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Name: Dr Nicky Whiffin
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Monday 30 June 2025
Lister Prize Talk/Balfour Lecture: Adventures in the non-coding genome: uncovering diagnoses for rare disease patients
Date: 30 June 2025, 13:45 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host:
Elizabeth Thompson (University of Oxford)
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 8 July 2025
Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 16 September 2025
Why do polygenic scores translate poorly across human ancestries? Identifying the impacts of gene-gene interactions in humans
Date: 16 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 30 September 2025
Multi-Ancestry Conditional and Joint Analysis (Manc-COJO) applied to GWAS Summary Statistics
Date: 30 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Xiaotong Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Integrating Multi-Omics, Single-cell Interrogations and Population Cohorts to Capture the Earliest Determinants of Cancer and Aging
Date: 28 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Philip Awadalla (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
'Using genetics to adjust and improve biomarkers: application to prostate specific antigen screening for cancer’
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Prof John Witte (Stanford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Investigating the impact of genetic variation on the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Hannah (Currant)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 9 December 2025
Putting the human at the centre of drug discovery
Date: 9 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Dr Joanna Howson (Novo Nordisk)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 3 February 2025
What can ancient DNA tell us about the evolution of disease susceptibility?
Date: 3 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Evan Irving-Pease (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
What can ancient DNA tell us about the evolution of disease susceptibility?
Date: 3 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Evan Irving-Pease (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 17 February 2025
Analysis of R-loop forming regions identifies RNU2-2 and RNU5B-1 as neurodevelopmental disorder genes
Date: 17 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Siddhartha Banka (University of Manchester)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser:
Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Events this person is organising:
Monday 21 November 2022
Translating results from large-scale genetic association studies into public health-relevant measures
Date: 21 November 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Dr Andrea Ganna (FIMM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI LG (lower ground) 0 Seminar Room. Please sign in at reception.
Organisers:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford),
Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
