Tuesday 8 April 2025

• 13:00 - TIA Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 10 April 2025

• 15:00 - Using Photovoice in Research with People who have Psychosis
  Dr Roisin Mooney (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Dr Byamah Mutamba (Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital)

Friday 11 April 2025

• 13:00 - Neural basis of self-control
  Professor Veit Stuphorn (Johns Hopkins University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 15 April 2025

• 09:30 - Loneliness, Mental Health and Suicide: Insights from General and Vulnerable Populations
  Professor Vita Postuvan (University of Primorska)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Thursday 17 April 2025

• 12:00 - Insights into myeloid malignancies from human iPSC models
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Debunking old dogmas leading to the discovery of a brain NGF metabolic pathway, explaining the Alzheimer’s cholinergic atrophy
  Professor Claudio Cuello (McGill University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 16:00 - Light at the End of the Workday: Sleep and Health Around Retirement
  Luca Stella (University of Milan)
  Health Economics Seminar

Wednesday 23 April 2025

• 12:00 - The Knotty Problem of Neurofibrillary Tangles
  Professor Kenneth S. Kosik (UC Santa Barbara)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 28 April 2025

• 14:00 - Astor Lecture: Treatment and Prevention of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
  Professor Golda S. Ginsburg (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke
  Please contact Maxine on maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Dr Claudio Baracchini (Stroke Unit & Neurosonology Lab, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padova, Italy)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 15:00 - Natural language processing to identify suicidal ideation and anhedonia in major depressive disorder
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:30 - The discovery of ReNU syndrome
  Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Yuyang Chen (University of Oxford), Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Susan Walker (Genomics England), Dr Sarah Wynn (Unique)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 12:00 - Harnessing tissue regulatory T cells in the brain
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Current challenges and opportunities in digital healthcare and where the sector is moving in terms of AI
  Oliver Harrison (Royal Society EIR in Oxford- CEO of Koa Health)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Development of Motion Vision
  Associate Professor Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 2 May 2025

• 13:00 - Why the drugs should work: A deep cellular atlas reveals a mechanistic overlap between Parkinson’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes
  Professor Caleb Webber (UK Dementia Research Institute and Cardiff University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 09:30 - The changing mental health research funding landscape
  Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - SeedWISE - Cultivating Women's Excellence in STEM
  This is a six week blended learning course taking place in Trinity Term 29th April (online induction), 6th May (in-person kick-off), 13th May (online), 20th May (online), 27th May (online), 3rd June (online) & 9th June (in-person wrap-up)
  Various Speakers
  SeedWISE
• 15:00 - Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Stefan Feuerriegel (University of Munich)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 09:30 - Get that fellowship (in-person)
  This session will help you to understand the dos and don’ts of a fellowship application. It will guide you through the process and explain the support that is available. A holder of a research fellowship will discuss their application experience.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 12:00 - WIN seminar by Daniel Reznik
  Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 12:00 - The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germline
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Raheleh Rahbari (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Hands on Science Engagement (in-person)
  Dive into the world of experiential learning with our immersive course, 'Hands-On Science.' This programme is designed to equip you with the practical skills and insights needed to effectively communicate your research through engaging desktop activities.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Friday 9 May 2025

• 13:00 - Developmental programmes in cancer
  Professor Richard White (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 12 May 2025

• 14:00 - Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
  Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 09:30 - Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
  Dr Paris Lalousis (King's College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn
  Professor Clare Press (University College London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 13:00 - Tandem lesion stroke
  Please contact Maxine Florey-Hill by email, maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Professor Alexandre Y Poppe (Université de Montréal)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  TBA
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 10:00 - Uncovering the neural mechanisms of spatial attention and working memory supporting natural vision and language comprehension
  Prof. Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 12:00 - Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Utilising multi-omics to better understand painful and painless peripheral neuropathy
  Hybrid Seminar
  Associate Professor Georgios Baskozos (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 16 May 2025

• 13:00 - Pathways for the entry and exit of solutes and proteins into and from the brain. Implications for neurological diseases
  Professor Roxana Carare (University of Southampton)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 09:30 - GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
  Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
  Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 09:30 - Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
  This session is for people who have experience of presentations and want to hone their skills.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 09:30 - Scientific writing: core skills
  This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 23 May 2025

• 13:00 - Revisiting oxygen transport by red cells: getting excited about the most boring cell
  Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:00 - Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote meeting access
  Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 09:30 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 15:00 - Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 12:00 - Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 6 June 2025

• 13:00 - Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
  Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 15:00 - New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
  Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 12:00 - Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
  Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 13:00 - 70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk to grant remote access
  Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 12:00 - Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis
  Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 16 June 2025

• 12:00 - Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
  This is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 23 June 2025

• 12:00 - OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
  Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 13:00 - Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote meeting access
  Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Tuesday 8 July 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 15 July 2025

• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 4 September 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 13 October 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS