Name: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates
University of Oxford
https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

A new era of NK cell-tuned immunotherapy: Lessons from chronic viral infections
Date: 5 March 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Dimitra Peppa (University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Beyond T cell inhibition: new functions for good ol’ PD-L1
Date: 4 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Dr Michele Ardolino (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
Venue Details: zoom meeting
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Clustered Mutation Patterns in Cancer Genomes
Date: 18 February 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Dr Fran Supek (IRB Barcelona)
Venue Details: zoom meeting
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 18 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Predicting transcription factor binding and the effects of viral integration
Date: 18 March 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Dr Michael Hoffman (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: zoom meeting
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 8 April 2021 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Targeting RAS-driven tumors by exploiting vulnerabilities in the Ras network
Date: 8 April 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, -2nd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Dr Sara Mainardi (The Netherlands Cancer Institute)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Zebrafish Avatars for personalized medicine and study tumor-innate immune interactions
Date: 13 May 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Dr Rita Fior (Champalimaud Centre)
Venue Details: zoom meeting
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Pedro Moura Alves (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Evolutionary constraints and dynamics during tumor progression and metastasis
Date: 27 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Dr Christina Curtis (Stanford University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Connecting the dots: infections, preneoplasic metaplasia and cancers
Date: 10 June 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Dr Cindrilla Chumduri (University of Wuerzburg)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Dr Marie-Dominique Galibert
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 17 June 2021, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Dr Marie-Dominique Galibert (University of Rennes)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Pedro Moura Alves (University of Oxford, Ludwig Institute )

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

The AhR transcription factor shapes melanoma resistance to BRAF inhibitors
Date: 21 October 2021, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Prof Marie-Dominique Galibert (Université de Rennes, France)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tissue Organization and Homeostasis
Date: 4 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Prof Ruslan Medzhitov (Yale School of Medicine)
Venue Details: Webinar
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Pedro Moura Alves (University of Oxford, Ludwig Institute )

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Cancer Etiology and Evolution
Date: 11 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Cristian Tomasetti (John Hopkins School of Medicine)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Neuronal regulation of immune fitness
Date: 2 December 2021, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Henrique Veiga Fernandes (Champalinaud Centre for the Unknown)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Pedro Moura Alves (University of Oxford, Ludwig Institute )

Wednesday 12 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Robert Roeder
Date: 12 January 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Wednesday, 0th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Prof Robert Roeder (Rockefeller University)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Multiple role of the viral deconjugases in herpesvirus infection
Date: 3 March 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Prof Maria Masucci (Karolinska Institutet)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 7 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Co-stimulation and co-infection in the immune control of oncogenic gamma-herpesviruses
Date: 7 April 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, -2nd week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Prof Christian Münz (University of Zürich)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Carol Leung (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 19 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Targeting tumour microenvironment to strengthen immunotherapy
Date: 19 May 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Dr Carmela De Santo (University of Birmingham)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Carol Leung (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 30 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Discovering and therapeutically targeting oncogenic transcriptional biology in childhood cancers
Date: 30 June 2022, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Dr Gerard Brien (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

New Modes of T-cell Recognition During Cancer Immunotherapy Success
Date: 7 July 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 11th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Prof Andrew Sewell (Cardiff University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Tuesday 13 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

Oxford Centre for Early Cancer Detection (OxCODE) Annual Symposium
Date: 13 September 2022, 9:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 21st week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: Dr Francoise Howe (University of Oxford), Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francoise Howe (University of Oxford)

Friday 16 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

Targeting transposable elements to reverse immune evasion in cancer
Date: 16 September 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 21st week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Dr Katherine Chiappinelli (GW School of Medicine)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Thursday 6 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Clone dynamics and oncogenic priming in intestinal epithelium
Date: 6 October 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Prof Doug Winton (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Biology and vulnerabilities of circulating tumor cells
Date: 20 October 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Dr Nicola Aceto (ETH Zurich)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The tumor antigenic landscape associated with T cell infiltration and immunoediting
Date: 3 November 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Dr Michal Bassani-Sternberg (Université de Lausanne)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

From high resolution microscopy and laser manufacturing to automated surgery?
Date: 17 November 2022, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Prof Martin Booth (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Resolution of DNA-protein crosslinks and cancer development
Date: 22 November 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Dr Ivan Dikic (University of Frankfurt)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Unweaving the rainbow of prostate cancer heterogeneity
Date: 1 December 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Dr Alastair Lamb (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Epigenetics, and its role in transcriptional control, cell fate and cancer
Date: 26 January 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Prof Kristian Helin (The Institute of Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDM Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Epigenetic Targets for the Treatment of Human Diseases
Date: 9 March 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Dr Rabinder Prinjha (GSK)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

Chromatin regulators in stem cell differentiation and cancer processes
Date: 20 April 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Luciano Di Croce (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

Identification, mechanism and therapeutic targeting of cancer fitness gene MTDH
Date: 21 April 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 0th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof Yibin Kang (Princeton University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Ewing sarcoma is an “enhancer disease”: from epigenetic heterogeneity to patient stratification and targeted therapies
Date: 27 April 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Eleni Tomazou (St Anna Kinderkrebsforschung, Vienna)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Canonical and non-canonical epigenetic regulation in development and disease
Date: 11 May 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof Alexander Meissner (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Activation of antitumor immunity by bacteria-derived signals: Pyroptosis & Beyond
Date: 23 June 2023, 10:40 - 11:40 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Feng Shao (National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

From Genes to Analgesic Drugs
Date: 29 June 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof John Wood (University College London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 6 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

Single-molecule and single-cell epigenetics: Decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnostics
Date: 6 July 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 11th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Efrat Shema (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 July 2023 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

What we do in the dark: Illuminating Functional Responsivity, Signalling Activity, & Druggability of the Local Interactome in Living Systems
Date: 13 July 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 12th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof Yimon Aye (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

RNA damage: The canary in the coal mine?
Date: 14 September 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 21st week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof Nima Mosammaparast (Washington University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell
Date: 26 September 2023, 11:45 - 12:45 (Tuesday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Jin Zhang (University of California San Diego)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

New adventures in single-cell biology
Date: 5 October 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Itai Yanai (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Night science: the creative side of science
Date: 5 October 2023, 18:00 - 19:30 (Thursday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Itai Yanai (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
Venue: Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road OX1 3PP
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard White (Oxford Ludwig Institute)

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Methods for Cancer Detection and Treatment Stratification Using Circulating RNA and Extracellular Vesicles
Date: 13 October 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Thuy Ngo (OHSU)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

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

Deregulation of Ubiquitin Signaling in Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Date: 19 October 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Azad Bonni (Roche Pharma Research and Early Development)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Epigenetic moonlighting: Histone modifiers’ catalytic-independent functions in the regulation of transcription, providing new insight for cancer therapeutics - CANCELLED
Date: 24 October 2023, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Ali Shilatifard (Northwestern University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Modelling and synthetic lethal targeting of noncoding genome in hematological cancers driven by loss-of-function epigenetic mutations
Date: 26 October 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Eric So (King's College London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Carol Leung (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Host microbiome interaction in health and disease
Date: 9 November 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression following toxic injury and in disease: The role of RNA binding proteins
Date: 16 November 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Anne Willis (University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Myeloid cells in cancer
Date: 30 November 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof Mikael Pittet (Université de Genève)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Fluctuating DNA methylation for lineage tracing in healthy human tissues and cancer
Date: 18 January 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Trevor Graham (The Institute of Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Helen Byrne (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Immunotherapy of Human Papillomavirus induced cancer
Date: 25 January 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Marij Welters (Leiden University Medical Center)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Carol Leung (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Mutate Everything
Date: 1 February 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ben Lehner (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Expanding the Druggable Genome - From Target Validation to Drugging the Undruggable
Date: 15 February 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Lukasz Jaremko (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Fundamental Principles During the Egg-to-Embryo Transition
Date: 29 February 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Andrea Pauli (IMP Research Institute of Molecular Pathology)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard White (Oxford Ludwig Institute)

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Connecting Dots for (Epi)Genomic Medicine
Date: 7 March 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Stephan Beck (University College London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 14 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Nucleic Acid Sensing by Innate Immune Receptors: A journey from MDA5 to cGAS
Date: 14 March 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Jan Rehwinkel (Universityof Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Genetic analysis of complex roles of autophagy in mouse models of breast cancer and lymphangiosarcoma
Date: 19 March 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Jun Lin Guan (University of Cininnati)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Insights into the pathways controlling oesophageal adenocarcinoma progression from regulatory chromatin landscape profiling
Date: 21 March 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Andrew Sharrocks (University to Manchester)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 18 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

Targeting lineage-specific dependencies in paediatric-type diffuse high-grade glioma
Date: 18 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Chris Jones (The Institute of Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Turning up the Heat on Cancer
Date: 23 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Judy Lieberman (Harvard University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

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

Exploring and Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment
Date: 25 April 2024, 13:30 - 14:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Johanna Joyce (University of Lausanne)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A &B
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Engineering T-cells for solid tumor therapy
Date: 26 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof George Coukos (University of Lausanne)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Spatial effects in models of solid tumour growth and control
Date: 9 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Philip Maini (University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Helen Byrne (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Targeting TCR and Co-Receptor Signaling in T Cell-Mediated Immunity
Date: 30 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

R-loop induced genome instability in cancer and aging.
Date: 3 June 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Xiang Dong Fu (Westlake University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

From chromatin modifiers' roles in cell cycle and translation to therapeutic opportunities
Date: 13 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Capucine Van Rechem (Stanford University)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

Mechanistic target of rapamycin signaling in life and death of immune cells
Date: 5 September 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 20th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Bing Su (Shanghai Institute of Immunology)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

Photo-controllable bioorthogonal reactions and biomolecules
Date: 10 September 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 21st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Yan Zhang (University of Nanjing)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room in Basement
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

Targeting epigenetically-driven brain metastases
Date: 12 September 2024, 13:30 - 14:30 (Thursday, 21st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Marco Seehawer (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Basement Ludwig/Jenner Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

New Paediatric Brain Tumour Models Reveal Subtype-Specific Tumour Behaviour, Microenvironmental Dependencies, and Opportunities for Precision Therapy
Date: 13 September 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 21st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Manav Pathania (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Basement Ludwig/Jenner Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

Effector treg depletion leads to tumor clearance in HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer
Date: 19 September 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 22nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Maura Gillison (MD Anderson Cancer Centre)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 September 2024 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Circulating tumour DNA: an increasingly powerful diagnostic tool for oncology
Date: 27 September 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Friday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Nitzan Rosenfeld (Barts Cancer Institute)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar room in basement
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Benjamin Schuster-Böckler (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Thursday 3 October 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Intra-operative diagnosis of central nervous system tumours using nanopore sequencing
Date: 3 October 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Simon Paine (Nottingham University Hospital)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis (Ludwig Cancer Research)

Monday 7 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Visualization of Transcription Initiation
Date: 7 October 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Monday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Yanhui Xu (Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tumorigenesis in space and time
Date: 10 October 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Nikolaus Rajewsky (Max Delbruck Center, Berlin)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Predictive Preclinic Patient Organoid Models and Emerging Therapeutic Targets for Glioblastoma
Date: 31 October 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Hai-Kun Liu (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Therapeutic targeting of chromatin proteins in blood cancer
Date: 7 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Tim Somervaille (Cancer Research UK)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Differential deployment of oncogenic translational gene expression programmes by the eIF4F and CCR4-NOT complexes: The hidden information within our genomes
Date: 28 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Martin Bushell (CRUK Scotland Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Precision medicine and the immune response: insights from infection
Date: 29 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 16 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Edith Heard - title TBA
Date: 16 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Edith Heard (EMBL, Heidelberg)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Dr Karina Pombo-Garcia - title TBA
Date: 23 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Pombo-Garcia (the Rosalind Franklin Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 30 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Thomas Carell - title TBA
Date: 30 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Thomas Carell (LMU, Munich)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Tumor-associated macrophages in tumor progression: double edged swords
Date: 6 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Alberto Mantovani (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Josef Penninger - title TBA
Date: 13 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Josef Penninger (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Thomas Meyer - title TBA
Date: 20 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Thomas Meyer (University of Kiel)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Frances Balkwill - title TBA
Date: 27 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Frances Balkwill (Cancer Research UK)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 6 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Prof Gareth Inman - Title TBA
Date: 6 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Gareth Inman (University of Glasgow)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 13 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Dr Céline Vallot - Title TBA
Date: 13 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Céline Vallot (Institut Curie)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 March 2025 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

Targeting KRAS oncogenic signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer
Date: 27 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Julian Downward (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)