• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford) , Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• Timing: Fridays at 1pm
• Organising department: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)

Friday 13 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Esther T Stoeckli, University of Zurich - To cross, or not to cross axon guidance mechanisms at choice points
  Prof. Esther Stoeckli (University of Zurich, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences)

Friday 27 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor James Johnson, Visiting Professor of Integrated Physiology from The University of British Columbia - In vivo control of heart rate and cardiomyocyte metabolism by Ryr2-mediated calcium flux
  Prof. James Johnson (Visiting Professor of Integrated Physiology from The University of British Columbia)

Friday 6 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Rhys Evans - Substrate selection by the myocardium: the role of triacylglycerols in cardiac energy provision
  Dr Rhys Evans
• 13:30 - Dr Natalie Connor-Robson - 'Translating Parkinson's: Integrating data from iPSC and transgenic rodent models'
  Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 13 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Amanda Fisher, Director, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College - Linking epigenetics and signalling in the early mammalian embryo
  Prof. Amanda Fisher (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College)

Friday 1 May 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Aziz Aboobaker : ‘Understanding stem cells and regeneration using the planarian model system’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)

Friday 8 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Keith Buckler : Mechanisms of oxygen sensing in arterial chemoreceptors.
  Dr Keith Buckler (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Dr Melissa Bowerman : ‘Spinal muscular atrophy: more than just a motoneuron pathology’
  Dr Melissa Bowerman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Victoria Baja Lorenzana : ‘Practice makes perfect – Neural circuits for auditory plasticity’
  Professor Victoria Baja Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Professor Simon Lovestone : 'Deconvoluting the amyloid cascade in Alzheimer’s disease; the role of wnt signalling’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Simon Lovestone, (Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Sarah De Val : ‘Transcriptional pathways controlling blood vessel development and differentiation’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Herman Steller : “Regulation of Proteasome Activity in Development, Aging and Disease”
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Herman Steller (Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Friday 12 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Oscar Marin, KCL : 'Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity'
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London)

Friday 19 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Anna Gloyn : 'Unravelling causal mechanisms for diabetes pathogenesis’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Anna Gloyn (OCDEM, University of Oxford )

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Tilly Mommersteeg
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 13:00 - The blind cavefish: Unravelling the mechanisms underlying heart regeneration
  Dr Tilly Mommersteeg (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Dr Tilly Mommersteeg
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 13:30 - ‘The family of CLC chloride channels and transporters: proteins with borderline personalities’
  Dr Giovanni Zifarelli (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Dormant stem/progenitor cells lurking in the adult heart’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Michela Noseda (Imperial College)

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker: Professor Jean Rossier - ‘Cortical fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons enwrapped in the perineuronal net express the metallopeptidases Adamts8, Adamts15 and Neprilysin’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Jean Rossier (INSERM, Hôpital St Anne, Paris)

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton : A novel pathway of cardiac iron regulation that is critical for heart function
  Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Dr Gaurav Das : ‘Fruit flies remember components of food’
  Dr Gaurav Das (CNCB, DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Michiko Yamasaki-Mann : Ca2+ dynamics in neurons: from neuronal growth to oscillations
  Dr Michiko Yamasaki-Mann (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Robert Gillies, Moffit Cancer Centre, University of South Florida, Tampa USA : ‘Causes and Consequences of The Hostile Microenvironment of Tumors’
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Robert Gillies (Moffit Cancer Centre, University of South Florida, Tampa USA)

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Matthew Freeman : The cell biology of intercellular signalling
  Guest Speaker
  Professor Matthew Freeman (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Dr Lyndsay Murray, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh : Motor Unit Pathology in Mouse Models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Lyndsay Murray (Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh)

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Joaquim Vieira : Epigenetic mechanisms of epicardial gene reactivation to repair the adult heart
  Dr Joaquim Vieira (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Dr Jeroen de Baaij : Magnesium Transport in the Kidney and the Brain: CNNM2 as Novel Regulator
  Dr Jeroen De Baaij (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker Professor William A Harris FRS, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge : ‘Of Cell Types and Cell Numbers in the Retina’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor William A Harris FRS (Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Alison Woollard, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford : How the worm completes its skin, and other stories
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Alison Woollard (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Speaker - Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle, Université de Versailles St Quentin : Tricyclo-DNA: highly promising antisense oligonucleotides for splice switching therapeutic approaches
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle (Université de Versailles St Quentin)

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Speaker Professor Martina Muckenthaler, Heidelberg University Hospital : The role of the hepcidin/ferroportin regulatory system in health and disease
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Martina Muckenthaler ( Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital)

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Prof Fiona Watts FRS FMedSci, Director, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine. Guy's Hospital King's College London :- ‘Signals that control exit from the stem cell compartment in human epidermis’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Fiona Watt FRS (Director, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Guy's Hospital King's College London,)

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Professor Jordan Raff, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology - ‘The molecular mechanisms of centriole and centrosome assembly'
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Friday 13 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Duncan Sparrow : Environmental influences on mouse heart development
  Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Dr Diogo Pimentel - 'Operation of a Homeostatic Sleep Switch’
  Dr Diogo Pimentel (DPAG, University of Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - GUEST: Professor William Wisden Dept Life Sciences, Imperial College London : Capturing the neuronal ensembles underlying sleep and sedation
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor William Wisden MA PhD FRSB FMedSci (Dept. Life Sciences, Imperial College London)

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Michele Lufino - Dissecting the silencing effect of non-coding triplet repeat expansions on gene expression using tagged genomic models of Friedreich’s ataxia’
  Dr Michele Lufino (DPAG, University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Dr Simon Guiraud : Utrophin modulation strategy in the therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  Dr Simon Guiraud (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 17 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST: Professor Kenneith Fischbeck MD, NINDS, NIH Bethesda MD : ‘Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy’
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Prof Kenneth Fischbeck MD (NINDS, NIH Bethesda)

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Prof Ester Hammond - ‘Hypoxia induced replication stress: causes, consequences and opportunities’
  Professor Ester Hammond (Gray Institute for Radiation, Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Spkr Professor Christian Broberger MD, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute - ‘Neurons and transmitter actions that underlie the switch between network states associated with sleep and wakefulness’
  Professor Christian Broberger MD (Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Julie Gorelik, Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart & Lung Institute,Imperial - ‘New nanoscale technique to study signalling in the cardiomyocyte’
  Professor Julie Gorelik (Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart & Lung Institute,Imperial College London)

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Int' Guest Spkr Prof Michaela Kuhn MD, Head of the Institute of Physiology, University of Würzburg : ‘Cell-specific actions of natriuretic peptides: lessons from genetic mouse models’
  TBA

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Thomas Voit, NIHR GOSH UCL Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital : 'Developing a gene therapy approach for Duchenne muscular dystrophy'
  Professor Thomas Voit (NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London)

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Dept. of Pharmacology : ‘Lysosomal dysfunction in rare and common diseases’
  Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker- Dr Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute : ‘Polarity remodelling in asymmetric cell division’
  Dr Nic Tapon (The Francis Crick Institute )

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Sarah Tarbrizi, UCL Inst Neurology : “Meeting the Therapeutic Challenge in Huntington's disease”
  Professor Sarah Tarbrizi (Dept. of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Inst. Of Neurology )

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER- Professor Stefan Treue PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen: ‘Visual cortical area V5/MT - a prototype for shaping sensation into perception’
  Professor Stefan Treue PhD (Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen )

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Anthony Galione FRS, Dept of Pharmacology : ‘Calcium signalling from the lysosome’
  TBA

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Professor Erwin Neher, Georg August Universität Göttingen : TBA
  NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/
  TBA

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

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Mark Kearny, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Mark Kearny (Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds)

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST SPEAKER Professor Adrian Hobbs, Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology QMUL : ‘Pivotal Cardiovascular Homeostatic role for C-type natriuretic peptide’
  Professor Adrian Hobbs (Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology QMUL)

Friday 5 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Robert MacLaren MD, Professor of Ophthamology, Oxford Eye Hosptial - ‘Developing new genetic treatments for eye disease’
  Professor Robert MacLaren MD, Professor of Ophthamology (Oxford Eye Hosptial, NDCN, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Mark Kearney, British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds: ‘Insulin sensitivity the endothelium and atherosclerosis :
  Professor Mark Kearney (British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds)

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A/Professor Tudor Fulga, WIMM - 'A multiplex genome engineering platform for in situ functional discovery of RNA cis-regulatory elements'
  A/Professor Tudor Fulga (Associate Professor of Genome Biology, WIMM, RDM Oxford)

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A/Professor Ulrike Gruneberg MD, A/Professor of Experimental Pathology - 'Regulation of chromosome segregation in mammalian cells'
  A/Professor Ulrike Gruneberg MD (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker: Professor Fiona M Gribble, Professor of Endocrine Physiology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge - ‘Chemosensory mechanisms in gut endocrine cells’
  Professor Fiona M Gribble, Professor of Endocrine Physiology (Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

Friday 9 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Andreas K. Kreiter, Centre for Cognitive Science and Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Bremen, Germany : 'Dynamic mechanisms underlying selective visual attention in monkey visual cortex'
  Professor Andreas Kreiter (University of Bremen), Professor Andreas K. Kreiter, Centre for Cognitive Science and Centre for Advanced Imaging (University of Bremen)

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Giampietro Schiavo, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology : ‘Basal lamina components as determinants of the uptake and axonal transport of pathogens and growth factors’
  Professor Giampietro Schiavo (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL-Institute of Neurology)

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Ilan Davis, Dept of Biochemisty : ‘Post-transcriptional regulation in neural stem cell development and synaptic plasticity’
  Professor Ilan Davis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER - Dr Claudia Lodovichi, Neuroscience Institute CNR and Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) – Padua : Circuit formation and function in the olfactory system
  Dr Claudia Lodovichi (Neuroscience Institute CNR and Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) – Padua, Italy )

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER Professor Viacheslav Nikolaev, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Research: ‘Shining light on local cAMP signalling in cardiac disease’
  Professor Viacheslav Nikolaev (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Research)

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BPS Bill Bowman Lecture & Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Seminar: Dr Aisah Aubdool, William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL - ‘Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide: A Neuropeptide of Many Talents in the Cardiovascular System"
  Dr Aisah Aubdool (William Harvey Research Institute Heart Centre Barts & The London School of Medicine, QMUL)

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Sarah De Val - Ludwig Institiute for Cancer Research : ‘Understanding vessel growth during development and disease: an enhancer-centric approach to a complex problem’
  Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Linda R. Peterson MD, Washington University School of Medicine, ‘"Beeting" disability in heart failure: nitrate metabolism and muscle function’
  Professor Linda Peterson Linda R. Peterson, MD, FAHA, FACC, FASE (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis MO)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER - Professor Thomas Braun MD, Director, Max Planck Inst for Heart & Lung Research : ‘Pathways controlling cardiac morphogenesis and skeletal muscle regeneration’
  Professor Thomas Braun, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Reseach (Max Planck Institute, Germany)

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Michael J Hawken, Professor of Neural Science, New York University - 'Linking Structure and Function in the Primate Visual Pathways'
  Professor Michael Hawken, Professor of Neural Science (New York University)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Physiological role and mode of regulation of mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling and metabolism interrogated by imaging and optometabolic control
  Professor Israel Sekler (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Predatory insects as models to understand fast and accurate sensorimotor transformations in interception tasks
  Dr Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido (University of Cambridge)

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Cardioprotection in the setting of acute myocardial infarction: where do we stand in 2018?
  Dr Gemma Vilahur (Cardiovascular Research Center (ICCC), IIB-SantPau, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), CiberCV Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) by hormonal and local mediators
  Professor Christoph Korbmacher (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

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)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms of plasticity in mouse visual cortex
  Cancelled due to weather and transport issues
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Attention dependent coding and information exchange within and between visual cortical areas
  Professor Alexander Thiele (Newcastle University)

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Functional specificity of excitatory and inhibitory connections in neocortex
  Professor Sonja Hofer (Universität Basel/ UCL)

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Prof Israel Nelken, The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University - ‘Frequency-specific adaptation and stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory system’
  Professor Israel Nelken (The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mouse dLGN receives input from a diverse population of retinal ganglion cells with limited convergence
  Professor Laura Busse (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Perceptual and neural consequences of early auditory experience
  Professor Dan Sanes (New York University Center for Neural Science)

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Synaptic learning rules in the cortex: From spike timing-dependent to network state-dependent synaptic plasticity
  Professor Ole Paulsen (University of Cambridge)

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Modeling Human Brain Development in Cerebral Organoids
  Dr Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge)

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From vision to navigation: a journey across mouse cortex
  Professor Matteo Carandini (University College London)

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Visual stimulus processing and spatial memory in the retrosplenial cortex
  Professor Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Synaptic dynamics in mouse visual cortex following sensory deprivation
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic regulators of cardiovascular development
  Dr Kelly Smith (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland)

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Acylcarnitines - From Metabolism to Heart Function: A Focus on Their Role in Human Heart Failure
  Dr Christine Des Rosier (Universite de Montreal )

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Stronger together: understanding pancreatic beta-cell connectivity in health and disease
  Professor Guy Rutter (Imperial College London)

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Macrophage contribution to Insulin Resistance independently of Inflammation
  Dr Myriam Aouadi (Karolinska University)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - GL Brown Lecture (PhySoc) - Seeing depth with two eyes: the binocular physiology of 3D space
  Professor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Coping with a stressful start in life
  Professor Alex Gould (The Francis Crick Institute)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome
  Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig (University of Cambridge)

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - An architectonic type principle integrates cerebral cortical architecture and connectivity
  Prof. Dr Claus Hilgetag (Institute of Computational Neuroscience, UKE Hamburg )

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding the pathways underlying residual visual function after damage to primary visual cortex
  Associate Professor Holly Bridge (NDCN, University of Oxford)

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Medial Temporal Lobe networks and Memory: processing spatial and non-spatial information overtime
  Prof. Dr Magdalena Sauvage (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology)

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Navigating in a three-dimensional world
  Associate Professor Theresa Burt de Perera (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Attention: Hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) might be important after all!
  Professor David Bannerman (University of Oxford)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Sympathetic Neuroimmunity for Obesity
  Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering brain activity patterns for therapeutics of disorders
  Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neural mechanisms of information sampling in humans and non-human primates
  Professor Jacqueline Gottlieb (Department of Neuroscience, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, The Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain and Behavior, Columbia University, New York)

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Next generation brain maps – concepts, challenges, collaboration
  Prof. Dr. Med. Katrin Amunts (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine Structural & Functional Organization of the Brain (INM-1), Jülich C. & O. Vogt Institute of Brain Research)

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Heart of the Brain: the hypothalamus and its hormones
  Gareth Leng (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The Univerity of Edinburgh)

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Roles for Tbx5 in limb bud initiation and morphogenesis of limb tissues
  Professor Malcolm Logan (Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London)

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers

Friday 21 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neurovascular interactions during CNS development
  Professor Amparo Acker-Palmer (Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt)

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - GL Brown Prize Lecture: Tackling the pathophysiology of motor neuron disease (MND): a translational neuroscience approach
  Professor Dame Pamela Shaw (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, University of Sheffield)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Multiple Roles for CXCL12/CXCR4 Signalling in Cardiovascular Development
  Professor Peter Scambler (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The mechanical regulation of neuronal growth and regeneration
  Dr Kristian Franze (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Architectural principles in central mammalian synapses
  Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund ( Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence)

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cell competition and the regulation of robustness of growth during early mouse development
  Dr Tristan Rodriguez (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Clonal lineage determines the direct conversion of thalamic astrocytes into subtype-specific thalamocortical neurons
  Professor Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain )

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Insights into the regulation of human coronary microvascular flow
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Professor Kim Dora (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Conflict or Complement: parallel memories control behaviour in the wee fly
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Prof. Scott Waddell (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Oscillation in Physiology: the How and the Why
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles)

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Synthetic building blocks to assemble tissue regenerative constructs in situ
  Please note this week only the HoD Seminar will take place in the Sherrington Large Lecture Theatre
  Professor Laura De Laporte (RWTH Aachen University)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Decoding danger signals from the extracellular matrix reveals new strategies to treat inflammatory disease and cancer
  Please note change of series location to Sherrington Library
  Professor Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - POSTPONED Guidance mechanisms during neural circuit development
  This lecture is postponed due to Coronavirus travel restrictions.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Ruediger Klein (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - POSTPONED Dynamic control of neural proliferation zones in the zebrafish larval thalamus
  This lecture is postponed due to Coronavirus travel restrictions.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Driever (Freiburg University)

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dopamine axons: immense networks for dynamically gating dopamine transmission
  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.
  Professor Stephanie Cragg (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding zebrafish heart regeneration at a single cell level
  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.
  Professor Jeroen Bakkers (Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands)

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neuronal circuits for sound perception
  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.
  Associate Professor Maria Geffen, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering new interneurons in the postnatal cerebral cortex
  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.
  Professor Benedikt Berninger (King's College London)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - GL Brown Prize Lecture: Healing Tiny Hearts Across Generations
  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.
  Professor Dino A Giussani (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cardiac development and repair: role of coronary arteries
  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.
  Associate Professor Kristy Red-Horse (Department of Biology, Stanford University)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Excitatory neurons of the cortex: similarities and variations
  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 Rajeevan Narayanan Therpurakal (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Emergence and patterning of mesoderm cell lineages: from cardiac progenitors to paraxial mesoderm
  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.
  Professor Andrea Münsterberg (School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms of cell state transitions in zebrafish melanoma
  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.
  Professor Liz Patton (MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh)

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Revisiting the CNS immune privilege
  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 Jonathan Kipnis (Washington University Medical School)

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Cortical-subcortical interactions with the thalamus and claustrum
  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.
  Associate Professor Solange Brown (Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Does the eye know what the brain is doing? The modulation of retinal output by arousal and locomotion
  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 Sylvia Schröder (University of Sussex)

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Cardiac Cartography: delineating the emergence of cellular diversity in the mouse and human heart
  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.
  Prof Shankar Srinivas (Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Circadian control of the secretory pathway maintains collagen homeostasis
  Professor Karl Kadler (University of Manchester)

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Spying on neuromodulation with new genetically encoded fluorescent sensors
  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.
  Professor Yulong Li (Peking University, China)

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Hallucinating mice, dopamine and immunity – towards mechanistic treatment targets for psychotic disorders
  Dr Katharina Schmack (Francis Crick Institute and University College London)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Novel genes, pathways and processes involved in arterial valve development in mouse and man
  Professor Debbie Henderson (University of Newcastle)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs
  Dr Adam Packer (University of Oxford), Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture 2021: Designing materials to heal the body and detect diseases earlier
  Professor Molly Stevens, FREng FRS (Imperial College London)

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Prediction and the sensory brain" and "Elucidating regulatory pathways underlying epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the developing and adult heart to enable cardiovascular repair and regeneration"
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Joaquim Vieira (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Targeting metabolite-driven signalling pathways in the type 2 diabetic heart" and "Defining mechanisms of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in dementia using advanced organ-on-a-chip models”
  Associate Professor Lisa Heather (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: “Descending Cortical Loops for Auditory Plasticity” and “Form and function in the developing heart”
  Associate Professor Victoria Bajo Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Richard Tyser (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: "Developmental origins of blood and lymphatic endothelium" and "Translational physiology: iron, hypoxia and the pulmonary circulation"
  Dr Oliver Stone (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)), Dr Nick Talbot (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A brain-wide analysis of entorhinal projections
  Gülşen Sürmeli (Royal Society and Wellcome Trust, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: “Hearing in an acoustically complex world” and "Heart regeneration in the Mexican cavefish"
  Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Mathilda Mommersteeg (DPAG University of Oxford)

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Shaping the heart tube to establish a double blood flow
  Sigolène Meilhac, PhD (Institut Imagine, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Towards a multiscale understanding of heart morphogenesis
  Rashmi Priya (The Francis Crick Institute)

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sugar: A gut choice
  Diego V. Bohórquez, Ph.D. (Duke University)

Friday 27 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Detecting Death and Damage; Understanding macrophage migration in vivo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Will Wood (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Team Science, Big Science, and Open Science In the Service of Understanding Cortex
  Christof Koch, PhD (Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Santa Monica)

Thursday 23 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Neurons, Circuits, Behavior and Evolution
  Please note amended date and time.
  Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)

Friday 2 September 2022 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering extracellular microenvironment through Intravital 3D bioprinting
  Professor Nicola Elvassore (Developmental Biology & Cancer Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ηarnessing PTEN’s growth controlling potential in neuronal development and disease
  Prof Dr Britta Eickholt (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cortical Layers in Context and Learning
  Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mechanisms driving lipid droplet biogenesis during adipocyte differentiation
  Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: ‘Macrophage function in the regenerating heart’ and ‘Transposons diversify the wired- and wireless neural network of a complex brain’
  Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Christoph D. Treiber (CNCB, DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Optogenetic dissection of local and long-range connections in prefrontal circuits
  Associate Professor Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - On the network influence of single interneurons from development into adulthood
  Dr Rosa Cossart, INMED, INSERM (Aix-Marseille University)

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Engineering extracellular microenvironment through Intravital 3D bioprinting
  Professor Nicola Elvassore (Developmental Biology & Cancer Department, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Reconstructing Human Evolutionary History
  Professor Bernard Wood (The George Washington University)

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Principles of astrogliopathology: Challenging common mythologies
  Professor Alexei Verkhratsky (University of Manchester)

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: 'Neuroproteomic approaches to identifying novel mechanisms of cognitive resilience in neurodegeneration’ and ‘Using high-throughput biology approaches to understand mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s’
  Dr Becky Carlyle, ARUK Coordinator (University of Oxford), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford )

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neural circuits underlying flexible behaviour
  Dr Adil Khan (King's College, London)

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Fellows Lecture in Pairs: ‘Identifying druggable targets and exploring their therapeutic potential in complex iPSC-derived models of Parkinson’s’ and ‘Cooperation in the cortex-basal ganglia circuit’
  Dr Charmaine Lang (OPDC, DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Andy Peters (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Detecting Death and Damage; Understanding Macrophage Migration in vivo
  Will Wood (Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Building, Maintaining, or Regenerating Brain Circuitry is Complex: Subtype- and Context-Dependent Subcellular Molecular Machinery in Cerebral Cortex
  Professor Jeffrey D. Macklis (Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, and DPAG Academic Visitor, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Subcellular-resolution electrophysiology with high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs)
  Andreas Hierlemann (Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich)

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Advanced imaging to visualize nuclear pore formation during cell division
  Gokul Upadhyayula, PhD (Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Biophysicist Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Form and fate: How shape influences human brain development and evolution
  Dr Madeline Lancaster (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

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

• 13:00 - Mapping sounds into space
  Professor Jenny Bizley (UCL Ear Institute)

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Advanced biomimetic 3D models to mimic tumour-stroma
  Professor Umber Cheema (UCL)

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Identifying novel regulators of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake from ‘omics analyses
  Dr Daniel Fazakerley (University of Cambridge)

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Human Metabolic Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia
  Professor Andrew Murray (University of Cambridge)

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The nucleus as a dynamic metabolic compartment linking nutrients to chromatin modification
  Dr Sophie Trefely (Babraham Institute)

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The brain control of appetite and bodyweight: Is obesity a choice?
  Professor Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - AI-driven brain-wide principles of learning
  Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Selective neuronal vulnerability in neurodegeneration and dementia
  Dr Hugo Ribeiro Fernandes (University of Oxford)

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Curiouser and curiouser: regulating the remarkable dynamics inside killer T cells
  Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Metabo-epigenetic signalling in Heart Failure
  Prof Dr Johannes Backs (Heidelberg University Hospital)

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Harnessing human hypothalamic platforms to find the next Ozempic
  Florian T. Merkle (University of Cambridge)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rethinking the role of alpha-synuclein aggregation in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease and synucleinopathies
  Hilal Lashuel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Using chemogenetics to silence nociceptors and treat persistent pain
  Professor David Bennett (University of Oxford)

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Iron in health and disease
  Professor Domenico Girelli (University Hospital of Verona)

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of life and death
  Professor Luca Scorrano (University of Padua, Italy)

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

• 13:00 - New views on cleared tissue and live dendrites
  Professor Fritjof Helmchen (University of Zurich)

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Blood-Brain Barrier Dynamics in Vascular Dementia: Unravelling the Tripartite Crosstalk between the Endothelium, Pericytes, and Microglia
  Dr Axel Montagne (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Bradyarrhythmias: New mechanisms and treatments
  Dr Alicia D'Souza (Imperial College London)

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Immune and inflammatory mechanisms in stroke
  Professor Stuart Allan (University of Manchester)

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroimmune signalling within and across brain borders regulating synaptic fate in neurodegeneration
  Dr Soyon Hong (UCL)

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Causes and consequences of Tau Pathology in AD and FTD
  Professor Karen Duff (University College London)

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Clash of Titans: AMPK Challenges O-GlcNAcylation in the Failing Heart
  Professor Luc Bertrand (University of Louvain)

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of claudin-5 at the blood brain barrier in health and disease
  Professor Matthew Campbell (Trinity College, Dublin)

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - HIF-2 in oxygen chemosensitivity and paragangliomas
  Associate Professor Tammie Bishop (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - GL BROWN PRIZE LECTURE: Beyond pretty pictures: Human neuroimaging as a tool for physiology in the 21st Century
  Professor Charlotte Stagg (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - hnRNP K pathology in neurodegenerative diseases
  Professor Tammaryn Lashley (University College London)

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - R JEAN BANISTER PRIZE LECTURE: Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity
  Dr Andrew Lin (University of Sheffield, UK)