Thursday 26 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Unbiased Approaches to Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Discovery
  Prof. Alice Chen-Plotkin (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 27 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor James Johnson, Visiting Professor of Integrated Physiology from The University of British Columbia - In vivo control of heart rate and cardiomyocyte metabolism by Ryr2-mediated calcium flux
  Prof. James Johnson (Visiting Professor of Integrated Physiology from The University of British Columbia)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Nucloetide-binding domain motions during gating in CFTR channels, the ABC proteins whose dysfunction causes cystic fibrosis
  Prof David C. Gadsby, PhD (Patrick A. Gerschel Family Professor, Laboratory of Cardiac and Membrane Physiology, The Rockefeller University, New York)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 6 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Dr Natalie Connor-Robson - 'Translating Parkinson's: Integrating data from iPSC and transgenic rodent models'
  Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 9 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry: Promises & Pitfalls
  Dr Mark Walton (University of Oxford), Dr Katie Jennings (University of Oxford)
  Dopamine Club

Friday 13 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Amanda Fisher, Director, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College - Linking epigenetics and signalling in the early mammalian embryo
  Prof. Amanda Fisher (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 20 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Functional Prions: A Perspective
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Eric Kandel (Columbia University, New York )

Friday 10 April 2015 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Genetic controls and cellular events during renal branching morphogenesis
  All welcome.
  Prof Frank Constantini (Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 16:00 - Neuroinflammation Influenced by Parkinson's Disease genes SNCA and LRRK2
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 20 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - OPDC Research Day 2015
  Abstract Submission closes Friday March 20th 2015 Registration closes on April 10th 2015 If you have any further queries please contact opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
  TBA
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 21 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Genomics in Immunology
  TBA

Friday 24 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Neural differentiation and characterization of cd31 positive cells derived from the mouse fetal cerebral cortex
  SPECIAL SEMINAR - CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE // DEVELOPMENT & CELL BIOLOGY
  Prof Tomohiro Matsuyama (Laboratory of Neurogenesis and CNS Repair, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 1 May 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Aziz Aboobaker : ‘Understanding stem cells and regeneration using the planarian model system’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Prof. Steven Gill "GDNF: Back to the Clinic"
  Professor Steven S Gill MB FRCS MS (Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, North Bristol NHS Trust)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 7 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - BSCSC Speed Talks
  TBA
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

Friday 8 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Keith Buckler : Mechanisms of oxygen sensing in arterial chemoreceptors.
  Dr Keith Buckler (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Melissa Bowerman : ‘Spinal muscular atrophy: more than just a motoneuron pathology’
  Dr Melissa Bowerman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Victoria Baja Lorenzana : ‘Practice makes perfect – Neural circuits for auditory plasticity’
  Professor Victoria Baja Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Professor Simon Lovestone : 'Deconvoluting the amyloid cascade in Alzheimer’s disease; the role of wnt signalling’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Simon Lovestone, (Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Development and Evolution of Neocortical Projection Systems
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar
  Professor Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD (Departments of Neurobiology, Genetics and Psychiatry, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine )
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 22 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Sarah De Val : ‘Transcriptional pathways controlling blood vessel development and differentiation’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 29 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Regulation of Epithelial Growth and Homeostasis by Intrinsic and Exogenous Factors
  Dr. Jeremiah Zartman (Department of Chemical and Biomoleculer Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Thursday 4 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - RESOLFT Super Resolution Microscopy: Application for Life Science
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ilaria Testa (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 5 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Herman Steller : “Regulation of Proteasome Activity in Development, Aging and Disease”
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Herman Steller (Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 12 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Oscar Marin, KCL : 'Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity'
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 15 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Technical overview and discussion of single unit DA cell recordings in awake animals
  Dr Paul Dodson (University of Oxford, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit), Anna Kaufmann (University of Oxford, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit )
  Dopamine Club

Wednesday 17 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Pulse trains to percepts: The challenge of creating a perceptually intelligible world with sight recovery technologies
  Professor Geoff Boynton (Department of Psychology, University of Washington at Seattle)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 19 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Building a Nanoscale Bushy Cell Connectome: Wiring Diagrams, Big Data Challenges and Hearing In Silico
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr George Spirou (Director, Center of Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine)
  DPAG Guest Speakers
• 13:00 - Professor Anna Gloyn : 'Unravelling causal mechanisms for diabetes pathogenesis’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Anna Gloyn (OCDEM, University of Oxford )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 6 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Using single-cell transcriptome profiles to analyse the cellular composition of the brain
  Dr Jesper Ryge (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
  MRC Functional Genomics Unit Talks (DPAG)

Thursday 16 July 2015 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Orchestrating the metabolic tango between mother and baby during pregnancy
  Prof. James Cross (University of Calgary)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:30 - Specifying and maintaining neuronal fate in the developing nervous system
  Oxford Fly Club Seminar
  Dr Tony D. Southall (Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Wednesday 22 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - The interaction between nutrition and the brain and its consequences for body weight gain and metabolism
  Dr Susanne la Fleur (Department Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Amsterdam)
  Metabolism & Endocrinology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 28 August 2015 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The impact of phrenology in Edinburgh, past, present and future
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor David J Price (Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Edinburgh)

Monday 7 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Taste Processing in Drosophila
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Kristin Scott (University of California, Berkeley)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Thursday 10 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding how alterations in cortical circuitry modify behavioral outputs
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Angelique Bordey, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 18 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - What are Fruitless proteins really doing for LOVEly fruit flies?
  Daisuke Yamamoto (Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Japan)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The role of the subplate layer in radial neuronal migration and cortical
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 6 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Motile Behaviour of E.Coli: Navigation by a single-celled Nervous System
  Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Motile Behavior of E. coli: Navigation by a Single-celled Nervous System
  Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Neurobiology of Hunger
  Professor Scott Sternson (Janelia Farm)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Post-infarct remodeling of cardiac sympathetic nerves and arrhythmia
  Professor Beth Habeker (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA)
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Stress-activated kinase MKK7 governs epigenetics of cardiac repolarisation for arrhythmia prevention
  Dr Xin Joy Wang (University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences)
• 13:00 - The blind cavefish: Unravelling the mechanisms underlying heart regeneration
  Dr Tilly Mommersteeg (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Dr Tilly Mommersteeg
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Dr Tilly Mommersteeg
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - ‘The family of CLC chloride channels and transporters: proteins with borderline personalities’
  Dr Giovanni Zifarelli (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Novel behavioural phenotypes in the Neuroligin-3 genetic mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Cellular & Systems Neuroscience Seminars
  Emma Burrows PhD (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne )
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Dormant stem/progenitor cells lurking in the adult heart’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Michela Noseda (Imperial College)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Novel insights on cardiac sympathetic innervation
  Lunch will be provided
  Dr Marco Mongillo (Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Italy)
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

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

• 16:00 - Astrocyte roles in CNS injury and disease
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Michael Sofroniew, MD PhD (Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 30 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Postsynaptic regulation of synapse function and plasticity
  Associate Professor Johanna Montgomery (Dept of Physiology and Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
  General Talks

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Regulation of human pluripotent stem cell differentiation by the cell cycle
  Siim Pauklin (Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Anne McLaren Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker: Professor Jean Rossier - ‘Cortical fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons enwrapped in the perineuronal net express the metallopeptidases Adamts8, Adamts15 and Neprilysin’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Jean Rossier (INSERM, Hôpital St Anne, Paris)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Neural Population Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex Indicate Changes-of-mind on Single Behavioral Trials
  William Newsome (University of Stanford Medical School)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Neural Population Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex Indicate Changes-of-mind on single Behavioral Trials
  William Newsome (Stanford University School of Medicine)

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton : A novel pathway of cardiac iron regulation that is critical for heart function
  Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Gaurav Das : ‘Fruit flies remember components of food’
  Dr Gaurav Das (CNCB, DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Mouse Talk: The applications of neurobiological models of mammalian hearing to the classification of mouse vocalizations
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
  Associate Professor Neil McLachlan (Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Adaptation to Natural Input Statistics: a Key to Dendritic Computation and Plasticity
  Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Prof Giovanna Mallucci: Neurodegeneration: molecules to medicines
  Professor Giovanna Mallucci (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Michiko Yamasaki-Mann : Ca2+ dynamics in neurons: from neuronal growth to oscillations
  Dr Michiko Yamasaki-Mann (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr David Owald : 'A site of memory-relevant plasticity underlying learned behaviour in the drosophila brain’
  Dr David Owald (CNCB, DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Genomics in Transcriptional Regulation Symposium
  TBA
• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Robert Gillies, Moffit Cancer Centre, University of South Florida, Tampa USA : ‘Causes and Consequences of The Hostile Microenvironment of Tumors’
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Robert Gillies (Moffit Cancer Centre, University of South Florida, Tampa USA)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 18 December 2015 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Maximising clinical relevance in small animal models of perinatal brain injury for mechanistic and neurotherapeutic trials
  SPECIAL SEMINAR – CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Bobbi Fleiss PhD (Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging & Health Imaging Sciences & Biomedical, Engineering Division, King’s College London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Impact of inflammation on the perinatal brain
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Pierre Gressens MD PhD (Inserm U1141 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris & Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL, London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Neuronal Computations in Olfaction
  Dr Ranier Friedrich (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel)
• 12:00 - Deconstruction and reconstruction of neuronal computations in olfaction
  Rainer Friedrich (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel)
• 16:00 - Elucidation of a set of validated physiological substrates for the Parkinson’s LRRK2 kinase
  Prof. Dario Alessi (MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mabel FitzGerald Lecture 2016: Wiring the brain: RNA-based mechanism of axon guidance and survival
  Professor Christine Holt FRS FMedSci (Cambridge University)

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Matthew Freeman : The cell biology of intercellular signalling
  Guest Speaker
  Professor Matthew Freeman (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Skeletal muscle stem cells in the embryo and adult
  Professor Margaret Buckingham (Pasteur Institute)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Skeletal muscle stem cells in the embryo and adult"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Light in the dark – a novel path for the regulation of vascular tone
  Professor Roland Stocker (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and School of Medicine, Sydney, Australia)

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Probabilistic Synapses
  Prof Peter Latham (University College of London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Dr Lyndsay Murray, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh : Motor Unit Pathology in Mouse Models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Lyndsay Murray (Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Joaquim Vieira : Epigenetic mechanisms of epicardial gene reactivation to repair the adult heart
  Dr Joaquim Vieira (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Jeroen de Baaij : Magnesium Transport in the Kidney and the Brain: CNNM2 as Novel Regulator
  Dr Jeroen De Baaij (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation
  TBA
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker Professor William A Harris FRS, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge : ‘Of Cell Types and Cell Numbers in the Retina’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor William A Harris FRS (Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:30 - A novel regulator of RNA metabolism and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  Professor Brian Black (Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 14:30 - A novel regulator of RNA metabolism and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Does alpha-synuclein pathology spread in the brain?
  Professor Miquel Vila (Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (Barcelona))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A single pair of neurons links sleep to memory consolidation in Drosophila melanogaster
  Prof Leslie Griffith (Brandeis University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Alison Woollard, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford : How the worm completes its skin, and other stories
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Alison Woollard (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Pablo Jercog (IDIBAPS & Cellex Inst., Barcelona)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Speaker - Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle, Université de Versailles St Quentin : Tricyclo-DNA: highly promising antisense oligonucleotides for splice switching therapeutic approaches
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle (Université de Versailles St Quentin)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - CRISPR-Cas9: Biological Roles, Mechanisms and Evolution
  Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin)
• 12:00 - CRISPR-Cas9: Biological Roles, Mechanisms, And Evolution
  Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin)

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Evolutionary Biology meets Physiology
  To be followed by a drinks reception in the Library.
  Prof Mike Joyner MD
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Intracellular signalling mechanisms underlying memory enhancement
  TBA
• 16:00 - Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation
  TBA
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Speaker Professor Martina Muckenthaler, Heidelberg University Hospital : The role of the hepcidin/ferroportin regulatory system in health and disease
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Martina Muckenthaler ( Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 14 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Elucidating the role of GBA mutations in Parkinson’s disease using iPSC-derived neurons
  TBA
  Dopamine Club
• 16:00 - Elucidating the role of GBA mutations in Parkinson’s disease using iPSC-derived neurons and Action initiation shapes mesolimbic dopamine encoding of future rewards
  Emilie Syed, Hugo Ribeiro Fernandes
  Dopamine Club

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Translational stem cell biology: Developing Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Malin Parmar (Lund University )
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Neural Mechanisms Underlying State Dependent Modulation of Sexual Behaviour
  TBA
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Metabolic shifts: a driving force in development
  Dr Arieh Moussaieff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• 13:00 - Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation
  Prof Andrea Herz (LMU Munich)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 18 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Odour representation in the awake mouse and a scalable approach to neural recordings in vivo
  Professor Andreas Schaefer (Francis Crick Institute)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 22 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Neural mechanisms of emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex
  Marco Tamietto (Tilburg University)
  Cortex Club

Wednesday 23 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 04:00 - NGS-Sig: MLL-AF4 created feed-forward loops to maintain leukaemia & Thesaurus annotation empowers mutation analysis in the non-unique parts of the human genome
  Ross Thorme (University of Oxford), Tomasz Konopka (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 March 2016 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Science Career Seminar
  TBA

Tuesday 5 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Zika virus impairs growth in human neurospheres and brain organoids
  Dr Patricia Pestana Garcez

Wednesday 6 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Function of alpha-Synuclein
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Robert Edwards (University of California, San Francisco)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 11 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - CANCELLED - Dissecting the obligate intracellular life style of Toxoplasma gondii
  UNFORTUNATELY THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
  Prof Markus Meissner (University of Glasgow)

Monday 18 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - The Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) Workshop 2016, Oxford University
  The workshop is composed of one day of lectures and one optional day of hands-on training. Each day is ticketed separately via Eventbrite.
  Soo Hee Lee (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard), Larson Hogstrom (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard), Geraldine Van der Auwera (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard)

Friday 22 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - CANCELLED: Self-Tuning Neurons and Firing Rate Homeostasis
  CANCELLED
  Gina Turrigiano (Department of Biology, Volen Centre for Complex Systems, Brandeis University)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics
  Shaul Druckmann (Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics
  TBA
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Prof Fiona Watts FRS FMedSci, Director, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine. Guy's Hospital King's College London :- ‘Signals that control exit from the stem cell compartment in human epidermis’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Fiona Watt FRS (Director, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Guy's Hospital King's College London,)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - What does cortex do (in a rat)?
  Adam Kampff (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)
  Cortex Club

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Control of entropy in internal models
  Dr Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 14:00 - Thalamocortical Interactions
  Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (University of Oxford ), Dr Tim Vogels, Dr Holly Bridge (University of Oxford ), Professor Simon Butt (University of Oxford ), Miss Jacqui Stacey (University of Oxford ), Dr Anna Hoerder Suabedissen (University of Oxford), Dr Louise Upton (University of Oxford), Mr Michael Lohse (University of Oxford), Mr Sebastian Vásquez-López, Dr Tommas Ellender (University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Professor Jordan Raff, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology - ‘The molecular mechanisms of centriole and centrosome assembly'
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The emergence of a circuit model for addiction
  After the talk we will go to the pub for some food and drinks. If you want to join for the pub, please write an email to sofia.deleniv@balliol.ox.ac.uk, so we have an estimate of how many people are coming.
  Christian Luscher (University of Geneva)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Dr Valerio Zerbi - 'The structural basis of large-scale functional connectivity in the mouse'
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Valerio Zerbi (ETH Zurich)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - TEF-seq, a new technique based on nascent RNA-seq, links RNA polymerase II-associated factors to differential mRNA and lncRNA fate
  Refreshment and lunch will be available
  Professor Jane Mellor (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Duncan Sparrow : Environmental influences on mouse heart development
  Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Diogo Pimentel - 'Operation of a Homeostatic Sleep Switch’
  Dr Diogo Pimentel (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Multidimensional imbalances in excitation/inhibition in Fragile-X Syndrome
  Dr Cian O'Donnell (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - Is your glass half empty or half full? The role of medial prefrontal-hippocampal circuitry in negative emotion and cognition
  Hannah Clarke
  Cortex Club

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Professor William Wisden Dept Life Sciences, Imperial College London : Capturing the neuronal ensembles underlying sleep and sedation
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor William Wisden MA PhD FRSB FMedSci (Dept. Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - A new mechanism of nervous system plasticity: activity-dependent myelination
  TBA
  Cortex Club

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Michele Lufino - Dissecting the silencing effect of non-coding triplet repeat expansions on gene expression using tagged genomic models of Friedreich’s ataxia’
  Dr Michele Lufino (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Simon Guiraud : Utrophin modulation strategy in the therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  Dr Simon Guiraud (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Evolution of Cortical Development
  Dr André M. Goffinet (Institute of Neuroscience)

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Modeling single-cell transcriptome and epigenome diversity
  Dr Oliver Stegle (EMBL.EBI)

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
  Dr Matthias Munk (University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology, Technical University Darmstadt)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 14 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - There and back again: corticothalamic modulation of cortical sound processing
  Dr Daniel Pooley (Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Moving beyond injury: Prenatal hypoxia ischemia diffusely disrupts cerebral development via neuronal dysmaturation
  Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D (Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Clyde and Elda Munson Professor of Pediatric Research)

Friday 17 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST: Professor Kenneith Fischbeck MD, NINDS, NIH Bethesda MD : ‘Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy’
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Prof Kenneth Fischbeck MD (NINDS, NIH Bethesda)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Roles and representations for visual motion
  Sam Solomon (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL)
  Cortex Club
• 16:00 - Professor Jia-Yi Li - 'Prion-like pathology propagation in Parkinson’s disease: the present standing'
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Jia-Yi Li (Lund University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Offspring phenotypes influenced by paternal environmental factors
  TBA
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Monday 27 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Metabolism Oxford Day
  Dr James Cantley (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics), Professor James McCullagh, Professor Jeremy Tomlinson, Dr Lisa Heather, Professor George Ratcliffe, Professor Fredrik Karpe, Professor Craig Lygate, Professor Roger Cox, Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig

Friday 1 July 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Variability, Neuromodulation and Robustness of Neurons and Networks
  Eve Marder from Volen Center, Brandeis University
  Cortex Club

Friday 8 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Gene-environment interactions mediating experience-dependent plasticity in the healthy and diseased brain
  Professor Tony Hannan
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Tuesday 12 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Coding in high dimensional state space? A novel interpretation of cortical processing
  Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (MPI)/Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience)
  Cortex Club
• 16:00 - Cellular processing of Alpha-synuclein : implications for Parkinson’s Disease
  Mark Cooper (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 22 August 2016 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Molecular and cellular basis of a neuro-developmental disorder caused by SYNGAP1 haploinsufficiency
  Martin Berryer PhD (Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada)

Tuesday 13 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Sleep and Cortical Plasticity: Living the Dream
  Dr Marcos Frank (Washington State University)
  Cortex Club

Wednesday 21 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Reconciling flexible neuromodulation, variability and regulatory control in neurons
  Dr Tim O'Leary (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 26 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - At the Physical Limit - How to Detect a Single Molecule
  Ulrich Benjamin Kaupp (Center for Advanced European Studies and Research, Max Planck Society)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - At the Physical Limit – How to Detect a Single Molecule
  Ulrich Benjamin Kaupp (Center for Advanced European Studies and Research, Max Planck Society)

Tuesday 27 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Emulating physiological dopamine receptor activation in Parkinson’s Disease
  Professor John Reynolds (University of Otago Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 7 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Tracing Memory Circuits in Drosophila melanogaster Using Whole-Brain Electron Microscopy
  Davi Bock (Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Social learning in songbirds: dissecting neural algorithms using behavioural experiments
  We are very pleased to be hosting Dr Richard Hahnloser, from the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Richard will be discussing, on Monday, 10th of October, about Social learning in songbirds: dissecting neural algorithms using behavioural experiments. The talk will be held in the Le Gros Clark Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building DPAG 4-5:30pm. After the talk we will go to the pub for some food and drinks. Please write an email to monzilur.rahman@psy.ox.ac.uk if you would like to join us. Don’t forget, feel free to send us any speaker suggestions you might have.
  Dr Richard Hahnloser (Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 11 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Hereditary Cardiac Arrhythmias: ECG Imaging (ECGI) of the Clinical Substrate and Mathematical Modelling of Molecular Ion-Channel Mechanisms
  Prof Yoram Rudy (Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA)

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Synaptic Vesicle Tethering to the Drosophila Active Zone Cytomatrix
  Robert J Kittel (Institute of Physiology, Universitat Wurzburg)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Prof Ester Hammond - ‘Hypoxia induced replication stress: causes, consequences and opportunities’
  Professor Ester Hammond (Gray Institute for Radiation, Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Spatial scales of homeostatic plasticity in mouse visual cortex
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Spkr Professor Christian Broberger MD, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute - ‘Neurons and transmitter actions that underlie the switch between network states associated with sleep and wakefulness’
  Professor Christian Broberger MD (Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 24 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - " SCRATCH: what it can tell us about its big cousins SNAIL and SLUG"
  *All Welcome*
  Prof. Irene Yan (Dept Biologia Celular e do Desenvolvimento Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas University of São Paulo)

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Alastair Noyce (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Julie Gorelik, Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart & Lung Institute,Imperial - ‘New nanoscale technique to study signalling in the cardiomyocyte’
  Professor Julie Gorelik (Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart & Lung Institute,Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - What if we could target ageing in Parkinson’s disease?
  Mickael Decressac (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - From Single Cells and Columns to Cortical Networks: Coincidence Detection and Synaptic Transmission
  Professor Bert Sakmann (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - From Single Cells and Columns to Cortical Networks: Coincidence Detection and Synaptic Transmission
  Professor Bert Sakmann (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Int' Guest Spkr Prof Michaela Kuhn MD, Head of the Institute of Physiology, University of Würzburg : ‘Cell-specific actions of natriuretic peptides: lessons from genetic mouse models’
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - I am therefore I think
  Professor Karl Friston (University College of London)
  Cortex Club

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Thomas Voit, NIHR GOSH UCL Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital : 'Developing a gene therapy approach for Duchenne muscular dystrophy'
  Professor Thomas Voit (NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Schreckstoff and the regulation of brain state
  Prof Suresh J. Jesuthasan (A*Star - Institute of Molecular an Cell Biology, Singapore)
  Cortex Club

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Dept. of Pharmacology : ‘Lysosomal dysfunction in rare and common diseases’
  Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 5 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Synchrony in Drosophila melanogaster: From Peripheral Cells to Group Dynamics
  Professor Joel Levine (University of Toronto)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration caused by defective synaptic vesicle recycling
  Dr. Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)

Thursday 8 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Sleep: so familiar, so elusive
  Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)
  Cortex Club
• 16:00 - Huntington’s Disease In A Dish: Current progress and future perspectives
  Professor Nick Allen (University of Cardiff)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 9 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - “A new, dynamic, view of cell state transitions in the nervous system; timing and stochasticity”
  *All Welcome*
  Professor Nancy Papalopulu (The University of Manchester)

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

• 15:00 - Making the most of your microscopy images with CellProfiler and CellProfiler Analyst
  Dr Beth Cimini (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - [Cortex Club special Christmas event] Neuroscience Model Organisms Panel
  cortex
  Various Speakers
  Cortex Club

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Scents and sensitivity: experience-dependent plasticity in olfactory circuits
  Dr Matthew Grubb
• 16:00 - The Science of Laughter
  Prof Sophie Scott (University College of London)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Transgenic models of Parkinson's disease
  Olaf Horst Rieß (University of Tübingen)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker- Dr Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute : ‘Polarity remodelling in asymmetric cell division’
  Dr Nic Tapon (The Francis Crick Institute )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Sarah Tarbrizi, UCL Inst Neurology : “Meeting the Therapeutic Challenge in Huntington's disease”
  Professor Sarah Tarbrizi (Dept. of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Inst. Of Neurology )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER- Professor Stefan Treue PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen: ‘Visual cortical area V5/MT - a prototype for shaping sensation into perception’
  Professor Stefan Treue PhD (Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Probabilistic models of sensorimotor control and decision making
  Prof Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge)
  Cortex Club

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

• 12:00 - Deadly cargoes: extracellular synuclein and Parkinson's disease progression
  Please note TALK AT NOON. Entrance to the Sherrington building will be via the temporary reception at the entrance to The Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre
  Kostas Vekrellis (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Pain and the Developing Brain, 3rd Annual Mabel FitzGerald Lecture
  Professor Maria Fitzgerald (UCL)
  Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Anthony Galione FRS, Dept of Pharmacology : ‘Calcium signalling from the lysosome’
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - A 3D atlas and database of human development.
  Prof. Antoon FM Moorman (University of Amsterdam)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - On the Impact of Genetic Variation on Molecular and Organismal (Immunological) Phenotypes
  Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
• 12:00 - On the Impact of Genetic Variation on Molecular and Organismal (Immunological) Phenotypes
  Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Professor Erwin Neher, Georg August Universität Göttingen : TBA
  NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Motor - auditory interactions for listening and learning
  TBA
  Cortex Club

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Mark Kearny, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Mark Kearny (Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 13 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Improving reproducibility in neuroscience
  Prof Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford)
  Cortex Club
• 16:30 - Dopamine neurons: morphology, connections, functional properties and susceptibility in Parkinson's disease
  Professor Paul Bolam
  Dopamine Club

Monday 20 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - OPDC Research Day
  Abstract Submission closes Friday February 17th 2017
  Prof. Dr. Birgit Liss (Ulm University), Professor Masud Husain (University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Dr Thomas Barber (University of Oxford ), Siddharth Arora (University of Oxford ), Johannes Klein (University of Oxford), Dr George Tofaris (University of Oxford ), Dr Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford ), Dr Jimena Monzon Sandoval (University of Oxford ), Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly (University of Oxford), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford ), Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Paul Dodson (University of Oxford, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit), Dr Sarah Threlfell (University of Oxford )
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 21 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Dissecting the Circuits and Algorithms That Process Visual Motion
  Thomas R. Clandinin (Stanford University )
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Dissecting the Circuits and Algorithms That Process Visual Motion
  Thomas R Clandinin
  Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
• 16:00 - Synaptic Organization of the Olfactory Bulb; individual labeling and correlated Laser-volume EM microscopy, from one neuron to circuit.
  Professor Kazunori Toida MD, PhD (Kawasaki Medical School)

Thursday 23 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Lives of a Gene: Diverse roles in diseases of developing and mature brain
  Margaret Elizabeth Ross (Cornell University )

Friday 24 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Michael Yartsev (University of California, Berkeley,)
  Cortex Club

Wednesday 29 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Cortex Club

Thursday 30 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Hunger-Driven Motivational State Competition
  Michael Krashes (National Institutes of Health (NIH))
  Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour

Monday 3 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A Circuit Architecture for Angular Integration
  Gaby Maimon (The Rockefeller University)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - A Circuit Architecture for Angular Integration
  Gaby Maimon (The Rockefeller University)
  Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Dynamics of the mouse auditory cortex and the perception of sounds
  Prof Simon Rumpel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Postdoctoral Society - Head of Department Talk
  TBA
  DPAG Researcher Society Events
• 16:00 - Gene-environment interactions: a success story in Parkinson’s disease
  Prof Beate Ritz (School of Public Health at UCLA)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - GUEST SPEAKER Professor Adrian Hobbs, Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology QMUL : ‘Pivotal Cardiovascular Homeostatic role for C-type natriuretic peptide’
  Professor Adrian Hobbs (Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology QMUL)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Planet Earth II: The Making of a Natural History Blockbuster
  Mike Gunton
  Metabolism & Endocrinology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 5 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Robert MacLaren MD, Professor of Ophthamology, Oxford Eye Hosptial - ‘Developing new genetic treatments for eye disease’
  Professor Robert MacLaren MD, Professor of Ophthamology (Oxford Eye Hosptial, NDCN, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Postdoctoral Society Talks
  Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (University of Oxford), Tomoko Yamagata (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Researcher Society Events
• 16:00 - CANCELLED
  Professor Sliman Bensmaia (University of Chicago)
  Cortex Club

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Mark Kearney, British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds: ‘Insulin sensitivity the endothelium and atherosclerosis :
  Professor Mark Kearney (British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Molecular and structural determinants of Alpha-Synuclein aggregation, toxicity and pathology spreading in Parkinson's disease: From mechanisms to novel biomarkers and therapies
  PLEASE NOTE New Date
  Hilal Lashuel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Efficient codes and balanced networks
  Prof Christian Machens (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown)
  Cortex Club

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A/Professor Tudor Fulga, WIMM - 'A multiplex genome engineering platform for in situ functional discovery of RNA cis-regulatory elements'
  A/Professor Tudor Fulga (Associate Professor of Genome Biology, WIMM, RDM Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Cerebrospinal and serum alpha-synuclein species as potential biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease
  Please note, talk in small lecture theatre
  Prof. Omar El-Agnaf (Qatar Biomedical Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A/Professor Ulrike Gruneberg MD, A/Professor of Experimental Pathology - 'Regulation of chromosome segregation in mammalian cells'
  A/Professor Ulrike Gruneberg MD (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - R Jean Banister Prize Lecture. Getting Excited about Pacemaking in the Athletic Heart: Interplay of transcription factors and microRNAs in pacemaker electrophysiology. Sponsored by the Physiological Society.
  Alicia D'Souza (University of Manchester)
  R Jean Banister Prize Lecture

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker: Professor Fiona M Gribble, Professor of Endocrine Physiology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge - ‘Chemosensory mechanisms in gut endocrine cells’
  Professor Fiona M Gribble, Professor of Endocrine Physiology (Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Postdoctoral Society Talks
  Anissa Kempf (University of Oxford), Frank Wessely (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Researcher Society Events

Friday 9 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Andreas K. Kreiter, Centre for Cognitive Science and Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Bremen, Germany : 'Dynamic mechanisms underlying selective visual attention in monkey visual cortex'
  Professor Andreas Kreiter (University of Bremen), Professor Andreas K. Kreiter, Centre for Cognitive Science and Centre for Advanced Imaging (University of Bremen)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'Overlapping Mechanisms of Sleep and Sedation'
  Nicholas Franks (Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars
• 12:00 - Overlapping Mechanisms of Sleep and Sedation
  Nicolas Franks (Imperial College London)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Visualize Gene Expression & Genetic Variations in Tissues: Applications of RNAscope® and BaseScopeTM ISH technology
  E Park (Senior Director at Advanced Cell Diagnostics,)
• 16:00 - Applications of high throughput single cell analysis and deep learning to iPSC models of Parkinson’s disease and neurotherapeutics
  Prof Steven Finkbeiner (UCSF)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Giampietro Schiavo, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology : ‘Basal lamina components as determinants of the uptake and axonal transport of pathogens and growth factors’
  Professor Giampietro Schiavo (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 22 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - How my brain is getting me the best reward
  Professor Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
  Cortex Club

Friday 23 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Student Events

Wednesday 28 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Glia Relay Differentiation Cues to Coordinate Neuronal Development in Drosophila
  Vilaiwan Fernandes (New York University )
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - ARUK Oxford/NIHR Oxford Health BRC Dementia Research Day
  Professor Zameel Cader (Director of the Oxford Headache Centre and Director of StemBANCC, University of Oxford), Dr Caleb Webber, MRC Programme Leader (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Sally Cowley (Head, James Martin Stem Cell Facility, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Francesca Nicholls (Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford), Professor John Gallacher (University of Oxford), Dr Samrah Ahmed (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford), Dr Mario Torso (University of Oxford), Dr Michele Veldsman (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of oxford), Dr Mark Dallas (Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and ARUK Oxford Network Committee member, University of Reading), Rupert McShane (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Professor John Geddes (Head of University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford), Elena Di Daniel, Head of Biology (Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford), Dr Jakub Scaber (University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Calvin (University of Oxford), Robert Quinlan (Dept. Chemistry, University of Oxford ), Claire Sexton, Professor Frank Gunn-Moore (University of St Andrews)

Friday 14 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - One rule to fold them all: The developmental implications of a simple universal model for cortical morphology
  Professor Bruno Coelho Cesar Mota (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 19 July 2017 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Targeting mitochondrial biogenesis and function in Parkinson’s disease
  Please note now WEDNESDAY July 19th
  Michela Deleidi (DZNE)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 12:00 - Brain injury regeneration: a role for ADAM17/TACE and PKCε
  Prof. Carmen Castro (University of Cadiz)

Tuesday 8 August 2017 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Inflammation & Neurodegeneration: a Role for Toll-like Receptors
  Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss (University of Georgetown)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Of genes and mechanisms: cell biology of PD
  Dr Mattia Volta (​​​​​​European Academ​​y of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC) )
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 15 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genetic Dissection of Animal Locomotion
  Richard Mann (Columbia University )
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Illuminating Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell
  Jin Zhang (University of California)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 22 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - OXION Symposium "Ion Channels and Diseases of Electrically Excitable Cells"
  Attendance is free, but lunch can only be provided to those who have registered by Friday 15 September
  Various Speakers

Monday 25 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The role of extracellular vesicles in neurodegenerative diseases.
  Professor Andrew Hill (La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 2 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Cross study analysis highlights endothelial and microglial transcriptomic components of AD risk
  Dr Ben Logsdon (Sage Bionetworks)
• 16:00 - Synaptic transmission from subplate neurons controls radial migration of neocortical neurons
  Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Tuesday 3 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Out of Africa, there is always something new – the unusual brains of some African mammals
  Paul Manger PhD (Professor, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 6 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson’s progress: novel genes, mouse models and synthesis
  Professor Matt Farrer (University of British Columbia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Neurobiology of Drosophila Mating Behaviors
  Barry Dickson (Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Hippo signalling in heart development and regeneration
  James F. Martin, MD, PhD (Vivian Smith Professor in Regenerative Medicine; Director, Cardiomyocyte Renewal Lab, The Texas Heart Institute)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Ilan Davis, Dept of Biochemisty : ‘Post-transcriptional regulation in neural stem cell development and synaptic plasticity’
  Professor Ilan Davis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - INTERNATIONAL GUEST SPEAKER - 14TH ANNUAL BURDON SANDERSON CARDIAC SCIENCE LECTURE: Optogenetic, tissue clearing, and viral vector approaches to understand and influence whole-animal physiology and behaviour
  Viviana Gradinaru (California Institute of Technology)
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Learning and Memory in Drosophila: Linking Behavior, Neuronal Circuits and Synaptic Plasticity
  André Fiala (University of Göttingen)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Neural circuits underlying the whole-body coordination of behaviour in Platynereis larvae
  Dr Gaspar Jekely (Living Systems Institute, Exeter University)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER - Dr Claudia Lodovichi, Neuroscience Institute CNR and Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) – Padua : Circuit formation and function in the olfactory system
  Dr Claudia Lodovichi (Neuroscience Institute CNR and Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) – Padua, Italy )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:30 - The Pleasure of Eating: Functional Neuroimaging of Human Eating and Addictive Behaviours
  Dr Tony Goldstone (Imperial College London)
  Oxford University Society of Biomedical Sciences (OUSBMS)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER Professor Viacheslav Nikolaev, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Research: ‘Shining light on local cAMP signalling in cardiac disease’
  Professor Viacheslav Nikolaev (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Research)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - From cases and controls to dimensional psychiatry: novel methods for understanding the neurobiology of mental health
  Dr. Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin )
  Cortex Club

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Neural Codes for the Sense of Taste
  Dr Mark Stopfer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - HIFα under pressure
  Dr Andrew Cowburn (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Is non-invasive brain stimulation in danger of becoming a pseudo-science?
  Professor John Rothwell (UCL)
  Cortex Club

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BPS Bill Bowman Lecture & Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Seminar: Dr Aisah Aubdool, William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL - ‘Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide: A Neuropeptide of Many Talents in the Cardiovascular System"
  Dr Aisah Aubdool (William Harvey Research Institute Heart Centre Barts & The London School of Medicine, QMUL)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Ensemble Coding in Amygdala Circuits
  Andreas Luthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Dr Sarah De Val - Ludwig Institiute for Cancer Research : ‘Understanding vessel growth during development and disease: an enhancer-centric approach to a complex problem’
  Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Brit Mollenhauer (University Medical Center of Goettingen (UMG-GOE))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Linda R. Peterson MD, Washington University School of Medicine, ‘"Beeting" disability in heart failure: nitrate metabolism and muscle function’
  Professor Linda Peterson Linda R. Peterson, MD, FAHA, FACC, FASE (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis MO)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hippocampal Dynamics and Memory Processing
  Thanos Siapas (Caltech)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Molecular networks of cognition
  Dr Genevieve Konopka (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Paribas or Bury Pa? – Age-related changes in the neural representations of voice onset time in the inferior colliculus
  Dr. Edward Bartlett (Purdue University)
• 19:30 - Pain
  Professor John Wood (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)
  Oxford University Society of Biomedical Sciences (OUSBMS)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Thomas Braun MD, Director, Max Planck Inst for Heart & Lung Research : ‘Pathways controlling cardiac morphogenesis and skeletal muscle regeneration’
  Professor Thomas Braun, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Reseach (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - First Interdepartmental MedSci Graduate event – Where should I go next?
  Open to all graduate students from Medical Sciences Division Join Prof. Humphrey Rang (author Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology) and Dr. Adriana Gambardella (Immunocore scientist) to hear their opinions and advice for building your future. Followed by drinks reception.
  Professor Humphrey Rang (Royal Society), Dr Adriana Gambardella

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Michael J Hawken, Professor of Neural Science, New York University - 'Linking Structure and Function in the Primate Visual Pathways'
  Professor Michael Hawken, Professor of Neural Science (New York University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 4 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Towards a single cell resolution of cell fate decisions in the early mouse embryo
  Professor Janet Rossant (Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto)

Wednesday 6 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies
  Mala Murthy (University of Princeton)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A Left-Right differential cell migration drives heart looping in vertebrates.”
  Dr Oscar Ocaña PhD (Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH)
• 16:00 - Parkinson’s Disease Seen from the alpha-Synuclein Perspective
  Professor Donato A. Di Monte (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 15 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:05 - An introduction to Alzheimer's Research UK
  Various Speakers

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

• 16:00 - Parkinson's disease: environmental clues and transporter blues
  Professor Gary Miller (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder: from circuits to pathology
  Pierre-Hervé Luppi (Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Physiological role and mode of regulation of mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling and metabolism interrogated by imaging and optometabolic control
  Professor Israel Sekler (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Cell type-specific translation profiling in fragile X
  Dr Emily Osterweil (University of Edinburgh)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 18:00 - ‘Panacea Innovation presents: The UK Biotech Ecosystem: what is in place & what is needed?’
  Various Speakers

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Economic Benefits of a Neural Circuit Motif
  Professor Simon Laughlin (University of Cambridge)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Neural Network Dynamics for Attentional Selection
  Professor Sabine Kastner (Princeton University)
  Marianne Fillenz Prize Lecture

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Predatory insects as models to understand fast and accurate sensorimotor transformations in interception tasks
  Dr Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Control of cerebral and cardiac blood flow at the capillary level by pericytes in health and disease
  David Attwell (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology)

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Cardioprotection in the setting of acute myocardial infarction: where do we stand in 2018?
  Dr Gemma Vilahur (Cardiovascular Research Center (ICCC), IIB-SantPau, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), CiberCV Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Immune and inflammatory mechanisms underlying risk for age-related neurodegenerative disease
  Please note new time!
  Prof. Malú Tansey (Emory University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Toward Circuit Optogenetics
  Valentina Emiliani (Universite Paris Descartes)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Regulation of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) by hormonal and local mediators
  Professor Christoph Korbmacher (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Cardiac regeneration in zebrafish and genetic compensation
  Professor Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers
• 16:30 - Mass spectrometry - from folding proteins to rotating motors
  Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genes to clinic in an autoimmune disease
  Professor John Todd (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Mechanisms of plasticity in mouse visual cortex
  Cancelled due to weather and transport issues
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Time Units for Learning and their Implementation Through Neuronal Assemblies
  Pico Caroni (Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Enamel development is regulated by calcium-dependent cell functions
  Professor Rodrigo La Cruz (New York University School of Dentistry)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Attention dependent coding and information exchange within and between visual cortical areas
  Professor Alexander Thiele (Newcastle University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 12:00 - Mechanosensitive TRP channels in cardiovascular system
  Xiaoqiang Yao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Gene therapies for Parkinson's disease
  Stephane Palfi (IMRB - Mondor Biomedical Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 16 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Deciphering SP8 regulative network for cortical development
  Ugo Borello (University of Lyon)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Saturday 17 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Alzheimer's Research UK Dementia Awareness Public Open Day
  Various Speakers

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

• 12:00 - Role of STIM1, calcium signalling and ion channels in phagocytic white blood cells
  Professor Nicola Demaurex (Geneva University School of Medicine)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 26 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Specific impairments of consolidation, reconsolidation and LTMm lead to memory erasure. Targeting memories as a new therapeutic approach to psychopathologies.
  Karim Nader (McGill University )
  CNCB Seminar Series

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

• 12:00 - Self-Tuning Neurons, Firing Rate Homeostasis, and Sleep/Wake States
  Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Achieving Neuroprotection in Parkinson’s Disease
  Andy West (UAB School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 12 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Temporal Coding-Induced Synaptic Plasticity Determines Clock-Driven Sleep Quality
  Dr Mark Wu (Johns Hopkins University)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 16 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Studying the function and connectivity of neural networks in zebrafish brain
  Professor Emre Yaksi (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 17 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Neural Plasticity from Synapse to Cognition
  Professor Mu-Ming Poo (Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Friday 20 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Trusting scientific literature: can we believe what we read?
  Prof Marcel Van Assen (Universiteit Utrecht), Dr Geoffrey Webb (University of East London)
  Graduate Student Events

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Modelling predisposition to schizophrenia using stem cells.
  Kristen Brennand (New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator Associate Professor Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

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

• 13:00 - Functional specificity of excitatory and inhibitory connections in neocortex
  Professor Sonja Hofer (Universität Basel/ UCL)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Prof Israel Nelken, The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University - ‘Frequency-specific adaptation and stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory system’
  Professor Israel Nelken (The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Accurate disease modelling of Neuro and Cardiac Disease using iPSC: Reducing Genetic Instability
  Dr Michael Edel (University of Barcelona)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mouse dLGN receives input from a diverse population of retinal ganglion cells with limited convergence
  Professor Laura Busse (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Local and global facets of sleep regulation
  Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Perceptual and neural consequences of early auditory experience
  Professor Dan Sanes (New York University Center for Neural Science)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Clinical Studies using Hyperpolarized MRI in Cancer Patients
  Prof Dan Vigneron (Surbeck Laboratory for Advanced Imaging at UCSF)
  General
• 11:00 - "I wasn't going to eat it, I was just going to taste it". Roles for striatal plasticity in overeating and obesity.
  Dr Carrie Ferrario (Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Synaptic learning rules in the cortex: From spike timing-dependent to network state-dependent synaptic plasticity
  Professor Ole Paulsen (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding and reversing pathophysiological changes in Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6)
  Associate Professor Alanna Watt, PhD (McGill University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Pavlov in America: The influence of Pavlov on Lashley and Hebb
  Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Modeling Human Brain Development in Cerebral Organoids
  Dr Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Stress, Genetics, and Epigenetics vs. Human Evolution and Development
  Professor George Chrousos (Department of Paediatrics at the Athens University Medical School in Greece)
  Metabolism & Endocrinology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From vision to navigation: a journey across mouse cortex
  Professor Matteo Carandini (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Dynamic post-transcriptional events shaping development of the cerebral cortex
  Professor Debbie Silver (Duke Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mitophagy modulation as a potential therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases
  Please note this talk is now at NOON in the Small Lecture Theatre
  Dr Hélène Plun-Favreau (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 18 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:45 - Cortical integration from V1 into V4 along the object-processing hierarchy
  Professor Wei Wang (Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding the molecular logic of Adhesion GPCRs in mechanosensation
  Anyone interested in meeting with Tobi should please contact maike.glitsch@dpag.ox.ac.uk
  Tobias Langenhan (Leipzig University)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - DEVELOPMENTAL LINK BETWEEN FETAL AND ADULT LEYDIG CELLS
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Yuichi Shima MD PhD (Kawasaki Medical School, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Structural Basis for Centrifugal Regulation of the Olfactory Bulb ~individual labeling and correlated Laser and volume/high-voltage EM microscopies~
  Please note that this lecture is now taking place from 4pm
  Professor Kazunori Toida MD, PhD (Kawasaki Medical School)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 22 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Neurogenesis factors as biomarkers of cognitive ageing and dementia
  Prof Sandrine Thuret (King's College London)

Monday 25 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mechanisms Generating Cell-Type Diversity in Cerebral Cortex
  Simon Hippenmeyer, PhD (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Early Neuronal Diversity Shapes Cortical Circuit Assembly
  Dr Lynette Lim (MCR Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 4 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Stem cells and drug discovery
  TBA

Thursday 23 August 2018 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - “Artiphysiology” reveals V4-like shape tuning in a deep network trained for image classification
  Prof Wyeth Bair (University of Washington)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 5 September 2018 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Stability and dynamics underlying hippocampal neural codes for long-term memory
  TBA
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 18 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Behaviour and synaptic plasticity in a model of early Parkinson's: the role of alpha-synuclein
  Dr Barbara Picconi (IRCCS San Raffaele University, Rome, Italy.)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 28 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Molecular Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  Professor Shin'ichi Takeda (National Centre of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo)

Tuesday 2 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - OPDC Parkinson's Research Day
  Registration for the 2018 OPDC research day is free and includes refreshments, lunch and reception. Please complete the registration form below to join us at this exciting event. Registration closes on September 26th 2018
  Various Speakers
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Operating Principles of a Learning Network in Electric Fish
  Larry Abbott (Columbia University )
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Inherited arrhythmias: from bench to bedside and back
  Professor Silvia G. Priori (University of Pavia, Italy)
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Visual stimulus processing and spatial memory in the retrosplenial cortex
  Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Frank Sengpiel, Cardiff University
  Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Transcriptional and epigenetic control of vascular homeostasis
  Professor Anna Randi (Imperial College London)
• 14:00 - Transcriptional and epigenetic control of vascular homeostasis
  Professor Anna M. Randi, MD PhD (Imperial College London)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Synaptic dynamics in mouse visual cortex following sensory deprivation
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Spatiotemporal control of the number and diversity of centrosome-cilia
  Swadhin Chandra Jana (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Gulbenkian Institute), Portugal)

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic regulators of cardiovascular development
  Dr Kelly Smith (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Acylcarnitines - From Metabolism to Heart Function: A Focus on Their Role in Human Heart Failure
  Dr Christine Des Rosier (Universite de Montreal )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - What Price a Martian? Human Limits to Exploring the Red Planet
  Dr James Pawelczyk (Physiologist and Astronaut STS-90 Columbia Space Shuttle Mission 1998)
  General

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Stronger together: understanding pancreatic beta-cell connectivity in health and disease
  Professor Guy Rutter (Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Multi-scale Integration of Cardiac Excitation and Arrhythmia: From Ion-Channel Molecular Structure to the Human Heart
  Professor Yoram Rudy (Washington University in St. Louis)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Neuromodulatory Connectome: Wire and Wireless Networks
  William Schafer (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge )
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Macrophage contribution to Insulin Resistance independently of Inflammation
  Dr Myriam Aouadi (Karolinska University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Using transcriptomics to understand neurodegenerative disorders
  PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME!
  Dr Mina Ryten (UCL)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - GL Brown Lecture (PhySoc) - Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space
  Professor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Andrew Parker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Professor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Coping with a stressful start in life
  Professor Alex Gould (The Francis Crick Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 3 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Molecular basis of organelle tethering during adipocyte differentiation
  Dr Robin Klemm (University of Zurich)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - Development of the human insula
  Professor Gundela Meyer (Department of Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy and Histology Universidad de La Laguna ULL)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Sleep: A Window on Consciousness
  Prof Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA))
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Challenges and Opportunities of Translational Neurogenomics
  Dr Sonja Scholz (Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Unit, NIND, NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome
  Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Neuronal calcium channel trafficking and function: relevance to chronic pain
  Professor Annette C Dolphin (University College London)
  Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Mind the Gap: Super-resolution Imaging of the Extracellular Space of the Brain
  Valentin Nagerl (University of Bordeaux)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Using zebrafish to study myelinated axons in vivo
  Professor David Lyons (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - An architectonic type principle integrates cerebral cortical architecture and connectivity
  Prof. Dr Claus Hilgetag (Institute of Computational Neuroscience, UKE Hamburg )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Hormone-induced calcium signalling and liver function: roles of Orai1 and store operated calcium entry
  Dr Gary Bird (Laboratory of Signal Transduction, NIEHS/NIH, USA)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding the pathways underlying residual visual function after damage to primary visual cortex
  Associate Professor Holly Bridge (NDCN, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Medial Temporal Lobe networks and Memory: processing spatial and non-spatial information overtime
  Prof. Dr Magdalena Sauvage (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Area-specific mapping of binocular disparity across mouse visual cortex
  Alessandro La Chioma (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Synapses – Circuits – Plasticity, Martinsried, Germany)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Metabolic Health Researchers' Association Launch Event
  Various Speakers

