Name: Professor Fran Platt
Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 8 May 2015

The lysosome: from trash can to control center of the cell
Date: 8 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Andrea Ballabio (Scientific Director, TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) and Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Mitochondria and lysosomes – the social life of organelles
Date: 19 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Nuno Raimundo (Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 27 October 2015

Targeting Redox-Regulation of Cell Mitophagy
Date: 27 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Michelangelo Campenella (Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 21 November 2017

In vivo screening identifies novel host regulators of metastatic colonisation
Date: 21 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Anneliese Speak (Experimental Cancer Genetics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 20 February 2018

Genomics of neurodegenerative diseases
Date: 20 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor John Hardy (Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 13 November 2018

Lines of communication: the role of lysosomal membrane contact sites in cholesterol homeostasis
Date: 13 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Emily Eden (Senior Reseach Fellow, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 20 August 2019

Mitochondrial transport, quality control, and energy homeostasis in nerve degeneration and regeneration
Date: 20 August 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Zu-Hang Sheng (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH )
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 5 November 2019

The gut, the brain and energy metabolism: the role of ABCC5 in metabolism and neuron excitability
Date: 5 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Heidi de Wet (Oxford Center for Gene Function, DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 19 November 2019

Regulation of mammalian autophagy
Date: 19 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sharon A Tooze (Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 27 October 2020

Targeting mitochondrial metabolism for early detection and treatment of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity (KT) AND Targeting bacterial DNA repair to combat antibiotic resistance (TLH)
Date: 27 October 2020, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 26 October 2021

Mass spectrometry and its role in membrane protein drug discovery
Date: 26 October 2021, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 2 November 2021

4D Pharmacology - therapeutics to control time
Date: 2 November 2021, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Maudsley (Receptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 11 October 2022

Lysosomal signaling in metabolic adaptation and tumorigenesis
Date: 11 October 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Andrea Ballabio (Scientific Director, TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) and Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 29 November 2022

The glycobiology of Guillain-Barre syndrome: from Alexander to Zika
Date: 29 November 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Willison (Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 7 February 2023

Using long-read RNA-sequencing to study the hidden transcriptome at the GBA1/GBAP1 locus with implications for our understanding of its role in Parkinson's disease
Date: 7 February 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mina Ryton (Genetics and Genomic Medicine, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 9 May 2023

When the heart skips a beat for the brain: a new approach for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias linked to mutations in the cardiac ryanodine receptor
Date: 9 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Charalampos Sigalas (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 27 September 2023

New therapeutic approaches to tuberculosis
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 27 September 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Friday 1 December 2023

Brewing up new mechanisms controlling T-cell receptor signaling
Date: 1 December 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marcus John Curtis Long (Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Lausanne)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford), Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 6 February 2024

Protons to patients: insights into the role of the chloride-proton antiporter ClC-7 in lysosomal biology
Date: 6 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Joseph Mindell (Membrane Transport Biophysics Section, NIH)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 28 May 2024

NEAT1 and paraspeckles: nuclear hubs regulating cellular stress responses
Date: 28 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Maria Perander (The Arctic University of Norway)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Thursday 30 May 2024

18TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Genetics of neurodegeneration: progress towards mechanistic treatments
Date: 30 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Sir John Hardy (Chair of the Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 29 October 2024

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells in space and time
Date: 29 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Maximiliano Gutierrez (Senior Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 19 November 2024

Physics of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as a new biomarker for health and disease
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Erdinc Sezgin (SciLifeLab Fellow, Karolinska Institute)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 27 November 2024

Two-pore cation channels - what we think they do
Date: 27 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Christian Grimm (Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Munich LMU)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 18 March 2025

Legal landmines for scientists and researchers in a litigious world: how to protect yourself from personal and professional liability
Date: 18 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Mark W Smith (Presidential Scholar and Senior Fellow in Law and Public Policy at The King’s College in New York City)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Thursday 17 April 2025

Debunking old dogmas leading to the discovery of a brain NGF metabolic pathway, explaining the Alzheimer’s cholinergic atrophy
Date: 17 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Claudio Cuello (McGill University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )