Thursday 20 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:15 - Mindfulness Taster Session
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Congenital myopathies linked to recessive RyR1 mutations: pathophysiology and treatment
  Dr Francesco Zorzato (University of Basel)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:30 - Personalised Neuroscience: from Molecules to Medicine
  Professor Richard Gilbertson (University of Cambridge & CRUK Cambridge Institute), Professor Robert McLaren (University of Oxford), Professor Andrea Németh (University of Oxford), Dr Sally Cowley (University of Oxford), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford), Professor Caleb Webber (University of Oxford), Professor Jeffrey Golden (Harvard Medical School)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Wednesday 26 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Reproducibility School: Kick start your reproducible research
  Professor Marcus Munafò (MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol), Professor Dorothy Bishop (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford), Professor Chris Chambers (Cardiff University), Dr Stanley Lazic (AstraZeneca), Dr Laura Fortunato (University of Oxford), Professor Lisa DeBruine (University of Glasgow)
• 12:30 - Women in Science: Tour
  TBA
• 13:00 - Research Meeting - ''Methods for identification of preclinical dementia at scale"
  Dr Ivan Koychev (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 27 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - MR-based computational neuroanatomy
  Saad Jbadbi (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 28 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Tropical Medicine Seminar: First Seminar: Malaria Models and Policy: Letters from Thailand. 2nd Seminar: Data sharing: easier said than done!
  Prof Lisa White (University of Oxford), Professor Phaik Yeong Cheah (Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  NDM Seminar Series

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Wei Song Ong (University of Pennsylvania)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Tuesday 2 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - OPDC Parkinson's Research Day
  Registration for the 2018 OPDC research day is free and includes refreshments, lunch and reception. Please complete the registration form below to join us at this exciting event. Registration closes on September 26th 2018
  Various Speakers
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Igor Kagan (University of Goettingen)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 14:00 - Strategies to minimise bias in analysis of randomised trial evidence
  Professor John Simes (Visiting Professor Julius Centre, University Medical Centre, Utrecht & Director, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Wednesday 3 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mitophagy in Early Onset Parkinson’s Disease. A talk by Assistant Clinical Investigator Dr. Derek Narendra, from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
  Dr Derek Narendra (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, MD, USA))

Thursday 4 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Open Access and Act on Acceptance
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences - Department research seminars
• 13:00 - Cardiology / Neurology
  Dr Sanjay Manohar
  Medical Grand Rounds

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Operating Principles of a Learning Network in Electric Fish
  Larry Abbott (Columbia University )
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Overlapping mechanisms of sleep, sedation and thermoregulation
  Professor Nick Franks (Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Professor Marcel Van Gerven (Radbould University, Nijmegen)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Empty time effects with the rapid streaming procedure
  Robin Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Visual stimulus processing and spatial memory in the retrosplenial cortex
  Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Insulin action - a pancreatic islet perspective
  Professor Patrik Rorsman (University of Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Mitul Metha (King's College London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Professor Giampietro Schiavo (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Synaptic dynamics in mouse visual cortex following sensory deprivation
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Seeing is believing: probing protein assembly and protein-ligand interactions by single molecule spectroscopy and imaging
  Dr Liming Ying (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Professor Dominik Bach (University of Zurich)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Should we stop looking for genetic biomarkers for psychological traits and disorders?
  Professor Dorothy Bishop (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic regulators of cardiovascular development
  Dr Kelly Smith (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Ryanodine receptor - calcium release channel complex in cardiac physiology and disease
  Dr Spyros Zissimopoulos (BHF Senior Research Fellow, Swansea University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Zoe Woodhead (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 15:00 - What drives the optimisation of vision in childhood?
  Dr Tessa Dekker (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Professor Daniel Alexander - Title TBA
  TBA
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Acylcarnitines - From Metabolism to Heart Function: A Focus on Their Role in Human Heart Failure
  Dr Christine Des Rosier (Universite de Montreal )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Network-driven drug discovery - what is it and why do we need it?
  Alan Whitmore (Head of Discovery Biology, E-Therapeutics plc)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Anna Huber (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mindfulness Unpacked
  Professor Willem Kuyken (University of Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Stronger together: understanding pancreatic beta-cell connectivity in health and disease
  Professor Guy Rutter (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lines of communication: the role of lysosomal membrane contact sites in cholesterol homeostasis
  Dr Emily Eden (Senior Reseach Fellow, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 15:00 - Individual differences in executive function in the first two years of life
  Dr Rory Devine (University of Birmingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - ''Improving the quality of interactions between parents with psychosis and their very young children'' / ''Unpicking adolescent consent''
  Dr Louise Johns, Dr Mina Fazel
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Macrophage contribution to Insulin Resistance independently of Inflammation
  Dr Myriam Aouadi (Karolinska University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Using transcriptomics to understand neurodegenerative disorders
  Dr Mina Ryten (UCL)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Professor Philippe Faure
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Emrah Duzel (UCL)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - GL Brown Lecture (PhySoc) - Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space
  Progessor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Septo-hippocampal circuitry beyond theta generation: how hippocampal spatial code is tuned by septal activity
  Dr Marian Tsanov (Wellcome Trust RCD Fellow, Trinity College Dublin)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Steve Fleming (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 15:00 - The development and modulation of mimicry in infancy and toddlerhood
  Dr Carina de Klerk (Birkbeck)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - ''Conducting Research in Ethics: Bad, Useful or Pragmatic''
  Prof. Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Coping with a stressful start in life
  Professor Alex Gould (The Francis Crick Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Inge Volman (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 15:00 - Comprehensive literacy instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders
  Dr Jo Arciul (University of Sydney)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Title TBA
  Dr Claire O'Callaghan (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 15:00 - Engineering sleep for memory consolidation in childhood and adolescence
  Dr Lisa Henderson (University of York)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 12 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Professor Zachary Mainen - Title TBA
  TBA
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Research Meeting - ''Stabilising sleep for patients admitted at acute crisis to acute inpatient ward services: a grant application for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial''
  Bryony Sheaves
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 16:00 - Challenges and Opportunities of Translational Neurogenomics
  Dr Sonja Scholz (Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Unit, NIND, NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Professor Daphne Bavelier - Title TBA
  TBA
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Professor Philippe Schyns - Title TBA
  TBA
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Professor Sarah Tabrizi - Title TBA
  TBA
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Professor Rainer Goebel - Title TBA
  TBA
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Professor Roshan Cools -Title TBA
  TBA
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series