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• 11:00 - Promoting Immigrant Belonging and Well-Being Across National and Cultural Contexts
  Dr Adam Komisarof (Keio University), William L. Allen (University of Southampton), Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
• 11:45 - Neural Circuit Targets of Behavioral Medicines: Insights Through Autism Spectrum Disorder Genetics
  Dr Matthew Anderson (Co-Director, Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre)

Monday 22 September 2025

• 12:00 - Explorations in microstructural imaging of the heart and other tissues
  In person only
  Dr Gregory Sands (University of Auckland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 16:00 - Current insights on the mental health and well-being of our students: the 2025 OxWell student survey
  Professor Mina Fazel (Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 September 2025

• 09:30 - New avenues to lighting up the dark mechanics of tumours
  Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
• 10:00 - Designing a conference poster in medicine: Getting started
  Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 11:30 - University of Oxford Nanopore User Group Meeting
  Dr Daniel O'Connor (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford), Viktor Zouboulis (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Journal Club - Journal club: focus on acute interventions
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 13:00 - It's a matter of NO, only depends on where and how much; Controlled modulation of nitric oxide in women’s health
  TBA
• 14:00 - Post-secondary transitions: What do we know from low- and middle- income countries?
  Minahil Asim (University of Ottawa)
• 17:00 - Online Lecture: 'Building animal bodies: the mechanisms that regulate animal shape and form'
  Professor Sebastian Shimeld (Balliol College)

Wednesday 24 September 2025

• 09:00 - External Virtual Human Factors Course
  Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
• 09:15 - Day 1: "Torna a Surriento". Return Migration to Southern Italy from 1876 to Today
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Conference: “Torna a Surriento”: Return Migration to Southern Italy from 1876 to Today
• 10:00 - 13th Oxford Energy Day 2025: 13th Oxford Energy Day – Energy & Data: Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Transition
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - OPTN annual in person meeting: Enhancing Feedback for Postgraduate Taught Students
  Please note that this meeting is in-person only.
  Professor Naomi Winstone (University of Surrey), PGT students (University of Oxford), Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Oxford Postgraduate Teaching Network (OPTN)
• 12:00 - Tuning the Code: Preventing Aberrant Translation to Unlock Safer, Stronger mRNA Immunotherapies
  This seminar will take place in person only
  Dr James Thaventhiran (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge; Addenbrooke’s Hospital)
• 12:00 - The regulation of neural stem cell quiescence by a physical niche
  Professor Isabel Farinas (University of Valencia)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:30 - The Future of Low Carbon Health and Care
  Jennie Middleton (TSU, School of Geography & the Environment, University of Oxford), Dr Laurence Wainwright (Course Director of the MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment and a Departmental Lecturer), Martha Crockat (Independent researcher, Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Environmental Change Institute), Pete Sudbury (Oxfordshire County Council), Dr Soren Kudsk-Iversen (University of Oxford), Sara Khalid (NDORMS, University of Oxford), Dr Amy Booth (DPhil Candidate in Translational Health Sciences, Co-lead, short course in Sustainable Healthcare)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 13:00 - Treatment of patent ductus arteriosus in extreme premature babies
  Samir Gupta (Durham University)
• 13:00 - The Future is Now: Addressing Multidimensional Poverty for Sustainable Development (UNGA 80)
  Claver Gatete (Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)), Sidi Ahmed Ould Bouh (Minister of Economy and Finance, Mauritania), Yorleni León Marchena (Minister of Human Development and Social Inclusion, Costa Rica), Ali Haidar Ahmed (Minister of Higher Education, Labour and Skills Development, Maldives), Obid Khakimov (Deputy Advisor to the President, Director of Centre for Economic Research and Reforms (CERR), Uzbekistan), Paula Poblete (Undersecretary of Social Evaluation, Ministry of Social Development and Family, Chile), Claudia Maldonado (Coordinator of Evaluation and Policy, National System of Statistical and Geographical Information, Mexico), Nardos Bekele-Thomas (Chief Executive Officer, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)), Bjørg Sandkjær (Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)), Lin Yang (Deputy Executive Secretary, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)), Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski (Director of Gender, Poverty, & Social Policy, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA))
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