• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Alison Brindle (Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford)
• Organising department: Medical Sciences Division

Thursday 19 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:00 - Military and Expedition Medicine in Lesotho, Uganda and Nepal: Dr Andrew Grieve
  Dr Andrew Grieve (RAF)

Tuesday 17 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:45 - Oxford London Lecture 2015: Knowledge, nudge and nanny: opportunities to improve the nations diet
  Prof. Susan Jebb (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Saturday 16 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Tingewick Summer Fête
  TBA

Monday 18 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Dementia Friends Information Session
  This session is repeated on Tuesday 19 May at 12.30 in the Department of Experimental Psychology
  Claire Sexton
• 19:30 - Pint of Science: Worm tales and why they matter to us
  Karolina Chocian (DPhil student, University of Oxford), Professor Alison Woollard (University Lecturer in Genetics, University of Oxford)
• 20:00 - Pint of Science: Discovering dementia: Imaging the ageing brain
  Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
• 20:00 - Pint of Science: Discovering dementia: Carbon monoxide – the dose makes the poison
  Dr Mark Dallas (Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and ARUK Oxford Network Committee member, University of Reading)

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

• 12:30 - Dementia Friends Information Session
  This event is also being run on Monday 18 May at 12.30pm in Lecture Theatre 2, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital.
  Claire Sexton
• 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)
• 20:00 - Pint of Science: Studying sleep: Light and the body clock
  Professor Stuart Peirson (Associate Professor in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:30 - Pint of Science: Ebola – Fighting the Outbreak
  Dr Marian Killip (Research Fellow, University of St Andrews), Professor Trudie Lang (Professor of Global Health Research, University of Oxford), Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones (Professor of Immunology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Sir Barry Jackson (formerly the Queen’s Surgeon and President of the RCS and RSM) - Talk and Q&A
  Sir Barry Jackson

Monday 1 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - How to improve research - Litchfield Lecture
  Prof. John Ioannidis (Professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine)

Monday 8 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Essentials of Drug Discovery - Pfizer insights lecture series
  Chris Bulawa (Senior Director, Rare Disease Research Unit), Phil Jeffrey (Head of Translational Sciences, Rare Disease Research Unit), Michael Binks (VP Rare Disease Clinical Research, Pfizer)
• 17:30 - 4th OIBC Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture: Stem cells for organ repair
  All welcome, staff, students and public
  Professor Martin Birchall (Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, University College London)

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Creating a New Taxonomy of Disease - The HLS Annual Research Lecture
  TBA

Wednesday 10 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Making the most of your research: impact through innovation and enterprise
  TBA
• 10:00 - Making the most of your research: impact through innovation and enterprise
  TBA
• 17:00 - Following the Map of the Genome: The Biotechnology Industry and its Future
  All welcome, staff, students and public
  Donald Drakeman (Advent Life Sciences and University of Cambridge / Volunteers in Medicine), Lisa Drakeman (Advent Life Sciences and University of Cambridge / Volunteers in Medicine)

Thursday 11 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Autoimmunity – when our bodies turn on us
  Prof Paul Bowness (Professor of Experimental Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)

Tuesday 16 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The Role of Temperament and Personality in Mental Health: Optimism and Pessimism as Examples
  Professor Elaine Fox (Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology)

Wednesday 17 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Can we Change our Underlying Personality? From Rainy Brain to Sunny Brain
  Professor Elaine Fox (Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology)
• 14:30 - The Positive Side of the Psychopathic Spectrum
  TBA

Thursday 18 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - How Do Genetic and Environmental Factors Influence our Personality and Mental Wellbeing?
  Professor Elaine Fox (Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology)

Monday 29 June 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester and Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lectures
  Event is open to all
  Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford), Professor Ottoline Leyser ( University of Cambridge), Professor Dame Kay E Davies ( University of Oxford), Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 July 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The 100,000 Genome Project: Transforming diagnostics for patients with cancer and inherited genetic diseases
  Anna Schuh (Associate Professor for Molecular Diagnostics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - 12th Medical Sciences Division DPhil Day
  Prof Adrian Hill (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
• 19:00 - Genius in the Humanities and the Sciences: Milton and Darwin - two views of Creation
  Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Royal Society)

Wednesday 19 August 2015 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Joint Research Office lunchtime drop-in session for researcher
  Not applicable
• 12:30 - Translating research from the laboratory to the market place
  Dr Steve Chambers (SynbiCITE)

Wednesday 2 September 2015 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - From the laboratory to the clinic: Cytokines, autoimmunity and immunotherapy‏
  Various (See programme)

Friday 4 September 2015 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Checks and Balances for Crossover Formation
  Judy Yanowitz (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)

Thursday 17 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Antibiotic Resistance
  Dr Angela Brueggemann

Friday 18 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Success Begins With a Good Story: How a compelling tale drives market leadership
  TBA

Monday 21 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Social Brain Development
  Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London)

Wednesday 23 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms of genome propagation studied by cryo-electron microscopy
  Dr Alessandro Costa (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Friday 25 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Prof Yoram Rudy Astor Lectureship: Noninvasive Imaging of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias in the Intact Human Heart
  Prof Yoram Rudy (Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA)

Friday 9 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Gendered research and innovation
  Professor Simone Buitendijk (Vice Rector, Leiden University)

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - National Arthritis Week drop in event
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:30 - Global Brigades Oxford Information Sessions
  TBA

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:30 - Global Brigades Oxford Information Sessions
  TBA

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:30 - Stem cells – The answer for all our ills?
  Professor Zameel Cader (Director of the Oxford Headache Centre and Director of StemBANCC, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Stroke Awareness Event
  Various (See programme)

Tuesday 8 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Innovation and Enterprise: adding impact to your research
  Anne Miller (MPLS)

Wednesday 9 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Supervising an FHS Research Project – informal lunchtime briefing session
  Dr Helen Christian (Chair of the Course & Exam Policy Committee for FHS Medical Sciences and FHS Part II Cell & Systems Biology / Neuroscience)

Thursday 10 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Supervising an FHS Research Project – informal lunchtime briefing session
  Dr Helen Christian (Chair of the Course & Exam Policy Committee for FHS Medical Sciences and FHS Part II Cell & Systems Biology / Neuroscience)

Thursday 4 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - Physical Activity and the Ageing Brain – Public Talk
  Claire Sexton

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Julia Bodmer Memorial Lecture: From Pure Maths to Web Science: A Tale of Many Abstractions
  Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng ( Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton)

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Theatre of Debate: People are Messy
  Various Speakers

Saturday 27 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Audiences with Authors: Philip Pullman (Hosted by The British Psychotherapy Foundation)
  Philip Pullman

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:30 - The Power of the Pill
  Various Speakers, Valerie Beral (Nuffield Department of Population Health)

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Efficient Cycling in Oxford and Headington
  Sam Chappell (Trainer of Bikeability )

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

• 18:30 - Falls, Hip Fractures and Clinical Trials’- Public Talk in Banbury
  Matthew Costa (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Wellcome Trust Visit - Open Forum
  Dr Kevin Moses (Director of Science, Wellcome Trust ), Dr Anne-Marie Coriat (Head of Research Careers, Wellcome Trust)
• 15:00 - Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Kick-Off Event
  Dr Ylva Ivarsson (University of Uppsala)

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Efficient Cycling in Oxford and Headington
  Sam Chappell (Trainer of Bikeability )

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Success in the Academy
  Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch), Professor Karma Nabulsi (Politics and International Relations St Edmunds Hall, Oxford ), Dr George Okafo (Senior Director RnD, GlaxoSmithKline)

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Better patient outcomes through partnerships
  Various (See programme)

Tuesday 17 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Research Ethics in the Oxford Medical Sciences Division - who to apply to, and how to prepare the application
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Community Drop-In Exhibition on the Oxford University Hospital Energy Link Project - Various times and locations, see abstract
  TBA
• 18:00 - Behaviours that challenge: looking into the ways of reducing early institutionalised care for dementia
  Dr Brian Murray (Consultant Older Adult Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director for Older People's Services, Oxford Health NHS Trust)

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Free Public Talk – Clinical Trials: One of the most important medical inventions in the last 100 years
  Professor Sallie Lamb (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculo-skeletal Sciences )

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Imaging disease: Lighting up inherited heart disease
  Dr Matt Daniels (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Changing genetic information to fight Parkinson’s disease
  Cecelia Lee (third year DPhil student)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Detangling dementia: Can stem cells live up to the hype?
  Jacqueline Robbins ( final year PhD student)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Understanding cancer Cancer: finding the risk factors
  Dr Kezia Gaitskell (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Understanding cancer Knowing your enemy: dissecting and targeting cancers
  Dr Michael White
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Imaging disease Using MRI to explore cardiac disease
  Professor Matthew Robson (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Pint of Science: The Heart of the Matter Total eclipse of the heart('s normal rhythm)
  Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology), Dr Rebecca Capel (Department of Pharmacology)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Friendship and social networking Friends on tap, or why Facebook wont get you any more friends 
  Professor Robin Dunbar (Department of Experimental Psychology)

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Better patient outcomes through partnerships
  Various (See programme)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Tropical diseases: Data sharing in science
  Dr Laura Merson (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Brain networks in cognition Working memory: how the brain keeps thoughts in mind
  Dr Mark Stokes (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Brain networks in cognition How we know what we know about the brain
  Dr Andrew Bell (Department of Experimental Psychology)
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Tropical diseases Science in a crisis - conducting research during an epidemic
  Professor Peter Horby (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Panel Discussion on Impact in Science
  Various (See programme)

Thursday 9 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Research Ethics in the Oxford Medical Sciences Division - who to apply to, and how to prepare the application
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Global Challenges Research Fund - Health Theme Meeting
  Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Modelling Neurodegeneration Symposium
  Various (See programme)

Thursday 30 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Application of visual analytics to healthcare associated infection
  Margaret Varga (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:50 - 13th Medical Sciences Division DPhil Day
  Various (See programme)

Tuesday 19 July 2016 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Hospital Energy Project – Workshop to understand travel disruption
  TBA

Friday 29 July 2016 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Improving the Health of Women and Girls in India
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 2 August 2016 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - OUH NHS FT Parking Enforcement Policy – Q&A Session for University Staff
  Please bring your University ID card. You will be required to sign in to the WIMM, so please give yourself plenty of time to sign in and make your way to the seminar room.
  Various Speakers

Thursday 22 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Hill Pitch Event
  Various Speakers

Friday 23 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Medical Sciences Career Day
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Annual Litchfield Lecture "Nuclear Inositide Signalling in Myelodysplastic Syndromes: From Bench to Bedside"
  Professor Lucio Cocco (Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy)

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Digital Education Strategy workshop and lunch
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Beyond natural killing: unexpected roles for NK cells in immunity and disease
  Stephen Waggoner (Assistant Professor in the Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE) within the Division of Rheumatology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center within the UC Department of Pediatrics, USA)

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Making it work: maintaining balance upon returning to work
  Various (See programme)

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Like Mother, Like Child
  Professor Paul Leeson (Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - EU Funding in Horizon 2020 - Brexit and Beyond
  Gill Wells (European Team)

Friday 9 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - EU Funding in Horizon 2020 - Brexit and Beyond
  Gill Wells (European Team)

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - EU Funding in Horizon 2020 - Brexit and Beyond
  Gill Wells (European Team)
• 14:00 - Maximising the Commercial Value of your University Research - Avoiding IP Pitfalls: Selling reagents, understanding MTAs and 3rd party rights
  Various Speakers

Monday 19 December 2016 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - NC3Rs Funding schemes and how to submit a competitive application
  To register your interest, please email robin.sparkes@bms.ox.ac.uk
  Katie Bates

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Making it work: maintaining balance upon returning to work
  This workshop will be tailored for professional and support staff members.
  TBA

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - British Council Mexico Visit
  TBA

Thursday 20 July 2017 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Public Patient Involvement / Engagement networking event
  The workshop is aimed at support staff
  TBA

Wednesday 1 July 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - AIMday in the Microbiome
  This event will be held online. More information will be provided on registration
  Various Speakers