Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Modeling muscle disease and regeneration in zebrafish
  Prof Peter D. Currie (Director of Research, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. Head, EMBL Australia Melbourne Node. NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. Level 1, 15 Innovation Walk Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3800. Australia.)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - From Ion Channel Gating Pore Currents to International Genomic Medicine Initiatives in Neuromuscular Diseases
  Prof. Michael Hanna (Director | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Director | UCL MRC International Centre for Genomic Medicine in Neuromuscular Diseases)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Wednesday 17 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Digenic inheritance involving a muscle specific protein kinase and the giant titin protein causes a skeletal muscle myopathy
  Prof. Volker Straub (Director, The John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre | MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at Newcastle | Deputy Dean, Translational and Clinical Research Institute Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Optimizing therapeutic efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy
  Prof. Charlotte Sumner (John Hopkins School of Medicine)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Engineering human stem cells for muscle disease modelling and therapy development
  Prof. Francesco Saverio Tedesco (University College London)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Optimizing antisense mediated exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultrarare diseases
  Prof Annemieke Aartsma-Rus (Leiden University Medical Centre)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Myositis- morphology and molecular studies
  Prof. Werner Stenzel (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Wednesday 16 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Tricyclo-DNA: promising antisense oligonucleotides for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases
  Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle (INSERM)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Tuesday 28 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Origin of Mitochondrial Diseases
  Prof Patrick Chinnery (University of Cambridge)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Thursday 8 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Diagnostic delay in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the case for newborn screening
  Prof. Emma Ciafaloni (University of Rochester, NY)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Protecting motor neurons from degeneration by targeting bioenergetics
  Hybrid event - please contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk to receive the online link.
  Tom Gillingwater (University of Edinburgh)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Friday 8 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Stem cells to treat muscular dystrophies
  Hybrid seminar - Lunch with students/postdocs to follow. Email chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk for further info.
  Prof Jennifer Morgan (UCL)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Sugars & proteins
  This is a hybrid seminar. Students/postdocs are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker, which will occur immediately following the talk.
  Prof Benjamin G Davis (University of Oxford and Rosalind Franklin Institute)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Wednesday 20 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Mitochondrial DNA Disorders: the (long and winding) road to treatment
  This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later in 2024
  Prof Antonella Spinazzola (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Congenital disorders of autophagy and intracellular trafficking – a novel class of neurometabolic disorders linking aberrant neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
  This is a hybrid seminar. Attendees are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker, which will occur immediately following the talk.
  Prof Heinz Jungbluth (King's College London)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars