Ludwig Institute Seminar Series - Oxford Talks

Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Signalling Pathways and Genetics of Cancer Seminar Series

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Alexandra Ward (University of Oxford, Oxford Ludwig Institute, NDM Experimental Medicine)
Organising department: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford Branch

Wednesday 11 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - TBC
Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Building effective cancer immunotherapy. Lessons from ovarian cancer
Prof. George Coukos (Director of the Ludwig Cancer Research Center, University of Lausanne)

Thursday 16 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Bacterial autophagy and the cytoskeleton in host defence
All welcome to attend
Dr Serge Mostowy (Imperial College, London)

Thursday 30 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - Polycomb Repressor Proteins in Cancer
Dr Adrian Bracken (Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 6 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - G-actin as a signalling molecule
Prof. Richard Treisman (Francis Crick Institute)

Wednesday 10 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Interaction profiling through proteomic peptide phage display
Dr Ylva Ivarsson (University of Uppsala)

Wednesday 17 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Control of lysosomal integrity and autophagy by sphingolipids - possibilities for therapeutic intervention
Prof. Marja Jaattela

Thursday 18 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Magnesium cation signaling in the healthy and diseased immune system
Dr Michael Lenardo (NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease)

Thursday 2 July 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - The role of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in liver metastasis in colon cancer
Dr Adele Murrell (University of Bath)

Thursday 20 August 2015 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Influence of p53 on human immune and inflammatory responses in cancer and primary cells
Dr Michael Resnick (NIH)

Thursday 10 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Post-translational control of protein homeostasis through regulatory ubiquitylation of the translation machinery
Dr. Eric Bennett (UCSD)

Tuesday 22 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - Forward genetic screens in haploid mammalian stem cells: looking beyond CRISPR/Cas9
Dr Josep Forment (Cambridge Cancer Centre)

Thursday 24 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Synthetic Physiology: Optical Control of Cellular Signals
Dr Harald Janovjak (IST Austria)

Wednesday 30 September 2015 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Disruptive technologies, developing drugs, and building companies to treat disease
Prof. Harvey Lodish (Whitehead Institute)

Friday 2 October 2015 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:30 - Self-renewal of human hematopoietic progenitor cells: Development of novel therapies erythropoietin-resistant anemias
Prof. Harvey Lodish (Whitehead Institute)

Tuesday 6 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Metabolic heterogeneity in molecular subtypes of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas
Dr Nika Danial (Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center)

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Myeloid cell lifespan, death and activation in cancer inflammation
Dr Peter Murray (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Activation and regulation of innate immune responses to viral DNA
Prof. Søren Riis Paludan (Aarhus University)

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - At the intersection of ER protein quality control and lipid droplets
Dr James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Linking angiogenesis and metabolism through FOXO transcription factors
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME: 11 AM
Dr Michael Potente (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research)

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Novel system-wide methods to study protein-RNA interactions in infection and cell-fate decisions
Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Imaging heart formation and function in zebrafish
Prof Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research)

Thursday 14 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - High-throughput Approaches in Cancer Cell Models to Enable Precision Cancer Medicine
Dr Matthew Garnett (Sanger Institute)

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Cis-regulation dynamics and chromatin architecture during development and evolution
Dr Jose Luis Gomez Skarmeta (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville)

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Droplet microfluidics: a tool for massively parallel single-cell analysis, sorting and sequencing
Dr Linas Mazutis (Harvard)

Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Tissue-targeted therapy for cancer using a platform called AvidinOX
Dr Rita De Santis (Sigma Tau SpA, Italy)

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Cyclic nucleotide-phosphodiesterase signalling in cardiac neurons: therapeutic target?
Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Studying highly proliferative pluripotent animal adult stem cells and the potential for fundamental insights relevant to cancer biology
Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Temporal regulation of genome replication
Prof Conrad A. Nieduszynski (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Policing secretion: protein quality control and traffic COPs
Dr Liz Miller (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 21 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Understanding regulatory circuitry through large-scale genetic perturbation analyses
Prof Frank Holstege (University Medical Center, Utrecht)

Thursday 28 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Supercharging cell division: how protein phosphatases define the temporal order of mitosis & cytokinesis
Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 5 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Tissue micro environments in immune tolerance
Prof Herman Waldmann (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Host factors that account for influenza host range barriers - what is the difference between a human and a chicken?!
Professor Wendy Barclay (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London )

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Role of TP53 in DNA methylation
Dr Touati Benoukraf (CSI Singapore)

Thursday 2 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Live imaging the earliest events during tumour initiation
Dr Yi Feng (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 30 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Insights from methylome analysis
Dr Stephan Beck (UCL Cancer Institute)

Thursday 7 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - A novel role for (de)ubiquitinating enzymes in the MAPK and TGFB pathways
Peiter Eichhorn (Cancer Science Institute Singapore)

Friday 8 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Translating Genomics and Stem Cell Technology into Therapies in Precision Medicine
Professor Kang Zhang (University of California San Diego)

Wednesday 7 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Inhibition of the AAA-ATPase p97 with the first in class inhibitor CB-5083 as a novel approach to treat cancer
Dr Daniel Anderson (Cleave Biosciences)

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Enhancing Immunotherapy by Targeting the Cancer Stem Cell Niche
Dr Vicki Plaks (University of California San Francisco)

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Ubiquitin in cancer and neurodegeneration
Professor Michael Clague (University of Liverpool), Professor Sylvie Urbe (University of Liverpool)

Thursday 27 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - The oncogenic functions of mutant p53 proteins
Dr Patricia Muller (University of Leicester)

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - From genomic variation to molecular mechanism
Dr Jan Korbel (EMBL)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Understanding cellular heterogeneity
Dr Sarah Teichmann (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge)

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Probing Cancer Epigenomes for New Therapeutic Strategies
Dr Cheryl Arrowsmith (UHN)

Wednesday 7 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - From in silico to the clinic: methods to study proteasome catalysed peptide splicing - AND - Proteasome-Catalyzed peptide splicing and its immunological relevance
Juliane Liepe (Imperial College London), Michele Mishto (Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin)

Thursday 8 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - The control of replication fork repair and human disease
Dr Peter McHugh (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 12 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - An expanding job description for the Zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1 in the developing mouse embryo
Professor Elizabeth Robertson (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Macrophage signaling cascade determines breast cancer distal metastasis.
Dr Bin-Zhi Qian (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - Programming and reprogramming brain cancer stem cells
Dr Steve Pollard (Edinburgh University)

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Cell cycle governs the self-renewal and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
Dr Siim Pauklin (Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Nucleic acid sensing by innate immune receptors
Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford )

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Targeting Micrometastases for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
Prof Ahmed Ahmed (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Advanced oligonucleotide therapeutics for neuromuscular disease
Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and applications in cancer therapy
Prof. Steve Jackson (Head of CRUK, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - The kinetic-segregation model and immunoreceptor signaling
Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - (Big) Data driven inference of clinically relevant pharmacogenomic interactions in cancer
Dr Francesco Iorio (European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge)

Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Epigenetic inheritance and reprogramming in early mammalian development
Dr Wei Xie (School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - How the MyD88 signaling network is regulated to prevent autoimmunity and lymphoma
Professor Sir Philip Cohen (Dundee University)

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Cell-free DNA as a Liquid Biopsy for Precision Cancer Medicine
Professor Nitzan Rosenfeld (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 16 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Introducing Whole Genome Sequencing into Routine Healthcare: The 100,000 Genomes Project and Beyond
Dr Clare Turnbull (The Institute of Cancer Research)

Thursday 23 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Adipocytes in the melanoma microenvironment – insights from zebrafish models of cancer
Professor Richard White (Sloan Kettering, New York)

Friday 24 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - How Autophagy Defends the Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion
Professor Felix Randow (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University)

Thursday 30 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Paracrine inflammatory signals from oncogene bearing stem cells drive tumour formation by non-stem cells: lessons from childhood pituitary cancer
Professor J P Martinez-Barbera (UCL)

Thursday 20 April 2017 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - DNA methylation in mammals: a DNA methyltransferase can hide another
Dr. Déborah Bourc'his (Institut Curie, Paris)

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Identifying metabolic dependencies in pancreatic cancer
Prof Alec Kimmelman (NYU Langone Medical Center)

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - The Ubiquitin System: From Signalling to Cancer
Dr Daniele Guardavaccaro (Hubrecht Institute)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Reflections on the Complex Molecular and Clinical Nature of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Prof David Malkin (University of Toronto)

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - A role for low oxygen and hypoxia inducible factors to regulate viral replication and pathogenesis
Prof Jane McKeating (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Evolution of the Cancer Genome
Dr David Wedge (Big Data Institute)

Thursday 13 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Biology of dendritic cells and Macrophages: From development to functions
Florent Ginhoux ( Senior Principal Investigator , Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore)

Wednesday 26 July 2017 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - On the role of the microbiota as a key modulator of the tumor microenvironment
Dr Romina Goldszmid (NIH)

Thursday 14 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Ascorbate regulates stem cell function and leukemogenesis
Dr Michalis Agathocleous (UT Southwestern)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Genetic and epigenetic control of thymus development and function
Georg Hollander

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - HPV and Human Cancer: A prevention success and a therapeutic opportunity
Peter Howley (Harvard)

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research
Dr Timothy Errington (Metascience Manager from Cancer Biology Reproducibility Project )

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Developing new models of CRC for stratifying therapy
Prof Owen Sansom (Beatson Institute)

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility: what have we learned from large international consortia?
Dr Antonis Antoniou (Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Cambridge)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Host Proteostasis Modulates RNA Virus Evolution
Matthew Shoulders (MIT)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Targeting cancer therapy using oncolytic viruses
Prof Len Seymour (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Dynamic network models complement machine learning to improve cancer treatment
TBA

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Understanding infection and pathogenesis from the epithelial point of view
Dr Francesco Boccellato (Max Planck Institute for Infectious Biology)

Thursday 11 January 2018 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Driver Mutations in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Secondary Myeloid Leukemia: From JAK2 V617F to a Mutated Chaperone
Prof Stefan Constantinescu (Head, Signal Transduction & Molecular Hematology Unit, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels, Belgium)

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Exploring the dynamics of DNA methylation and interaction with genotype in response to inflammatory stimuli
Benjamin Fairfax (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Deciphering the tumour ecosystem
Dr Yinyin Yuang (Institute for Cancer Research, London)

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - A Tale of Two Evils: Aging and Cancer
Dr Curtis Harris (NIH/NCI)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - The Role Of The Unfolded Protein Response In Determining Lifespan
Dr Rebecca Taylor (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Common genetic variants and breast cancer risk
David Hunter (BDI, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Growth Factor Sensing; a new paradigm in tumour and pathogen immunosurveillance
Alexander Barrow (Washington University in St Louis)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - THE PIDDOSOME IN PLOIDY CONTROL AND TISSUE REGENERATION
Dr Andreas Villunger (University of Innsbruck)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Bacterial interactions with long-lived gastrointestinal stem cells and their niches - recipe for disaster?
Michael Sigal (Max Planck Institute)

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Oesophageal Cancer; past, present and the future
Professor Tim Underwood (University of Southampton)

Monday 12 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

09:00 - Understanding cancer using integrative network models
Marieke Kuijjer (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Tuesday 13 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Lymphocyte cytotoxicity in health and disease
Yenan Bryceson (Karolinska Institute)

Monday 19 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - Macrophage heterogeneity in cancer metastasis and therapy resistance
Dr Bin-Zhi Qian (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 27 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Innate immune evasion of chronic viral infections via exploitation of epigenetic regulation
Dr Marcus Dorner (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 4 April 2018 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

10:30 - Connections in the AhR: a ticket to multiple destinations
Pedro Moura Alves (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Stem cell function in homeostasis, aging and cancer: interplay between time, diet and epigenetics
Salvador Aznar Benitah (IRB Barcelona)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Stable epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation through pathway integration
Daniel Zilberman (JIC)

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Clinically-relevant cell cross-talk networks in the lung tumor microenvironment interactome
Andrew Gentles (Stanford)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Modern Pathology Platforms to Support Basic and Translational Research
Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez (Queen's University Belfast)

Wednesday 20 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - The Hippo pathway in cell growth, organ size, and Tumorigenesis
Professor Kun-Liang Guan (UCSD)

Friday 29 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Rational Design of Artificial Genetic Switches
Professor Hiroshi Sugiyama (Kyoto University)

Thursday 5 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Targeting the microenvironment in B cell malignancies
John Gribben (QMUL)

Thursday 12 July 2018 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - 133p53 isoforms cause inflammation and cancer: a novel mechanism for wild type p53 to promote cancer development
Professor Antony Braithwaite (Otago University)

Thursday 19 July 2018 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Microfluidics with fluid walls; a simple technology for everyone in cell and molecular biology
Professor Peter Cook (University of Oxford )

Thursday 16 August 2018 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - The role of Keratins in modulating carcinogenesis via communication with cells of the immune system
Ines Sequeira (KCL)

Monday 3 September 2018 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Unleashing Chemical Power from Protein Sequence Space for Material Design
Dr Fei Sun (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Coincidence detection tailors macrophage responses to inflammatory signals
Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic (KTRR SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Inflammation and Microbiome in Cancer and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Dr Ze'ev Ronai (Sanford-Burnham Institute, La Jolla)

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - The role of post-transcriptional regulation in neural stem cells and synaptic plasticity
Professor Ilan Davis (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Live and let die: the untold story of caspases
Dr Alberto Baena (University of Oxford )

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Sympathetic Neuroimmunity in obesity
Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Understanding the immune response to persistent human T-cell leukaemia virus (HTLV-I) infections (exact title tbc)
Professor Charles Bangham (Imperial College London)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Redox differences between the Heart and Tumour could provide a Selective Therapeutic Approach for Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity
Dr Gopinath Sutendra (University of Alberta)

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Chromatin Conformation in Development and Disease
Dr. Juanma Vaquerizas (MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

14:30 - The role of extrachromosomal oncogene amplification in cancer
Paul Mischel (Ludwig San Diego)

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Engineering the cellular microenvironment with functional and living materials
Professor Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez (University of Glasgow)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

15:30 - “Roles of Pol Epsilon in genetic and epigenetic stability”
Dr Roberto Bellelli (The Francis Crick Institute)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Analyzing T cells infiltrating tumours or other diseased tissues.
Professor Pierre Coulie (Insitut de Duve)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Deep learning the geospatial complexity of the tumour microenvironment
Dr Yinyin Yuang (Institute for Cancer Research, London)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Autophagy and metabolism in cell death and cancer’
Professor Kevin Ryan (Glasgow University)

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

14:15 - TNFR2 driven inflammation and pyroptosis in XIAP deficient cells
Professor Wei-Lynn Wong (University of Zurich)

Friday 15 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Model oesophageal neoplasia with stem cells and development.
Professor Jianwen Que (Colombia)

Tuesday 19 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - “Safeguarding the human genome”.
Dr Joanna Loizou (CeMM)

Thursday 21 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - From Cancer Systems Biology to Precision medicine
Dr Marie-Laure Yaspo (Max Planck Institute)

Friday 22 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

10:30 - Big data analysis and integration for cancer research
Professor Joao Pedro Magalhaes (University of Liverpool)

Friday 5 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - “NOD-like receptors: From pathogen recognition to surveillance of cellular homeostasis perturbation”
Dr. Gang Pei (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology,)

Thursday 18 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - “Metabolic interventions to enhance the anti-tumor T cell response”
Dr Roger Geiger (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana )

Thursday 25 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Mitochondria and cancer: metabolism and beyond
Dr Christian Frezza (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - The Ying and Yang of Diabetes & Cancer
Professor Anna Gloyn (OCDEM, University of Oxford )

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Aberrant chromatin changes in leukaemia
Professor Tom Milne (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - HPV and alterations to the host genome structure and function
Dr Maura Gillison (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - “Manipulating epigenetic regulators to enable immune checkpoint blockade”
Professor Yang Shi (Harvard Medical School)

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - RNA editors and DNA mutators: diverse biological roles for a tight-knit family of enzymes
Dr Nina Papavassiliou (DKFZ)

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - “Chemical biology approaches to studying epigenetic regulation”
Dr Akane Kawamura (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - CANCELLED - Dissecting tumour heterogeneity by single cell RNA sequencing
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Thursday 12 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "Dying to get noticed: Immunogenic cell death in infection and cancer"
Professor Andrew Oberst (University of Washington)

Tuesday 24 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - TET-family dioxygenases, immune responses and cancer
Dr Anjana Rao (La Jolla Institute for Immunology)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - “A multifaceted interplay between metabolism and epigenetics determines how CAFs remodel the tumour stroma”
Professor Sara Zanivan (Beatson Institute)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Rho GTPase signalling in cancer migration and invasion
Professor Anne Ridley (University of Bristol)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - 'Tumor whole-genomes shed light into mutational processes and cancer vulnerabilities'
Professor Nuria Lopez-Bigas (IRB, Barcelona)

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - DNA modifications in disease: cause, consequence and confusion
Prof Colm Nestor (University of Linköping)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Dual Pathogen and Cancer Detection Using Cell-free DNA in Body Fluids
Dr Wei Gu (UCSF)

Thursday 9 January 2020 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Dr Trevor Littlewood, University of Cambridge, Complexities and commonalities in cancer
Dr Trevor Littlewood (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - ‘Single cell epigenome landscape of development and ageing’.
Professor Wolf Reik (Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - “Role of AHR in intestinal injury repair”
Prof. Gitta Stockinger (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Cancer Metastasis: A Disorder of Metabolism
Professor Sarah Maria Fendt (VIB, Leuven)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Molecular principles of the epigenetic reprogramming in vivo
Professor Petra Hajkova (LMS MRC, Imperial)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - A new era of NK cell-tuned immunotherapy: Lessons from chronic viral infections
Dr Dimitra Peppa (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - CANCELLED - Reconstructing cellular histories using single-cell sequencing
Professor Alexander van Oudenaarden (Hubrecht Institute)

Thursday 14 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - “Measuring the evolutionary dynamics of human tumours”
Please note this will be an online seminar, by Zoom invitation only. Please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for the link to the seminar.
Professor Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute)

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - "Host Micro biome interactions in health and disease" CANCELLED
Professor Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute)

Thursday 16 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Paligenosis: the cellular program underlying stem cell recruitment in regeneration and tumorigenesis - CANCELLED
Prof Jason Mills (University of Washington)

Thursday 24 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Cooperation, competition and warfare in bacteria: from model systems to the microbiome - CANCELLED
Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - CANCELLED - Prof Alison J. Sinclair, University of Sussex
TBA

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Beyond T cell inhibition: new functions for good ol’ PD-L1
For registration please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Dr Michele Ardolino (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Clustered Mutation Patterns in Cancer Genomes
Please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom link
Dr Fran Supek (IRB Barcelona)

Thursday 18 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Predicting transcription factor binding and the effects of viral integration
For registration, please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk by 13.00 on March 18 - thank you
Dr Michael Hoffman (University of Toronto)

Thursday 8 April 2021 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Targeting RAS-driven tumors by exploiting vulnerabilities in the Ras network
For registration, please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Dr Sara Mainardi (The Netherlands Cancer Institute)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Zebrafish Avatars for personalized medicine and study tumor-innate immune interactions
For registration please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Dr Rita Fior (Champalimaud Centre)

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Evolutionary constraints and dynamics during tumor progression and metastasis
For registration please benjamin.schuster-boeckler@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Dr Christina Curtis (Stanford University)

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Connecting the dots: infections, preneoplasic metaplasia and cancers
For registration please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk by 12 noon on June 10
Dr Cindrilla Chumduri (University of Wuerzburg)

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Dr Marie-Dominique Galibert
For registration please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Marie-Dominique Galibert (University of Rennes)

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - The AhR transcription factor shapes melanoma resistance to BRAF inhibitors
If you would like to register for this talk please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk. Registration is open until 18.00 on October 20th.
Prof Marie-Dominique Galibert (Université de Rennes, France)

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Tissue Organization and Homeostasis
If you would like to register for this talk please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk.
Prof Ruslan Medzhitov (Yale School of Medicine)

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Cancer Etiology and Evolution
If you would like to register for this online talk please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Dr Cristian Tomasetti (John Hopkins School of Medicine)

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Regulation of CNS inflammation
If you would like to register for this talk please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk.
Dr Francisco J. Quintana (University of Harvard)

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Neuronal regulation of immune fitness
If you would like to register for this talk please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Dr Henrique Veiga Fernandes (Champalinaud Centre for the Unknown)

Wednesday 12 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Prof Robert Roeder
Prof Robert Roeder (Rockefeller University)

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Multiple role of the viral deconjugases in herpesvirus infection
Zoom event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk to obtain the link and book your place.
Prof Maria Masucci (Karolinska Institutet)

Thursday 7 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Co-stimulation and co-infection in the immune control of oncogenic gamma-herpesviruses
This is a hybrid event, hosted in the TDI Seminar Room which can now welcome up to 60 participants; for zoom details please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Prof Christian Münz (University of Zürich)

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies
This is a hybrid event - to book your place and for Zoom details please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Prof Robert Roeder (The Rockefeller University)

Thursday 19 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Targeting tumour microenvironment to strengthen immunotherapy
Zoom event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk to obtain the link and book your place.
Dr Carmela De Santo (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 30 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Discovering and therapeutically targeting oncogenic transcriptional biology in childhood cancers
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk to book your place if you wish to attend in person and/or to obtain the link to the seminar if you wish to attend virtually
Dr Gerard Brien (Trinity College Dublin)

Thursday 7 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - New Modes of T-cell Recognition During Cancer Immunotherapy Success
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for Zoom llink.
Prof Andrew Sewell (Cardiff University)

Friday 16 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Targeting transposable elements to reverse immune evasion in cancer
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for meeting details and zoom link
Dr Katherine Chiappinelli (GW School of Medicine)

Thursday 6 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Clone dynamics and oncogenic priming in intestinal epithelium
This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk to obtain full details and zoom link.
Prof Doug Winton (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Biology and vulnerabilities of circulating tumor cells
We are running this seminar as a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for full details and zoom link
Dr Nicola Aceto (ETH Zurich)

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - The tumor antigenic landscape associated with T cell infiltration and immunoediting
We are running this seminar as a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for full details and zoom link
Dr Michal Bassani-Sternberg (Université de Lausanne)

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - From high resolution microscopy and laser manufacturing to automated surgery?
This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom link and details
Prof Martin Booth (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Resolution of DNA-protein crosslinks and cancer development
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk to obtain zoom details
Dr Ivan Dikic (University of Frankfurt)

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Unweaving the rainbow of prostate cancer heterogeneity
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom link and details
Dr Alastair Lamb (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Epigenetics, and its role in transcriptional control, cell fate and cancer
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk to obtain zoom details
Prof Kristian Helin (The Institute of Cancer Research)

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Epigenetic Targets for the Treatment of Human Diseases
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Dr Rabinder Prinjha (GSK)

Thursday 20 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Chromatin regulators in stem cell differentiation and cancer processes
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Luciano Di Croce (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)

Friday 21 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Identification, mechanism and therapeutic targeting of cancer fitness gene MTDH
This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Yibin Kang (Princeton University)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Ewing sarcoma is an “enhancer disease”: from epigenetic heterogeneity to patient stratification and targeted therapies
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Eleni Tomazou (St Anna Kinderkrebsforschung, Vienna)

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Canonical and non-canonical epigenetic regulation in development and disease
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Alexander Meissner (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)

Friday 23 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

10:40 - Activation of antitumor immunity by bacteria-derived signals: Pyroptosis & Beyond
This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Feng Shao (National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing)

Thursday 29 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - From Genes to Analgesic Drugs
This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof John Wood (University College London)

Thursday 6 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Single-molecule and single-cell epigenetics: Decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnostics
This is a hybrid event; plfease contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Efrat Shema (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Thursday 13 July 2023 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - What we do in the dark: Illuminating Functional Responsivity, Signalling Activity, & Druggability of the Local Interactome in Living Systems
This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Yimon Aye (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Thursday 14 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - RNA damage: The canary in the coal mine?
This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Nima Mosammaparast (Washington University)

Tuesday 26 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:45 - Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell
this is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Jin Zhang (University of California San Diego)

Thursday 5 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - New adventures in single-cell biology
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Itai Yanai (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Methods for Cancer Detection and Treatment Stratification Using Circulating RNA and Extracellular Vesicles
this is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Thuy Ngo (OHSU)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Deregulation of Ubiquitin Signaling in Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk to obtain zoom details
Dr Azad Bonni (Roche Pharma Research and Early Development)

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Epigenetic moonlighting: Histone modifiers’ catalytic-independent functions in the regulation of transcription, providing new insight for cancer therapeutics - CANCELLED
We regret to inform you that due to ill health, Prof Shilatifard's talk is cancelled. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this may cause - thank you.
Dr Ali Shilatifard (Northwestern University)

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Modelling and synthetic lethal targeting of noncoding genome in hematological cancers driven by loss-of-function epigenetic mutations
This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Eric So (King's College London)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Host microbiome interaction in health and disease
This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Post-transcriptional control of gene expression following toxic injury and in disease: The role of RNA binding proteins
This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Anne Willis (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Myeloid cells in cancer
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Mikael Pittet (Université de Genève)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Fluctuating DNA methylation for lineage tracing in healthy human tissues and cancer
This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Trevor Graham (The Institute of Cancer Research)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Immunotherapy of Human Papillomavirus induced cancer
This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Marij Welters (Leiden University Medical Center)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Mutate Everything
This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Ben Lehner (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Expanding the Druggable Genome - From Target Validation to Drugging the Undruggable
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Lukasz Jaremko (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Fundamental Principles During the Egg-to-Embryo Transition
this is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Andrea Pauli (IMP Research Institute of Molecular Pathology)

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Connecting Dots for (Epi)Genomic Medicine
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Stephan Beck (University College London)

Thursday 14 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Nucleic Acid Sensing by Innate Immune Receptors: A journey from MDA5 to cGAS
This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Jan Rehwinkel (Universityof Oxford)

Tuesday 19 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Genetic analysis of complex roles of autophagy in mouse models of breast cancer and lymphangiosarcoma
this is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Jun Lin Guan (University of Cininnati)

Thursday 21 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Insights into the pathways controlling oesophageal adenocarcinoma progression from regulatory chromatin landscape profiling
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Andrew Sharrocks (University to Manchester)

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Turning up the Heat on Cancer
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Judy Lieberman (Harvard University)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:30 - Exploring and Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Johanna Joyce (University of Lausanne)

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Engineering T-cells for solid tumor therapy
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
Prof George Coukos (University of Lausanne)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Spatial effects in models of solid tumour growth and control
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Philip Maini (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Targeting TCR and Co-Receptor Signaling in T Cell-Mediated Immunity
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford)

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - R-loop induced genome instability in cancer and aging.
this is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Xiang Dong Fu (Westlake University)

Thursday 5 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Mechanistic target of rapamycin signaling in life and death of immune cells
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Bing Su (Shanghai Institute of Immunology)

Tuesday 10 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Photo-controllable bioorthogonal reactions and biomolecules
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Yan Zhang (University of Nanjing)

Thursday 12 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

13:30 - Targeting epigenetically-driven brain metastases
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-Bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Marco Seehawer (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Friday 13 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - New Paediatric Brain Tumour Models Reveal Subtype-Specific Tumour Behaviour, Microenvironmental Dependencies, and Opportunities for Precision Therapy
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Manav Pathania (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 19 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Effector treg depletion leads to tumor clearance in HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Maura Gillison (MD Anderson Cancer Centre)

Friday 27 September 2024 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - Circulating tumour DNA: an increasingly powerful diagnostic tool for oncology
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Nitzan Rosenfeld (Barts Cancer Institute)

Thursday 3 October 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Intra-operative diagnosis of central nervous system tumours using nanopore sequencing
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Simon Paine (Nottingham University Hospital)

Monday 7 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Visualization of Transcription Initiation
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Yanhui Xu (Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center)

Thursday 10 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Tumorigenesis in space and time
This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Nikolaus Rajewsky (Max Delbruck Center, Berlin)

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Predictive Preclinic Patient Organoid Models and Emerging Therapeutic Targets for Glioblastoma
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Dr Hai-Kun Liu (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Therapeutic targeting of chromatin proteins in blood cancer
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Tim Somervaille (Cancer Research UK)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Differential deployment of oncogenic translational gene expression programmes by the eIF4F and CCR4-NOT complexes: The hidden information within our genomes
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Martin Bushell (CRUK Scotland Institute)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Precision medicine and the immune response: insights from infection
this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)

Thursday 16 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Prof Edith Heard - title TBA
Prof Edith Heard (EMBL, Heidelberg)

Thursday 23 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Dr Karina Pombo-Garcia - title TBA
Dr Pombo-Garcia (the Rosalind Franklin Institute)

Thursday 30 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Prof Thomas Carell - title TBA
Prof Thomas Carell (LMU, Munich)

Thursday 6 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Tumor-associated macrophages in tumor progression: double edged swords
Prof Alberto Mantovani (Queen Mary University of London)

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Prof Josef Penninger - title TBA
Prof Josef Penninger (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig)

Thursday 27 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Prof Frances Balkwill - title TBA
Prof Frances Balkwill (Cancer Research UK)

Thursday 6 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Prof Gareth Inman - Title TBA
Prof Gareth Inman (University of Glasgow)

Thursday 13 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Dr Céline Vallot - Title TBA
Dr Céline Vallot (Institut Curie)

Thursday 27 March 2025 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Targeting KRAS oncogenic signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer
Prof Julian Downward (The Francis Crick Institute)

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