Wednesday 11 February 2026

• 13:30 - Diet-microbe-host interaction in early life: discovery of novel microbial therapies
  In-person only
  Professor Christopher Stewart (Newcastle University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 12 February 2026

• 12:00 - Oncogenic and Anti-oncogenic mutants in normal epithelia
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Phil Jones (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 13 February 2026

• 09:15 - Discovery of potent neutralising antibodies that target deadly Nipah and Hendra henipaviruses
  In person only
  Aiste Dijokaite-Guraliuc (Screaton Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 19 February 2026

• 12:00 - New Technologies Are Changing the Face of Medicine
  This talk is in-person only.
  Fiona Marshall, PhD (President, Biomedical Research at Novartis)

Friday 20 February 2026

• 09:15 - Ancient variants die hard: Germline determinants of toxicity and survival following immune checkpoint blockade
  In person only
  Shawn Sun (Fairfax Group, University of Oxford), Maksim Chan (Fairfax Group, University of Oxford), Martin Little (Fairfax Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

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 - TBC
  In person only
  Progatzky Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 5 March 2026

• 12:00 - TBC
  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 - TBC
  In person only
  McMichael Group (University of Oxford), 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 - TBC
  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

Tuesday 17 March 2026

• 13:00 - 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

Tuesday 2 June 2026

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  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