Wednesday 25 February 2026

• 12:00 - Academic ethics in the age of instant text generation
  Dr Hazem Zohny (University of Oxford)
• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: O'Callaghan & Beagrie Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 13:30 - A Democratic View on Trustworthy AI: From Worrying About Fabrications to Looking at Vulnerability
  Dr Eugenia Stamboliev (University of Vienna)
• 15:00 - Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
  Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:30 - AI if Human: The Ethics, Regulation and Governance of AI
  Sir Nigel Shadbolt (Jesus College)

Thursday 26 February 2026

• 11:00 - Integrating multiomic and clinical data to produce and validate mechanistic hypotheses in leukemia
  Dr Ruslan Sadreyev (Harvard Medical School)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Dissecting complex immune disease mechanisms through context-specific gene regulation and T cell morphodynamics
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Gosia Trynka (Wellcome Sanger Institute - Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Dissecting the role of microglia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using multicellular human iPSC models
  Please join us in Meeting Room A (Centre of Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN) or Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33394106887770?p=mrHggxJB4iXDqBxlqE Meeting ID: 333 941 068 877 70 Passcode: 6Pd33Pc3
  Bjorn Vahsen (Postdoctoral Researcher and Fulford Junior Research Fellow, NDCN)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 14:00 - Understanding the Drivers of Low Fertility in the Asia-Pacific Region
  Please note that this is a Hybrid event. We welcome colleagues to 66 Banbury Road or on line via Zoom
  Professor Stuart Gietel-Basten (Hong Kong University)
  Hilary 2026 Seminar Series: Understanding More About Demographic Change
• 17:00 - FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
  Please note that due to a lift fault, there is unfortunately no step-free access to the Investcorp Lecture Theatre at present. We are working to rectify this as quickly as possible.
  Dan Clifton (Independent Writer/Director), Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)
• 17:30 - Conversations on Consciousness: What should we do with our consciousness?
  Iain McGilchrist (Oxford), Chris Fletcher (Professorial Fellow and Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library), Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Conversations on Consciousness
• 17:30 - From Enigma to the Human Body: Decoding Health with AI
  Dr Ping Lu (Assistant Professor in Computer Science), Dr Xavier Laurent (University of Oxford)
• 19:15 - An Interfaith Discussion: The Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
  Brahmacharini Shripriya Chaitanya (Chinmaya Mission UK), Dr Mansur Ali (Cardiff University), Dr Jonny Torrance (University of Oxford)
• 19:15 - An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Friday 27 February 2026

• 09:00 - SMARTbiomed seminar - Artificial intelligence in diabetes research and care
  Adam Hulman (University of Aarhus)
  SMARTbiomed Seminar series
• 13:30 - Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Human cell fate engineering guided by single-cell transcriptomics
  Dr Hsiu-Chuan Lin (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)
• 15:00 - Music and the Medical Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 15:30 - Book Launch | Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being
  This event is followed by a drinks reception and nibbles for all attendees
  TBA
• 16:15 - AI for Nature Recovery – Improving the Journey from Data to Decisions
  Prof Kate Jones (University College London)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Monday 2 March 2026

• 12:45 - The AI Turn in Sociology: From Disciplinary Transformation to Predictive Social Science
  Dr Fanqi Zeng (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 13:00 - Nipah virus vaccine development
  Professor Brian Angus (University of Oxford)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
  Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
  Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• 09:30 - Excitation-inhibition balance in psychosis - what does it really mean, and can we really measure it?
  Dr Rick Adams (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Artificial Intelligence: Agentic capital, intelligence inequalities, and alignment
  Members of the University only.
  Kevin Vallier (University of Toledo), Professor Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:30 - A Discussion on the Desirability of Mass Automation and Universal Basic Income with Marius Ostrowski
  Marius Ostrowski (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 March 2026

• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
  TBC
  Institute for Ethics in AI lunchtime seminars
• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Cornall & Handunnetthi Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Dr Mukta Deobagkar-Lele (Cornall Group, University Of Oxford)
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 17:00 - Expert Insights Seminar - AI and human agency
  Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
  Institute for Ethics in AI colloquia

Thursday 5 March 2026

• 12:30 - Legacies of Globalization and the Role of the State in the AI Economy
  Leonardo Baccini (McGill)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 18:00 - Genomics and rare diseases: from gene to clinic (2026 Haldane Lecture)
  Professor Dame Kay Davies FRS

Friday 6 March 2026

• 10:00 - Practical and ethical use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in research
  Dr. Christoffer Nellåker (University of Oxford), Carolyn Ten Holter
• 11:00 - Working with sensitive research data
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Monday 9 March 2026

• 16:00 - The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
  John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 10 March 2026

• 09:30 - Digital Innovation in Metabolic Psychiatry: AI-enabled Ketogenic and GLP-1-Supported Lifestyle Interventions
  Dr Megan Kirk Chang (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll & Irving-Pease Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 15:00 - “What Differences Does Solidarity Make?" Emerging Insights from a Global Qualitative Study.
  Various Speakers
  Tropical Medicine Seminars

Wednesday 18 March 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carter & Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Michael Carter (University of Oxford), Dr Gavin Band (University of Oxford )
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Tuesday 31 March 2026

• 09:30 - Current state of biological research in psychiatry: Where are we and where are we going?
  Professor Dost Öngür (McLean Hospital)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 April 2026

• 14:00 - What is data cosmopolitanism?
  Jon Rueda (President’s Cabinet and the Ethics in Research Department, Spanish National Research Council)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Wednesday 29 April 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Taylor Group (second group TBC)
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 13 May 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Knight & Milosevic Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Thursday 14 May 2026

• 13:00 - Embedding Public Engagement in Research Grant Proposals (online)
  Are you preparing a research grant proposal? Funders increasingly expect applicants to demonstrate how their work will benefit society. Public engagement with research (PER) is one of the most effective ways to do this.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2026

• 10:00 - Telling stories that matter: Communicating your research through story (in-person)
  Discover more about how to craft and apply storytelling skills to communicate your research.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)

Tuesday 2 June 2026

• 09:30 - Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
  This course will look at the aspects you need to consider when constructing your paper; demystify peer reviewed journals by giving insider insights from science journal editors and show you what they really want.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Wednesday 3 June 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Uhlig & Lang Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 24 June 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Mentzer & Beagrie Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks