Thursday 9 October 2025

• 10:00 - Multimodal Survival Analysis with Locally Deployable Large Language Models
  Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (University of Oxford)

Friday 10 October 2025

• 09:15 - Vaccines targeting rabies and EBV's class III fusion proteins
  In person only
  Dr Sandy Douglas (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 13 October 2025

• 09:00 - A Gentle Introduction to Python
  Matthieu Miossec (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - Virus-induced necroptosis: make it stop!
  This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Competition in brain development and a novel approach to neural coding
  Professor Michael Stryker (University of California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 14:00 - Australian life expectancy trends and inequalities: An outlier among English-speaking countries?
  Timothy Adair (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)
  Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
• 16:00 - The physiology of cognitive control
  Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 10:00 - Multi-regional neocortical dynamics underlying learning and prediction
  Dr Shuting Han (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 13:00 - Biology and Therapeutic Targeting of Cohesin-Mutant Myeloid Malignancies.
  Dr Zuzana Tothova (Harvard Medical School)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 13:00 - Advanced microscopy and analysis across scales with the Cellular Imaging Core Facility
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 13:00 - What’s happening in heart failure?
  Professor John McMurray (University of Glasgow)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Exploring Entrepreneurship
  This is a virtual Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
  Ahmed Saad (Said Business School), Franziska Vonhӧne (Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre), Katharina Ramshorn (Oxford Science Enterprises), Dr Sophie Payne (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Lunch & Learns
• 12:45 - Sympathetic neuroimmunity in obesity
  In person
  Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 11:00 - Medical Statistics Drop in session
  Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
• 11:45 - Title TBC
  Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford )
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 12:00 - Splenic sensing and processing of red cells in malaria and sickle cell disease
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 17 October 2025

• 09:15 - Quantitative imaging of immune cell-tissue dynamics at relevant spatiotemporal scales
  In person only
  Dr Narain Karedla (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Neuromodulation of Brain States
  Professor Luis de Lecea (Stanford University School of Medicine)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

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

• 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

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
• 12:45 - Automated insulin delivery systems - type 1 diabetes and beyond
  In person
  Dr Charlotte Boughton (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 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

• 12:00 - Dendritic Cell Reprogramming Immunotherapy Induces Humoral Immunity Uncovering Biomarkers of Response
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 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)

Friday 24 October 2025

• 09:00 - Harnessing type 2 diabetes heterogeneity for precision health applications
  Professor Jordi Merino (University of Copenhagen)
  SMARTbiomed Seminar series
• 09:15 - TBC
  In person only
  Dr Ricardo Fernandes (Nuffield Department of Medicine - University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 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 - 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
• 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

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)

Monday 3 November 2025

• 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 - The role of the microbiome in health and disease and the potential importance of mitochondria
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Karl Morten (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 11:00 - Computational early cancer genome analysis at a national scale
  This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 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
• 12:45 - Uncoupling obesity from its metabolic complications
  In person
  Dr Maria Chondronikola (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  This is an in-person lecture only
  Professor David Pellman (Harvard Medical School)
  Jordan Translational Medicine Lecture 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

• 09:15 - TBC
  In person only
  Dr Teresa Lambe (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 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
  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

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 12:45 - Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A Novel Technique to Assess Cardiac Metabolism
  In person
  Professor Damian Tyler (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 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)
• 12:00 - New concepts in type 2 immunity
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 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

• 09:15 - TBC
  In person only
  Dr Adrien Hallou (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 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

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
• 12:45 - Subcellular signalling architecture of the glucagon receptor family
  In person
  Professor Alejandra Tomas (Imperial College London)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 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

• 12:00 - Tissue Regulation at the Crossroads: What Autoimmunity Teaches Us about Immune-Mediated Damage
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Bana Jabri (University of Chicago)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Catherine Tong (Isomorphic Labs)
  Digital Phenotying

Friday 21 November 2025

• 09:15 - TBC
  In person only
  Professor Seph Borrow (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 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

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Renata Basto (Institute Curie )
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
  Dr Lucy Goddard (University of Oxford)
  CDPRC Seminar Series
• 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

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Tim Somervaille (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
  ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
• 12:00 - E4bp4/Nfil3 from gene to therapy
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Hugh Brady (Imperial College London)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 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

• 09:15 - TBC
  In person only
  Prof Simon Davis (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 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

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Prof Costanza Emanueli (Imperial College London)
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• 16:00 - ECR Firetalks
  Various Speakers
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 12:45 - From Diabetes to Methodology to PPI - lessons learned on the way!
  In person
  TBA
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 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
  Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
  Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 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

• 09:15 - TBC
  In person only
  Prof. Helen McShane
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

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)

Monday 19 January 2025

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

Tuesday 20 January 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor David Kent (University of York)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

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

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
  Dr Mariane Bertagnolli (McGill University, Montreal)
  CDPRC Seminar Series
• 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

Tuesday 17 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Elsa Bernard (Gustave Roussy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 23 March 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
  Prof Pensée Wu (Keele University, Staffordshire)
  CDPRC Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

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