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OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
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Name: Jessica Barnes
Department of Biochemistry
Events this person is organising:
Monday 17 February 2025
Moves and mechanisms of Wnt pathway tumor suppressor proteins: from basic insights to applications
Date: 17 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Madelon Maurice (Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology UMC Utrecht)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Dr Michael Ranes
Monday 24 February 2025
Bacterial actins: from single molecules to cell morphogenesis
Date: 24 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Rut Carballido Lopez (Université Paris-Saclay/INRAE Micalis Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Ben Berks (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Cellular functionality and plasticity in the senescence spectrum
Date: 24 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Masashi Narita (Group Leader, CRUK, Cambridge Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Fanni Gergely (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 3 March 2025
Spatiotemporal control of symmetry-breaking in development: lessons from the C. elegans embryo
Date: 3 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Alison Woollard (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 10 March 2025
“Minimization of the Bacillus subtilis replication origin reveals distinct modules for initiator delivery, DNA unwinding, and helicase activation”
Date: 10 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Dr. Frank Bürmann (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 28 April 2025
Lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of dengue
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Organisers:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry),
Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Nicole Zitzmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 12 May 2025
The assembly and transport of carbohydrate (and other) polymers in bacteria
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry),
Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 19 May 2025
Decoding and Modelling the Programming of Life: from Epigenetics to Metabolism
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Organisers:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry),
Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 2 June 2025
Combining cryo-electron tomography and single particle analysis to reveal sperm molecular diversity and evolution
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 16 June 2025
Structural glycobiology in the era of AI: Restoring protein glycosylation with GlycoShape
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Organisers:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry),
Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Friday 3 October 2025
Managing epigenetic memories and chromatin accessibility during the cell division cycle
Date: 3 October 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker
:
Professor Hironori Funabiki (Rockefeller University, New York)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (Room 20-026)
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Lars Jansen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 13 October 2025
The role of epigenetic inheritance and 3D genome architecture in cellular state regulation and cancer
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Hosts:
Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford),
Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 20 October 2025
Breaking (is) Bad: how bacterial supercoiling machine works, how to inhibit it, and why we bother
Date: 20 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Associate Professor Dmitry Ghilarov (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 27 October 2025
Towards solving small molecule binding affinity in the AI era: an industrial perspective
Date: 27 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Gregory Ross (Research Leader, Isomorphic Labs)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 3 November 2025
HIV-1 RNA genome packaging into capsid core during virion maturation
Date: 3 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Peter Cherepanov (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Dr. Antoni Wrobel (Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford)
Friday 7 November 2025
Epigenetic regulation of development and DNA damage response
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Professor Haruhiko Koseki (Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 10 November 2025
Should I stay or should I go? Protein sorting in the Golgi
Date: 10 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Sean Munro (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Monday 17 November 2025
Safeguarding germline immortality
Date: 17 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Dónal O'Carroll (Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Dr Rebecca Berrens (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 24 November 2025
When dose matters: Signal-decoding at the Xist locus
Date: 24 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Edda Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Hosts:
Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford ),
Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Friday 28 November 2025
The Mechanism and Origin of RNA-Guided Genome Editing in the Ciliate Oxytricha
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Professor Laura Landweber (Columbia University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Hosts:
Prof Peter Sarkies (Biochemistry, University of Oxford),
Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 8 December 2025
Targeted Protein Degradation of Aurora A kinase - from APC/C to PROTACs
Date: 8 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Catherine Lindon (Dept of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Fanni Gergely (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 19 January 2025
TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry),
Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
Monday 26 January 2025
Title TBC
Date: 26 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Carla Saleh (Head of Viruses and RNAi Unit, Institute Pasteur)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Petros Ligoxygakis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 2 February 2025
TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry),
Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Tuesday 3 February 2025
Title TBC
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Dorothee Kern (Srcipps Research Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry),
Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 9 February 2025
Title TBC
Date: 9 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Sheena Radford (School of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Ben Berks (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 16 February 2025
Title TBC
Date: 16 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Helen Walden (Professor of Structural Biology, Head of School (Molecular Biosciences), University of Glasgow)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Dr. Paul Elliott (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 23 February 2025
Title TBC
Date: 23 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Clemens Plaschka (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Monday 2 March 2025
Title TBC
Date: 2 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Prof Keith Matthews (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Dr Clinton Lau (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 9 March 2025
Title TBC
Date: 9 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Diana Fusco (Dept of Physics, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Stephan Uphoff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Thursday 23 April 2025
Title TBC
Date: 23 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Prof. Dr. Cristina Paulino (Heidelberg University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 27 April 2025
Title TBC
Date: 27 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Iva Tchasovnikarova (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 11 May 2025
Title TBC
Date: 11 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Sonja Lorenz (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Dr. Paul Elliott (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 18 May 2025
Title TBC
Date: 18 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Gautam Dey (EMBL)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 1 June 2025
Title TBC
Date: 1 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Geert Kops (Hubrecht Institute, Oncode Institute, University Medical Centre Utrecht)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Lars Jansen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Monday 8 June 2025
Title TBC
Date: 8 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Edith Heard (Chief Executive Officer, The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser:
Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host:
Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
