Department: Medical Sciences Division
Talks:

Tuesday 22 April 2025

Exploring functional dependencies in very high risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Date: 22 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jean-Pierre Bourquin
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 April 2025

The Knotty Problem of Neurofibrillary Tangles
Date: 23 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Kenneth S. Kosik (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
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)

'Rare typicals and non-classical pathotypes: Insights from the genomes of enteric bacteria isolated in Nigeria' presented by Professor Iruka Okeke
Date: 23 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Iruka Okeke (Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre Richard Doll Building
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Oncology start-ups - from an idea to clinical trials
Date: 23 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Anthony Coombs (Oxford Vacmedix)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Shisong Jiang (University of Oxford)

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

Thursday 24 April 2025

Introduction to OpenSAFELY
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Ben Goldacre (University of Oxford), Dr Martina Pesce (University of Oxford), Eli Holderness (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New Insights on the relationship between the brain, psychometric instruments and clinical measures
Date: 24 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Todd Constable (Yale University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 24 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 April 2025

Picky Eaters: How macrophages select targets for phagocytosis
Date: 25 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Meghan Morrissey (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 28 April 2025

Dissecting the the composition and function of intestinal immune compartments in health and disease
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : William Agace (Lund University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Host: Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

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)

Lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of dengue
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicole Zitzmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

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

Astor Lecture: Treatment and Prevention of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Golda S. Ginsburg (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms, lift available
Organiser: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Ultrasound: Examples from India, The Gambia, Kenya, & Mozambique in cardiac & maternal care
Date: 29 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Dr Manisha Nair (National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford), Prof Aris Papageorghiou (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

EDI Media Club - "Black and British: a forgotten history"
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Christina Heroven (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)

Ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Claudio Baracchini (Stroke Unit & Neurosonology Lab, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padova, Italy)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Building wisdom: Aware and aligned via recursive wise world models
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ruben Laukkonen (Southern Cross University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

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

Natural language processing to identify suicidal ideation and anhedonia in major depressive disorder
Date: 29 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh’s Inaugural Lecture ‘Catalysing the Data-enabled Transformation of Health - Globally’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: Examination Schools, 75 - 81 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG
Organiser: Lucy Curtin (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The discovery of ReNU syndrome
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker s: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Yuyang Chen (University of Oxford), Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Susan Walker (Genomics England), Dr Sarah Wynn (Unique)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Practical tools for supporting neurodivergence in the higher education workplace
Date: 30 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Cressida Ryan (Faculty of Theology & Religion)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Mandy Nicolle (IDRM and Department of Paediatrics)

Epithelia and macrophages in lung infection: Roles in tissue damage, protection and repair
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Shedding Light on Conflict and Cholera: Using Night Lights to Track Infrastructure Collapse and Disease Risk
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Daniel Parker (Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: LG Seminar Room 0
Organiser: IDDO (Centre for Global Health Research, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Newton (University of Oxford)

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in spinal muscular atrophy
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Albero Kornblihtt (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Nick Proudfoot (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 1 May 2025

Enhancer variation and chromatin folding, shaping the face in evolution and disease
Date: 1 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Long (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Harnessing tissue regulatory T cells in the brain
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Hashem Koohy (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Opportunities in healthcare AI at Oxford
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Oliver Harrison (Royal Society EIR in Oxford- CEO of Koa Health)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room and via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Synucleinopathy disorders: A tale of two neurotransmitters
Date: 1 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ilse Pienaar (University of Birmingham)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for neuromodulation of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Sean Froudist-Walsh (University of Bristol)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Development of Motion Vision
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 2 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 2 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Why the drugs should work: A deep cellular atlas reveals a mechanistic overlap between Parkinson’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Caleb Webber (UK Dementia Research Institute and Cardiff University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Steering the evolution of bacteria within hosts
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof. Médéric Diard (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The changing mental health research funding landscape
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
Date: 6 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Stefan Feuerriegel (University of Munich)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Clara Lloyd (Oxford Vaccine Group)
Host: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford Vaccine Group)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

WIN seminar by Daniel Reznik
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: Stuart Clare (University of Oxford), Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Jakub Hantabal (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744206771231?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)

'Shaping the dynamic chromatin landscape for gene expression at single-molecule resolution'
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Carl Wu (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: New Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Synaptic Neurotransmission
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James E. Rothman (Yale University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Humans As Ultra-Cooperative Great Apes
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:45 - 18:45
Speaker : Prof Michael Tomasello (Duke University)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre First floor with lift access
Organisers: TBA
Host: Robert Hepach (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 May 2025

Towards nanopore proteomics: Single-molecule detection of post-translational modifications on full-length proteins
Date: 8 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Yujia Qing (University of Oxford)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germline
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Raheleh Rahbari (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Genetic diseases of chromatin: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room K
Organiser: Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Plastics
Date: 9 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Abhinandan Devaprasad (Udalova Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Developmental programmes in cancer
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Mechanisms of Cellular Lipid Homeostasis: From Lipid Droplets to Ferroptosis
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

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)

Title TBC
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Andy Sewell (Systems Immunity Research Institute, University of Cardiff)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Paris Lalousis (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

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)

Digital Health: The Systematic Public Health Empowerment, Research, & Education sites (SPHERES) project in Indonesia & Examples in digital health from Viet Nam
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Prof Louise Thwaites (University of Oxford), Dr Anuraj Shankar (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Press (University College London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Marco Wittmann (University College London)

'Infection dynamics in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity and vaccination’ presented by Jess Metcalf
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0+1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organiser: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Hosts: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)

Tandem lesion stroke
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Alexandre Y Poppe (Université de Montréal)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Max Rollwage (Limbic AI)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (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

Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

OUCAGS Forum - in-person event
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Richard Cornall (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Details to follow
Organiser: Medical Sciences Division
Host: Dr Katherine Bull

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Utilising multi-omics to better understand painful and painless peripheral neuropathy
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Georgios Baskozos (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

Sustainable Healthcare - Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions
Date: 16 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker s: Dr Soren Kudsk-Iversen (University of Oxford), Dr SanYuMay Tun (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Leveraging Clonal Dynamics to Identify Tumour Specific T Cells in Human Cancer
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Bates (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Metastatic dissemination from the perspective of the cancer cell, its microenvironment, and the host
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani (UCL Cancer Institute in London)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Hosts: TBA

Pathways for the entry and exit of solutes and proteins into and from the brain. Implications for neurological diseases
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Roxana Carare (University of Southampton)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TOP2B from discovery to first isoform selective inhibitor
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Caroline Austin (Newcastle University)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

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)

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

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

The cardiovascular sequelae of preterm pre-eclampsia – rethinking the postnatal period
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)

Sodium channel dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Kevin Bender (Center for Intergrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)

BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE: Targeting calcium leak to treat disorders of heart, muscle and brain
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew R. Marks (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: CELS Group & CPM
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207060876?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Dr Damien Grégoire - title TBA
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Damien Grégoire (IGMM Montpellier)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: The Art of Choosing
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 23 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Neuroradiology
Date: 23 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Barnes Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Revisiting oxygen transport by red cells: getting excited about the most boring cell
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Kimberly A. Kline (University of Geneva)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Chris Tang (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

AI & Global Health
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford), Dr Pratap Kumar (UCL & Strathmore)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
Date: 28 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Bauer (the Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1, Department of Biochemistry.
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Dr Ozgen Deniz - title TBA
Date: 29 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ozgen Deniz (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

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)

The role of the gut environment in shaping the intestinal microbiota and disease outcomes
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Carolina Tropini (University of British Colombia)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Urology
Date: 30 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Professor Ola Bratt (University of Gothenburg)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Simmons Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discovering new membrane proteins' functions with multi-scale molecular simulations
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stefano Vanni (University of Fribourg)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 2 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

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

Oxford Parkinson's Research Day
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Targeting the glutamate system to treat schizophrenia
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Katherine Beck (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

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

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Oxford Immunology Network termly seminar: Immunology and Metabolism
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl (University of Oxford), Prof Hal Drakesmith (WIMM HIU)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre and atrium
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (Universiy of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: IMCM
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207138678
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Prof Andrew Beggs - title TBA
Date: 5 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Beggs (University of Birmingham)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford) Decoding the molecular role of TDP-43 condensation in neurodegeneration using transcriptomics and biophysics
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ross Chapman (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Friday 6 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Quality, Reliability, Safety and Teamwork Unit
Date: 6 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Knight Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Paul Kubes (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof David R Greaves (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

IDEAL Conference 2025: Innovations in Surgical Research, Bridging Science & Practice
Date: 9 June 2025, 7:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas, USA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

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)

Chromothripsis and Genomic Instability from Mitotic Errors
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Peter Ly (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Tuesday 10 June 2025

A Postcard from my Journey with the T cell Receptor: Nerding out on the TCR
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Chris Garcia (Stanford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Technologies in Medicines Quality
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Paul Newton (University of Oxford), Dr Celine Caillet (IDDO, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room, Lower-Ground Floor
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Eileen Parkes (University of Oxford)

Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
Date: 10 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Insights into Scientific Publishing (Oxford Virology and Immunology Networks joint seminar)
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Dr Duc Le (Med journal), Dr Zoltan Fehervari (Springer Nature)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: seminar rooms A+B
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Miles Carroll (University of Oxford), Prof Fadi Issa (Department of Surgical Sciences)

Title TBC
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Intensive care
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network 2025 Annual Symposium
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:30 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor James Davies (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

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)

Title TBC
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

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 17 June 2025

Harnessing neuroscience to translate genomic discoveries in psychiatry
Date: 17 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Hall (Director, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute & Theme Lead for Mind, Brain & Neuroscience, Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Spatial-temporal dependency & interventions for radiation-induced cardiac toxicity
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Karl Butterworth (Queen's University Belfast)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Dr Kristoffer Petersson (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

TBC
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 19 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

RESPOND Conference
Date: 20 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Organiser: Professor Peter McCulloch (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 June 2025

OPDC Seminar by Assoc. Prof. Antony Cooper - talk title tbc
Date: 23 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
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)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Clinical decision support: Examples from Viet Nam in dengue management and the South and Southeast Asian Community-based Trials Network (SEACTN) in Thailand
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Chanh Ho Quang (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 July 2025

TBC
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sooraj Achar (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 3 July 2025

Dr Elisa Oricchio - title TBA
Date: 3 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Elisa Oricchio (Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 4 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A view of RNA isoform expression across single cells, cell types and anatomical structures in postnatal development of the brain and neurodegeneration
Date: 4 July 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Hagen Tilgner (Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof. Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

Monday 7 July 2025

PAEDIATRICS, KAVLI & DPAG SPECIAL LECTURE: Bespoke CRISPR Gene Editing Therapies at Nationwide Scale: an Actionable Path
Date: 7 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Fyodor Urnov (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

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)

Innovations in epilepsy diagnosis in Kenya
Date: 8 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Arjune Sen (Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group), Dr Symon Kariuki (Africa Population and Health Research Centre,)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 July 2025

OPDC Seminar by Assistant Professor Briana R. De Miranda. Talk title tbc
Date: 10 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held online. Please 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)

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)

Monday 28 July 2025

Preeclamptic placental extracellular vesicles; a cause of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of preeclampsia
Date: 28 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Larry Chamley (University of Auckland)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 September 2025

From the Laboratory to the Clinic: Generating more effective vaccines and therapies
Date: 2 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Various (See programme)
Organisers: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS), Professor Fiona Powrie (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatlogy)
Host: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS)

Thursday 4 September 2025

TBC
Date: 4 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 9 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 September 2025

Global Surgery Course 2025
Date: 15 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 September 2025

Biomechanical contributions to cancer progression
Date: 18 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Maddy Parsons (King's College London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Tuesday 23 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 October 2025

TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, 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)

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 January 2025

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )