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
• 14:00 - Online arts and culture for mental health in young people
  Dr Rebecca Sheriff (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Safe and effective generative clinical AI in mental healthcare
  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
  Dr Max Rollwage (Limbic AI)
  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
• 12:45 - Sleep: the fall guy
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Colin Espie (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 17:30 - The future of the NHS: balancing competing priorities for the benefit of patients and policy
  Jonathan Van-Tam, Professor Christopher Butler (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford), Professor Kamila Hawthorne (RCGP)

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
• 13:00 - ‘Maridebart Cafraglutide (Maritide) -an investigational drug for the treatment of obesity - from bench to clinic’
  Murielle Véniant, (Amgen)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

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
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
  Dr Christina Lamb (Athabasca University and University of Toronto)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 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)
• 14:00 - Searching for the individual: Unravelling the heterogeneity of psychosis
  Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Poster clinic
  Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 15:00 - Sodium channel dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
  Professor Kevin Bender (Center for Intergrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco)

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)
• 12:30 - ORNN Seminar Series: Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where? Dr Steph Fowler, University of Oxford
  Please join us at the Centre for Human Genetics, Meeting Room A or online: Meeting ID: 359 366 566 502 7 Passcode: 625eH9Gv https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjUwMWRlNjEtMWY3Mi00OWZlLTliYTEtZDk3ZDg2YjgxZjA5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22bc1835e3-a9f1-4890-b3e0-6158041fe7e8%22%7d
  Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 23 May 2025

• 12:00 - Targeting Organelle Dysfunction for New Therapeutics at the ARUK-Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
  Dr Margarida Raus (Centre for Medicines Discovery)
  OxON - Oxford Organelle Network talks
• 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
• 17:30 - Anne McLaren Lecture 2025: Women in Science
  Dr Judith Hillier (University of Oxford), Professor Niki Trigoni, Dr Hilary Wynne, Professor Dame Kay Davies FRS

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 12:00 - Immunosenescence: opportunities to reduce macrophage functional decline in ageing
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Heather Wilson (School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 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

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 11:00 - Immuno-metabolic dysfunction in Psychosis and the use of Imaging
  Please note the seminar this week starts at 11:00!
  Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)
  OxCIN Seminar Series

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)
• 09:30 - Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
  Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  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 - Rehabilitation Review
  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)

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
  Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)

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)

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
• 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
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  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
• 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

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 - Targeting the WRN helicase in MSI cancers
  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

• 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 - 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: 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

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