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:

Friday 27 February 2026

Sugar and Starvation: Metabolic Strategies Across Evolutionary Extremes
Date: 27 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Nicolas Rohner (University of Münster)
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 Mathilda Mommersteeg (DPAG University of Oxford)

The perineurium integrates leptin with its sympathetic outflow to protect against obesity
Date: 27 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Gitalee Sarker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2026

Developing Sustainable Public Health Policy Through and Beyond Mathematical Modelling
Date: 2 March 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Joaquin Prada (University of Surrey)
Venue Details: Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, Seminar Rooms 7 & 8
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Anna Borlase (Department of Biology/Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2026

NDWRH Seminar Student Session 2
Date: 3 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Jordan O'Donnell (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Alexandra Wong (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Skye Clarkson (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Sahana Narayan (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Emily Robertson (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Shubham Narwal (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2026

Lunch & Learn: AI tools for effective working - Administrative Tasks
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Anders Reagan (AI Competency Centre, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iPSC models of Tauopathy
Date: 4 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Kathryn Bowles (UK DRI, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Phase 1 Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-026). 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)

Thursday 5 March 2026

A structure-function neuronal network model of the rat nervous system
Date: 5 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Larry Swanson (University of Southern California)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 6 March 2026

Computing the location(s) of sound(s) in the visual scene
Date: 6 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Jennifer Groh (Duke University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford)

From Riches to Rags: the nuclear genome in megakaryocytes and platelets
Date: 6 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Beth Psaila (University of Oxford)
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 Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2026

Ebola virus: Outbreaks, immunity, persistence and spillover
Date: 9 March 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Miles Carroll (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar rooms 7 & 8 in the Life and Mind Building, Lower Ground Floor South Parks Road, OX1 3EL
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Aris Katzourakis (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 March 2026

Chasing the Earliest Dogs
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof. Greger Larson (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms 7&8
Organisers: TBA
Host: Tim Barraclough (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2026

DPAG Anatomy Seminar: Beyond the fixative: “Teaching Anatomy at the Interface of Science, Regulation and Learning Outcomes"
Date: 12 March 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Niels Hammer (Medical University of Graz)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sharmila Rajendran (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Sharmila Rajendran (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tracking bees in the landscape using Bluetooth and Bayes
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Michael Smith (University of Sheffield)
Venue Details: Seminar rooms 7 & 8 in the Life and and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Jonathan Pattrick (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 March 2026

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: Using vision to understand the brain
Date: 13 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Tony Movshon (NYU)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 March 2026

Improving Heart Failure Risk Prediction Using Electronic Health Records and Deep Learning
Date: 17 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Zhengxian Fan (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 March 2026

Lunch & Learn: Research and the frontier of AI: Mapping the landscape of possibilities
Date: 25 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dominik Lukeš (AI Competency Centre, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 March 2026

Dysregulated RNA splicing in neuromuscular diseases and development of potential combination therapeutics
Date: 26 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Burgland (University of Albany)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Megan Goodwin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Organizational principles of nervous system development in C. elegans
Date: 8 April 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Oliver Hobert (Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Fiona Woods
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 April 2026

MitOX 2026
Date: 9 April 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Michele Frison (Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge), Prof Ian Ganley (University of Dundee), Dr Raffaele Sarnataro (Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford), Dr Tom Nicol (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Joerg Burgstaller (University of Vienna), Prof Benoit Kornmann (Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Dr Konstantinos Lekkos (IDRM, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 April 2026

Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and beyond
Date: 15 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Kei Sato (University of Tokyo)
Venue Details: Seminar room 6 in the Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 May 2026

Multiscale modelling of dementia: from proteins to neuronal activity
Date: 11 May 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Alain Goriely, FRS (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar rooms 7 & 8 in the Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology)

This list contains talks from the following series:
Women in Science