SPECIAL SEMINAR: Professor Anthony Hannan (University of Melbourne) Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations Tuesday, 21 July 2026, 4pm to 5pm Sherrington Library Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, OXFORD events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

The Cajal Club was pleased to recognize Professor Zoltán Molnár (University of Oxford) as the 2026 recipient of the Pinckney J. Harman Memorial Lecture during the Cortical Evolution Conference in Bilbao, Spain. #cajal #evolution #cerebralcortex @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

"A Preconceptional Stress Model Identifies Thalamostriatal Substrates of Intergenerational Vulnerability" Anthony C. Vernon PhD Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology King's College London 11am - Friday, 3rd July 2026 Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre-Sherrington Building, DPAG, Univ of Oxford

HISTORY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR: NEELY SWANSON - Literal or Sense for Sense: Problems with translating Cajal & LARRY SWANSON - A short history of connectomics from Willis to Cajal and beyond events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event... Monday, 22 June, 4-5.30pm DPAG; Sherrington Library, Univ of Oxford

National Undergraduate and Graduate Neuroanatomy Competition (natneurocomp.com) took place last Saturday at Glasgow. Half of all distinctions (5 out of 10) were awarded to Oxford Zain Ali; Wai Fu; Ziad Elderini; Divya Ganesh; Natasha Wheeler. We are very proud of them and all the participants.

Congratulations to Florina Szabó whose paper doi.org/10.1111/joa.... has been recognised as a top viewed article in: The Journal of Anatomy between January 1 , 2024 - December 31, 2024, view count taken at 12 months after publication.

There are transient interactions between cellular elements in the developing brain. Proteomic data generation is now essential for ligand–receptor pair prediction & validation. We examined brain regions, of a single human 20GW brain from @HDBR, Univ Newcastle. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

AZ AGY FEJLŐDÉSE: A KEZDETEKTŐL A GONDOLKODÁSIG 2026. május 20. (szerda) 13:00 óra Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Székház, Díszterem THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRAIN: FROM BEGINNINGS TO THOUGHT Time: Wed, 20 May 2026, 1 p.m. Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ceremony Hall 1051 Budapest, Széchenyi tér 9

Hexalaminar structure is a fundamental feature of the cerebral cortex. In primates Layer 5 has historically been subdivided into two laminae, but now we found three clearly defined sub-laminae in V1 in historic archive material that we denoted as 5Aα, 5Aβ and 5B. (doi.org/10.1111/joa....).

ART AND LEGACY OF SANTIAGO RAMON y CAJAL Organised by the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK, sponsored by @oxforddpag.bsky.social, @stjohnsox.bsky.social Launch: Wednesday 29th April from 3:50. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/oxfor... Lecture theatre 1, Lower ground floor LaMB

36TH CAMBRIDGE NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR AT QEENS' COLLEGE - CNS2026 “CONNECTIONS AND NETWORKS ACROSS SCALES, SPECIES AND TIME” @camneuro.bsky.social prepared an excellent programme featuring 11 talks from Cambridge, 2 talks from NeuroWorks fellows, and 2 plenary lectures neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/.../.

A plaque appeared on the wall of our department to remember the work of Sir John Eccles (1903-1997). The first excitatory postsynaptic potential recording was performed in the laboratory of Eccles in the University of Otago, Dunedin and an example was gifted to me by Professor Phil Sheard in 2014.

7th Japan-UK Neuroscience Symposium held in Cambridge at Christ’s College. We thank AMED and the MRC for their support in making this meeting possible. Thanks goes to the organisers: Kevin Fox, Gaynor Smith, Jemeen Sreedharan, Kei Cho, Kenji Doya, Mayu Takahashi, Tom Macpherson.

Brain Awareness Week at Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 9-12 March 2026 @BrainAwarenessWeek2026

Molnar Lab profile in the latest issue of The Biologist

Teams from DPAG and Chemistry at @ox.ac.uk engineered 3D constructs containing human neuronal progenitor cells cultured either alone or together with mouse astrocytes. Co-cultures performed much better advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @martinschool.bsky.social

Brain Growth Patterns Predict 2-Year Neurodevelopment bioengineer.org/brain-growth... Growth of fetal brain with long-term neurodevelopmental validation provides insights into in utero brain maturation and their predictive relationship with postnatal neurological function. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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...