Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:00 - Why are tall men at increased risk of aggressive, lethal prostate cancer?
  Dr Valentine Macaulay (University of Oxford), Ashwin Nandakumar (University of Oxford)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Understanding the impact of regulatory T cell subtypes on response to anti-TNF therapy in inflammatory bowel disease
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Raphael Sanches Peres (Powrie Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Working with sensitive research data in the Social Sciences and Humanities
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:00 - Novel genes, pathways and processes involved in arterial valve development in mouse and man
  Professor Debbie Henderson (University of Newcastle)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Missionary Yijing in Qing China: Dialogues between the Yijing and the Bible
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor John T. P. LAI (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum
• 13:30 - Direct and indirect contributions of ocean warming to the last interglacial sea-level highstand: insights and nuances for future predictions
  Dr. Sarah Shackleton (Princeton University)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Multiparametric MRI of the Pancreas – Automated Analysis in UK Biobank
  TBA
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments
• 14:00 - Tools and approaches to build and analyze multiscale computational models in biology -TB as a case study
  Prof Denise Kirschner (University of Michigan Medical School)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Mechanosensing and energy flux driving tumour cell metastasis
  Due to Covid security measures there are only 15 seats for an in-person audience in the EPA Seminar Room at the Dunn School. If you are unable to secure a seat please do join the webinar. Contact Jo Peel to book a seat and for webinar connection details. Email: jo.peel@path.ox.ac.uk
  Prof Laura Machesky (Professor of Cell Biology, Cancer Research UK, Beatson Institute, Glasgow / Director, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 14:15 - Andrei Zeelenev: Identification and Estimation of Network Models with Nonparametric Unobserved Heterogeneity
  Andrei Zeelenev (University College London)
  Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
• 15:00 - ISCA Anthropology Departmental Seminar
  TBA
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 15:15 - Gabriel Carroll: Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments
  Gabriel Carroll (University of Toronto)
  Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
• 15:30 - Insights for Action: The Systems Work of Social Change
  Dr Francois Bonnici (public health physician, professor, social change practitioner and foundation leader), Sheela Patel (founding director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)), Cynthia Rayner (researcher, writer, and lecturer affiliated with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business), Professor Paulo Savaget (Associate Professor of Engineering at Saïd Business School and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Russian Turkestan and the First World War
  Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Bob Kaufman (Rutgers)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Deforestation and fire in the Brazilian Amazon: strategies to reduce this chronic emergency
  Please register via the booking url below to receive joining instructions – in your booking confirmation email, click on “View online event” for the Zoom link and passcode.
  Ane Alencar, PhD (IPAM Amazonia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 16:00 - GABA and gamma: Studying motor plasticity in vivo
  Dr Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Her Neighbor’s Wife: Marriage and Lesbian Desire in the Post-WWII United States
  Lauren Gutterman (University of Texas)
  History of the Gendered Body
• 17:30 - Public Talk: Careers - what are they good for? The future of work in the 21st century
  Stefan Stern (The Guardian)
  Mansfield Public Talks