Events this person is organising:

Saturday 14 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - POSTPONED Alzheimer’s Research UK Thames Valley Dementia Information morning
  Fro the latest information and details of the programme please visit our website: https://www.oxdare.ox.ac.uk/arukox-public
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Monday 20 April 2020 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Targeting cytotoxic alpha-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson’s Disease
  Please note change of timing from 4pm to 2pm. The seminar will now be presented online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for the link to access the online seminar.
  Professor Daniel Otzen (Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University)

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - An update on the quest for genetic determinants in Parkinson's Disease and related disorders
  Professor Vincenzo Bonifati (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Selective brain region vulnerability in Parkinson’s Disease is governed by α-Synuclein conformations
  This seminar will be held online. Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Tim Bartels (Dementia Research Institute at the University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 6 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Exploring human brain structure and function using cerebral organoids
  This seminar will be held online. Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Madeline Lancaster (Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 22 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Function and Dysfunction of Synucleins – Membranes Matter
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Jacqueline Burré (Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Time to revise the classical model of basal ganglia dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: New insights from a novel, progressive mouse of mitochondrial complex I dysfunction
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr D. James Surmeier (Northwestern University, Chicago)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Decoding Parkinson’s Disease: New Therapeutic Opportunities
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Valina Dawson (John Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanisms of Innate Immunity and Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Richard Youle (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Institutes of Health (NIH))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Tales from the human brain: a multi-scale approach to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Wilma van de Berg (Amsterdam UMC)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screens to ameliorate cellular stress in neurodegeneration
  Dr. Emmanouil Metzakopian (UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Modulation of striatal circuits by midbrain dopamine neurons
  Dr. Nicolas Tritsch (Neuroscience Institute and Marlene & Paulo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders, New York University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 19 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mitochondrial DNA at the interface between mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation in Parkinson’s disease
  Dr. Anne Grünewald (University of Luxembourg)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Body-first & Brain-first Parkinson's disease - explaining motor asymmetry, non-motor subtypes, and dementia
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Per Borghammer (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 22 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mitophagy dysfunction in autosomal recessive Parkinson’s disease: is it the whole story?
  Dr Olga Corti (Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 6 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sub-second Striatum Neuromodulatory Signaling on Multiple Spatial Scales During Learning and Action
  Dr Mark Howe (Boston University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 22 September 2021 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Autophagy and neurodegeneration
  Professor David Rubinsztein (University of Cambridge.)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis and Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Sreeganga Chandra (Yale School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Modulators of pathology progression in neurodegenerative disease
  PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO MONDAY 22ND NOVEMBER
  Dr Michael Henderson (Van Andel Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 7 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular and functional organization of the mouse striatum
  Prof. Konstantinos Meletis (Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Intracellular Membrane Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegenerative Diseases
  Professor Pietro De Camilli (Yale University School of Medicine, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience New Haven, CT USA)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Making sense of the exuberant axonal connectivity of dopamine neurones
  Professor Louis-Eric Trudeau (Faculty of Medicine Université de Montréal)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - A hidden regulator of neuromodulation and motor learning: Protein synthesis by the integrated stress response (ISR)
  Dr Nicole Calakos (Dept. of Neurology, Duke University, School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - The drug development landscape in Parkinson's
  This event will be held in person. Please note slightly the later start time of 12:15pm
  Dr Kevin McFarthing (Research Advisor, Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 27 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The role of LRRK2 in familial and sporadic Parkinson’s disease
  Dr. Mark R. Cookson (Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging (NIA))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 6 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Cell circuits, progression genetics, and the quest to solve Parkinson’s with precision medicine
  Dr Clemens Scherzer (Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - LRRK2 kinase in Parkinson’s disease: from single molecule to the brain
  The date of this seminar has changed
  Suzanne Pfeffer, Ph.D. (Stanford University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Prodromal PD-definition and impact for clinical studies
  Dr. Daniela Berg, (University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Inflammation and immune dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: targeting the gut-brain axis to reduce risk and progression
  Professor Malú Gámez Tansey (University of Florida)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 30 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanisms and Roles of Fast Dopamine Signaling
  Professor Pascal Kaeser (Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Genetics of synucleinopathies and how it informs us towards future clinical trials
  Dr Ziv Gan-Or (McGill University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The cellular phase of Parkinson’s disease
  Professor Patrik Verstreken (Leuven Brain Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 28 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Beyond Alpha-Synuclein: Exploring the Diversity of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Parkinson's Disease
  Dr Ted. M. Dawson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 5 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Towards Intraneuronal Immunotherapy (in person talk)
  Dr Ole Tietz (Dementia Research Centre, Macquarie Medical School, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 17 July 2023 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - New stratification concepts for precision medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease (in person talk)
  Prof. Rejko Krüger (Luxembourg Institute of Health)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 16:00 - Striatal Circuitry in Parkinson's Disease and Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia
  Dr Alexandra Nelson (University of California)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 12:00 - Exploring the crosstalk between familial and idiopathic Parkinson’s (in person talk)
  Dr Patrick Lewis (Royal Veterinary College, London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Somatic mutations in the brain: do they have a role in synucleinopathies? (in person talk)
  Professor Christos Proukakis (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 6 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Rethinking Parkinson’s disease pathophysiology & how to model it with a focus on alpha-synuclein & cell autonomous processes
  Professor Poul Henning Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 9 January 2024 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - OPDC Seminar - Gene therapy to study and treat Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Michael G. Kaplitt (Weill Cornell Medicine, Brain, and Spine Center)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE REARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR Mitochondria at neuronal synapses: why are they there?
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE REARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR
  Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 25 March 2024 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Dissecting Parkinson's disease with long-read RNA-sequencing
  Professor Mina Ryten (Cambridge Dementia Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mitophagy, from genetics to biology, and back (rescheduled date)
  Professor Hélène Plun-Favreau (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Gut Macrophages Modulate Body-First Synucleinopathies
  Dr Tim Bartels (Dementia Research Institute at the University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 18 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Imaging Oligomers of Alpha-Synuclein in Parkinson’s Disease
  Professor Steven. F. Lee (University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 8 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Intersection between innate immunity, lysosome damage and Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Shawn Ferguson (Yale School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The interplay of peripheral of immune cells associated cytokines with induced pluripotent stem cell astrocytes; implications for Parkinson’s Disease
  Professor Maeve Caldwell (Trinity College Dublin)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

• 11:00 - Neuronal Cell Biology of PINK1/Parkin mitophagy
  A/Professor Michael Lazarou (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) Parkville, Australia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)