Department: University of Oxford
Talks:

Wednesday 2 April 2025

Young People and Community Led Change: The Why, What and How
Date: 2 April 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Venue Details: Jesus College Ship Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Tamiwe kayuni (University of Oxford)
Hosts: EMpower (The Emerging Markets Foundation), Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development (University of Oxford)

A conversation with Nicholas Kristof
Date: 2 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Pepper Culpepper (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Neural Footprints of Cardiovascular Risk: Personalized Neuroimaging and Potential for Precision Medicine
Date: 2 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sindhuja Govindarajan (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organiser: Dr Ludovica Griffanti (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lunch & Learn: Writing for High Impact Journals
Date: 2 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Jobs in Transition: Tackling the Shift to a Green Economy
Date: 2 April 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Venue Details: Jesus College Ship Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Sami Wymes (University of Oxford), Tamiwe kayuni (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mahreen Khan (University of Oxford)

The impact of systemic immune factors on response to checkpoint immunotherapy and cancer epidemiology
Date: 2 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Benjamin Fairfax (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 398 159 891 577 Passcode: JA6jM9KQ
Organiser: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 3 April 2025

MitOX 2025
Date: 3 April 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: James Sleigh (UCL), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford ), Sheeza Mughal (IBEC, Barcelona), Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford ), Dr Gautam Wali (Melbourne), Mara Artibani (University of Oxford), Luis Tabara Rodriguez (Cambridge), Enrique Rodriguez (UCL)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Tingewick Hall
Organiser: Professor Karl Morten (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

GCN2 Activation Through Ribosome Traffic Chaos: A Contributor to Resistance in Ovarian Cancer
Date: 3 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Zoya Ignatova (University of Hamburg)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

DPOC Seminar Spatial Biology with the Miltenyi MACSima Imaging Platform
Date: 3 April 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Lilia Draganova (Miltenyi Biotec UK), Dr Jak Grimes (Miltenyi Biotec UK)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Johannes Lehmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: TBA

Success at the last mile - Lessons on improving maternal and child health from the ground up
Date: 3 April 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor Alan Stein (University of Oxford), Chandrika Bahadur (CEO of the Antara Foundation)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 April 2025

Career Lessons from the 2025 ‘Beyond Academia’ Conference for Researchers
Date: 4 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service), Dr Anne Wolfes (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

High throughput pooled screening for mediators of ubiquitin biology
Date: 4 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Daniel Donole (Senior Research Fellow, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Thomas Lanyon-Hogg (Career Development Fellow, Department of Pharmcology)

DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
Date: 4 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Claudio Cortes Rodriguez (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Susann Bruche (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Susann Bruche (DPAG, University of Oxford)

The FG phase and transport selectivity through nuclear pores
Date: 4 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Dirk Goerlich (Max Planck Institute)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Inherent symmetry and flexibility in hepatitis B virus subviral particles
Date: 4 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Zihe Rao (CAMS/PUMC)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: CHG, Room A & B
Organiser: Prof David Stuart (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof David Stuart (University of Oxford)

The extracellular matrix and its regulation of tissue structure and function
Date: 4 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Kevin Chalut (Cambridge Institute of Science)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Nancy Stathopoulou (University of Oxford)

Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
Date: 4 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 April 2025

Fundamentals of Graduate Economics and Finance (Online)
Date: 7 April 2025, 8:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Inés Moreno De Barreda, James Duffy
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organiser: Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Hosts: TBA

Synovial lining macrophages are specified in the first weeks of life
Date: 7 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Rebecca Gentek (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Hosts: TBA

Research Workshop: Using theory in research – the example of critical realism
Date: 7 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Leesa Wheelahan (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 April 2025

Anatomy Jargon Dissected: Exploring Medical Terminology and Early Misconceptions of the Human Body - Talks and Activity
Date: 8 April 2025, 10:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Professor David Langslow (University of Manchester), Professor John Morris (DPAG, University of Oxford), Sharmila Rajendran (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Wellbeing Room
Organisers: Sharmila Rajendran (DPAG, University of Oxford), Karine Barker (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Stem Cells in Leukemia to Neurons in Pancreatic Cancer
Date: 8 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

TIA Review
Date: 8 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 April 2025

Normal and abnormal development of the skull
Date: 9 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assoc. Prof. Steve Twigg (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: NDCLS Seminar Room, Level 4
Organiser: Dr. Arlene Glasgow (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Deborah Gill (University of Oxford )

Thursday 10 April 2025

Exploring physiological roles of Microtubule Associated Protein Tau (MAPT) in developing neurons
Date: 10 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Phalguni Rath (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Host: Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)

Single-cell Sequencing approaches
Date: 10 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Adam Handel
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Room A, Level 6, West Wing
Organisers: Clinical Neurosciences Society (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences), Georgios Baskozos (University of Oxford), Pao-Sheng Chang (Nuffield Department of Clinical Nueosciences, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Georgios Baskozos (University of Oxford), Pao-Sheng Chang (Nuffield Department of Clinical Nueosciences, University of Oxford)

Using Photovoice in Research with People who have Psychosis
Date: 10 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Dr Roisin Mooney (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Dr Byamah Mutamba (Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Dr Roisin Mooney (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (Professor of Psychiatry, University)

Friday 11 April 2025

DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
Date: 11 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Claudio Cortes Rodriguez (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Susann Bruche (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Susann Bruche (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Neural basis of self-control
Date: 11 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Veit Stuphorn (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (ground floor), Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Fabian Grabenhorst (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Mechanisms of co-translational folding and assembly of proteins
Date: 11 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Bernd Bukau (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Dr Girish Mali (Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 14 April 2025

Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
Date: 14 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr. Amina Tawasil (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Probing Cellular Interactions That Induce Immunopathology Within Tissue Environments
Date: 14 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Arne Akbar (University College London)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 April 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Eric O'Neill (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Loneliness, Mental Health and Suicide: Insights from General and Vulnerable Populations
Date: 15 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Vita Postuvan (University of Primorska)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Keith Hawton (University of Oxford )

Merit, Community, and Metrics: Balancing Three Logics of Judgment in Polish Academia
Date: 15 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Łukasz Remisiewicz (Institute of Sociology, University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 April 2025

Inflammatory pDC in Liver Fibrosis and Cancer: Lessons from HIV-1
Date: 16 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Lishan Su (University of Maryland)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 17 April 2025

Malaysian ministry of health talk
Date: 17 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Datuk Dr Muhammad Radzi bin Abu Hassan (Director General, Ministry of Health Malaysia), Jean-Michel Piedagnel (South-South Diagnostic Alliance)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Emily Adams (University of Oxford)

Debunking old dogmas leading to the discovery of a brain NGF metabolic pathway, explaining the Alzheimer’s cholinergic atrophy
Date: 17 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Claudio Cuello (McGill University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Insights into myeloid malignancies from human iPSC models
Date: 17 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Light at the End of the Workday: Sleep and Health Around Retirement
Date: 17 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Luca Stella (University of Milan)
Venue Details: Online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 April 2025

Between Underfunding and ‘Moral Superiority’: The Position of Diamond OA Journals
Date: 22 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Niels Taubert
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What is the role of academia in addressing the biodiversity crisis?
Date: 22 April 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford), EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity), Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)

Wednesday 23 April 2025

The Knotty Problem of Neurofibrillary Tangles
Date: 23 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Kenneth S. Kosik (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

'Rare typicals and non-classical pathotypes: Insights from the genomes of enteric bacteria isolated in Nigeria' presented by Professor Iruka Okeke
Date: 23 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Iruka Okeke (Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre Richard Doll Building
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

What can your shopping basket say about your health?
Date: 23 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Anya Skatova (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Exploring the link between microsctructure, order and toughness in bioinspired composites
Date: 23 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Florian Bouville (Imperial College London)
Venue: Hume-Rothery Building, Parks Road OX1 3PH
Venue Details: Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lorraine Laird (Department of Materials)
Host: Professor Katharina Marquardt (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 April 2025

Book launch: Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu, Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia, 2024
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Tawney Room, first floor
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Conference 'The art of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity' + Book launch for two publications: Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu, 'Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia' (2024) and 'Memories of Journeying through Life: Encounters and Happenings' 1(2025)
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Tawney Room, first floor
Organisers: Dr. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford), Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford), Dr. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)

Workshop on policy-oriented political philosophy
Date: 24 April 2025, 12:30 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 24 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Session (in-person)
Date: 25 April 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Picky Eaters: How macrophages select targets for phagocytosis
Date: 25 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Meghan Morrissey (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Blavatnik Book Talk: Our Dollar, Your Problem
Date: 25 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), Andrea Ferrero (Professor in Economics University of Oxford), Clare Leaver (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
Date: 25 April 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Emily Owens (Brown University), Kaisha Esty (Wesleyan University)
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 April 2025

Discrepancies between teacher and student perceptions of students’ academic attitudes and abilities: the role of student socioeconomic background, ethnicity and gender
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Katherin Barg (University of Bristol)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of dengue
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicole Zitzmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Anti-bacterial vaccination in the context of gut ecosystem
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Theme: Granular Ethnicity and Environment Data: Bridging Gaps in Health Research
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Sara Khalid (NDORMS), Dr Marta Pineda-Moncusi (NDORMS), Dr Qingze Gu (NDORMS)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Astor Lecture: Treatment and Prevention of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Golda S. Ginsburg (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms, lift available
Organiser: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: 'Art, nature and science: Imagining other worlds'
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Ministry for the Future

The Social and Environmental Consequences of the Twin Energy-Digital Transition
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Aurelien Saussay (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ann Kelly (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rasch meta-metres of growth in reading and mathematics attainment tests
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David Andrich (University of Western Australia)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Claudio Baracchini (Stroke Unit & Neurosonology Lab, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padova, Italy)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

CSAE Workshop Week 1
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Antonia Delius (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Union and Firm Labor Market Power
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Miren Azkarate-Askasua (University of Mannheim)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Code Support Python Drop In Session
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Thomas Kiley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Israeli Far-Right amid the Erosion of the 'Legitimate Circle of Politics'
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Ferit Belder (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Natural language processing to identify suicidal ideation and anhedonia in major depressive disorder
Date: 29 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Heather Sarsons (Vancouver School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Twlight (After School) Workshop: Doing Brilliant Biology and Ecology Fieldwork in your School Grounds
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kim Polgreen (Honorary Norham Fellow, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: The Cherwell School (Marston Ferry Road, Oxford OX2 7EE)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh’s Inaugural Lecture ‘Catalysing the Data-enabled Transformation of Health - Globally’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: Examination Schools, 75 - 81 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG
Organiser: Lucy Curtin (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

The Press of the Royal Institution
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The discovery of ReNU syndrome
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker s: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Yuyang Chen (University of Oxford), Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Susan Walker (Genomics England), Dr Sarah Wynn (Unique)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Introduction to Staying in the UK to Work (from the Visa and Immigration Advisors)
Date: 30 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Securing an Internship as a Postgraduate Student
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Code to Confidence: unleashing creativity and problem-solving through Minecraft Education and playful learning
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Kate Whyles (Nottingham College)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road
Organiser: Digital Capabilities Team (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

No seminar this week
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Shedding Light on Conflict and Cholera: Using Night Lights to Track Infrastructure Collapse and Disease Risk
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Daniel Parker (Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: LG Seminar Room 0
Organiser: IDDO (Centre for Global Health Research, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Newton (University of Oxford)

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in spinal muscular atrophy
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Albero Kornblihtt (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Nick Proudfoot (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 1 May 2025

Enhancer variation and chromatin folding, shaping the face in evolution and disease
Date: 1 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Long (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Harnessing tissue regulatory T cells in the brain
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Hashem Koohy (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Current challenges and opportunities in digital healthcare and where the sector is moving in terms of AI
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Oliver Harrison (Royal Society EIR in Oxford- CEO of Koa Health)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room and via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

CVs for non-academic roles (for researchers)
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Development of Motion Vision
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)

World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 2 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

To be announced
Date: 2 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Kharthik Bharath (School of Mathematics, University of Nottingham)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Helen Byrne (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 2 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Alyssa Rusonik (HEC Paris)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Why the drugs should work: A deep cellular atlas reveals a mechanistic overlap between Parkinson’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Caleb Webber (UK Dementia Research Institute and Cardiff University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Steering the evolution of bacteria within hosts
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof. Médéric Diard (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imputation of counterfactual outcomes when the errors are predictable
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Serena Ng (Columbia University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Ellis (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Thesis and Report Writing
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)
Host: James Cunning (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 6 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Simon Cowan (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

CSAE Workshop Week 2
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Qingyu Chen (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Minds, Models and Markets: How Managerial Cognition Shapes Pricing Strategies
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:15
Speaker : Professor David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: William Forsythe - “Hard to say, not knowin…”
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : William Forsythe
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SeedWISE - Cultivating Women's Excellence in STEM
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Careers Lounge
Organisers: MPLS Enterprise, Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)
Host: Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)

Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Yair Berlin (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 5
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Lean Theorem Prover/Will computers prove theorems?
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Professor Leo De Moura (AWS), Professor Kevin Buzzard (Imperial)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
Date: 6 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Stefan Feuerriegel (University of Munich)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Clara Lloyd (Oxford Vaccine Group)
Host: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford Vaccine Group)

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Laureates' panel
Date: 6 May 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Health Economics and Policy Evaluation: Online Course, 2025
Date: 7 May 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Get that fellowship (in-person)
Date: 7 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Sir John Pendry - Metamaterials, invisibility, & perfect lenses: a new world for electromagnetism
Date: 7 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

WIN seminar by Daniel Reznik
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: Stuart Clare (University of Oxford), Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

Financial Security, Climate Shocks and Social Cohesion
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to Improve Your Interview Technique
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using wearables to screen for atrial fibrillation
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Peter H. Charlton (Nokia Bells Lab)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Paul F Hoffman - Dancing continents and frozen oceans: reading Earth’s diary in natural stone tablets
Date: 7 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: New Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Synaptic Neurotransmission
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James E. Rothman (Yale University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

'Shaping the dynamic chromatin landscape for gene expression at single-molecule resolution'
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Carl Wu (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 8 May 2025

The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germline
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Raheleh Rahbari (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Genetic diseases of chromatin: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room K
Organiser: Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hands on Science Engagement (in-person)
Date: 8 May 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker s: Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organiser: Neta Crawford
Host: David Doyle (University of Oxford)

Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Plastics
Date: 9 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Udalova Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

5 years after COVID: what did modellers get right and wrong?
Date: 9 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Matt Keeling (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Developmental programmes in cancer
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cointegrating Multivariate Polynomial Regression Analysis
Date: 9 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Martin Wagner (University of Klagenfurt)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Social Sciences Division EDI Annual Lecture with Afua Hirsch
Date: 9 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker : Afua Hirsch
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 May 2025

Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) - core programme (in-person & online)
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

An Introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What Economists Really Do: The Political and Economic Risks of AI
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Regidter for link
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Contextualised changes in self-efficacy for types of beginning teachers using the multidimensional SET scale
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Helen Watt (University of Sydney)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Insight into Academia: Myths and Realities of starting a career in research
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sebastien Houde (Université de Lausanne)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transport, Science and Policy: Reflections on being an Aotearoa New Zealand Government Transport Chief Science Advisor - Prof Simon Kingham
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Kingham (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/the University of Canterbury)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room, SOGE
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)

The white ears of Ofsted: language, race, and the schools inspectorate
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ian Cushing (Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Exploring and overcoming Imposter Phenomenon (in-person)
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Tracy Bussoli (Association for Coaching)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Paris Lalousis (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Andy Sewell (Systems Immunity Research Institute, University of Cardiff)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Press (University College London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Marco Wittmann (University College London)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tandem lesion stroke
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Alexandre Y Poppe (Université de Montréal)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

CSAE Workshop Week 3
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Brunkhurst (World Bank)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bunching and Taxing Multidimensional Skills
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Job Boerma (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Diversity in Pieces: The Fall and Future of Affirmative Action in Multiracial America
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Sonia Giebel
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Steiner in Zion: The Reception of Anthroposophy in Israel
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/92860307789?pwd=iAdkC3QG1wQ8yvbuOBFTibGofmszPY.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wage Expectations and Job Search
Date: 13 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Alexander Sebald (Copenhagen Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Gaurab Aryal (Boston University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Private Colonialism in Africa
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Academic Self-concept: Cornerstone Of My 40-Year Evolvement as an Applied Quantitative Researcher
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Herb Marsh (Australian Catholic University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture - Engineering Climate Change Solutions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Warren East, Professor Sarah Sparrow (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford), Professor Jesus Lizana (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
Venue: Rhodes House, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

Telling stories that matter: communicating your research through story
Date: 15 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Data Engineers Meeting
Date: 15 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Offer Holders Panel: Civil Service and Public Sector
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utilising multi-omics to better understand painful and painless peripheral neuropathy
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Georgios Baskozos (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Walking Lahore’s Orange Line
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Ammara Maqsood (UCL), Fizzah Sajjad (The London School of Economics and Poltical Science)
Venue Details: Online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Care to Carewashing…and Back Again?
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Jo Littler (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: Dr Rosella Ciccia (University of Oxford), Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Global Surgery
Date: 16 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dong Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Round the clock: circadian gene expression, growth and division in cyanobacteria
Date: 16 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Torkel Loman (University of Oxford)

Metastatic dissemination from the perspective of the cancer cell, its microenvironment, and the host
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani (UCL Cancer Institute in London)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pathways for the entry and exit of solutes and proteins into and from the brain. Implications for neurological diseases
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Roxana Carare (University of Southampton)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Caroline Austin (Newcastle University)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Average Treatment Effects for Exchangeable Random Arrays
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Michael Jansson (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from Elite Civil Service
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Early Impacts of T Levels: A New Set of Hybrid Upper Secondary Vocational Qualifications
Date: 19 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Robbie Maris (University College London)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Insight into Academia: Roles, CVs & Applications
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Johannes Bednar (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Sandra Leonie Field (Monash University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Harold H.W. Lee Room
Organisers: James Read (University of Oxford), Olivier Yasar de France (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)

GROW: Creating Compelling Narratives that Persuade and Succeed
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Roger Frosh (ARC Accelerator)
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Careers Lounge
Organiser: Sally Charles (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Enterprise

Research Data Management (in-person)
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : En Hua Hu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No CSAE Workshop this week
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

In the Fed we Trust? Measuring Trust in Central Banking and its Effects on the Macroeconomy
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Francesca Monti (Universite' Catholique de Louvain)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hybrid Warfare
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Knowledge Quartet 2002-25: the application of teacher knowledge to classroom practice
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Tim Rowland (University of Cambridge)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Dr Gabriel Stylianides (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE: Targeting calcium leak to treat disorders of heart, muscle and brain
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew R. Marks (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Obfuscation in Competitive Markets
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Taylorian Main Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Reshmaan N. Hussam (Harvard University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Scientific writing: core skills
Date: 22 May 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Dr Damien Grégoire - title TBA
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Damien Grégoire (IGMM Montpellier)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: The Art of Choosing
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Organisers: Professor Kimberley Johnson (Winant Professor, RAI), Professor Des King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Emergency as Genre
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Quality Assurance and National Assessment – Denmark’s 10-Year Experiment with Adaptive Online Assessment in Public Education
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christian Ydesen (Chair of History of Education and Education Policy Analysis at the University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and Online
Organiser: Dr Michelle Meadows (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Neuroradiology
Date: 23 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Barnes Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

To be announced
Date: 23 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Kimberly A. Kline (University of Geneva)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Chris Tang (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Revisiting oxygen transport by red cells: getting excited about the most boring cell
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
Date: 26 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 5
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Hannah Timmis (University of Oxford), Anvita Ramachandran (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Capital, Ideas, and the Costs of Financial Frictions
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Pablo Ottenello (University of Maryland)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unequal Opportunity Regimes: Policies, Contexts and the Everyday Experience of Disabled Students in the Nigerian HE
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Abass B. Isiaka (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Byron and Consciousness
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Project management: the essentials
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: careers lounge
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 28 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Coaching Skills for Leaders
Date: 28 May 2025, 13:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Marc Adams (People and Organisational Development)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

"Unbiased" - The Annual Hicks Lecture 2025 - Prof. Matthew Gentzkow
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:45
Speaker : Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: In-person or online. Please register.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Putting stories to work
Date: 29 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Dr Ozgen Deniz - title TBA
Date: 29 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ozgen Deniz (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

The role of the gut environment in shaping the intestinal microbiota and disease outcomes
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Carolina Tropini (University of British Colombia)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)

Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Urology
Date: 30 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Professor Ola Bratt (University of Gothenburg)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Simmons Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Modelling the rheology of biological tissue
Date: 30 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Suzanne Fielding (Dept of Physics Durham University)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Eamonn Gaffney (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Guru Ganeson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stefano Vanni (University of Fribourg)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Annie Liang (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A One-with-Many Approach to Understanding Reciprocity in the Student-Teacher Relationship
Date: 2 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Mirna Sumatic (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Avian and human influenza
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sophie Zhou (University of Reading)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 3 June 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Joel Watson (UCSD)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 6
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Priya Manwaring (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Risky Business Cycles
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/92860307789?pwd=iAdkC3QG1wQ8yvbuOBFTibGofmszPY.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : David Deming (Harvard University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Tom Jones (St Andrews)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Three Minute Thesis - The Oxford Final
Date: 4 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

GROW: How AI is changing industry futures
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: online
Organiser: Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Enterprise

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
Organisers: Laura del Alisal (Reuben College), Ivi Fung (Exeter College), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College), Sam Miller (Jesus College), Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Cameron Bowman (Keble College)
Hosts: TBA

International Macroeconomics Workshop
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Yan Bai (University of Rochester), Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University), Carlo Galli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Rohan Kekre (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), Federica Romei (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organiser: Federica Romei (University of Oxford)
Host: Federica Romei (University of Oxford)

Interviewing for podcasts
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ross Chapman (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Decoding the molecular role of TDP-43 condensation in neurodegeneration using transcriptomics and biophysics
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Narrative CVs for Funding Applications
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Tanita Casci (University of Oxford), Dr Mary Muers (Research Culture Facilitator, Medical Sciences Division), Kanza Basit (Senior Research Facilitator, Social Sciences Division), Gavin Bird (Research Facilitator, Earth Sciences), Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Friday 6 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Quality, Reliability, Safety and Teamwork Unit
Date: 6 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Knight Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Cohen Quad, Walton Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

To be announced
Date: 6 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Luca Alasio (INRIA Paris)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Paul Kubes (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof David R Greaves (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Ryle Room (first floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

IDEAL Conference 2025: Innovations in Surgical Research, Bridging Science & Practice
Date: 9 June 2025, 7:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas, USA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Losing Their Religion: State Banning of Religion, Social Norms, and Female Participation
Date: 9 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shqiponja Telhaj (University of Sussex)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Connecting sensory input, movement, sympathetic activation, learning, and instructional activities
Date: 9 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Ellen Egeland Flø (University of Oslo)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Better treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Chromothripsis and Genomic Instability from Mitotic Errors
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Peter Ly (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Weathering Poverty
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Clare Balboni (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

A Postcard from my Journey with the T cell Receptor
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Chris Garcia (Stanford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Graham Thew (University of Oxford), Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Time Management
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: zoom
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

CSAE Workshop Week 7
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Jordan Imahori (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room, Lower-Ground Floor
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Eileen Parkes (University of Oxford)

Financial Aid and Upward Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Juliana Londono-Velez (University of California, Los Angele)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Getting started in policy engagement (in-person)
Date: 11 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division), Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Technology, Law and Finance
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Rohini Pande (Yale University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Podcast your science (in-person)
Date: 12 June 2025, 9:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research (online)
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: online
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Insights into Scientific Publishing (Oxford Virology and Immunology Networks joint seminar)
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Dr Duc Le (Med journal), Dr Zoltan Fehervari (Springer Nature)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: seminar rooms A+B
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Miles Carroll (University of Oxford), Prof Fadi Issa (Department of Surgical Sciences)

Title TBC
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Intensive care
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network 2025 Annual Symposium
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:30 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Cell-bulk compartmental reaction-diffusion systems: symmetry-breaking patterns with equal diffusivities and diffusion-Induced synchrony.
Date: 13 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Ward (Professor Michael Ward Dept)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Philip Maini (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jake Nebel (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor James Davies (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Ethnicity, Care Experience and Criminalisation: Using Admin Data to Interrogate Youth (In)Justice in England
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Katie Hunter (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 17 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Hall (Director, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute & Theme Lead for Mind, Brain & Neuroscience, Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Spatial-temporal dependency & interventions for radiation-induced cardiac toxicity
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Karl Butterworth (Queen's University Belfast)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Dr Kristoffer Petersson (University of Oxford)

Trusted Research Briefing at MPLS
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road OX1 3PU
Venue Details: The Martin Woods Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics
Organiser: Stephanie Mathyssek (Trusted Research)
Host: Stephanie Mathyssek (Research Services)

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Gabriel Carroll (University of Toronto)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No CSAE Workshop this week
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Networking: A strategic approach (in-person)
Date: 18 June 2025, 9:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

No seminar this week
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 18 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sooraj Achar (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2025: "Incentive-compatible information design"
Date: 18 June 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: In-person or online. Please register.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research (online)
Date: 19 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 19 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

RESPOND Conference
Date: 20 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Organiser: Professor Peter McCulloch (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

To be announced
Date: 20 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Meena Jagadeesan (UC Berkeley (Computer Science))
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 June 2025

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 23 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Leadership in Action
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Wolfson College
Organiser: Alison Trinder (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Biogenesis and function of circular RNA
Date: 25 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Lingling Chen (Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB))
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Nick Proudfoot (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 27 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 July 2025

Oxford Chinese Language Teaching Research Forum
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker : TBC
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY) and Online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 July 2025

Dr Elisa Oricchio - title TBA
Date: 3 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Elisa Oricchio (Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 4 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Hagen Tilgner (Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof. Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 9 July 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 July 2025

Full-Day Workshop: English as an Additional Language - Understanding Evidence for Policy and Practice
Date: 10 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:15
Speaker s: Professor Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford), Dr Hamish Chalmers (University of Oxford), Dr Faidra Faitaki (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 July 2025

Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis - title TBA
Date: 17 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Monday 21 July 2025

Fundamentals of Graduate Economics and Finance (In-Person)
Date: 21 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Inés Moreno De Barreda, James Duffy
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organiser: Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 September 2025

TBC
Date: 4 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 8 September 2025

September Summer School 2025
Date: 8 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Steve Bond, Sergio De Ferra, Andrea Ferrero, Maximilian Kasy, Alexandre Kohlhas, Michael McMahon, Federica Romei, Romuald Méango, Alexei Parakhonyak, Greg Taylor, Petr Sedlacek
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organiser: Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 9 September 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 September 2025

Global Surgery Course 2025
Date: 15 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 September 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 17 September 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 23 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 7 October 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 October 2025

TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 4 November 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Michael Potter (Cambridge)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 12 November 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 January 2025

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 20 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Graham Priest (CUNY)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Host: Joshua Loo (Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 May 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Selim Berker (Harvard)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 12 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA