Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 09:30 - Defining genome structure at base pair resolution
  Dr James Davies (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 09:30 - Treatments for ADHD in adults: what works, what doesn't, and what we still do not know
  Dr Edoardo Ostinelli (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Smoke gets in your brain - biology and treatment of moyamoya
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Greg James (Consultant Neurosurgeon, Neurovascular Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - ‘Too much of a bad thing- mea culpa’ The Perils of Naso-Gastric Feeding in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
  Dr Lakshmeesh Muttur Somashekhar (Highfield Unit), Dr Anthony James (Department of Psychiatry)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 13:00 - Stressed hematopoiesis yields somatic rescue and secondary leukemia
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Jean Soulier (Saint-Louise Hospital, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Learning from an SI – DWI Patterns in Stroke and its Mimics
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk to enable remote access and provide the meeting link
  Dr Derek Hilton (Frimley Heath NHS Foundation Trust)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 13:00 - NDWRH Data Theme Seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 14:00 - Interested in Orphan Drugs? What You Need to Know About Regulatory Affairs
  To join lunch or schedule a one-to-one meeting with Dr Cote, please visit this link: https://forms.office.com/e/LhATDDua4w
  TBA
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
• 15:00 - AI, Wearables and Mental Health and Wellbeing
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Dr Daniel McDuff (Google and Harvard Medical School)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 11:00 - Introduction to public involvement in research
  You will be sent the joining link after registering.
  Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
• 14:00 - Transient cell-in-cell structures underlies tumour relapse and escape from immunotherapy
  Dr Yaron Carmi (Kennedy Institute - Oxford University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar - Prediction of disease onset and progression using nationwide genetic and healthcare data
  This is an online-only Meeting. Join via the MS Teams link.
  Professor Andrea Ganna (Harvard Medical School)
  BDI seminars
• 11:00 - Membrane prewetting by condensates promotes tight-junction belt formation
  Dr Pombo-Garcia (the Rosalind Franklin Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - The non-coding exome in rare disease: from diagnosis to therapies
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Nicky Whiffin (Big Data Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 2: Gastroenterology - 'Coeliac disease and its mimics: sorting the wheat from the chaff'
  Dr Michael FitzPatrick (Consultant Gastroenterologist, OUH), Dr Masa Cavlina Sevo (Gastroenterology Clinical Fellow, OUH), Karolina Künnapuu (DPhil Student, University of Oxford)
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 15:00 - In silico development of fluorescent sensors to dissect cell signaling pathways
  If you are visiting from a different department, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
  Dr Florencia Klein Rocha (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Brain-like learning with exponentiated gradients
  Dr. Jonathan Cornford (MILA)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 24 January 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Global Surgery
  Dr Dennis Mazingi (University of Oxford), Dr Soham Bandyopadhyay (University of Oxford)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 12:00 - Telomere to mitochondria signaling prevents age-associated cancer initiation
  Professor Jan Karlseder (Salk Institute)
• 13:00 - Lost in Space: Linking Spatial Disorientation to Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice and Humans
  Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 27 January 2025

• 12:00 - Listen to Heme! You are exhausted
  In-person
  Professor Ping-Chih Ho (Department of Fundamental Oncology, University of Lausanne; Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Switzerland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:30 - INOCA and MINOCA: the new jargon of ischemic heart disease.
  Prof Filippo Crea (Editor in Chief, European Heart Journal)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 13:00 - 'Chromatin Regulation and Cancer'
  Professor Yang Shi (Ludwig Institute, University of Oxford)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - Antimicrobial peptides in helminth secretions
  Prof Cinzia Cantacessi (University of Cambridge)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Developmental risk for psychopathy
  Professor Essi Viding (University College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 14:00 - The Longterm Consequences of Preeclampsia for Mother and Child
  Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
  Dr Heather Boyd (Statens Serum Institut)
  CDPRC Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 09:30 - Don't go breaking my heart: unique pathways to cardiac dysfunction in psychosis and implications for clinical practice
  Dr Toby Pillinger (Kings College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Autism in Africa
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Charles Newton (University of Oxford)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 13:00 - Dynamics of learning in many option foraging
  Dr Laura Grima (Janelia Research Campus, USA)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 13:00 - Lp(a) and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in European and East Asian populations
  Professor Robert Clarke (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 13:00 - NDWRH Global Health Theme Seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 14:00 - Psychedelics and Music: Characterising Changes in Hierarchy of Brain Dynamics among the Santo Daime
  Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 14:00 - The acid we inherit: Social and behavioural genomics in the context of an ugly history and uncertain future
  Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko (Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Todd & Band Groups
  There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 13:30 - Imaging lung lymphatics in inflammation and metastatic cancer
  in person only
  Dr Simon Cleary (King's College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 11:00 - The prebiotic origin of RNA nucleosides and translation
  Prof Thomas Carell (LMU, Munich)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Large scale systematic identification of extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: case studies in host-pathogen interactions for vaccine design and the human immune system
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Bjarne Feddersen
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 31 January 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Plastics
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - DamAged memories: how autophagy-dependent mitochondrial inheritance controls T cell fate decisions
  In person only
  Dr Mariana Borsa (Simon Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 10:00 - OUCAGS and Wessex Joint Forum: Transparency and methodological rigour in health research
  Professor Gary Collins (UK EQUATOR Centre, CSM, NDORMS, University of Oxford)
  OUCAGS Forum
• 13:00 - Synaptic propagation of tau in Alzheimer’s disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  Professor Tara Spires-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Revisiting the neoantigen approach to cancer immunotherapy
  Prof Yardena Samuels (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 15:00 - IDRM Seminar Series | Transcriptional adaptation, an RNA-based mechanism of genetic compensation
  Professor Didier Stainier (IMPRS for Molecular Organ Biology, International Max Planck Research School)

Monday 3 February 2025

• 10:00 - An introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - Tridimensional analysis of human embryogenesis
  In-person
  Prof Alain Chedotal (FSER, France)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - Gene regulatory signatures of pesticide exposure in in vitro and in vivo models of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Sarah Marzi (UK Dementia Research Institute, London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Marburg Vaccine Trial
  Dr Jennifer Cane (University of Oxford), Peter Skidmore (University of Oxford)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Developmental Mechanisms in Schizophrenia
  Professor Konstantin Khodosevich (University of Copenhagen)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Cellular Models of Schizophrenia
  Associate Professor Carl Sellgren Majkowitz (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Yan Wong (Dr.)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 10:45 - Personalised Prevention Research Showcase
  Dr Sarah Briggs (University of Oxford), Dr Louisa Chenciner (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Horton (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Kay (University of Oxford), Sally Sansom (University of Oxford), Dr Susie Weller (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 13:00 - "The tyranny of choice during CRISPR-Cas genome editing"
  Professor Jacob Corn (ETH Zürich)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  TBA
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 13:00 - Better regulation for better clinical trials - some hope?
  Professor Martin Landray (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 13:00 - Michael Bebbington
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 13:00 - Bridging intuitive physics and working memory in dynamic visual processing
  Dr Halely Balaban (Open University of Israel (Israel))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Dr Andreas Kappes (City, University of London)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 10:00 - Phenotyping and wrangling of CPRD data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
• 10:00 - Timing is everything: Getting the sequence right for combinations of immunotherapy and radiotherapy
  In person only
  Professor Kevin Harrington (Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden Hospital)
• 12:00 - WIN Seminar
  Juan Eugenio Iglesias Gonzalez (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard University)
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Lung cancer initiation, metastases and immune evasion: 10 years of TRACERx
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:15 - Evaluating Long-term Neurodevelopmental Benefits of RTS,S/AS01 Vaccine in Children
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Symon Kariuki (Africa Population and Health Research Centre,)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Networking Skills
  This is a virtual Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
  Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Thomas Nicol (University of Oxford), Dr Zeynep Okray (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Lunch & Learns

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 09:00 - External Virtual Human Factors Course
  Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
• 11:00 - Tumor-associated macrophages in tumor progression: double edged swords
  Prof Alberto Mantovani (Queen Mary University of London)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 3: Respiratory Medicine
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2025

• 08:00 - 70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete operation?
  Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  in person only
  Barnes Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - A depth map of visual space in the primary visual cortex
  Dr Petr Znamenskiy (Francis Crick Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 February 2025

