Department: Big Data Institute (NDPH)
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

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

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

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 16 June 2025

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 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)

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)