• 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

• 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

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

Friday 13 March 2015

• 13:00 - Oxford Brain Bank Open Day
  TBA

Wednesday 18 March 2015

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

Wednesday 25 March 2015

• 09:00 - Oxford Neuroscience Symposium 2015
  TBA

Thursday 26 March 2015

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

Thursday 30 April 2015

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

Thursday 28 May 2015

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

Wednesday 10 June 2015

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

Thursday 25 June 2015

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

Monday 6 July 2015

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

Thursday 23 July 2015

• 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

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

Monday 5 October 2015

• 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

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

Thursday 22 October 2015

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

Monday 26 October 2015

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

Tuesday 17 November 2015

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

Thursday 19 November 2015

• 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

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

Thursday 17 December 2015

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

Monday 1 February 2016

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

Thursday 25 February 2016

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

Tuesday 15 March 2016

• 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

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

Saturday 19 March 2016

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

Thursday 24 March 2016

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

Friday 15 April 2016

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 26 May 2016

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 29 June 2016

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

Thursday 21 July 2016

• 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

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

Thursday 29 September 2016

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

Thursday 13 October 2016

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

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 17 November 2016

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

Wednesday 30 November 2016

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

Thursday 15 December 2016

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

Thursday 12 January 2017

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

Friday 27 January 2017

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

Thursday 16 February 2017

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

Friday 24 February 2017

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

Tuesday 28 February 2017

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

Thursday 16 March 2017

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

Wednesday 5 April 2017

• 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

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

Wednesday 31 May 2017

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

Friday 9 June 2017

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

Tuesday 13 June 2017

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

Thursday 22 June 2017

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

Friday 14 July 2017

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

Tuesday 18 July 2017

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

Thursday 7 September 2017

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

Monday 18 September 2017

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

Friday 29 September 2017

• 08:50 - 2017 Imaging Festival
  Various Speakers

Monday 5 February 2018

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

Wednesday 14 March 2018

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

Thursday 22 March 2018

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

Thursday 17 May 2018

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

Thursday 21 June 2018

• 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

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

Thursday 27 September 2018

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