Collection - Oxford Talks

Collection: Talks of interest to the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health

This collection contains talks covering topics relevant to the research areas of Women’s & Reproductive Health.

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Wednesday 29 January 2025

12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Todd & Band Groups
There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
Various Speakers
CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
13:30 - Imaging lung lymphatics in inflammation and metastatic cancer
in person only
Dr Simon Cleary (King's College London)
MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2025

12:00 - Large scale systematic identification of extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: case studies in host-pathogen interactions for vaccine design and the human immune system
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 31 January 2025

Monday 3 February 2025

Tuesday 4 February 2025

Wednesday 5 February 2025

10:00 - Phenotyping and wrangling of CPRD data
Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
12:00 - Lung cancer initiation, metastases and immune evasion: 10 years of TRACERx
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Networking Skills
This is a virtual Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Thomas Nicol (University of Oxford), Dr Zeynep Okray (University of Oxford)
DPAG Lunch & Learns

Friday 7 February 2025

Monday 10 February 2025

13:00 - Tuberculosis vaccine R&D and human challenge models
Prof Helen McShane (Oxford, NDM)
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

13:00 - Somatic phylogenies of haematopoietic stem cells to study clonal dynamics and mutagenesis
This will be an in-person event only.
Dr Mike Spencer Chapman (Sanger Institute)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
13:00 - CanPath and what it can teach us about early determinants of disease and aging
Professor Philip Awadalla (University of Oxford)
Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 12 February 2025

12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Beagrie & Taylor Groups
There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
Various Speakers
CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
14:00 - Characterising mental disorder phenotype and outcomes using electronic health record data
Dr Rashmi Patel (University of Cambridge)
Digital Phenotying

Thursday 13 February 2025

12:00 - Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
14:00 - Lessons from a career in academic and business
Professor Sir Tony Kouzarides (Co-founder of the Milner Therapeutics Institute | University of Cambridge)
15:00 - The hippocampus and memory: the right amount of disorder for the curious mind
Professor Alessandro Treves (The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Italy))
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
17:30 - How life works: Dealing with biology’s changing narrative
Philip Ball
Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Friday 14 February 2025

09:15 - Title TBC
In person only
Fugger Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
13:00 - Regulation of ATP Production by Mitochondria
Dr Liron Boyman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 February 2025

14:00 - Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents
Dr Polly Waite (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

13:00 - NDWRH First Year Research Students Seminars
Ben Petrazzini (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Emmerson Teas (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Efsaia Savvoulidou (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Ursula Blyth (NDWRH, University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

16:00 - From Stem Cells to Assembloids to Constructing Human Neural Circuits to Study Development and Disease
Professor Sergiu P. Pașca (Stanford University)
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 21 February 2025

09:15 - Title TBC
in person only
Bashford-Rogers Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 24 February 2025

13:00 - Infections, vaccines, and cognitive deficits
Dr Maxime Taquet (Oxford, Psychiatry)
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2025

13:00 - Human tissue governance
Sandrine Rendell (University of Oxford)
13:00 - Preterm birth and bronchopulmonary dysplasia: Challenges and implications beyond the NICU
Professor David Tingay (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute)
Richard Doll Seminars
14:00 - Far from equilibrium: supra-molecular mechanism of energy-driven genome regulation
This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 26 February 2025

09:00 - A Gentle Introduction to Python
Matthew Miossec (University of Oxford)
12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Hallegger & Tzima Groups
There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
Various Speakers
CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Thursday 27 February 2025

11:00 - Medical Statistics Drop In Session
Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 28 February 2025

Monday 3 March 2025

Tuesday 4 March 2025

13:00 - Title TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Simon Bomken (Newcastle University)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
13:00 - Global Health 2050 — findings of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health
Dean Jamison (Professor Emeritus, Global Health, University of Washington)
Richard Doll Seminars
13:00 - First Year Research Students Seminars
Katherine Dibbon (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Qianqian Yang (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Emma Walker (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Gal Rubin (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Madison Quig (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Luba Maslej (NDWRH, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

13:00 - MABEL FITZGERALD PRIZE LECTURE 2025: Dendrites in Motor control and learning
Professor Jackie Schiller (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
DPAG Prize Lectures

Thursday 6 March 2025

16:00 - SIR WILFRID LE GROS CLARK PRIZE LECTURE 2025: Phase separation in cell physiology and disease
Professor Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
DPAG Prize Lectures

Friday 7 March 2025

09:15 - Title TBC
In person only
Ho Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
13:00 - Is brain myelin an energy source/store?
Dr Carlos Matute (University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU))
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 March 2025

13:00 - Social interactions among microorganisms
Prof Kevin Foster (Oxford, Biology/Pathology)
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

Wednesday 12 March 2025

12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Milosevic & Fowler Groups
There is no need to register if you are a member of the Centre for Human Genetics. For anyone from a different unit who would like to attend in person please email chg.admin@well.ox.ac.uk at least 2 days in advance stating who you are and your affiliation. You will need to bring your University card to show at reception and sign in and out of the building. If you would like to join the talks online there is no need to register.
Various Speakers
CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks