Oxford Neuroscience Seminar List
Talks:

Friday 6 June 2025

19th ANNUAL DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Opening windows for cognition through precise timing of cortical neurons
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Thomas Klausberger (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

[CorTalk] The neural code for semantics during language comprehension
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Melissa Franch (Baylor)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)
Host: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

Modelling human planning with recurrent neural networks
Date: 9 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Marcelo Mattar (New York University, USA)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar room
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

[CorTech] Scaling chronic neural recordings to discover distributed neural computations over long timescales
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Maxwell Melin (UCLA)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)
Host: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar - Values Frameworks as Ideal Types: Navigating Ethics Conflicts with Normative Minorities
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Autumn Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 1 and on Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dopamine and Movement: Defining Timescales of Modulation
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Nicolas Tritsch (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Canada)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephanie Cragg (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Carotid Plaque Imaging
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Anna Kopczak (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room, Lower-Ground Floor
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Eileen Parkes (University of Oxford)

Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
Date: 10 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Involuntary Movements
Date: 11 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Aysegul Gunduz (University of Florida)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Pharmacology Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof. Timothy Denison (University of Oxford)

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: The Role of Calcium and Phosphorylation in Sleep
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Hiroki R. Ueda (University of Tokyo)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Examining the causal role of circadian rhythms and sleep in physical and psychological health
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Podcast your science (in-person)
Date: 12 June 2025, 9:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

University Welcome Induction for Researchers (in-person)
Date: 12 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Rachel Bray (University of Oxford ), Dr Claudio Cortes Rodriguez (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Anne Wolfes (University of Oxford)
Venue: University Club, 11 Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: Multi-purpose Room
Organiser: Louisa Chandler (Researcher Hub)
Host: Dr Rachel Bray (University of Oxford )

Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis - Targeting the WRN helicase in MSI cancers
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Towards using large-scale, cross-brain neuronal recordings to identify the brain’s internal signals
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Carlos Brody (Princeton University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Associate Professor Armin Lak (University of Oxford)

Temporal prediction as a sensory processing principle
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

[CorTalk] Reactivations in the human brain build and regenerate narratives
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Avital Hahamy (UCL)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)
Host: Sasha Tinelli (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 June 2025

Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor James Davies (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Looking for meaning
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humoldt-Universitat zu berlin)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

AI consciousness? Problems with computational theories
Date: 17 June 2025, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker : Damian Pang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Goodhart Seminar Room,
Organiser: Yu-An Chen (University of Oxford)
Host: Yu-An Chen (University of Oxford)

RyR2 in the spotlight: how mutations and phosphorylation shape cardiac rhythm and arrhythmia susceptibility
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ana Maria Gomez (Faculty of Pharmacy, INSERM, University of Paris-Saclay)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Advanced meditation and the third wave of meditation research
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Matthew Sacchet (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Astor Lecture: Three ages and three intelligences: Children and elders are the key to human knowledge
Date: 18 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Christopher Summerfield (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 19 June 2025

Spatially mapping immune mediated kidney disease
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

Dissecting the synaptic basis of learning in vivo
Date: 19 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr William (Jake) Wright (University of California, San Diego)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 23 June 2025

Different Disease Pathways to Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease: Three Genetically-Defined Subgroups with Different Treatment Responses in Phase III Disease-Modifying Trials and Distinct Clinical Trajectories
Date: 23 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

ESOC 2025 Presentations
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 June 2025

If you have MOG antibodies what do you have?
Date: 26 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Patrick Waters (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A & B, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 June 2025

Thinking Outside the Box: Navigating Ethnicity in Genomic Medicine
Date: 30 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Anneke Lucassen (University of Oxford), Maxine Mackintosh (One HealthTech), Zeshan Qureshi, Trupti Patel (Genomics England), Elizabeth Young (West Midlands Genomics Laboratory)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
Date: 1 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

CRISPR workshop for early career investigators and DPhil students
Date: 1 July 2025, 13:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Theatre
Organiser: Marco Bellini (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert MacLaren (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 2 July 2025

’Zero-burden’ home assessment of cognition and behaviour: new approaches and implications for clinical trials
Date: 2 July 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Prof. David Sharp (Imperial College London)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar room A&B, West Wing, Level 6
Organiser: Prof. Andrew Sharott (MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit)
Host: Prof. Peter Magill (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Positive Experience Shifts Fear Memories Away from Basolateral Amygdala
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 9 July 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 July 2025

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 10 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 15 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 September 2025

TBC
Date: 4 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 11 September 2025

Advancing therapy development in ALS
Date: 11 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Martin Turner
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 October 2025

TBC
Date: 2 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hironori Funabiki (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Monday 13 October 2025

TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 16 October 2025

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 October 2025

Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

TBC
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

TBC
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 20 November 2025

TBC
Date: 20 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Bana Jabri (University of Chicago)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 November 2025

TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Brady (Imperial College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Naeema Mehmood (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 December 2025

TBC
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Charlotte George (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Ageing, Wellbeing and Health
Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
ARUK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute Seminar Series
Autism Seminar Series
BDI seminars
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Brain and Mind
Brain Diaries
Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series
Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar
Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
Centre for the Creative Brain
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
Child Development and Learning
Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
Child Development and Learning Seminars
CMD Seminars
CNCB Seminar Series
Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing
Cortex Club
Cortex Club
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
Dementia Research Oxford Seminars
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
Dopamine Club
DPAG Guest Speakers
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
ECR Lunchtime Seminars
Ethox Centre Seminars
Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars
Experts in Residence - Drug Discovery and Development
Health Economics Seminars
Immunology, Brain and Behaviour
Industry Insight Seminar Series
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
Language and Development Seminar Series
Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture
Marianne Fillenz Prize Lecture
MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
MRC Functional Genomics Unit Talks (DPAG)
NDCN Associate Professor Department Seminar Series
NDCN Departmental Seminars
NDCN Professor Department Seminars
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
NDM Seminar Series
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series
OxCIN Seminar Series
Oxford Autism Research seminar series
Oxford|Berlin summer school on Open Research
Oxford Consciousness Group
Oxford Dementia and Ageing Research
Oxford-GSK IMCM External Seminar
Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series
Oxford Neurotheory Forum
Oxford Nightline 50th Workshop Series
Oxford Pharmacology Society Seminar Series
Oxford Psychedelic Society Talks
Parkinson's UK lunchtime online Seminar
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Phenomenological Psychopathology
Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar
Psychiatry Research Meetings
Psychiatry Seminars
Psychiatry Seminar Series
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SCNi Seminars
SCNi Seminar Series
Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series
Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute Seminars
Social Brain and Behaviour Club
TDI Seminar Series
TORCH: Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
WHG Seminars
WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
WIN EDI Series