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Department: Department of Pharmacology
Talks:
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Astrocyte control of circadian timekeeping
Date: 21 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Dr Marco Brancaccio (Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)
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 4 November 2025
Locus Coeruleus degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Dr Neus Falgas (Neurology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Decoding memory acquisition and consolidation in mice
Date: 11 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Professor Gisella Vetere (part of the Brain Plasticity Laboratory at ESPCI Paris)
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 Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Neurobiology of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): 20 years of progress
Date: 18 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Professor Klaus-Peter Lesch (Laboratory for Translational Neuroscience, University of Würzburg)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host:
Professor Daniel Anthony (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Assessing mitochondrial phenotypes in patient cells from multiple neurodegenerative diseases: how useful are these in drug discovery?
Date: 25 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Professor Heather Mortiboys (Head of Neuroscience, 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 2 December 2025
Inhibitory processing in visual perceptual learning: pharmacological mechanisms
Date: 2 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jeff Dalley (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host:
Dr Abhirup Banerjee (University of Oxford)
