Department: Department of Biochemistry
Talks:

Friday 6 March 2026

Dynamic Shielding and Allosteric Modulation of Erythropoietin by Glycosylation
Date: 6 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Yuji Sugita (RIKEN PRI/R-CCS, University of Tokyo)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Prof Syma Khalid (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2026

Watching phage infection one cell at a time: sources and consequences of stochasticity in lysis time
Date: 9 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Diana Fusco (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Stephan Uphoff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2026

Title TBC
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Mingyu Qin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 March 2026

What Viral Genomic Jigsaws Teach Us About Nature’s Self-Organisation Rules?
Date: 18 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Alex Borodavka (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: 20-138
Organisers: Dr. Antoni Wrobel (Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford), Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 March 2026

Title TBC
Date: 19 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 March 2026

Generalists and specialists: strategies for recognition by diversified immune molecules
Date: 25 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Jim Kaufmann
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: The Raymond Dwek Seminar room , 20-026
Organiser: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 April 2026

Order in the Chaos: How Cells Navigate Broken Genomes
Date: 20 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Anjana Badrinaryanan (National Centre for Biological Sciences)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2 (Room 20-138)
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Stephan Uphoff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 April 2026

A (male) Na+/H+ exchanger with potential…Electrochemical gating in the sperm-specific SLC9C1
Date: 23 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Cristina Paulino (Heidelberg University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Part II Talks - Title TBC
Date: 23 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 April 2026

Title TBC
Date: 27 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Iva Tchasovnikarova (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 April 2026

Title TBC
Date: 30 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 7 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Kyle Vaccaro (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 11 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sonja Lorenz (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr. Paul Elliott (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 18 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Gautam Dey (EMBL)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 21 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 28 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 June 2026

Title TBC
Date: 1 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Geert Kops (Hubrecht Institute, Oncode Institute, University Medical Centre Utrecht)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Lars Jansen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 June 2026

Title TBC
Date: 4 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 June 2026

Title TBC
Date: 8 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Edith Heard (Chief Executive Officer, The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 11 June 2026

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 June 2026

Title TBC
Date: 18 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 June 2026

Title TBC
Date: 25 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)