Name: Nicola Whiffin
University of Oxford
https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/people/nicola-whiffin

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 16 November 2023

“De novo mutations and human disease: the role of sex, age and selfishness”
Date: 16 November 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford), Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 December 2023

“A Comprehensive genetic profile of 140,000 adults from Mexico City”
Date: 14 December 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Jason Torres (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

What can large-scale metabolomic and genetic profiling of population biobanks tell us about common disease?
Date: 23 January 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Eirini Trichia (University of Oxford), Dr Luke Jostins-Dean (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 February 2024

Regulating cortical development through enhancer usage and genome topology
Date: 6 February 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Emily Brookes (University of Southampton)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 February 2024

Integrating GWAS, omics QTLs and gene networks to reveal drug target genes
Date: 19 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Zoltán Kutalik (University of Lausanne)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Unravelling the full spectrum of pathogenic variation using Saturation Genome Editing
Date: 5 March 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford), Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 March 2024

The genetic basis of infertility and reproductive hormones across the allele frequency spectrum
Date: 19 March 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Samvida Venkatesh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 April 2024

Investigation of structural variants in clinical whole genome sequencing data leading to new genetic diagnoses
Date: 30 April 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 May 2024

The genetics of reproductive behaviour and relationship amongst 36 reproductive traits
Date: 14 May 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof. Melinda Mills (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2024

Towards understanding cell types relevant for psychiatric disorders
Date: 28 May 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Leveraging Genomes to Phenomes to Advance Cardiovascular Precision Medicine
Date: 11 June 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Associate Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 June 2024

Genes & Health: a British Bangladeshi and Pakistani cohort for your research
Date: 18 June 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof David A van Heel (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 June 2024

Large biobanks for genetic studies of psychiatric traits: Finding risk variants and learning from them
Date: 26 June 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Prof Joel Gelernter (Yale School of Medicine), Prof Daniel Levey (Yale School of Medicine)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 July 2024

Follow up of breast cancer GWAS through drug repositioning and CRISPR screens
Date: 11 July 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Georgia Chenevix-Trench (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Seminar room B
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 October 2024

De novo variants in the RNU4-2 snRNA cause a frequent neurodevelopmental syndrome
Date: 1 October 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 October 2024

Combining evidence from human genetic and functional screens to identify pathways altering obesity and fat distribution
Date: 15 October 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Nicolas Baya (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 October 2024

Scalable inference and analysis of ancestral recombination graphs in large data sets including modern and ancient genomes
Date: 29 October 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Pier Palamara (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Host: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

Chromatin organisation and human disease
Date: 12 November 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 December 2024

The trajectories of human disease
Date: 10 December 2024, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Gil McVean (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Defining genome structure at base pair resolution
Date: 21 January 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr James Davies (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Yan Wong (Dr.)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA