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

• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff: Introduction to Endnote
  Eli Harriss (Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 11:00 - “New insights into altered epigenetic repression and topology: studies of chromatin remodeling in cancer”
  Dr. Benjamin Stanton (Assistant Professor, St. Baldrick's Foundation Scholar, Center for Childhood Cancer & Blood Diseases, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, the Ohio State University College of Medicine, US)
  Seminar
• 12:00 - “The role of DJ-1/PARK7 in regulatory T cells"
  Professor Rudi Balling (University of Luxembourg)
  WHG Seminars
• 12:30 - Update in Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases
  Prof. Jodie Ingles (University of Sydney)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 13:00 - New Targeted Therapeutics to Enhance the Radiation Response of Tumours
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Amato Giaccia (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - CD137, IL-8 and TNF: the good, the bad and the ugly in cancer immunotherapy
  Professor Ignacio Melero (University of Navarra)
• 13:00 - BDI R Code Clinic Drop In
  TBA
• 14:00 - Finally: empty class I molecules
  Dr Sebastian Springer (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Life course metabolomics: new insights into body composition and diabetes
  Dr Joshua Bell (University of Bristol)
  BDI seminars
• 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 - ‘We Are Not Good at Translating Lab Science into New Medicines for Patients’
  Prof Chas Bountra (SGC, University of Oxford)
  Translating Illness
• 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
• 17:30 - Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it's time for a UK Sunshine Act
  Prof Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
  Evidence-Based Health Care Programme
• 18:45 - Making better decisions in life and work
  Professor Richard Canter (University of Oxford )
  Management in Medicine seminar seies

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
• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff: Introduction to systematic reviews & evidence syntheses
  Eli Harriss (Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 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 - 'The Consequences of Evolving a Placenta - In Fish'
  Dr Joseph Travis (Florida State University)
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Twenty-five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
  TBA
  Population Health 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
• 15:00 - Molecular definition of lipid droplet diversity
  Dr Ho Yi Mak (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 16:00 - What happens to neuronal circuits in Alzheimer’s Disease?
  Dr Marc Busche (UCL)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
• 16:00 - Bearing the burdens we (don’t) bare: A theological reflection on carrying the weight of ageing
  Dr Ashley Moyse (McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, University of Oxford)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 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
• 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)

• 09:30 - What does it mean to engage research in policy: A case study of Brexit & Healthcare
  Dr Nicholas Fahy (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars & Workshops
• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching in Medical Sciences- Workshop 1
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching Programme in Medical Sciences
• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Suffering prioritisation, or prioritising suffering? A critique of arguments for and against NHS funded fertility services
  Dr Jonathan Ives (University of Bristol)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 12:30 - Davies & Knight Lunchtime Lab Talks
  Dr Gabriele Migliorini (University of Oxford), Dr Ping Zhang (University of Oxford), Dr Samy AlGhadban (University of Oxford), Dr Amine Bouchareb (University of Oxford)
  WHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 13:00 - How many TCR clonotypes does a body maintain?
  Dr Grant Lythe (School of Mathematics, Leeds University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 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)
• 14:00 - Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff: Introduction to Endnote
  Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 17:00 - WHO GETS SICK AND WHY?: HOW RACIAL INEQUALITY “GETS UNDER THE SKIN"
  Tyson Brown (Duke University)
  Nuffield College Sociology Seminars
• 18:00 - McGovern Lecture on the History of Medicine: A Medical Commander In Rwanda 1994
  Major General Professor Alan Hawley CBE

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

• 09:30 - Civil Service: Assessment Centre Support (45-minute sessions for all students and research staff)
  TBA
• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff: Introduction to Mendeley
  Catherine Hartley (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division and OUH staff - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 11:30 - Lab Technician Apprenticeships - Information Session
  Various Speakers
• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Writing systems, text experience and instruction in reading acquisition
  TBA
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Adult Intensive Care Unit / Acute General Medicine Firm A
  Dr Matthew Giles, Dr Conrad Groenewald
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 13:00 - Height, weight and prostate cancer
  Aurora Perez-Cornago (University of Oxford)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2020
• 14:00 - ‘Single cell epigenome landscape of development and ageing’.
  Professor Wolf Reik (Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Fernanda Duarte Gonzalez (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Research Skills Toolkit for Medical Sciences Division
  Various Speakers
  Research Skills Toolkits
• 15:30 - Twenty five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
  Prof Sarah C. Darby (University of Oxford)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: Should Antivaxxing be Illegal?
  Professor Jordan Raff (University of Oxford), Dr Sabine Jaccaud (Director of Cambridge Communications, AstraZeneca), Flurin Caviezel (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

