Name: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre
University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Modeling muscle disease and regeneration in zebrafish
Date: 21 January 2021, 9:00 - 10:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Prof Peter D. Currie (Director of Research, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. Head, EMBL Australia Melbourne Node. NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. Level 1, 15 Innovation Walk Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3800. Australia.)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Dame Kay E Davies ( University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

From Ion Channel Gating Pore Currents to International Genomic Medicine Initiatives in Neuromuscular Diseases
Date: 25 February 2021, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Prof. Michael Hanna (Director | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Director | UCL MRC International Centre for Genomic Medicine in Neuromuscular Diseases)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Kay Davies (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Digenic inheritance involving a muscle specific protein kinase and the giant titin protein causes a skeletal muscle myopathy
Date: 17 March 2021, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Prof. Volker Straub (Director, The John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre | MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at Newcastle | Deputy Dean, Translational and Clinical Research Institute Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, International Centre for Life, Central Parkway Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Optimizing therapeutic efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy
Date: 26 May 2021, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Prof. Charlotte Sumner (John Hopkins School of Medicine)
Venue Details: Online Zoom seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kevin Talbot (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Engineering human stem cells for muscle disease modelling and therapy development
Date: 13 October 2021, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Prof. Francesco Saverio Tedesco (University College London)
Venue Details: Online Zoom seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Optimizing antisense mediated exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultrarare diseases
Date: 1 December 2021, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Prof Annemieke Aartsma-Rus (Leiden University Medical Centre)
Venue Details: Online Zoom seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Laurent Servais (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Myositis- morphology and molecular studies
Date: 16 February 2022, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Prof. Werner Stenzel (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)
Venue Details: Online Zoom seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr. Stefen Brady (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Tricyclo-DNA: promising antisense oligonucleotides for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases
Date: 16 March 2022, 15:00 - 16:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle (INSERM)
Venue Details: Online Zoom seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Kay Davies (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

The Origin of Mitochondrial Diseases
Date: 28 June 2022, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Prof Patrick Chinnery (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online Zoom seminar
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Victoria Nesbitt (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Diagnostic delay in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the case for newborn screening
Date: 8 December 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Prof. Emma Ciafaloni (University of Rochester, NY)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Laurent Servais (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Protecting motor neurons from degeneration by targeting bioenergetics
Date: 19 October 2023, 11:30 - 12:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Tom Gillingwater (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Level 6
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kevin Talbot (University of Oxford)

Friday 8 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Stem cells to treat muscular dystrophies
Date: 8 December 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Jennifer Morgan (UCL)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Kay Davies (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Sugars & proteins
Date: 12 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Benjamin G Davis (University of Oxford and Rosalind Franklin Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Yin Dong (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Mitochondrial DNA Disorders: the (long and winding) road to treatment
Date: 20 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Antonella Spinazzola (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford, MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Congenital disorders of autophagy and intracellular trafficking – a novel class of neurometabolic disorders linking aberrant neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
Date: 25 April 2024, 10:30 - 11:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Heinz Jungbluth (King's College London)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: George Pickering Education Centre, Seminar Room 4B
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Bridging the divide: translational research with a canine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Date: 22 May 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Richard Piercy (Royal Veterinary College)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Thomas Roberts (Department of Paediatrics)

Monday 30 September 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Curating clinical science: the future of academic publishing
Date: 30 September 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Bernard Dan (Professor of Neuroscience at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Laurent Servais (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Next Directions in Dystrophinopathy Therapies
Date: 14 October 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Kevin Flanigan (Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Laurent Servais (University of Oxford)