Talks of interest to the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health
Description: This collection contains talks covering topics relevant to the research areas of Women’s & Reproductive Health.
Talks:

Thursday 25 September 2025

Human-specific genetic modifiers underlying cortical circuit evolution
Date: 25 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Franck Polleux (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 September 2025

Multi-Ancestry Conditional and Joint Analysis (Manc-COJO) applied to GWAS Summary Statistics
Date: 30 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Xiaotong Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Connect, Inspire, Discover and Grow: the rich life of an academic
Date: 30 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sue Walker (University of Melbourne)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Aris Papageorghiou (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health)

Wednesday 1 October 2025

Lunch & Learn: Translating your Research
Date: 1 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Vlada Yarosh (University of Oxford), Janice Ng (Oxford University Innovation)
Venue Details: Online (please visit the booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 3 October 2025

Adaptive feedback control as a mechanism for sequence learning
Date: 3 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Seng Bum Michael Yoo (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
Venue Details: Venue: Lecture Theatre 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mohamady El-Gaby (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Respiration coordinates the cortical olfactory code
Date: 7 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Kevin Franks (Duke University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Hosts: TBA

Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans
Date: 7 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Biyu He (New York University, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL. https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Lunch & Learn: Time Management
Date: 8 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 October 2025

Multimodal Survival Analysis with Locally Deployable Large Language Models
Date: 9 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 October 2025

A Gentle Introduction to Python
Date: 13 October 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Matthieu Miossec (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Competition in brain development and a novel approach to neural coding
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Stryker (University of California)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Associate Professor Armin Lak (University of Oxford)

The physiology of cognitive control
Date: 13 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Cortex Club (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 October 2025

Lunch & Learn: Exploring Entrepreneurship
Date: 15 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Ahmed Saad (Said Business School), Franziska Vonhӧne (Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre), Katharina Ramshorn (Oxford Science Enterprises), Dr Sophie Payne (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)

Friday 17 October 2025

Neuromodulation of Brain States
Date: 17 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Luis de Lecea (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)

Monday 20 October 2025

Streamlining randomised trials by re-using healthcare systems data: From theory to practice
Date: 20 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Charlie Harper (Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

The problem with mental health awareness (in schools)
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Lucy Foulkes (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Characterizing salience signals in the insula
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Philippe Tobler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Lunch & Learn: Moving into a Pharma/Biotech industry career
Date: 22 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Disease prediction using nationwide health data and genetics
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Andrea Ganna (FIMM)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Charting trajectories of human thought using large language models
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Matthew Nour (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Festival of Global Health – Transcendence
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:00 - 20:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Westgate Shopping Centre, Oxford OX1 1NZ
Organisers: Professor Sarah Lewington (University of Oxford), Dr Toral Gathani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Healthcare Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training Graduate Open Day 2025
Date: 23 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 October 2025

Mitochondria in Neurons and Glia: Insights into Brain Function, Behavior, and Therapeutic Opportunities
Date: 24 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Carmen Sandi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 27 October 2025

What about Exclusion? – Censorship and Self-censorship
Date: 27 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Old Fire Station theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
Date: 27 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Cade McCall (York University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Philip Awadalla (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Modulating polyamines and polyamine transport in Parkinson’s disease
Date: 28 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Vangheluwe (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Venue: Dorothy Hodgkin,
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Compulsive Reward-Seeking: Roles for Dopamine, Synaptic Plasticity, and Stress
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Talia Lerner (Northwestern University)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephanie Cragg (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 November 2025

Inaugural Lecture: Spatial Attention and Working Memory Mechanisms in Natural Language Processing
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

Lunch & Learn: From DPAG to Meta Reality Labs – In conversation with Adam Packer
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Adam Packer
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 November 2025

AI Tools for Research: A Hands-On Workshop
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Dr Bradley Segal (University of Oxf), Gavin Hubbard (NIHR CLAHRC Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Neural population geometry and neuroeconomics
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Benjamin Hayden (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 November 2025

Endocrine Stem Cells as Orchestrators of Organ Plasticity and Disease
Date: 7 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Cynthia Andoniadou (King’s College London)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Tammie Bishop (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 10 November 2025

Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 November 2025

AI Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford), Dr Anshul Thakur (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Fieggen (University of Oxford), Ed Phillips (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: Media, Science and Truth
Date: 13 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Mr Clive Myrie (BBC News)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 17 November 2025

Understanding determinants of health inequalities in respiratory medicine
Date: 17 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Jennifer Quint (Imperial College London), Dr Hannah Whittaker (Imperial College London)
Venue: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: Stuart Faulkner (University of Oxford), Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Stuart Faulkner (University of Oxford), Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)

Youth in Divided Societies: Understanding and Promoting Positive Intergroup Relations and Constructive Societal Engagement
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Lunch & Learn: Working with Industry Partners
Date: 19 November 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Liz Covey-Crump (Business Partnerships Office)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Weisi Guo (Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems, Cranfield University)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 November 2025

FGF21 signaling activation: Treating obesity at the expense of cardiac hypertrophy?
Date: 21 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Konstantinos Drosatos (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Lisa Heather (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 24 November 2025

Rethinking children’s agency in cultural adaptation
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 November 2025

MARIANNE FILLENZ AWARD LECTURE 2025: Cortical codes for generating three-dimensional experience
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Kristine Krug (Otto-von-Guericke University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 November 2025

The Neuroscience of Transgenerational Trauma: Just a Matter of Fa(c)t
Date: 28 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ali Jawaid (Lukasiewicz PORT- Polish Center for Technology Development, Poland)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Thomas Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 1 December 2025

ECR Firetalks
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Tsvetomira Dumbalska (University of Oxford), Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 December 2025

From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: May the Force Be with You: PIEZO Ion Channels as Essential Pressure Sensors for Touch, Pain, and Beyond
Date: 4 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Ardem Patapoutian (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 December 2025

What do “Look but Fail to See” errors tell us about awareness and/or consciousness
Date: 11 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sage Boettcher (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 January 2025

Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
Date: 19 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 January 2025

Dementia risk prediction and prevention: value of observational studies
Date: 22 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Thomas Littlejohns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 February 2025

Where is my coffee cup? Spatial coding of objects in naturalistic environments
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler (University Giessen)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford)

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