Wednesday 4 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Engrams as a substrate for information storage
  Associate Professor Tomás Ryan (Trinity College Dublin)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 5 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Prevention is better than cure – realising a sustainable new paradigm to predict and pre-empt obesity and its consequences
  Professor Nadeem Sarwar (Novo Nordisk)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Glymphatic dysfunction as a driver of Alzheimer’s disease: Moving past the hype
  Professor Jeffrey Iliff (University of Washington)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 17 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - MRI of Brain Plasticity
  Professor Alan P. Koretsky, PhD (National Institutes of Health)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 18 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Invasive neurophysiology and connectomics for brain signal decoding in brain implants
  Dr Julian Neumann (Charite University, Berlin)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 19 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Vascular effects of ion channels during healthy and complicated pregnancies
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Assistant Professor Ramón Lorca (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Colorado, Anschutz)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Friday 20 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Cortical circuits underlying complex scene analysis
  Associate Professor Kamal Sen (Boston University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 26 September 2024 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:30 - Virtual Reality Simulation for Medical Educators
  TBA
• 14:30 - Time Makes Space: Emergence of Place Fields in Networks Encoding Temporally Continuous Sensory Experiences
  Dr Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 30 September 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Curating clinical science: the future of academic publishing
  This is a HYBRID seminar. Students/postdocs are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker after talk. Contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk for Teams link or to sign up for lunch.
  Prof Bernard Dan (Professor of Neuroscience at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Thursday 3 October 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Hope Kent (University of Exeter)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Tuesday 8 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Brain vulnerability for psychosis: from mechanisms to real-world outcomes
  Dr Gemma Modinos (Kings College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Thursday 10 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
  Tom Freeman (Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Title TBC
  Kevin Nejad (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Zachary Freyberg (University of Pittsburgh)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 15:00 - Natural language processing of multi-hospital electronic health records for public health surveillance of suicidality
  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
  Ariel Cohen (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (France))
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Mesoscale modules for working memory in primate frontoparietal cortex
  Prof Simon Jacob (Technical University of Munich)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Towards closed-loop deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Andrew Sharott (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Causes and consequences of Tau Pathology in AD and FTD
  Professor Karen Duff (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Soraya Seedat (Stellanbosch University, South Africa)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Assistant Professor Verena Untiet (Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Copenhagen)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 15:00 - Mapping the thalamus’s role in reinforcement learning with Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy
  Dr Tom Gilbertson (University of Dundee)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Development of a differential treatment selection model for depression on consolidated and transformed clinical trial datasets
  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
  Kelly Perlman (McGill University), Professor David Benrimoh (McGill University)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:00 - COVID-19 in India: Epidemic, Inequality and Propaganda
  Dr Murad Banaji (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  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 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Dr Maximiliano Gutierrez (Senior Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 14:00 - SeedWISE - Cultivating Women's Excellence in STEM
  This is a six week blended learning course taking place in Michaelmas Term from 29th October to 3rd December 2024, with a short online induction session on Wednesday 23rd October.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Andrew Tinker (William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine )
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 14:00 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Rasita Vinay (University of Zurich)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 15:00 - The efficacy of automated feedback after internet-based depression screening (DISCOVER): an observer-masked, three-armed, randomised controlled trial in Germany
  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
  Professor Sebastian Kohlmann (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mutational order and stem cell plasticity in cancer evolution
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Understanding entrapment neuropathies and neuropathic pain: insights from bench to bedside
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Professor Annina Schmid (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of claudin-5 at the blood brain barrier in health and disease
  Professor Matthew Campbell (Trinity College, Dublin)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Mary-Ellen Lynall (Cambridge University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:30 - Title TBC
  Dr Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Physics of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as a new biomarker for health and disease
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Assistant Professor Erdinc Sezgin (SciLifeLab Fellow, Karolinska Institute)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 15:00 - Development and Validation of a Machine Learning–Based Model of Mortality Risk in First-Episode Psychosis
  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
  Dr Johannes Lieslehto (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - External Virtual Human Factors Course
  Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Changing Connectomes: Towards Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Techniques to Improve Cognitive Performance
  Prof. Markus Kaiser (University of Nottingham)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Impacts of childhood cancer treatment on testicular function and new approaches to preserve and restore fertility
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Gerome Breen (Kings College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Jules Hancox (School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 17:00 - Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
  Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - hnRNP K pathology in neurodegenerative diseases
  Professor Tammaryn Lashley (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Pharmacogenetic and pharmaco-epidemiological approaches to synergistically boost precision pharmacotherapy in psychiatry
  Professor Jurjen Luykx (Maastricht University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Associate Professor Tomás Ryan (School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Angelika Feldmann (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Brain Mechanisms of Breathlessness
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Kyle Pattinson (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - R Jean Banister Prize Lecture: Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity
  Dr Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield, UK)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 December 2024 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Anne Duffy (Queen's University, Ontario)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Nicky Whiffin (Big Data Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 30 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 5 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 6 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - External Virtual Human Factors Course
  Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  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

Thursday 27 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 6 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 13 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS