Thursday 1 May 2025

• 15:00 - Development of Motion Vision
  Associate Professor Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 2 May 2025

• 13:00 - Why the drugs should work: A deep cellular atlas reveals a mechanistic overlap between Parkinson’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes
  Professor Caleb Webber (UK Dementia Research Institute and Cardiff University)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:00 - Does dysmenorrhoea in adolescence increase the risk of chronic pain in adulthood?
  Rachel Reid-McCann (NDWRH, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 14:00 - Using wearables to screen for atrial fibrillation
  Peter H. Charlton (Nokia Bells Lab)
  Digital Phenotying
• 16:00 - SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: New Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Synaptic Neurotransmission
  Professor James E. Rothman (Yale University School of Medicine)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 9 May 2025

• 13:00 - Developmental programmes in cancer
  Professor Richard White (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 12 May 2025

• 10:00 - An Introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
  Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 09:30 - Leveraging long-read sequencing to resolve regulatory and transcriptional complexity
  Prof Adam Cribbs (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 11:00 - Data Engineers Meeting
  Adam Huffman (University of Oxford), Isaac Wade (University of Oxford)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 13:00 - Pathways for the entry and exit of solutes and proteins into and from the brain. Implications for neurological diseases
  Professor Roxana Carare (University of Southampton)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 19 May 2025

• 13:00 - The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
  Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
  Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
  HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup
• 14:00 - From Stillness to Motion… Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Lung Injury and Repair
  This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
  Assisstant Professor Maurizio Chioccioli (Yale University)
  Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
  Dr Christina Lamb (Athabasca University and University of Toronto)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 13:00 - Global Health Theme seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:00 - BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE: Targeting calcium leak to treat disorders of heart, muscle and brain
  Professor Andrew R. Marks (Columbia University)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 16:00 - SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: The Art of Choosing
  Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 23 May 2025

• 09:00 - Causal inference Best Practice: How to Strengthen your Causal Analysis with Bounds On Your Causal Effect of Interest
  Jakob Zeitler (University of Oxford)
  SMARTbiomed Seminar series
• 13:00 - Revisiting oxygen transport by red cells: getting excited about the most boring cell
  Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 14:00 - Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
  Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
  Machine Learning@BDI Seminar Series

Monday 2 June 2025

• 13:00 - Avian and human influenza
  This seminar will be held in the Richard Doll Building lecture theatre
  Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Parkinson's Research Day (this event is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only & is not aimed at members of the public)
  This meeting is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only and is not aimed at members of the public
  Various Speakers
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 09:30 - Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
  Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 13:00 - TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Sonia Muliyil (Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women’s Health)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 12:00 - Why and how to publish with Nature Communications, and editorial careers
  Hayleah Pickford (Nature Communications)

Friday 6 June 2025

• 13:00 - Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
  Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 9 June 2025

• 13:00 - Better treatment for tuberculosis
  Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
  Digital Phenotying

Monday 16 June 2025

• 13:00 - The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
  Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away?
  Professor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population Health), Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
  HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup

Monday 23 June 2025

• 12:00 - OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
  Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
  Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Monday 7 July 2025

• 16:00 - PAEDIATRICS, KAVLI & DPAG SPECIAL LECTURE: Bespoke CRISPR Gene Editing Therapies at Nationwide Scale: an Actionable Path
  Professor Fyodor Urnov (University of California, Berkeley)
  DPAG Prize Lectures

Tuesday 8 July 2025

• 09:30 - Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
  Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 July 2025

• 14:00 - Enhancing Health Behaviors: Leveraging Smartphone Data and Electronic Medical Records for Optimized Health Outcomes
  Dr Samah Hayek (University of Tel Aviv)
  Digital Phenotying

Thursday 10 July 2025

• 16:00 - OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
  Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 15 July 2025

• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 17 July 2025

• 13:00 - Ideas for accelerated and integrated compute in imaging, genomics, and devices, in Biobank and other datasets
  Ben Busby (NVIDIA)
  Digital Phenotying

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 11:00 - Medical Statistics Drop in session
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)