Department: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Talks:

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Epithelia and macrophages in lung infection: Roles in tissue damage, protection and repair
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 May 2025

Harnessing tissue regulatory T cells in the brain
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Hashem Koohy (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Friday 2 May 2025

Enhancer variation and chromatin topology, shaping faces in health and disease
Date: 2 May 2025, 10:45 - 11:45
Speaker : Hannah Long (Institute of Genetics and Cancer | The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Mechanisms of competition between healthy and malignant haematopoiesis
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 May 2025

The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germline
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Raheleh Rahbari (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Friday 9 May 2025

Novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Abhinandan Devaprasad (Udalova Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Friday 16 May 2025

Leveraging Clonal Dynamics to Identify Tumour Specific T Cells in Human Cancer
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Bates (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Barnes Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Spatially resolved insights into fistulating Crohn's disease pathogenesis
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Agne Antanaviciute (Simmons Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ross Chapman (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Friday 6 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Knight Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor James Davies (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

Spatially mapping immune mediated kidney disease
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 September 2025

TBC
Date: 4 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 13 October 2025

TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 16 October 2025

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 October 2025

TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)