Tuesday 17 April 2018 , continued from previous page

• 14:00 - The Cellular Face of Alzheimer's Disease
  Professor Bart De Strooper (UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL)
  ARUK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Neural Plasticity from Synapse to Cognition
  Professor Mu-Ming Poo (Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series
• 18:00 - “Cambridge research on mindfulness training for mental health promotion: trials, distress, and immunity”
  Bio: Dr Julieta Galante is a NIHR Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. She is a qualified medical doctor specialised in public mental health research. Her main interest is studying the effects of meditation techniques for mental health promotion. Her PhD looked at loving-kindness meditation and as a postdoc she led the Mindful Student Study, a trial of a comprehensive scheme to provide mindfulness courses to students at the University of Cambridge.
  Dr Julieta Galante (University of Cambridge)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Wednesday 18 April 2018

• 09:30 - Taking research beyond researchers
  Miriam Frankel (Science Editor, The Conversation)
• 11:00 - The role of bone anabolics in the treatment of myeloma-induced bone disease and their potential effects on dormant tumour cells
  Shelly Lawson (University of Sheffield)
• 12:00 - Archaevirology, Uncovering the History of Viral Pathogens
  Please arrive 5 minutes before the Seminar begins to gain building access
  Klaus Hedman (University of Helsinki)
  Peter Medawar Building Seminars
• 12:30 - Todd and Tzima Lunchtime Lab Talks
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 12:30 - Exploring biomarker fingerprints in OA and Surface modified materials that make it a potential candidate for further biomaterials
  Philippa Hulley (NDORMS, University of Oxford), Indong Jun (NDORMS, University of Oxford)
  Botnar Seminar Series
• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - A Novel Bioinformatic Approach to Problems in Neurological Disorders: A Kind of MAGIC
  Dr Avtar Roopra (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - A Novel Bioinformatic Approach to Problems in Neurological Disorders: A Kind of MAGIC
  Dr Avtar Roopra (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
• 13:00 - Source reconstruction from extracellular potentials, from single cells to whole brains
  Prof Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland)
  Oxford NeuroAI Forum
• 16:00 - The Good City: Urban Transformation, Comparison and Value
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Scibar: The Open Science
  Dr Simone Sturniolo

Thursday 19 April 2018

• 09:00 - AIMday Biomedical Imaging
  Various Speakers
• 09:00 - Making a Difference: Social Sciences and Impact Conference
  Various Speakers
• 10:30 - Ethics training and advice for CUREC and NHS ethics applications
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
• 10:30 - ‘Probing Chaperone-assisted peptide exchange dynamics of Major Histocompatibility Complex molecules by NMR’
  Dr. Nikolaos Sgourakis (University of California, US)
  Special Seminar
• 11:00 - Developing digital teaching practices: Assessment and feedback
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Xavier Laurent (University of Oxford), Jill Fresen (University of Oxford)
  Developing digital teaching practices
• 11:05 - ‘A Phylogenetic Profiling Approach To Identifying Novel Ciliogenesis Genes’
  Professor Alexander Dammermann (University of Vienna, Austria)
  Special Seminar
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