Wednesday 30 April 2014 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Short term associative memory in the pancreatic islet of Langerhans
  Prof Juan Sanchez-Andres (University Jaume 1, Spain)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 May 2014 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Foie gras, diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link?
  Prof Chistopher Byrne (University of Southampton)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 June 2014 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Bile acid signalling in normal and pathological pregnancy
  Prof Catherine Williamson (King's College, London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 June 2014 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dietary strategies to prevent diabetes
  Prof Susan Jebb (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 June 2014 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The specialised roles of DGAT1 and DGAT2 in linking hyperglycaemia, hypertriglyceridaemia and hepatic steatosis
  Prof Victor Zammit (University of Warwick)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 October 2014 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dissecting the role of steroid metabolism in the control of metabolic phenotype
  Prof Jeremy Tomlinson (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 October 2014 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - High octane fuel for diabetes
  Prof Kieran Clarke (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 November 2014 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Do gut taste receptors make any sense in diabetes?
  Dr Michael Theodorakis (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 November 2014 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Investigating signalling bias at the GLP-1 and glucagon receptors
  Dr Graham Ladds (University of Warwick)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 November 2014 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The impact of the genome on metabolic health: lessons from large and small populations
  Niels Grarup (University of Copenhagen)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 December 2014 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Improving in-patient diabetes care
  Dr Gerry Rayman (Ipswich Hospital)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 January 2015 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Viral hepatitis and glucocoticoids: hepatitis B and C viruses utilize a new pathway to activate glucocoticoid receptor
  Prof Jane McKeating (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 January 2015 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Protein folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum
  Prof David Ron (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 February 2015 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The role of the gut in diabetic hyperglucagonaemia
  Prof Filip Knop (University of Copenhagen)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The interplay between insulin production and pancreatic beta-cell fate
  Prof Jim Johnson (University of British Columbia)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Learning from extreme bone mineral density phenotypes
  Dr Celia Gregson (University of Bristol)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rare and frequent genetic variants in diabetes and obesity
  Prof Filippe Froguel (Imperial College, London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Finding diabetes genes improves clinical care
  Prof Andrew Hattersley (University of Exeter)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 17 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Biomarkers of HNF1A-MODY
  Dr Agata Juszczak
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Tissue specific glucocorticoid metabolism in severe obesity
  Dr Conor Woods
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 24 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Modulating islet function to improve glycaemic control in diabetes
  Dr Chitra Ballav
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 1 May 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Glucagon-like Peptide-1: Gastric Emptying, Postprandial Glycaemia and Genetic Variants
  Dr Mahesh Umapathysivam
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Islet transplantation in the Thames Valley
  Mr Rob Crookston
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and disease: insight into intervention strategies
  Professor Susan Ozanne (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Defining the role of AKR1D1 in human hepatocytes
  Mr Nikolaos Nikolaou
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Identifying causal mechanisms for beta-cell dysfunction
  Mr Soren Thomsen
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The primacy of energy storage versus metaflammation in insulin resistance
  Dr David Savage (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Update on the Diabetes Translational Trials Group (TTG) subtheme
  *SEMINAR CANCELLED*
  Dr Matthew Wintle
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding painful diabetic neuropathy from molecules to brain imaging
  Prof David Bennett (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 22 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Differentiation of regional adipose tissues
  Mr Feng-Chih Kuo
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - How does adrenaline stimulate glucagon secretion?
