Department: Medical Sciences Division
Talks:

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Health Economics and Policy Evaluation  ONLINE Course 2025
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)
Host: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)

Wnt mutation selection in colitis-associated colorectal cancer: What, When and Why?
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Leedham (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Respiration coordinates the cortical olfactory code
Date: 7 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Kevin Franks (Duke University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

The Ibadan-Oxford and RBH stroke project
Date: 7 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dennis Briley (University of Oxford)

Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans
Date: 7 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Biyu He (New York University, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL. https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Experience the Odyssey M Imager - seminar in the Department of Pharmacology
Date: 8 October 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Ella Hockings (LICORbio), Shula Dawson (LICORbio)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lunch & Learn: Time Management
Date: 8 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences: New Mechanisms & New Methods.
Date: 8 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Felix Elwert (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organisers: Duiyi Dai (University of Oxford), Xiaowen Dong (University of Oxford), Mark Verhagen (University of Oxford), Jiani Yan (University of Oxford), Daniel Valdenegro (University of Oxford), Luc Rocher (University of Oxford), Charles Rahal (University of Oxford), Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences: New Mechanisms & New Methods
Date: 8 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Felix Elwert (University Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 October 2025

Multimodal Survival Analysis with Locally Deployable Large Language Models
Date: 9 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Regeneration at your fingertips
Date: 9 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Medical Grand Rounds - AGM and Ambulatory Care - 'The unseen crisis'
Date: 9 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Jasmine Gan, Dr Nicola Lovett, Prof Sarah Pendlebury
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Membrane proteins - what can simulation tell us?
Date: 9 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 40-091 Second Floor
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Friday 10 October 2025

Vaccines targeting rabies and EBV's class III fusion proteins
Date: 10 October 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Sandy Douglas (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discovery of the telomere transfer biology and its link to the first HIV cure
Date: 10 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Alessio Lanna (UCL)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Katie Roberts (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Heatley Lecture 2025
Date: 10 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Prof. Bonnie L. Bassler (University of Princeton)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Helly Worsdell (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Matthew Freeman (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Monday 13 October 2025

A Gentle Introduction to Python
Date: 13 October 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Matthieu Miossec (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Virus-induced necroptosis: make it stop!
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)

B cell immunity to mucosal antigens
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Mauro Gaya (Luminy Center for Immunology)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Katie Roberts (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Tal Arnon (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Competition in brain development and a novel approach to neural coding
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Stryker (University of California)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Associate Professor Armin Lak (University of Oxford)

The role of epigenetic inheritance and 3D genome architecture in cellular state regulation and cancer
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Hosts: Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Australian life expectancy trends and inequalities: An outlier among English-speaking countries?
Date: 13 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Timothy Adair (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)
Venue: The Malthouse, Tidmarsh Lane OX1 1NQ
Venue Details: Redwood Room
Organiser: Louise Allcock (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Inside the Black Box: a Look Behind the Scenes of Scientific Publishing
Date: 13 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Richard Hodge (Senior Editor, PLOS Biology)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

The physiology of cognitive control
Date: 13 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Cortex Club (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

‘Mass spec to mechanism: new tools to understand protein function’ AND ‘Omnitrap: complementing bottom-up proteomics with alternative approaches for gas-phase sequencing of (glyco)peptides’
Date: 14 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Biology and Therapeutic Targeting of Cohesin-Mutant Myeloid Malignancies.
Date: 14 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Zuzana Tothova (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

New pathways for acute stroke referrals, reducing the burden of mimics and improving reperfusion outcomes
Date: 14 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maria Tuna (University of Oxford)

Advanced microscopy and analysis across scales with the Cellular Imaging Core Facility
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 14 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What’s happening in heart failure?
Date: 14 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor John McMurray (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Joanna Blaszczyk (NDPH, University of Oxford), Sam Morris (NDPH, University of Oxford), Michael Turner (NDPH, University of Oxford), Dr Michelle Goonasekera (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Epigenetic memory of 3D genome and Polycomb states in cell physiology and cancer
Date: 14 October 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Giacomo Cavalli (Université de Montpellier)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Medical Sciences Division: Stakeholder Mapping for Policy Engagement
Date: 14 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division), Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
Venue: Linacre College, St Cross Road OX1 3JA
Venue Details: Meeting Suite
Organiser: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford), Medical Sciences Division

Harry Pack & The Purple UFO, Art as a Portal into Deeper Self Awareness and Connectivity
Date: 14 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Stoke House
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Uncovering the role of multivalency, oligomerisation and dimensionality in shaping biomolecular interactions, function and regulation
Date: 14 October 2025, 15:15 - 16:15
Speaker : Dr Roi Asor (Department of Chemistry and The Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (Room 20-026)
Organiser: Professor Weston Struwe (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
Host: Professor Weston Struwe (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Wednesday 15 October 2025

Immune alterations in first-episode psychosis and the effects of natalizumab: A neuroimaging study with concurrent CSF measures
Date: 15 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Yuya Mizuno (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

Lunch & Learn: Exploring Entrepreneurship
Date: 15 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Ahmed Saad (Said Business School), Franziska Vonhӧne (Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre), Katharina Ramshorn (Oxford Science Enterprises), Dr Sophie Payne (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sympathetic neuroimmunity in obesity
Date: 15 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 2, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Ray (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Navigating Health and Solidarity: Refugee Perspectives and Practical Challenges
Date: 16 October 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Organisers: Dr. Julian Natukunda (Global Health Solidarity Project, University of Oxford), Professor Caesar Atuire (University of Oxford), Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr. Julian Natukunda (Global Health Solidarity Project, University of Oxford), Professor Caesar Atuire (University of Oxford)

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)

Insights into the invisible phase of systemic cancer: Genomic evolution and phenotypic plasticity of the metastatic seed
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Colin Goding (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford )
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Host: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)

Bad timing: what is immortal-time bias in observational research and how to prevent it?
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Associate Professor Clemence Leyrat (LSHTM)
Venue: Maplethorpe Building,
Venue Details: Maplethorpe Seminar Room, Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh’s College, St Margaret’s Road, Oxford OX2 6LE
Organiser: Andrea Schaffer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Splenic sensing and processing of red cells in malaria and sickle cell disease
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)

Medical Grand Rounds - Neurology
Date: 16 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Rinaldi
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Syma Khalid (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 40-091 Second Floor
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

A Tale of Two Studies: Working Together to Tackle Oral Health Inequalities in People with Severe Mental Illness
Date: 16 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Easter Joury (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online - a Teams link is emailed once registered for the webinar
Organiser: Dr Roisin Mooney (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)

Friday 17 October 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Surgical psychology
Date: 17 October 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Jason Harley (McGill University), Daljit Dhariwal (University of Oxford), Ms Mei Nortley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Quantitative imaging of immune cell-tissue dynamics at relevant spatiotemporal scales
Date: 17 October 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Narain Karedla (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Neuromodulation of Brain States
Date: 17 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Luis de Lecea (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)

Monday 20 October 2025

Managing Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Among People With Severe Mental Illness
Date: 20 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Dan Siskind (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

The promise of proteomics: insights into autoimmune disease pathogenesis and translational potential
Date: 20 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Peters (Imperial College London)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Katie Roberts (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Alex Clarke (Univeristy of Oxford - The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Breaking (is) Bad: how bacterial supercoiling machine works, how to inhibit it, and why we bother
Date: 20 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Dmitry Ghilarov (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Streamlining randomised trials by re-using healthcare systems data: From theory to practice
Date: 20 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Charlie Harper (Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

The problem with mental health awareness (in schools)
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Lucy Foulkes (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Not all inflammation is the same: Observations from studying Inflammation Across Tissues
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Belinda Lennox (University of Oxford)

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)

