Monday 2 June 2025

• 14:00 - CANCELLED: Anne Treisman Lecture: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Parkinson's Research Day (this event is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only & is not aimed at members of the public)
  This meeting is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only and is not aimed at members of the public
  Various Speakers
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 09:00 - Can the unity of attention be modelled by rapidly plastic global attractors?
  Sanjay Manohar (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Consciousness Group
• 09:30 - Targeting the glutamate system to treat schizophrenia
  Dr Katherine Beck (King's College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
  Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - Harnessing the power of proteogenomic in large biobanks for drug target discovery
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Zhengming Chen (CTSU, University Of Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Network Estimation via Source Separation (NESS): Novel Perspectives on Linear Decomposition for Functional Brain Mapping
  Prof Leonardo Bonetti (Aarhus University and University of Oxford), Dr Mattia Rosso (Aarhus University)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 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
• 16:00 - Role of subplate neurons in the development and evolution of the mammalian neocortex
  Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 17:00 - Anorexia nervosa in Japan today: different from 19th century England and 18th century Kyoto?
  Professor Aya Nishizono-Maher (Meiji Gakuin University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 12:00 - How to network effectively
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - [CorTalk] David Bennett: Human Pain Channelopathies
  Prof David Bennett (University of Oxford)

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
• 12:00 - Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford) Decoding the molecular role of TDP-43 condensation in neurodegeneration using transcriptomics and biophysics
  Join us at the Centre for Human Genetics in Seminar Room A or via Teams: Meeting ID: 321 305 342 656 8 Passcode: JR2bL6ND
  Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 12:00 - 50 years with David Smith on location: from chromaffin granules to neurodegeneration via synapses
  Join us in person or remotely via Zoom - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Friday 6 June 2025

• 12:00 - 19th ANNUAL DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Opening windows for cognition through precise timing of cortical neurons
  Join us in person or remotely via Zoom - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Thomas Klausberger (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 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)
• 16:00 - [CorTalk] The neural code for semantics during language comprehension
  Melissa Franch (Baylor)

Monday 9 June 2025

• 15:00 - Modelling human planning with recurrent neural networks
  Professor Marcelo Mattar (New York University, USA)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 16:00 - [CorTech] Scaling chronic neural recordings to discover distributed neural computations over long timescales
  Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 314 478 319 24 Passcode: Ao2U3nv7
  Maxwell Melin (UCLA)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 09:30 - Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
  Various Speakers
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 09:30 - Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
  Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Values Frameworks as Ideal Types: Navigating Ethics Conflicts with Normative Minorities
  Autumn Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 10:30 - Dopamine and Movement: Defining Timescales of Modulation
  Dr Nicolas Tritsch (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Canada)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 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)
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Seminar cancelled - to be rescheduled for Michaelmas Term 2025
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 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
• 14:30 - Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
  This seminar will take place in person only
  Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
• 15:00 - Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
  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 Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 10:00 - Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Involuntary Movements
  Prof. Aysegul Gunduz (University of Florida)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: The Role of Calcium and Phosphorylation in Sleep
  Professor Hiroki R. Ueda (University of Tokyo)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 14:00 - 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)
• 14:00 - Examining the causal role of circadian rhythms and sleep in physical and psychological health
  Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
  Digital Phenotying

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 09:30 - Podcast your science (in-person)
  From inception to publication this practical session delivered by Emily Elias, journalist and producer of the Oxford Sparks podcast series, is a whirlwind tour through the basics of how to share your research in an engaging manner through podcasting.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 10:30 - University Welcome Induction for Researchers (in-person)
  Dr Rachel Bray (University of Oxford ), Dr Claudio Cortes Rodriguez (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Anne Wolfes (University of Oxford)
• 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 - Targeting the WRN helicase in MSI cancers
  Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Temporal prediction as a sensory processing principle
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 13 June 2025

• 16:00 - [CorTalk] Reactivations in the human brain build and regenerate narratives
  Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 384 695 774 574 Passcode: FU2Le6gh
  Avital Hahamy (UCL)

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
• 14:00 - Looking for meaning
  Professor Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humoldt-Universitat zu berlin)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 09:00 - AI consciousness? Problems with computational theories
  Damian Pang (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Consciousness Group
• 12:00 - RyR2 in the spotlight: how mutations and phosphorylation shape cardiac rhythm and arrhythmia susceptibility
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Dr Ana Maria Gomez (Faculty of Pharmacy, INSERM, University of Paris-Saclay)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Advanced meditation and the third wave of meditation research
  Prof Matthew Sacchet (Harvard University)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:00 - Spatially mapping immune mediated kidney disease
  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
• 16:00 - Dissecting the synaptic basis of learning in vivo
  This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
  Dr William (Jake) Wright (University of California, San Diego)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 23 June 2025

• 12:00 - Different Disease Pathways to Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease: Three Genetically-Defined Subgroups with Different Treatment Responses in Phase III Disease-Modifying Trials and Distinct Clinical Trajectories
  Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
  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

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 13:00 - If you have MOG antibodies what do you have?
  Hybrid Seminar
  Associate Professor Patrick Waters (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Wednesday 2 July 2025

• 15:00 - ’Zero-burden’ home assessment of cognition and behaviour: new approaches and implications for clinical trials
  Prof. David Sharp (Imperial College London)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 July 2025

• 13:00 - Positive Experience Shifts Fear Memories Away from Basolateral Amygdala
  Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 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 to provide access link to the meeting
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 9 July 2025

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  OxCIN Seminar Series

Thursday 10 July 2025

• 16:00 - OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
  Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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
• 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
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

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

Thursday 11 September 2025

• 12:00 - Dementia Research Oxford Seminar - Professor Martin Turner
  Professor Martin Turner
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Thursday 2 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 Hironori Funabiki (The Rockefeller University)
  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 Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 12:00 - Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
  Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 11:00 - TBC
  This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 09:30 - Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Thursday 13 November 2025

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

Thursday 20 November 2025

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

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Hugh Brady (Imperial College London)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 16 December 2025

• 09:30 - Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series