Biochemistry Related Talks
Description: Talks of interest to Biochemists
Talks:

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Respiration coordinates the cortical olfactory code
Date: 7 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Kevin Franks (Duke University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 October 2025

Membrane proteins - what can simulation tell us?
Date: 9 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 40-091 Second Floor
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 October 2025

The role of epigenetic inheritance and 3D genome architecture in cellular state regulation and cancer
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Hosts: Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Uncovering the role of multivalency, oligomerisation and dimensionality in shaping biomolecular interactions, function and regulation
Date: 14 October 2025, 15:15 - 16:15
Speaker : Dr Roi Asor (Department of Chemistry and The Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (Room 20-026)
Organiser: Professor Weston Struwe (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
Host: Professor Weston Struwe (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Title TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Syma Khalid (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 40-091 Second Floor
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 October 2025

Breaking (is) Bad: how bacterial supercoiling machine works, how to inhibit it, and why we bother
Date: 20 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Dmitry Ghilarov (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 October 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 October 2025

Towards solving small molecule binding affinity in the AI era: an industrial perspective
Date: 27 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Gregory Ross (Research Leader, Isomorphic Labs)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 October 2025

Title TBC
Date: 30 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Linda Phan (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 3 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Peter Cherepanov (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr. Antoni Wrobel (Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford)

Thursday 6 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 6 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Colburn (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 10 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sean Munro (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 13 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 13 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Iain Smith (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 17 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Dónal O'Carroll (Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr Rebecca Berrens (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 20 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Cyril Schroeder (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 24 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Edda Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Bjarne Feddersen
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 40-091 Second Floor
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Laura Landweber (Columbia University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 December 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 December 2025

Title TBC
Date: 8 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Lindon (Dept of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Fanni Gergely (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Monday 12 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Heinrich Leonhardt (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (Room 20-026)
Organiser: Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 15 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Jeffrey Pang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 January 2025

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Thursday 22 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 22 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Wei-Tse Hsu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 26 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Carla Saleh (Head of Viruses and RNAi Unit, Institute Pasteur)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Petros Ligoxygakis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 29 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Dorothee Kern (Srcipps Research Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 9 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sheena Radford (School of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Ben Berks (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Florencia Klein Rocha (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 16 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Helen Walden (Professor of Structural Biology, Head of School (Molecular Biosciences), University of Glasgow)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr. Paul Elliott (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Nikolai Juraschko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Clemens Plaschka (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Thursday 26 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Robert Clark (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Keith Matthews (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Dr Clinton Lau (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Nithishwer Mouroug Anand (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 9 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Diana Fusco (Dept of Physics, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Stephan Uphoff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Mingyu Qin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 19 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Cristina Paulino (Heidelberg University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Elena Seiradake (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Monday 27 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Iva Tchasovnikarova (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 30 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 7 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Kyle Vaccaro (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 18 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Gautam Dey (EMBL)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 21 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 28 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 1 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Geert Kops (Hubrecht Institute, Oncode Institute, University Medical Centre Utrecht)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Lars Jansen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 18 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 25 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Host: Eden Gage (University of Oxford)

This list contains talks from the following series:
Biochemistry Department Seminar
CBDG
Chromosomal and RNA biology (CRBG) seminar series
CNCB Seminar Series
Department of Biochemistry Seminars
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Lectures
Infection and Disease Processes Seminars
Joel Mandelstam Lecture
LMB Seminars
Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture
Microbiology and Systems Biology (MSB) seminars, Department of Biochemistry
OUBS
OUBS seminar series
Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture
Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture
SBCB Seminar Series
SBMB Seminar Series
SBMB Seminar Series (pre Oct 2018)
Seminar
Special Seminar