Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Economic and Psychological Constraints to Women’s Empowerment
  Mahreen Mahmud (Department of Economics, University of Oxford)
  CSAE Research Workshops
• 13:30 - Researchers @ the Finance Fair
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 16:00 - Normality: measuring practices and devices
  Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle & Dr Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Harmonics as a principle of brain function
  Dr Selen Atasoy (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Pak2 regulation of ER stress in cardioprotection
  Professor Xin Wang (Cardiovascular Sciences Division, University of Manchester)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:30 - Researchers @ the Management Consultancy Fair
  Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 15:00 - A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks
  Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "The role of combined drug treatments on cognitive decline and dementia risk''
  Danielle Newby (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 14:00 - Fourth Annual Oxosome Meeting
  Followed by a wine reception in the Sherrington Foyer
  Dr Stefan Balint (NDORMS, Oxford), Dr Sascha Raschke (Particle Metrix), Dr Shih-Jung Fan (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Naveed Akbar (RDM, University of Oxford), Dr Cheng Jiang (NDCN, University of Oxford), Lizzie Dellar (Oxford Brookes University, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford), Dr Dimitri Aubert (NanoFCM), Scott Bonner (Paediatrics, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Creativity and the Brain
  Professor Jane Mellanby (University of Oxford), Dr Lambros Malafouris (University of Oxford), Dr Matthew Kiernan (University of Leeds)
  Brain and Mind

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - GL Brown Prize Lecture: Tackling the pathophysiology of motor neuron disease (MND): a translational neuroscience approach
  Professor Dame Pamela Shaw (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, University of Sheffield)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The magic in the web of it: How a rare disorder is helping to untangle the mysteries of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Ellen Sidransky (NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Micronutrients as treatments for psychiatric disorders – rethinking the scientific paradigm
  Professor Julia Rucklidge (Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Canterbury)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  Dr Lucie Charles (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 14:00 - Researchers @ the Careers in Computing Fair
  TBA

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Conference: Mental Health in India - Bridging the Gap
  Various Speakers

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Experimental Psychology Early Career Researcher ‘firetalks’
  Various Speakers
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Envisioning the reward: contextual signals in mouse visual cortex
  Please contact Paula Kaanders paula.kaanders@wadham.ox.ac.uk if you would like to arrange individual meetings with Nathalie Rochefort
  Dr Nathalie Rochefort (University of Edinburgh)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:30 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Signalling with ubiquitin — communication between metabolism, immune responses and DNA damage repair
  Dr Elton Zeqiraj (University of Leeds)
  SGC Seminars
• 20:15 - Echoism and narcissism: the silenced voice in psychoanalysis
  Donna Savery (Existential psychotherapist and Dasein analyst)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Expert Decision Making: Biases in Psychiatric and Forensic Evaluations
  Dr Itiel Dror (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - The gut, the brain and energy metabolism: the role of ABCC5 in metabolism and neuron excitability
  Associate Professor Heidi de Wet (Oxford Center for Gene Function, DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 15:00 - Parafoveal processing and transposed-letter effects in dyslexic reading
  Julie Kirkby (Bournemouth University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Sex differences in the effect of age on memory-related brain function
  M. Natasha Rajah (McGill University)
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Researchers @ the Internship Fair
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 17:00 - Risk factors for dementia in the Million Women Study
  Dr Sarah Floud (University of Oxford)
  Older Women’s Health

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Assessing Cortical Dynamics and Function despite the Subsampling Problem
  Please contact Marta Blanco Pozo (marta.blancopozo@psy.ox.ac.uk) to arrange individual meetings with Prof. Viola Priesemann.
  Prof Viola Priesemann (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Multiple Roles for CXCL12/CXCR4 Signalling in Cardiovascular Development
  Professor Peter Scambler (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The autoantibody-mediated diseases of the CNS: clinical and immunological observations
  Dr Sarosh Irani (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 16:00 - Circuits for care - deconstructing parental behaviour
  Johannes Kohl (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Job Search, CVs and Cover Letters for Roles Beyond Academia
  Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 09:30 - Development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in children: Implications for increasing access to effective treatments
  Professor Catharine Creswell (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Regulating intracellular Ca2+ release in cardiac muscle
  Associate Professor Dirk Gillespie (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Rush University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  Philippe Faure (CNRS, Paris)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Synaptic alterations in the indirect-pathway of the basal ganglia in experimental Parkinsonism
  Jerome Baufreton (The Neuroscience Institute at Bordeaux)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Shape from shading in nature: Does it provide optimal camouflage?
  Prof Julie Harris (University of St Andrews)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Neurodegenerative disease: understanding the mechanisms of risk
  Prof Clare Mackay (University of Oxford)
  Older Women’s Health

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The mechanical regulation of neuronal growth and regeneration
  Dr Kristian Franze (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  John O'Doherty (Caltech)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Delirium and long-term cognitive outcomes: lessons from population studies
  Dr Daniel Davis (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Regulation of mammalian autophagy
  Dr Sharon A Tooze (Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 15:00 - Universal or Unique: The case of processing typologically distinct structures in Mandarin Chinese
  Jinman Li
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 16:00 - OFF-periods, causality and complexity in cortical networks during loss and recovery of Consciousness
  Marcello Massimini (University of Milan)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Regulation of calcium channels during development and differentiation''
  Prof Liz Tunbridge (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
  Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The potential of repurposed drug treatments for severe mental illness
  Dr Joseph Hayes (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Remembering the mammillary bodies: from relay to orchestrator
  Professor Seralynne Vann (School of Psychology, Cardiff University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Bullying and mental health: prevention and intervention
  Professor Lucy Bowes (University of Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Daniel del Toro Ruiz (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cell competition and the regulation of robustness of growth during early mouse development
  Dr Tristan Rodriguez (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - What might it take to follow high-dimensional longitudinal objective trajectories for stress and its impact on diverse end organs at an individual level across large populations.
  Professor Stephen Friend (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - A delivery service for maintaining Phosphoinositides levels during Phospholipase C signalling
  Professor Shamshad Cockcroft (Division of Biosciences, University College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  TBA
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 13:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milledge (University of Southampton)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
  Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  David Freedman (University of Chicago)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series

Monday 16 December 2019 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Emerging Minds Kick Off Event
  Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Writing systems, text experience and instruction in reading acquisition
  Porf Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Rewards, economic decisions, values and preferences
  Professor Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: TBA
  Dr Silke Goebel (University of York )
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Inaugural Watts Lecture: Recording and manipulating activity in frontal cortical circuits for learning and decision making
  Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 30 April 2020 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: TBA
  Jon Simmons (University of Cambridge)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 14 May 2020 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: TBA
  Prof Lucy Cragg (University of Nottingham)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 28 May 2020 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminat: TBA
  Dr Duncan Astle (University of Cambridge)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 11 June 2020 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2020
  Marisa Carrasco (New York University)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series