Name: Yasmine Saito
Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 27 April 2023

Visualisation of Human Telomeric Complexes using Cryo-electron Microscopy
Date: 27 April 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Kelly Nguyen (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Friday 19 May 2023

Neuronal genome integrity and plasticity
Date: 19 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Andre Nussenzweig (Branch Chief of the Laboratory of Genome Integrity at the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2023

Clonal and cellular dynamics of the antibody response
Date: 25 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Gabriel D. Victora (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Oliver Bannard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 June 2023

Programmed DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germline
Date: 15 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Anjali Gupta Hinch (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room and via Teams
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 June 2023

Towards a quantitative understanding of somatic evolution in blood: missing drivers, ageing and other puzzles
Date: 22 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Jamie Blundell (Department of Oncology, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room & remotely via Teams
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 26 June 2023

Decoding the role of solute carrier proteins in health and disease
Date: 26 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Simon Newstead (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ketan Patel (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 June 2023

Dynamic Effects of Interleukin-6 and Glucocorticoids on Cancer Host Responses
Date: 28 June 2023, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Tobias Janowitz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
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)

Thursday 12 October 2023

Targeting ageing: from molecular mechanisms to clinical interventions
Date: 12 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Lynne Cox (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Adam Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023

TALK CANCELLED - Rerunning cancer evolution: a genomic pathology approach
Date: 19 October 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sarah Aitken (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2023

Separate but Connected: Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Stability
Date: 2 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Agnel Sfeir (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 November 2023

Mendelian genetics in a post-genomic era: insights from the smallest people in the world
Date: 9 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh )
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 November 2023

The gut microbiome controls our health – or is it the other way around?
Date: 14 November 2023, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Klaus Kaestner (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 November 2023

Colorectal cancer in the 100,000 Genomes project
Date: 23 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ian Tomlinson (NDM, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room and via Teams
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Sir Walter Bodmer (Department of Oncology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 November 2023

Obstacles on genes & the Poll II ubiquitin code
Date: 30 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (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: Holly Russel (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 January 2024

Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and therapeutic applications
Date: 18 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Stephen P. Jackson (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 January 2024

Full-length single-cell RNA-sequencing: From short to long-reads
Date: 22 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Vincent Hahaut (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Maria Greco (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 25 January 2024

Spermatogenesis: a paradigm of stem cell regulation
Date: 25 January 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Benjamin D Simons (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: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 February 2024

What determines oncogenic competence?
Date: 1 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Oxford Ludwig Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

WIMM's LEAF Buddy Scheme & Coffee Morning
Date: 20 February 2024, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Sustainability Working Group (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Karen Heathcote (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Jill Brown (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: WIMM Sustainability Committee (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

Life Science and Sustainability - No Time to Waste!
Date: 21 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sustainability Working Group (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Karen Heathcote (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Jill Brown (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: WIMM Sustainability Committee (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 22 February 2024

Lighting up the central dogma to dissect how sharp developmental patterns are established
Date: 22 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Mounia Lagha (Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Edward Tunnacliffe (WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 February 2024

CryoEM achievements and potential
Date: 29 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Richard Henderson, FRS (Programme Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Felix Dingler (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 March 2024

The evolutionary trajectory of vertebrate adaptive immune systems
Date: 7 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Thomas Boehm (The Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Munich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Oliver Bannard

Monday 18 March 2024

Immune micro-niches shape intestinal Treg function
Date: 18 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Yisu Gu (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Adam Mead (Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Lysosomal Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence in Youth and With Age
Date: 23 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Saghi Ghaffari (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital)

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Primordial Origins of RNA Therapeutics
Date: 24 April 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Michael Ehlers (Apple Tree Partners)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 2 May 2024

A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases
Date: 2 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Luke O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 May 2024

Extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications in cancer
Date: 9 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Anton Henssen (Charite Berlin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Charlotte Brierley (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

WIMM Student Presentation Day 2024
Date: 14 May 2024, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker : WIMM Students (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 May 2024

Variations in 3D genome structure between homologous chromosomes and in stimulus responses
Date: 16 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ana Pombo (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr James Davies (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 20 May 2024

Genomic instability: tumor suppressor BRCA2 and DNA breaks
Date: 20 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 May 2024

Centrosome function in health and disease: a small organelle with a big reach
Date: 23 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Fanni Gergely (Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2024

From Fragments to Pharmaceuticals
Date: 30 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Harren Jhoti (Astex Pharmaceuticals)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 6 June 2024

Replication fork plasticity and its emerging role during physiological and malignant haematopoiesis
Date: 6 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Massimo Lopes (University of Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Adam Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 June 2024

How X-linked sequence variation shapes organismal development
Date: 13 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Imperial College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Felice Tsang (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 17 October 2024

The remarkable intracellular dynamics of cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Date: 17 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

Next Generation Antibody Therapeutics for Cancer
Date: 22 October 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Jan Van de Winkel, PhD (Genmab)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 7 November 2024

Mutational order and stem cell plasticity in cancer evolution
Date: 7 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2024

Deep screening for antibody discovery
Date: 14 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 21 November 2024

Impacts of childhood cancer treatment on testicular function and new approaches to preserve and restore fertility
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
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)

Thursday 5 December 2024

Transient promoter interactions modulate developmental gene activation
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Angelika Feldmann (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 23 January 2025

The non-coding exome in rare disease: from diagnosis to therapies
Date: 23 January 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Nicky Whiffin (Big Data 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 Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

Thursday 30 January 2025

Large scale systematic identification of extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: case studies in host-pathogen interactions for vaccine design and the human immune system
Date: 30 January 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 5 February 2025

Lung cancer initiation, metastases and immune evasion: 10 years of TRACERx
Date: 5 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Charles Swanton (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: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Far from equilibrium: supra-molecular mechanism of energy-driven genome regulation
Date: 25 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 27 February 2025

Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
Date: 27 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ewa Gogola (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025

Efferocytic clearance of dying cells in homeostasis and disease
Date: 13 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 March 2025

Cell-Based Gene Therapies for Cancer
Date: 18 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Amanda Jarman (OSE), Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Simon Davis (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 March 2025

A single PAF1C subunit guides RNA polymerase II from elongation to transcription-coupled DNA repair by stabilizing CSB
Date: 27 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Martijn Luijsterburg (Leiden University Medical Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor KJ Patel (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 April 2025

Insights into myeloid malignancies from human iPSC models
Date: 17 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)
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)

Thursday 1 May 2025

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)

Thursday 8 May 2025

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)

Thursday 15 May 2025

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)

Thursday 5 June 2025

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)

Thursday 12 June 2025

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Thursday 16 October 2025

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Menna Clatworthy (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: Professor Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)