• Type: Seminar Series

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Muscule Wasting in Disease
  Previous title : Signalling pathways that control muscle mass, metabolism and longevity
  Professor Marco Sandri (University of Padova)

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): a developmental disease
  Please note that the room has changed for this seminar talk. It will now take place in the Ground Floor Conference Room of the Le Gros Clark Building.
  Christian Pinset (Centre for the Study of Stem Cells/ iStem)

Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Modeling muscle disease and regeneration in zebrafish
  This Seminar has unfortunately been CANCELLED.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Peter D. Currie (Director of Research, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. Head, EMBL Australia Melbourne Node. NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. Level 1, 15 Innovation Walk Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3800. Australia.)

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Modeling muscle disease and regeneration in zebrafish
  Prof Peter D. Currie (Director of Research, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. Head, EMBL Australia Melbourne Node. NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. Level 1, 15 Innovation Walk Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3800. Australia.)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - From Ion Channel Gating Pore Currents to International Genomic Medicine Initiatives in Neuromuscular Diseases
  Prof. Michael Hanna (Director | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Director | UCL MRC International Centre for Genomic Medicine in Neuromuscular Diseases)

Wednesday 17 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Digenic inheritance involving a muscle specific protein kinase and the giant titin protein causes a skeletal muscle myopathy
  Prof. Volker Straub (Director, The John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre | MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at Newcastle | Deputy Dean, Translational and Clinical Research Institute Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Optimizing therapeutic efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy
  Prof. Charlotte Sumner (John Hopkins School of Medicine)

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Therapy Development for Duchene Muscular Dystrophy: A long and winding road
  Prof. Nathalie Goemans (University Hospitals Leuven)

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Engineering human stem cells for muscle disease modelling and therapy development
  Prof. Francesco Saverio Tedesco (University College London)

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Optimizing antisense mediated exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultrarare diseases
  Prof Annemieke Aartsma-Rus (Leiden University Medical Centre)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Myositis- morphology and molecular studies
  Prof. Werner Stenzel (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)

Wednesday 16 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Tricyclo-DNA: promising antisense oligonucleotides for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases
  Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle (INSERM)

Tuesday 28 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Origin of Mitochondrial Diseases
  Prof Patrick Chinnery (University of Cambridge)

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Curbing mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration: lessons from neurogenetics
  Hybrid event - please contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk to receive the online link. Refreshments to follow.
  Dr Derek Narendra (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, MD, USA))

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Emerging Oligonucleotide Therapeutics for Neuromuscular Diseases
  HYBRID TALK - For Teams link, please email chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Yoshitsugu Aoki (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)

Monday 19 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Distal myopathies – elucidation of mechanism and development of therapy
  Hybrid event - please contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk to receive the online link.
  Dr Ichizo Nishino (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)

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

• 11:30 - Protecting motor neurons from degeneration by targeting bioenergetics
  Hybrid event - please contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk to receive the online link.
  Tom Gillingwater (University of Edinburgh)

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

• 16:00 - Developing therapies for muscle and brain in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  Hybrid event - please contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk for Teams details. Drinks reception to follow talk
  Prof Francesco Muntoni (UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital)

Friday 8 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Stem cells to treat muscular dystrophies
  Hybrid seminar - Lunch with students/postdocs to follow. Email chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk for further info.
  Prof Jennifer Morgan (UCL)

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Sugars & proteins
  This is a hybrid seminar. Students/postdocs are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker, which will occur immediately following the talk.
  Prof Benjamin G Davis (University of Oxford and Rosalind Franklin Institute)

Wednesday 20 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Mitochondrial DNA Disorders: the (long and winding) road to treatment
  This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for later in 2024
  Prof Antonella Spinazzola (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)

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

• 10:30 - Congenital disorders of autophagy and intracellular trafficking – a novel class of neurometabolic disorders linking aberrant neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
  This is a hybrid seminar. Attendees are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker, which will occur immediately following the talk.
  Prof Heinz Jungbluth (King's College London)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bridging the divide: translational research with a canine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  This is a hybrid seminar. Students/postdocs are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker, which will occur immediately following the talk.
  Prof Richard Piercy (Royal Veterinary College)

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Wearables in mega-scale biobanks – are there some learnings for rare disease research?
  Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)