Thursday 8 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term) , continued from previous page

• 16:00 - Huntington’s Disease In A Dish: Current progress and future perspectives
  Professor Nick Allen (University of Cardiff)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Sleep: so familiar, so elusive
  Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)
  Cortex Club
• 16:30 - TrueColours UC – the expected and unexpected! and Molecular redefinition of human intestinal stromal cells using single cell RNAseq
  Dr Alissa Walsh (University of Oxford), Dr James Kinchen (University of Oxford)
  Experimental Medicine TGU Seminars
• 17:00 - Insuring Against Humanitarian Disasters
  Sufi Ahmed (Senior Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, Ethiopia), Owen Barder (Centre for Global Development), Daniel J. Clarke (Government Actuary’s Department , UK), Stefan Dercon (DFID), Rowan Douglas (Willis Group Limited), Debbie Hillier (Oxfam)
• 18:00 - Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets
  Mihika Chatterjee (Green Templeton College), Irina Fedorenko (School of Geography and the Environment), Ian Scott (Emerging Markets Symposium, Green Templeton College)
• 19:00 - The Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance
  Doors open at 6.30pm. Please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite.
  Dr Angela Brueggemann

Friday 9 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:00 - Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Round
  Audience: Members of the University and NHS clinical staff.
  Dr Sue Pavord
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 11:00 - SBMB Seminars
  Felipe Ossa (Schnell Group ), Tom Dixon
  SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
• 12:00 - “A new, dynamic, view of cell state transitions in the nervous system; timing and stochasticity”
  *All Welcome*
  Professor Nancy Papalopulu (The University of Manchester)
• 15:00 - EU Funding in Horizon 2020 - Brexit and Beyond
  Gill Wells (European Team)
  Medical Sciences Division Events
• 16:00 - Beyond inflammation: MMP-9 in neuro-psychiatric disorders’
  Professor Leszek Kaczmarek (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Saturday 10 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 -  GREEN WALLS, to be or not to be… 
  Laurent Châtel (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Anna Lambertini (University of Florence), Gary Grant (Green Infrastructure Consultancy), Marc Barra (Natureparif, Regional Agency for Nature and Biodiversity, Paris), Camilla J. Allen (Sheffield University), Clare Greenslade (Hestercombe Centre for Art and Landscape), Philip White (Hestercombe Centre for Art and Landscape)

Monday 12 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Medical Device Regulatory Compliance – Existing Directive versus proposed new Regulation
  Anne Jury (Anne Jury Associates)
• 11:00 - Characterisation of novel cellular pathways restricting virus replication in mammalian and plant cells: exploitation for vaccine design
  Please email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Peter Simmonds (University of Oxford)
  Jenner Seminars
• 11:00 - MSB seminar
  George Wadhams, Christopher Jones
  Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
• 11:00 - A novel mechanism for controlling the bioavailability and activation of latent TGFb
  Tonia Vincent (University of Oxford)
  Department of Oncology
• 11:30 - BBSRC Open Forum
  Various Speakers
• 12:30 - My Achievements and Failures in Stroke Trials in 35 Years
  Professor Hans-Christoph Diener (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany )
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 17:00 - The Intimacy of Political Violence: Belfast 1969
  Dr Simon Prince (Canterbury Christ Church University)
  Violence Studies Research Network

Tuesday 13 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - NIHR Oxford Health BRC
  Professor John Geddes (Head of University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
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