neglected layer of cells at the very bottom of the cerebral cortex may directs and sustains attention according to Matthew Larkum, Tim Zolnik and Britta Eickholt from Berlin, and Zoltán Molnár from Oxford @einsteinberlin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/long-ov...

Orexin/hypocretin knockout impairs mouse visual perception, processing and plasticity, and disrupts development of the cortical subplate Dr Cornelia Schöne (University of Göttingen) 26 February 2026, 16:00. DPAG Sherrington Building Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b43...

CORTICAL EVOLUTION CONFERENCE June 15-17, 2026 Organizers: Verónica Martínez Cerdeño, Fernando García Moreno, Elena Vecino, and Stephen Noctor. ventricular.org/corticalevol...

Title: Physiology of orexin: from nutrient sensing to decision making 📅 Date: 19 January 🕓 Time: 16:00-17:00 📍 Location: Biochemistry Department, DCHB, 20-026, Seminar Room 1 The event is open to all and should be of interest to anyone working in or curious about neuroscience.

EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEURONAL CIRCUITS @Lauraandreae, @justuskebschull.bsky.social, @tonyzador.bsky.social Hard copy is out on the collection of articles on how brains are built, diversified, and adapted. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41184133/ with KennethKwan pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38167425/

Professor László Acsády's Neuroscience Seminar 4pm-5pm, Tuesday 13th January at Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre, DPAG. Hungarian Research Network - Institute of Experimental Medicine Axo-spinous communication between the cortex and thalamus talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/73f...

Neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Cortical subplate neurons transiently secrete a brain specific protein, neuroserpin. We now show that exogenous neuroserpin is protective agains mild neonatal HIE (doi.org/10.3390/cell...).

Hungarian Science Club - Sir George Radda FMedSci FRS (1936–2024) - a life in science By Embassy of Hungary in London Nov 28 from 4:15pm to 7:30pm GMT Commemorative Event Honouring Sir George www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hungarian-...

First-ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons There are 6 excellent human brain development papers in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check them out!

Sara Bandiera (Balliol) and Florina Szabó (St John's) had their DPhil graduation ceremony last weekend from our laboratory from @Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. Huge congratulations to both! We thank Medical Research Council UK and Anatomical Society for their respective support.

Professor Makoto SATO - Osaka, Japan, and Professor Alessandro VERCELLI - Torino, Italy shall give SPECIAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINARS 11:00-13:00 on Thursday, 4th December 2025 Location: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre Oxtalks links: - talks.ox.ac.uk/.../bf37b319...; talks.ox.ac.uk/.../c069ece9...

SPECIAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR - PROFESSOR ZAAL KOKAIA (Stem Cell Center Lund University Sweden): Reprogrammed neurons and oligodendrocytes for brain repair after stroke talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/342... Thursday, 11th December at 4pm - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Sherrington Library

Development and function of cortical networks September 29, 2025 Mainz, Campus of the JGU Mainz, BFZ, Duesbergweg 6, Germany www.unimedizin-mainz.de/phys.../vera... This scientific symposium was organised to honor the scientific contributions and achievements of Prof. Heiko J. Luhmann Dr. Luhmann

Jenkinson Developmental Biology Symposium, at the MSTC, on 12 Dec 25. Registration is now open: please note that registration is mandatory but free of charge. Registration will close on 28 Nov.

Today I gave the opening lecture of the MSc in Neuroscience Course at the brand new Life and Mind Building (LaMB) on History of Neuroscience at Oxford. This was a historic event itself; the very first teaching session in the new building. #Oxneuro #neuroscience

T14 isn’t just a fragment — it’s a signalling peptide shaping brain development & activity. Its dysregulation may help explain Alzheimer’s according to Susan Greenfield. The team is celebrating the publication 👉 doi.org/10.3390/ijms... Widespread changes in T14 after manipulations of activity.

CORTICAL EVOLUTION - 15-17th June 2026 - Bilbao Spain Organizers: Verónica Martínez Cerdeño, Fernando García Moreno, Elena Vecino, and Stephen Noctor Early registration until 1st May 2026 ventricular.org/corticalevol... @veronicamartinez.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social

Information Processing in Thalamus and Cortex Cardiff University, School of Biosciences 19th-20th Sep 2025. Organised by Kevin Fox in honour of Vincenzo Crunelli & Frank Sengpiel @Cardiff University Biosciences

The search for the mechanisms cortical regulation of sleep continues. Latest collaborative work suggests that part of the answer lies in the cortex. By switching cortical neurons on and off, we could change how much sleep animals got — and even the quality of that sleep. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New collaborative research from the Szele Laboratory identifies Galectin-3 as a key regulator of neural development, establishing its contribution to brain growth. For more details: www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/.../new-rese.... To read the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to Florina Szabó who defended her DPhil. Thanks to the examiners Prof Nicoletta Kessaris (UCL) and Prof Simon Butt (@interneuron.bsky.social); to Anatomical Society and to Dr Anna Hoerder-Suabedissen for co-supervising. One chapter is already published: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

We say thanks to @stjohnsox.bsky.social & @oxforddpag.bsky.social, and Molnar Lab (www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/mol...) who helped during the Summer Meeting of the Anatomical Society. Thanks to our sponsors who supported our meeting. Read more on DPAG news: www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/anatomi...

Excellent day at the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting at ST John's College, Oxford today. anatsoc.org.uk/meetings/our... @ArtedelCuerpoH1, @SaraBandiera2, @anat_soc, @AnatSocSummer25, @AnatSocOxford

Why wait until the damage is done? Our new paper highlights how many brain and mental health disorders begin before birth — yet most funding still targets late-life neurodegeneration. It’s time to invest in prevention. 🔗 doi.org/10.1159/0005...

My STEP inTO OxMed talk "INTRODUCTION TO BRAIN DEVELOPMENT" is for 14-17 year old secondary school/ sixth form students this Friday.

Gala dinner of @corticodevelopment.bsky.social with some of winners of the poster prizes and with the students asking the best questions.

@corticodevelopment.bsky.social The conference centre shall host the lectures, coffee shall be next to the pool and the gala dinner shall be at Stella di Mare restaurant at the beach.

@corticodevelopment.bsky.social Casa del Massaro shall host the opening dinner, student and postdoc introduction and networking session.

@corticodevelopment.bsky.social Looking forward to the start of the meeting tonight!

Collaborative work between the Mann and Molnár Groups at @OxfordDPAG have studied a small group of specialized brain cells to investigate how they play a powerful role in keeping us alert and helping our brains process sensory information (doi.org/10.3389/fnan...).

Succinct, yet comprehensive summary of our paper doi.org/10.1038/s413... in scienmag.com See: scienmag.com/orexin-sensi... Possible functions of a subpopulation of neurons within lower part of layer 6 of the cerebral cortex that exhibits sensitivity to orexin.

Role of subplate neurons in the development and evolution of the mammalian neocortex 3 June 2025, 16:00 Sherrington Library, Sherrington Building DPAG Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama from Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/067...

A collaborative study from Molnár, Mann, Bannerman and Lak labs has uncovered a population of brain cells that could play a critical role in how we experience stress and anxiety. (Messore, Narayan Therpurakal et al., 2025 - doi.org/10.1038/s413...), www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/molnar-...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a low-cost open-source home-cage monitoring system which measures the food intake and feeding behaviour of laboratory mice. doi.org/10.12688/wel.... www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/.../the-snac....

Florina Szabó makes the cover of the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social. The paper is on the bidirectional interaction between deep-layer pyramidal cells and GABAergic neurons, describing the impact of interrupting pyramidal neuron activity on inhibitory network formation. doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Black Sea Neurogenesis 2025 - Varna, Bulgaria, 05-07 June 2025 www.mu-varna.bg/EN/AboutUs/P...

Just back from an inspiring time at @ox.ac.uk as the DPhil external examiner for Barbara Sarkany, with @vineytj.bsky.social supervising & @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social as internal. Fascinating work on early thalamic tau pathology in #Alzheimers!

The new edition of European Conference on Comparative Neurobiology, ECCN2025 will take place from May 6th to 8th in beautiful Alicante (Spain) and soon you will be able to register and submit your abstracts through the conference website: eccn2025.umh.es

Test, agy, viselkedés - Három nézet és egy beszélgetés. alphapress.hu/termek/test-... Hungarian translation of: Tamas Horvath, Joy Hirsh, Zoltán Molnár (2022) Body, Brain, Behavior - Three Views and a Conversation ELSEVIER, www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Brain-F...

From Stem Cells to Assembloids to Constructing Human Neural Circuits to Study Development and Disease @sergiuppasca.bsky.social Stanford University 4PM, Thursday, 20th February 2025 Blakemore Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building @oxforddpag.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social

Special Neuroscience Seminars on SCHIZOPHRENIA – Developmental Mechanisms in Schizophrenia talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b4b... Cellular Models of Schizophrenia talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/cbb... @UCPH_BRIC, @karolinskainst.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social

DPhil viva voce of Mr Ivan Alex Lazarte from @interneuron.bsky.social from Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. Supervisors: Simon Butt, Adam Packer, Kerry Walker; External examiner: Gilad Silberberg from @karolinskainst.bsky.social, internal @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social.

Susmita Malwade's thesis defense @karolinskainst.bsky.social Supervised: Carl Sellgren (KI), Robert Harris (KI) Roy Perlis (Harvard). Chair: Martin Schalling (KI), Committee: Elias Eriksson (Gothenburg), Erika Comasco (Uppsala), Ulrika Marklund (KI). @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social was the opponent

Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development Supplement (2nd ed) edited by Gillian Morriss-Kay & Shankar Srinivas providing updated, in-depth anatomical content and morphological views of developing organ systems sciencedirect.com/book/9780443... Chapter 23 - is on Brain development doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Please keep the date for HUMAN CEREBRAL CORTEX DEVELOPMENT III - Anatomical Society Meeting 14-16th July 2025, St John’s College, Oxford Follow up to two meetings in 2010 and in 2018 issues of the Journal of Anatomy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for the Cortical Development Conference 2025 Neural Stem Cells to Neural Circuits Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy Date: 25 May to 28 May 2025 Organizers: G Fishell, AR Kriegstein, Z Molnár and F Vaccarino corticaldevelopment.wordpress.com/registration/