• 12:00 - The tale of HIV-1 capsid: from assembly to nuclear entry
  In-person
  Professor Peijun Zhang (Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Tuberculosis vaccine R&D and human challenge models
  Prof Helen McShane (Oxford, NDM)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 13:00 - 'WHAT THE FLY GAVE ME: LESSONS ABOUT THE INSECT ANTIVIRAL IMMUNITY'
  Professor Carla Saleh (Head of Viruses and RNAi Unit, Institute Pasteur)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 09:30 - Towards Unequal Care: Developing Sex Informed Treatments for Psychotic Disorders
  Dr Bodyl Brand (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - The Road Less Travelled: women’s journeys into academic leaderships
  Professor Kokila Lakhoo (University of Oxford), Prof Laura Coates, Eva Morris (University Of Oxford)
• 12:00 - The ‘funny’ current revisited: structure mirroring function
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Dario DiFrancesco (The PaceLab, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Scaling up Mental Health Services for Adolescents in Africa: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Amina Abubakar (Pwani University)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 13:00 - Somatic phylogenies of haematopoietic stem cells to study clonal dynamics and mutagenesis
  This will be an in-person event only.
  Dr Mike Spencer Chapman (Sanger Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - CanPath and what it can teach us about early determinants of disease and aging
  Professor Philip Awadalla (University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 14:00 - What is the critical level of description for consciousness? Implications for the possibility of conscious AI
  Dr Shamil Chandaria (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Validation of a Mobile App for Remote Autism Screening in Toddlers
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Geraldine Dawson (Duke University)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Beagrie & Taylor Groups
  There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 14:00 - Characterising mental disorder phenotype and outcomes using electronic health record data
  Dr Rashmi Patel (University of Cambridge)
  Digital Phenotying
• 14:00 - Excitability and topology of embryonic hydraulics
  Dr Arghyadip Mukherjee (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 15:00 - IDRM Seminar Series | Mapping vascular developmental pathways with in vivo perturb-seq
  Associate Professor Kristy Red-Horse (Department of Biology, Stanford University)

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Climate and Mental Health Forum
  Various (See programme)
• 11:00 - Prof Josef Penninger - title TBA
  Prof Josef Penninger (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 11:00 - EDI Seminar: Cultural dynamics in education and the workplace
  Grace Mosuro (Inclusion Strategist)
• 12:00 - Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 4: Heptology
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Nikolai Juraschko (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Lessons from a career in academic and business
  Professor Sir Tony Kouzarides (Co-founder of the Milner Therapeutics Institute | University of Cambridge)
• 15:00 - The hippocampus and memory: the right amount of disorder for the curious mind
  Professor Alessandro Treves (The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Italy))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 17:30 - How life works: Dealing with biology’s changing narrative
  Philip Ball
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Friday 14 February 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Maxillofacial /head and neck oncology
  Mr Satheesh Prabhu (Maxillofacial Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  In person only
  Fugger Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Regulation of ATP Production by Mitochondria
  Dr Liron Boyman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - TBC
  Prof Molly Stevens (DPAG, Uni of Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 17 February 2025

• 14:00 - Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents
  Dr Polly Waite (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 12:00 - There is more to vasopressin than meets the eye
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Mike Ludwig (University of Edinburgh)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - NDWRH First Year Research Students Seminars
  Ben Petrazzini (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Emmerson Teas (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Efsaia Savvoulidou (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Ursula Blyth (NDWRH, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 14:00 - Exploring Viruses: Single-Molecule Studies and Diagnostic Applications
  Dr Nicole Robb (University of Warwick)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 11:00 - Prof Thomas Meyer - title TBA
  Prof Thomas Meyer (University of Kiel)
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 5: Rheumatology
  Dr Tonia Vincent
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Luke Taylor (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - From Stem Cells to Assembloids to Constructing Human Neural Circuits to Study Development and Disease
  Professor Sergiu P. Pașca (Stanford University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 21 February 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Paediatrics
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  in person only
  Bashford-Rogers Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - TBC
  Prof Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 24 February 2025

