Name: Dr Adam Packer
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 5 February 2019

Technical workshop on the function and utility of two-photon microscopy in neuroscience
Date: 5 February 2019, 15:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Henry Wellcome Building of Gene Function, off South Parks Road OX1 3QB
Venue Details: OCGF seminar room
Organiser: Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Host: Tai-Ying Lee

Friday 26 November 2021

Fellows Lecture in Pairs
Date: 26 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 19 June 2019

SLM-based methods for 3D control and imaging in the brain
Date: 19 June 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Darcy Peterka (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 May 2021

Cortical-subcortical interactions with the thalamus and claustrum
Date: 14 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Solange Brown (Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 May 2021

Does the eye know what the brain is doing? The modulation of retinal output by arousal and locomotion
Date: 21 May 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sylvia Schröder (University of Sussex)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 January 2022

POSTPONED Optogenetic dissection of local and long-range connections in prefrontal circuits
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 21 January 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 March 2022

A brain-wide analysis of entorhinal projections
Date: 4 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Gülşen Sürmeli (Royal Society and Wellcome Trust, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 17 June 2022

Team Science, Big Science, and Open Science In the Service of Understanding Cortex
Date: 17 June 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Christof Koch, PhD (Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Santa Monica)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 June 2022

Neurons, Circuits, Behavior and Evolution
Date: 23 June 2022, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 18 November 2022

Optogenetic dissection of local and long-range connections in prefrontal circuits
Date: 18 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 25 November 2022

On the network influence of single interneurons from development into adulthood
Date: 25 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rosa Cossart, INMED, INSERM (Aix-Marseille University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 19 June 2019

SLM-based methods for 3D control and imaging in the brain
Date: 19 June 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Darcy Peterka (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 May 2021

Revisiting the CNS immune privilege
Date: 7 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Kipnis (Washington University Medical School)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Oliver Stone (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG))

Friday 14 May 2021

Cortical-subcortical interactions with the thalamus and claustrum
Date: 14 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Solange Brown (Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 May 2021

Does the eye know what the brain is doing? The modulation of retinal output by arousal and locomotion
Date: 21 May 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sylvia Schröder (University of Sussex)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 May 2021

Cardiac Cartography: delineating the emergence of cellular diversity in the mouse and human heart
Date: 28 May 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Shankar Srinivas (Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details and the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 October 2021

Circadian control of the secretory pathway maintains collagen homeostasis
Date: 15 October 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Karl Kadler (University of Manchester)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 October 2021

Spying on neuromodulation with new genetically encoded fluorescent sensors
Date: 22 October 2021, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Yulong Li (Peking University, China)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for the link to join.
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 November 2021

Hallucinating mice, dopamine and immunity – towards mechanistic treatment targets for psychotic disorders
Date: 5 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Katharina Schmack (Francis Crick Institute and University College London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 November 2021

Novel genes, pathways and processes involved in arterial valve development in mouse and man
Date: 12 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Debbie Henderson (University of Newcastle)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 26 November 2021

Fellows Lecture in Pairs
Date: 26 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 3 December 2021

Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture 2021: Designing materials to heal the body and detect diseases earlier
Date: 3 December 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Molly Stevens, FREng FRS (Imperial College London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 21 January 2022

POSTPONED Optogenetic dissection of local and long-range connections in prefrontal circuits
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 21 January 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 January 2022

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Prediction and the sensory brain" and "Elucidating regulatory pathways underlying epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the developing and adult heart to enable cardiovascular repair and regeneration"
Date: 28 January 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Joaquim Vieira (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 February 2022

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Targeting metabolite-driven signalling pathways in the type 2 diabetic heart" and "Defining mechanisms of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in dementia using advanced organ-on-a-chip models”
Date: 4 February 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Lisa Heather (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 11 February 2022

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: “Descending Cortical Loops for Auditory Plasticity” and “Form and function in the developing heart”
Date: 11 February 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Victoria Bajo Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Richard Tyser (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 February 2022

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Developmental origins of blood and lymphatic endothelium" and "Translational physiology: iron, hypoxia and the pulmonary circulation"
Date: 18 February 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Oliver Stone (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)), Dr Nick Talbot (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 March 2022

A brain-wide analysis of entorhinal projections
Date: 4 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Gülşen Sürmeli (Royal Society and Wellcome Trust, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)

Friday 11 March 2022

POSTPONED Towards a multiscale understanding of heart morphogenesis
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 11 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Rashmi Priya (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Fellows Lecture in Pairs: “Hearing in an acoustically complex world” and "Heart regeneration in the Mexican cavefish"
Date: 11 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Mathilda Mommersteeg (DPAG University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 29 April 2022

Shaping the heart tube to establish a double blood flow
Date: 29 April 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Sigolène Meilhac, PhD (Institut Imagine, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Shankar Srinivas (Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)

Friday 6 May 2022

Towards a multiscale understanding of heart morphogenesis
Date: 6 May 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Rashmi Priya (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 20 May 2022

Sugar: A gut choice
Date: 20 May 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Diego V. Bohórquez, Ph.D. (Duke University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Heidi de Wet MD (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 27 May 2022

CANCELLED - Detecting Death and Damage; Understanding macrophage migration in vivo
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 27 May 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Will Wood (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 17 June 2022

Team Science, Big Science, and Open Science In the Service of Understanding Cortex
Date: 17 June 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Christof Koch, PhD (Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Santa Monica)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 June 2022

Neurons, Circuits, Behavior and Evolution
Date: 23 June 2022, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford)