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Collection: Oxford Neuroscience Seminar List

Monday 13 October 2025

12:00 - Virus-induced necroptosis: make it stop!
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
13:00 - Competition in brain development and a novel approach to neural coding
Professor Michael Stryker (University of California)
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
16:00 - The physiology of cognitive control
Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 October 2025

10:00 - Multi-regional neocortical dynamics underlying learning and prediction
Dr Shuting Han (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
12:00 - ‘Mass spec to mechanism: new tools to understand protein function’ AND ‘Omnitrap: complementing bottom-up proteomics with alternative approaches for gas-phase sequencing of (glyco)peptides’
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Various Speakers
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:30 - Intraindividual educational research
Professor Lars-Erik Malmberg (University of Oxford)
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
13:00 - New pathways for acute stroke referrals, reducing the burden of mimics and improving reperfusion outcomes
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
15:00 - Harry Pack & The Purple UFO, Art as a Portal into Deeper Self Awareness and Connectivity
TBA
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 15 October 2025

Thursday 16 October 2025

12:00 - Splenic sensing and processing of red cells in malaria and sickle cell disease
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
12:00 - Integrating high-content approaches to understand Parkinson’s disease
Please join us in person at the Wellcome Building, Seminar Room B, Headington OX3 7JX Or via Teams Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 330 316 178 935 0 Passcode: xG6gU2xu
Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford )
ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)

Friday 17 October 2025

13:00 - Neuromodulation of Brain States
Professor Luis de Lecea (Stanford University School of Medicine)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 20 October 2025

Tuesday 21 October 2025

09:30 - Not all inflammation is the same: Observations from studying Inflammation Across Tissues
Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
12:00 - Astrocyte control of circadian timekeeping
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Marco Brancaccio (Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:30 - Access, quality, and developmental trajectories: Rethinking how structural inequalities relate to Early Childhood Education in longitudinal research and educational policymaking
Dr James Hall (University of Southampton)
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
13:00 - Characterizing salience signals in the insula
Professor Philippe Tobler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 23 October 2025

12:00 - Dendritic Cell Reprogramming Immunotherapy Induces Humoral Immunity Uncovering Biomarkers of Response
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
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
16:00 - Mind-body dualism as social signalling
Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)
Oxford Consciousness Group

Friday 24 October 2025

13:00 - Mitochondria in Neurons and Glia: Insights into Brain Function, Behavior, and Therapeutic Opportunities
Professor Carmen Sandi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 27 October 2025

09:30 - Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
The course will cover the key principles of planning and delivering a successful talk, and help to build your confidence. Each subject area in the MPLS Division has its own specific requirements for research presentations: please note that this course does not seek to address these.
Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
15:00 - The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
Professor Cade McCall (University of York)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 October 2025

12:00 - Modulating polyamines and polyamine transport in Parkinson’s disease
Professor Peter Vangheluwe (KU Leuven, Belgium)
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
12:30 - Understanding and changing bullying dynamics in mainstream and special schools
Dr Julia Badger (University of Oxford)
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
13:00 - Journal Club - TBC
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
15:30 - Ethox Seminar - Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy
Professor Alex Broadbent (Durham University)
Ethox Centre Seminars
16:00 - Compulsive Reward-Seeking: Roles for Dopamine, Synaptic Plasticity, and Stress
This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
Dr Talia Lerner (Northwestern University)
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 30 October 2025

12:00 - Brainomix 360: AI-powered imaging software for patient diagnosis and treatment decisions
Dr Zoe Woodhead (Brainomix), Dr Giacomo Benvenuti (Brainomix)
Industry Insight Seminar Series
12:00 - Investigating neuron-glial communication & support in neurodegenerative disease
Please join us in person at the Wellcome Building, Seminar Room B, Headington OX3 7JX Or via Teams Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 384 528 783 755 0 Passcode: jW7Re3zC
Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)

Monday 3 November 2025

16:00 - Inaugural Lecture: Spatial Attention and Working Memory Mechanisms in Natural Language Processing
Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 November 2025

09:30 - Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?
Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
12:00 - Locus Coeruleus degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Neus Falgas (Neurology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:30 - Balancing Global Standards and Cultural Relevance: Methodological Lessons from Researching Preschool Children’s Development in Pakistan
Dr Anushay Mazhar (University of Oxford)
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
13:00 - Network Meeting
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 5 November 2025

11:00 - Computational early cancer genome analysis at a national scale
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

Thursday 6 November 2025

13:00 - Neural population geometry and neuroeconomics
The seminar is to be held in the Lecture Theatre 2 (lower ground floor), not the usual seminar rooms (Seminar Room 7/8).
Professor Benjamin Hayden (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
16:00 - Evolution of consciousness within activity theory: is it relevant for the current AI debate?
Dr Denis Yukhnenko (University of Oxford)
Oxford Consciousness Group

Friday 7 November 2025

13:00 - Endocrine Stem Cells as Orchestrators of Organ Plasticity and Disease
Professor Cynthia Andoniadou (King’s College London)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 November 2025

16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

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
12:00 - Decoding memory acquisition and consolidation in mice
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Gisella Vetere (part of the Brain Plasticity Laboratory at ESPCI Paris)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:30 - MSc alumna presentations
MSC Education (Child Development and Education) alumni
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
13:00 - Carotid Webs
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 13 November 2025

12:00 - New concepts in type 2 immunity
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
13:30 - Walking the Tightrope of TDP-43: Mechanisms Regulating Function and Dysfunction in Health and Disease
Yuna Ayala (Saint Louis University School of Medicine)
ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
14:30 - Title TBC
Dr. Mehrdad Salmasi (UCL)
Oxford NeuroAI Forum

Friday 14 November 2025

13:00 - A mitochondria-lipid droplet stress pathway drives metabolic flexibility and cell survival
Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 November 2025

16:00 - Youth in Divided Societies: Understanding and Promoting Positive Intergroup Relations and Constructive Societal Engagement
Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 November 2025

09:30 - Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
12:00 - Neurobiology of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): 20 years of progress
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Klaus-Peter Lesch (Laboratory for Translational Neuroscience, University of Würzburg)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:30 - Believing emotions can change: Implications for adolescent emotion regulation and mental health
Dr Matt Somerville (University College London)
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
13:00 - Genetics, omics, and deep phenotyping of vascular disease
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 20 November 2025

12:00 - Tissue Regulation at the Crossroads: What Autoimmunity Teaches Us about Immune-Mediated Damage
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Bana Jabri (University of Chicago)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
16:00 - Is unconscious perception real? A new paradigm for testing this question
Yu-An Chen (University of Oxford)
Oxford Consciousness Group

Friday 21 November 2025

13:00 - FGF21 signaling activation: Treating obesity at the expense of cardiac hypertrophy?
Professor Konstantinos Drosatos (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 24 November 2025

16:00 - Rethinking children’s agency in cultural adaptation
Professor Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham University)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 November 2025

09:30 - Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
12:00 - Assessing mitochondrial phenotypes in patient cells from multiple neurodegenerative diseases: how useful are these in drug discovery?
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Heather Mortiboys (Head of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
16:00 - Preschoolers’ social emotional learning in children’s museums
Dr Jessica Luke (University of Washington)
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars

Thursday 27 November 2025

11:30 - Title TBC
Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
12:00 - E4bp4/Nfil3 from gene to therapy
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Hugh Brady (Imperial College London)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 28 November 2025

13:00 - The Neuroscience of Transgenerational Trauma: Just a Matter of Fa(c)t
Dr Ali Jawaid (Lukasiewicz PORT- Polish Center for Technology Development, Poland)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 1 December 2025

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

Tuesday 2 December 2025

09:30 - Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
Professor Giovanni Briganit (Université de Mons)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
12:00 - Inhibitory processing in visual perceptual learning: pharmacological mechanisms
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Jeff Dalley (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:30 - Title TBC
Professor Andrew Martin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
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

Wednesday 3 December 2025

15:00 - Impaired path-integration is associated with early Tau pathology in the entorhinal-hippocampal neural networks
Dr. Julija Krupic (University College London)
Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

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
12:00 - Industry Insghts Seminar - Novo Nordisk
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Jo Holbrook (Novo Nordisk)
Industry Insight Seminar Series
16:00 - Constructing conscious perception with single-cell specificity
Ethan Newnham (University of Oxford)
Oxford Consciousness Group

Tuesday 9 December 2025

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

Thursday 11 December 2025

Tuesday 16 December 2025

09:30 - Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
13:00 - Title TBC
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Tuesday 6 January 2025

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

Tuesday 13 January 2025

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

Monday 19 January 2025

16:00 - Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 January 2025

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

Thursday 22 January 2025

12:00 - Dementia risk prediction and prevention: value of observational studies
Dr Thomas Littlejohns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 26 January 2025

16:00 - Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making
Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 January 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)
13:00 - Journal Club - TBA
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote access
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Monday 2 February 2025

16:00 - Psychology, Digital Data and the Study of Behaviour: A Golden Age for Social Psychology?
Professor Mark Levine (Lancaster Univeristy)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 February 2025

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

Monday 9 February 2025

16:00 - Where is my coffee cup? Spatial coding of objects in naturalistic environments
Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler (University Giessen)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 February 2025

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

Tuesday 17 February 2025

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

Tuesday 24 February 2025

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

Monday 2 March 2025

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 2025

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

Monday 9 March 2025

16:00 - ECR - Fire Talks
Various Speakers
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2025

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

Tuesday 17 March 2025

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

Tuesday 24 March 2025

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

Tuesday 14 April 2025

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

Tuesday 21 April 2025

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

Monday 27 April 2025

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 2025

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

Tuesday 12 May 2025

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

Monday 18 May 2025

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

Tuesday 19 May 2025

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

Tuesday 26 May 2025

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

Tuesday 2 June 2025

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

Monday 8 June 2025

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

Tuesday 9 June 2025

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

Monday 15 June 2025

16:00 - ECR Fire Talks
Various Speakers
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 June 2025

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

Tuesday 23 June 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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

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