• 13:00 - Shingles vaccine and dementia, and other links between infectious diseases and brain health
  Dr Maxime Taquet (Oxford, Psychiatry)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Masashi Narita (Senior Group Leader, CRUK, Cambridge Institute)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 15:00 - TBC
  Dr Alex Borodavka, (University of Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 09:30 - Population health impact of new medicines recommended by NICE in England, 2000-2020
  Dr Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Negative Experiences and Mental Health of Neurodivergent UK Secondary School Students
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Alice Quinton (Kings College London)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 13:00 - Human tissue governance
  Sandrine Rendell (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Preterm birth and bronchopulmonary dysplasia: Challenges and implications beyond the NICU
  Professor David Tingay (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 14:00 - Far from equilibrium: supra-molecular mechanism of energy-driven genome regulation
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Dimensions of interoception for cognition and emotion
  Prof Sarah Garfinkel (UCL)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 09:00 - A Gentle Introduction to Python
  Matthew Miossec (University of Oxford)
• 12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Hallegger & Tzima Groups
  There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 11:00 - Prof Frances Balkwill - title TBA
  Prof Frances Balkwill (Cancer Research UK)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Medical Statistics Drop In Session
  Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Movement in MRI, 7T Radio Frequency Fields, and Where They Meet
  Hybrid Seminar. In-person: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital or Online via Teams
  Dr. Aaron Hess (Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 6: Emergency Medicine
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Mingyu Qin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - 'On the role of liquid-liquid phase separation in establishing biomolecular condensates'
  Professor Andrea Musacchio (Director, Dept. of Mechanistic Cell Biology, MPI of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund; Honorary Professor, Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Essen)
  Seminar

Friday 28 February 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds
  Professor Tatsuo Kawai (Harvard Medical School)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  In person only
  Screaton Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Feedback control of mitosis in the context of the kinetochore
  NOTE TIME CHANGE!
  Prof Andrea Musacchio (Max Planck, Germany)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 13:00 - Modelling cerebral Small Vessel Disease in a dish – towards new treatments
  Dr Alessandra Granata (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 3 March 2025

• 12:00 - The Epigenome of brain cell types and associations with disease
  Dr Alexi Nott (UK Dementia Research Institute, London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Using the adenoviral vectored vaccine platform for bacterial infections
  Prof Christine Rollier (University of Surrey)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Nathan Goehring (Senior Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 14:00 - Intraepithelial T lymphocytes at the forefront of intestinal homeostasis
  Dr. Mahima Swamy, (University of Dundee)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 14:00 - ‘Crossing the Line’: A Dynamic, Dual Pathway Model of Resegregation
  Professor John Dixon (Open University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 09:30 - The efficacy and safety of pramipexole augmentation in treatment resistant depression: Results of the PAX-D trial.
  Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Introduction to public involvement in research
  You will be sent the joining link after registering
  Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
• 12:15 - Neurodevelopmental delay in children with perinatally acquired HIV
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Rebecca Horton (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 13:00 - First Year Research Students Seminars
  Katherine Dibbon (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Qianqian Yang (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Emma Walker (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Gal Rubin (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Madison Quig (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Luba Maslej (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Simon Bomken (Newcastle University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Global Health 2050 — findings of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health
  Dean Jamison (Professor Emeritus, Global Health, University of Washington)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 14:00 - Entangled life: A conversation
  Dr Merlin Sheldrake
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Enhancing Suicide Risk Prediction With Polygenic Scores in Psychiatric Emergency Settings: Prospective Study
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Jordan Smoller (Harvard Medical School)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 13:00 - MABEL FITZGERALD PRIZE LECTURE 2025: Dendrites in Motor control and learning
  Professor Jackie Schiller (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 11:00 - Prof Gareth Inman - Title TBA
  Prof Gareth Inman (University of Glasgow)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 7: Cardiology
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - SIR WILFRID LE GROS CLARK PRIZE LECTURE 2025: Phase separation in cell physiology and disease
  Professor Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 7 March 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Endocrine
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  In person only
  Ho Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Is brain myelin an energy source/store?
  Dr Carlos Matute (University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU))
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 March 2025

• 11:00 - TBC
  Dr Azim Ansari (NDM, Oxford University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Heath Murray (Professor of Bacterial Genetics, Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - Social interactions among microorganisms
  Prof Kevin Foster (Oxford, Biology/Pathology)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 09:30 - Understanding and treating social anxiety in youth.
  Eleanor Leigh (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Covalent small molecule approaches to challenging protein targets
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Dr Elena De Vita (Biologial and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Developing interventions to enhance interactions between parents with psychosis and their children
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Louise Johns (Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology)
• 13:00 - The IRIS Consortium and the importance of invasive disease surveillance for endemic diseases
  TBA
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 13:00 - First Year Research Students Seminars
  Maeve Janecka (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Julie Abraham (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Kate Galka (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Gurkarishma Dhillon (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Lisa Parvin (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Bhuchitra Singh (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - The BLACK-ARTS study: Creative Arts Therapies as a tool for flourishing
  Briana Applewhite (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - A Data-Centric Approach to Detecting and Mitigating Demographic Bias in Pediatric Mental Health Text: A Case Study in Anxiety Detection
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Julia Ive (University College London)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Milosevic & Fowler Groups
  There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 11:00 - Dr Céline Vallot - Title TBA
  Dr Céline Vallot (Institut Curie)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 14 March 2025

• 08:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 8: Infectious Diseases/BIU - Joint Medical/Surgical Round
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Joint with Medical Grand Round
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  In person only
  Withers Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Dementia: the role of the microvasculature
  Professor David Attwell (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Michael Milsom (German Cancer Research Centre)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - NDWRH Reproductive Health Theme Seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 15:00 - Deconstruction and reconstruction of signalosomes: towards a spatial logic of information transfer in immune cell signalling
  Dr Marcus Taylor, (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 9: AGM and Ambulatory Care
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Zephyr Ford (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 21 March 2025

• 08:30 - Oxford Surgical Innovation Conference 2025
  Various Speakers
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  In person only
  Pollard Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 15:00 - Genetic interactions in aortic arch artery morphogenesis
  Dr Simon Bamforth (Newcastle University)

Monday 24 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Dr. Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (Director of the Stem Cell Center, Director of the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Munich)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Wednesday 26 March 2025

• 14:30 - Equitable Admissions in Postgraduate Taught Courses
  Charles Greenhill (University of Oxford), Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Postgraduate Teaching Network (OPTN)

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 11:00 - Targeting KRAS oncogenic signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer
  Prof Julian Downward (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 10: Neurology
  TBA
  MSD Medical Grand Rounds
• 13:00 - Understanding and improving sleep after brain injury
  Hybrid Seminar In-person: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital or Online via Teams
  Melanie Fleming (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 28 March 2025

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  In person only
  TBA
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - TBC
  Prof Ross Chapman (NDM - University of Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 1 April 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor George Vassilou (Cambridge Cancer Stem Cell Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - TIA Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 3 April 2025

• 09:00 - MitOX 2025
  James Sleigh (UCL), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford ), Sheeza Mughal (IBEC, Barcelona), Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford ), Dr Gautam Wali (Melbourne), Mara Artibani (University of Oxford), Luis Tabara Rodriguez (Cambridge), Enrique Rodriguez (UCL)

Tuesday 8 April 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 17 April 2025

• 12:00 - Insights into myeloid malignancies from human iPSC models
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 24 April 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Monday 28 April 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - Anti-bacterial vaccination in the context of gut ecosystem
  Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 15:00 - Natural language processing to identify suicidal ideation and anhedonia in major depressive disorder
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  in-person only
  Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 2 May 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Cardiac / Thoracic
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Carl Wu (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, John Hopkins University)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Friday 9 May 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Transplant
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Monday 12 May 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
  Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
  Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 13:00 - Introduction to public involvement in research
  This training is online and you will be sent the Teams joining link after registering
  Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 16 May 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Global Surgery
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Monday 19 May 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
  Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
  Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
  CDPRC Seminar Series

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 23 May 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Friday 30 May 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Urology
  Professor Ola Bratt (University of Gothenburg)
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Monday 2 June 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - Avian and human influenza
  Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Friday 6 June 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - QRSTU
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Monday 9 June 2025

• 13:00 - Better treatment for tuberculosis
  Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 13 June 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Monday 16 June 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
  Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Friday 20 June 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Intensive care
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds

Monday 15 September 2025

• 09:00 - Global Surgery Course 2025
  TBA

Monday 13 October 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 19 January 2025

• 13:00 - TBC
  Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 2 February 2025

• 13:00 - TBC
  Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar