Name: Alexandra Ward
University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 30 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Polycomb Repressor Proteins in Cancer
Date: 30 April 2015, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker : Dr Adrian Bracken (Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Wednesday 6 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

G-actin as a signalling molecule
Date: 6 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker : Prof. Richard Treisman (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Wednesday 10 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Interaction profiling through proteomic peptide phage display
Date: 10 June 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker : Dr Ylva Ivarsson (University of Uppsala)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Panagis Filippakopoulos (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 18 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Magnesium cation signaling in the healthy and diseased immune system
Date: 18 June 2015, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker : Dr Michael Lenardo (NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 2 July 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

The role of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in liver metastasis in colon cancer
Date: 2 July 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker : Dr Adele Murrell (University of Bath)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 20 August 2015 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

Influence of p53 on human immune and inflammatory responses in cancer and primary cells
Date: 20 August 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 17th week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker : Dr Michael Resnick (NIH)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 10 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

Post-translational control of protein homeostasis through regulatory ubiquitylation of the translation machinery
Date: 10 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 20th week, Trinity 2015)
Speaker : Dr. Eric Bennett (UCSD)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr. John Christianson (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Tuesday 22 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Forward genetic screens in haploid mammalian stem cells: looking beyond CRISPR/Cas9
Date: 22 September 2015, 10:00 - 11:00 (Tuesday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Dr Josep Forment (Cambridge Cancer Centre)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Thursday 24 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Synthetic Physiology: Optical Control of Cellular Signals
Date: 24 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Dr Harald Janovjak (IST Austria)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Wednesday 30 September 2015 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Disruptive technologies, developing drugs, and building companies to treat disease
Date: 30 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Prof. Harvey Lodish (Whitehead Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 2 October 2015 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Self-renewal of human hematopoietic progenitor cells: Development of novel therapies erythropoietin-resistant anemias
Date: 2 October 2015, 14:30 - 15:30 (Friday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Prof. Harvey Lodish (Whitehead Institute)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Tuesday 6 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Metabolic heterogeneity in molecular subtypes of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas
Date: 6 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Dr Nika Danial (Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI / Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Myeloid cell lifespan, death and activation in cancer inflammation
Date: 22 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Dr Peter Murray (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Mads Gyrd Hansen (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Activation and regulation of innate immune responses to viral DNA
Date: 29 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Prof. Søren Riis Paludan (Aarhus University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Mads Gyrd Hansen (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

At the intersection of ER protein quality control and lipid droplets
Date: 2 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Dr James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr. John Christianson (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Linking angiogenesis and metabolism through FOXO transcription factors
Date: 12 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Dr Michael Potente (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: Dr Mads Gyrd Hansen (Ludwig Cancer Research), Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Novel system-wide methods to study protein-RNA interactions in infection and cell-fate decisions
Date: 26 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Gareth Bond (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Imaging heart formation and function in zebrafish
Date: 27 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker : Prof Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 14 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

High-throughput Approaches in Cancer Cell Models to Enable Precision Cancer Medicine
Date: 14 January 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Dr Matthew Garnett (Sanger Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Cis-regulation dynamics and chromatin architecture during development and evolution
Date: 21 January 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Dr Jose Luis Gomez Skarmeta (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Droplet microfluidics: a tool for massively parallel single-cell analysis, sorting and sequencing
Date: 25 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Dr Linas Mazutis (Harvard)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Target Discovery Institute (Basement Seminar Room)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Tissue-targeted therapy for cancer using a platform called AvidinOX
Date: 1 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Dr Rita De Santis (Sigma Tau SpA, Italy)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI (Basement seminar room) (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Cyclic nucleotide-phosphodiesterase signalling in cardiac neurons: therapeutic target?
Date: 10 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement seminar room. (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 17 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Studying highly proliferative pluripotent animal adult stem cells and the potential for fundamental insights relevant to cancer biology
Date: 17 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Gareth Bond (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Temporal regulation of genome replication
Date: 24 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Prof Conrad A. Nieduszynski (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI (Basement seminar room) (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 14 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

Policing secretion: protein quality control and traffic COPs
Date: 14 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, -1st week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Liz Miller (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr. John Christianson (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Thursday 21 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

Understanding regulatory circuitry through large-scale genetic perturbation analyses
Date: 21 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Prof Frank Holstege (University Medical Center, Utrecht)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Thursday 28 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Supercharging cell division: how protein phosphatases define the temporal order of mitosis & cytokinesis
Date: 28 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI (Basement seminar room) (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 5 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Tissue micro environments in immune tolerance
Date: 5 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Prof Herman Waldmann (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 19 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Host factors that account for influenza host range barriers - what is the difference between a human and a chicken?!
Date: 19 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Professor Wendy Barclay (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London )
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI (Basement seminar room) (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Role of TP53 in DNA methylation
Date: 20 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Touati Benoukraf (CSI Singapore)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 2 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Live imaging the earliest events during tumour initiation
Date: 2 June 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Yi Feng (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement seminar room. (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Mads Gyrd Hansen (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Wednesday 7 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

Inhibition of the AAA-ATPase p97 with the first in class inhibitor CB-5083 as a novel approach to treat cancer
Date: 7 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Wednesday, 20th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Daniel Anderson (Cleave Biosciences)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr. John Christianson (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford)

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Ubiquitin in cancer and neurodegeneration
Date: 13 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker s: Professor Michael Clague (University of Liverpool), Professor Sylvie Urbe (University of Liverpool)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room, NDM building (please note NOT ORCRB)
Organisers: Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

From genomic variation to molecular mechanism
Date: 3 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr Jan Korbel (EMBL)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI, Basement seminar room. (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Gareth Bond (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Understanding cellular heterogeneity
Date: 10 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr Sarah Teichmann (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI (Basement seminar room) (Note: not the ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Gareth Bond (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Probing Cancer Epigenomes for New Therapeutic Strategies
Date: 17 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr Cheryl Arrowsmith (UHN)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room, NDM Building, Old Road Campus (please note, not ORCRB)
Organisers: Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Wednesday 7 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

From in silico to the clinic: methods to study proteasome catalysed peptide splicing - AND - Proteasome-Catalyzed peptide splicing and its immunological relevance
Date: 7 December 2016, 10:00 - 11:30 (Wednesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker s: Juliane Liepe (Imperial College London), Michele Mishto (Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room (please note, not ORCRB)
Organisers: Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof. Benoit van den Eynde (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 8 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The control of replication fork repair and human disease
Date: 8 December 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr Peter McHugh (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room, NDM Building (please note: not ORCRB)
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 12 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

An expanding job description for the Zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1 in the developing mouse embryo
Date: 12 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Professor Elizabeth Robertson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room, basement ORCRB
Organisers: Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Nucleic acid sensing by innate immune receptors
Date: 26 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford )
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Christina Woodward (Oxford Ludwig Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Mary Muers (Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

The role of extrachromosomal oncogene amplification in cancer
Date: 11 February 2019, 14:30 - 15:30 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Paul Mischel (Ludwig San Diego)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room, TDI
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

“Roles of Pol Epsilon in genetic and epigenetic stability”
Date: 22 February 2019, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 6th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Dr Roberto Bellelli (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig seminar room, lower ground floor.
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Analyzing T cells infiltrating tumours or other diseased tissues.
Date: 28 February 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Professor Pierre Coulie (Insitut de Duve)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room, TDI
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: Prof Benoit Van den Eynde (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research), Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Deep learning the geospatial complexity of the tumour microenvironment
Date: 5 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Dr Yinyin Yuang (Institute for Cancer Research, London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB TDI seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

TNFR2 driven inflammation and pyroptosis in XIAP deficient cells
Date: 11 March 2019, 14:15 - 15:15 (Monday, 9th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Professor Wei-Lynn Wong (University of Zurich)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Professor Mads Gryd-Hansen (Oxford Ludwig Institute)

Friday 15 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Model oesophageal neoplasia with stem cells and development.
Date: 15 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 9th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Professor Jianwen Que (Colombia)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar room, Lower Ground Floor
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

“Safeguarding the human genome”.
Date: 19 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Dr Joanna Loizou (CeMM)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB TDI seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Friday 22 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Big data analysis and integration for cancer research
Date: 22 March 2019, 10:30 - 11:30 (Friday, 10th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Professor Joao Pedro Magalhaes (University of Liverpool)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig seminar room, basement, ORCRB
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 5 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

“NOD-like receptors: From pathogen recognition to surveillance of cellular homeostasis perturbation”
Date: 5 April 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 12th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Dr. Gang Pei (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology,)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB TDi seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Pedro Moura Alves (University of Oxford, Ludwig Institute )

Thursday 18 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

“Metabolic interventions to enhance the anti-tumor T cell response”
Date: 18 April 2019, 10:00 - 11:00 (Thursday, -1st week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Dr Roger Geiger (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana )
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar room, lower ground floor
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 25 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

Mitochondria and cancer: metabolism and beyond
Date: 25 April 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Dr Christian Frezza (University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room, TDI
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

HPV and alterations to the host genome structure and function
Date: 20 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Dr Maura Gillison (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI semiinar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

“Manipulating epigenetic regulators to enable immune checkpoint blockade”
Date: 3 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Professor Yang Shi (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

RNA editors and DNA mutators: diverse biological roles for a tight-knit family of enzymes
Date: 6 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Dr Nina Papavassiliou (DKFZ)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement seminar room, TDI
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

“Chemical biology approaches to studying epigenetic regulation”
Date: 20 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Dr Akane Kawamura (University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

"Dying to get noticed: Immunogenic cell death in infection and cancer"
Date: 12 September 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 20th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Professor Andrew Oberst (University of Washington)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room, lower ground floor
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Mads Gyrd Hansen (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Tuesday 24 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

TET-family dioxygenases, immune responses and cancer
Date: 24 September 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Anjana Rao (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room (basement)
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

“A multifaceted interplay between metabolism and epigenetics determines how CAFs remodel the tumour stroma”
Date: 17 October 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Professor Sara Zanivan (Beatson Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Colin Goding (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Rho GTPase signalling in cancer migration and invasion
Date: 24 October 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Professor Anne Ridley (University of Bristol)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: TDI seminar room, lower ground floor
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

'Tumor whole-genomes shed light into mutational processes and cancer vulnerabilities'
Date: 14 November 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Professor Nuria Lopez-Bigas (IRB, Barcelona)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

DNA modifications in disease: cause, consequence and confusion
Date: 2 December 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Prof Colm Nestor (University of Linköping)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) Seminar Room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Dual Pathogen and Cancer Detection Using Cell-free DNA in Body Fluids
Date: 5 December 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Wei Gu (UCSF)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 January 2020 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

Dr Trevor Littlewood, University of Cambridge, Complexities and commonalities in cancer
Date: 9 January 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, -1st week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Trevor Littlewood (University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

‘Single cell epigenome landscape of development and ageing’.
Date: 23 January 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Professor Wolf Reik (Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Ludwig seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

“Role of AHR in intestinal injury repair”
Date: 30 January 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Prof. Gitta Stockinger (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Cancer Metastasis: A Disorder of Metabolism
Date: 6 February 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Professor Sarah Maria Fendt (VIB, Leuven)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Prof Colin Goding (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Molecular principles of the epigenetic reprogramming in vivo
Date: 20 February 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Professor Petra Hajkova (LMS MRC, Imperial)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

CANCELLED - Reconstructing cellular histories using single-cell sequencing
Date: 12 March 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Professor Alexander van Oudenaarden (Hubrecht Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

“Measuring the evolutionary dynamics of human tumours”
Date: 14 May 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Professor Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research), Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

"Host Micro biome interactions in health and disease" CANCELLED
Date: 21 May 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Professor Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (tdi) seminar room
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Pedro Moura Alves (University of Oxford, Ludwig Institute )

Thursday 16 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

Paligenosis: the cellular program underlying stem cell recruitment in regeneration and tumorigenesis - CANCELLED
Date: 16 July 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 12th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Prof Jason Mills (University of Washington)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 24 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Cooperation, competition and warfare in bacteria: from model systems to the microbiome - CANCELLED
Date: 24 September 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDMRB (TDI) Seminar Room
Organisers: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford), Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

CANCELLED - Prof Alison J. Sinclair, University of Sussex
Date: 29 October 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Hosts: TBA