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

• 12:00 - Molecular pathways to Parkinson's disease: more than neurons?
  Note earlier time
  Dr. Elisa Greggio (University of Padova)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Navigating in a three-dimensional world
  Associate Professor Theresa Burt de Perera (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 12:00 - Cell-autonomous and Circuit-level Mechanisms of Circadian Timekeeping in Mammals: Genes, Neurons and Astrocytes
  Michael Hastings (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge )
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Adhesion-dependent modulation of signalling in neural differentiation, axon guidance and medulloblastoma
  Professor Andrew Furley (Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Functional dynamics of chromatin topology in human cardiogenesis and disease
  Please contact Katie McNeil if you would like to meet with Alessandro during his visit
  Alessandro Bertero (Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Centre for Nuclear Organization and Function, Dept. of Pathology, University of Washington)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Attention: Hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) might be important after all!
  Professor David Bannerman (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Saturday 2 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Dementia Information Morning - Alzheimer's Research UK Oxford Network
  Talks will be filmed and made available via the ARUK Oxford YouTube Channel
  Dr Mark Dallas (Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and ARUK Oxford Network Committee member, University of Reading), Katy Stubbs (Alzheimer's Research UK), Emma Mead (ARUK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute), Dr Claudia Manzoni (University of Reading ), Dr Sana Suri (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford ), Yaomeng Liu (Oxford Brookes University)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - CUBIC-HistoVIsion: a pipeline for three-dimensional whole-organ/body staining and imaging with single-cell resolution based on chemical properties of tissue gel
  Dr Etsuo A. Susaki (The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mitochondrial dysfunction in neonatal brain injury
  Dr Claire Thorton (King’s College London.)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Sympathetic Neuroimmunity for Obesity
  Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - LRRK2 Mediated Cellular Function from Vesicular Trafficking to Gene Expression
  Professor Kirsten Harvey (UCL School of Pharmacy)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 29 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Deciphering Mechanisms of Perceptual Silencing: From Molecules to Neural Systems
  Mani Ramaswami (Trinity College, Dublin)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Illuminating the private life of cyclic AMP in the primary cilium
  Professor Aldebaran Hofer (Harvard Medical School Boston, USA)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 2 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Impact of neuroinflammation on brain development in premature infants
  Pierre Gressens MD PhD (Inserm U1141 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris & Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL, London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 16:00 - Pathway to Parkinson’s Disease: A Tale of Two Genes
  Darren Moore (Van Andel Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 17 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Nearly Isotropic 3D-Imaging of Mouse Brains, Fly Brains and Human Tumors with Light Sheets Beyond the Diffraction Light - Please note new date and time.
  Hans-Ulrich Dodt (Center for Brain Science, Medical University of Vienna )
  CNCB Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - Synapses lost and found: Developmental critical periods and Alzheimer’s disease
  Dr Carla J. Shatz (Stanford University)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Friday 26 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Cocaine Place Conditioning Strengthens Location-Specific Hippocampal Inputs to the Nucleus Accumbens
  Luke Sjulson (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering brain activity patterns for therapeutics of disorders
  Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
  Please sign up at: https://forms.gle/qE62VitfTtsbDkeD7
  Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neural mechanisms of information sampling in humans and non-human primates
  Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (Department of Neuroscience, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, The Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain and Behavior, Columbia University, New York)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Q&A Lunch - Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University)
  Please sign up at: https://forms.gle/nEbD1uBEysHazozk9
  Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (Department of Neuroscience, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, The Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain and Behavior, Columbia University, New York)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Calcium and Calmodulin Signaling in Heart Failure and Arrhythmias
  Please note new time 12pm
  Donald M. Bers (Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. Newton-Abraham Professor, at DPAG Oxford (April-Sept 2019), Distinguished Professor & Chair Dept of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, CA, USA.)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers
• 16:00 - Unconventional Endoplasmic Reticulum Located Trophic Factor for Parkinson’s Disease
  New date!
  Professor Mart Saarma (Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Drosophila
  Alexander Stark
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Nanoengineering for discovery and mechanism related to motility systems
  Dr. Minhaj Sirajuddin (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) Bangalore)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Next generation brain maps – concepts, challenges, collaboration
  Prof. Dr. Med. Katrin Amunts (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine Structural & Functional Organization of the Brain (INM-1), Jülich C. & O. Vogt Institute of Brain Research)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Heart of the Brain: the hypothalamus and its hormones
  Gareth Leng (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The Univerity of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Music, reward and clinical applications
  Dr. Noèlia Martínez-Molina (Department of Psychology and Logopedics Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Optical mapping of cardiac electrophysiology: shedding light on arrhythmia mechanisms
  Dr Rachel Myles (Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Roles for Tbx5 in limb bud initiation and morphogenesis of limb tissues
  Professor Malcolm Logan (Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Leptin and the Endocrine Control of Food Intake and Metabolism
  Professor Jeffrey Friedman M.D., PhD (Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  Sir Hans Krebs Prize Lecture

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Clinical Translation of Cardiac Models
  Professor Steven Niederer (Kings College London)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers
• 12:00 - The toxic consequences of protein aggregation in Parkinson's disease
  Please note this talk is at noon.
  Dr Sonia Gandhi ( UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - SLM-based methods for 3D control and imaging in the brain
  Darcy Peterka (Columbia University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 21 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - TRPM7 ion channels at the Crossroads of Tissue Homeostasis & Inflammation
  Professor Bimal Desai (Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 15:00 - CRISPR Biology and Biotechnology: The Future of Genome Editing
  Although booking is not required this lecture is likely to be very popular so please arrive in good time to secure a seat. Doors open at 2.30pm and lecture theatre capacity is 190 people. 50 overflow spaces will be available in the Sherrington Library to watch the lecture remotely. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Sherrington Building Foyer at 4pm. Please note filming and audio recording of this lecture are prohibited.
  Dr Jennifer Doudna FRS (UC Berkeley)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Thursday 27 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Identifying molecular and metabolic control nodes in fasting-mediated immuno-modulation
  Professor Michael Sack (Laboratory of Mitochondrial Biology and Metabolism, Chief, Cardiovascular Branch National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH)
  Metabolism & Endocrinology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 11 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Quest for Neuroprotection in Parkinson’s disease: reversing synaptic dysfunction
  Please note this talk is at noon in the small lecture theatre
  Austen Milnerwood (McGill University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 15 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - cAMP Signaling: Ubiquitous and Complex
  Prof Robert Harvey, PhD (University of Nevada, Reno)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Tuesday 16 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Shining light on Parkinson’s disease by interrogating the LRRK2 kinase pathway
  Esther Sammler (University of Dundee)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 31 July 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - ARUK Oxford Ntework Dementia Research Day 2019
  This attend is free to attend, but registration is required via email
  Francesco Tamagnini (University of Reading), Emma Mead (University of Oxford), Anne Hedegaard (University of Oxford), Nora Bengoa-Verngiory (University of Oxford), Vincenza Andrisano (University of Reading/University of Bologna), Cheng Jiang (University of Oxford), Richard Killick (King's College London)
• 16:00 - Modelling congenital malformations in mice - why genetic background matters
  Prof. Loydie Jerome-Majewska (Departments of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 1 August 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Developmental brain disorders caused by Zika virus
  Assistant Professor Patricia Pestana Garcez, PhD (Neuroplasticity Lab, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar

Tuesday 13 August 2019 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - An intersectional genetic approach to deciphering cell fates in mammals
  Professor Bin Zhou, MD, PhD (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 14 August 2019 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - New molecular probes and biological systems for hyperpolarized MRI
  Professor Rachel Katz-Brull (The Centre for Hyperpolarized MRI Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 23 August 2019 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A Physicist's Adventures in Magnetic Resonance or Crossing Disciplines is (mostly) rewarding!
  Dr David Hoult, M.A., D.Phil (National Research Council, Winnipeg, Canada)
  Cardiac Metabolism Research Group Seminars (DPAG)

Thursday 5 September 2019 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The non-canonical Inflammasome Pathway
  Dr Vishva Dixit (Vice President –Research, Genentech)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Tuesday 17 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mechanisms of axon degeneration in injury and disease.
  Please note talk is at noon
  Professor Michael Coleman (University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 13:00 - Neurovascular interactions during CNS development
  Professor Amparo Acker-Palmer (Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Fourth Annual Oxosome Meeting
  Followed by a wine reception in the Sherrington Foyer
  Dr Stefan Balint (NDORMS, Oxford), Dr Sascha Raschke (Particle Metrix), Dr Shih-Jung Fan (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Naveed Akbar (RDM, University of Oxford), Dr Cheng Jiang (NDCN, University of Oxford), Lizzie Dellar (Oxford Brookes University, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford), Dr Dimitri Aubert (NanoFCM), Scott Bonner (Paediatrics, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - From breastfeeding to independent feeding: the origins of homeostatic sensing
  Marcelo de Oliveira Dietrich, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine)
  Metabolism & Endocrinology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - GL Brown Prize Lecture: Tackling the pathophysiology of motor neuron disease (MND): a translational neuroscience approach
  Professor Dame Pamela Shaw (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, University of Sheffield)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 12:00 - The magic in the web of it: How a rare disorder is helping to untangle the mysteries of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Ellen Sidransky (NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - Multiple Roles for CXCL12/CXCR4 Signalling in Cardiovascular Development
  Professor Peter Scambler (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - NAD+ and Mitophagy in Brain Ageing and Neurodegenerative Disorders
  Dr Evandro Fei Fang (University of Oslo)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 10:00 - Synaptic alterations in the indirect-pathway of the basal ganglia in experimental Parkinsonism
  Jerome Baufreton (The Neuroscience Institute at Bordeaux)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Prefrontal Network Dynamics for Cognition
  Thomas Klausberger (Medical University of Vienna)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Mutual exclusive interactions between typical absence and limbic epilepsy
  Professor Filiz Onat (Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - The mechanical regulation of neuronal growth and regeneration
  Dr Kristian Franze (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 16:00 - A hundred years on: 21st Century Insights into Human Oxygen Homeostasis
  Please note the lecture theatre capacity is restricted to 190 and seating is first come first served (Oxford University members only).
  Peter J Ratcliffe (Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford and Director of Clinical Research, Francis Crick Institute, London)
  John Scott Haldane Prize Lecture

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

• 09:00 - Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
  Various Speakers
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
  Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Cell competition and the regulation of robustness of growth during early mouse development
  Dr Tristan Rodriguez (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dynamical Systems in Physiology
  Hosted by the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A normative perspective on the diversity of dopamine neurons
  Professor Naoshige Uchida (Harvard University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

• 13:00 - Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
  Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 9 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Active Sensation in Drosophila
  Lisa Fenk (The Rockefeller University)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Human adult hippocampal neurogenesis during physiological and pathological aging
  Professor Maria Llorens-Martín (Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa” Madrid)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 12 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - How Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Interact with Basic Physiology
  Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Behind the scenes of scientific publishing
  Seema Grewal (Senior Editor, Development )
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

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

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

Tuesday 7 January 2020 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Lipid Deuteration against Neurodegeneration
  Dr Mikhail Shchepinov (Chief Scientific Officer, Retrotope Inc), Mikhail Shchepinov (Retrotope Inc)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 17 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - How to Make a Plastic Brain
  Alicia Hidalgo (University of Birmingham)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Pathways in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Matthew LaVoie (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Insights into the regulation of human coronary microvascular flow
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Conflict or Complement: parallel memories control behaviour in the wee fly
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Prof. Scott Waddell (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Combining iPSCs and ‘omics to identify molecular convergence in neurodegenerative disorders
  Dr Michael Ward (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Neural Evolution of Context-Dependent Fly Song
  David Stern (Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Oscillation in Physiology: the How and the Why
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Synthetic building blocks to assemble tissue regenerative constructs in situ
  Please note this week only the HoD Seminar will take place in the Sherrington Large Lecture Theatre
  Professor Laura De Laporte (RWTH Aachen University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - Differential Resilience to Perturbation of Circuits with Similar Performance
  Professor Eve Marder (Biology Department and Volen Center, Brandeis University)
  Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Building a Sustainable Portfolio of Core Facilities
  Philip Hockberger, Ph.D. (Associate Vice President for Research, Northwestern University, Chicago)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - From Connectomes to Nanowires - the Quest to Understand the Central Complex across Insect Species
  Stanley Heinze (Lund University)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Decoding danger signals from the extracellular matrix reveals new strategies to treat inflammatory disease and cancer
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Professor Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Mechanisms of plasticity in visual circuits
  Prof Leon Lagnado FMedSci (School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - Dynamic control of presynaptic function in health and disease
  Nils Brose (Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Goettingen, Germany)
  Marianne Fillenz Prize Lecture

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - POSTPONED Guidance mechanisms during neural circuit development
  This lecture is postponed due to Coronavirus travel restrictions.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Ruediger Klein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Saturday 7 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Oxford
  Dr Maryam Zaringhalam, PhD
  Graduate Student Events

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mitophagy: from genetics to biology, and back
  Dr Hélène Plun-Favreau (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Investigating the Role for Sleep in Responses to Neural Injury
  Jeff Donlea (University of California Los Angeles)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - POSTPONED Democracy, Social Cohesion and Technology; the place of robust knowledge
  This lecture is postponed due to Coronavirus travel restrictions
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sir Peter Gluckman ONZ KNZM FRS (University of Auckland)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - POSTPONED Dynamic control of neural proliferation zones in the zebrafish larval thalamus
  This lecture is postponed due to Coronavirus travel restrictions.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Driever (Freiburg University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Saturday 14 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - POSTPONED Alzheimer’s Research UK Thames Valley Dementia Information morning
  Fro the latest information and details of the programme please visit our website: https://www.oxdare.ox.ac.uk/arukox-public
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Friday 3 April 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson's UK Lunchtime Online Seminar Series
  Follow @PD_seminars for news of more talks.
  Various Speakers

Friday 17 April 2020 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson's UK Lunchtime Online Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  Parkinson's UK lunchtime online Seminar

Monday 20 April 2020 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Targeting cytotoxic alpha-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson’s Disease
  Please note change of timing from 4pm to 2pm. The seminar will now be presented online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for the link to access the online seminar.
  Professor Daniel Otzen (Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University)

Thursday 23 April 2020 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - POSTPONED Heart Growth and Regeneration: Crossing the Line
  Postponed
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Henry M. Sucov, PhD (Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 27 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - POSTPONED Deconstructing the molecular logic of neural circuit formation: One molecule at a time
  Postponed to Michaelmas Term 2020
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Thomas C. Südhof (HHMI & Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Friday 1 May 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson's UK Lunchtime Online Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  Parkinson's UK lunchtime online Seminar

Monday 11 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - POSTPONED Transcriptional control of heart development and regeneration
  Postponed
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Enzo Porrello (School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Melbourne)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - An update on the quest for genetic determinants in Parkinson's Disease and related disorders
  Professor Vincenzo Bonifati (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 22 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson's UK Lunchtime Online Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  Parkinson's UK lunchtime online Seminar

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - POSTPONED Why aren’t we all fat?
  This lecture has been postponed until further notice
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, MD FRS FMedSci (University of Cambridge)
  Sir Hans Krebs Prize Lecture

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Selective brain region vulnerability in Parkinson’s Disease is governed by α-Synuclein conformations
  This seminar will be held online. Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Tim Bartels (Dementia Research Institute at the University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 6 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Exploring human brain structure and function using cerebral organoids
  This seminar will be held online. Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Madeline Lancaster (Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 22 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Function and Dysfunction of Synucleins – Membranes Matter
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Jacqueline Burré (Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 7 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Parkinson's UK Lunchtime Online Seminar Series
  Manuela Tan (UCL), Violoa Volpato (Cardiff DRI)
  Parkinson's UK lunchtime online Seminar

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Time to revise the classical model of basal ganglia dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: New insights from a novel, progressive mouse of mitochondrial complex I dysfunction
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr D. James Surmeier (Northwestern University, Chicago)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - POSTPONED Development & Cell Biology Theme Research Meeting
  This meeting is being postponed - details TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dopamine axons: immense networks for dynamically gating dopamine transmission
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Professor Stephanie Cragg (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Decoding Parkinson’s Disease: New Therapeutic Opportunities
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Valina Dawson (John Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding zebrafish heart regeneration at a single cell level
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Professor Jeroen Bakkers (Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neuronal circuits for sound perception
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Associate Professor Maria Geffen, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Biologist, Know Thy Cells - A Colorful Barcoding Method to ID Cell Types, their Fate, and Decode Brainwide Communication
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Eviatar Yemini (Columbia University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering new interneurons in the postnatal cerebral cortex
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Professor Benedikt Berninger (King's College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanisms of Innate Immunity and Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Richard Youle (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Institutes of Health (NIH))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Striatal activity topographically reflects cortical activity
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Andrew Peters (UCL)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Tales from the human brain: a multi-scale approach to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Wilma van de Berg (Amsterdam UMC)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - GL Brown Prize Lecture: Healing Tiny Hearts Across Generations
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Professor Dino A Giussani (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Forcing your way through development: how forces are generated, integrated and controlled during development
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr John Robert Davis (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cardiac development and repair: role of coronary arteries
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Associate Professor Kristy Red-Horse (Department of Biology, Stanford University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screens to ameliorate cellular stress in neurodegeneration
  Dr. Emmanouil Metzakopian (UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Excitatory neurons of the cortex: similarities and variations
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Rajeevan Narayanan Therpurakal (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of neuronal circuit development and maturation
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Taro Kitazawa, Ph.D. (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Emergence and patterning of mesoderm cell lineages: from cardiac progenitors to paraxial mesoderm
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Professor Andrea Münsterberg (School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Sunday 7 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - British Indians Celebrating International Women's Day
  Co-organised by researchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) and the Department of Psychiatry
  Baroness Sandip Verma (Chair of UN Women (UK)), Shalina Patel (History teacher and founder of TheHistoryCorridor), Gopichand Hinduja (Co-Chair of the Hinduja Group), Shay Grewal (BBC Radio London), Kiran Kaur Manku (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, 1928 Institute Co-founder), Nikita Ved (DPAG, University of Oxford, 1928 Institute Co-founder)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Modulation of striatal circuits by midbrain dopamine neurons
  Dr. Nicolas Tritsch (Neuroscience Institute and Marlene & Paulo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders, New York University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms of cell state transitions in zebrafish melanoma
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Professor Liz Patton (MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 8 April 2021 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Many Layers of Tactile Sensation
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Randy M. Bruno, Ph.D. (Dept. of Neuroscience, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 19 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mitochondrial DNA at the interface between mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation in Parkinson’s disease
  Dr. Anne Grünewald (University of Luxembourg)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cancer Evolution Seminar Series (CESS)
  Please email Diane.Ferrucci@bruker.com if you intend to attend.
  Professor Sui Huang (Institute for Systems Biology), Dr Jean-Jacques Kupiec (Centre Cavaillès de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - Paris)

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Revisiting the CNS immune privilege
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Jonathan Kipnis (Washington University Medical School)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Developing approaches to explore proteome complexity in the human brain
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Becky Carlyle (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Cortical-subcortical interactions with the thalamus and claustrum
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Associate Professor Solange Brown (Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Body-first & Brain-first Parkinson's disease - explaining motor asymmetry, non-motor subtypes, and dementia
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Per Borghammer (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 18:00 - Pint of Science 2021: Hear or here?
  External event sponsored by DPAG featuring DPAG researchers.
  Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Does the eye know what the brain is doing? The modulation of retinal output by arousal and locomotion
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Sylvia Schröder (University of Sussex)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Cardiac Cartography: delineating the emergence of cellular diversity in the mouse and human heart
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Prof Shankar Srinivas (Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mitophagy dysfunction in autosomal recessive Parkinson’s disease: is it the whole story?
  Dr Olga Corti (Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 23 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture: Lighting Up the Brain
  Regrettably only those personally invited will be seated in the lecture theatre due to COVID restrictions. Masks must be worn. The lecture will be available on the Microsoft Teams platform, and can be accessed via the link below.
  Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Monday 28 June 2021 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Engineered gene delivery vectors and microbial opsins for precise and minimally-invasive study and repair of nervous systems
  Regrettably only a restricted number of pre-booked attendees within DPAG will be seated in the lecture theatre due to COVID restrictions. Masks must be worn. The lecture will be available on the Microsoft Teams platform, and can be accessed via the link below.
  Viviana Gradinaru (California Institute of Technology)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 6 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sub-second Striatum Neuromodulatory Signaling on Multiple Spatial Scales During Learning and Action
  Dr Mark Howe (Boston University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 22 September 2021 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Autophagy and neurodegeneration
  Professor David Rubinsztein (University of Cambridge.)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis and Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Sreeganga Chandra (Yale School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Circadian control of the secretory pathway maintains collagen homeostasis
  Professor Karl Kadler (University of Manchester)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Spying on neuromodulation with new genetically encoded fluorescent sensors
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Professor Yulong Li (Peking University, China)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - "Popsee" unveiling by Patrick Hughes in honour of Sir Colin Blakemore
  This event is open to DPAG members and the University of Oxford neuroscience community.
  Patrick Hughes (Artist)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - From gene to therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  Please note the LGC Lecture Theatre seating capacity is limited and will be first come first served. The lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Sherrington Building Foyer, Parks Road.
  Kay Davies (University of Oxford)
  Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark Prize Lecture

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Hallucinating mice, dopamine and immunity – towards mechanistic treatment targets for psychotic disorders
  Dr Katharina Schmack (Francis Crick Institute and University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Novel genes, pathways and processes involved in arterial valve development in mouse and man
  Professor Debbie Henderson (University of Newcastle)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:30 - Development and Cell Biology Theme Away Day
  Registration deadline: Friday 29 October.
  Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Ellie Tzima (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Dr Alice Neal (Ludwig Cancer Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Auguste Vadisiute (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Nicola Smart (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford), Dr Jacinta Kalisch-Smith (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Luana Campos Soares (DPAG, University of Oxford), Preman Singh (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Irina-Elena Lupu (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Modulators of pathology progression in neurodegenerative disease
  PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO MONDAY 22ND NOVEMBER
  Dr Michael Henderson (Van Andel Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs
  Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture 2021: Designing materials to heal the body and detect diseases earlier
  Professor Molly Stevens, FREng FRS (Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular and functional organization of the mouse striatum
  Prof. Konstantinos Meletis (Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 17 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - *POSTPONED* Regulation of ATP production by mitochondria
  This event will be held online in early 2022.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Liron Boyman, Ph.D. (Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Department of Physiology, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 12 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - From bench to clinic - Translating fundamental neuroscience into real-life healthcare practices, and developing nationally recognised life science companies with Dr. D'Arcy
  More information can be found on the HealthTech Connects Inc. website, Dr. D'Arcy's ResearchGate and Wikipedia.
  Dr. Ryan D' Arcy (HealthTech Connex)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - 5-HT in the medial septum regulates social memory
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Xiaoting Wu, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Intracellular Membrane Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegenerative Diseases
  Professor Pietro De Camilli (Yale University School of Medicine, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience New Haven, CT USA)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Prediction and the sensory brain" and "Elucidating regulatory pathways underlying epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the developing and adult heart to enable cardiovascular repair and regeneration"
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Joaquim Vieira (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Targeting metabolite-driven signalling pathways in the type 2 diabetic heart" and "Defining mechanisms of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in dementia using advanced organ-on-a-chip models”
  Associate Professor Lisa Heather (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: “Descending Cortical Loops for Auditory Plasticity” and “Form and function in the developing heart”
  Associate Professor Victoria Bajo Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Richard Tyser (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Making sense of the exuberant axonal connectivity of dopamine neurones
  Professor Louis-Eric Trudeau (Faculty of Medicine Université de Montréal)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Developmental origins of blood and lymphatic endothelium" and "Translational physiology: iron, hypoxia and the pulmonary circulation"
  Dr Oliver Stone (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)), Dr Nick Talbot (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mapping the Human Body One Cell at a Time
  Dr Sarah A. Teichmann FMedSci FRS (Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Director of Research, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
  John Scott Haldane Prize Lecture

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A brain-wide analysis of entorhinal projections
  Gülşen Sürmeli (Royal Society and Wellcome Trust, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - A quick introduction to digital monitoring in health and disease - Zoom Webinar
  Zoom Webinar
  Various Speakers

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: “Hearing in an acoustically complex world” and "Heart regeneration in the Mexican cavefish"
  Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Mathilda Mommersteeg (DPAG University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 18 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Photobiomodulation for neurodegenerative disease: a journey from bench to clinic
  Professor John Mitrofanis (Université Grenoble Alpes Saint Martin d'Hères, France, and University College London, UK)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 6 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - IHC and IF Workshop - Incl. antibodies and Nanobodies for enhanced imaging
  External workshop delivered by Proteintech affiliated with University of Oxford researcher as organiser
  Dr Rebecca Northeast (Proteintech Product Manager)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Thursday 7 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Body Brain Behavior - The Need For Conversations
  Oxford Book Launch of “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation”
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD (Yale School of Medicine), Joy Hirsch, PhD (Yale School of Medicine)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 8 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Jenkinson Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium
  Professor Kate McDole (University of Cambridge), Professor Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University), Luke Harland (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford), Michael Weinberger (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Alice Neal (Ludwig Cancer Institute, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Alison Woollard (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Steven Twigg (Immunology, University of Oxford), Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford), Cathy Ye (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Shaping the heart tube to establish a double blood flow
  Sigolène Meilhac, PhD (Institut Imagine, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The cell-adhesion code that underlies the molecular logic of synapse formation
  Professor Thomas C. Südhof (HHMI & Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Towards a multiscale understanding of heart morphogenesis
  Rashmi Priya (The Francis Crick Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - A hidden regulator of neuromodulation and motor learning: Protein synthesis by the integrated stress response (ISR)
  Dr Nicole Calakos (Dept. of Neurology, Duke University, School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sugar: A gut choice
  Diego V. Bohórquez, Ph.D. (Duke University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - The drug development landscape in Parkinson's
  This event will be held in person. Please note slightly the later start time of 12:15pm
  Dr Kevin McFarthing (Research Advisor, Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 27 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Detecting Death and Damage; Understanding macrophage migration in vivo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Will Wood (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 9 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Some adventures in hormones, metabolism and behaviour
  Please be seated by 3.55pm. There will be no access to the lecture theatre from 4pm.
  Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, MD FRS FMedSci (University of Cambridge)
  Sir Hans Krebs Prize Lecture

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations
  Professor Anthony J. Hannan (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Team Science, Big Science, and Open Science In the Service of Understanding Cortex
  Christof Koch, PhD (Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Santa Monica)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Neuronal representations of learned categories in mouse visual and higher cortical areas
  Dr Pieter Goldstein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich, Germany)

Thursday 23 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity
  Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Neurons, Circuits, Behavior and Evolution
  Please note amended date and time.
  Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 27 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The role of LRRK2 in familial and sporadic Parkinson’s disease
  Dr. Mark R. Cookson (Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging (NIA))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 28 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - All-optical interrogation of the hippocampal role in episodic memory formation, consolidation and retrieval
  Dr Nick Robinson (University College London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 1 July 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK) Thames Valley Network Dementia Research Day - registration for this event is now closed
  Booking is essential. Please register for the event at the link below by Wednesday 15th June at 5pm. Anyone who isn’t currently a member can join the network by completing the online application form prior to registering for the event.
  Professor Richard Haynes (University of Oxford)
  Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK) Thames Valley Network Dementia Research Day
• 15:00 - DPAG Heroines
  Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft (University of Oxford ), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Nicola Smart (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Wednesday 6 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Cell circuits, progression genetics, and the quest to solve Parkinson’s with precision medicine
  Dr Clemens Scherzer (Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 7 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Single cell resolution of a sleep-regulating circuit in Drosophila
  Stephane Dissel (University of Missouri)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 25 July 2022 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Coordination of neuropeptide signaling in the Drosophila clock output network
  Annika Barber (Rutgers, University of New Jersey)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 July 2022 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Science in the Park - Discover how the Body Works
  Various Speakers

Friday 12 August 2022 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The orexinergic signalling as a potential tool for therapeutic target in childhood absence epilepsy
  Associate Professor Nihan Carcak Yilmaz (Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 August 2022 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - High-Content Electrophysiology Platforms for Functional Characterization of Neurons
  Dr Zhuoliang Li (MaxWell Biosystems, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 2 September 2022 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering extracellular microenvironment through Intravital 3D bioprinting
  Professor Nicola Elvassore (Developmental Biology & Cancer Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 5 September 2022 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Mild intrauterine hypoperfusion in rats reproduces neurodevelopmental disorders observed in children with fetal growth restriction
  Professor Masahiro Tsuji, MD, PhD (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyoto Women’s University, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 14 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 3Brain CorePlate and Accura-3D Technologies, modern functional imaging for next-gen neuroscience
  Dr Sercan Deniz (3Brain AG, Switzerland)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 15 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Intracellular adrenergic signaling in cardiac myocytes and hippocampal neurons: from heart beat to stress and memory
  Please note rescheduled date.
  Prof Yang K. Xiang, PhD (Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 16 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Cell-type specific responses to associative learning in the primary motor cortex
  Candice Lee (Laboratory of Simon Chen, University of Ottawa)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 21 September 2022 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Postdoc Appreciation Week - IDRM, University of Oxford
  Dr Fabian Klein (Department of Paediatrics, IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Naveed Akbar (RDM, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 September 2022 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Postdoc Appreciation Week - University of Oxford
  Dr Ricardo Marquez Gomez (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Helena Rodríguez Caro (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Alzheimer's Research UK Thames Valley Network dementia public evening event
  Dr Becky Carlyle, ARUK Coordinator (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Cardiac Symposium - Heart Signalling
  Professor Livia Hool PhD (University of Western Australia), Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford), Professor David Eisner (University of Manchester), Associate Professor Christopher Toepfer (Oxford Cardiovascular Science, RDM, University of Oxford), Dr Ni Li MD (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Manuela Zaccolo MD (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Dan Li MD PhD (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ηarnessing PTEN’s growth controlling potential in neuronal development and disease
  Prof Dr Britta Eickholt (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Burdon Sanderson Prize lecture: Synaptic plasticity, calcium regulation and Alzheimer’s disease
  Followed by a reception in the Sherrington foyer.
  Richard W. Tsien (Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, and Director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute at New York University Medical Center)
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cortical Layers in Context and Learning
  Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mutant phosphodiesterase 3A protects from hypertension-induced cardiac damage
  Please note this seminar has been rescheduled to Friday 28 October
  Dr Enno Klussmann (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - A Link Between Stress and Restorative Sleep
  Professor William Wisden (Imperial College London)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - LRRK2 kinase in Parkinson’s disease: from single molecule to the brain
  The date of this seminar has changed
  Suzanne Pfeffer, Ph.D. (Stanford University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Exploring the spatial pathobiology of cAMP signaling
  John D. Scott FRS (Edwin G. Krebs-Speights Professor of Cell Signaling and Cancer Biology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Acoustic context: relevant or not, if predictable, we code it
  To make enquiries to meet with Dr de Hoz please contact andrew.king@dpag.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Livia de Hoz (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Mechanisms driving lipid droplet biogenesis during adipocyte differentiation
  Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Scientific Publishing: Behind the Scenes at Nature
  Dr George Caputa, PhD (Nature Research)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: ‘Macrophage function in the regenerating heart’ and ‘Transposons diversify the wired- and wireless neural network of a complex brain’
  Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Christoph D. Treiber (CNCB, DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Circadian Regulation of Cardiac Physiology and Pathology
  Professor Martin Young (University of Alabama)
  Cardiac Metabolism Research Group Seminars (DPAG)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Optogenetic dissection of local and long-range connections in prefrontal circuits
  Associate Professor Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture: Epigenetic inheritance – models and mechanisms
  Professor Anne C. Ferguson-Smith FRS FMedSci (Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge, President of the Genetics Society)
  Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Small molecules that restore GABAergic function as a potential therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Please note rescheduled date.
  Associate Professor James P Clement Chelliah, PhD (Neuroscience Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - On the network influence of single interneurons from development into adulthood
  Dr Rosa Cossart, INMED, INSERM (Aix-Marseille University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - 2022 Oxford Parkinson’s Research Day
  The deadline for abstract submissions is by 5pm on Friday 28th October 2022. The final deadline for registrations is Friday 18th November at 5pm.
  Various Speakers

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering extracellular microenvironment through Intravital 3D bioprinting
  Professor Nicola Elvassore (Developmental Biology & Cancer Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 5 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - AI-driven modelling for rapid and robust cortex-wide credit assignment
  Dr Rui Ponte Costa (Faculty of Engineering & Bristol Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 8 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Annual Jenkinson Development Biology Symposium
  Registration £15 per person. POs are required in advance of registering via the link below.
  Judy Sayers (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Tomoko Watanabe (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Wilkinson (MHU WIMM), Berta Verd (University of Oxford), Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford), Professor Wes Williams (University of Oxford), Dr Sophie Payne (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Emma Rawlins (MRC Research Fellow, Dept of Pathology, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge), Professor Vivian Li (The Francis Crick Institute, London), Dr Emily Noel (University of Sheffield)
  Development & Cell Biology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Reconstructing Human Evolutionary History
  Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The neural basis of the stereo contrast paradox
  Dr Laura Palmieri (Newcastle University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Prodromal PD-definition and impact for clinical studies
  Dr. Daniela Berg, (University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:00 - The Coding of Visceral Senses in the Brain
  Please note this is a virtual seminar which can be accessed via tinyurl.com/2da8x4yf
  Dr Chen Ran (Stephen Liberles Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Principles of astrogliopathology: Challenging common mythologies
  Professor Alexei Verkhratsky (University of Manchester)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Glutamatergic circuits regulate gut motility
  Please note this is a virtual seminar
  Dr Ryan Hamnett, PhD (Kaltschmidt Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: 'Neuroproteomic approaches to identifying novel mechanisms of cognitive resilience in neurodegeneration’ and ‘Using high-throughput biology approaches to understand mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s’
  Dr Becky Carlyle, ARUK Coordinator (University of Oxford), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - A cell-type specific brain circuit for curiosity
  Dr Mehran Ahmadlou (University College London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Cortical ensemble dynamics encode and select hunting action sequences
  Dr Dahee Jang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - GL Brown Prize Lecture: Healing Tiny Hearts Across Generations
  Please note this lecture has been rescheduled from Michaelmas Term 2022 to Thursday 9 February 2023. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in Sherrington reception foyer.
  Professor Dino A Giussani (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neural circuits underlying flexible behaviour
  Dr Adil Khan (King's College, London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: ‘Identifying druggable targets and exploring their therapeutic potential in complex iPSC-derived models of Parkinson’s’ and ‘Cooperation in the cortex-basal ganglia circuit’
  Dr Charmaine Lang (OPDC, DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Andy Peters (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Calcium and metabolic activity in cortical astrocytes during locomotion in mice
  Professor Alexey Semyanov (Jiaxing University College of Medicine, China)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Inflammation and immune dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: targeting the gut-brain axis to reduce risk and progression
  Professor Malú Gámez Tansey (University of Florida)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Detecting Death and Damage; Understanding Macrophage Migration in vivo
  Will Wood (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Thalamocortical neuron firing and spindle oscillations driven by thalamus-specific transcription factor, Shox2
  Dr Isabella Febbo (Tulane University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - International Women's Day - Empathic Leadership, Trust & Conflict
  Alex Efthymiades (Director & Founder of Consensio)

Monday 13 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Exploring the Ageing Frontier with the LSF
  Please note this event is for those who have registered in advance only. Capacity for this event has now been reached.
  Lisa Ireland (CEO of the Longevity Science Foundation (LSF))
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Tuesday 21 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Gut sensing by Dr Melanie Kaelberer
  Dr Melanie Maya Kaelberer (Duke University)
  Cell Physiology Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 29 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Parenting in Academia
  Advance booking required and places are limited. Registration closes on 19 March.
  Professor Damian Tyler (University of Oxford), Sophie Evans (DPAG, University of Oxford), Katie Meads (DPAG, University of Oxford), Ellie Bonthorne (DPAG, University of Oxford), Jo Mason (Head of Wellbeing and Childcare Services, University of Oxford), Katherine Corr (Athena Swan & EDI Facilitator and Advisor, Medical Sciences Division), Jennifer Anderson (Head of Training & Careers, Medical Research Council (MRC)), Jennifer Gladstone (Strategic Research Development Manager and Research Policy Manager (EDI), University of Oxford), Tanita Casci (Director, Research Strategy & Policy Unit, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Research Culture Facilitator, Medical Sciences Division)

Thursday 30 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanisms and Roles of Fast Dopamine Signaling
  Professor Pascal Kaeser (Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Genetics of synucleinopathies and how it informs us towards future clinical trials
  Dr Ziv Gan-Or (McGill University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Building, Maintaining, or Regenerating Brain Circuitry is Complex: Subtype- and Context-Dependent Subcellular Molecular Machinery in Cerebral Cortex
  Professor Jeffrey D. Macklis (Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, and DPAG Academic Visitor, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture: Neuronal circuits for body movements
  To be followed by a reception in the Sherrington Reception Foyer
  Silvia Arber PhD (Biozentrum and Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland)
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Flexible neuronal mitochondrial dynamics control sleep
  Dr Raffaele Sarnataro (University of Oxford)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Subcellular-resolution electrophysiology with high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs)
  Andreas Hierlemann (Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Part 1: Context-dependent gating of visual attention in Drosophila Part 2: Strategies for annotating the fly connectome with information on neuropeptide signaling and gap junctions
  Gerry Rubin (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Anatomical organization and function of oxytocin system in the mouse brain
  Associate Professor Yongsoo Kim (Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Advanced imaging to visualize nuclear pore formation during cell division
  Gokul Upadhyayula, PhD (Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Biophysicist Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The cellular phase of Parkinson’s disease
  Professor Patrik Verstreken (Leuven Brain Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Thalamus drives coupling of information streams in cortical dendrites
  Dr Arco Bast (Lab of Marcel Oberlaender, MPI for Neurobiology of Behavior, Germany)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 14:30 - Nanodomain-delimited remodelling in atrial fibrillation
  Cristina E. Molina, PhD (Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Research, University Centre of Cardiovascular Science (UCCS), University Medical Centre Hamburg)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals that Glial Cells Integrate Homeostatic and Circadian Processes To Drive Sleep-Wake Cycles
  Sha Liu (Center for Brain and Disease Research VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Form and fate: How shape influences human brain development and evolution
  Dr Madeline Lancaster (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Diabetes associated gene TCF7L2 links brain energy metabolism with social deficits
  Marta B. Wiśniewska (Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine
  Peter Agre, MD (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Sir Hans Krebs Prize Lecture: Metabolic regulation of insulin secretion in health and disease
  Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft (University of Oxford )
  Sir Hans Krebs Prize Lecture

Monday 19 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Brain-wide neural circuits for sensory-guided behavior
  Assistant Professor Ross Williamson (University of Pittsburgh)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 20 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Glycophagy - a novel route for myocardial bulk handling of glycogen stores?
  Professor Lea Delbridge (Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne)
  Cardiac Metabolism Research Group Seminars (DPAG)

Monday 26 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Evolution and Development of Mammalian Brains
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño (Institute for Paediatric Regenerative Medicine at Shriners Hospitals for Children, Institute for Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - MIND, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis), Professor Stephen Charles Noctor (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, UC Davis), Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan), Professor Paul R. Manger (School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Associate Professor Rogier B. Mars (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen), Jasper E. Hunt (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 28 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Beyond Alpha-Synuclein: Exploring the Diversity of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Parkinson's Disease
  Dr Ted. M. Dawson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 5 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Towards Intraneuronal Immunotherapy (in person talk)
  Dr Ole Tietz (Dementia Research Centre, Macquarie Medical School, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 6 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanism of energy intake and expenditure regulation by coding and non-coding genes in the neurons of the melanocortin system
  Ilya A. Vinnikov (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 17 July 2023 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - New stratification concepts for precision medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease (in person talk)
  Prof. Rejko Krüger (Luxembourg Institute of Health)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 25 July 2023 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Science in the Park
  Various Speakers

Thursday 3 August 2023 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Lessons from the deep: using electrophysiology & visualization to learn how the brain survives at sea
  Dr Jessica Kendall-Bar (Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 15:00 - AMPK phosphorylation of FNIP1 dictates the kinetics of lysosome and mitochondrial biogenesis
  Please note this seminar will be held online
  Dr Nazma Malik (Salk Institute)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 3 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Editing the Developing Brain: from in utero CRISPR knockins to broadly-accessible personalized patient models
  Dr. Alexandros Poulopoulos (University of Maryland)

Friday 6 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The organization of the molecular force sensor in cochlear hair cells.
  TBA
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Neuronal activity-dependent gene regulation in the developing neocortex
  Professor Nobuhiko Yamamoto (Institute of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mapping sounds into space
  Professor Jenny Bizley (UCL Ear Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Realizing The Promise of Cardiac Neuromodulation: Clinical & Laboratory Insights Paving the Path
  Associate Professor Olujimi Ajijola (Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA-Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs, Co-Director UCLA-Caltech MST)
  Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Advanced biomimetic 3D models to mimic tumour-stroma
  Professor Umber Cheema (UCL)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Striatal Circuitry in Parkinson's Disease and Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia
  Dr Alexandra Nelson (University of California)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Identifying novel regulators of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake from ‘omics analyses
  Dr Daniel Fazakerley (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Human Metabolic Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia
  Professor Andrew Murray (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Stem cell therapy for perinatal brain injuries
  Dr Yoshiaki Sato (Nagoya University Hospital)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Exploring the crosstalk between familial and idiopathic Parkinson’s (in person talk)
  Dr Patrick Lewis (Royal Veterinary College, London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Standing on the Edge of Error: Science in the Age of AI
  Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The nucleus as a dynamic metabolic compartment linking nutrients to chromatin modification
  Dr Sophie Trefely (Babraham Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Somatic mutations in the brain: do they have a role in synucleinopathies? (in person talk)
  Professor Christos Proukakis (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2
  Dr Sajikumar Sreedharan (National University of Singapore)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Regulation of protein synthesis and proteostasis by the Integrated Stress Response’
  Professor David Ron (University of Cambridge)
  John Scott Haldane Prize Lecture

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The brain control of appetite and bodyweight: Is obesity a choice?
  Professor Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - AI-driven brain-wide principles of learning
  Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Selective neuronal vulnerability in neurodegeneration and dementia
  Dr Hugo Ribeiro Fernandes (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Synaptic routing and feed-forward neuropeptide network in the threat connectome
  Assistant Professor Janos Fuzik (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 6 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Rethinking Parkinson’s disease pathophysiology & how to model it with a focus on alpha-synuclein & cell autonomous processes
  Professor Poul Henning Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 9 January 2024 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - OPDC Seminar - Gene therapy to study and treat Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Michael G. Kaplitt (Weill Cornell Medicine, Brain, and Spine Center)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Fit for this world? - Critical periods of development specify cellular properties
  Matthias Landgraf (University of Cambridge)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Ontogeny of hippocampus-dependent memory
  Paul Frankland (University of Toronto)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Curiouser and curiouser: regulating the remarkable dynamics inside killer T cells
  Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Neural circuits underlying sleep structure and functions
  Professor Antoine Adamantidis (University of Bern)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Metabo-epigenetic signalling in Heart Failure
  Prof Dr Johannes Backs (Heidelberg University Hospital)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Harnessing human hypothalamic platforms to find the next Ozempic
  Florian T. Merkle (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE REARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR Mitochondria at neuronal synapses: why are they there?
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE REARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR
  Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rethinking the role of alpha-synuclein aggregation in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease and synucleinopathies
  Hilal Lashuel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Seminar in Pairs: 'Maladaptive plasticity related to early movement restriction in rats to better understand neurodevelopmental disorders' and 'Early predictive biomarkers for abnormal brain development induced by fetal growth restriction'
  J-Olivier Coq (CNRS/Aix-Marseille University), Atsuto Onoda (Sanyo-Onoda City University, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Using chemogenetics to silence nociceptors and treat persistent pain
  Professor David Bennett (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - SPECIAL NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY LECTURE: 'New Roles for Old Molecules'
  Professor Mone Zaidi (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Iron in health and disease
  Professor Domenico Girelli (University Hospital of Verona)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MARIANNE FILLENZ PRIZE LECTURE 2024: Deciphering Neurobiological Processes of Opioid Addiction towards Novel Interventions
  Prof Yasmin Hurd (Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of life and death
  Professor Luca Scorrano (University of Padua, Italy)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 11 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Value-modulated hippocampal and cortical reactivations
  Professor Min Whan Jung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Mechanisms of Brain State Control: Joint Meeting of Oxford Neuroscience & Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
  Various Speakers

Monday 25 March 2024 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Dissecting Parkinson's disease with long-read RNA-sequencing
  Professor Mina Ryten (Cambridge Dementia Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 26 March 2024 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Cortical Circuits For Learning and Behavior: Themes and Variation
  Rescheduled Talk
  Professor Jerry Chen (Boston University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Should I mate or should I go: cyclical control of female rejection behavior
  Susana Lima (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - SIR WILFRID LE GROS CLARK PRIZE LECTURE: Cardiovascular Ageing: Unraveling the Interplay of Vessels, Nerves, and Inflammation
  Professor Stefanie Dimmeler (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cell type evolution in the primate brain
  Alex Pollen, PhD (University of California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - New views on cleared tissue and live dendrites
  Professor Fritjof Helmchen (University of Zurich)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: Scents and Sensibility: Representations of Identity, Illusion and Value in Olfactory Cortex
  Professor Richard Axel (Columbia University)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Command, Connect, Clean: Mapping neural circuts for fly grooming as a model motor sequence
  Julie H Simpson (UC Santa Barbara)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Neuroimmune Cardiovascular Interfaces in Atherosclerosis
  This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
  Sarajo Mohanta, PhD (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Mechanism of Autophagy in Health and Disease
  Professor Zvulun Elazar (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Blood-Brain Barrier Dynamics in Vascular Dementia: Unravelling the Tripartite Crosstalk between the Endothelium, Pericytes, and Microglia
  Dr Axel Montagne (University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Adolescent experience and a putative sensitive period for learning and decision making in mice
  Professor Linda Wilbrecht (University of California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - SIR HANS KREBS PRIZE LECTURE: From base change to better care in diabetes
  Prof Andrew Hattersley (University of Exeter)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Bradyarrhythmias: New mechanisms and treatments
  Dr Alicia D'Souza (Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Carotid body: beyond oxygen sensing and ventilation
  Professor Julian F.R. Paton (University of Auckland)

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Immune and inflammatory mechanisms in stroke
  Professor Stuart Allan (University of Manchester)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroimmune signalling within and across brain borders regulating synaptic fate in neurodegeneration
  Dr Soyon Hong (UCL)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Evolutionary Implications of Drosophila Social Networks
  Joel Levine (University of Toronto)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transformation of sound representations in the auditory system across wakefulness, sleep and anesthesia
  Brice Bathellier (Institut de l’Audition, Paris)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Complex control of complex behavior by the cerebellum
  Megan Carey (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Hearing the needle in the haystack - The neural representation of vocalizations in textural noise in the auditory cortex of mice
  Dr Bernhard Englitz (Radboud University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Mitophagy, from genetics to biology, and back (rescheduled date)
  Professor Hélène Plun-Favreau (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Modulating Hemoglobin Affinity to Optimize Oxygen Delivery: A New Paradigm in Critical Care?
  Ian Welsby (Duke University School of Medicine)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Competitive vasodynamics in cortex and what it informs us about neuronal activity
  Professor David Kleinfeld (UC San Diego)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycle: The roles of Calcium and Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep
  Professor Hiroki Ueda (School of Medicine, University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR))
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Gut Macrophages Modulate Body-First Synucleinopathies
  Dr Tim Bartels (Dementia Research Institute at the University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 3 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Polygenic Regulation of Cortical Circuit Development in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Insights from a “Model” Copy Number Variant
  Anthony-S. LaMantia (Virginia Tech)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 12 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Improving temporal coding in cochlear implants: what can animal models tell us?
  Professor Jan Schnupp (Gerald Choa Neuroscience Institute, CUHK)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series

Thursday 18 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Imaging Oligomers of Alpha-Synuclein in Parkinson’s Disease
  Professor Steven. F. Lee (University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 19 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series

Friday 26 July 2024 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 July 2024 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Science in the Park 2024
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 6 August 2024 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Capturing functional stem and immune cell states in early cortical development
  Dr Balazs V Varga (University of Cambridge)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 3 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Targeting the functional impairments in the diabetic heart - adventures in gene therapy and mitochondrial-targeted therapies
  Professor Rebecca Ritchie (Monash University)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Wednesday 4 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Engrams as a substrate for information storage
  Associate Professor Tomás Ryan (Trinity College Dublin)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 17 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - MRI of Brain Plasticity
  Professor Alan P. Koretsky, PhD (National Institutes of Health)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 20 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
• 15:30 - Cortical circuits underlying complex scene analysis
  Associate Professor Kamal Sen (Boston University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 27 September 2024 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Intersection between innate immunity, lysosome damage and Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Shawn Ferguson (Yale School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Mechanisms of parallel processing in the brain
  James Jeanne (Yale University School of Medicine)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Rapid emergence of latent knowledge in the sensory cortex drives learning
  This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
  Céline Drieu (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Causes and consequences of Tau Pathology in AD and FTD
  Professor Karen Duff (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE 2024: Deciphering the mysteries of sleep: toward the molecular substrate for “sleepiness”
  Dr Masashi Yanagisawa (University of Tsukuba)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Clash of Titans: AMPK Challenges O-GlcNAcylation in the Failing Heart
  Professor Luc Bertrand (University of Louvain)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - What the hell is the dorsal striatum for?
  David Robbe (Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Interpretable artificial intelligence to identify brain aging trajectories leading to Alzheimer's disease
  Associate Professor Andrei Irimia (University of Southern California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of claudin-5 at the blood brain barrier in health and disease
  Professor Matthew Campbell (Trinity College, Dublin)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Insights and strategies during learning
  Assistant Professor Kishore Kuchibhotla (Johns Hopkins University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - The interplay of peripheral of immune cells associated cytokines with induced pluripotent stem cell astrocytes; implications for Parkinson’s Disease
  Professor Maeve Caldwell (Trinity College Dublin)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - HIF-2 in oxygen chemosensitivity and paragangliomas
  Associate Professor Tammie Bishop (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Neural mechanisms for flexible and goal-directed sensorimotor transformations during decision-making
  Dr Michael Lohse (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Decoding the prefrontal cortex through single cell omics
  Aritra Bhattacherjee (Harvard Medical School)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Mitochondria at neuronal synapses: why are they there?
  Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Multimodal Multiscale Microscopic Imaging of the Brain: Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
  Mark H. Ellisman (Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences Director, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), UCSD )
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE: Beyond pretty pictures: Human neuroimaging as a tool for physiology in the 21st Century
  Professor Charlotte Stagg (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Lifestyle tips for menopausal health
  Associate Professor Victoria Bajo Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Neuronal Cell Biology of PINK1/Parkin mitophagy
  A/Professor Michael Lazarou (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) Parkville, Australia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 13:00 - MABEL FITZGERALD PRIZE LECTURE 2024: Structure to function - some stories from the cell surface
  Professor E. Yvonne Jones, FRS (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - hnRNP K pathology in neurodegenerative diseases
  Professor Tammaryn Lashley (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - New Insights into the Development and Function of Beige Adipocytes
  Associate Professor Paul Cohen (The Rockefeller University)
  Cellular & Molecular Neurobiology Theme Guest Speakers

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - R JEAN BANISTER PRIZE LECTURE: Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity
  Dr Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield, UK)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series