Tuesday 19 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:30 - Pint of Science: Stem Cells: Hope and Hype in Medical Research
  Dr Sally Cowley (Head, James Martin Stem Cell Facility, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor Zameel Cader (Director of the Oxford Headache Centre and Director of StemBANCC, University of Oxford)
  Medical Sciences Division Events

Thursday 16 July 2015 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Dementia Research Day
  Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor John Gallacher (University of Oxford), A full programme will soon be available. Speakers include
  Oxford Dementia and Ageing Research

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Translating Parkinson's for target discovery: From patient cohorts to genetic models / Understanding endometriosis: genomics meets phenomics
  Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor Krina Zondervan (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics)
  NDM Seminar Series

Monday 20 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:15 - OPDC Research Day
  Abstract Submission closes Friday February 17th 2017
  Prof. Dr. Birgit Liss (Ulm University), Professor Masud Husain (University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Dr Thomas Barber (University of Oxford ), Siddharth Arora (University of Oxford ), Johannes Klein (University of Oxford), Dr George Tofaris (University of Oxford ), Dr Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford ), Dr Jimena Monzon Sandoval (University of Oxford ), Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly (University of Oxford), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford ), Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Paul Dodson (University of Oxford, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit), Dr Sarah Threlfell (University of Oxford )
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 12 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - ARUK Oxford/NIHR Oxford Health BRC Dementia Research Day
  Professor Zameel Cader (Director of the Oxford Headache Centre and Director of StemBANCC, University of Oxford), Dr Caleb Webber, MRC Programme Leader (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Sally Cowley (Head, James Martin Stem Cell Facility, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Francesca Nicholls (Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford), Professor John Gallacher (University of Oxford), Dr Samrah Ahmed (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford), Dr Mario Torso (University of Oxford), Dr Michele Veldsman (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of oxford), Dr Mark Dallas (Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and ARUK Oxford Network Committee member, University of Reading), Rupert McShane (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Professor John Geddes (Head of University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford), Elena Di Daniel, Head of Biology (Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford), Dr Jakub Scaber (University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Calvin (University of Oxford), Robert Quinlan (Dept. Chemistry, University of Oxford ), Claire Sexton, Professor Frank Gunn-Moore (University of St Andrews)

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding tau and Abeta biology in health and disease
  Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Thursday 16 July 2015 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Dementia Research Day
  Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor John Gallacher (University of Oxford), A full programme will soon be available. Speakers include
  Oxford Dementia and Ageing Research

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Intracellular signalling mechanisms underlying memory enhancement
  TBA

Tuesday 12 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cellular processing of Alpha-synuclein : implications for Parkinson’s Disease
  Mark Cooper (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 6 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson’s progress: novel genes, mouse models and synthesis
  Professor Matt Farrer (University of British Columbia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genes to clinic in an autoimmune disease
  Professor John Todd (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The magic in the web of it: How a rare disorder is helping to untangle the mysteries of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Ellen Sidransky (NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Pathways in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Matthew LaVoie (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Combining iPSCs and ‘omics to identify molecular convergence in neurodegenerative disorders
  Dr Michael Ward (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mitophagy: from genetics to biology, and back
  Dr Hélène Plun-Favreau (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Developing approaches to explore proteome complexity in the human brain
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Becky Carlyle (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (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)

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - 2022 Oxford Parkinson’s Research Day
  The deadline for abstract submissions is by 5pm on Friday 28th October 2022. The final deadline for registrations is Friday 18th November at 5pm.
  Various Speakers

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)

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)

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)

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mitochondria at neuronal synapses: why are they there?
  Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Intracellular signalling mechanisms underlying memory enhancement
  TBA

Friday 6 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson’s progress: novel genes, mouse models and synthesis
  Professor Matt Farrer (University of British Columbia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 17 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mechanisms of axon degeneration in injury and disease.
  Please note talk is at noon
  Professor Michael Coleman (University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Striatal synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
  Professor Paolo Calabresi (University of Perugia, Italy)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Synaptic alterations in the indirect-pathway of the basal ganglia in experimental Parkinsonism
  Jerome Baufreton (The Neuroscience Institute at Bordeaux)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Pathways in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Matthew LaVoie (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Combining iPSCs and ‘omics to identify molecular convergence in neurodegenerative disorders
  Dr Michael Ward (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mitophagy: from genetics to biology, and back
  Dr Hélène Plun-Favreau (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Developing approaches to explore proteome complexity in the human brain
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Becky Carlyle (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)