Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Far from equilibrium: supra-molecular mechanism of energy-driven genome regulation
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 28 February 2025

• 09:15 - Discovery of pan-sarbecovirus neutralising antibody: a battle between viral mutation and antibody evolution
  In person only
  Dr Chang Liu (Screaton Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 13:00 - “Childhood Burkitt lymphoma – Starry sky to Moonshot”
  Although this series offers hybrid option, please note the talk will be displayed in 'viewing mode' only, meaning that the Q&A session and meeting chat will be disabled. Any questions following each seminar should be sent to mhu-pa@imm.ox.ac.uk. Attendees in person will be able to ask questions at the end of the talk as usual.
  Dr Simon Bomken (Newcastle University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 7 March 2025

• 09:15 - Type I IFN-activated lung monocytes and macrophages as initiators of disease in lung fibrosis
  In person only
  Vishal Nathwani (Ho Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:00 - Efferocytic clearance of dying cells in homeostasis and disease
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 14 March 2025

• 09:15 - Shedding light on how immune cells become dysfunctional in tumours
  In person only
  Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 11:00 - Cell-Based Gene Therapies for Cancer
  In-Person Only
  TBA
• 13:00 - “The causes and consequences of hematopoietic stem cell aging”
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and on Teams 'viewing mode' only.
  Dr Michael Milsom (German Cancer Research Centre)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 21 March 2025

• 09:15 - Challenges and advancements in the development of vaccines against Chagas disease
  In person only
  Dr Emil Vergara (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford), Dr Young Kim (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 24 March 2025

• 14:00 - Updates from Edinburgh University Centre for Reproductive Health and Centre for Cardiovascular science.
  Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
  Dr Riada McCredie (University of Edinburgh)
  CDPRC Seminar Series

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 13:00 - A single PAF1C subunit guides RNA polymerase II from elongation to transcription-coupled DNA repair by stabilizing CSB
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Associate Professor Martijn Luijsterburg (Leiden University Medical Center)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 28 March 2025

• 09:15 - Unravelling T cell recognition: Insights from Immunology and AI
  In person only
  Dr Ili Ilievski (Koohy Group, University of Oxford), Dr Christopher Thorpe (Koohy Group, University of Oxford), Benjamin McMaster (Koohy Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 1 April 2025

• 11:00 - Making ends meet: Repair fate mapping illegitimate recombination
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and on Teams 'viewing mode' only.
  Dr Richard L. Frock (Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Understanding and intercepting somatic clonal evolution in blood
  Although this series offers hybrid option, please note the talk will be displayed in 'viewing mode' only, meaning that the Q&A session and meeting chat will be disabled. Any questions following each seminar should be sent to mhu-pa@imm.ox.ac.uk. Attendees in person will be able to ask questions at the end of the talk as usual.
  Prof George Vassiliou (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 8 April 2025

• 13:00 - From Stem Cells in Leukemia to Neurons in Pancreatic Cancer
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 9 April 2025

• 12:00 - Normal and abnormal development of the skull
  Assoc. Prof. Steve Twigg (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 April 2025

• 12:00 - Insights into myeloid malignancies from human iPSC models
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 22 April 2025

• 13:00 - Exploring functional dependencies in very high risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  Professor Jean-Pierre Bourquin
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 12:45 - An overview of diabetes-related research in the China Kadoorie Biobank
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams
  Associate Professor Derrick A. Bennett (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
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