Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Spermatogenesis: a paradigm of stem cell regulation
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Benjamin D Simons (University of Cambridge)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Metabolic regulation of B cell homeostasis
  In person only
  Yavuz Yazicioglu (Clarke Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Obstetric Early Warning scores and the 4P study
  Dr Lucy Mackillop
  CDPRC Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - What determines oncogenic competence?
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Richard White (Oxford Ludwig Institute)

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - Decoding the intricate dynamics of adaptive antigen-specific T cell immunity
  In person only
  Dr Hashem Koohy (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Maximising the impact of CAR T-cell therapy for acute leukaemia
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Sara Ghorashian (University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

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