Wednesday 18 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Signalosomes – Nodal Regulators and Therapeutic Targets For Heart Failure
  Dr Michael Kapiloff (Associate Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology and Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Monday 23 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The role of the L-type calcium channel and extracellular matrix stiffness in the regulation of cardiac metabolic activity in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  Professor Livia C Hool (School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley WA and Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW. )
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Wednesday 25 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Newton-Abraham Lecture: Calcium is at the Coeur of Normal Heart function and Disease
  Followed by a reception in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Please note filming and audio recording of this lecture are prohibited.
  Donald M. Bers (Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. Newton-Abraham Professor, at DPAG Oxford (April-Sept 2019), Distinguished Professor & Chair Dept of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, CA, USA.)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 4 October 2019 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The dynamics of cell identity: explorations in mammalian embryos
  Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis (Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Cardiovascular diseases and drugs: hiPSC models moving forward
  Christine Mummery (Dept. Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands )
  Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre Lecture Series

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Striatal synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
  Professor Paolo Calabresi (University of Perugia, Italy)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Schizophrenia as a disease of brain energy metabolism: The promise of therapeutic ketosis
  Zoltán Sarnyai, M.D, Ph.D. (Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Professor of Pharmacology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia )
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neurovascular interactions during CNS development
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Amparo Acker-Palmer (Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt)

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Dame Pamela Shaw (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, University of Sheffield)

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The magic in the web of it: How a rare disorder is helping to untangle the mysteries of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Ellen Sidransky (NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Multiple Roles for CXCL12/CXCR4 Signalling in Cardiovascular Development
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Peter Scambler (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Synaptic alterations in the indirect-pathway of the basal ganglia in experimental Parkinsonism
  Jerome Baufreton (The Neuroscience Institute at Bordeaux)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The mechanical regulation of neuronal growth and regeneration
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Kristian Franze (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A hundred years on: 21st Century Insights into Human Oxygen Homeostasis
  Peter J Ratcliffe (Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford and Director of Clinical Research, Francis Crick Institute, London)
  The Haldane Lecture Series

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cell competition and the regulation of robustness of growth during early mouse development
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Tristan Rodriguez (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )

Friday 13 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium
  Registration £15 per person Registration deadline Friday 22nd November
  Professor Daniel St Johnston (The Gurdon Institute), Dr Kathy Niakan (Human Embryo and Stem Cell Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute), Dr Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford), Tamsin Samuels (Biochemistry), Professor Liam Dolan (Plant Sciences), Professor Clive Wilson (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Xin Sun (DPAG, University of Oxford), Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford), Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford), Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford), Holly Hathrell (University of Oxford), Dr Mubeen Goolam (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium in Oxford