Tuesday 24 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Target and Polypharmacology Discovery with 3D Models of Everything
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Ruben Abagyan (Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 16 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dynamic protein structure: from protein disorder to membrane pores
  Frank Sobott (University of Antwerp)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 24 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - 4th Oxford Symposium - Epigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease New Frontiers in Epigenetics
  Udo Oppermann (University of Oxford), Susanne Muller-Knapp (SGC, University of Oxford), Jorn Walter (Saarland University)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 4 August 2015 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genomics and the nature of schizophrenia
  Prof Mike Owen (Cardiff University)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Flow Chemistry: Opening Up New Chemistry Frontiers
  Richard Jones (ThalesNano)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Super-resolution optical microscopy: Current state-of-the-art of biomedical applications
  Prof Christian Eggeling (University of Oxford)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 15 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Voltage-gated calcium channels and their roles in disease
  Annette Dolphin (University College London)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:45 - New insights into LRRK2 and SGK3 signalling pathway and relevance to Parkinson’s disease and cancer
  Dario Alessi (University of Dundee)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - “Imaging proteins at the single molecule level”
  Jean-Nicolas Longchamp (University of Zuerich)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 2 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:00 - Drug discovery: creating a new ecosystem
  Please check website (.)

Wednesday 7 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The development of Keap1-interactive compounds that regulate Nrf2 transcriptional activity
  Dr Geoff Wells (University College London)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 19 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Birth of the Cool: Multitemperature Multiconformer X-Ray Crystallography and Allostery
  Dr James Fraser (UCSF)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:45 - Advanced Chemical Genetics for Epigenetics: Bump-and-hole and PROTACs
  Dr. Alessio Ciulli (University of Dundee)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 5 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Epigenetic Targets for the Treatment of Human Diseases
  All welcome.
  Rab Prinjha (GSK Biology Council)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of polyA tail length by cellular machines
  Lori Passmore ( MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Biological imaging and ultrafast spectroscopy facilities in the Research Complex at Harwell, and their role in the study of structure/function relationships of EGF receptor complexes
  Prof MarisaProf. Marisa Martin-Fernandez (Harwell), Dr Dave Clarke (Harwell)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Informatics methods for understanding drug action
  Prof Russ Altman (Stanford University)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Identification of novel functional sites in protein domains from the analysis of human variation
  Prof Geoff Barton (Dundee University)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Development in ALS.
  Dr Lucie Bruijn (Chief Scientist, ALS Association (USA))
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Phase contrast cryo-electron microscopy
  Maryam Khoshouei (Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Pioneering- one of our core values and how it influences everything we do
  David Jenkinson (Chief Scientist, The Brain Tumour Charity)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 16 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Protein Folding Machines- Molecular Machines for Complex Problems
  Kelly Knee (Pfizer)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 12 April 2017 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Biophysical characterization of G6b-B: advancing the field of ITIM receptors
  Prof Yotis Senis (University of Birmingham)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A vision for an academic-industry hybrid type 2 diabetes early biology research institute in Oxford
  Prof Jim Johnson (The University of British Columbia)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Public Private Partnerships at NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to Translate Promising Therapies into Treatments for Rare and Neglected Diseases
  Dr Nora Yang (NIH, USA)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - "Vaccination against chronic diseases" by Prof Bachmann & “VLP Vaccine approach for Parkinson’s Disease” by Dr. El-Turabi
  Prof Martin Bachmann (Jenner Institute), Dr. Aadil El-Turabi (Jenner Institute)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Modelling breast cancer using human tumour explants
  Prof Carlos Caldas (CRUK Cambridge Institute)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From Protein Complexes Structures to Synthetic Viral Nanosystems
  Prof Imre Berger (University of Bristol)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 10 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Towards a Comprehensive Structural Understanding of BCR-ABL Tyrosine Kinase Complexes
  Prof Oliver Hantschel (ISREC)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 21 July 2017 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication revealed by structural studies
  *This talk has been cancelled - will be rescheduled for after summer*
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Luca Pellegrini (University of Cambridge)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 31 July 2017 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - NGL – a molecular graphics library for the web
  Dr Alex Rose (RCSB PDB, USA)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 11 August 2017 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Identifying tomorrow’s hepatocellular carcinoma patients’
  Dr Rajarshi Banerjee (CEO of Perspectum Diagnotics)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 20 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Global Biochemical Profiling for Problem Solving in Biology and Disease
  Prof Chris Schofield (Head of Organic Chemistry, Univ Oxford)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 26 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Phosphorylation-dependent assembly of DNA damage response complexes’
  Prof Laurence Pearl (Sussex University)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - A mass spectrometric view on epigenetic and phosphorylation based signalling systems
  Dr Matthias Gstaiger (Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich )
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Global Biochemical Profiling for Problem Solving in Biology and Disease
  Saul H. Rosenberg, PhD. (Senior Director of Oncology Discovery at AbbVie)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 8 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication revealed by structural studies
  Prof Luca Pellegrini (Cambridge University)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - GraDeR: detergent free membrane protein preparation
  Ass. Prof. Christoph Gerle (Laboratory of Protein Crystallography, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Human stem cells for drug discovery
  Dr Nicola Beer (Head of the Department of Stem Cell Engineering at Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Bringing a structural perspective to antimicrobial resistance; can we predict whether individual mutations confer resistance or not?
  CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Philip Fowler (Experimental Medicine Division, Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 13 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dr P McPherson "Intracellular membrane trafficking in neurological disease", & Dr T Durcan "Open science meets Stem cells: A new approach for developing therapies against disorders of the brain"
  Dr Peter McPherson (McGill University), Dr Thomas Durcan (McGill University)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 15 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Cryo-EM structures illuminate binding sites and gating mechanisms in the pancreatic Katp channel.
  Gregory Martin (Oregon Health & Science University Portland (OR), USA)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 23 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - From mucolipidosis type IV to Ebola: insights into function and pharmacology of endolysosomal cation channels
  Dr Christian Grimm (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU))
  CMD Seminars

Friday 6 April 2018 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Therapeutic targets in Ageing
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor David Le Couteur (The University of Sydney)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding and treating lysosomal diseases
  Prof Frances Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The history and use of DNA-Encoded Libraries in drug discovery
  Dr Barry Morgan (CSO HitGen, Boston, USA)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:00 - SGC Exploiting disease genomics to catalyse new medicines
  http://www.thesgc.org/tep-symposium-2018

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Open Access Mass Spec. Training 2018
  Rod Chalk (University of Oxford, Structural Genomics Consortium)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Studying drug effects on the Proteome
  Marcus Bantscheff (Head of Technology, Cellzome A GSK company)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 7 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A detergent free solution to the age old problem of membrane protein extraction
  Professor Tim Dafforn (University of Birmingham)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Iterative Stochastic Elimination Algorithm for drug discovery by targeting and multitargeting
  Prof Amiram Goldblum (Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Spinning-out Science: the good, the bad, and the unexpected
  Seminar is followed by a networking buffet from 6.30pm (please register for catering numbers)
  Professor Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  Life Sciences Entrepreneur Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Life science venture creation – Lessons learned…often the hard way
  Dr Kevin Pojasek (SV Health Investors )
  Life Sciences Entrepreneur Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Exhibition Launch: Proteins in Praxis. A collaboration of art and science between the Structural Genomics Consortium and the Arts University of Bournemouth.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 16 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - UK Spine Knowledge Exchange and Affordable Medicines Conference (British Library, Euston Road, London 16-17th April)
  Various Speakers

Thursday 25 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Hidden treasures of the RNA World: from moonlighting to riboregulation
  Prof Matthias Hentze (Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Co-Director of the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU))
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 30 July 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Patient positioning: How to take an oncology drug into the clinic
  Dr Sarah Blagden (Department of Oncology, Univeristy of Oxford)
  CMD Seminars

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

• 13:00 - 1. Fundamentals of Mass Spectrometry
  TBA
  Open Access Mass Spec. Training Programme 2019

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

• 14:00 - 1. Fundamentals of Mass Spectrometry
  TBA
  Open Access Mass Spec. Training Programme 2019

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Signalling with ubiquitin — communication between metabolism, immune responses and DNA damage repair
  Dr Elton Zeqiraj (University of Leeds)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Host-directed therapies for tuberculosis targeting macrophage activation and stress resilience
  Prof Igor Kramnik (University of Boston)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 19 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Future of Drug Discovery for Healthy Ageing
  Various Speakers

Thursday 24 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Polypharmacy in Older Adults – Challenges and Technological Advances
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Quantitative Proteomics
  Dr Holger Kramer (MRC London Insitute of Medical Sciences)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Accelerating Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease
  Dr Allan Levey (Emory University)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery?
  Adam Nelson (University of Leeds)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - An introduction to metabolomics: Investigating cellular function and determining novel drug targets for disease
  Professor James McCullagh
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Targeting subcellular trafficking pathways for the design of therapeutic antibodies
  Professor E. Sally Ward (University of Southampton)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Identifying new targets in cardiometabolic disease
  Professor Keith Channon
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Accelerating medicinal chemistry with hypothesis-driven machine learning
  Dr Alpha Lee (University of Cambridge)
  CMD Seminars