Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Self-help and psychology
  Dr Michael Finn (Leeds)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 16:00 - Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Pathways in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Matthew LaVoie (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 17:15 - INAUGURAL LECTURE: We are not good at translating lab science into new medicines for patients
  Chas Bountra (Professor of Translational Medicine; Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:45 - Regulation and ethics for MedTech Innovators and Start-ups
  Azad Hussain, Rita Hendricusdottir, Jessica Morley
• 09:30 - Antidepressant effectiveness and clinical importance
  Professor Glyn Lewis (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - How transcription factor interaction networks control gene expression programs
  Dr Giovanna Zinzalla (Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Manipulating brain dynamics with non-invasive oscillatory electrical stimulation
  Dr Ines Violante (University of Surrey)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series
• 14:00 - Research Skills Toolkit for Medical Sciences Division
  Various Speakers
  Research Skills Toolkits
• 16:00 - What happens to neuronal circuits in Alzheimer’s Disease?
  Dr Marc Busche (UCL)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
• 16:30 - Introduction, brief history of placebos (in clinical practice) and a note on method
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar
• 16:30 - The Discovery of Animal Cultures and its Multifarious Implications across Biology, Psychology, Anthropology and Conservation
  Andrew Whiten (University of St Andrews)
  Primate Conversations Hilary 2020
• 18:00 - Women in STEM networking event
  To book your place please visit: https://cosy.ox.ac.uk/accessplan/clientinput/shoppingbasket3/basket/wizard/EditBasket
  TBA

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - An Introduction to Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)
  Polly Kerr (Programme Manager, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation (PHWI) theme of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre)

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

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Writing systems, text experience and instruction in reading acquisition
  TBA
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 14:00 - ‘Single cell epigenome landscape of development and ageing’.
  Professor Wolf Reik (Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - High-throughput mass spectrometry for drug discovery
  Professor Matthias Trost (Newcastle University)
  TDI Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Insights into the regulation of human coronary microvascular flow
  Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:15 - The perils of writing a book about the clitoris, 2 years on
  Anne Zachary (British Psychoanalytical Society)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Multi-omics studies in depression
  Dr Najaf Amin (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 11:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milledge (University of Southampton)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 12:00 - Of mice (and rats) and men: assessing and correcting dysfunction in models of fragile X syndrome
  Professor David Wyllie (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Depression (and anxiety) in Paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
  Dr Maria Loades (University of Bath)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series
• 15:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milldge (University of Southampton)
• 16:30 - What is a placebo (in a clinical trial)?
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Plagiarism: Awareness and avoidance (for students)
  Jill Fresen (University of Oxford)
  WebLearn and Turnitin

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Targeting bromodomain and extra-terminal domain proteins as a novel therapeutic approach for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
  Dr Omair Shariq (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Conflict or Complement: parallel memories control behaviour in the wee fly
  Prof. Scott Waddell (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Oxford-BMS (Celgene) Fellowships - How to Apply
  Dr Charlotte Bell (University of Oxford), Dr Melanie Dunstan (University of Oxford), Dr Hebe Chen (University of Oxord)
• 16:00 - Combining iPSCs and ‘omics to identify molecular convergence in neurodegenerative disorders
  Dr Michael Ward (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Overcoming the Black Dog: Ketamine and esketamine for resistant depression
  Professor Phil Cowen (University of Oxford), Dr Rupert McShane (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Alzheimer's disease: the interaction between amyloid beta, synapses and microglia
  Professor Frances Edwards (University College London (UCL))
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:00 - Neural Evolution of Context-Dependent Fly Song
  David Stern (Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Why some children are at risk for anxiety and what we can do to help.
  Dr Helen Dodd (University of Reading )
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The genetics of stroke
  Associate Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 16:00 - Memory, Meaning and Human Identity: The place of theology in constructing the purpose of age in the light of dementia?
  Professor James Woodward (Sarum College)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 16:30 - Measurement errors in measuring placebo and nocebo effects.
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

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

• 09:00 - Expert in Residence - Dr Andy Pearce, GSK - Available for Meetings Today
  Please email charlotte.bell@medsci.ox.ac.uk if you would like to arrange a meeting with Andy. Please include a brief description (max 300 words) about what you would like to discuss with him.
  Andy Pearce (GSK)
  Experts in Residence - Drug Discovery and Development
• 10:00 - Mental health, protective and risk factors in a South African cohort
  Dr Yulia Shenderovich (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Rewards, economic decisions, values and preferences
  Professor Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 17:15 - How urgent is the immediate on-site treatment of psychological casualties (or shock victims) in traumatic events? Testimony from the field
  ISRAEL AND IONE MASSADA FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME WORCESTER COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD The presentation will be followed by discussion and drinks. The event is free and open to all.
  TBA

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:00 - 'Neonatal Pain Management in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC)' and 'Snake Bites and Surgery'
  Dr Cian Wade (University of Oxford), Dr. Harshjeet Singh Bal (Christian Medical College, Vellore, India)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 13:00 - Oscillation in Physiology: the How and the Why
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Exclusion and Mental health: exploring the role of improved provision in schools
  Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
  The University of Oxford Department of Education’s Public Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - The application of mindfulness based interventions in healthcare: their possible value for patients and doctors
  Professor Anne Speckens (Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Is there neurogenesis in the adult spinal cord?
  Dr Susan Deuchars (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Neural and hormonal underpinnings of paternal behaviour in the perinatal phase.
  Kim van Dijk (University of Amsterdam)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series
• 16:00 - Optical dissection of the thalamocortical circuits underlying the processing of sensory information in the mouse somatosensory system
  Dr Tommaso Fellin (Italian Institute of Technology)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
• 16:30 - Special problems with measuring placebos
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Teaching computers to understand clinical language: tapping into untapped opportunities of UK-CRIS'' & ''Predicting Outcomes in Prodromal and Manifest Parkinson’s Disease''
  Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford), Johannes Klein (University of Oxford), Professor Clare Mackay (Professor of Imaging Neuroscience, Oxford Department of Psychiatry)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective
  Dr Neil Armstrong (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Synthetic building blocks to assemble tissue regenerative constructs in situ
  Professor Laura De Laporte (RWTH Aachen University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Damn the compass, full steam ahead! Disease model validity and the problem of drug discovery
  Professor Jack Scannell (JW Scannell Analytics Ltd and School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 16:30 - Double blinding: the importance of being in the dark.
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

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

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Arabic digit knowledge and its relation to mathematical performance in primary school children
  Dr Silke Goebel (University of York )
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 13:00 - New perspectives on weight and metabolic changes in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2020

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Towards prevention of dementia: opportunities and challenges
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Control of vascular stability and inflammation-induced leakage via integrins
  Associate Professor Pipsa Saharinen (Translational Cancer Medicine Program, University of Helsinki)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 16:00 - Building a Sustainable Portfolio of Core Facilities
  Philip Hockberger, Ph.D. (Clinical And Translational Sciences Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago)
  DPAG Guest Speakers
• 16:30 - How placebos and nocebos work: a case study of pain.
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Early Career Researcher Workshop:Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Workshop for Researchers (Why even successful researchers feel like frauds and what you can do about it)”
  Dr Rebecca Murphy (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Decoding danger signals from the extracellular matrix reveals new strategies to treat inflammatory disease and cancer
  Professor Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Transitional care for young adults with ADHD – results from the CATChuS study
  Professor Tamsin Ford (University of Cambridge)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Age-related changes at the synapses of mouse inner hair cells
  Professor Walter Marcotti (Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 16:30 - The ethics of placebos and nocebos in clinical trials and clinical practice
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

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

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guidance mechanisms during neural circuit development
  Professor Ruediger Klein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Neurocognitive predictors of depression relapse
  Dr Quentin Huys (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - The enlightened heart: optogenetic approaches to treat and understand cardiac arrhythmia
  Professor Philipp Sasse (Institute for Physiology, University of Bonn)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Persistent Physical Symptoms: Evidence and Practice
  Dr Helen Griffiths (HEPAC, the Hugh-Ellis Paediatric Assessment Centre)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series
• 16:30 - Where placebo research needs to go
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "The impact of childhood adversity on adult outcomes and public policy''
  Dr Sarah Bauermeister (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dynamic control of neural proliferation zones in the zebrafish larval thalamus
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Driever (Freiburg University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Expert in Residence - Dr Andy Pearce, GSK - Available for Meetings Today
  Please email charlotte.bell@medsci.ox.ac.uk if you would like to arrange a meeting with Andy. Please include a brief description (max 300 words) about what you would like to discuss with him.
  TBA
  Experts in Residence - Drug Discovery and Development
• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Disordered affective learning in depression -TBC''
  Wanjun Lin (University of Oxford ), Joost Haarsma (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Tuesday 24 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - The early determinants of executive functioning: Data from low and middle income countries birth cohorts
  Professor Aryeh Stein (Emory University), Professor Alan Stein, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series

Wednesday 1 April 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford 3Rs Day 2020
  Various Speakers

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

Tuesday 19 May 2020 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Anxiety disorders: Risk and prevention.
  Dr Peter Lawrence (University of Southampton)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health 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