Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - A Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) Genome-Wide association study gives new insights to a neuroinflammatory disease that can further distinguish it from multiple sclerosis (MS)
  In person only
  Dr Kathrine Attfield (Fugger Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from recombinant XBB variant era to BA.2.86 lineage under heavy immune pressure
  In person only
  Aiste Dijokaite-Guraliuc (Screaton Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - WIMM's LEAF Buddy Scheme & Coffee Morning
  In-person for WIMM Staff and Students only.
  Sustainability Working Group (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Life Science and Sustainability - No Time to Waste!
  In-person for WIMM Staff and Students only.
  Sustainability Working Group (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Lighting up the central dogma to dissect how sharp developmental patterns are established
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Mounia Lagha (Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Insights on immunity against bacterial infection using the ultimate animal model
  In person only
  Professor Andrew Pollard (University of Oxford), Professor Daniela Ferreira (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Better understanding gene regulation and developing targeted therapies for infant blood cancer
  Professor Tom Milne (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - CryoEM achievements and potential
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Delineating the causal role of the gut microbiota in experimental colitis
  In person only
  Dr Rebecca Jeffery (Powrie Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Are all phenotypic hematopoietic cells in the embryo hematopoietic?
  Professor Elaine Dzierzak (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:30 - Mining for gold with AlphaFold: Lessons from genome maintenance
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Johannes Walter (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The evolutionary trajectory of vertebrate adaptive immune systems
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Thomas Boehm (The Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Munich)

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Understanding the mechanisms of interaction between gut immunity and intestinal bacteria
  In person only
  Professor Emma Slack (University of Oxford), Dr Sarah Woodward (Slack Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 12 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Super-enhancer hijacking in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia - from discovery to translation
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Lisa Russell (Newcastle University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 15 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Spatiotemporal analysis of regenerating alveolar niche in chronic lung fibrosis
  In person only
  Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford), Harry (Tian) Hu (Ho Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 18 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:00 - Sex differences in hypertension – how we measure matters
  Dr Anastasia Mihailidou (University of Sydney)
  CDPRC Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Immune micro-niches shape intestinal Treg function
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Yisu Gu (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 21 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “Mechanosensitive K+ channels in hypercholesterolemia, obesity and endothelial dysfunction”
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Irena Levitan (University of Illinois Chicago)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Friday 22 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Back to the Future: Revisiting the arthritogenic peptide hypothesis in HLA-B27+ Spondyloarthropathies
  In person only
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr. Lee Ian Garner (Gillespie Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 26 March 2024 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Metabolic regulation of hematopoietic and immune functions in aging
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Nicola Vannini (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Lausanne)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM