Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:45 - Conference: Mobilising Resources for War
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford Meet & Greet
  TBA
• 10:30 - Fishing and the Global History of Conservation: Preliminary Comparisons of Past and Present
  Professor Sarah S Elkind (San Diego State University)
  Oxford Environmental History Network
• 11:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Measuring impacts of gram-negative bacteraemia in Africa – challenges for a new prospective study
  Dr Alex Aiken (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  BDI seminars
• 11:30 - Getting your research funded: working with patients and the public
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Communication Skills for Researchers: Improv Workshop
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service), Joel Gatehouse
• 13:00 - Neural Circuits of Cognition in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks: Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  David Freedman (University of Chicago)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 13:00 - Mitochondrial Disease in Australian Children – genomics, functional validation and prevention.
  Prof David Thorburn (Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne )
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
• 13:30 - Empathy: harmful or helpful? Half day workshop with Dan Zahavi and Jeremy Howick
  Various (See programme)
• 14:00 - Richard Doll Seminar - Global diabetes epidemiology: past, present and future
  Professor Sarah Wild (University of Edinburgh)
  Population Health Seminars
• 15:00 - From multi-omic discoveries to clinical insights
  Dr Claudia Langenberg (University of Cambridge)
  WHG Seminars
• 16:00 - RNA binding proteins in cancer progression (TALK CANCELLED)
  Talk CANCELLED, will be postponed at the later date.
  Dr Fatima Gebauer (Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars
• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose?
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Chris Budd (University of Bath)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 11 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: A Social Connection Theory of Justice for Global Health Equity
  Noah Rosenberg (University of Oxford)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 11:30 - Career Design and Development: Workshop 3 for Research Staff and DPhils (Old Road)
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 12:00 - Human adult hippocampal neurogenesis during physiological and pathological aging
  TBA
• 12:00 - Human adult hippocampal neurogenesis during physiological and pathological aging
  Professor Maria Llorens-Martín (Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa” Madrid)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - To die or not to die: how cells do their tricks
  Dr Yun Fan (University of Birmingham)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Panel discussion on "Sleep: Features and Functions"
  The Panel discussion will be followed by a Christmas-themed drinks reception, and then interested students, postdocs and faculty members can join the speakers to a local pub for dinner.
  Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania), Prof. Penelope Lewis (University of Cardiff), Dr Jason Rihel (UCL), Professor Stuart Peirson (Associate Professor in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
• 17:00 - Lecture ‘The Intersection of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Global Frictions: New Challenges for Africa’s Archaeologists’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Paul Lane (Cambridge)