  Mr Alex Hamilton
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The chloride/proton antiporter CLC-5 and the mechanism of endosomal acidification
  Prof Giovanni Zifarelli (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 5 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The role of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein in regulating body fat distribution
  Mr Nathan Denton
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Comprehensive Functional Characterization of HNF1A Missense Variants
  Ms Sara Althari
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Novel insights into the pathogenesis and management of thyroid disorders
  Dr Kristien Boelaert (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 12 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Endocrine tumours: from bedside to bench and from bench to bedside
  Professor Wouter de Herder (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Induction of alpha-cell-mediated beta-like cell neogenesis in the pancreas
  Dr Patrick Collombat (University of Nice)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 19 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Investigating modulation of Na+ channel, Nav1.7, gating in pancreatic beta-cells
  Ms Mahdieh Godazgar
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The role of dietary sugars in hepatic fatty acid partitioning
  Ms Wee Suan Low
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 26 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Developing mouse models for Marshall-Smith Syndrome
  Dr Kreepa Kooblall
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Studies of hypercalciuric kidney stone disease
  Ms Lottie Philpott
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 3 July 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Targeting Somatostatin Receptors in Pituitary Disorders
  Associate Professor Richard Feelders (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 18 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Regulation of somatostatin secretion in pancreatic δ-cells
  Ms Elisa Vergari
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 12:45 - The role of glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic domain in glucose homeostasis
  Ms Natasha Ng
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Neutrophil extracellular traps in wound healing and immunothrombosis
  Dr Paul Harrison (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Turning your research into medicines: Practical considerations on working with the pharmaceutical industry
  Dr Jyothis George
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Severe hypoglycaemia in type 1 diabetes: education, technology, transplantation and regeneration
  Prof James Shaw
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 30 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Electrophysiological characterisation of the human beta cell line EndoC-βh2
  Dr Benoit Hastoy
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Motivating and supporting weight loss in ordinary clinical care. What can the ordinary Jo(e) achieve?
  Professor Paul Aveyard (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From obesity to polycystic ovarian syndrome; using genetics to dissect underlying biology
  Prof Cecilia Lindgren (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The Metabolic Effect of Hypoxia and Steroid Signalling
  Dr Jon Hazlehurst
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 20 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Have a Nice Day - The Ins & Outs of Diabetic Foot Care
  Dr Laurie King, Ms Kirsty Yates, Ms Jodie Buckingham
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Islet pathophysiology in type 2 diabetes
  Prof Erik Renstrom (Lund University)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment and Long-term consequences
  Dr Aleed Rees (Cardiff University)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 4 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Society for Endocrinology BES 2015 Meeting in a lunchtime
  Dr Laura Gathercole, Dr Caroline Gorvin
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 11 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Update on the Diabetes Translational Trials Group (TTG) subtheme
  Prof Rury Holman (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Glycaemic variability in type 1 diabetes: is it important?
  Dr Nick Oliver (Imperial College, London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 15 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Pasireotide therapy of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN1)-associated neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) improves survival and reduces tumour progression in a Men1+/- mouse model
  Dr Mark Stevenson
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Novel uses of technology to control diabetes
  Prof Thomas Pieber (Medical University of Graz)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Delivering practice-changing trials in rare cancers
  Prof Juan Valle (University of Manchester)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The role of novel genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in the development of T2D
  Mr Matthias Thurner
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The genome in context: genes, lifestyle & type 2 diabetes
  Dr Paul Franks (Lund University)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Islet gene expression provides insights into type 2 diabetes pathogenesis
  Dr Martijn van de Bunt
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Establishing techniques to visualize macrophage subsets in adipose tissue
  Ms Kristie Nurse
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Novel functions for the glucocorticoid receptor in mitosis
  Prof David Ray (University of Manchester)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - High-throughput discovery of candidate effector transcripts for type 2 diabetes
  Mr Soren Thomsen
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Diabetes and Dementia – from epidemiology to target development (and some thoughts on why mice don’t get dementia but killer whales should)
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Simon Lovestone, (Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Bariatric Surgery and Islet Function
  Dr Laura McCulloch
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Modelling diabetes with induced pluripotent stem cells
  Dr Nicola Beer
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Unimolecular combination therapeutics for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Matthias Tschöp (Helmholtz Zentrum München)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Modeling genetic and epigenetic disorders using human pluripotent stem cells
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Nissim Benvenisty (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genetics of NAFLD
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Quentin Anstee (Newcastle University)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - A Waste of Youth – Improving Islet Yields from Younger Donors
  Dr Paul Bateman
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 18 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Update on the Translational Genetics and Genomics Group (TGGG) subtheme
  Assoc Prof Katharine Owen
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Clinical implications of the pathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease in humans
  Prof Hannele Yki-Järvinen (University of Helsinki)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 22 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Assessment and translation of biomarkers for diagnosis of maturity onset diabetes of the young due to HNF1A mutations
  Dr Agata Juszczak
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Low-dose glibenclamide in T2DM
  Dr Ioannis Spiliotus
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Aetiology of type 2 diabetes revealed by studying reversal to normal
  Prof Roy Taylor (Newcastle University)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Properties of voltage-gated sodium channels in the pancreatic beta-cell
  Ms Mahdieh Godazgar
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding mechanisms of hypoglycaemia unawareness - the key to effective therapeutic strategies
  Dr Pratik Choudhary (King's College London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Network Medicine and Complex Diseases
  Dr Moustafa Abdalla
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - A strategy for massively parallel functional annotation of HNF1A alleles
  Ms Sara Althari
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - The emerging epidemic of Type 2 diabetes in younger adults
  Dr Emma Wilmot (Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The role of dietary sugars in postprandial hepatic fatty acid synthesis and partitioning in humans
  Ms Wee Suan Low
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Functional evaluation of the human fat distribution HOXC13 gene locus
  Mr Feng-Chih Kuo
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From genome-wide association studies to physiology: the example of melatonin pathway
  Dr Amélie Bonnefond (Institut de Biologie de Lille)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Identification of novel variants in familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia and familial juvenile hyperuricaemic nephropathy
  Ms Lottie Philpott
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Adrenergic and cholinergic signalling in the pancreatic alpha cell
  Mr Alex Hamilton
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - How does metformin work? Insights from genetics
  Prof Ewan Pearson (University of Dundee)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 3 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Unravelling the role of AKR1D1 (5β-reductase) in human hepatocytes
  Mr Nikolaos Nikolaou
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Assessing the impact of diabetes risk variants on beta-cell development and function
  Ms Katia Mattis
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Insulin granule aging and turnover
  Prof Michele Solimena (Dresden University of Technology)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Investigating how the extent of Advanced Glycation End (AGE) products in the peri-islet ECM impacts its enzymatic digestibility during human islet isolation
  Ms Rebecca Spiers
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Physiological investigation of causal genetic variants in metabolic disease
  Dr Mahesh Umapathysivam
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Insights into beta cell autoimmunity from neonatal diabetes
  Dr Sarah Flanagan (University of Exeter Medical School)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 17 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Investigating depot-specific mechanisms in adipogenesis
  Mr Nathan Denton
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 24 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The dynamics of hepatic lipid metabolism and storage in humans: understanding their role in fatty liver disease
  Ms Pippa Gunn
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Liraglutide & Lifestyle in the treatment of Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
  Mr Ahmad Moolla
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 7 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ionising radiation potentiates high fat diet-induced insulin resistance and reprograms skeletal muscle and adipose progenitor cells
  Dr Vibe Nylander (University of Oxford, OCDEM)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - New strategies for discovering the genetic basis of diabetes mellitus
  Professor Seung K Kim (Stanford University School of Medicine)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Time to heat up: targeting brown adipose tissue
  Dr Sander Kooijman (University of Oxford, OCDEM)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Forkhead genes, brown fat and metabolic regulation in adipose tissue and muscle
  Professor Sven Enerback (University of Gothenburg)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Modelling the long term benefits of targeting lower systolic blood pressure levels in Type 2 Diabetes
  Sam Mostafa (University of Oxford, OCDEM)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - What can narrative research teach us about the epigenetics of diabetes?
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 28 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Why Model? Understanding and Critiquing Mathmatical Models in Medical Research
  Dr Linford Briant (University of Oxford, OCDEM)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Electronic health records for CV event analysis in type 2 diabetes
  Professor Adam Timmis (NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Is Type 2 Diabetes a Glycogen Storage Disease?
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cell lineage studies to define osteoblast precursors and their regulation in vivo
  Dr Hank Kronenberg (Harvard)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Progress toward precision therapeutics for obesity and type 2 diabetes
  Professor Matthias Tschöp (Helmholtz Zentrum München)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - European Association for the Study of Diabetes 2016 meeting talks at OCDEM
  Mr Soren Thomsen, Mr Feng-Chih Kuo, Dr Mahesh Umapathysivam
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Regulatory variants and human diseases - functionally dissecting GWAS
  Professor Marcelo Nobrega (University of Chicago)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - What does a research dietitian actually do?
  Dr Pam Dyson (University of Oxford, OCDEM)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Assessing the Impact of Diabetes Risk Variants on Beta-Cell Development and Function
  Miss Katia Mattis (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - From infectious diseases in Costa Rica to type 2 diabetes in Oxford
  Miss Antje Grotz (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Apert Syndrome, craniosynostosis, and selfish spermatogonia
  Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Children's Diabetes Services - past, present and future
  Dr Julie Edge (Consultant in Paediatric Diabetes, Oxford University Hospitals)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Assessment and translation of novel biomarkers for diagnosis of maturity onset diabetes of the young due to HNF1A variants
  Dr Agata Juszczak
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Diabetes modelling - directions, challenges and opportunities
  Professor Alastair Gray (Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Physiological investigation of causal genetic variants in metabolic disease
  Dr Mahesh Umapathysivam
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Metabolic Regulation of Glucagon Secretion
  Dr Jakob Knudsen (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - rDNA as a target of nutritional programming
  Dr Michelle Holland (Blizard Institute, London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

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

• 12:45 - The impact of normothermic preservation on transplanted steatotic livers
  Dr Carlo Ceresa (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - WNT signalling, adipose progenitor biology and body fat distribution
  Dr Nellie Loh (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Modelling the systemic consequences of disrupted steroidogenesis using zebrafish
  Dr Nils Krone (University of Sheffield)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Low-dose sulphonylureas in diabetes
  Dr Ioannis Spiliotus
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The Effect of Hypoxia on Steroid Signalling and Metabolism
  Dr Jon Hazlehurst
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Targeting auto antigen-specific B-cells for immunotherapy of Type 1 diabetes
  Dr Michael Christie (University of Lincoln)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 17 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Metabolic responses to both acute, and chronic overnutrition
  Dr Sion Parry (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Understanding Mechanisms of Islet Dysfunction using Genome Engineering in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
  MIss Claire Duff (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 21 April 2017 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Endocrine, autonomic and metabolic regulation of glucagon secretion
  Mr Alex Hamilton
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Non-invasive assessment of cardiac and liver disease with magnetic resonance methods
  Professor Stefan Neubauer (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Unravelling the role of AKR1D1 (5β-reductase) in human hepatocytes
  Various Speakers
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Glucagon: A bystander or a key actor in the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus? Milestones and lessons
  Professor Pierre Lefebvre (University of Liege, Belgium)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 5 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BES@OCDEM
  Dr Kate Lines (University of Oxford), Dr Mark Stevenson
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Bone marrow adipose tissue: A novel endocrine organ?
  Dr Will Cawthorn (University of Edinburgh)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Novel non-invasive markers for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
  Dr Ahmad Moolla (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Improving our understanding of lipid metabolism in NAFLD: Developing a model of macrosteatosis in vitro
  Ms Pippa Gunn
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Androgens, glucocorticoids and metabolic risk - Novel steroid metabolomics approaches
  Professor Wiebke Arlt (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The role of PYY in pancreatic islet physiology and surgical control of diabetes
  Cr Claudia Guida (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Using genetics to disentangle causality from confounding in human health
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Michael Holmes (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Functional evaluation of the human fat distribution HOXC13 gene locus
  Mr Feng-Chih Kuo
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The effects of dietary sugars on hepatic fatty acid synthesis, partitioning and insulin secretion and sensitivity
  Ms Wee Suan Low
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A vision for an academic-industry hybrid institute in Oxford
  Professor James Johnson (University of British Columbia)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

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

• 12:45 - Fatty acid spillover: A signature of a metabolic health?
  Dr Marie-Eve Piche (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC3: An introduction to the new Diabetes & Metabolism Theme
  Professor Anna Gloyn (OCDEM, University of Oxford ), Professor Jeremy Tomlinson
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 23 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The role of G-protein alpha 11 in calcium and glucose homeostasis
  Miss Anna Gluck (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The role of adaptor protein-2 sigma subunit in calcium homeostasis
  Ms Vicky Stokes (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 30 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Determining molecular mechanisms at type 2 diabetes association signals
  Ms Shahana Sengupta (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Experimental models of obstructive sleep apnoea
  Dr Jon Hazlehurst
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 7 July 2017 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Pint of Science - OCDEM presentations
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Nicola Beer
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Insights from extreme diabetes and obesity in New Zealand
  Professor Rinki Murphy (University of Auckland)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 6 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Inflamed fat
  Andrea van Dam (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Precision medicine in common diabetes: using clinical features and simple biomarkers to improve classification and treatment.
  Dr Angus Jones (University of Exeter)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - BRC theme update
  Professor Mark McCarthy (University of Oxford), Professor Jeremy Tomlinson
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The bone-vascular axis: insights from adults with autoimmune diabetes
  Dr Ernesto Maddaloni (University Campus Bio-Medico Rome, Italy)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Characterising the relationship between NAFLD and T2D using genetic markers
  Dr Robert Koivula (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Dietary fat and liver fat accumulation
  Fredrik Rosqvist (Uppsala University)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Physiological investigation of causal genetic variants in metabolic disease
  Dr Mahesh Umapathysivam
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Primary hyperparathyroidism: molecular insights and clinical implications
  Professor Andrew Arnold (University of Connecticut)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Exercise for beta cell preservation in type 1 diabetes: The EXTOD trials
  Dr Parth Narendran (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The metabolic effect of intermittent hypoxia in vivo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Jonathan Hazlehurst (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Recording routine clinical data in the electronic health record for audit and research
  Prof Adam Timmis (University of London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - New Insights from EXSCEL
  Dr Angelyn Bethel (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - DOHaD and diabetes in India
  Prof Caroline Fall (University of Southampton)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The autoantigen tetraspanin-7 in type 1 diabetes
  Dr Kerry McLaughlin (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar this week
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 15 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Mechanisms of monogenic renal tubule disorders
  Charlotte Philpott
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 December 2017 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 January 2018 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 January 2018 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar this week
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 12 January 2018 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Theme Update
  Various Speakers
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - ACE trial update
  Professor Rury Holman (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title: Closed loop insulin delivery
  Dr Roman Hovorka (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title: New thoughts and Peptide Therapies for Diabetes
  Prof Peter Flatt (Ulster University)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Islet cell changes in pancreatic explants
  Miss Hannah Laureson-Schafer
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Role of PYY in islet function
  Miss Anna Skaria
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The visualization of cold-activated brown adipose tissue by infrared thermography
  Miss Maia Patrick-Smith ( University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Ca2+ signalling in pancreatic alpha cells
  Ms. Joely Kellard
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title: Omega-3 fatty acids and cardiometabolic disease
  Prof Philip Calder (University of Southampton)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title: Modelling of beta cell dysfunction by iPS cells
  Prof Timo Otonkoski (University of Helsinki)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title: Measuring and manipulating regulatory T cells in type 1 diabetes
  Dr Tim Tree (Kings College London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Recent insights into IAPP pathophysiology: biomarker and trigger of islet inflammation
  Prof. Bruce Verchere (University of British Columbia)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title: Bariatric Surgery and Glycaemia
  Mr Bruno Sgromo (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 April 2018 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 20 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Theme update from the Pancreas & Islet cell transplantation subtheme
  Dr Ioannis Spiliotis (Clinical Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title: Is Care for people with type 2 diabetes better in Oxfordshire or Cambridgeshire?
  Sir Muir Gray (Better Value Healthcare)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title: Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and the Endocrine system: A cause, a consequence or an innocent bystander?
  Dr Abd Tahrani (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Functional and transcriptomic profiling of islet cells: Current insights and future goals in islet phenotyping and biobanking
  Professor Patrick E MacDonald (University of Alberta Edmonton,Canada)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What are we doing in Oxford to accelerate new therapies for patients?
  Prof Chas Bountra (SGC, Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - 5β-reductase, bile acid synthesis, and control of metabolism
  Dr Laura Gathercole
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Clinical and research uses of genetic risk scores in type 1 diabetes
  Dr Richard Oram (University of Exeter)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Adherence, Clinical Inertia and Integrated Care
  Professor Andrew Farmer (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  No Wednesday Seminar Series this week.
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Establishing a genome-wide pooled CRISPR loss-of-function screen in human pancreatic beta cells to prioritise causal genes at type 2 diabetes GWAS loci
  Miss Antje Grotz (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The role of Gα11 in calcium and glucose homeostasis
  Miss Anna Gluck (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Extracellular Islet Recordings: From Physiology to Biotechnology
  Professor Jochen Lang (Universite de Bordeaus)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Litchfield Lecture -The clinical implications of the glucocorticoid cell signalling system
  Professor George Chrousos (Department of Paediatrics at the Athens University Medical School in Greece)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Podocyte Insulin signalling and kidney disease: A complex issue
  Prof Richard Coward (University of Bristol)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 15 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The dynamics of hepatic lipid metabolism and storage in humans: understanding their role in fatty liver disease
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ms Pippa Gunn
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 28 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - 'Effect of beta cell specific insulin resistance'
  Dr Sos Soskvo (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Circadian clock control of glucocorticoid action
  Professor David Ray (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Screening for NASH and lifestyle interventions
  Professor Guruprasad Aithal (University of Nottingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Seminar
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of islet function by the HPA axis
  Dr Linford Briant (University of Oxford, OCDEM)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Is dementia preventable? The effect of vascular risk factors on dementia and cognitive decline.
  Dr William Whiteley (University of Edinburgh)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Bioengineered human pseudoislets form efficiently from donated tissue, compare favourably with native islets in vitro and restore normoglycaemia in mice
  Dr Yang Yu (University of Calgary)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - No Seminar
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Partitioned genetic risk scores for type 2 diabetes reveal differential effects on mechanism, phenotype, and disease course
  Dr Anubha Mahajan (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Non-Invasive Biomarkers for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Staging before Bariatric Surgery
  Dr Niall Dempster (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Moving to a dynamic understanding of hormonal function
  Professor Stafford Lightman (University of Bristol)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The diabetes risk gene TCF7L2 regulates human adipose progenitor cell biology
  Dr Manu Verma (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Novel approaches and interventions to stage and to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
  Dr Ahmad Moolla (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Diabeter experience in improving outcome and reducing costs in type 1 diabetes
  Professor Henk Veeze (Diabeter Nederland BV)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The role of DGAT2 in hepatocellular and whole-body metabolism
  Ms Pippa Gunn
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Diabetes and Frailty
  Dr David Strain (University of Exeter)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Metadherin, a novel regulator of glucocorticoid action
  Dr Toryn Poolman (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Glycaemia and thrombosis in diabetes: The role of the fibrin network
  Dr Ramzi Ajjan (University of Leeds)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Tetraspanin-7 as a biomarker for the diagnosis and prediction of type 1 diabetes
  MIss Juliets John (university of oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The establishment of a knockdown system to test the function of the autoantigen tetraspanin-7 in beta cells
  Mr Joseph Cutteridge (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Bedside to bench and back for pituitary adenomas
  Professor Marta Korbonits (Barts and the London University of London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The role of the transcription factor RREB1 in islet cell development and function
  Miss Katia Mattis (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Beta cell development, heterogeneity and regeneration
  Professor Heiko Lickert (Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Bud23 as a mediator of cardiac mitochondrial function
  Miss Maria Vornokov (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Follow your gut: does AKR1D1 impact gastrointestinal health and the incidence of cancer?
  Miss Anastasia Arvaniti
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The influence of dietary fatty acids on regional adipose tissue development and function
  Jonathan Gamwell (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - When the Clock stops ticking, the cardiovascular risk explodes: fixing the glucocorticoid timer
  Professor Andrea Isidori (University of Rome)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Machine perfusion of the liver - therapeutic opportunities
  Professor Peter Friend (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Using biomarkers to investigate dietary intake: high-fat vs high-sugar diet
  Miss Rebecca Young (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Effect of normothermic liver perfusion on human hepatic steatosis and glycogen accumulation
  Miss Phillipa Hook (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Hepatic Mitochondria in Patients with a mutation in PNPLA3
  Miss Katherine O’Byrne (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Hepatocyte mitochondrial inclusion bodies in patients with mutations in PNPLA3
  Miss Katherine O’Byrne (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How hot is human brown adipose tissue?
  Professor Roland Stimson (University of Edinburgh)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The influence of dietary fat and free sugars on liver fat content and metabolism
  Dr Sion Parry (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Time, sleep and memory: How light affects our physiology and behaviour
  Professor Stuart Peirson (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Title: Regulation of bile acid synthesis pathway by primary bile acids, glucocorticoids, and sex steroids in human hepatocytes
  Miss Anna Sharp (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The role of inflammatory cytokines and insulin on the regulation of genes of steroid metabolism in human hepatoma cell lines
  Mr Zachariah Raouf (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Moving Medicine: The impact of physical activity on health and disease.
  Professor Dylan Thompson (University of Bath)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The powerful effect or exercise to regulate glucose metabolism.
  Professor Jorgen Jensen (Norwegian School of Sports Sciences)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Pancreas & Islet Cell Transplantation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The circadian clock as a link between metabolic and inflammatory dysfunction
  Dr David Bechtold (University of Manchester)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Service Innovation & Evaluation
  Professor Katharine Owen (University of Oxford), Dr Rustam Rea
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dietary interventions to prevent and treat Type 2 diabetes
  Professor Susan Jebb (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Translational Islet & Metabolic Tissue Biology
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - What can circulating tumour cells tell us about neuroendocrine tumours?
  Professor Tim Meyer (University of London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The role of the G-protein alpha 11 subunit in calcium and glucose homeostasis
  Miss Anna Gluck (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Are there differential risks of macrovascular and/or microvascular complications in patients who have LADA or type 2 diabetes?
  Dr Ernesto Maddaloni (University of Rome)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Metabolic switching in pregnancy; relevance to maternal and offspring health
  Professor Catherine Williamson (University of London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Improving research reproducibility with R programming
  Dr Toryn Poolman (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC update from OBB subtheme - The Oxford Biobank an invaluable tool for translational research right on your doorstep
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Matthew Neville (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Correcting the NAD Metabolome in Health and Disease
  Gareth Lavery (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Mass spectrometry-based proteomic techniques to study nuclear hormone receptor functions
  Dr Toryn Poolman (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - NAFLD, a metabolic liver disease with implications far beyond the liver
  Chris Byrne (University of Southampton)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Looking at the liver through the lens of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy
  Dr Ferenc Mozes (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Change in islet cells following whole organ transplantation
  Dr Richard Dumbill
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Novel aspects of stem cell involvement in anterior pituitary homeostasis and disease
  This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled to a later date
  Cynthia Adoniadou (Kings College, London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Jerome Bertherat (Kings College, London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The use of exogenous ketones to enhance human performance
  Dr David Dearlove
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - A genome-wide CRISPR screen for beta-cell dysfunction
  Miss Antje Grotz (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Programming of cardio-metabolic disease by maternal over-nutrition: a developing crisis
  Professor Susan Ozanne (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Subtheme Update: Service Innovation
  Dr Rustam Rea, Dr Katharine Owen (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The importance of Metabolic Reprogramming to cell function: examples from the pancreatic beta cell
  Prof. Philip Newsholme (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes – Good news bad news; knowns and unknowns
  Amanda Adler (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

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

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Victoria Stokes (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding beta cell diversity from the single molecule to the organism
  Professor David Hodson (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The role of Ap2σ variants in calcitropic and non-calcitropic disorders (Confirmation of status)
  Dr Victoria Stokes (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - “Aetiology, complications and treatment of gestational metabolic diseases”
  Professor Catherine Williamson (University of London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Further refinement of culture conditions for immortalised adipocyte cell line
  Mr Jonathan Gamwell (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Follow your gut: does AKR1D1 impact gastrointestinal health?
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - No Seminar
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Subtheme Uptake: Translational Physiology, Therapeutics and Medical Innovation
  Prof Jeremy Tomlinson (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Peripheral inflammation rewires liver circadian metabolism
  Dr Fabio Sanna (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - "Genetic variants influencing sleep and chronotype: Clinical and biological insights from the UK biobank"
  Dr Martin Rutter (University of Manchester)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Investigating bariatric surgery as an intervention for NAFLD
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Niall Dempster (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - “Hear today, gone tomorrow: Utilizing the mouse to elaborate upon the genetic landscape of auditory dysfunction”
  Dr Michael Bowl (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Characterisation of a Glucagon-CreERT2 mouse model
  Dr Geoffrey Denwood (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - "Establishment of the Oxford Centre for the Endocrinology of Human Lactation"
  Dr Fadil Hannan (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Targeting bromodomain and extra-terminal domain proteins as a novel therapeutic approach for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
  Dr Omair Shariq (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Investigating the modulation of KRAS signalling in PNET and PDACs using epigenetic targeting compounds
  Miss Katie English (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - "Pituitary signalling pathways as therapeutic targets"
  This event has been cancelled
  Professor Shlomo Melmed (Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - "Disturbances in metabolism with Obesity"
  This event has been cancelled
  Prof Leanne Hodson (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 May 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Miss Maria Vornokov (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 8 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 15 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC Sub-theme Update Pancreas and Islet Transplantation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 22 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Andrea van Dam (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 29 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Nikolaos Nikolaou (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 5 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - BRC subtheme Update: Islet and Metabolic Tissue Biology
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 12 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series

Friday 19 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Benoit Hastoy
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Matthew Neville (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series