• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Jacqueline Pumphrey (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
• Organising department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

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

• 13:00 - Post-traumatic stress disorder: studies of flashback memories and their treatment
  Anke Ehlers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Thomas Willis Lecture - Protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases: untangling the tangled brain
  Prof. Maria Grazia Spillantini FRS

Friday 13 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Oxford Brain Bank Open Day
  TBA

Wednesday 18 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Tackling Brain Diseases
  Arjune Sen, Claire Sexton, Sarah Pendlebury, Michele Hu (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Neuroscience Symposium 2015
  TBA

Thursday 26 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic dissection of neurodegenerative disease
  John Hardy (Institute of Neurology, UCL)

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

• 13:00 - Microglia, cytokines and synapses in chronic neurodegeneration
  Hugh Perry (Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton)

Thursday 28 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Oligonucleotide therapies for neuromuscular disease
  Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - Temporal organization, health & disease: What do we really know from studies in animals and humans?
  Professor Thomas Erren

Thursday 25 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Translational neuroscience of the developing cerebral cortex
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 6 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Genetics, epigenetics and stem-cell-based therapy for blinding eye diseases
  Kang Zhang (Institute for Genomic Medicine)

Thursday 23 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Rediscovering the importance of sleep, 'the chief of all earthly blessings', in the digital age
  Booking is essential, places limited
  Professor Colin Espie (University of Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - Brain mapping in primates: The twist and turns of the visual system
  TBA

Monday 5 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Sleep and Circadian Disruption in Long Haul Airline Pilots: Applying Science to Manage Safety Risk
  Professor Philippa Gander (Massey University)

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Modelling Facial Expressions of Emotion in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Kirsty Ainsworth (University of Glasgow)

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

• 13:00 - Modelling Down’s syndrome in mice to learn about Alzheimer’s disease
  TBA

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Sleep Semantics and Memory Consolidation
  Dr Penelope Lewis (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Inaugural Lecture: 'From touch to pain: making sense of sensation'
  Professor David Bennett (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Autism awareness and service provision: perspectives from Ethiopia
  Rosa Hoekstra (King’s College London)
• 17:45 - What Animals Can Tell Us About Sleep
  Professor Irene Tobler (University of Zurich)

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

• 13:00 - Human enhancement: the future of neuroscience
  TBA

Thursday 17 December 2015 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The tempos of perception in the human brain
  Professor Kia Nobre (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mitochondrial Eye Diseases - New Insights and Therapeutic Strategies
  Dr Patrick Yu Wai Man (Newcastle University)

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

• 13:00 - How do risk genes for psychosis operate?
  Professor Paul Harrison (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:45 - The Glymphatic System
  Thomas Willis Day Annual Lecture
  Professor Maiken Nedergaard (University of Rochester Medical Center)
• 19:00 - Our Perception of Pain
  Professor Irene Tracey (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Sleep, Insomnia and Mental Health
  Dieter Riemann (Freiburg University)

Saturday 19 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Visual Brain - the House of Deceits of the Sight
  Professor Christopher Kennard (University of Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - Advanced imaging of the spinal cord in multiple sclerosis
  Professor Olga Ciccarelli (University College London)

Friday 15 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - The role of genomic imprinting in sleep, circadian clock and behavioural processes
  Dr Valter Tucci (Neuroscience and Brain Technologies Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)

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

• 13:00 - Defining the genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Julie Williams (Cardiff University)
• 13:00 - Defining the genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Julie Williams (Cardiff University)

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Functional genomics approaches to find novel disease genes
  Greg Neely (University of Sydney)

Thursday 26 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Functional imaging of dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease
  Paola Piccini (Imperial College London)
• 16:30 - Imaging and Neuroimaging Analysis: Utilities for Generating Useful Regional Anatomical Labels
  Followed by a drinks reception
  Professor Mark Jenkinson (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Coordination of gene expression within the mammalian circadian timing system
  Professor Ulrich Schibler (Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva)

Thursday 9 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Sleeping Sense
  Professor Russell Foster (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Light regulation of circadian and arousal neural circuits
  Professor Todd Holmes (University of California, Irvine)

Thursday 21 July 2016 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - More than meets the eye: Sensory processing in the non-image forming visual system
  Dr Timothy Brown (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

Thursday 28 July 2016 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Sleep Loss and Sleep Disorders —A Major Unmet Public Health Need
  Professor Allan Pack (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 29 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - CNS remyelination: from mechanisms to medicines
  Robin Franklin (University of Cambridge)

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

• 16:30 - Adventures in neuroimaging: Building bridges between physics and neuroscience
  Professor Karla Miller (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - NDCN Seminar for Early Career Researchers (Two Talks: Connectivity Fingerprints and Augmented Reality Glasses)
  Free pizza lunch
  Rogier Mars (University of Oxford), Joram Van Rheede (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Stroke Seminar: Rehabilitation Review
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Forty years on: from frogs to man
  Professor Christopher Kennard (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network Meeting
  Dr Matthew Burn (Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network)

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

• 13:00 - Eye movements and cognitive function in Parkinson’s disease
  Chrystalina Antoniades (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - NDCN Seminar for Early Career Researchers
  Various Speakers

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Consciousness and Complexity: from theory to practice
  Marcello Massimini (University of Milan)

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

• 13:00 - Publishing: A 'Behind-the-Scenes' Look at the Editorial Process in Neuron
  Christiana Konen (Neuron Scientific)

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Seminar for Early Career Researchers
  Various Speakers

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

• 13:00 - Learning from amnesia: the clinical neuroscience of memory impairment
  Dr Chris Butler

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Seminar for Early Career Researchers
  Various Speakers

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

• 16:30 - Detecting, tracking, and predicting motor neuron disease
  Professor Martin Turner

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

• 09:30 - Oxford Neurodevelopment Consortium Inaugural Meeting
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Molecular exploitation of an extremophile mammal
  Gary Lewin (Berlin)

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:45 - Thomas Willis Lecture: Cell transplants to treat the 'disease' of chronic pain
  Professor Allan Basbaum (University of California San Francisco)

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Moral decision-making: computational insights and neural mechanisms
  Dr Molly Crockett (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Hugh Cairns: A Pioneering Neurosurgeon’
  Professor Gabriele De Luca (University of Oxford)

Friday 9 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Masterclass in Epileptology: Epilepsy and the Elderly
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - UK Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Meeting
  Various Speakers

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

• 13:00 - Development of the Oxford Online Programme in Sleep Medicine
  Dr Simon Kyle (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Translating genome and stem cell technology into therapies
  Kang Zhang (Institute for Genomic Medicine)

Tuesday 18 July 2017 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - To breathe ourselves into some other lungs
  Various Speakers

Thursday 7 September 2017 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Genetics of biological rhythms
  Professor Charalambos P. Kyriacou (University of Leicester )

Monday 18 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Precision Medicine for Retinal Disease
  Vinit B. Mahajan (Stanford University)

Friday 29 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:50 - 2017 Imaging Festival
  Various Speakers

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Body-brain interface in the primate insular cortex
  Dr Henry Evrard (University of Tubingen)

Wednesday 14 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Thomas Willis Lecture: Consciousness and Anaesthesia
  Professor George Mashour (University of Michigan)

Thursday 22 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding the pathways underlying residual visual function after damage to primary visual cortex
  Holly Bridge (University of Oxford )

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

• 13:00 - Computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia
  Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Crossing the Valley of Death: From Gene to Preclinical Proof of Concept in Neuroscience Drug Discovery
  Professor Zameel Cader (Director of the Oxford Headache Centre and Director of StemBANCC, University of Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - The interplay between inflammation and neurodegeneration in progressive multiple sclerosis
  Professor Gabriele De Luca (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - MR-based computational neuroanatomy
  Saad Jbadbi (University of Oxford)