Name: Carolyn Thackrah
University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology

Events this person is organising:

Friday 17 April 2015

PKMzeta, LTP and memory networks?
Date: 17 April 2015, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Todd Sacktor (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 April 2015

Development of the virtual heart for testing the safety of drugs
Date: 28 April 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Henggui Zhang (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 May 2015

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – a debilitating lung disease and the discovery of a treatment option
Date: 5 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Florian Gantner (Boeringer Ingelheim )
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

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 12 May 2015

Differentiating the highs and lows of THC
Date: 12 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Peter McCormick (School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (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 26 May 2015

Statins and myopathy
Date: 26 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sarah Calaghan (Associate Professor in Cardiac Physiology, University of Leeds)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Monday 1 June 2015

Cardiac iPSCs for disease modeling and drug discovery
Date: 1 June 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Joseph Wu (Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 June 2015

From rat hippocampal Œtheta to human prefrontal rhythmicity: The first anxiety syndrome biomarker?
Date: 2 June 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Neil McNaughton (Department of Psychology, University of Otago )
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi, MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 June 2015

Activation of ANO1 channels by localised Ca2+ signals in sensory neurons
Date: 9 June 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Nikita Gamper (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 June 2015

From human stem cells to human synapses
Date: 16 June 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sarah Newey (Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Tankyrase – a central druggable biotarget in canonical Wnt signaling
Date: 13 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Stefan Krauss (Unit for Cell Signaling, Oslo University Hospital)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Helga Refsum (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 October 2015

Cellular Pacemaking - Crowd Behaviour?
Date: 15 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Dirk van Helden (University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Chris Garland (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Platelets in time and space: understanding the actions of anti-platelet drugs within the body
Date: 20 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Tim Warner (Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (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 3 November 2015

Biophysics and physiology of anion transport: ClC-7 in lysosomal function and LRRC8 heteromers in cell volume regulation
Date: 3 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Tobias Stauber ( Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Uniersitate Berlin)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Building synaptic connections: it's good to be spontaneous
Date: 10 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Andreae (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Building synaptic connections: it's good to be spontaneous
Date: 10 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Andreae (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 November 2015

Discovery of Bcl3 inhibitors as anti-metastatic agents
Date: 17 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Andrea Brancale (Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, Cardiff University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 November 2015

Chemical site-selective protein modification for basic biology and drug development
Date: 24 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gonçalo Bernardes (Royal Society URF, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 December 2015

Vascular biology of the TRPM7 chanzyme
Date: 1 December 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Rhian M Touyz (BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Chris Garland (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 December 2015

Complacency or Change? Which is Oxford’s answer to innovation challenges
Date: 3 December 2015, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Robert Madelin (Senior Advisor for Innovation in the European Commission)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 January 2016

A therapeutic potential of stem cells for arteriosclerosis
Date: 19 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Qingbo Xu (BHF Centre of Vascular Regeneration, King's College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Visualisation and control of in-vitro models of arrhythmogenesis
Date: 26 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gil Bub (BHF CRE Intermediate Research Fellow, Oxford Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Derek Terrar (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 February 2016

Ectotherm cardiac Ca2+ signalling in an era of climate change
Date: 2 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Holly Shiels (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 February 2016

The Pulse of British Bioscience
Date: 3 February 2016, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 February 2016

Cross-frequency coupling between field potential oscillations
Date: 9 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Adriano Tort (Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr David Dupret (MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 February 2016

Mitochondrial control of heterogeneity in platelets
Date: 16 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Matthew Harper (Cardiovascular Strategic Research Initiative, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 23 February 2016

Structural and biophysical mechanisms of K2P channel gating by polymodal stimuli
Date: 23 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Stephen Tucker (Biological Physics Group, Oxford Department of Physics)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 March 2016

How the sins of your grandparents affect your health: exploring the mechanisms of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
Date: 1 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Erica Watson (Lecturer in Reproductive Biology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 March 2016

The Achilles’ heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system
Date: 8 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Boyett (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Fuelling the calcium pumps during pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
Date: 3 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Jason Bruce (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Anthony Morgan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 May 2016

A fishy story: vascular relaxation mechanisms of n-3 PUFAs
Date: 10 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Alister McNeish (School of Pharmacy, University of Reading)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Chris Garland (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Dendritic and cellular mechanisms of grid cell firing
Date: 17 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr David Dupret (MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 May 2016

The inflammatory response to atherogenic lipid
Date: 24 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Chris O’Callaghan (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 May 2016

Targeted anticancer drug discovery: chemical tools and clinical candidates
Date: 31 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ian Collins (Medicinal Chemistry Team, Institute of Cancer Research)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 June 2016

mGluR5 receptors: a promising target for CNS drug discovery?
Date: 7 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gary Gilmour (In-Vivo Pharmacology, Lilly UK)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Trevor Sharp (Department of Pharmacology)

Thursday 9 June 2016

The impact of stress on post-transcriptional regulation of the glutamate system
Date: 9 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Monsheel Sodhi (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 June 2016

Optical interrogation of sub-cellular cardiac signalling in atrial and sino-atrial node arrhythmias at high-spatiotemporal resolution
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 14 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 June 2016

Breakthrough: The Role of Government in Accelerating Science and Technology
Date: 16 June 2016, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Nicola Blackwood MP (Chair, Science and Technology Select Committee)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 September 2016

From bed to bench side: developmental and translational research pathways for cardiovascular patients
Date: 29 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Raimondo Ascione (Translational Biomedical Research Centre, University of Bristol)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 October 2016

Multi-scale integration of cardiac excitation: from ion-channel molecular structure to the human heart
Date: 5 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Yoram Rudy (Washington University in St. Louis)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 October 2016

Insulin sensitisation in the endothelium: all that glitters isn’t gold
Date: 11 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Kearney (Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Computational studies of bacterial membrane proteins: potential targets for novel antibiotics
Date: 25 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Phillip J Stansfeld (Department of Biochemistry, 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 Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 November 2016

New insights into pain mechanisms
Date: 15 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor John Wood (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 November 2016

Competition and cooperation in the striatum: of nitric oxide and acetylcholine
Date: 29 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Enrico Bracci (Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tommas Ellender (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 January 2017

Agonist efficacy in the Cys-loop superfamily of channels: the single molecule view
Date: 17 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Lucia Sivilotti (AJ Clark Professor of Pharmacology, UCL)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission
Date: 8 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professsor Thomas Südhof (Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 February 2017

The calcium-sensing receptor in physiology and disease
Date: 21 February 2017, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Daniela Riccardi (Deputy Head, Cardiff School of Biosciences)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 February 2017

Redox-dependent mechanisms of homocysteine metabolism
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Alison Brewer (Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2017

Title TBA
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 2 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Mike Standing (Deliotte)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 March 2017

Normal and abnormal transmural electrophysiology in the intact mammalian ventricle
Date: 7 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Godfrey Smith (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 March 2017

Deregulation of a novel NGF metabolic pathway as the cause of Cholinergic atrophy in Alzheimer’s
Date: 23 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Claudio Cuello (McGill University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 April 2017

Novel regulators of adverse cardiac remodelling post-myocardial infarction
Date: 25 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Christopher Loughrey (Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 May 2017

The ins and outs of calcium-induced calcium release
Date: 2 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Cannell (School of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Bristol)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Misfolding of Tau and Alpha-Synuclein: towards a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases
Date: 16 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini FRS (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Liliana Minichiello (Reader in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Transcriptional architecture of cortical GABAergic neuron types
Date: 23 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Z Josh Huang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi, MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 June 2017

Sino-British Scientific and Technological Innovation: Cooperation and Prospects
Date: 8 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sunan Jiang (Minister Counsellor, (Science & Technology), Chinese Embassy)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Outsmarting the acidic challenge: emerging concepts of acid-handling in cancer
Date: 10 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (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: Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Like SNPs in the night: psychiatric genetics, neural circuits and sleep
Date: 24 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Matt Jones (University of Bristol)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Liliana Minichiello (Reader in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience)

Tuesday 31 October 2017

New approaches to the crisis in finding therapies for neurodegenerative diseases underlying dementia
Date: 31 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr John Davis (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Neurocardiac interaction in malignant ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death
Date: 14 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor André Ng (University of Leicester BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (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 5 December 2017

Coding of space and time in entorhinal cortex
Date: 5 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Hasselmo (Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Boston University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 January 2018

The neural circuitry underlying spatial pattern detection in the retina
Date: 16 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Jamie Johnston (Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

Neurons, networks and circadian rhythms
Date: 23 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Piggins (Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, University of Manchester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2018

A molecular fingerprint for colonic sensory neurones and life lessons from the naked mole-rat
Date: 30 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ewan St John Smith (Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor John Parrington (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 February 2018

The role of ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the cardiovascular system
Date: 6 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Tinker (William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine )
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Cardioprotection: why do we struggle to translate good pre-clinical data to patient benefit?
Date: 13 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Rich Rainbow (Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (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 27 February 2018

The role of heme iron in ion channel regulation
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 27 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Nina Storey (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 March 2018

Signalling to and from IP3 receptors
Date: 6 March 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Colin W Taylor (Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 March 2018

Natural product synthesis towards small-molecule probes and drugs
Date: 8 March 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Tao Ye (Peking University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 March 2018

Understanding the neurochemical basis of addictive behaviors with optogenetics
Date: 29 March 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Evgeny Budygin (Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem NC)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Daniel Anthony (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Multiple signalling roles of calcium-dependent potassium currents in central neurons
Date: 24 April 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Paola Pedarzani (Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 May 2018

Identification of a Vamp2 transmembrane mutation in screens affecting mouse sleep and behaviour
Date: 1 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Pat Nolan (Neurobehavioural Genetics Group, MRC Harwell)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 May 2018

Ensemble coding of behavior in amygdala circuits
Date: 8 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Andreas Lüthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor David Dupret (MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 15 May 2018

Balancing the brain’s energy supply: neurovascular coupling in health and disease
Date: 15 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Hall (School of Psychology, University of Sussex)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 May 2018

Activation and regulation of the calcium-dependent chloride channel TMEM16A
Date: 22 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Jorge Arreola (Institute of Physics, UASLP, San Luis Potosi, Mexico)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 May 2018

Controlling ion channels with fat: the physiological role of S-acylation
Date: 29 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mike Shipston (Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Up the nanojunction: calcium signals and their corruption
Date: 5 June 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Evans (Centres for Discovery Brain and Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Left-right brain hemisphere asymmetry of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus
Date: 12 June 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ryuichi Shigemoto (Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria))
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 July 2018

An electrophysiological approach to analyse TRPML2 in endolysosomes
Date: 27 July 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Cheng-Chang (Maxo) Chen (Department of Pharmacology, LMU Munich)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 September 2018

Peroxynitrite-induced impairment of endothelial TRPV4 channel function and vasodilation in obesity
Date: 18 September 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Swapnil Sonkusare (University of Virginia – School of Medicine)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Chris Garland (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 September 2018

Congenital myopathies linked to recessive RyR1 mutations: pathophysiology and treatment
Date: 25 September 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Francesco Zorzato (University of Basel)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 October 2018

Overlapping mechanisms of sleep, sedation and thermoregulation
Date: 9 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Nick Franks (Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Trevor Sharp (Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Insulin action - a pancreatic islet perspective
Date: 16 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Patrik Rorsman (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 Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

Seeing is believing: probing protein assembly and protein-ligand interactions by single molecule spectroscopy and imaging
Date: 23 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Liming Ying (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 October 2018

Ryanodine receptor - calcium release channel complex in cardiac physiology and disease
Date: 30 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Spyros Zissimopoulos (BHF Senior Research Fellow, Swansea University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 November 2018

Network-driven drug discovery - what is it and why do we need it?
Date: 6 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Alan Whitmore (Head of Discovery Biology, E-Therapeutics plc)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (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 November 2018

Radiation therapy and bladder dysfunction
Date: 20 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 November 2018

Septo-hippocampal circuitry beyond theta generation: how hippocampal spatial code is tuned by septal activity
Date: 27 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marian Tsanov (Wellcome Trust RCD Fellow, Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 January 2019

Making neurons stronger: heavy handling of neurological disease
Date: 15 January 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Mikhail Shchepinov (Chief Scientific Officer, Retrotope Inc)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 January 2019

Unravelling cellular Ca2+ signalling in heart disease: adventures in space, time and noise
Date: 22 January 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Christopher George (Swansea University Medical School)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 January 2019

Cystic fibrosis: restoring function to faulty channels with small molecules
Date: 29 January 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor David Sheppard (School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Unviersity of Bristol)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 February 2019

Nerve growth factor regulation and Alzheimer’s pathology: a potential source of new therapies and diagnostic tools
Date: 4 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Rowan Pentz (Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 February 2019

Nutrient sensing in the gut in the regulation of appetite
Date: 5 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Kevin Murphy (Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 February 2019

Regulation of neurotransmitter release by Ca2+-sensitive oligomerisation of Synaptotagmin 1
Date: 12 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : : Professor Kirill Volynski (Institute of Neurology, University College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 February 2019

Capturing drug targets in flight
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 19 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Dame Carol Robinson (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 Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Modelling neurodevelopmental disorders using stem cell technology
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 26 February 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Andrea Németh (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 March 2019

New insights into the mechanisms regulating megakaryocyte development and platelet production
Date: 5 March 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Alexandra Mazharian (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 12 March 2019

Molecular motions of the CFTR chloride ion channel protein during pore opening
Date: 12 March 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor László Csanády (Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Friday 15 March 2019

It's complicated - calcium channels, dopamine neurons, and Parkinson's disease
Date: 15 March 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Birgit Liss (Institute of Applied Physiology, University of Ulm)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 March 2019

The multifaceted functions of junctophilin-2 in normal and failing hearts
Date: 19 March 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Long-Sheng Song (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

Role of PIP2-binding protein MARCKS in regulating vascular contractility
Date: 7 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professsor Anthony Albert (Molecular & Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George’s University London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Chris Garland (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Friday 10 May 2019

Approaches for measuring the brain’s chemistry a cell at a time
Date: 10 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Jonathan Sweedler (Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 May 2019

Regulation of intracellular sodium in the heart
Date: 14 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Davor Pavlovic (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 May 2019

Therapeutic vasculoprotection, autoimmune disease and premature atherosclerosis
Date: 21 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Justin Mason (Vascular Sciences Unit, Imperial College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2019

Inhibition that’s exciting in the brain
Date: 28 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hannah Monyer (Center for Neurosciences, Universität Heidelburg)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2019

Live imaging of intra-lysosome pH in cell lines and primary neuronal culture using a novel genetically encoded biosensor
Date: 30 May 2019, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Massimiliano Stagi (Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 June 2019

Take the long way home: axonal transport, organelle dynamics and neurodegenerative diseases
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 4 June 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Giampietro Schiavo (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Liliana Minichiello (Reader in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience)

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Activation and function of Piezo1 channels in endothelial cells: new way to interpret mechanic force in cardiovascular system
Date: 11 June 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Jian Shi (British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellow, University of Leeds)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 June 2019

My life as a secondhand (repurposed) drug discoverer
Date: 18 June 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Parnham (Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology & Applied Ecology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 June 2019

Plasticity in the central and peripheral nervous systems and its role in disorders of the brain and heart
Date: 27 June 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Johanna Montgommery (Department of Physiology, University of Auckland)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)

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 )

Thursday 19 September 2019

CaMKII in heart failure and arrhythmias
Date: 19 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Donald Bers (University of California, Davis USA)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Friday 27 September 2019

Brain-body cross-talk after traumatic brain injury: gut, lung, immune and other systemic interactions
Date: 27 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Alan Faden (Director, Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR), University of Maryland)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Daniel Anthony (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 October 2019

Malignant hyperthermia, a clinician’s nightmare and a scientist’s delight: personal insights after 40 years of investigation
Date: 15 October 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Paul Allen (Translational and Clinical Muscle Disease Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Pak2 regulation of ER stress in cardioprotection
Date: 22 October 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Xin Wang (Cardiovascular Sciences Division, University of Manchester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2019

Micronutrients as treatments for psychiatric disorders – rethinking the scientific paradigm
Date: 29 October 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julia Rucklidge (Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Canterbury)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor David Smith (Emeritus Professor 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 12 November 2019

Regulating intracellular Ca2+ release in cardiac muscle
Date: 12 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Dirk Gillespie (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Rush University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Elisa Venturi (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 26 November 2019

Remembering the mammillary bodies: from relay to orchestrator
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 26 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Seralynne Vann (School of Psychology, Cardiff University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 December 2019

A delivery service for maintaining Phosphoinositides levels during Phospholipase C signalling
Date: 3 December 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Shamshad Cockcroft (Division of Biosciences, University College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

How transcription factor interaction networks control gene expression programs
Date: 21 January 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Giovanna Zinzalla (Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 January 2020

Of mice (and rats) and men: assessing and correcting dysfunction in models of fragile X syndrome
Date: 28 January 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor David Wyllie (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Alzheimer's disease: the interaction between amyloid beta, synapses and microglia
Date: 4 February 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Frances Edwards (University College London (UCL))
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

Is there neurogenesis in the adult spinal cord?
Date: 11 February 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Susan Deuchars (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

Damn the compass, full steam ahead! Disease model validity and the problem of drug discovery
Date: 18 February 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Jack Scannell (JW Scannell Analytics Ltd and School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

Control of vascular stability and inflammation-induced leakage via integrins
Date: 25 February 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Pipsa Saharinen (Translational Cancer Medicine Program, University of Helsinki)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

Mechanotransduction is required for maintaining the identity of mature cochlear IHCs and their innervation
Date: 3 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Walter Marcotti (Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 March 2020

The enlightened heart: optogenetic approaches to treat and understand cardiac arrhythmia
Date: 10 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Philipp Sasse (Institute for Physiology, University of Bonn)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 13 October 2020

Is Oxford getting better at producing new medicines for patients?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 October 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Chas Bountra (NDM)
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (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 10 November 2020

Dynamic readout of nucleic acids by proteins
Date: 10 November 2020, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Marcin Nowotny (Laboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw)
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 November 2020

Evaluation of endogenous neurotransmitter release in the human brain using PET
Date: 24 November 2020, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ilan Rabiner (EVP Head of Translational Imaging, Invicro)
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Trevor Sharp (Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 2 February 2021

Is Oxford getting better at producing new medicines for patients?
Date: 2 February 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Chas Bountra (Structural Genomic Consortium)
Venue Details: Online via Team
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 February 2021

Signalling to and from IP3 receptors
Date: 16 February 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Colin Taylor (Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Cardiovascular mechanisms of CGRP – from discovery until today
Date: 2 March 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Susan Brain, Head of Vascular Biology and Inflammation (King's College, London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 October 2021

Hypothalamic glutamatergic-vasopressin ascending projections involved in anxiety, avoidance and motivated behaviours
Date: 12 October 2021, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Limei Zhang (Department of Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (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 9 November 2021

Transcriptomic basis of remodeling in heart failure
Date: 9 November 2021, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Igor Efimov (Alisann and Terry Collins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Rebecca Burton (Department of Pharmacology, Oxford)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

Regulation of the striatal network by acetylcholine/glutamate cotransmission: linking together compulsion, addiction and eating disorders
Date: 16 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Salah El Mestikawy (Douglas Research Centre, McGill University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Trevor Sharp (Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 23 November 2021

Endosomes and lysosomes: platforms for multimolecular signalling and amyloidogenesis in health and disease
Date: 23 November 2021, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Clive Wilson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 November 2021

Local control of protein synthesis in cortical wiring
Date: 30 November 2021, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Liliana Minichiello (Reader in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience)

Tuesday 18 January 2022

Mechanisms of rapid antidepressant action
Date: 18 January 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Lisa Monteggia (Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Liliana Minichiello (Reader in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience)

Tuesday 25 January 2022

Adenosine integrates light and sleep signalling for regulation of circadian timing
Date: 25 January 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 February 2022

Mimicking protein-protein interactions in persistent bacteria
Date: 1 February 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Anna Barnard (Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 February 2022

Understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms of anthracycline cardiotoxicity
Date: 8 February 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Margaret Cunningham (Strathclyde Institute for Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS))
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Kerstin Timm (BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research Fellow and Career Development Fellow)

Tuesday 15 February 2022

A dual potassium channel dysfunction underlies small vessel disease of the brain in Alzheimer's Dementia
Date: 15 February 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Adam Greenstein (Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: In person in Pharmacology Lecture Theatre or available via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Chris Garland (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 February 2022

Microcircuit determinants of hippocampal oscillatory activity
Date: 22 February 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Liset M de la Prida (Instituto Cajal - CSIC)
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

Development of the ventricular conduction system: how the heart gains its rhythm
Date: 1 March 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Lucile Miquerol (Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille (IBDM), Aix-Marseille Université)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 March 2022

Building hybrid biological-digital twins of cardiomyocytes using dynamic clamping
Date: 8 March 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Teun de Boer (Associate Professor, Deparment of Medical Physiology, UMC Utrecht)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Rebecca Burton (Department of Pharmacology, Oxford)

Tuesday 26 April 2022

Imaging tumour metabolism – From mouse to man
Date: 26 April 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS (CRUK Cambridge Institute)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Kerstin Timm (BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research Fellow and Career Development Fellow)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

There's a time and a place - neuronal activity and noise in synaptic wiring specificity
Date: 3 May 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Andreae (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 May 2022

Pharmacology Research Staff Society seminar: cutting-edge research in cardiovascular pharmacology
Date: 10 May 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: In person in Pharmacology Lecture Theatre or available via Teams
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr David Priestman (Platt Group, Department of Pharmacology)

Tuesday 17 May 2022

Understanding TRPC1/4/5 channels through chemical/structural biology
Date: 17 May 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Robin Bon (School of Medicine, University of Leeds)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Thomas Lanyon-Hogg (Career Development Fellow, Department of Pharmcology)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

The Ca2+-gated Cl- channel TMEM16A is a crucial amplifier of capillary pericyte contraction in the normal and ischemic brain
Date: 24 May 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 June 2022

Genetic variation, transcriptional regulation and epigenetics underlying heart rhythm
Date: 7 June 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Vincent Christoffels (Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 June 2022

Memories of long term potentiation
Date: 14 June 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Tim Bliss (Visiting Professor at UCL and the Frontier Institutes of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (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 18 October 2022

How is the circadian clock set to the right time
Date: 18 October 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Aarti Jagannath (Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 October 2022

The role of the two pore channels in melanoma
Date: 25 October 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor John Parrington (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 Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 November 2022

How best to explore chemical space for bioactive molecular discovery?
Date: 1 November 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Adam Nelson (School of Chemistry, University of Leeds and Head of High-Throughput Molecule Discovery at Rosalind Franklin Institute (RFI), Harwell)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Thomas Lanyon-Hogg (Career Development Fellow, Department of Pharmcology)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

‘Drug development of new synthetic thyroid hormone derivatives for metabolic/neurodegenerative diseases’ (Dr Massimiliano Runfola) AND A mechanistic investigation of lithium’s neuropharmacological and metabolic actions (Dr Brooke Prakash)
Date: 8 November 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Pharmacology Research Staff Society

Tuesday 15 November 2022

Where targeting DNA can take you …
Date: 15 November 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Isabel Rozas (Drug Disovery and Medicinal Chemistry, Trinity College, Dublin)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Investigating the neuropsychological effects of antidepressants in a translational rodent model
Date: 22 November 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

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 24 January 2023

Adaptive plasticity of central synapses and their astroglial environment
Date: 24 January 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Dmitri Rusakov (UCL Queen Square 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 Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 January 2023

Opioid pharmacology: from molecule to coffin
Date: 31 January 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Graeme Henderson (School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Trevor Sharp (Department of Pharmacology)

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 14 February 2023

Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex’ Dr Hannah Alfonsa, Akerman Group AND The role of NPC1-PMCA2 complex in Niemann-Pick disease type C’ Dr Maria Fernandez-Suarez, Platt Group
Date: 14 February 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Pharmacology Research Staff Society

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Non-natural amino acids and bio-orthogonal ligations in peptide and protein engineering
Date: 21 February 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Marina Rubini (School of Chemistry, University College Dublin)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Thomas Lanyon-Hogg (Career Development Fellow, Department of Pharmcology)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

Mechanisms and inhibition of multidrug transporters
Date: 28 February 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hendrik van Veen (Cambridge Infectious Diseases, 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: Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 March 2023

Building a flexible sensory cortex: Function and dysfunction
Date: 7 March 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Abhishek Banerjee (Newcastle University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Preventing mitochondrial superoxide production as a therapeutic strategy in heart attack and stroke
Date: 25 April 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mike Murphy (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, 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: Dr Kerstin Timm (BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research Fellow and Career Development Fellow)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

Following the cues - how do sound and light cues impact risky decision making?
Date: 2 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Catharine Winstanley (The University of British Columbia)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford), Professor Trevor Sharp (Department of Pharmacology)

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 )

Tuesday 16 May 2023

‘Insights into PV+ interneurons’ physiology in cognitive dysfunction’ - Dr Sara Hizaji, Blascko Fellow, Viney group AND ‘How to drug the “undruggables”’ - Dr Carole Bataille, Russell group
Date: 16 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Pharamcology Research Staff Society

Tuesday 23 May 2023

Exploring TCR and co-receptor signalling in T cells using engineered ligands
Date: 23 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute, 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: Dr Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 May 2023

Towards systems biology of human sleep/wake cycles: phosphorylation hypothesis of sleep
Date: 30 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hiroki Ueda (School of Medicine, University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR))
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 June 2023

Pharmacological targets in the treatment of LUTS focusing on microvasculature and spontaneous contractions of muscle components including muscularis mucosae
Date: 6 June 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hikaru Hashitani (Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City 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 Chris Garland (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2023

Drugs and trafficking: lessons from voltage-gated calcium channels
Date: 14 June 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Annette Dolphin (Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (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 )

Tuesday 10 October 2023

A role for IL-3 in brain health and disease
Date: 10 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Abi Yates (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Daniel Anthony (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 October 2023

Cortex and beyond: an evolutionary perspective on visual circuits for action
Date: 17 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Sarah Ruediger (Wellcome Trust CDA Fellow, University College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2023

Understanding the link between inflammation and immunity in ageing
Date: 24 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Roel De Maeyer (Oxford-BMS Fellow, NDORMS)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 October 2023

Pharmacology of platelet immune receptors: mechanisms of activation and development of therapeutics
Date: 31 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Steve Watson (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 November 2023

LINGO proteins – novel regulatory subunits of BK channels
Date: 7 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mark Hollywood (Smooth Muscle Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 November 2023

'Chemical biology tools: from target validation to developing novel antibiotics' - Dr Adam Thomas AND 'Linking memories: Investigating the synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis in freely-exploring mice' - Yuki Sakai
Date: 14 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Pharmacology Research Staff Society

Tuesday 21 November 2023

Imaging the IR injured beating heart coronary microcirculation in vivo
Date: 21 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Neena Kalia (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences , University of Birmingham)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

Daily regulation of osmostasis and mammalian cell function
Date: 28 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr John O’Neill (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 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: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (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 23 January 2024

Not just an affair of the heart: a look at ERG channels and Kv7 channels in smooth muscle
Date: 23 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Iain Greenwood (Vascular Biology Research Centre, University College London)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

'Effects of chronic hyperglycaemia and glucokinase activation/inhibition on pancreatic β-cell function’ - Dr Matthew Lloyd AND 'Chemical modifications of nanobodies’ - Dimitris Mamalis
Date: 30 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Pharamcology Research Staff Society

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 20 February 2024

The cortical regulation of sleep
Date: 20 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Lukas Krone (Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG))
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Assembly of axonal domains that promote nerve conduction: the Axon Initial Segment and the node of Ranvier
Date: 27 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Brophy (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 March 2024

The impact of microglia on neuronal function and brain plasticity
Date: 5 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Sandra Siegert (Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA))
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

PIEZO1 force sensor in cardiovascular health and its potential as a drug target
Date: 23 April 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor David Beech (School of Medicine, University of Leeds)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 April 2024

Forces in vessels: how mechanosensors initiate atherosclerosis in arteries
Date: 30 April 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ellie Tzima (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, 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: Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Letting the (B)CAT out of the bag - SGLT2i-cardioprotection in doxorubicin-induced heart failure
Date: 7 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Kerstin Timm (BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research Fellow and Career Development Fellow)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Drug Discovery Subtheme: opportunity for collaborations
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 7 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Barbara Casadei (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

Sex differences in neural control of urethral smooth muscle
Date: 14 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Bernard Drumm (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 May 2024

Developing a viable MYC inhibitor for cancer treatment: a challenging journey from the lab to the clinic
Date: 21 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Soucek (CEO and PI, Peptomyc)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: MSc in Pharmacology students (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 May 2024

Reimagining druggability using chemoproteomic platforms
Date: 23 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Dan Nomura (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Thomas Lanyon-Hogg (Career Development Fellow, Department of Pharmcology)

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 4 June 2024

Pharmacology Research Staff Society Seminar
Date: 4 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Pharamcology Research Staff Society
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Pharamcology Research Staff Society

Monday 10 June 2024

New insights into smooth muscle peacemaking
Date: 10 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hikaru Hashitani (Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Sleep for synaptic functions
Date: 11 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Julie Seibt (Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 September 2024

Vascular effects of ion channels during healthy and complicated pregnancies
Date: 19 September 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Ramón Lorca (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Colorado, Anschutz)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

Chemical tools to study molecular events at synapses
Date: 15 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Frederic Menard (Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Tim Viney (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

The role of astrocytic chloride as modulator of neuronal inhibition in epilepsy
Date: 22 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assistant Professor Verena Untiet (Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Copenhagen)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Hannah Alfonsa (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 5 November 2024

Genomically driven discovery of novel cardiovascular signalling pathways
Date: 5 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Tinker (William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine )
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

Peroxisome dynamics and organelle interplay in health and disease
Date: 12 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Schrader (Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Nigel Emptage (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 )

Tuesday 26 November 2024

Keeping the rhythm: how hERG potassium channels links genetics, drugs and pollution to cardiac arrhythmias
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 26 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Jules Hancox (School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Charalampos Sigalas (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

Brain-wide approaches to neuroplasticity and emotional behavior in the mouse
Date: 3 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Tommaso Pizzorusso (Professor of Physiology, Scuola Normale Superiore)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Abhishek Banerjee (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 December 2024

Leveraging the actinobacteria strain collection and genome database at NPDC for natural products and drug discovery
Date: 18 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ben Shen (Natural Products Discovery Centre, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)