Revisiting Gestational Weight Gain cut-offs for pregnancy monitoring and outcomes
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Eric Ohrn (Grinnell College)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Joanna Blaszczyk (NDPH, University of Oxford), Sam Morris (NDPH, University of Oxford), Michael Turner (NDPH, University of Oxford), Dr Michelle Goonasekera (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Characterizing salience signals in the insula
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Philippe Tobler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford)

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maria Tuna (University of Oxford)

PSI seminar: ‘Quantifying social and environmental drivers of health in vulnerable communities from the Amazon to Ahmedabad’ presented by Professor Caroline Buckee
Date: 21 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor Caroline Buckee (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: St Cross College lecture theatre
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Lunch & Learn: Moving into a Pharma/Biotech industry career
Date: 22 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Automated insulin delivery systems - type 1 diabetes and beyond
Date: 22 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Charlotte Boughton (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 2, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Amanda Adler (University of Oxford)

Disease prediction using nation-wide health data and genetics
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Andrea Ganna (University of Helsinki)
Venue Details: Metrics and Models
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Host: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)

Disease prediction using nationwide health data and genetics
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Andrea Ganna (FIMM)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Charting trajectories of human thought using large language models
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Matthew Nour (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

The ins and outs of publishing in the Nature Portfolio
Date: 22 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dario Ummarino, PhD (Communications Biology, Nature)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Festival of Global Health – Transcendence
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:00 - 20:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Westgate Shopping Centre, Oxford OX1 1NZ
Organisers: Professor Sarah Lewington (University of Oxford), Dr Toral Gathani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

The Epigenetic Hallmarks of Cancer
Date: 23 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Manel Esteller (Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Dendritic Cell Reprogramming Immunotherapy Induces Humoral Immunity Uncovering Biomarkers of Response
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)

Medical Grand Rounds - Clinical Immunology - 'Managing immunoglobulin demand and ensuring evidence-based use – the role of peer review'
Date: 23 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Siraj Misbah
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Healthcare Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training Graduate Open Day 2025
Date: 23 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

TGLU Talks: (Title TBC) by Professor Prof Marco Carbone from University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan
Date: 23 October 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Prof Marco Carbone (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: Professor Holm Uhlig (University of Oxford), Dr Emma Culver
Host: Dr Emma Culver

Friday 24 October 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Upper GI
Date: 24 October 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Mr Stuart Mercer (Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Harnessing type 2 diabetes heterogeneity for precision health applications
Date: 24 October 2025, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker : Professor Jordi Merino (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminr room LG0
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 24 October 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Ricardo Fernandes (Nuffield Department of Medicine - University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Mitochondria in Neurons and Glia: Insights into Brain Function, Behavior, and Therapeutic Opportunities
Date: 24 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Carmen Sandi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 27 October 2025

What about Exclusion? – Censorship and Self-censorship
Date: 27 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Old Fire Station theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Spatial Proteomics Relates Metabolic T Cell Flexibility to Successful Cancer Immunotherapy
Date: 27 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Felix Hartmann (German Cancer Research Center)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Host: Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)

Towards solving small molecule binding affinity in the AI era: an industrial perspective
Date: 27 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Gregory Ross (Research Leader, Isomorphic Labs)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
Date: 27 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Cade McCall (University of York)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Integrating Multi-Omics, Single-cell Interrogations and Population Cohorts to Capture the Earliest Determinants of Cancer and Aging
Date: 28 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Philip Awadalla (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Modulating polyamines and polyamine transport in Parkinson’s disease
Date: 28 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Vangheluwe (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Venue: Dorothy Hodgkin,
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Journal Club - TBC
Date: 28 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maria Tuna (University of Oxford)

Beyond Peer Review: Productivity and Diversity when Funding is Randomised
Date: 28 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Joanna Blaszczyk (NDPH, University of Oxford), Sam Morris (NDPH, University of Oxford), Michael Turner (NDPH, University of Oxford), Dr Michelle Goonasekera (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Compulsive Reward-Seeking: Roles for Dopamine, Synaptic Plasticity, and Stress
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Talia Lerner (Northwestern University)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephanie Cragg (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 October 2025

Dr Elisa Vilardo - title TBA
Date: 30 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Elisa Vilardo (University of Vienna)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (Max Planck Institute for Infectious Biology)

Brainomix 360: AI-powered imaging software for patient diagnosis and treatment decisions
Date: 30 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Dr Zoe Woodhead (Brainomix), Dr Giacomo Benvenuti (Brainomix)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Eneida Parizotto (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Eneida Parizotto (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 30 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Ethics and Law
Date: 30 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Dominic Wilkinson
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Linda Phan (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

PSI special guest seminar: ‘AI for antibody design - going beyond the static’ presented by Professor Charlotte Deane
Date: 30 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Hybrid event, MS Teams or Richard Doll Building - lecture theatre. The Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Friday 31 October 2025

Precise RNA targeting and manipulation
Date: 31 October 2025, 10:15 - 11:15
Speaker : Dr Chengqi Yi (Peking University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 31 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Bernadette Carol (University of Bristol)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 3 November 2025

Oxford Stem Cell Institute Annual Symposium 2025 "Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy”
Date: 3 November 2025, 9:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Jamie Hackett (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Rome, Italy), Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge), Phil Jones (University of Cambridge), Manuel Serrano (Altos Labs, Cambridge), Peter Rugg-Gunn (Babraham Institute, Cambridge), Abdenour Soufi (University of Edinburgh), Ian Chambers (University of Edinburgh), Alberto Elosegui-Artola (The Francis Crick Institute, London), Eugenia Piddini (University of Bristol), Paul Riley (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Molly Stevens (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch), Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research), Sarah DeVal (DPAG, University of Oxford), Carlos Rinaldi (Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford), Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford), Oliver Stone (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: OMS Lecture Theatre, 1st floor. There is level access via powered entrance doors, and then "sesame lift" access up to reception and the ground floor. There is step free and lift access to all areas apart from the third floor attic level.
Organiser: Prof Colin Goding (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

HIV-1 RNA genome packaging into capsid core during virion maturation
Date: 3 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Peter Cherepanov (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr. Antoni Wrobel (Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford)

Inaugural Lecture: Spatial Attention and Working Memory Mechanisms in Natural Language Processing
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)

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

Network Meeting
Date: 4 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

The role of the microbiome in health and disease and the potential importance of mitochondria
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Karl Morten (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

Computational early cancer genome analysis at a national scale
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford)

Lunch & Learn: From DPAG to Meta Reality Labs – In conversation with Adam Packer
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Adam Packer
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford)

Uncoupling obesity from its metabolic complications
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Maria Chondronikola (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 2, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Costas Christodoulides (University of Oxford)

The Gender Gap in Healthcare: Economic Penalties & Misdiagnosis in Women's Health
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Rita Ginja (University of Bergen), Professor Gillian Reeves (Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

From Guardians to Foes: Cancer-induced host remodelling and neutrophil plasticity drive tumour necrosis
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Jose Adrover (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Medical Grand Rounds - Clinical Pharmacology
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr James Fullerton
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Neural population geometry and neuroeconomics
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Benjamin Hayden (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David Pellman (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Prof Ketan Patel (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Colburn (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 November 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Quality, Reliability, Safety and Teamwork Unit
Date: 7 November 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 7 November 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Teresa Lambe (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Endocrine Stem Cells as Orchestrators of Organ Plasticity and Disease
Date: 7 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Cynthia Andoniadou (King’s College London)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Tammie Bishop (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 10 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 10 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sean Munro (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof John Witte (Stanford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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)

Carotid Webs
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Targeting the sleep and circadian systems with behavioural intervention
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Kyle (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Joanna Blaszczyk (NDPH, University of Oxford), Sam Morris (NDPH, University of Oxford), Michael Turner (NDPH, University of Oxford), Dr Michelle Goonasekera (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Tobacco deaths; the past 75 years and the next 75 - Professor Sir Richard Peto
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Sir Richard Peto (Oxford Population Health)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)

Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A Novel Technique to Assess Cardiac Metabolism
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Damian Tyler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 2, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Leanne Hodson

Thursday 13 November 2025

AI Drop in session
Date: 13 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Dr Anshul Thakur (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Fieggen (University of Oxford), Ed Phillips (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Dr Claire Shannon-Lowe - title TBA
Date: 13 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Claire Shannon-Lowe (University of Birmingham)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

New concepts in type 2 immunity
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Medical Grand Rounds - Haematology
Date: 13 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Iain Smith (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr. Mehrdad Salmasi (UCL)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: Media, Science and Truth
Date: 13 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Mr Clive Myrie (BBC News)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 14 November 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Global Surgery
Date: 14 November 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Dr Anita Makins (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 14 November 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Adrien Hallou (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A mitochondria-lipid droplet stress pathway drives metabolic flexibility and cell survival
Date: 14 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 14 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Fadil Bidmos (Imperial College, London)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Chris Tang (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 17 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 17 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Dónal O'Carroll (Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr Rebecca Berrens (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Understanding determinants of health inequalities in respiratory medicine
Date: 17 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Jennifer Quint (Imperial College London), Dr Hannah Whittaker (Imperial College London)
Venue: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: Stuart Faulkner (University of Oxford), Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Stuart Faulkner (University of Oxford), Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)

Youth in Divided Societies: Understanding and Promoting Positive Intergroup Relations and Constructive Societal Engagement
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford)

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)

Genetics, omics, and deep phenotyping of vascular disease
Date: 18 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Programme Information Event
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Mr Tom Revington (University of Oxford), Pippa Teves (University of Calgary, Canada)
Venue Details: Online via teams
Organiser: Olivia Lounsbury (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Lunch & Learn: Working with Industry Partners
Date: 19 November 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Liz Covey-Crump (Business Partnerships Office)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Subcellular signalling architecture of the glucagon receptor family
Date: 19 November 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Alejandra Tomas (Imperial College London)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 2, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Hodson (University of Oxford)

Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Weisi Guo (Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems, Cranfield University)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Tissue Regulation at the Crossroads: What Autoimmunity Teaches Us about Immune-Mediated Damage
Date: 20 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Bana Jabri (University of Chicago)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Catherine Tong (Isomorphic Labs)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Medical Ophthalmology
Date: 20 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Cyril Schroeder (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Online Health Econ Seminar - Kelli Marquardt
Date: 20 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Kelli Marquardt (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)
Host: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)

Friday 21 November 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - AI
Date: 21 November 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Fabien Layere (Antibe Hospital, Nice)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Host: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)

Introduction to SEIPS for PSIRF
Date: 21 November 2025, 9:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Teams
Organiser: Wendy Washbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 21 November 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Professor Seph Borrow (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

FGF21 signaling activation: Treating obesity at the expense of cardiac hypertrophy?
Date: 21 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Konstantinos Drosatos (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Lisa Heather (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Jeremy Luban (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMCMS))
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Geoff Smith (Dunn School of Pathology)

Immune-Stromal Crosstalk in Myocardial Infarction and Beyond
Date: 21 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Florian Sicklinger (Heidelberg University Hospital)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Susanna Cooper (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 24 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Renata Basto (Institute Curie )
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), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine)
Host: Prof Ketan Patel (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 24 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Edda Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 24 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Lucy Goddard (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Hybrid: CCRF boardroom and Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking children’s agency in cultural adaptation
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

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)

Title TBC
Date: 25 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Tim Somervaille (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)
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), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 26 November 2025

Faculty development for Simulation Delivery
Date: 26 November 2025, 8:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: OxSTAR
Organiser: Wendy Washbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Oxford Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics Symposium
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Naomi Wray (Univerity of Oxford)

Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 November 2025

Prof Kim Midwood - title TBA
Date: 27 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Kim Midwood (The Kennedy Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Title TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Host: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)

E4bp4/Nfil3 from gene to therapy
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Brady (Imperial College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Naeema Mehmood (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Combined Surgical/Medical Grand Round
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

MARIANNE FILLENZ AWARD LECTURE 2025: Cortical codes for generating three-dimensional experience
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Kristine Krug (Otto-von-Guericke University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Bjarne Feddersen
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 40-091 Second Floor
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 November 2025

TBC
Date: 28 November 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Prof Simon Davis (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 28 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Nicola Veitch (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Ms Clare De'ath (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

The Neuroscience of Transgenerational Trauma: Just a Matter of Fa(c)t
Date: 28 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ali Jawaid (Lukasiewicz PORT- Polish Center for Technology Development, Poland)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Laura Landweber (Columbia University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Monday 1 December 2025

Title TBC
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof Costanza Emanueli (Imperial College London)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Room B, Level 6 West Wing, JR
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

ECR Firetalks
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Tsvetomira Dumbalska (University of Oxford), Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Giovanni Briganit (Université de Mons)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)

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)

TIA Review
Date: 2 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dennis Briley (University of Oxford)

Unlocking Innovation: How OSE Life Sciences Supports Oxford Spin-Outs
Date: 2 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Claire Brown (Oxford Science Enterprises)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

From Diabetes to Methodology to PPI - lessons learned on the way!
Date: 3 December 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 2, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Amanda Adler (University of Oxford)

From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Metrics and Models
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Host: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)

From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Industry Insghts Seminar - Novo Nordisk
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Jo Holbrook (Novo Nordisk)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Eneida Parizotto (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Eneida Parizotto (University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Charlotte George (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Date: 4 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Garry Tan
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 4 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: May the Force Be with You: PIEZO Ion Channels as Essential Pressure Sensors for Touch, Pain, and Beyond
Date: 4 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Ardem Patapoutian (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 December 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Plastic surgery
Date: 5 December 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Dr Akira Wiberg (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 5 December 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Prof. Helen McShane
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Ian Wilson (Scripps Research, USA)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Ervin Fodor (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 8 December 2025

Oxford Centre for Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Symposium
Date: 8 December 2025, 9:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: Dr Ester Gea-Mallorqui (University of Oxford), Dr Francoise Howe (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 8 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Lindon (Dept of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Fanni Gergely (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to public involvement with research
Date: 9 December 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 9 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dennis Briley (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 December 2025

2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium
Date: 10 December 2025, 9:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Market Street, Oxford OX1 3DW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prof Victoria Cowling - Title TBA
Date: 10 December 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof Victoria Cowling (CRUK Scotland Institute)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 December 2025

AI Tools for Research: A Hands-On Workshop
Date: 11 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Dr Bradley Segal (University of Oxf), Gavin Hubbard (NIHR CLAHRC Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 11 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sally Cowley (Head, James Martin Stem Cell Facility, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford)
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Host: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Gastroenterology
Date: 11 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

What do “Look but Fail to See” errors tell us about awareness and/or consciousness
Date: 11 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sage Boettcher (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Karl Marlowe (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 16 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dennis Briley (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 January 2025

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 6 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Heinrich Leonhardt (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (Room 20-026)
Organiser: Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 13 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 15 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Jeffrey Pang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 January 2025

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
Date: 19 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 20 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David Kent (University of York)
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), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine)
Host: Professor Adam Mead (Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 20 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 January 2025

Dementia risk prediction and prevention: value of observational studies
Date: 22 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Thomas Littlejohns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 22 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Wei-Tse Hsu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 26 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Carla Saleh (Head of Viruses and RNAi Unit, Institute Pasteur)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Petros Ligoxygakis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making
Date: 26 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 January 2025

Journal Club - TBA
Date: 27 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 29 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Title TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Mariane Bertagnolli (McGill University, Montreal)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Hybrid: CCRF boardroom and Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Psychology, Digital Data and the Study of Behaviour: A Golden Age for Social Psychology?
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Levine (Lancaster Univeristy)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 3 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Dorothee Kern (Srcipps Research Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 February 2025

External Virtual Human Factors Course
Date: 6 February 2026, 9:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Teams
Organiser: Wendy Washbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 9 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sheena Radford (School of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Ben Berks (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Where is my coffee cup? Spatial coding of objects in naturalistic environments
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler (University Giessen)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Network Meeting
Date: 10 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Florencia Klein Rocha (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 16 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Helen Walden (Professor of Structural Biology, Head of School (Molecular Biosciences), University of Glasgow)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr. Paul Elliott (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 17 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Nikolai Juraschko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Clemens Plaschka (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 24 February 2025

Journal Club - TBA
Date: 24 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Robert Clark (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Keith Matthews (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr Clinton Lau (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Neural underpinnings of language abilities in individuals who have lost the autism diagnosis
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kate Nation (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2025

TIA Review
Date: 3 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Enrico Flossmann (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Nithishwer Mouroug Anand (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 9 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Diana Fusco (Dept of Physics, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Stephan Uphoff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

ECR - Fire Talks
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Tsvetomira Dumbalska (University of Oxford), Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 10 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Enrico Flossmann (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Mingyu Qin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 17 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Elsa Bernard (Gustave Roussy)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

ISC Highlights
Date: 17 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Enrico Flossmann (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 March 2025

Introduction to public involvement with research
Date: 18 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 19 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 March 2025

European Phagocyte Workshop 2026
Date: 23 March 2026, 13:00 - 19:30
Speaker : Various (See programme)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Organiser: Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Title TBC
Date: 23 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof Pensée Wu (Keele University, Staffordshire)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Hybrid: CCRF boardroom and Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 24 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Enrico Flossmann (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 31 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
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), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 14 April 2025

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 14 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dennis Briley (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 April 2025

TBA
Date: 21 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dennis Briley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Cristina Paulino (Heidelberg University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Part II Talks - Title TBC
Date: 23 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Iva Tchasovnikarova (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

From perception and language to knowledge representation in primate brains
Date: 27 April 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Yanchao Bi (Peking University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kate Watkins (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 April 2025

Amyloid Angiopathy
Date: 28 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dennis Briley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 April 2025

External Virtual Human Factors Course
Date: 30 April 2026, 9:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Teams
Organiser: Wendy Washbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 7 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Kyle Vaccaro (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 11 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sonja Lorenz (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr. Paul Elliott (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 May 2025

TBA
Date: 12 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 18 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Gautam Dey (EMBL)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Anne Treisman Lecture 2026
Date: 18 May 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Susan Carey (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Robin Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 May 2025

TBA
Date: 19 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 21 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 May 2025

TBA
Date: 26 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 28 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 1 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Geert Kops (Hubrecht Institute, Oncode Institute, University Medical Centre Utrecht)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Lars Jansen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 June 2025

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 2 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matthew Burn (Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network)

Thursday 4 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 June 2025

Confidence judgments of perceptual and motor decisions
Date: 8 June 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Pascal Mamassian (École normale supérieure)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 June 2025

Network Meeting
Date: 9 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matthew Burn (Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network)

Thursday 11 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 June 2025

ECR Fire Talks
Date: 15 June 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Tsvetomira Dumbalska (University of Oxford), Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 June 2025

ESOC Highlights
Date: 16 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matthew Burn (Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network)

Wednesday 17 June 2025

Introduction to public involvement with research
Date: 17 June 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 18 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matthew Burn (Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network)

Thursday 25 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 25 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 June 2025

Journal Club -
Date: 30 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 July 2025

TIA Review
Date: 7 July 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 July 2025

External Virtual Human Factors Course
Date: 9 July 2026, 9:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Teams
Organiser: Wendy Washbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 July 2025

ESOC Presentations
Date: 14 July 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA