Name: Mimie Szyk
CAMS Oxford Institute

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 2 November 2023

A chemist’s adventures in immunology: Probing the T-cell activation pathway at the single cell and single molecule-level with new chemical technologies
Date: 2 November 2023, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Prof.dr. S.I. van Kasteren (Universiteit Leiden)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 November 2023

Vaccine development for outbreak pathogens
Date: 21 November 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Danny Wright (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 December 2023

My journey exploring the T cell receptor through the lens of structure and engineering
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 7 December 2023, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof. K. Christopher Garcia (Stanford University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 December 2023

Leveraging TCR sequencing to understand autoimmune responses and neurologic disorders
Date: 8 December 2023, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Naresha Saligrama (Washington University in St.Louis)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 January 2024

Chromatin regulation in cancer 
Date: 30 January 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Yang Shi (Ludwig Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 February 2024

Broad-spectrum SARS-CoV-2 prophylactics designed based on viral evolution prediction
Date: 1 February 2024, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Dr. Yunlong Cao (BIOPIC - Peking University)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 February 2024

The combinatorial biology of IL6 family cytokines - lessons from Mendelian GP130 defects
Date: 13 February 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Holm Uhlig (WIMM, HIU)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 February 2024

Unlock the adaptive immune repertoire by controlling innate immunity with biomaterials
Date: 19 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Qian Yin (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Ligand requirements for immunoreceptor triggering
Date: 27 February 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Anton van der Merwe (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Pivotal roles for type 2 immunity in epithelial immune surveillance
Date: 12 March 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jessica Strid (Imperial College London)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 April 2024

The impact of senescent cells on tissue specific immunity
Date: 9 April 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Arne Akbar (University College London)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health & disease
Date: 7 May 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr. Rachael Bashford-Rogers (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 May 2024

Novel molecular and generative design platforms for immunotargeting and beyond
Date: 24 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Possu Huang (Stanford University)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 August 2024

First-in-class inhibitors of ERAP1 generate novel targets for MHC-I-directed therapies
Date: 22 August 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr. Wayne Paes (Grey Wolf Therapeutics)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 October 2024

Multiscale and multiomic kidney profiling to define glomerular disease signatures
Date: 15 October 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 October 2024

Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of Wnt/beta-catenin pathway activation
Date: 16 October 2024, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Dr Michael Ranes
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A
Organisers: Christina Heroven (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 October 2024

Advancing treatments for rare childhood brain tumours: New models, new hope?
Date: 28 October 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr. Sigourney Bonner
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Christina Heroven (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute), Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 October 2024

How far are we from designing an antibody therapeutic on a computer?
Date: 29 October 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 November 2024

Selection events shaping serum antibody responses to infection
Date: 5 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Oliver Bannard
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

Tuesday 19 November 2024

The development of enteric fever vaccine
Date: 19 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
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

Monday 9 December 2024

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
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

Tuesday 4 February 2025

Treg targeting reprograms the innate and adaptive immune microenvironment in brain cancer
Date: 4 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr. Felipe Galvez-Cancino (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Translational Research in Pleural Mesothelioma
Date: 28 February 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Kevin Blyth (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Epithelial barrier homeostasis and response to infections
Date: 4 March 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr. Francesco Boccellato (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 April 2025

Structure-guided design of blood-stage malaria vaccines
Date: 1 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Matthew Higgins (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 April 2025

A frequent coding polymorphism in the hippo signalling pathway scaffold RASSF1 restricts mechanotransduction to the nucleus and associates with anxiety disorders, inflammation and cancer in humans.
Date: 15 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Eric O'Neill (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

“How T-cells cure cancer: Lessons from successful immunotherapy?”
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Andy Sewell (Systems Immunity Research Institute, University of Cardiff)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

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Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
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Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

A Postcard from my Journey with the T cell Receptor: Nerding out on the TCR
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Chris Garcia (Stanford)
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

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Capturing temporal changes within the tumour microenvironment to better interrogate immune cell fate
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 September 2025

What are the implications of the Human Cell Atlas to the study and treatment of Immune mediated Inflammatory Diseases ?
Date: 9 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 23 September 2025

New avenues to lighting up the dark mechanics of tumours
Date: 23 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Wnt mutation selection in colitis-associated colorectal cancer: What, When and Why?
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Leedham (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 October 2025

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Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
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Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

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Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
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Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
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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

Tuesday 9 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
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Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
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Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA