Department: Nuffield Department of Population Health
Talks:

Wednesday 23 April 2025

What can your shopping basket say about your health?
Date: 23 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Anya Skatova (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 April 2025

Anti-bacterial vaccination in the context of gut ecosystem
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Theme: Granular Ethnicity and Environment Data: Bridging Gaps in Health Research
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Sara Khalid (NDORMS), Dr Marta Pineda-Moncusi (NDORMS), Dr Qingze Gu (NDORMS)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Code Support Python Drop In Session
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Thomas Kiley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Using wearables to screen for atrial fibrillation
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Peter H. Charlton (Nokia Bells Lab)
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)

Monday 12 May 2025

An Introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Leveraging long-read sequencing to resolve regulatory and transcriptional complexity
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Adam Cribbs (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)

Thursday 15 May 2025

Data Engineers Meeting
Date: 15 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 June 2025

Avian and human influenza
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Better treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 16 June 2025

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population Health), Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
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)

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 July 2025

Ideas for accelerated and integrated compute in imaging, genomics, and devices, in Biobank and other datasets
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Busby (NVIDIA)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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)