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 )

Thursday 5 June 2025

50 years with David Smith on location: from chromaffin granules to neurodegeneration via synapses
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Somogyi (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 )

Events this person is organising:

Friday 3 October 2025

Shared pre-war histories of the British and German Pharmacological Societies
Date: 3 October 2025, 12:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Oxford), Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford), Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford), Professor Rod Flower (Queen Mary University of London), Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University), Dr Lizzie Burns (Department of Pharmacology), Professor Roland Seifert (Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School), Nina Goebels (Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School), Hannes Schneider (Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Mansfield Road, OX1 3QT (there is ramped and stepped access to the entrance)
Organisers: Dr Lizzie Burns (Department of Pharmacology), Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA