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Carolyn Thackrah
University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology
Events this person is organising:
Friday 17 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)
16:30
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PKMzeta, LTP and memory networks?
In partnership with the Cortex Club
Dr Todd Sacktor
(SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 28 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Development of the virtual heart for testing the safety of drugs
Professor Henggui Zhang
(School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – a debilitating lung disease and the discovery of a treatment option
Dr Florian Gantner
(Boeringer Ingelheim )
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Friday 8 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
16:00
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The lysosome: from trash can to control center of the cell
Professor Andrea Ballabio
(Scientific Director, TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) and Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Differentiating the highs and lows of THC
Dr Peter McCormick
(School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 19 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Mitochondria and lysosomes – the social life of organelles
Dr Nuno Raimundo
(Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 26 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Statins and myopathy
Dr Sarah Calaghan
(Associate Professor in Cardiac Physiology, University of Leeds)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Monday 1 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Cardiac iPSCs for disease modeling and drug discovery
Professor Joseph Wu
(Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 2 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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From rat hippocampal Œtheta to human prefrontal rhythmicity: The first anxiety syndrome biomarker?
Professor Neil McNaughton
(Department of Psychology, University of Otago )
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Activation of ANO1 channels by localised Ca2+ signals in sensory neurons
Professor Nikita Gamper
(School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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From human stem cells to human synapses
Dr Sarah Newey
(Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 13 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Tankyrase – a central druggable biotarget in canonical Wnt signaling
Professor Stefan Krauss
(Unit for Cell Signaling, Oslo University Hospital)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 15 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Cellular Pacemaking - Crowd Behaviour?
NOTE THURSDAY DATE
Professor Dirk van Helden
(University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 20 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Platelets in time and space: understanding the actions of anti-platelet drugs within the body
Professor Tim Warner
(Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Targeting Redox-Regulation of Cell Mitophagy
Dr Michelangelo Campenella
(Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 3 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Biophysics and physiology of anion transport: ClC-7 in lysosomal function and LRRC8 heteromers in cell volume regulation
Dr Tobias Stauber
( Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Uniersitate Berlin)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Building synaptic connections: it's good to be spontaneous
Dr Laura Andreae
(MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:00
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Building synaptic connections: it's good to be spontaneous
Dr Laura Andreae
(MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Discovery of Bcl3 inhibitors as anti-metastatic agents
Dr Andrea Brancale
(Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, Cardiff University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Chemical site-selective protein modification for basic biology and drug development
Dr Gonçalo Bernardes
(Royal Society URF, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Vascular biology of the TRPM7 chanzyme
Professor Rhian M Touyz
(BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 3 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
17:00
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Complacency or Change? Which is Oxford’s answer to innovation challenges
Robert Madelin
(Senior Advisor for Innovation in the European Commission)
Pharmacology Entrepreneurship and Business Seminar Series
Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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A therapeutic potential of stem cells for arteriosclerosis
Professor Qingbo Xu
(BHF Centre of Vascular Regeneration, King's College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 26 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Visualisation and control of in-vitro models of arrhythmogenesis
Dr Gil Bub
(BHF CRE Intermediate Research Fellow, Oxford Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Ectotherm cardiac Ca2+ signalling in an era of climate change
Dr Holly Shiels
(Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Wednesday 3 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
09:00
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The Pulse of British Bioscience
TBA
Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Cross-frequency coupling between field potential oscillations
Associate Professor Adriano Tort
(Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Mitochondrial control of heterogeneity in platelets
Dr Matthew Harper
(Cardiovascular Strategic Research Initiative, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 23 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Structural and biophysical mechanisms of K2P channel gating by polymodal stimuli
Professor Stephen Tucker
(Biological Physics Group, Oxford Department of Physics)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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How the sins of your grandparents affect your health: exploring the mechanisms of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
Dr Erica Watson
(Lecturer in Reproductive Biology, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The Achilles’ heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system
Professor Mark Boyett
(Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 3 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Fuelling the calcium pumps during pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
Dr Jason Bruce
(Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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A fishy story: vascular relaxation mechanisms of n-3 PUFAs
Dr Alister McNeish
(School of Pharmacy, University of Reading)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 17 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Dendritic and cellular mechanisms of grid cell firing
Dr Christoph Schmidt-Hieber
(Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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The inflammatory response to atherogenic lipid
Professor Chris O’Callaghan
(Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Targeted anticancer drug discovery: chemical tools and clinical candidates
Professor Ian Collins
(Medicinal Chemistry Team, Institute of Cancer Research)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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mGluR5 receptors: a promising target for CNS drug discovery?
Dr Gary Gilmour
(In-Vivo Pharmacology, Lilly UK)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 9 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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The impact of stress on post-transcriptional regulation of the glutamate system
Dr Monsheel Sodhi
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 14 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Optical interrogation of sub-cellular cardiac signalling in atrial and sino-atrial node arrhythmias at high-spatiotemporal resolution
CANCELLED
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Rebecca Burton
(Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 16 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
17:00
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Breakthrough: The Role of Government in Accelerating Science and Technology
Drinks reception from 6pm
Nicola Blackwood MP
(Chair, Science and Technology Select Committee)
Pharmacology Entrepreneurship and Business Seminar Series
Thursday 29 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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From bed to bench side: developmental and translational research pathways for cardiovascular patients
Professor Raimondo Ascione
(Translational Biomedical Research Centre, University of Bristol)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Wednesday 5 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Multi-scale integration of cardiac excitation: from ion-channel molecular structure to the human heart
Professor Yoram Rudy
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 11 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Insulin sensitisation in the endothelium: all that glitters isn’t gold
Professor Mark Kearney
(Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Computational studies of bacterial membrane proteins: potential targets for novel antibiotics
Dr Phillip J Stansfeld
(Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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New insights into pain mechanisms
Professor John Wood
(Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 29 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Competition and cooperation in the striatum: of nitric oxide and acetylcholine
CANCELLED
Dr Enrico Bracci
(Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Agonist efficacy in the Cys-loop superfamily of channels: the single molecule view
Professor Lucia Sivilotti
(AJ Clark Professor of Pharmacology, UCL)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission
12TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE
Professsor Thomas Südhof
(Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
11:00
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The calcium-sensing receptor in physiology and disease
Professor Daniela Riccardi
(Deputy Head, Cardiff School of Biosciences)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Redox-dependent mechanisms of homocysteine metabolism
Cancelled
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Alison Brewer
(Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London)
Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Title TBA
CANCELLED
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Mike Standing
(Deliotte)
Pharmacology Entrepreneurship and Business Seminar Series
Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Normal and abnormal transmural electrophysiology in the intact mammalian ventricle
Professor Godfrey Smith
(Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 23 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Deregulation of a novel NGF metabolic pathway as the cause of Cholinergic atrophy in Alzheimer’s
Professor Claudio Cuello
(McGill University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Novel regulators of adverse cardiac remodelling post-myocardial infarction
Dr Christopher Loughrey
(Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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The ins and outs of calcium-induced calcium release
Professor Mark Cannell
(School of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Bristol)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Misfolding of Tau and Alpha-Synuclein: towards a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases
Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini FRS
(Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)
Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Transcriptional architecture of cortical GABAergic neuron types
Professor Z Josh Huang
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Sino-British Scientific and Technological Innovation: Cooperation and Prospects
Joint seminar with the Oxford Chinese Life Scientists Society (OCLSS)
Sunan Jiang
(Minister Counsellor, (Science & Technology), Chinese Embassy)
Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Outsmarting the acidic challenge: emerging concepts of acid-handling in cancer
Professor Pawel Swietach
(Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Like SNPs in the night: psychiatric genetics, neural circuits and sleep
Dr Matt Jones
(University of Bristol)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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New approaches to the crisis in finding therapies for neurodegenerative diseases underlying dementia
Dr John Davis
(University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Neurocardiac interaction in malignant ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death
Professor André Ng
(University of Leicester BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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In vivo screening identifies novel host regulators of metastatic colonisation
Dr Anneliese Speak
(Experimental Cancer Genetics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Coding of space and time in entorhinal cortex
Professor Michael Hasselmo
(Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Boston University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The neural circuitry underlying spatial pattern detection in the retina
Dr Jamie Johnston
(Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Neurons, networks and circadian rhythms
Professor Hugh Piggins
(Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, University of Manchester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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A molecular fingerprint for colonic sensory neurones and life lessons from the naked mole-rat
Dr Ewan St John Smith
(Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The role of ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the cardiovascular system
Professor Andrew Tinker
(William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine )
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Cardioprotection: why do we struggle to translate good pre-clinical data to patient benefit?
Dr Rich Rainbow
(Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Genomics of neurodegenerative diseases
Professor John Hardy
(Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The role of heme iron in ion channel regulation
CANCELLED*CANCELLED*CANCELLED
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: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Nina Storey
(Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Signalling to and from IP3 receptors
Professor Colin W Taylor
(Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Natural product synthesis towards small-molecule probes and drugs
NOTE THURSDAY DATE
Professor Tao Ye
(Peking University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 29 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)
12:30
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Understanding the neurochemical basis of addictive behaviors with optogenetics
Dr Evgeny Budygin
(Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem NC)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Multiple signalling roles of calcium-dependent potassium currents in central neurons
Professor Paola Pedarzani
(Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Identification of a Vamp2 transmembrane mutation in screens affecting mouse sleep and behaviour
Dr Pat Nolan
(Neurobehavioural Genetics Group, MRC Harwell)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Ensemble coding of behavior in amygdala circuits
13th David Smith Lecture
Professor Andreas Lüthi
(Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Balancing the brain’s energy supply: neurovascular coupling in health and disease
Dr Catherine Hall
(School of Psychology, University of Sussex)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Activation and regulation of the calcium-dependent chloride channel TMEM16A
Dr Jorge Arreola
(Institute of Physics, UASLP, San Luis Potosi, Mexico)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Controlling ion channels with fat: the physiological role of S-acylation
Professor Mike Shipston
(Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Up the nanojunction: calcium signals and their corruption
Professor Mark Evans
(Centres for Discovery Brain and Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Left-right brain hemisphere asymmetry of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus
Professor Ryuichi Shigemoto
(Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria))
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Friday 27 July 2018 (14th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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An electrophysiological approach to analyse TRPML2 in endolysosomes
Dr Cheng-Chang (Maxo) Chen
(Department of Pharmacology, LMU Munich)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 18 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Peroxynitrite-induced impairment of endothelial TRPV4 channel function and vasodilation in obesity
Assistant Professor Swapnil Sonkusare
(University of Virginia – School of Medicine)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 25 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Congenital myopathies linked to recessive RyR1 mutations: pathophysiology and treatment
Dr Francesco Zorzato
(University of Basel)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Overlapping mechanisms of sleep, sedation and thermoregulation
Professor Nick Franks
(Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Insulin action - a pancreatic islet perspective
Professor Patrik Rorsman
(University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Seeing is believing: probing protein assembly and protein-ligand interactions by single molecule spectroscopy and imaging
Dr Liming Ying
(National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Ryanodine receptor - calcium release channel complex in cardiac physiology and disease
Dr Spyros Zissimopoulos
(BHF Senior Research Fellow, Swansea University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Network-driven drug discovery - what is it and why do we need it?
Alan Whitmore
(Head of Discovery Biology, E-Therapeutics plc)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Lines of communication: the role of lysosomal membrane contact sites in cholesterol homeostasis
Dr Emily Eden
(Senior Reseach Fellow, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Radiation therapy and bladder dysfunction
Professor Karen McCloskey
(Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Septo-hippocampal circuitry beyond theta generation: how hippocampal spatial code is tuned by septal activity
Dr Marian Tsanov
(Wellcome Trust RCD Fellow, Trinity College Dublin)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Making neurons stronger: heavy handling of neurological disease
Dr Mikhail Shchepinov
(Chief Scientific Officer, Retrotope Inc)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Unravelling cellular Ca2+ signalling in heart disease: adventures in space, time and noise
Professor Christopher George
(Swansea University Medical School)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Cystic fibrosis: restoring function to faulty channels with small molecules
Professor David Sheppard
(School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Unviersity of Bristol)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Nerve growth factor regulation and Alzheimer’s pathology: a potential source of new therapies and diagnostic tools
Rowan Pentz
(Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Nutrient sensing in the gut in the regulation of appetite
Professor Kevin Murphy
(Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Regulation of neurotransmitter release by Ca2+-sensitive oligomerisation of Synaptotagmin 1
: Professor Kirill Volynski
(Institute of Neurology, University College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Capturing drug targets in flight
CANCELLED
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: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Dame Carol Robinson
(University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Modelling neurodevelopmental disorders using stem cell technology
CANCELLED
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: This talk has been cancelled
Associate Professor Andrea Németh
(Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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New insights into the mechanisms regulating megakaryocyte development and platelet production
Dr Alexandra Mazharian
(University of Birmingham)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Molecular motions of the CFTR chloride ion channel protein during pore opening
Professor László Csanády
(Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Friday 15 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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It's complicated - calcium channels, dopamine neurons, and Parkinson's disease
Professor Birgit Liss
(Institute of Applied Physiology, University of Ulm)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 19 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The multifaceted functions of junctophilin-2 in normal and failing hearts
Professor Long-Sheng Song
(Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Role of PIP2-binding protein MARCKS in regulating vascular contractility
Professsor Anthony Albert
(Molecular & Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George’s University London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Approaches for measuring the brain’s chemistry a cell at a time
Professor Jonathan Sweedler
(Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Regulation of intracellular sodium in the heart
Dr Davor Pavlovic
(Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Therapeutic vasculoprotection, autoimmune disease and premature atherosclerosis
Professor Justin Mason
(Vascular Sciences Unit, Imperial College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Inhibition that’s exciting in the brain
14th David Smith Lecture
Professor Hannah Monyer
(Center for Neurosciences, Universität Heidelburg)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:30
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Live imaging of intra-lysosome pH in cell lines and primary neuronal culture using a novel genetically encoded biosensor
Note 12.30pm start on a THURSDAY
Dr Massimiliano Stagi
(Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Take the long way home: axonal transport, organelle dynamics and neurodegenerative diseases
CANCELLED
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Giampietro Schiavo
(Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Activation and function of Piezo1 channels in endothelial cells: new way to interpret mechanic force in cardiovascular system
Dr Jian Shi
(British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellow, University of Leeds)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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My life as a secondhand (repurposed) drug discoverer
Professor Michael Parnham
(Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology & Applied Ecology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 27 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Plasticity in the central and peripheral nervous systems and its role in disorders of the brain and heart
Note Thursday date
Associate Professor Johanna Montgommery
(Department of Physiology, University of Auckland)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 20 August 2019 (17th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Mitochondrial transport, quality control, and energy homeostasis in nerve degeneration and regeneration
Dr Zu-Hang Sheng
(National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH )
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 19 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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CaMKII in heart failure and arrhythmias
Professor Donald Bers
(University of California, Davis USA)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Friday 27 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Brain-body cross-talk after traumatic brain injury: gut, lung, immune and other systemic interactions
Dr Alan Faden
(Director, Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR), University of Maryland)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Malignant hyperthermia, a clinician’s nightmare and a scientist’s delight: personal insights after 40 years of investigation
Dr Paul Allen
(Translational and Clinical Muscle Disease Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Pak2 regulation of ER stress in cardioprotection
Professor Xin Wang
(Cardiovascular Sciences Division, University of Manchester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Micronutrients as treatments for psychiatric disorders – rethinking the scientific paradigm
Professor Julia Rucklidge
(Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Canterbury)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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The gut, the brain and energy metabolism: the role of ABCC5 in metabolism and neuron excitability
Associate Professor Heidi de Wet
(Oxford Center for Gene Function, DPAG, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Regulating intracellular Ca2+ release in cardiac muscle
Associate Professor Dirk Gillespie
(Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Rush University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Regulation of mammalian autophagy
Dr Sharon A Tooze
(Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Remembering the mammillary bodies: from relay to orchestrator
CANCELLED
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Seralynne Vann
(School of Psychology, Cardiff University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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A delivery service for maintaining Phosphoinositides levels during Phospholipase C signalling
Professor Shamshad Cockcroft
(Division of Biosciences, University College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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How transcription factor interaction networks control gene expression programs
Dr Giovanna Zinzalla
(Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Of mice (and rats) and men: assessing and correcting dysfunction in models of fragile X syndrome
Professor David Wyllie
(Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Alzheimer's disease: the interaction between amyloid beta, synapses and microglia
Professor Frances Edwards
(University College London (UCL))
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Is there neurogenesis in the adult spinal cord?
Dr Susan Deuchars
(School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Damn the compass, full steam ahead! Disease model validity and the problem of drug discovery
Professor Jack Scannell
(JW Scannell Analytics Ltd and School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Control of vascular stability and inflammation-induced leakage via integrins
Associate Professor Pipsa Saharinen
(Translational Cancer Medicine Program, University of Helsinki)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Mechanotransduction is required for maintaining the identity of mature cochlear IHCs and their innervation
Professor Walter Marcotti
(Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The enlightened heart: optogenetic approaches to treat and understand cardiac arrhythmia
Professor Philipp Sasse
(Institute for Physiology, University of Bonn)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Is Oxford getting better at producing new medicines for patients?
CANCELLED
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Chas Bountra
(NDM)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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Targeting mitochondrial metabolism for early detection and treatment of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity (KT) AND Targeting bacterial DNA repair to combat antibiotic resistance (TLH)
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Various Speakers
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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Dynamic readout of nucleic acids by proteins
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Marcin Nowotny
(Laboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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Evaluation of endogenous neurotransmitter release in the human brain using PET
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Ilan Rabiner
(EVP Head of Translational Imaging, Invicro)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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Is Oxford getting better at producing new medicines for patients?
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Chas Bountra
(Structural Genomic Consortium)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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Signalling to and from IP3 receptors
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Colin Taylor
(Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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Cardiovascular mechanisms of CGRP – from discovery until today
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Susan Brain, Head of Vascular Biology and Inflammation
(King's College, London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Hypothalamic glutamatergic-vasopressin ascending projections involved in anxiety, avoidance and motivated behaviours
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Limei Zhang
(Department of Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Mass spectrometry and its role in membrane protein drug discovery
Professor Dame Carol Robinson
(University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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4D Pharmacology - therapeutics to control time
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Stuart Maudsley
(Receptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Transcriptomic basis of remodeling in heart failure
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Igor Efimov
(Alisann and Terry Collins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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Regulation of the striatal network by acetylcholine/glutamate cotransmission: linking together compulsion, addiction and eating disorders
NOTE SEMINAR WILL BE AT 1PM. E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joning instructions
Professor Salah El Mestikawy
(Douglas Research Centre, McGill University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Endosomes and lysosomes: platforms for multimolecular signalling and amyloidogenesis in health and disease
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Clive Wilson
(DPAG, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Local control of protein synthesis in cortical wiring
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Oscar Marin
(MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London)
Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Mechanisms of rapid antidepressant action
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Lisa Monteggia
(Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Adenosine integrates light and sleep signalling for regulation of circadian timing
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan
(Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Mimicking protein-protein interactions in persistent bacteria
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Anna Barnard
(Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms of anthracycline cardiotoxicity
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Margaret Cunningham
(Strathclyde Institute for Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS))
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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A dual potassium channel dysfunction underlies small vessel disease of the brain in Alzheimer's Dementia
HYDRID seminar - join us in person or e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Adam Greenstein
(Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Microcircuit determinants of hippocampal oscillatory activity
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Liset M de la Prida
(Instituto Cajal - CSIC)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Development of the ventricular conduction system: how the heart gains its rhythm
E-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Lucile Miquerol
(Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille (IBDM), Aix-Marseille Université)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Building hybrid biological-digital twins of cardiomyocytes using dynamic clamping
E-mali carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Teun de Boer
(Associate Professor, Deparment of Medical Physiology, UMC Utrecht)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Imaging tumour metabolism – From mouse to man
Join us in person or attend remotely - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS
(CRUK Cambridge Institute)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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There's a time and a place - neuronal activity and noise in synaptic wiring specificity
Join us in person or attend remotely - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
Dr Laura Andreae
(MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Pharmacology Research Staff Society seminar: cutting-edge research in cardiovascular pharmacology
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail david.priestman@pharm.ox.ac.uk or jimmy.martin@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Various Speakers
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 17 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Understanding TRPC1/4/5 channels through chemical/structural biology
Join us in person or attend remotely - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Associate Professor Robin Bon
(School of Medicine, University of Leeds)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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The Ca2+-gated Cl- channel TMEM16A is a crucial amplifier of capillary pericyte contraction in the normal and ischemic brain
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Paolo Tammaro
(Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Genetic variation, transcriptional regulation and epigenetics underlying heart rhythm
Join us in person or attend remotely - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Vincent Christoffels
(Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC)
Tuesday 14 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Memories of long term potentiation
15TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE Join us in person or attend remotely - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Tim Bliss
(Visiting Professor at UCL and the Frontier Institutes of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Lysosomal signaling in metabolic adaptation and tumorigenesis
Please join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Andrea Ballabio
(Scientific Director, TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) and Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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How is the circadian clock set to the right time
Join us in person in the David Smith Lecture Theatre or join remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Associate Professor Aarti Jagannath
(Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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The role of the two pore channels in melanoma
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Associate Professor John Parrington
(Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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How best to explore chemical space for bioactive molecular discovery?
Join in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Adam Nelson
(School of Chemistry, University of Leeds and Head of High-Throughput Molecule Discovery at Rosalind Franklin Institute (RFI), Harwell)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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‘Drug development of new synthetic thyroid hormone derivatives for metabolic/neurodegenerative diseases’ (Dr Massimiliano Runfola) AND A mechanistic investigation of lithium’s neuropharmacological and metabolic actions (Dr Brooke Prakash)
Join in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Various Speakers
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Where targeting DNA can take you …
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Professor Isabel Rozas
(Drug Disovery and Medicinal Chemistry, Trinity College, Dublin)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Investigating the neuropsychological effects of antidepressants in a translational rodent model
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TBA
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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The glycobiology of Guillain-Barre syndrome: from Alexander to Zika
16th David Smith Lecture. Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Hugh Willison
(Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Adaptive plasticity of central synapses and their astroglial environment
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Professor Dmitri Rusakov
(UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Opioid pharmacology: from molecule to coffin
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Professor Graeme Henderson
(School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Using long-read RNA-sequencing to study the hidden transcriptome at the GBA1/GBAP1 locus with implications for our understanding of its role in Parkinson's disease
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Professor Mina Ryton
(Genetics and Genomic Medicine, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 14 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex’ Dr Hannah Alfonsa, Akerman Group AND The role of NPC1-PMCA2 complex in Niemann-Pick disease type C’ Dr Maria Fernandez-Suarez, Platt Group
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Various Speakers
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Non-natural amino acids and bio-orthogonal ligations in peptide and protein engineering
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Assistant Professor Marina Rubini
(School of Chemistry, University College Dublin)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Mechanisms and inhibition of multidrug transporters
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Professor Hendrik van Veen
(Cambridge Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Building a flexible sensory cortex: Function and dysfunction
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Dr Abhishek Banerjee
(Newcastle University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 25 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Preventing mitochondrial superoxide production as a therapeutic strategy in heart attack and stroke
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Professor Mike Murphy
(MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Following the cues - how do sound and light cues impact risky decision making?
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Professor Catharine Winstanley
(The University of British Columbia)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 9 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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When the heart skips a beat for the brain: a new approach for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias linked to mutations in the cardiac ryanodine receptor
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Dr Charalampos Sigalas
(Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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‘Insights into PV+ interneurons’ physiology in cognitive dysfunction’ - Dr Sara Hizaji, Blascko Fellow, Viney group AND ‘How to drug the “undruggables”’ - Dr Carole Bataille, Russell group
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TBA
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Exploring TCR and co-receptor signalling in T cells using engineered ligands
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Dr Ricardo Fernandes
(CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Towards systems biology of human sleep/wake cycles: phosphorylation hypothesis of sleep
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Professor Hiroki Ueda
(School of Medicine, University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR))
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Pharmacological targets in the treatment of LUTS focusing on microvasculature and spontaneous contractions of muscle components including muscularis mucosae
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Professor Hikaru Hashitani
(Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Drugs and trafficking: lessons from voltage-gated calcium channels
17TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE Join us in person or via Teams Live - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Annette Dolphin
(Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Wednesday 27 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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New therapeutic approaches to tuberculosis
CANCELLED
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Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan
(University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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A role for IL-3 in brain health and disease
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Dr Abi Yates
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Cortex and beyond: an evolutionary perspective on visual circuits for action
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Assistant Professor Sarah Ruediger
(Wellcome Trust CDA Fellow, University College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Understanding the link between inflammation and immunity in ageing
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Dr Roel De Maeyer
(Oxford-BMS Fellow, NDORMS)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Pharmacology of platelet immune receptors: mechanisms of activation and development of therapeutics
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Professor Steve Watson
(Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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LINGO proteins – novel regulatory subunits of BK channels
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Professor Mark Hollywood
(Smooth Muscle Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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'Chemical biology tools: from target validation to developing novel antibiotics' - Dr Adam Thomas AND 'Linking memories: Investigating the synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis in freely-exploring mice' - Yuki Sakai
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Various Speakers
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Imaging the IR injured beating heart coronary microcirculation in vivo
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Dr Neena Kalia
(Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences , University of Birmingham)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Daily regulation of osmostasis and mammalian cell function
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Dr John O’Neill
(MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Brewing up new mechanisms controlling T-cell receptor signaling
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Dr Marcus John Curtis Long
(Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Lausanne)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Not just an affair of the heart: a look at ERG channels and Kv7 channels in smooth muscle
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Professor Iain Greenwood
(Vascular Biology Research Centre, University College London)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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'Effects of chronic hyperglycaemia and glucokinase activation/inhibition on pancreatic β-cell function’ - Dr Matthew Lloyd AND 'Chemical modifications of nanobodies’ - Dimitris Mamalis
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Various Speakers
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Protons to patients: insights into the role of the chloride-proton antiporter ClC-7 in lysosomal biology
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Dr Joseph Mindell
(Membrane Transport Biophysics Section, NIH)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The cortical regulation of sleep
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Dr Lukas Krone
(Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG))
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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Assembly of axonal domains that promote nerve conduction: the Axon Initial Segment and the node of Ranvier
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Professor Peter Brophy
(Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
12:00
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The impact of microglia on neuronal function and brain plasticity
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Assistant Professor Sandra Siegert
(Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA))
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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PIEZO1 force sensor in cardiovascular health and its potential as a drug target
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Professor David Beech
(School of Medicine, University of Leeds)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Forces in vessels: how mechanosensors initiate atherosclerosis in arteries
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Professor Ellie Tzima
(Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Letting the (B)CAT out of the bag - SGLT2i-cardioprotection in doxorubicin-induced heart failure
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Dr Kerstin Timm
(BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research Fellow and Career Development Fellow)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:00
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Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Drug Discovery Subtheme: opportunity for collaborations
This talk has been cancelled and replaced with 'Letting the (B)CAT out of the bag - SGLT2i-cardioprotection in doxorubicin-induced heart failure' - presented by Dr Kerstin Timm
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Barbara Casadei
(Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Sex differences in neural control of urethral smooth muscle
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Associate Professor Bernard Drumm
(Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Developing a viable MYC inhibitor for cancer treatment: a challenging journey from the lab to the clinic
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Dr Laura Soucek
(CEO and PI, Peptomyc)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
11:00
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Reimagining druggability using chemoproteomic platforms
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Professor Dan Nomura
(University of California, Berkeley)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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NEAT1 and paraspeckles: nuclear hubs regulating cellular stress responses
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Professor Maria Perander
(The Arctic University of Norway)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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18TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Genetics of neurodegeneration: progress towards mechanistic treatments
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Professor Sir John Hardy
(Chair of the Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Pharmacology Research Staff Society Seminar
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Pharamcology Research Staff Society
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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New insights into smooth muscle peacemaking
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Professor Hikaru Hashitani
(Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Sleep for synaptic functions
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Dr Julie Seibt
(Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Thursday 19 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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Vascular effects of ion channels during healthy and complicated pregnancies
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Assistant Professor Ramón Lorca
(Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Colorado, Anschutz)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Chemical tools to study molecular events at synapses
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Associate Professor Frederic Menard
(Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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The role of astrocytic chloride as modulator of neuronal inhibition in epilepsy
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Assistant Professor Verena Untiet
(Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Copenhagen)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells in space and time
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Dr Maximiliano Gutierrez
(Senior Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Genomically driven discovery of novel cardiovascular signalling pathways
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Professor Andrew Tinker
(William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine )
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Peroxisome dynamics and organelle interplay in health and disease
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Professor Michael Schrader
(Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Physics of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as a new biomarker for health and disease
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Assistant Professor Erdinc Sezgin
(SciLifeLab Fellow, Karolinska Institute)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Keeping the rhythm: how hERG potassium channels links genetics, drugs and pollution to cardiac arrhythmias
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Professor Jules Hancox
(School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Brain-wide approaches to neuroplasticity and emotional behavior in the mouse
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Professor Tommaso Pizzorusso
(Professor of Physiology, Scuola Normale Superiore)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Wednesday 18 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)
12:00
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Leveraging the actinobacteria strain collection and genome database at NPDC for natural products and drug discovery
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Professor Ben Shen
(Natural Products Discovery Centre, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars