Department: Department of Pharmacology
Talks:

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Molecular and functional heterogeneity of neural stem cells across lifespan
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Sebastian Jessberger (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Abhishek Banerjee (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Title tbc
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Immunosenescence: opportunities to reduce macrophage functional decline in ageing
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Heather Wilson (School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Title tbc
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Zhengming Chen (CTSU, University Of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 June 2025

50 years with David Smith on location: from chromaffin granules to neurodegeneration via synapses
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Friday 6 June 2025

19th ANNUAL DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Opening windows for cognition through precise timing of cortical neurons
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Thomas Klausberger (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Title tbc
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

RyR2 in the spotlight: how mutations and phosphorylation shape cardiac rhythm and arrhythmia susceptibility
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ana Maria Gomez (Faculty of Pharmacy, INSERM, University of Paris-Saclay)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA