Tuesday 17 February 2026

• 09:30 - Analysis of R-loop forming regions identifies RNU2-2 and RNU5B-1 as neurodevelopmental disorder genes
  Professor Siddhartha Banka (University of Manchester)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Perspectives on psychedelic drug development
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Vaishnavi Madhavan (consultant, psychedelic drug development (formerly Research & Development Scientist, Beckley PsyTech))
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:45 - The influence of activity context on the quality of support for children’s oral language development in English nurseries
  Keeley Dobinson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 13:00 - Experiences and Insights from the WSO Future Stroke Leaders Programme
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Dr James Garrard (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 18 February 2026

• 09:30 - Negotiation & Influencing Skills
  This workshop aims to help build confidence and skills for those who wish to influence and achieve mutually beneficial goals with their peers, managers and stakeholders.
  Anne Gallagher (Leapfrog Training & Development)
• 15:30 - Integrative multiscale approach to Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Alex Skupin (University of Luxembourg)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 19 February 2026

• 11:00 - Serotonergic modulation of hippocampal-thalamic circuit excitability
  Professor Sharon Swanger (Virginia Tech)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Hidden in plain sight – retinal imaging data for AI-driven early detection of systemic diseases and augmentation of drug discovery
  Dr Wen Hwa Lee (Foresight Research Ltd)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

Friday 20 February 2026

• 10:30 - Pain Network Meeting: Women’s chronic pain at midlife
  How to find the OxCIN Annexe: To access the OxCIN Annexe, please arrive at the entrance 5 minutes before the meeting start time. For full instructions on how to find the Annexe, see this link: https://www.win.ox.ac.uk/contact-us/finding-win-fmrib or the map attached. Please note that this meeting is held on the first floor of the Annexe, in the south east wing of the Wolfson Building, adjacent to the Industrial Block, and does not take place in the main OxCIN@FMRIB Building.
  Catherine Borra (University College London)
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings
• 16:00 - Modification of human eating and addictive behaviours by gut hormones: understanding the potential for GLP-1 based drugs and beyond
  Prof. Tony Goldstone (Imperial College London)

Saturday 21 February 2026

• 14:00 - The Maternal Body: philosophy and psychoanalysis
  With regret, this meeting is cancelled following a bereavement.
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

Monday 23 February 2026

• 12:00 - Photoresponsive nanomedicine for the treatment of cancer and eye diseases
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Weiping Wang (Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, University of Hong Kong)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 16:00 - The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
  Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Understanding and treating anxiety in the perinatal period
  Fiona Challacombe (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 February 2026

• 09:30 - PsyMetRiC: From Clinical Prediction Model to Regulatory Certified Medical Device and Beyond
  Dr Benjamin Perry (University of Birmingham)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Friends, foes and the missing ties: Social relationships as determinants of mental health and socio‑economic futures
  Prof Louise Arseneault (King's College London)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 12:45 - The Role of Self-Regulation in Young Children’s Digital Choices, Behaviours, and Reactions
  Professor Steven Howard (University of Oxford)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 13:00 - Journal Club - Journal club biomarkers in cerebral amyloid angiopathy
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 13:00 - The cause(s) of autism spectrum disorder
  Prof Stephan Sanders (University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Thursday 26 February 2026

• 12:00 - Dissecting complex immune disease mechanisms through context-specific gene regulation and T cell morphodynamics
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Gosia Trynka (Wellcome Sanger Institute - Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Dissecting the role of microglia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using multicellular human iPSC models
  Please join us in Meeting Room A (Centre of Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN) or Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33394106887770?p=mrHggxJB4iXDqBxlqE Meeting ID: 333 941 068 877 70 Passcode: 6Pd33Pc3
  Bjorn Vahsen (Postdoctoral Researcher and Fulford Junior Research Fellow, NDCN)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 16:00 - Orexin/hypocretin knockout impairs mouse visual perception, processing and plasticity, and disrupts development of the cortical subplate
  Dr Cornelia Schöne (University of Göttingen)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 17:30 - Conversations on Consciousness: What should we do with our consciousness?
  Iain McGilchrist (Oxford), Chris Fletcher (Professorial Fellow and Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library), Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Conversations on Consciousness

Friday 27 February 2026

• 13:00 - Sugar and Starvation: Metabolic Strategies Across Evolutionary Extremes
  Professor Nicolas Rohner (University of Münster)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2026

• 16:00 - Neural underpinnings of language abilities in individuals who have lost the autism diagnosis
  Professor Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• 09:30 - Excitation-inhibition balance in psychosis - what does it really mean, and can we really measure it?
  Dr Rick Adams (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - From basic science to drug approval - practical advice for success in drug development
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Taylor Fields (Chief Development Officer for IntraBio Ltd)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:45 - Assessing Executive Functions in Primary School Classrooms: Reliability and Validity of an Ecological Momentary Cognitive Assessment
  Henry Tsz Fung Lo (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 13:00 - TIA Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar
  Dr Laurel Morris (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 16:00 - The cognitive model of PTSD in children and adolescents: the maths, the myths, and the market
  Prof Richard Meiser-Stedman (King’s College London)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 March 2026

• 12:00 - BiomarkerML: A best practice, cloud-executable workflow for scalable machine learning biomarker discovery in large-scale proteomics
  Daniel Tomé (OLink), Avigail Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Yuhan Zhou (University of Oxford)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 16:00 - iPSC models of Tauopathy
  Dr Kathryn Bowles (UK DRI, University of Edinburgh)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 5 March 2026

• 09:30 - Managing difficult situations
  The aim of the course is to provide participants with an awareness of what causes difficult situations / behaviour, a set of skills for managing them, and opportunities to practice the skills.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Alison Trinder (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Martin Pule (University College London)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Please join us in Meeting Room A (Centre of Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN) or Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/31302428981010?p=L11qAU84URGJe7y7j8 Meeting ID: 313 024 289 810 10 Passcode: rz2j4dS6
  Prof. Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 15:00 - COSYNE practice talks
  Dr. Ian Cone (University of Oxford), Eva Sevenster (University of Oxford, University of Bristol), Aswathi Thrivikraman (University of Bristol)
  Oxford NeuroAI Forum

Friday 6 March 2026

• 10:30 - BRC Pain Cafe
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings
• 13:00 - From Riches to Rags: the nuclear genome in megakaryocytes and platelets
  Professor Beth Psaila (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 9 March 2026

• 16:00 - ECR Spotlight
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2026

• 09:30 - Digital Innovation in Metabolic Psychiatry: AI-enabled Ketogenic and GLP-1-Supported Lifestyle Interventions
  Dr Megan Kirk Chang (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - The reinstatement of a forgotten infantile memory
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Flavio Donato (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Advancing Data Science to Examine the Causal Relationship Between Social Media Content and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours’
  Dr Amrit Kaur Purba (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 12:45 - TBC
  TBA
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 13:00 - Carotid Session
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• 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)

Thursday 12 March 2026

• 12:00 - Optimising T-cell antigen sensitivity by engineering extracellular receptor/ligand sizes
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Omer Dushek (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Wolfson College)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 16 March 2026

• 12:00 - DNA Damage and Repair in Neurons: Implications for Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration
  This is an ad-hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Bjoern Schwer (University of California)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 March 2026

• 13:00 - ISC Highlights
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 19 March 2026

• 12:00 - Investigating the cervical lymphatic system in ageing and dementia
  Please join us in Meeting Room A (Centre of Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN) or Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/38244437093232?p=5TLVo4BRVLldcfnhTY Meeting ID: 382 444 370 932 32 Passcode: aw3z5KH3
  Irene Mattioli (University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 13:00 - Autoimmune encephalitis: from clinical phenotype to immunology and back again
  Hybrid seminar. In person: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing, JR. Sandwich lunch provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Online: Teams Meeting link - https://tinyurl.com/yj33nk9h
  Dr Adam Handel (University of Oxford, Oxford Autoimmune Neurology Group)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 20 March 2026

• 10:30 - Pain Network Meeting
  How to find the OxCIN Annexe: To access the OxCIN Annexe, please arrive at the entrance 5 minutes before the meeting start time. For full instructions on how to find the Annexe, see this link: https://www.win.ox.ac.uk/contact-us/finding-win-fmrib. Please note that this meeting is held on the first floor of the Annexe, in the south east wing of the Wolfson Building, adjacent to the Industrial Block, and does not take place in the main OxCIN@FMRIB Building.
  Dr Andrew Marshall (University of Liverpool)
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings

Tuesday 24 March 2026

• 13:00 - Project Presentation
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 26 March 2026

• 09:30 - Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
  If you are nearing the end of your DPhil, this workshop will help you develop a plan for completing your DPhil and prepare for the viva.
  Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 15:00 - Super Mario Bros. as a naturalistic laboratory for studying cognition in brains and machines
  Dr. Yann Harel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford NeuroAI Forum

Tuesday 31 March 2026

• 09:30 - Current state of biological research in psychiatry: Where are we and where are we going?
  Professor Dost Öngür (McLean Hospital)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Friday 3 April 2026

• 10:30 - BRC Pain Cafe
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings

Tuesday 14 April 2026

• 13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Friday 17 April 2026

• 10:30 - Pain Network Meeting
  TBC
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings

Tuesday 21 April 2026

• 13:00 - Project Presentation
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 23 April 2026

• 15:00 - A taxonomy of recurrence
  Dr. Marcus Ghosh (Imperial College London)
  Oxford NeuroAI Forum

Monday 27 April 2026

• 16:00 - From perception and language to knowledge representation in primate brains
  Professor Yanchao Bi (Peking University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 April 2026

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - What is data cosmopolitanism?
  Jon Rueda (President’s Cabinet and the Ethics in Research Department, Spanish National Research Council)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 17:30 - Personalised Medicine: A Primary Care Perspective
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Thursday 30 April 2026

• 12:00 - Using experimental Medicine and pre-clinical models to understand human immunity
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 1 May 2026

• 10:30 - BRC Pain Cafe
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings

Tuesday 5 May 2026

• 09:30 - Direct-to-Consumer Medical Testing: Exploring Opportunities & Challenges
  Professor Anneke Lucassen (University of Oxford), John Powell (NDPCHS, University of Oxford), Dr Helen O'Neill (University College London), Mark Bartlett (StoreGene), Dr Sharon Dixon (University of Oxford), Prof. Tim Child (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Horton (University of Oxford), Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Professor Anthony Harnden (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Thursday 7 May 2026

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

Monday 11 May 2026

• 16:00 - Emotion preparedness: The foundation of emotional expressions
  Professor Disa Sauter (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 May 2026

• 13:00 - TBA
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 14 May 2026

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Jussi Taipale (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Hybrid seminar. In person: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing, JR. Sandwich lunch provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Online: Teams Meeting link - https://tinyurl.com/3z7bsa4x
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Kanmin Xue (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 15 May 2026

• 10:30 - Pain Network Meeting
  How to find the OxCIN Annexe: To access the OxCIN Annexe, please arrive at the entrance 5 minutes before the meeting start time. For full instructions on how to find the Annexe, see this link: https://www.win.ox.ac.uk/contact-us/finding-win-fmrib. Please note that this meeting is held on the first floor of the Annexe, in the south east wing of the Wolfson Building, adjacent to the Industrial Block, and does not take place in the main OxCIN@FMRIB Building.
  Dr Charlotte Krahé (Liverpool John Moores University)
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings

Monday 18 May 2026

• 16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2026
  Professor Susan Carey (Harvard University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 May 2026

• 13:00 - TBA
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 21 May 2026

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

Tuesday 26 May 2026

• 13:00 - TBA
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 16:00 - Towards the Geometry of Color Space
  Professor David Brainard (University of Pennsylvania)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 28 May 2026

• 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 Sir David Klenerman (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 1 June 2026

• 16:00 - Adaptive Cognition: How Flexible, but Selective Memory Use Shapes Behaviour
  Professor Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 June 2026

• 13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
  Please Contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 4 June 2026

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Chiara Bonini (San Raffaele Scientific Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 8 June 2026

• 16:00 - Confidence judgments of perceptual and motor decisions
  Dr Pascal Mamassian (École normale supérieure)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 June 2026

• 13:00 - Network Meeting
  Please Contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 11 June 2026

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Ton Schumacher (Netherlands Cancer Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 15 June 2026

• 16:00 - ECR Spotlight
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 June 2026

• 13:00 - ESOC Highlights
  Please Contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  TBA
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 18 June 2026

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Dirk Schubeler (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 23 June 2026

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please Contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Tuesday 30 June 2026

• 13:00 - Journal Club -
  Please Contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Tuesday 7 July 2026

• 13:00 - TIA Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndnc.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Tuesday 14 July 2026

• 13:00 - ESOC Presentations
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndnc.ox.ac.uk for remote access
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme