Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Department Seminar: ECR Fire Talks
  Various Speakers
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 14:00 - Your wild and precious life
  Liz Jensen
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Gambling Disorder: what is it, and how should it be treated?
  Professor Sam Chamberlain (University of Southampton)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Forces in vessels: how mechanosensors initiate atherosclerosis in arteries
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Ellie Tzima (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'My public education experience: publishing my book 'A Guide to the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Q and A for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers'
  Dr Meinou Simmons (Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - Journal club: Management of subclinical atrial fibrillation
  This is not a Public Meeting - Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for meeting access
  Michael Li (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - The Early Reception of the Sun Machine
  Nicholas Royle
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Psychiatrists’ experiences and opinions of generative artificial intelligence in mental healthcare: An online mixed methods survey
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University (Sweden))
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Unmasking the effects of inequality: How are people affected and when will they rise to address the divide?
  Dr Tabea Hässler (University of Zurich)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 17:00 - Climate Change News Audiences: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Sniffing out circuit changes during sleep
  Dr Julia Harris (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Command, Connect, Clean: Mapping neural circuts for fly grooming as a model motor sequence
  Julie H Simpson (UC Santa Barbara)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Luke O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Lewy body dementia: From the lab, to the clinic and the community beyond - CANCELLED
  John-Paul Taylor (University of Newcastle)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars
• 12:00 - Precision proteomics broadens MultiOmics repertoire and enables biomarker discovery
  Dr Sarantis Chlamydas (Olink Proteomics)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Neuroimmune Cardiovascular Interfaces in Atherosclerosis
  This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
  Sarajo Mohanta, PhD (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Mechanism of Autophagy in Health and Disease
  Professor Zvulun Elazar (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Blood-Brain Barrier Dynamics in Vascular Dementia: Unravelling the Tripartite Crosstalk between the Endothelium, Pericytes, and Microglia
  Dr Axel Montagne (University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jane Harris (University of Oxford), Katherine Noren Curtis (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Drug Discovery Subtheme: opportunity for collaborations
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Barbara Casadei (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Effects of a multi-component menstrual health intervention on mental health symptoms and educational performance in Ugandan schools (MENISCUS): a cluster-randomised controlled trial'
  Professor Helen Weiss (London School of Hygiene and Trpical Medicine), Dr Kate Nelson (London School of Hygiene and Trpical Medicine)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - Rehabilitation Review - PFO audit data - post-acute stroke management
  Please contact Maxine by email in advance to arrange your access to the private Microsoft Team and meeting Link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Joy of discovery: The phenomenology of Aha! experiences
  Dr Amory Danek (Heidelberg University, Germany)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - From Speech to Emotion to Mood: Mental Health Modeling in Real-World Environments
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigan)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge and Common Sense
  Dr Mazhar Ali Bari (Ghulam Bari Foundation and Cognovation), Dr Biliana Popova (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Adolescent experience and a putative sensitive period for learning and decision making in mice
  Professor Linda Wilbrecht (University of California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Mitophagy, from genetics to biology, and back
  Professor Hélène Plun-Favreau (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications in cancer
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Anton Henssen (Charite Berlin)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Bradyarrhythmias: New mechanisms and treatments
  Dr Alicia D'Souza (Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - SSRIs: A Pharmacological Cul-de-Sac?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Phil Cowen (Professor of Psychopharmacology, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Sex differences in neural control of urethral smooth muscle
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Associate Professor Bernard Drumm (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'A year of the Thames Valley LINK Programme. Working with children, young people and professionals in complex situations: strategic and practical considerations'
  Dr Nick Hindley (Oxford Health NHS)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Varieties of Psychedelic Breakthroughs
  Prof Leor Roseman (Exeter University)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Early qualitative and quantitative amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram and raw electroencephalogram for predicting long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants in the Netherlands: a 10-year cohort study
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Maria Luisa Tataranno (University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Variations in 3D genome structure between homologous chromosomes and in stimulus responses
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Ana Pombo (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Pathological profiling of alpha-synuclein aggregates in Parkinson's disease: the search for novel biomarkers and treatment avenues
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Professor Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars
• 14:30 - Meta-training neural networks to control themselves
  Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Kai Sandbrink (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Immune and inflammatory mechanisms in stroke
  Professor Stuart Allan (University of Manchester)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genomic instability: tumor suppressor BRCA2 and DNA breaks
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Brain vulnerability for psychosis: from mechanisms to real-world outcomes
  Dr Gemma Modinos (Kings College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar – The Ethics of Transformative Experience and Psychotherapy (provisional title)
  Dr Farbod Akhlaghi (University of Cambridge)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - Developing a viable MYC inhibitor for cancer treatment: a challenging journey from the lab to the clinic
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Laura Soucek (CEO and PI, Peptomyc)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Genetics and a family-based approach in psychiatry'
  TBA
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - Ischemic stroke at young age: investigating the prognosis
  Please contact Maxine by email in advance to arrange your access to the private Microsoft Team and meeting Link
  TBA
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Computational Neurotherapeutics for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Neurology and Psychiatry
  Prof Giulio Ruffini (Neuroelectrics)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Large language models for data-driven insights from real-world health data
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue" section. Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Dr Danielle S. Bitterman (Harvard Medical School)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
  Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bridging the divide: translational research with a canine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  This is a hybrid seminar. Students/postdocs are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker, which will occur immediately following the talk.
  Prof Richard Piercy (Royal Veterinary College)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Centrosome function in health and disease: a small organelle with a big reach
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Fanni Gergely (Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroimmune signalling within and across brain borders regulating synaptic fate in neurodegeneration
  Dr Soyon Hong (UCL)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - NEAT1 and paraspeckles: nuclear hubs regulating cellular stress responses
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Maria Perander (The Arctic University of Norway)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 17:00 - Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
  Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transformation of sound representations in the auditory system across wakefulness, sleep and anesthesia
  Brice Bathellier (Institut de l’Audition, Paris)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 18TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Genetics of neurodegeneration: progress towards mechanistic treatments
  18th DAVID SMITH LECTURE Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Sir John Hardy (Chair of the Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Placebo Studies & the Replication Crisis
  Dr Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Pharamcology Research Staff Society
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Findings & Learning from the national STADIA (Standardised Diagnostic Assessments in CAMHS) study – a multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial'
  Professor Kapil Sayal (University of Nottingham)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact Maxine by email in advance to arrange your access to the private Microsoft Team and meeting Link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - On the perception of ‘now’: intriguing evidence from confabulating patients
  Prof Armin Schnider (University Hospital Geneve)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 14:30 - Ethox Seminar - Neuroethics of lumbar punctures (aka ‘spinal taps’) for psychiatric indications (provisional title)
  Dr Matthew Baum (Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 15:00 - Learning representations for image-based profiling of perturbations
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Dr Juan C. Caicedo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by repetitive transcranial ultrasound stimulation in humans
  Dr Elsa Fouragnan (University of Plymouth)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Replication fork plasticity and its emerging role during physiological and malignant haematopoiesis
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Massimo Lopes (University of Zurich)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - The transformative role of Somascan for protein biomarker discovery, validation and translation
  TBA, Dr Shea Hamilton (Imperial College London)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Wearables in mega-scale biobanks – are there some learnings for rare disease research?
  Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - New insights into smooth muscle peacemaking
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Hikaru Hashitani (Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Nancy Zucker (Duke University, Durham, USA)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Sleep for synaptic functions
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Julie Seibt (Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Case Presentation: Treating ARFID isn’t scary. We can all do it!
  This talk is for clinical staff only. Please email shona.oleary@psych.ox.ac.uk to request to attend.
  Dr Kate Stein (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Sally Burne (CAMHS Eating Disorders), Sarah Wilcock (Clinical Lead & Specialist Occupational Therapist PEACE Pathway)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Natural language processing of multi-hospital electronic health records for public health surveillance of suicidality
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Ariel Cohen (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (Paris, France))
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - How X-linked sequence variation shapes organismal development
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Imperial College London)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:30 - Predictive and interpretable: using artificial neural networks and classic cognitive models to understand human learning and decision making
  Maria Eckstein (Deepmind)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - TBC
  Professor David Kleinfeld (UC San Diego)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 18 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Prof Eus van Someren (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The musicality of mental time travel
  Prof Nicola Clayton (University of Cambridge), Mark Baldwin (University of Cambridge)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Tuesday 25 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar - The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India
  Dr Eva Fiks (Keele University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 27 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Non-invasive blood flow imaging in the brain: novel methods and applications
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Thomas Okell (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 2 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar – The place of health in the justification of protest
  Dr Ryan Essex (University of Greenwich)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - TIA Review
  Please contact Maxine by email in advance to arrange your access to the private Microsoft Team and meeting Link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 17 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Prof. Dimitri Kullman (University College London)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 August 2024 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Invasive neurophysiology and connectomics for brain signal decoding in brain implants
  Dr Julian Neumann (Charite University, Berlin)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS