• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
• Timing: Tuesdays at 12 noon
• Web Address: http://www.pharm.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Department of Pharmacology

Tuesday 25 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Congenital myopathies linked to recessive RyR1 mutations: pathophysiology and treatment
  Dr Francesco Zorzato (University of Basel)

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Overlapping mechanisms of sleep, sedation and thermoregulation
  Professor Nick Franks (Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Insulin action - a pancreatic islet perspective
  Professor Patrik Rorsman (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Professor Giampietro Schiavo (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Seeing is believing: probing protein assembly and protein-ligand interactions by single molecule spectroscopy and imaging
  Dr Liming Ying (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Ryanodine receptor - calcium release channel complex in cardiac physiology and disease
  Dr Spyros Zissimopoulos (BHF Senior Research Fellow, Swansea University)

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Network-driven drug discovery - what is it and why do we need it?
  Alan Whitmore (Head of Discovery Biology, E-Therapeutics plc)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lines of communication: the role of lysosomal membrane contact sites in cholesterol homeostasis
  Dr Emily Eden (Senior Reseach Fellow, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Septo-hippocampal circuitry beyond theta generation: how hippocampal spatial code is tuned by septal activity
  Dr Marian Tsanov (Wellcome Trust RCD Fellow, Trinity College Dublin)