Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Weekly Tuesday seminars, held in the Department of Pharmacology during term time, from 12 noon. All welcome.
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

Talks:

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Peroxisome dynamics and organelle interplay in health and disease
Date: 12 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Physics of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as a new biomarker for health and disease
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Keeping the rhythm: how hERG potassium channels links genetics, drugs and pollution to cardiac arrhythmias
Date: 26 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Brain-wide approaches to neuroplasticity and emotional behavior in the mouse
Date: 3 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
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 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Leveraging the actinobacteria strain collection and genome database at NPDC for natural products and drug discovery
Date: 18 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2024)
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)

Editors: Anne Bowtell, Carolyn Thackrah