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Past Events

Previously invited speakers

Note: Years with links lead to the relevant event page in Lund University's Research Portal with information on that year's organizing committee. Segerfalk Lecturers with links are those who have been interviewed at Lund University; the links lead to the relevant article.

2025

  • Sophie Scott, London, UK
  • Sandrine Humbert, Paris, France
  • Christophe Heinrich , Lyon, France
  • Rebecca Böhme, Linköping, Sweden
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Andres Lozano, Toronto, Canada

2024

  • Ernest Arenas, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Gabriele Lignani, London, UK
  • Anna Beyeler, Bordeaux, France
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Anne Schaefer, New York, USA / Köln, Germany

2023

  • Vania Broccoli, Milan, Italy
  • Annalisa Buffo, Turin, Italy
  • Lynette Lim, Leuven, Belgium
  • Joanna Wardlaw, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Anil Seth, Brighton, United Kingdom

2022

  • Ulrik Gether, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Andreas Nieder, Tübingen, Germany
  • Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Silvia Cappello, Munich, Germany
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Eero Castrén, Helsinki, Finland

2021

  • Claire Wyart, Paris, France
  • Markus Heilig, Linköping, Sweden
  • Marie Carlén, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Michael Ewers, München, Germany
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Magdalena Götz, Munich, Germany

2020

CANCELLED

2019

  • Owen Wolkowitz, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Eva Hedlund, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Ido Amit, Rehovot, Israel
  • Anna Planas, Barcelona, Spain
  • Segerfalk Lecture: David Anderson, Pasadena, CA, USA

2018

  • Ali H. Brivanlou, New York, NY, USA
  • David Engblom, Linköping, Sweden
  • Fredrik Ullén, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Jonas Frisén, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Segerfalk Lecture: James Surmeier, Chicago, IL, USA

2017

  • Gil Rabinovici, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Konstantinos Meletis, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Paolo Medini, Umeå, Sweden
  • Pierre Vanderhaeghen, Brussels, Belgium
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Nora Volkow, Bethesda, MD, USA

2016

  • Mathew E. Diamond, Trieste, Italy
  • Michel Goedert, Cambridge, UK
  • Nicole Deglon, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Klas Kullander, Uppsala, Sweden  
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Feng Zhang, Cambridge, MA, USA

2015

  • Isabelle Mansuy, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Paola Arlotta, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Andrew Ewing, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Matthias Endres, Berlin, Germany
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Andrew B. Schwartz, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2014

  • Erich Wanker, Berlin, Germany
  • Gilad Silberberg, Stockholm, Sweden
  • May-Britt Moser, Trondheim, Norway
  • David C. Henshall, Dublin, Ireland
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Arturo Alvarez Buylla, San Francisco, CA, USA

2013

  • Thomas Perlmann, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Martin Dichgans, Munich, Germany
  • Michal Schwartz, Rehovot, Israel
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Larry Swanson, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2012

  • Benoni Edin, Umeå, Sweden
  • Marten Smidt, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Torkel Klingberg, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Ann Graybiel, Cambridge, MA, USA

2011

  • Jenny Morton, Cambridge, UK
  • Dimitri Kullmann, London, UK
  • Costantino Iadecola, New York, NY, USA
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Karl Deisseroth, Stanford, CA, USA

2010

  • Marie-Germain Bousser, Paris, France
  • Sadaf Farooqi, Cambridge, UK
  • Tamás Freund, Budapest, Hungary
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Joaquin Fuster, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2009

  • Hagai Bergman, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Michael Häusser, London, UK
  • Anders Nykjaer, Århus, Denmark
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Semir Zeki, London, UK

2008

  • Beverly Davidson, Iowa City, IA, USA
  • Peter Fromherz, Munich, Germany
  • H. Henrik Ehrsson, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Florian Holsboer, Munich, Germany

2007

  • Dick Schwab, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Andrew Jackson, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • Anthony Holtmaat, Long Island, NY, USA
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Bruce McEwen,  New York, NY, USA

2006

  • José Labandeira-Garcia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Gillian Bates, London, UK
  • Sarah Tabrizi, London, UK
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Giacomo Rizzolatti, Parma, Italy

2005

  • Johan Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Nils-Göran Larsson, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Per Roland, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Segerfalk Lecture: Miguel Nicolelis, Durham, NC, USA

Previous Segerfalk Lecturers

2004 - Kamil Ugurbil, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

2003 - Peter Somogyi, Oxford University, UK

2002 - Martin Schwab, Dept. Neuromorphology, University and ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2001 - Paolo Sassone Corsi, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

2000 - H. Robert Horovitz, Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, USA

1999 - Edward G. Jones, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, USA

1998 - Arnon Rosenthal, Department of Neuroscience, San Francisco, USA

1997 - Mahlon R DeLong, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

1996 - Linda Buck, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

1995 - Martin Raff, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London UK

1994 - Richard Franckowiak, MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

1993 - Adron Harris, Department of Pharmacology, Colorado Science Center, Denver, USA

1992 - Eugene Johnson, Department of Pharmacology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

1991 - Richard G.M. Morris, Department of Pharmacology, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Scotland

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