Monday 15 May 2017

• 14:00 - Bayesian multivariate re-analysis of large genetic studies identifies many novel associations
  Michael Turchin (University of Chicago)
  WHG Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: eScience and Accelerometry
  Dr Vincent van Hees (Netherlands eScience Center )
  BDI seminars

Friday 2 June 2017

• 09:00 - Innovative Phenotyping Methods for Large Cohort Studies - MRC PHRU / BDI Symposium
  Michael Gaziano (Million Veterans Program, Harvard), Joshua Denny (eMERGE & Precision Medicine Initiative, Vanderbilt)
  BDI seminars

Friday 23 June 2017

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Joint analysis of gene expression levels and histological images identifies genes associated with cellular morphology
  Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Department of Computer Science, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University)
  BDI seminars

Friday 21 July 2017

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Transcriptome Deconvolution of Heterogeneous Tumor Samples with Immune Infiltration
  Wenyi Wang (Anderson Cancer Center)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 7 September 2017

• 10:00 - BDI Seminar: Genomics and drug discovery
  Dr John Whittaker (VP Statistical Tech/Platforms, Target Sciences, GSK)
  BDI seminars

Friday 8 September 2017

• 11:00 - BDI seminar: Novel methods for the comprehensive analysis of physical activity in epidemiology
  Louise Millard (University of Bristol)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 14 September 2017

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Prospects of fine-mapping trait-associated genomic regions using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies
  Christian Benner (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
  BDI seminars

Monday 18 September 2017

• 15:00 - BDI Seminar: A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samples
  Daniel W Kennedy (ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), School of Mathematical Sciences, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT))
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 27 September 2017

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: Medical Research and Intellectual Property Rights / things to consider and things to avoid
  Jonathan Sellors (UK Biobank)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 3 October 2017

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Variable Selection and Dimension Reduction methods for Omics Datasets
  Matthew Sutton (PhD Student in Statistics, Queensland University of Technology)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 4 October 2017

• 16:00 - Discovery, refinement and interpretation of genetic variation underlying human complex traits
  Valentina Iotchkova (MRC Fellow in Computational Biology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Friday 13 October 2017

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Discovery of rare and common variants associated with blood pressure and hypertension
  Joanna M M Howson (University Lecturer in Statistical Genomics, University of Cambridge)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 13:00 - Ethox Seminar: A middle way on NITP? Choosing testing virtuously
  Tom Shakespeare (Professor of Disability Research, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 14:00 - BDI / Ludwig Institute Seminar: Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research
  Tim Errington (Center for Open Science)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 13:00 - The Inaugural Meeting of the Big Data Ethics Forum
  TBA
  BDI seminars

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Using big genetic data to understand disease – beyond the next GWAS”
  Professor Tim Frayling (University of Exeter Medical School)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 16:00 - BDI Inaugural Lecture: The Nature of Nurture
  Augustine Kong (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 15 January 2018

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: Electronic health record phenotyping methods for research
  Dr Spiros Denaxas (Denaxas Lab, University College London)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 11:00 - WEH Seminar: Just development and governance of Artificial Intelligence
  Bendert Zevenbergen (Princeton University)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 16:00 - Inaugural Seminar: Challenges and opportunities in population neuroimaging
  Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: What Machine Learning and AI can do for Healthcare
  Dr Timor Kadir (CTO Optellum Ltd)
  BDI seminars
• 15:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum
  Professor Martin Landray (Nuffield Department of Population Health), Professor Clare Mackay (Professor of Imaging Neuroscience, Oxford Department of Psychiatry)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 11:00 - WEH Seminar: Long game health promotion and political legitimacy in public health law
  Professor John Coggan (University of Bristol Law School)
  BDI seminars

Monday 5 March 2018

• 15:30 - BDI Seminar: Lessons learned from moving the Broad Institute's computing into the 21st century
  Dr Eric Banks (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 6 March 2018

• 10:00 - BDI Seminar and Workshop: Hail: Scalable genomic association analysis
  Dr Cotton Seed (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)
  BDI seminars

Monday 19 March 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: New Horizons for Vaccines
  Prof Adrian Hill (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 26 March 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: From Jericho to Headington: Enteric fever in Oxford
  Professor Andy Pollard (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 28 March 2018

• 16:00 - Inaugural Seminar: The Malaria Atlas Project — Mapping the past, present and future of a global disease
  Professor Pete Gething (Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 23 April 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Dr Caroline Colijn (Imperial College London)
  BDI seminars
• 14:30 - BDI Seminar: Imaging Genetics of the Human Face
  Peter Claes (KU Leuven)
  BDI seminars

Monday 30 April 2018

• 10:30 - BDI Seminar: Statistical strategies for enhanced metabolic phenotyping and biomarker recovery
  TBA
  BDI seminars
• 10:30 - BDI Seminar: Statistical strategies for enhanced metabolic phenotyping and biomarker recovery
  TBA
  BDI seminars
• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Ana Rivero (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
  BDI seminars

Monday 14 May 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  TBA
  BDI seminars

Monday 21 May 2018

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar - The genetics of actigraphy-based estimates of sleep characteristics
  Dr Andrew Wood (University of Exeter)
  BDI seminars
• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Connecting genomic data with vaccine design in pneumococcus
  Dr Caroline Colijn (Imperial College London)
  BDI seminars
• 16:00 - BDI Inaugural Lecture: Time flies: two decades of dissecting the aetiology of common complex traits
  Professor Cecilia Lindgren (Professor of Genomic Endocrinology & Metabolism, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 12 June 2018

• 16:00 - BDI Seminar: Hospital patient time series data: Statistical models for associations and decision making
  Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Department of Computer Science, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 15:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: The rights and wrongs of data sharing - Should there be any limit on data sharing?
  Professor Jane Green (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 15:00 - BDI Seminar - Three principles of data science: Predictability, computability, and stability (PCS)
  Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 20 June 2018

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar: Saving decision making from itself
  Zackary Berger (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
  BDI seminars

Monday 25 June 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Jason Hendry (University of Oxford), Will Probert (University of Oxford )
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 27 June 2018

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar: Justice and vulnerability in big data
  Angela Ballantyne (Senior Lecturer Bioethics, New Zealand)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 11 September 2018

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: Public health data science to investigate and improve migrant health
  Dr Rob Aldridge (University College London)
  BDI seminars

Monday 17 September 2018

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Rare diseases & convolution neural networks
  Dr. Christoffer Nellåker (University of Oxford), Michael Ferlaino
  BDI seminars

Monday 1 October 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Using bespoke genomics to understand colistin resistance mechanisms and find new antibiotic targets for Klebsiella pneumoniae
  Amy Cain (Macquarie University)
  BDI seminars
• 14:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Physical activity & time-series analysis
  Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Matthew Willetts
  BDI seminars

Monday 8 October 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease: Aetiology, epidemiology, evolution, ecology and eventuality
  Dr Shrlly Lachish (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 15 October 2018

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Dementia & app development
  Dr Chris Hinds (Big Data Institute), Devesh Batra
  BDI seminars

Monday 29 October 2018

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Simon Dellicour (University of Washington), Azim Ansari (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Meta catalogue of OUH clinical databases
  James Welch
  BDI seminars

Monday 12 November 2018

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Parental genotypes influencing the environment
  Professor Augustine Kong (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford), Alex Young
  BDI seminars

Monday 26 November 2018

• 12:00 - Mapping malaria for programmatic support
  TBA
  Infections@BDI
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Leveraging whole genomes to discover aggressive phenotypes of prostate cancer
  Dr David Wedge (Big Data Institute), Dan Woodcock
  BDI seminars

Monday 3 December 2018

• 10:30 - BDI Seminar: Processing single cell RNA-Seq datasets with kallisto and BUStools
  Páll Melsted, (University of Iceland)
  BDI seminars
• 12:00 - Parallel Evolution and the Emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Viruses
  TBA
  Infections@BDI

Monday 10 December 2018

• 11:00 - Confidence Bands in Functional data - The Bootstrap or Gaussian Kinematic formula?
  TBA
  BDI seminars
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar
  Dr. Antoniya Georgieva (University of Oxfor), Dr Bartek Papiez (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 12 December 2018

• 13:00 - Big Data Ethics Forum: HIV phylogenetic research and public health - challenges and opportunities
  Professor Christophe Fraser (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 17 December 2018

• 12:00 - Evolutionary Encoding and the Ancestry of Everyone
  Yan Wong (Dr.)
  Infections@BDI

Wednesday 9 January 2019

• 16:00 - Inaugural Lecture - Preventing infections using pathogen genomics and mathematical modelling: HIV and beyond
  Professor Christophe Fraser (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 21 January 2019

• 12:00 - The Global Research on AntiMicrobial resistance (GRAM) Project
  Catrin Moore (University of Oxford)
  Infections@BDI

Monday 28 January 2019

• 14:00 - CKB Seminar: Using genetics to explore the consequences of obesity
  Dr Jess Tyrrell (University of Exeter)
  BDI seminars

Friday 8 February 2019

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Malaria Elimination Trials and Simulations
  Prof Lisa White (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 11 February 2019

• 12:00 - Accelerating clinical research for epidemic infectious diseases
  Prof. Peter Horby (University of Oxford)
  Infections@BDI
• 12:00 - Data analysis in Particle Physics: Where has all the antimatter gone?
  Dr. Anita Nandi (University of Oxford)
  Infections@BDI

Monday 18 February 2019

• 12:00 - Molecular approaches to understanding host pathogen interactions across
  Prof Adrian Smith (University of Oxford)
  Infections@BDI

Monday 4 March 2019

• 12:00 - Building a better genetics-based clinical microbiology: antibiotic susceptibility testing, whole genome sequencing and growth measurements of the 10,000+ clinical M. tuberculosis samples collected by the international CRyPTIC project
  Dr Philip Fowler (Experimental Medicine Division, Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital)
  Infections@BDI

Monday 11 March 2019

• 12:00 - Portable, digital pathogen detection and surveillance in real-time
  Prof. Nick Loman (University of Birmingham)
  Infections@BDI

Monday 18 March 2019

• 12:00 - The Double Burden of Diabetes and Global Infection
  Susanna Dunachie (University of Oxford)
  Infections@BDI

Monday 25 March 2019

• 12:00 - Mapping the denominator: Geospatial data integration for modelling population distributions, demographics and dynamics
  Prof. Andrew Tatem (University of Southampton)
  Infections@BDI

Friday 29 March 2019

• 12:30 - BDI Seminar - Interpretable machine learning with tensor models for healthcare
  Haiping Lu (University of Sheffield)
  BDI seminars

Monday 1 April 2019

• 12:00 - Conditional Autoregressive models for disconnected graph and applications
  Anna Freni Sterrantino (Imperial College London)
  Infections@BDI

Monday 29 April 2019

• 11:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Using Mathematical models to predict the impact of vaccines of antibiotic resistance
  Dr Katherine Atkins (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  BDI seminars
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar Series: Inside the Cranial Vault: Tracking Fetal Brain Development from Ultrasound Images
  Ana Namburete (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 13 May 2019

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Robust Research – A practical guide | Same Data - Different Software - Different Results? Analytic Variability of Group fMRI Results
  Verene Heise (University of Oxford), Alex Bowring (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: BARNARDS: Antimicrobial Resistance and Risk Factors for Neonatal Sepsis and Mortality in LMICs.
  Professor Timothy Walsh (Cardiff University)
  BDI seminars

Monday 3 June 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: GEM: A domain-specific modelling language for disease transmission modelling
  Chris Jewell (Lancaster University)
  BDI seminars

Monday 10 June 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Dr Timothy Lucas (University of Oxford), Jason Hendry (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI
  Stefania Benonisdottir (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 17 June 2019

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: A population genetic interpretation of GWAS findings
  Associate Professor Guy Sella (Columbia University)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar - Genetic discovery in a million people, where do we go from here?
  Dr Cristen J. Willer (University of Michigan)
  BDI seminars

Friday 28 June 2019

• 13:30 - BDI Seminar: Scaling Python for data science and machine learning with Dask, Numba and GPUs
  Matthew Rocklin (Nvidia)
  BDI seminars

Monday 1 July 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: How machine learning is starting to make systematic reviews more efficient
  Professor James Thomas (UCL)
  BDI seminars

Monday 15 July 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Approximate Bayesian Computation and History Matching for inference in complex systems
  T J McKinley (Exeter University)
  BDI seminars

Monday 22 July 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: HIV drug resistance in Zambian communities of the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial
  David Bonsall (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 24 July 2019

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Genetics studies for cardiometabolic traits facilitated by the Million Veterans Program
  Benjamin J Voight (University of Pennsylvania)
  BDI seminars

Monday 29 July 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Geostatistics for Survey Sampling
  Michael Chipeta (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 30 July 2019

• 13:30 - China Kadoorie Biobank Workshop: Enhancing research using big data from diverse populations
  Various Speakers
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 10 September 2019

• 15:00 - Using single-cell genomics to model cell fate decisions and understand the regulation of variability in gene expression
  Dr John Marioni (EMBL-EBI)
  WHG Seminars

Monday 16 September 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar - Genomic epidemiology approaches for understanding sexually transmitted infections
  Matthew Beale (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
  BDI seminars

Monday 23 September 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar - The use of Kmer counts to train random forests to predict country of origin for bacterial pathogen sequencing data
  Lauren Cowley (University of Bath)
  BDI seminars

Friday 4 October 2019

• 13:00 - BDI R Code Clinic
  TBC

Monday 14 October 2019

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Brain imaging in the UK Biobank: Discovery science to hypothesis-driven research
  Professor Karla Miller (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Monday 28 October 2019

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Additional dimensions in mass spectrometry: velocity-map imaging
  Professor Claire Vallance (Department of Chemistry)
  BDI seminars

Monday 11 November 2019

• 13:00 - BDI R Code Clinic
  TBA

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 10:00 - BDI Seminar - Will big data deliver new drug targets?
  Dr Andrew Leach (European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)), Dr Rob Finn (European Bioinformatics Institute)
  BDI seminars

Monday 25 November 2019

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar
  Xilin Jiang (Big Data Institute), Luca Ferretti (Bi Data Institute)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 15:00 - BDI Seminar: Integrating genotype and phenotype for precision oncology
  Ian Overton (Queen's University, Belfast)
  BDI seminars

Monday 2 December 2019

• 10:30 - BDI Seminar - Big Data and the Big Future: how does data science relate to the long-term future of humanity?
  Anders Sandberg (Oxford Martin School)
  BDI seminars

Monday 9 December 2019

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Multiple infections and GI cancer risks: evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank study
  Dr Ling Yang (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars
• 14:30 - BDI Seminar - Obesity and cardiometabolic disease: disentangling causes and confounders
  Zoltan Kutalik (University of Lausanne)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 10 December 2019

• 11:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Measuring impacts of gram-negative bacteraemia in Africa – challenges for a new prospective study
  Dr Alex Aiken (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  BDI seminars

Friday 13 December 2019

• 13:00 - BDI Seminar Series
  Various Speakers
  BDI seminars

Monday 20 January 2020

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Life course metabolomics: new insights into body composition and diabetes
  Dr Joshua Bell (University of Bristol)
  BDI seminars

Monday 3 February 2020

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Opportunities and challenges in using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts
  Dr Katie Harron (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
  BDI seminars

Monday 10 February 2020

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Progress in initiating a low-cost learning health system, 200,000 hospital events and counting for the Kenyan hospital Clinical Information Network
  Professor Mike English (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 14:30 - The Global Response to the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak
  Various Speakers
  BDI seminars

Monday 2 March 2020

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Cross-omics studies of Alzheimer’s disease: beyond the brain
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Friday 27 March 2020

• 10:00 - BDI Cancer Genomics Training Day
  Various Speakers

Thursday 17 December 2020

• 09:30 - Health Data Science CDT - COVID-19 Data Challenge
  TBA
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 15:00 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Ethical considerations of combining research, clinical practice and public health surveillance of infectious diseases in low income settings
  David Bonsall (University of Oxford)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 23 August 2022

• 09:30 - BDI Seminar - Tackling Alzheimer's disease via '3A's: Ageing, Autophagy and Artificial Intelligence
  Dr Evandro Fei Fang (University of Oslo)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 15 September 2022

• 12:30 - BDI Seminar - Life at Nature Genetics: what we do, how scientific publishing works, and how I got here
  TBA
  BDI seminars

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 13:30 - Transforming Drug Discovery using Digital Biology
  Professor Daphne Koller (Instiro)
  BDI seminars

Monday 21 November 2022

• 12:30 - Translating results from large-scale genetic association studies into public health-relevant measures
  Dr Andrea Ganna (FIMM)
  BDI/WHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 12:30 - BDI Genomics Seminars - Translating results from large-scale genetic association studies into public health-relevant measures
  Dr Andrea Ganna (FIMM)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 08:30 - Interpreting rare variation in the context of developmental disorders
  Kaitlin Samocha (Massachusetts General Hospital)
  BDI/WHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 09:30 - Interpreting rare variation in the context of developmental disorders
  Kaitlin Samocha (Massachusetts General Hospital)
  BDI/WHG Genomics Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 09:30 - Ancestral Recombination Graphs for SARS-Cov-2: a comprehensive map of recombination and mutational processes over millions of samples
  Jerome Kelleher (BDI)
  BDI/WHG Genomics Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 March 2023

• 09:30 - Zooming in on HLA selection using whole-genome sequencing data
  Dr Yang Luo (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Ruth Nanjala (University of Oxford)
  BDI/WHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 15:30 - Coding with AI: Experiments with GPT-4
  Dr Russ Poldrack (Stanford University)
  BDI seminars