MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine - Oxford Talks

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine part of: Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Thursday 26 February 2026

12:00 - Dissecting complex immune disease mechanisms through context-specific gene regulation and T cell morphodynamics
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Gosia Trynka (Wellcome Sanger Institute - Cambridge)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 27 February 2026

09:15 - Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity
In person only
Dr Franze Progatzky (University of Oxford - Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 2 March 2026

13:00 - Engineering T Cell Recognition: From Antigen Discovery to Programmable Immunotherapy
Places are limited, and registration is required. Please register in advance.
Nikolaos Sqourakis (University of Pennsylvania)
Unravelling T Cell Recognition: Insights from immunology and AI

Thursday 5 March 2026

12:00 - CAR T cell Therapy – a cathedral builder’s guide
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Martin Pule (University College London)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 6 March 2026

09:15 - E=MHC2: Targeting HLA-E for immunotherapy of HPV-driven cancers
In person only
Bas Peeters (McMichael and Gillespie Group, University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 12 March 2026

12:00 - Optimising T-cell antigen sensitivity by engineering extracellular receptor/ligand sizes
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Omer Dushek (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Wolfson College)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 13 March 2026

09:15 - TBC
In person only
Ho Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 16 March 2026

12:00 - DNA Damage and Repair in Neurons: Implications for Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration
This is an ad-hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Bjoern Schwer (University of California)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
15:30 - Oncogenic Cooperation of MLL1-ENL in a Primary Human Ex Vivo Model.”
Sophie Kreissig (LMU Munich)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 31 March 2026

13:00 - From Stem Cells in Leukemia to Neurons in Pancreatic Cancer
Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 14 April 2026

13:00 - Targeting mitochondria in hematopoiesis
Dr Els Mansell (Erasmus MC, Netherlands)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 30 April 2026

12:00 - Using experimental Medicine and pre-clinical models to understand human immunity
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 7 May 2026

12:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Alex Cagan (University of Cambridge)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 14 May 2026

12:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Jussi Taipale (University of Cambridge)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 May 2026

13:00 - Extracellular Magnesium and T Cell Function: Implications for Cancer Immunotherapy
Jonas Loetscher (University of Basel)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 21 May 2026

12:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Jan Hoeijmakers (University of Cologne)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 28 May 2026

12:00 - TBC
This is an ad-hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Sir David Klenerman (University of Cambridge)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 2 June 2026

13:00 - Methylation states underlying clonal fitness at single cell resolution
Alba Rodriguez Meira, PhD (Dana Farber Cancer Institute Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 4 June 2026

12:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Chiara Bonini (San Raffaele Scientific Institute)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 9 June 2026

13:00 - Targeting leukemia stem cells
Prof Claudia Lengerke (Universität Tüubingen)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 11 June 2026

12:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Ton Schumacher (Netherlands Cancer Institute)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 18 June 2026

12:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Dirk Schubeler (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 7 July 2026

13:00 - Therapeutic targeting of epigenetic enzymes in haematological malignancies
Professor Tim Somervaille (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 17 November 2026

13:00 - Decoding cancer aneuploidy: From tumor evolution to therapeutic opportunities
Prof Uri Ben-David (Tel Aviv University)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

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