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

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 10:00 - Visual exploration and analysis of complex multiomic datasets with Multi-Dimensional Viewer (MDV)
  Peter Todd (University of Oxford)
  Connect@CHG Genomics Data Forum
• 13:00 - Causes and consequences of stroke: new insights from China Kadoorie Biobank
  Join online https://shorturl.at/gXT7y
  Zhengming Chen (Professor of Epidemiology, NDPH, University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 13:00 - Using your Career Development Review to plan your next career steps
  Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)

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
• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Uhlig & Knight 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
• 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
• 16:00 - Regulatory T cell depletion promotes myeloid cell activation and glioblastoma response to anti-PD1 and tumor-targeting antibodies
  Dr. Felipe Galvez-Cancino (Centre for Immuno-oncology, University of Oxford)
  GO-PRECiSE Seminar Series (GPS)

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Catherine Tong (Isomorphic Labs)
  Digital Phenotying
• 16:00 - Online Health Econ Seminar - Kelli Marquardt
  Kelli Marquardt (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
  Health Economics

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

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 09:30 - Investigating the impact of genetic variation on the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis
  Hannah (Currant)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 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
• 13:00 - Patient and Public Involvement with impact: going from good to better to best practice.
  Rachel Plachcinski (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Charlotte Bevan (NDWRH, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 14:00 - OxSTAI Seminar - Implementation Challenges of Medical AI: the view from the ground
  Dr Alex Novak (RCEM Associate Prof in Emergency Medicine, Director of Emergency Medicine Research Oxford (EMROx), Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Ambulatory Care), Dr Rubeta Matin (Consultant Dermatologist)
• 16:00 - Festival of Global Health screening of Spillover: Planet of Viruses
  This event is free of charge and all members of the University and public are welcome to attend but registration is required for all attendees.
  Associate Professor Toral Gathani (Oxford Population Health), Professor Miles Carroll (University of Oxford), Michael Wech (Broadview Films), Zoe McDougall (Oxford Nanopore)
  Festival of Global Health

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  James Bancroft (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

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
  Join online https://shorturl.at/y7Wbs
  Professor Peter Visscher (NDPH)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 13:00 - Using LLMs for research
  TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Church & 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
• 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

• 11:00 - Formation of common frameworks of cortical neural circuits based on the molecular bases of neuronal migration and collateral formation
  Professor Makoto Sato (The University of Osaka)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Cortical alterations in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  Professor Alessandro Vercelli (University of Torino)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 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

Friday 5 December 2025

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: 'Learning-related sensory responses in the cortex and basal ganglia' and 'Neural mechanisms of behavioural flexibility across threat and reward'
  Dr Andy Peters (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mehran Ahmadlou (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 December 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Joanna Howson (University of Cambridge)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Introduction to public involvement with research
  Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC)

Wednesday 10 December 2025

• 09:00 - 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium
  Speakers will be drawn from the Bennett Institute and the wider UK medicines community
  Various Speakers

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)
• 16:00 - Reprogrammed neurons and oligodendrocytes for brain repair after stroke
  Professor Zaal Kokaia (Lund University, Sweden)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 13 January 2025

• 14:00 - Tools for environmentally sustainable health research: opportunities, challenges and open questions
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 13:00 - TBC
  Prof Neil Davies (UCL)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 28 January 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Parks & Bull 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

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Prof Patrick Mark (University of Glasgow)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 4 February 2025

• 11:00 - Using Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data for research
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Charlie Harper (Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford), Raph Goldacre (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Parminder Judge
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Mentzer 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

Monday 23 February 2025

• 09:00 - A Gentle Introduction to Python
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Matthieu Miossec (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 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

Thursday 26 February 2025

• 11:00 - ML Workshop: Combining Machine Learning (ML) with Medical Statistics - A Worked Example
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Greg Simond (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Fieggen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 March 2025

• 09:30 - IDEU Symposium 2026
  TBA
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll & Fowler 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 18 March 2025

• 12:30 - Introduction to public involvement with research
  Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC)

Wednesday 29 April 2025

• 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 2025

• 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

Wednesday 3 June 2025

• 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 17 June 2025

• 12:30 - Introduction to public involvement with research
  Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)

Wednesday 24 June 2025

• 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