Department: Department of Biochemistry
Talks:

Thursday 5 June 2025

Benchmarking Inverse Folding Models for Antibody CDR Sequence Design
Date: 5 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Jeffery Pang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: room 40-091
Organiser: Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

‘Deconvoluting respiratory complex I: combining high-resolution cryoEM and functional studies in energy-transducing membranes to work out how it works’
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)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

An indirect way of detecting viruses: MDA5 guards against infection by surveying cellular RNA homeostasis
Date: 11 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (20-026)
Organiser: Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Structural glycobiology in the era of AI: Restoring protein glycosylation with GlycoShape
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
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Kyle Vaccaro (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2 (20-138)
Organiser: Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

‘A novel fracture lattice in spiny mouse skin facilitates tissue autotomy and regeneration’
Date: 4 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr. Hanseul Yang (Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, Room 20-026
Organiser: Dr. Jeongyoon Choi (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr. Jeongyoon Choi (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Monday 13 October 2025

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)

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 )