Monday 20 October 2025

• 14:00 - Streamlining randomised trials by re-using healthcare systems data: From theory to practice
  Dr Charlie Harper (Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford)
  HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup
• 16:00 - The problem with mental health awareness (in schools)
  Dr Lucy Foulkes (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 10:00 - Sub-cellular proteomics to investigate cognitive resilience in Alzheimer’s disease
  Helen Jolly (University of Oxford)
  Connect@CHG Genomics Data Forum
• 13:00 - Characterizing salience signals in the insula
  Professor Philippe Tobler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 13:00 - Revisiting Gestational Weight Gain cut-offs for pregnancy monitoring and outcomes
  Professor Eric Ohuma (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 13:00 - From Normal Variation to Syndromes: Exploring the Genetics of the Human Face
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:00 - PSI seminar: ‘Quantifying social and environmental drivers of health in vulnerable communities from the Amazon to Ahmedabad’ presented by Professor Caroline Buckee
  This talk is for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand to let us know (events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk).
  Professor Caroline Buckee (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series

Wednesday 22 October 2025

• 12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Moving into a Pharma/Biotech industry career
  This is a virtual Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
  TBA
  DPAG Lunch & Learns
• 14:00 - Disease prediction using nationwide health data and genetics
  See more information at https://metrics-and-models.github.io/!
  Dr Andrea Ganna (FIMM)
• 14:00 - Charting trajectories of human thought using large language models
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Matthew Nour (University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying
• 14:00 - Disease prediction using nation-wide health data and genetics
  See more information at https://metrics-and-models.github.io/!
  Andrea Ganna (University of Helsinki)
• 16:00 - Festival of Global Health – Transcendence
  Various Speakers

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 11:00 - The Epigenetic Hallmarks of Cancer
  Dr Manel Esteller (Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
  Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars
• 14:00 - Oxford Healthcare Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training Graduate Open Day 2025
  Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)
• 16:30 - TGLU Talks: The Evolving Landscape of Primary Biliary Cholangitis by Professor Prof Marco Carbone from University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan
  Teams Meeting ID: 394 749 637 674 2 Passcode: ze94FN2F
  Professor Prof Marco Carbone (University of Milano-Bicocca)
  TGLU Seminars

Friday 24 October 2025

• 09:00 - Harnessing type 2 diabetes heterogeneity for precision health applications
  Professor Jordi Merino (University of Copenhagen)
  SMARTbiomed Seminar series
• 13:00 - Mitochondria in Neurons and Glia: Insights into Brain Function, Behavior, and Therapeutic Opportunities
  Professor Carmen Sandi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 27 October 2025

• 10:00 - What about Exclusion? – Censorship and Self-censorship
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
  Professor Cade McCall (University of York)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
• 09:30 - Integrating Multi-Omics, Single-cell Interrogations and Population Cohorts to Capture the Earliest Determinants of Cancer and Aging
  Professor Philip Awadalla (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Modulating polyamines and polyamine transport in Parkinson’s disease
  Professor Peter Vangheluwe (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Beyond Peer Review: Productivity and Diversity when Funding is Randomised
  Various Speakers
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 15:30 - Ethox Seminar - The Age of Health
  Professor Alex Broadbent (Durham University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 16:00 - Compulsive Reward-Seeking: Roles for Dopamine, Synaptic Plasticity, and Stress
  This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
  Dr Talia Lerner (Northwestern University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 11:00 - Dr Elisa Vilardo - title TBA
  Dr Elisa Vilardo (University of Vienna)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Investigating neuron-glial communication & support in neurodegenerative disease
  Please join us in person at the Wellcome Building, Seminar Room B, Headington OX3 7JX Or via Teams Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 384 528 783 755 0 Passcode: jW7Re3zC
  Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 16:00 - PSI guest seminar: ‘AI for antibody design - going beyond the static’ presented by Professor Charlotte Deane
  This talk is for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand to let us know (events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk).
  Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series

Friday 31 October 2025

• 10:15 - Precise RNA targeting and manipulation
  Dr Chengqi Yi (Peking University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 3 November 2025

• 09:30 - Oxford Stem Cell Institute Annual Symposium 2025 "Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy”
  Please note registration is available only until 24th October or as soon as the venue capacity has been reached.
  Jamie Hackett (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Rome, Italy), Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge), Phil Jones (University of Cambridge), Manuel Serrano (Altos Labs, Cambridge), Peter Rugg-Gunn (Babraham Institute, Cambridge), Abdenour Soufi (University of Edinburgh), Ian Chambers (University of Edinburgh), Alberto Elosegui-Artola (The Francis Crick Institute, London), Eugenia Piddini (University of Bristol), Paul Riley (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Molly Stevens (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch), Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research), Sarah DeVal (DPAG, University of Oxford), Carlos Rinaldi (Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford), Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford), Oliver Stone (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  2018 Annual Oxford Stem Cell Institute Symposium "Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy”
• 16:00 - Inaugural Lecture: Spatial Attention and Working Memory Mechanisms in Natural Language Processing
  Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 13:00 - Translating -omics to impact: Going global with cardiovascular genetics
  Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 12:30 - Lunch & Learn: From DPAG to Meta Reality Labs – In conversation with Adam Packer
  This is a virtual Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
  Dr Adam Packer
  DPAG Lunch & Learns

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 11:00 - From Guardians to Foes: Cancer-induced host remodelling and neutrophil plasticity drive tumour necrosis
  Dr Jose Adrover (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Neural population geometry and neuroeconomics
  The seminar is to be held in the Lecture Theatre 2 (lower ground floor), not the usual seminar rooms (Seminar Room 7/8).
  Professor Benjamin Hayden (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Friday 7 November 2025

• 13:00 - Endocrine Stem Cells as Orchestrators of Organ Plasticity and Disease
  Professor Cynthia Andoniadou (King’s College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 November 2025

• 16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
  Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
• 09:30 - 'Using genetics to adjust and improve biomarkers: application to prostate specific antigen screening for cancer’
  Prof John Witte (Stanford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Targeting the sleep and circadian systems with behavioural intervention
  Professor Simon Kyle (University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 11:00 - Dr Claire Shannon-Lowe - title TBA
  Dr Claire Shannon-Lowe (University of Birmingham)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 11:00 - AI Drop in session
  Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Dr Anshul Thakur (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Fieggen (University of Oxford), Ed Phillips (University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Walking the Tightrope of TDP-43: Mechanisms Regulating Function and Dysfunction in Health and Disease
  Yuna Ayala (Saint Louis University School of Medicine)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 16:00 - SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: Media, Science and Truth
  University cards will be required to access the lecture
  Mr Clive Myrie (BBC News)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 14 November 2025

• 13:00 - A mitochondria-lipid droplet stress pathway drives metabolic flexibility and cell survival
  Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 November 2025

• 14:00 - Understanding determinants of health inequalities in respiratory medicine
  Professor Jennifer Quint (Imperial College London), Dr Hannah Whittaker (Imperial College London)
  HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup
• 16:00 - Youth in Divided Societies: Understanding and Promoting Positive Intergroup Relations and Constructive Societal Engagement
  Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 13:00 - Causes and consequences of stroke: new insights from China Kadoorie Biobank
  Zhengming Chen (Professor of Epidemiology, NDPH, University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Working with Industry Partners
  This is a virtual Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
  Dr Liz Covey-Crump (Business Partnerships Office)
  DPAG Lunch & Learns
• 14:00 - Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics
  See more information at https://metrics-and-models.github.io/!
  Weisi Guo (Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems, Cranfield University)
  Metrics and Models

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Catherine Tong (Isomorphic Labs)
  Digital Phenotying

Friday 21 November 2025

• 13:00 - FGF21 signaling activation: Treating obesity at the expense of cardiac hypertrophy?
  Professor Konstantinos Drosatos (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 24 November 2025

• 16:00 - Rethinking children’s agency in cultural adaptation
  Professor Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar - The Significance of Human Interaction in Consent to Research: ASCEND PLUS and Beyond
  Professor Mark Sheehan (University of Oxford)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 11:00 - Prof Kim Midwood - title TBA
  Prof Kim Midwood (The Kennedy Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 13:00 - MARIANNE FILLENZ AWARD LECTURE 2025: Cortical codes for generating three-dimensional experience
  Professor Kristine Krug (Otto-von-Guericke University)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 28 November 2025

• 13:00 - The Neuroscience of Transgenerational Trauma: Just a Matter of Fa(c)t
  Dr Ali Jawaid (Lukasiewicz PORT- Polish Center for Technology Development, Poland)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 1 December 2025

• 16:00 - ECR Firetalks
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 10:00 - pAIpercast: From Paper to Podcast
  Bana Alamad (University of Oxford)
  Connect@CHG Genomics Data Forum
• 13:00 - The effect of ancestry on disease and other complex traits
  Professor Peter Visscher (NDPH)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 14:00 - From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data
  See more information at https://metrics-and-models.github.io/!
  Professor Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)
• 14:00 - From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data
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  Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 16:00 - SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: May the Force Be with You: PIEZO Ion Channels as Essential Pressure Sensors for Touch, Pain, and Beyond
  Professor Ardem Patapoutian (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Tuesday 9 December 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Wednesday 10 December 2025

• 14:30 - Prof Victoria Cowling - Title TBA
  Prof Victoria Cowling (CRUK Scotland Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 11 December 2025

• 11:00 - AI Tools for Research: A Hands-On Workshop
  Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Dr Bradley Segal (University of Oxf), Gavin Hubbard (NIHR CLAHRC Oxford)
• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Sally Cowley (Head, James Martin Stem Cell Facility, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 13:00 - What do “Look but Fail to See” errors tell us about awareness and/or consciousness
  Professor Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 16:00 - Reprogrammed neurons and oligodendrocytes for brain repair after stroke
  Professor Zaal Kokaia (Lund University, Sweden)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 December 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Monday 19 January 2025

• 16:00 - Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
  Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 22 January 2025

• 12:00 - Dementia risk prediction and prevention: value of observational studies
  Dr Thomas Littlejohns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 26 January 2025

• 16:00 - Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making
  Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 2 February 2025

• 16:00 - Psychology, Digital Data and the Study of Behaviour: A Golden Age for Social Psychology?
  Professor Mark Levine (Lancaster Univeristy)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 9 February 2025

• 16:00 - Where is my coffee cup? Spatial coding of objects in naturalistic environments
  Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler (University Giessen)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2025

• 16:00 - Neural underpinnings of language abilities in individuals who have lost the autism diagnosis
  Professor Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 9 March 2025

• 16:00 - ECR - Fire Talks
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 27 April 2025

• 16:00 - From perception and language to knowledge representation in primate brains
  Professor Yanchao Bi (Peking University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 18 May 2025

• 16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2026
  Professor Susan Carey (Harvard University)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 8 June 2025

• 16:00 - Confidence judgments of perceptual and motor decisions
  Dr Pascal Mamassian (École normale supérieure)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 15 June 2025

• 16:00 - ECR Fire Talks
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series