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

• 08:00 - Gaza – Oxford teaching in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
  Mr Nick Maynard (The Oxford OesophagoGastric Centre), Dr Richard Harrington (University of Oxford), Professor Andrew Wilkinson (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Brenda Kelly (Clinical lead for FGM in Oxford)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:30 - Signalling pathways that control muscle mass, metabolism and longevity
  Professor Marco Sandri (University of Padova)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
• 11:00 - High-throughput mass spectrometry for drug discovery
  Professor Matthias Trost (Newcastle University)
  TDI Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Top tips on careers & fellowship applications for early career researchers
  Dr Candace Hassall, Head of Researcher Affairs (Wellcome Trust)
  Special Seminar
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Victoria Stokes (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday 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
• 14:00 - Mathematical modelling as part of an HIV clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Will Probert (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

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

• 09:30 - Civil Service: Assessment Centre Support (45-minute sessions for all students and research staff)
  TBA
• 12:00 - Regulation of innate immune responses by the TPL-2 complex
  Professor Steve Ley (Imperial College London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 16:00 - Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War
  Dr Taline Garibian (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 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
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Trans fatty acid biomarkers and incident type 2 diabetes: pooled analysis from 11 prospective cohort studies
  Dr Heidi Lai (Imperial College London)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Insight into Academia: Funding & Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
  Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 15:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milldge (University of Southampton)
• 16:00 - Yes Yes No: Sculpture, Dance, Choreography and What Age Brings
  Melissa Pierce Murray, sculptor (UCL)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 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)

• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Scutt (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:00 - Inhibition of ER alpha-glucosidase I and the role of the unfolded protein response in dengue virus infection
  Juliane Brun (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Plagiarism: Awareness and avoidance (for students)
  Jill Fresen (University of Oxford)
  WebLearn and Turnitin
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor David Hodson (University of Birmingham)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures
  Emilia del Bono (University of Essex)
  Health Economics
• 17:00 - The importance of a mixed methods approach in primary care research
  Dr Helen Atherton (University of Warwick)
  Evidence-Based Health Care Programme

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “Role of AHR in intestinal injury repair”
  Prof. Gitta Stockinger (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - BRC Diet, Obesity & Lifestyle Theme Networking Event
  Various Speakers
• 12:30 - Digiknow: Formatting documents for readability and accessibility
  Dominik Lukes (University of Oxford)
  Digiknow: tools and tech to help you succeed
• 13:00 - Using Genetics to Understand Neurological Disorders
  Associate Professor Andrea Németh (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
• 13:00 - Is obesity a choice?
  Dr Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2020
• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Daniel Quetschlich (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Some constraints on the scope and potential of personalised medicine
  Professor George Davey Smith (University of Bristol)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: Are We Entitled to Choose How We Die?
  Dr. Maria Stamatopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Amy Proffitt (Medical Director in Palliative Medecine at St Christopher's), Selina Abächerli (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020
• 17:30 - When meta-analyses of the same question find different things: a case study of systematic reviews of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
  Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce (University of Oxford)
  Evidence-Based Health Care Programme
• 18:00 - An Oxford Conversation: the impact of fake news on our lives
  Simon Stevens (NHS England), Damian Collins MP, Sarah Montague (BBC Radio 4)
  Population Health Seminars

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

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds
  Dr Peyton Davis (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Professor Meghana Pandit (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Ho Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC HIU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 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
• 12:45 - Investigating the modulation of KRAS signalling in PNET and PDACs using epigenetic targeting compounds
  Miss Katie English (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
• 14:00 - New Perspectives on Innate Lymphoid Cell Development and Function
  Professor James Di Santo (Institut Pasteur, France)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:00 - An ODE mixed-effect model of vascular tumor growth with anti-angiogenic treatment
  Dr Shelby Wilson (University of Maryland)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

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

• 11:00 - RNA Vaccines
  Prof Robin Shattock (Head of Mucosal Infection and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)
  Jenner Seminars
• 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)
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Opportunities and challenges in using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts
  Dr Katie Harron (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
  BDI seminars
• 16:00 - Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine
  Professor Marilyn Nicoud (Avignon)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 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 - Sensyne Health - What disease? Do we have the right approach to disease classification and how this should impact our approach to treatment
  Lunch provided. Please register. 1:1 meetings available
  TBA
  Industry Insights Seminar Series
• 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 - Oxford-BMS (Celgene) Fellowships - How to Apply
  Dr Charlotte Bell (University of Oxford)
• 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 - Dissecting the molecular mechanisms underpinning gene dysregulation caused by a regulatory SNV
  Dr Yavor Bozhilov (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The genetics of stroke
  Associate Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Fake news? Epistemic and ethical challenges for synthetic datasets
  Ben Cairns (University of Oxford), Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
  Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
• 14:00 - "PRC2 Complexes in Development and Disease”
  Dr. Adrian Bracken (Associate Professor in Medical Molecular Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin)
  Seminar
• 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
• 17:00 - Personalised Healthcare: From Bench to Bedside
  Professor Joanne Hackett (Genomics England), Professor Simon Leedham (University of Oxford), Doctor Lauren Harper (Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland)
• 17:30 - Crohn's and Colitis Open Evening
  You must register for this event
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Artificial Intelligence: Some Likely Developments and Foreseeable Challenges
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Catherine Williamson (University of London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

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
• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching in Medical Sciences- Workshop 2
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching Programme in Medical Sciences
• 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
• 11:00 - Cancer Metastasis: A Disorder of Metabolism
  Professor Sarah Maria Fendt (VIB, Leuven)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Rewards, economic decisions, values and preferences
  Professor Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Horton Hospital / Rheumatology
  Prof Paul Bowness, Dr Angela Rogers
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 16:30 - TGU Seminar: Macrophage Activation in Intestinal Inflammation
  Prof. Menna R. Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
  TGU Seminars
• 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
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Mr Jonathan Gamwell (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 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
• 14:00 - How T-Cells Recognize Antigens – Perspectives from Molecular Imaging
  Professor Johannes Huppa (Medical University of Vienna)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:00 - Systems biology for single cell RNA-Seq data
  Dr Tom Thorne (University of Reading)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Obesity and Weight Loss
  Associate Professor Oliver Rider (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Saturday 8 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - The Art and Science of Making Improvements in Healthcare
  Dr Tony Berendt, Dr Anny Sykes (Oxford University Hospitals)
  Management in Medicine seminar seies

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

• 13:00 - Progressive irreversible DNA methylation programming facilitates identification of lineage restriction points in hematopoisis
  Dr Michael Milsom (German Cancer Research Centre)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850
  Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 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
• 20:15 - Reconstructing Socrates: Platonic projections and realities
  Armond d'Angour (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

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
• 09:30 - TropMed webinar: Vaccine evaluation and transfer to policy
  The seminar will be shared via Zoom. Contact Claire-Lise Kessler if you want to join
  Conall Watson (University of Oxford), Ifedayo Adetifa (KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)
  Tropical Medicine 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
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Movement posology for a digitally-enabled world
  Professor Dylan Thompson (University of Bath)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Insight into Academia: Academic Futures - More than Research
  Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 16:00 - The body as an ageing thing
  Dr Chris Gilleard (University College London)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 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
• 16:30 - TGU Seminar: IBS and Microbiome
  Professor Nick Talley (Newcastle)
  TGU Seminars
• 17:15 - Pyrrhic progress: the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

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

• 10:30 - Title TBC
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars & Workshops
• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Addressing vulnerability in and through research: Highlights from the REACH study
  Dr Maureen Kelley (Associate Professor in Bioethics, The Ethox Centre)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 13:00 - Single-molecule imaging of GPCR contributions to T cell activation
  Dr James Felce (The Kennedy Institute, Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 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
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Professor Johan Sandberg (Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
  MRC HIU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 16:30 - OX and Start Ups Careers Fair
  TBA

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

• 12:30 - Plagiarism: Awareness and avoidance (for students)
  Jill Fresen (University of Oxford)
  WebLearn and Turnitin
• 13:00 - Geratology / Neurology
  Mr Martin Gillies
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 14:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Access
• 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)

• 08:00 - Vascular surgery
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Pollard Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC HIU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Sion Parry (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 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
• 14:00 - Application of artificial neural networks to infer pharmacological molecular-level mechanisms of drug evoked clinical responses
  Dr Jonathan Wagg (Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Digiknow: Creating mind maps, flowcharts and infographics with everyday tools
  Dominik Lukes (University of Oxford)
  Digiknow: tools and tech to help you succeed
• 16:00 - Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Trish Greenhalgh (Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

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
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Eduardo Calpena (Clinical Genetics, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - 'Air pollution exposure during pregnancy and infancy period: implications on childhood health'
  Dr Samuel Y Cai (The George Institute UK, University of Oxford )
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Using evidence to transform policy and practice – can it be done?
  Professor Mary Renfrew (University of Dundee)
  Population Health Seminars
• 16:00 - Monkey Glands and Moisturisers: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain
  Dr James Stark (University of Leeds)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 16:30 - Double blinding: the importance of being in the dark.
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: The Role of Autonomy in Medical Consent
  Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Yale University)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 13:00 - TBC
  Dr Christian Widmann (University of Lausanne)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 16:00 - Class Influence on Drug Consumption Among Teenagers
  Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
  Health Economics
• 17:00 - Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health
  Prof Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

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

• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching in Medical Sciences Workshop 3
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching Programme in Medical Sciences
• 11:00 - Molecular principles of the epigenetic reprogramming in vivo
  Professor Petra Hajkova (LMS MRC, Imperial)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 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 - Infection/Microbiology / Renal
  TBA
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 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
• 18:00 - Title TBC
  Various Speakers
  Oxford University Global Surgery Group Seminars

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:00 - Particle embolization of spinal cord AVM
  Dr Marc-Antoine Labeyrie (AP-HP (Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals))
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC HIU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Fabio Sanna (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Tensor clustering with algebraic constraints gives interpretable groups of crosstalk mechanisms in breast cancer
  Dr Anna Seigal (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Machine learning for clinical decision making and improved understanding in Cardiology
  Prof. Bart Bijnens (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 13:00 - Deciphering T cell evolution in lung cancer
  Dr Sergio Quezada (University College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:15 - Differential Resilience to Perturbation of Circuits with Similar Performance
  Professor Eve Marder (Biology Department and Volen Center, Brandeis University)
  DPAG Mabel FitzGerald Annual Lecture Series
• 16:00 - No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?
  Georgina Ferry (Author)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 18:45 - Completing projects in life and work
  Oscar Lyons (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
  Management in Medicine seminar seies
• 20:15 - Psychoanalytic thoughts on the psychodynamics of Casino Culture and Politics
  Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

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

• 09:00 - Health Econometrics and Policy Evaluation
  Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Research Fellow, Centre for Health Service Economics & Organisation)
• 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
• 13:00 - Genetic Engineering of Human Hematopoiesis for Treating Inherited Diseases and Cancer
  Dr Luigi Naldini (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 16:00 - What can knowledge of History contribute to current understandings of ageing and old age?
  Professor Patricia M. Thane (King's College London)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 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)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Negligence and abortion - doctors' duty of care challenges and potentials in light of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
  Caterina Milo (Durham Law School)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Martin Rutter (University of Manchester)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 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
• 13:00 - Cringe Free Networking - What, Why & How
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christian Pinset (Centre for the Study of Stem Cells/ iStem), Emmanuelle Massourides (Centre for the Study of Stem Cells/ iStem)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
• 14:00 - Networking Extra for Researchers: Telling your Story Differently
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 17:00 - The effect of a targeted cash transfer on cognitive function in later life: Evidence from a gene-by-environment interaction
  Jennifer Dowd (University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - The future of health in the UK – the next 20 years
  Prof Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer)
  Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Moving to a Non-Academic Career (for Research Staff)
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 13:00 - Respiratory / Gastroenterology
  Dr Emma Culver
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 14:00 - SBCB seminar
  Alice Brankin (Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital)
  SBCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - New mechanism of cerebral vessel diseases
  TBA

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

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds
  TBA
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Simon Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC HIU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Niall Dempster (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 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
• 14:00 - The structure and lifecycle of HIV-1 - new insights from cryo-electron tomography.
  Dr. John Briggs (MRC Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:00 - Diffusion tensor cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to measure myocardial disarray in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  Dr Rina Ariga (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Parkinsons and Cognitative Function
  Associate Professor Chrystaline Antoniades (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Academic CVs and Cover Letters for Researchers: Review and Discussion
  Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 12:00 - Researcher Strategy Consultancy Spring/Summer 2020 Application Deadline
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 12:30 - Digiknow: Tech tools to write clear and simple English for web and print
  Dominik Lukes (University of Oxford)
  Digiknow: tools and tech to help you succeed
• 13:00 - Cyclin B1 and the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint: a 15 year odyssey
  Prof Jon Pines (Division of Cancer Biology, ICR London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Interview Skills for Researchers
  Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 16:00 - Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa
  Dr Chris Low (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - What is Life? (James Martin Memorial Lecture)
  Sir Paul Nurse, FRS (Director, The Francis Crick Institute)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

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
• 11:00 - Improving access to primary care: eight case studies of introducing Advanced Access in England
  Professor Catherine Pope (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars & Workshops
• 12:00 - GE Healthcare - Deep learning based image enhancement in positron emission tomography
  lunch provided. Please Register. 1:1 meetings available
  TBA
• 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
• 12:30 - Plagiarism: Awareness and avoidance (for students)
  Jill Fresen (University of Oxford)
  WebLearn and Turnitin
• 13:00 - Free Heme overload in DBA progenitors and HSP70/GATA1 involvement in the globin/heme dysequilibrium
  Professor Lydie da Costa (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The Risk of Everything – using linked electronic health records to develop and validate risk prediction tools for use in clinical care
  Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 16:00 - Art, ageing and policy
  Stephen Bennett (Cabinet Office’s Policy Lab)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 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

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - TBC
  Dr Adriana Dawes (Dept of Mathematics, The Ohio State University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - “Hear today, gone tomorrow: Utilizing the mouse to elaborate upon the genetic landscape of auditory dysfunction”
  Dr Michael Bowl (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  MRC HIU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Introduction to: Evaluating PER
  Annaleise Depper (Public Engagement with Research team, University of Oxford )
  Introduction to: Evaluating PER

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

• 10:00 - UBVO Workshop: Materialities of Obesity and Eating Disorders - New Policy Directions?
  Various Speakers
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2020
• 11:00 - “A Medical Carousel”: The Transnational Migration of Doctors in the post-WWII era
  David Wright (McGill University, Montréal, Canada)
• 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
• 13:00 - Palliative Care / GU Medicine
  TBA
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 13:15 - Dynamic control of presynaptic function in health and disease
  Nils Brose (Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Goettingen, Germany)
  Marianne Fillenz Lecture
• 16:30 - TGU Seminar: Nutrition-omics: Linking Diet, Lifestyle and Disease
  Prof. Steve Wootton (Southampton)
  TGU Seminars

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

• 08:00 - Plastic Surgery
  Matthew Potter (Nuffield Health )
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Davis Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC HIU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Guidance mechanisms during neural circuit development
  Professor Ruediger Klein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Identifying inequality benchmark incomes
  Dr Laurence Roope (Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford)
  OPHI Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Professor David Ray (University of Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:00 - Multiscale modelling of cell fate specification
  Dr Adriana Dawes (The Ohio State University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease
  Prof Patrick Chinnery (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Presentations: Adding interactivity via polling
  Dr Xavier Laurent (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 18:00 - Snakebite: the case for action and the need for innovation in treatment approaches
  TBA
• 20:15 - Lessons from the Anthropological Field: reflecting on where culture and psychotherapy meet
  James Davies (Roehampton University)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

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
• 13:00 - The role of the Chromatin Remodelling factor ATRX in genome stability and cancer
  Dr David Clynes (Dept of Oncology, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Trials to assess potential preventive, neuroprotective or symptom-alleviating treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Richard Gray (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 15:30 - The Alliance of Science: Evidence Synthesis for Public Policy
  Please note that registration does not guarantee you a seat - these are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and we will stop admittance if the venue is full. Please arrive early to secure your place.
  Dr Ella Adlen (Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford), Professor Sir John Beddington (former UK Chief Scientific Adviser), Dr Claire Craig CBE (University of Oxford), Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Charles Godfray (University of Oxford), Professor Carl Heneghan (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences), Dame Helen Ghosh DCB (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - On the Need to Stay Human: Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age
  Dr Kate Kirkpatrick (Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Culture, KCL)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 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 - Establishment of the Oxford Centre for the Endocrinology of Human Lactation
  Dr Fadil Hannan (University of Oxford )
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "The impact of childhood adversity on adult outcomes and public policy''
  Dr Sarah Bauermeister (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Professor Alexander van Oudenaarden (title TBA)
  Professor Alexander van Oudenaarden (Hubrecht Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Visual materiality of corporate science: asbestos, tobacco, pharma, and food
  Tess Bird (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
  Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity Hilary 2020
• 12:30 - Digiknow: Reading, writing and study skills: Technology you should know
  Dominik Lukes (University of Oxford)
  Digiknow: tools and tech to help you succeed
• 13:00 - Emergency Medicine / Clinical Biochemistry
  TBA
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 16:00 - Democracy, Social Cohesion and Technology; the place of robust knowledge
  Professor Sir Peter Gluckman ONZ KNZM FRS (University of Auckland)
  The Charles Sherrington Lecture Series

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

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Fritzsche Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC HIU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 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
• 14:00 - Teaching nonlinear dynamics to biologists
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Michael Nielsen (Novo Nordisk Foundation, Copenhagen)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:00 - Novel biomarkers in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
  Dr Bevin Gangadharan (Department of Biochemistry)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments
• 14:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Access

Saturday 14 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Visual storytelling in medicine workshop
  Dr Paola Esposito (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology ), Koot Kotze (Nuffield Department of Primary Care)

Monday 16 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Quorum sensing and competition in African trypanosomes
  TBA
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Apps for education
  Dr Xavier Laurent (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Radiation leukaemogenesis molecular mechanisms in mouse models
  Dr Christophe Badie (Centre for Radiation, Chemical & Environmental Hazards, Didcot)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - "Pituitary signalling pathways as therapeutic targets."
  Prof Shlomo Melmed (Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles)

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

• 13:00 - Update on acromegaly pharmacotherapy for the resistant patient
  Dr Shlomo Melmed (UCLA)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Disordered affective learning in depression -TBC''
  Wanjun Lin (University of Oxford ), Joost Haarsma (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 19 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - 17th Oxford Vaccine Group Immunisation Seminar
  Various Speakers
• 11:00 - Dr Dimitra Peppa, University of Oxford, NDM
  TBA
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Usability testing: do it yourself
  Dr Xavier Laurent (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:00 - Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Round
  TBA
  Medical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Dong Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC HIU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Yohei Yamauchi (University of Bristol)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Saturday 21 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Achieving Change through Teams
  Maire Brankin (Green Templeton College), Paul Brankin (Green Templeton College)
  Management in Medicine seminar seies

Monday 23 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:45 - Recognising, understanding and managing conflict between patients and health professionals
  Oscar Matthews (Lamb Chambers)
  Management in Medicine seminar seies

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
• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Lucy Field, Xiying Ren, David Cruz Hernandez
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 25 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Careers Conference for Researchers 2020
  TBA

Thursday 26 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - AIMday in Neurotechnology
  Various Speakers

Monday 30 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic and molecular basis of myeloid neoplasms at single cell resolution
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Alba Rodriguez-Meira (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 31 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Workshop: Ageing without living longer
  Various Speakers
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Ian Hitchcock (Department of Biology, University of York)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

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

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

Friday 3 April 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - MitOX 2020 (Annual meeting on cancer metabolism, neuroscience, diabetes, mitochondrial disorders and general mitochondrial biology).
  Registration is £20 for students/retired and £35 for Post Docs and researchers. Registration is online via the Oxford University store. Please note the last date to book is 20th March 2020.
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Iron and Immunity
  Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Human Immunology Unit)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Tuesday 7 April 2020 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Isansys - Safety in numbers. Next generation patient monitoring and data analysis in acute care
  lunch provided. Please register. 1:1 meetings available
  TBA

Tuesday 14 April 2020 (13th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Paediatric myeloid leukemia: fusion oncogenes, transcriptional alterations and age specificities
  Dr Thomas Mercher (Gustave Roussy, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 22 April 2020 (14th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Dr Niwa Ali (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine King’s College London)
  MRC HIU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 24 April 2020 (14th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Anna Akhmanova (Utrecht University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 27 April 2020 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Get to Know Professor Charis Antoniades
  Professor Charalambos Antoniades (University of Oxford)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Joe Harman, Tom Kent, Spencer Tong
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

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

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

Monday 4 May 2020 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Professor Manuel Mayr ( King's College London)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Banafshe Larijani (Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, Bath)
  Translating Illness

Monday 11 May 2020 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Prof. Tomasz J Guzik (University of Glasgow)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool)
  Translating Illness

Tuesday 12 May 2020 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Tumor exosomes and exomeres promote systemic effects of metastatic cancer
  Professor David Lyden (Dept of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

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

• 11:00 - “Measuring the evolutionary dynamics of human tumours”
  Professor Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: TBA
  Prof Lucy Cragg (University of Nottingham)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Dr. Werner Kuehlbrandt (Director, Department of Structural Biology, MPI fuer Biophysik, Frankfurt)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture

Friday 15 May 2020 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Doreen Cantrell (Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, University of Dundee)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:00 - Targeting Bile Acid Pathways for the Treatment of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
  Dr. Nikolaos Nikolaou (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

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
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Alex Tonks (Division of Cancer & Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 21 May 2020 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - "Host Micro biome interactions in health and disease"
  Professor Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 22 May 2020 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Melanie Blokesch (Global Health Institute, Switzerland)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 26 May 2020 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Jennifer O'Sullivan, Wei Xiong Wen, Caitlin Murnane
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - TBC
  Dr Wan-Lin Lo (University of California)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Discussing the ethical considerations around public, policy and research partner engagement in the formation of global pathogen molecular surveillance systems
  Dr George Busby (Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities

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

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

Friday 29 May 2020 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Andrew Carter (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 1 June 2020 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Jean-Marc Dewaele (Professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, Birbeck)
  Translating Illness

Thursday 4 June 2020 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - TGU Seminar: Is there a genomic correlate for a cancerisation field effect?
  Matthew Hoare (University of Cambridge)
  TGU Seminars

Friday 5 June 2020 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Sir Paul Nurse, FRS (Director, The Francis Crick Institute)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 8 June 2020 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Matthew Reynolds (Professor of English and Comparative Criticism, and AHRC Co-Investigator of the ‘Prismatic Translation’ Strand, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

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

• 09:00 - 5th IDEAL Conference 2020 - Innovation and Evaluation in Surgery
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2020
  Marisa Carrasco (New York University)
  Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 15 June 2020 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - State-of-the-art cardiovascular CT: Current and future applications
  Dr Ed Nicol (Royal Brompton Hospital London)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Ross White (Reader in Clinical Psychology and Leader of ‘Mental Health in Context’ Research Group, Liverpool)
  Translating Illness

Friday 19 June 2020 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - MRI 4D Flow and its Applications to the Liver
  Dr. Aaron Hess (Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Gia Voeltz (Univesity of Colorado, Boulder)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 29 June 2020 (24th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Prof. Lina Badimon (University of Barcelona)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Tuesday 30 June 2020 (24th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Nikolaos Sousos, Grigore Gafencu, Siyu Liu, Yuqi Shen
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 2 July 2020 (24th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - TGU Seminar: Combining Single Cell Transcriptomics and Proteomics. Dr Michael Fitzpatrick - The Human Cell Atlas Program on Coeliac Disease
  Dr Melanie Dunstan (Coeliac Disease)
  TGU Seminars

Thursday 16 July 2020 (26th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Paligenosis: the cellular program underlying stem cell recruitment in regeneration and tumorigenesis
  Prof Jason Mills (University of Washington)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 17 July 2020 (26th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Fatty Liver Metabolism and Stable Isotopes
  Professor Leanne Hodson (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Thursday 24 September 2020 (36th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Cooperation, competition and warfare in bacteria: from model systems to the microbiome
  Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 25 September 2020 (36th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - How Companies are Responding to Governments Sugar Reduction in the UK
  Associate Professor Peter Scarborough (Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford), Lauren Bandy (University of Oxford)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Friday 9 October 2020 (38th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mathematical Modelling of Stem Cell Therapies for Liver Disease
  Professor Sarah Waters (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Friday 30 October 2020 (41st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - What is Oxidative Stress and How to Avoid it
  Dr. Kerstin Timm (Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Thursday 5 November 2020 (42nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - TGU Seminar: Defining the Pathogenic Macrophage in Human Liver Fibrosis
  Dr Prakash Ramachandran (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
  TGU Seminars

Thursday 3 December 2020 (46th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - TGU Seminar: Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and Intestinal Inflammation - two sides on one coin?
  Dr Alessandra Geremia (University of Oxford )
  TGU Seminars

Friday 4 December 2020 (46th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Lipid Droplets
  Dr. Shilpa Nagarajan (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Friday 11 December 2020 (47th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Low Energy Low Carbohydrate Diet in Type 2 Diabetic Patients and Total Diet Replacement and Weight Loss as a Treatment
  Elizabeth Morris (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences), Dr. Dimitrios Koutoukidis (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
  Sparking Collaboration Across Departments

Friday 14 May 2020 (69th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture