Department: Medical Sciences Division
Talks:

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Stress, Disease and Aging
Date: 13 November 2024, 11:30 - 12:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Emmanuelle Passague (Columbia Stem Cell Initiative)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: 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: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: O'Callaghan Group & Brady Maher
Date: 13 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Rooms A&B, or join online use the following Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/33wbhnme
Organisers: Alba Fernandez Santana (University of Oxford), Victoria Fallon (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Lahiru Handunnetthi (University of Oxford), Professor Chris O’Callaghan (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Nuffield Department of Medicine)

Multimodal decoding of human liver regeneration and repair
Date: 13 November 2024, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Neil Henderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Anne Farmer (University of Oxford, NDM Experimental Medicine, RDM Investigative Medicine Division)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Human Forever
Date: 13 November 2024, 16:00 - 20:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Associate Professor Toral Gathani (Oxford Population Health)
Venue Details: Screen 2, capacity 150
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prevention: the invisible future of health
Date: 13 November 2024, 16:30 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Sir Andrew J Pollard (University of Oxford)
Venue: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Nicole Zitzmann (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Nicole Zitzmann ((Biochemistry) University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Insights and strategies during learning
Date: 14 November 2024, 10:30 - 11:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Assistant Professor Kishore Kuchibhotla (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Shaping Your Career: Panel Discussion Q&A With Networking Lunch
Date: 14 November 2024, 11:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Sarah Sigal (University of Oxford), Ambra Speciale (University of Oxford), Emma Haberman (University of Oxford), Denise Lynch (University of Oxford), Ashely St John-Hart (Fisher Scientific), Tom Roberts (University of Oxford)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
Organiser: Amarjit Bhomra (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Proteome complexity in Alzheimer’s Disease
Date: 14 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Becky Carlyle, ARUK Coordinator (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

Deep screening for antibody discovery
Date: 14 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Medical Grand Rounds - Week 11: Haematology - 'A New Way of Inhibiting Leukaemia'
Date: 14 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Andy Peniket
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Membrane self-assembly simulations to assess protein insertion: a case of Phi29 connector pore
Date: 14 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organiser: Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A prospective code for value in the serotonin system
Date: 14 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The interplay of peripheral of immune cells associated cytokines with induced pluripotent stem cell astrocytes; implications for Parkinson’s Disease
Date: 14 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Maeve Caldwell (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Phase 1 Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-026). 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)

Biological Age and Predicting Future Health Care Utilization, Apostolos Davillas, Macedonia University
Date: 14 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Apostolos Davillas (Macedonia University)
Venue Details: This is a virual event
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Neurosurgery
Date: 15 November 2024, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Longitudinal bone and immune aging morbidities among adolescents living with perinatal HIV/CMV coinfection in Zimbabwe and Zambia
Date: 15 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Anthony Hsieh (Rowland-Jones Group, University of Oxford), Dr Lisha Jeena (Rowland-Jones Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

HIF-2 in oxygen chemosensitivity and paragangliomas
Date: 15 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Associate Professor Tammie Bishop (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention
Date: 15 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof. Laura Mamo (San Francisco State University)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Dr Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford)
Host: Vaccines and Society Unit (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 18 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Host: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)

The multiple roles of intraepithelial T lymphocytes in maintaining intestinal homeostasis
Date: 18 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Mahima Swamy (University of Dundee)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Audrey Gerard (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

'Non-canonical functions of DNA methylation in mammals'
Date: 18 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Maxim Greenberg (Institut Jacques Monod, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Peter Sarkies (Dept. of Biochemistry)

Fake vaccines: The problem - and finding solutions
Date: 18 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Nicole Zitzmann (Oxford, Biochemistry/Kavli INsD)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Online platforms for symptom characterisation and tracking in spinocerebellar ataxias
Date: 18 November 2024, 13:00 - 13:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Louisa Selvadurai (Monash University)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Room B, Level 6, West Wing, JR
Organiser: Professor Esther Becker (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Novel Imaging Approaches for Tracking Cerebellar Neurodegenerative Diseases
Date: 18 November 2024, 13:30 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ian Harding (Queensland Institute of Medical Research)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Room B, Level 6, West Wing, JR
Organiser: Professor Esther Becker (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Neural mechanisms for flexible and goal-directed sensorimotor transformations during decision-making
Date: 18 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Michael Lohse (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The development of enteric fever vaccine
Date: 19 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Xinxue Liu
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

OxSTAI Seminar: Anthropomorphisation and AI in the healthcare context
Date: 19 November 2024, 10:00 - 11:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Christopher Register (Uehiro Oxford Institute), Eliana Bergamin (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI Seminar Room 0 or Zoom
Organiser: The Ethox Centre
Hosts: Dr Alberto Giubilini (Uehiro Oxford Institute), Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)

Decoding the prefrontal cortex through single cell omics
Date: 19 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Aritra Bhattacherjee (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Mitochondria at neuronal synapses: why are they there?
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
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.
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Physics of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as a new biomarker for health and disease
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Assistant Professor Erdinc Sezgin (SciLifeLab Fellow, Karolinska Institute)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Giving voice to bereaved siblings “the invisible”'
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ulrika Kreicbergs (Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London)
Venue Details: Online (Zoom)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Working Out Programme – Post Stroke Vocational Rehabilitation
Date: 19 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Martin Hillier (Community Head injury Service), Ben Chetland (Community Head injury Service)
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)

Epidemiology and Our Future Health
Date: 19 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor David Hunter (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Graham Bagley (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

NDWRH Student Seminar
Date: 19 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Isobel Gordon (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Nancy Liang (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Blossoming, regrowth and flourishing: natural and social cycles in Yanomami society
Date: 19 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Alejandro Reig
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were
Date: 19 November 2024, 14:30 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Nick Irons (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organiser: Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (University of Oxford)
Host: Louise Allcock (University of Oxford)

Development and Validation of a Machine Learning–Based Model of Mortality Risk in First-Episode Psychosis
Date: 19 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Johannes Lieslehto (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/96325047461?pwd=zGAc6FLGXwg4fq7noWrlaGu6JV8aO8.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Joint 'Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network' and 'Oxford Immunology Network' seminar with networking drinks
Date: 19 November 2024, 15:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Barbora Schonfeldova ((Udalova Group), University of Oxford), Kerry Fisher (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Theochemistry: Chemical Mediators of the Unknown
Date: 19 November 2024, 19:30 - 20:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Aidan Hurst (University of Oxford)
Venue: Hertford College, Catte Street OX1 3BW
Venue Details: Barring Room
Organiser: Sylvana Vilca-Melendez (University of Oxford)
Host: Sylvana Vilca-Melendez (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

External Virtual Human Factors Course
Date: 20 November 2024, 9:00 - 10:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Wendy Washbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 November 2024, 11:30 - 12:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

UPDATED TIMING: Race against resistance: Improving diagnostics to address AMR
Date: 20 November 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Monique Andersson (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: NDCLS Seminar Room, Level 4 Academic Block, access via stairs near Cairns library
Organiser: Dr Stephanie Jones (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Deborah Gill (University of Oxford )

OUCAGS in-person Forum - 20th November 2024
Date: 20 November 2024, 12:30 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Asif Ali (Associate Dean, Education and Development, NHSE Thames Valley)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Target Discovery Institute
Organiser: Medical Sciences Division
Host: Associate Professor Simon Lord (University of Oxford)

Symposium in Honour of Professor Val Macaulay
Date: 20 November 2024, 13:00 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: Professor Ian Mills (University of Oxford), Professor Freddie Hamdy (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)

Integrating mouse and human imaging studies of autism to identify molecularly defined subtypes
Date: 20 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jason Lerch (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organisers: Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Impacts of childhood cancer treatment on testicular function and new approaches to preserve and restore fertility
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Week 12: Medical Ophthalmology
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Samantha de Silva
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Marginal Cost of Improving the Quality of Mental Healthcare in England
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Rowena Jacobs (University of York)
Venue: Radcliffe Primary Care, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Apostolos Tsiachristas (University of Oxford)
Host: Apostolos Tsiachristas (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 21 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Cyril Schroeder (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: 40-091
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cheti Nicoletti, York University "Can resources alter the development path of a low birth weight child?"  (working in progress with with Kjell Salvanes, Emma Tominey and Francesca Zantomio)
Date: 21 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Cheti Nicoletti (University of York)
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Colorectal
Date: 22 November 2024, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Antonio Spinelli (Humanitas University)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Can infection confer protection? Identifying determinants of response and toxicity to checkpoint immunotherapy
Date: 22 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Benjamin Fairfax (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Multimodal Multiscale Microscopic Imaging of the Brain: Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
Date: 22 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Mark H. Ellisman (Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences Director, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), UCSD )
Venue Details: Department of Biochemistry, Courtyard Entrance, Phase 1
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE: Beyond pretty pictures: Human neuroimaging as a tool for physiology in the 21st Century
Date: 22 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Charlotte Stagg (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Policing secretion: how the COPII coat directs specificity in export from the ER.
Date: 22 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Liz Miller (MRC, Cambridge)
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)

New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Date: 22 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Python Drop in session
Date: 25 November 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ellen (Visscher)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Decision making in dynamically evolving, naturalistic environments
Date: 25 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

'Use of the cytoskeleton to control Shigella infection'
Date: 25 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr. Serge Mostowy (Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephan Uphoff (Dept of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Lifestyle tips for menopausal health
Date: 25 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Associate Professor Victoria Bajo Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: CCMN Seminar Room
Organisers: Associate Professor Dan Li (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Heidi de Wet (Oxford Center for Gene Function, DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The potential of vaccination to prevent congenital CMV
Date: 25 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Seilesh Kadambari (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Advancing the genetics of psychiatric disorders: depression and eating disorders
Date: 26 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Gerome Breen (Kings College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Keeping the rhythm: how hERG potassium channels links genetics, drugs and pollution to cardiac arrhythmias
Date: 26 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jules Hancox (School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Charalampos Sigalas (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'What works for whom for preventing depression and anxiety'
Date: 26 November 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Josefien Breedvelt (Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London)
Venue Details: Department of Psychiatry Seminar Room or Online (Zoom)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Risk factors for dementia in the Million Women Study
Date: 26 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Sarah Floud (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Graham Bagley (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: Focus on clopidogrel
Date: 26 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
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)

Transcriptional deregulation in T-ALL
Date: 26 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Jan Cools (Ku Leuven)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Marlies Vanden Bempt (University of Oxford)

Dr Peter Kilbride
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Peter Kilbride (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Suzannah Williams (Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford )

Water in the brain: Challenges and opportunities for survival and thriving
Date: 26 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Nanna MacAulay (University of Copenhagen)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Squingle: The Psychedelic VR Game
Date: 26 November 2024, 19:30 - 21:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Outram
Venue: Hertford College, Catte Street OX1 3BW
Venue Details: Barring Room
Organiser: Sylvana Vilca-Melendez (University of Oxford)
Host: Sylvana Vilca-Melendez (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Title TBC
Date: 27 November 2024, 11:30 - 12:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Two-pore cation channels - what we think they do
Date: 27 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Christian Grimm (Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Munich LMU)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Bhattacharya & Bull Groups
Date: 27 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B, or join online use the following Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/33wbhnme
Organisers: Alba Fernandez Santana (University of Oxford), Victoria Fallon (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Katherine Bull (University of Oxford), Shoumo Bhattacharya (University of Oxford)

“An Imperfect Storm: A Pandemic and the Coming of Age of a Nigerian Institution” presented by Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu (World Health Organization)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, 61 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Neuronal Cell Biology of PINK1/Parkin mitophagy
Date: 28 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : A/Professor Michael Lazarou (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) Parkville, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Phase 1 Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-026). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford )

Differential deployment of oncogenic translational gene expression programmes by the eIF4F and CCR4-NOT complexes: The hidden information within our genomes
Date: 28 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Martin Bushell (CRUK Scotland Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

mTOR signaling in growth, metabolism and disease
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Michael Hall (University of Basel)
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)

Medical Grand Rounds - Week 13: Oncology
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Elizabeth Smyth
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Neurophysiology of human pharyngeal and swallowing function in health and disease
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Shaheen Hamdy (University of Manchester)
Venue Details: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmI0ZGZjMmQtMDliOC00NGZkLTgwNjMtMmE0YTY5ZWE0MzZk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f2ecb98c-9690-44c2-b425-c22592d86041%22%7d
Organiser: Arun Joseph (University of Oxford)
Host: Arun Joseph (University of Oxford)

MABEL FITZGERALD PRIZE LECTURE 2024: Structure to function - some stories from the cell surface
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor E. Yvonne Jones, FRS (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 28 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Nitish Mouroung Anand (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 29 November 2024, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

A therapeutic atlas of inflammatory bowel disease
Date: 29 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Calliope Dendrou (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Precision medicine and the immune response: insights from infection
Date: 29 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

'A History of Herd Immunity: Between Observation and Cultivation' AND 'The Long-term Context of Medical Debates: A History of Herd Immunity'
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr David Robertson (University of Oxford), Prof Erica Charters (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

hnRNP K pathology in neurodegenerative diseases
Date: 29 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Tammaryn Lashley (University College London)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Disarm and disengage: Understanding Aurodox - a Type III Secretion System inhibitor from Streptomyces
Date: 29 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Paul Hoskisson (University of Strathclyde)
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: Dr Georgia Isom (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Cell competition and how cells talk with their stressed neighbours
Date: 29 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Tristan Rodriguez (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Nancy Stathopoulou (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Molecular and spatial control of tumor-associated macrophages
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Renato Ostuni (San Raffaele Telethon Institute, Milan)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

The developmental biology of cancer
Date: 2 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Oxford Ludwig Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Alison Woollard (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Cross-species MAIT cell immune responses
Date: 2 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Paul Klenerman (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Radiotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer: New Clinical Applications and Emerging Preclinical Studies
Date: 2 December 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Albert C. Koong (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Rooms 71 a/b/c (Ground floor)
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Prof Ester Hammond (University of Oxford)

HDRUK Oxford Monthly Community Meetings
Date: 2 December 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Pharmacogenetic and pharmaco-epidemiological approaches to synergistically boost precision pharmacotherapy in psychiatry
Date: 3 December 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jurjen Luykx (Maastricht University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Belinda Lennox (Associate Professor and Clinical Senior Lecturer, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)

Brain-wide approaches to neuroplasticity and emotional behavior in the mouse
Date: 3 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Tommaso Pizzorusso (Professor of Physiology, Scuola Normale Superiore)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Abhishek Banerjee (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Scaling out: Realising the promise of self-help online Single Session Interventions for adolescents with depression symptoms in the UK'
Date: 3 December 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Maria Loades (University of Bath)
Venue Details: Department of Psychiatry Seminar Room or Online (Zoom)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

NDWRH Data Theme Seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Emma Walker (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TwinsUK diverging destinies: how longitudinal twin studies can bring insights for ageing and health
Date: 3 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Claire Steves (King's College London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Graham Bagley (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

CEBPA mutation disrupting the bZIP domain regulates the epi-transcriptomic landscape to enforce aberrant erythropoiesis and drive disease progression in Myelodysplastic syndromes’
Date: 3 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Paloma Garcia (Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers: 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: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)

Detection of Suicidality Through Privacy-Preserving Large Language Models
Date: 3 December 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Isabella C Wiest (Else Kröner Fresenius Zentrum for Digital Health, TU Dresden)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/96325047461?pwd=zGAc6FLGXwg4fq7noWrlaGu6JV8aO8.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Essentials of Light Microscopy Short Course
Date: 4 December 2024, 10:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Jana Koth (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Dr Jana Koth (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

The co-inhibitory receptor TIGIT promotes tissue protection and repair
Date: 4 December 2024, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Nicole Joller (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, the University of Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Jan Rehwinkel ((Radcliffe Department of Medicine) University of Oxford), Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

University of Oxford:Apollo Therapeutics Launch event
Date: 4 December 2024, 15:30 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Chas Bountra (NDM), Dr Richard Mason (Apollo Therapeutics), Professor Matthew Fuchter (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3AZ
Organiser: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)
Host: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Transient promoter interactions modulate developmental gene activation
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Angelika Feldmann (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

From Paperwork to Patients: AI in Healthcare
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Kuldeep Singh (Softude), Mradul Kanugo (Softude), Joseph Davids (Imperial College London)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Dr Charlotte Bell (University of Oxford), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Charlotte Bell (University of Oxford)

Brain Mechanisms of Breathlessness
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Kyle Pattinson (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Week 14: Endocrine, Diabetes and Metabolism
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 December 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Robert Clark (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New Insights into the Development and Function of Beige Adipocytes
Date: 5 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Associate Professor Paul Cohen (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)
Host: Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)

Yawanawa Traditions: Researching Amazonian Psychedelics
Date: 5 December 2024, 19:30 - 21:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Maria Fe Gebara
Venue: Hertford College, Catte Street OX1 3BW
Venue Details: Barring Room
Organiser: Sylvana Vilca-Melendez (University of Oxford)
Host: Sarah Spellman (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Radiology
Date: 6 December 2024, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Fergus Gleeson
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 December 2024, 9:15 - 10:15 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Davis Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

R JEAN BANISTER PRIZE LECTURE: Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity
Date: 6 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield, UK)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Selecting informative conformal prediction sets with false coverage rate control
Date: 6 December 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ruth Heller (Tel Aviv University)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Prof Christopher Yau (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford), Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 December 2024 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Live cell imaging unveils novel innate immune biology
Date: 9 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Paul Kubes (Queen’s University, Canada)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Mike Dustin (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Activation of Inhibitory Receptors on Mast cells: Is it a Winning Strategy to Fight Allergic Diseases and Mastocytosis?
Date: 9 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof. Francesca Levi-Schaffer (Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine)
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

Measuring, understanding and targeting altered metabolism in brain cancer
Date: 9 December 2024, 15:30 - 16:30 (Monday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Daniel Wahl (University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams. Meeting ID: 319 130 169 222 Passcode: dznq7K
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Prof Ester Hammond (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 December 2024 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

U-Flourish research: Translating evidence into sustainable early intervention targeting common mental health concerns in university students
Date: 10 December 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Anne Duffy (Queen's University, Ontario)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)

The trajectories of human disease
Date: 10 December 2024, 9:30 - 10:30 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Gil McVean (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ethox Seminar: Understanding Moral Injury in Healthcare: A Conceptual Analysis from the Clinic
Date: 10 December 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Big Data Institute Lower Ground Seminar Room 1 and on Zoom
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

NDWRH Student Seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Emily Hyde (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Ava Harrison (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Triangulating the role of type I interferons in sporadic human disease
Date: 10 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Bastien Rioux (University of Edinburgh)
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)

Wednesday 11 December 2024 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Knight & Uhlig Groups
Date: 11 December 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Wednesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B, or join online use the following Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/33wbhnme
Organisers: Alba Fernandez Santana (University of Oxford), Victoria Fallon (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics), Professor Holm Uhlig (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 December 2024 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Medical Grand Rounds - Week 15: Tropical Medicine
Date: 12 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

What can spatial transcriptomics teach us about cardiac biology?
Date: 16 December 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Monday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr James Cranley (University of Cambridge)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Room B, Level 6 West Wing, JR
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Journal Club: Title TBC
Date: 17 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2024)
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 Maria Tuna (University of Oxford)

Postpartum haemorrhage: solving a clock problem!
Date: 17 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Arri Coomarasamy (University of Birmingham)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Krina Zondvervan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Leveraging the actinobacteria strain collection and genome database at NPDC for natural products and drug discovery
Date: 18 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Ben Shen (Natural Products Discovery Centre, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 January 2025 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 7 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, -1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Ian Hitchcock (Department of Biology, University of York)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: 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)
Host: Beth Psaila (WIMM)

TIA Review
Date: 7 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, -1st week, Hilary 2025)
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)

Thursday 9 January 2025 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 9 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, -1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

The ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Date: 13 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Katharine Coyte (University of Manchester)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Thursday 16 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Edith Heard - title TBA
Date: 16 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Edith Heard (EMBL, Heidelberg)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Menopause Awareness at Work
Date: 16 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Haley White (Menospace)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organiser: Dr Iris Hofmann (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 16 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Chris Lord (Institute of Cancer Research, London)
Venue Details: 3 a/b
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Bass Hassan (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 16 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Iain Smith (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 20 January 2025, 12:30 - 13:30 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Stephan Achenbach (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: OCMR Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Susan Schlimpert (Group Leader, Royal Society University Research Fellow, John Innes Centre)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Colin Kleanthous (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Health and economic impacts of Lassa vaccination campaigns in West Africa
Date: 20 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr David Smith (Oxford, NDPH)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

The Longterm Consequences of Preeclampsia for Mother and Child
Date: 20 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:30 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Heather Boyd (Statens Serum Institut)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Hybrid: CCRF boardroom and Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 21 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Jean Soulier (Saint-Louise Hospital, France)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 22 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 22 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
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 23 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Dr Karina Pombo-Garcia - title TBA
Date: 23 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Pombo-Garcia (the Rosalind Franklin Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

The non-coding exome in rare disease: from diagnosis to therapies
Date: 23 January 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Nicky Whiffin (Big Data Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 23 January 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Brain-like learning with exponentiated gradients
Date: 23 January 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Jonathan Cornford (MILA)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Obs & Gynae
Date: 24 January 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Host-parasite interactions
Date: 27 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Cinzia Cantacessi (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 27 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Yang Shi (Ludwig Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry)

Wednesday 29 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 29 January 2025, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Simon Cleary (King's College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof David Jackson (WIMM HIU)

Thursday 30 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Thomas Carell - title TBA
Date: 30 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Thomas Carell (LMU, Munich)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Large scale systematic identification of extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: case studies in host-pathogen interactions for vaccine design and the human immune system
Date: 30 January 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 30 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Bjarne Feddersen
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Urology
Date: 31 January 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 31 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Yardena Samuels (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
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 Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 3 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Marburg vaccine trial
Date: 3 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Teresa Lambe (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 4 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 4 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
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

Title TBC
Date: 4 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Jacob Corn (ETH Zürich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Grace Meaker (MRC WIMM)

Title TBC
Date: 4 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Andreas Kappes (City, University of London)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/92860307789?pwd=iAdkC3QG1wQ8yvbuOBFTibGofmszPY.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

TBC
Date: 5 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

External Virtual Human Factors Course
Date: 6 February 2025, 9:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Wendy Washbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tumor-associated macrophages in tumor progression: double edged swords
Date: 6 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Alberto Mantovani (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Nikolai Juraschko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Vascular
Date: 7 February 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuberculosis vaccine R&D and human challenge models
Date: 10 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Helen McShane (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 10 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Carla Saleh (Institut Pasteur, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Petros Ligoxygakis (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Validation of a Mobile App for Remote Autism Screening in Toddlers
Date: 11 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Geraldine Dawson (Duke University)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/92860307789?pwd=iAdkC3QG1wQ8yvbuOBFTibGofmszPY.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Josef Penninger - title TBA
Date: 13 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Josef Penninger (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

TBC
Date: 13 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ross Chapman (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 13 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Global Surgery
Date: 14 February 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Thomas Meyer - title TBA
Date: 20 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Thomas Meyer (University of Kiel)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Friday 21 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Plastics
Date: 21 February 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 21 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Prof Fumiko Esashi, Dr Anjali Hinch (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Shingles vaccine and dementia, and other links between infectious diseases and brain health
Date: 24 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Maxime Taquet (Oxford, Psychiatry)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 24 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Masashi Narita (Senior Group Leader, CRUK, Cambridge Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Fanni Gergely (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

TBC
Date: 25 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 26 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

A Gentle Introduction to Python
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 February 2025, 9:00 - 11:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Matthew Miossec (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Frances Balkwill - title TBA
Date: 27 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Frances Balkwill (Cancer Research UK)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Medical Statistics Drop In Session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organisers: Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
Date: 27 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 27 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Mingyu Qin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Dr. Andrea Musacchio (Director of the Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Professor Lars Jansen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Lars Jansen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Neuroradiology
Date: 28 February 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Using the adenoviral vectored vaccine platform for bacterial infections
Date: 3 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Christine Rollier (University of Surrey)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 3 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Nathan Goehring (Senior Group Leader, 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: TBA
Host: Professor Alison Woollard (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 4 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
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

Title TBC
Date: 4 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Simon Bomken (Newcastle University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: 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)
Host: Professor Tom Milne (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 4 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
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)

Enhancing Suicide Risk Prediction With Polygenic Scores in Psychiatric Emergency Settings: Prospective Study
Date: 4 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Jordan Smoller (Harvard Medical School)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/92860307789?pwd=iAdkC3QG1wQ8yvbuOBFTibGofmszPY.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Gareth Inman - Title TBA
Date: 6 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Gareth Inman (University of Glasgow)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

New concepts in type 2 immunity
Date: 6 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
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: Oliver Bannard (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 6 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 7 March 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Social interactions among microorganisms
Date: 10 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Kevin Foster (Oxford, Biology/Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 10 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Heath Murray (Professor of Bacterial Genetics, Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr. Frank Bürmann (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Dr Céline Vallot - Title TBA
Date: 13 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Céline Vallot (Institut Curie)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 13 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)
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
Date: 13 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1, 20-026
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - ENT
Date: 14 March 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 March 2025 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 18 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Michael Milsom (German Cancer Research Centre)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Dr Beth Psaila (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 March 2025 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 20 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Zephyr Ford (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 March 2025 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 24 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 10th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Dr. Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (Director of the Stem Cell Center, Director of the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Munich)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lars Jansen (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 March 2025 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Targeting KRAS oncogenic signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer
Date: 27 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Julian Downward (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Tuesday 1 April 2025 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 1 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 11th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor George Vassilou (Cambridge Cancer Stem Cell Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

TIA Review
Date: 1 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 11th week, Hilary 2025)
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 3 April 2025 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

MitOX 2025
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 April 2025, 9:00 - 17:30 (Thursday, 11th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Tingewick Hall
Organiser: Professor Karl Morten (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 April 2025 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 8 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 12th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 17 April 2025 (13th Week, Hilary Term)

TBC
Date: 17 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 13th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 24 April 2025 (14th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 24 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 14th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 April 2025 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 15th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicole Zitzmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Gut microbiome
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 15th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Wednesday 30 April 2025 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 15th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 May 2025 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 15th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Transplant
Date: 2 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 15th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 16th week, Hilary 2025)
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)

Friday 9 May 2025 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Transplant
Date: 9 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 16th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Monday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30 (Thursday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
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

Title TBC
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Global Surgery
Date: 16 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Monday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Urology
Date: 23 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 20th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Avian and human influenza
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 20th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 3 June 2025 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 20th week, Hilary 2025)
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

Friday 6 June 2025 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - QRSTU
Date: 6 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 20th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 21st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Better treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 21st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Friday 13 June 2025 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 21st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 22nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 22nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

Surgical Grand Rounds - Intensive care
Date: 20 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00 (Friday, 22nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 October 2025 (39th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 39th week, Hilary 2025)
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
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Monday 19 January 2025 (53rd Week, Hilary Term)

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 53rd week, Hilary 2025)
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)

Monday 2 February 2025 (55th Week, Hilary Term)

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 55th week, Hilary 2025)
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 )