• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Big Data Institute (NDM)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Title TBC
  Dr Nicholas Timpson (University of Bristol)
• 13:00 - In the trenches of systems medicine: Genomic risk scores & new biomarkers
  A/Prof Mike Inouye (University of Melbourne)

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethical issues in individual-cluster trials: beyond the Ottawa Statement
  Please note: If you are not a member of the Ethox Team and are planning on coming, please can you email me in advance to let me know
  Cory Evan Goldstein (Western University )

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Bayesian multivariate re-analysis of large genetic studies identifies many novel associations
  Michael Turchin (Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Getting numbers out of cells - applications of deep neural networks to microscopy image compendia
  Dr Leopold Parts (Sanger Institute)

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: eScience and Accelerometry
  Dr Vincent van Hees (Netherlands eScience Center )

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

• 09:00 - Innovative Phenotyping Methods for Large Cohort Studies - MRC PHRU / BDI Symposium
  Michael Gaziano (Million Veterans Program, Harvard), Joshua Denny (eMERGE & Precision Medicine Initiative, Vanderbilt)

Friday 23 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Joint analysis of gene expression levels and histological images identifies genes associated with cellular morphology
  Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Department of Computer Science, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University)

Friday 21 July 2017 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Transcriptome Deconvolution of Heterogeneous Tumor Samples with Immune Infiltration
  Wenyi Wang (Anderson Cancer Center)

Thursday 7 September 2017 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - BDI Seminar: Genomics and drug discovery
  Dr John Whittaker (VP Statistical Tech/Platforms, Target Sciences, GSK)

Friday 8 September 2017 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - BDI seminar: Novel methods for the comprehensive analysis of physical activity in epidemiology
  Louise Millard (University of Bristol)

Thursday 14 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Prospects of fine-mapping trait-associated genomic regions using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies
  Christian Benner (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)

Monday 18 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - BDI Seminar: A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samples
  Daniel W Kennedy (ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), School of Mathematical Sciences, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT))

Wednesday 27 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: Medical Research and Intellectual Property Rights / things to consider and things to avoid
  Jonathan Sellors (UK Biobank)

Tuesday 3 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Variable Selection and Dimension Reduction methods for Omics Datasets
  Matthew Sutton (PhD Student in Statistics, Queensland University of Technology)

Wednesday 4 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Discovery, refinement and interpretation of genetic variation underlying human complex traits
  Valentina Iotchkova (MRC Fellow in Computational Biology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

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

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Discovery of rare and common variants associated with blood pressure and hypertension
  Joanna M M Howson (University Lecturer in Statistical Genomics, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ethox Seminar: A middle way on NITP? Choosing testing virtuously
  Tom Shakespeare (Professor of Disability Research, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia)

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - BDI / Ludwig Institute Seminar: Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research
  Tim Errington (Center for Open Science)

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Inaugural Meeting of the Big Data Ethics Forum
  TBA

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Using big genetic data to understand disease – beyond the next GWAS”
  Professor Tim Frayling (University of Exeter Medical School)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - BDI Inaugural Lecture: The Nature of Nurture
  Augustine Kong (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: Electronic health record phenotyping methods for research
  Dr Spiros Denaxas (Denaxas Lab, University College London)

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH Seminar: Just development and governance of Artificial Intelligence
  Bendert Zevenbergen (Princeton University)

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Inaugural Seminar: Challenges and opportunities in population neuroimaging
  Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: What Machine Learning and AI can do for Healthcare
  Dr Timor Kadir (CTO Optellum Ltd)
• 15:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum
  Professor Martin Landray (Nuffield Department of Population Health), Professor Clare Mackay (Professor of Imaging Neuroscience, Oxford Department of Psychiatry)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH Seminar: Long game health promotion and political legitimacy in public health law
  Professor John Coggan (University of Bristol Law School)

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - BDI Seminar: Lessons learned from moving the Broad Institute's computing into the 21st century
  Dr Eric Banks (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - BDI Seminar and Workshop: Hail: Scalable genomic association analysis
  Dr Cotton Seed (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)

Monday 19 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: New Horizons for Vaccines
  Prof Adrian Hill (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: From Jericho to Headington: Enteric fever in Oxford
  Professor Andy Pollard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Inaugural Seminar: The Malaria Atlas Project — Mapping the past, present and future of a global disease
  Professor Pete Gething (Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Dr Caroline Colijn (Imperial College London)
• 14:30 - BDI Seminar: Imaging Genetics of the Human Face
  Peter Claes (KU Leuven)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - BDI Seminar: Statistical strategies for enhanced metabolic phenotyping and biomarker recovery
  TBA
• 10:30 - BDI Seminar: Statistical strategies for enhanced metabolic phenotyping and biomarker recovery
  TBA
• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Ana Rivero (French National Centre for Scientific Research)

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  TBA

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar - The genetics of actigraphy-based estimates of sleep characteristics
  Dr Andrew Wood (University of Exeter)
• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Connecting genomic data with vaccine design in pneumococcus
  Dr Caroline Colijn (Imperial College London)
• 16:00 - BDI Inaugural Lecture: Time flies: two decades of dissecting the aetiology of common complex traits
  Professor Cecilia Lindgren (Professor of Genomic Endocrinology & Metabolism, Nuffield Department of Medicine)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - BDI Seminar: Hospital patient time series data: Statistical models for associations and decision making
  Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Department of Computer Science, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: The rights and wrongs of data sharing - Should there be any limit on data sharing?
  Professor Jane Green (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - BDI Seminar - Three principles of data science: Predictability, computability, and stability (PCS)
  Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)

Wednesday 20 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar: Saving decision making from itself
  Zackary Berger (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)

Monday 25 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Jason Hendry (University of Oxford), Will Probert (University of Oxford )

Wednesday 27 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar: Justice and vulnerability in big data
  Angela Ballantyne (Senior Lecturer Bioethics, New Zealand)

Tuesday 11 September 2018 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: Public health data science to investigate and improve migrant health
  Dr Rob Aldridge (University College London)

Monday 17 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Rare diseases & convolution neural networks
  Dr. Christoffer Nellåker (University of Oxford), Michael Ferlaino

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Using bespoke genomics to understand colistin resistance mechanisms and find new antibiotic targets for Klebsiella pneumoniae
  Amy Cain (Macquarie University)
• 14:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Physical activity & time-series analysis
  Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Matthew Willetts

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease: Aetiology, epidemiology, evolution, ecology and eventuality
  Dr Shrlly Lachish (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Dementia & app development
  Dr Chris Hinds (Big Data Institute), Devesh Batra

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Simon Dellicour (University of Washington), Azim Ansari (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Meta catalogue of OUH clinical databases
  James Welch

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Parental genotypes influencing the environment
  Professor Augustine Kong (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford), Alex Young

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar: Leveraging whole genomes to discover aggressive phenotypes of prostate cancer
  Dr David Wedge (Big Data Institute), Dan Woodcock

Monday 3 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - BDI Seminar: Processing single cell RNA-Seq datasets with kallisto and BUStools
  Páll Melsted, (University of Iceland)

Monday 10 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Confidence Bands in Functional data - The Bootstrap or Gaussian Kinematic formula?
  TBA
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar
  Dr. Antoniya Georgieva (University of Oxfor), Dr Bartek Papiez (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Big Data Ethics Forum: HIV phylogenetic research and public health - challenges and opportunities
  Professor Christophe Fraser (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 January 2019 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Inaugural Lecture - Preventing infections using pathogen genomics and mathematical modelling: HIV and beyond
  Professor Christophe Fraser (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - CKB Seminar: Using genetics to explore the consequences of obesity
  Dr Jess Tyrrell (University of Exeter)

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

• 12:00 - BDI Seminar: Malaria Elimination Trials and Simulations
  Prof Lisa White (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - BDI Seminar - Interpretable machine learning with tensor models for healthcare
  Haiping Lu (University of Sheffield)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Using Mathematical models to predict the impact of vaccines of antibiotic resistance
  Dr Katherine Atkins (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar Series: Inside the Cranial Vault: Tracking Fetal Brain Development from Ultrasound Images
  Ana Namburete (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Robust Research – A practical guide | Same Data - Different Software - Different Results? Analytic Variability of Group fMRI Results
  Verene Heise (University of Oxford), Alex Bowring (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: BARNARDS: Antimicrobial Resistance and Risk Factors for Neonatal Sepsis and Mortality in LMICs.
  Professor Timothy Walsh (Cardiff University)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: GEM: A domain-specific modelling language for disease transmission modelling
  Chris Jewell (Lancaster University)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar
  Dr Timothy Lucas (University of Oxford), Jason Hendry (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI
  Stefania Benonisdottir (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - BDI Seminar: A population genetic interpretation of GWAS findings
  Associate Professor Guy Sella (Columbia University)

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar - Genetic discovery in a million people, where do we go from here?
  Dr Cristen J. Willer (University of Michigan)

Friday 28 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - BDI Seminar: Scaling Python for data science and machine learning with Dask, Numba and GPUs
  Matthew Rocklin (Nvidia)

Monday 1 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: How machine learning is starting to make systematic reviews more efficient
  Professor James Thomas (UCL)

Monday 15 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Approximate Bayesian Computation and History Matching for inference in complex systems
  T J McKinley (Exeter University)

Monday 22 July 2019 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: HIV drug resistance in Zambian communities of the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial
  David Bonsall (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 July 2019 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - BDI Seminar: Genetics studies for cardiometabolic traits facilitated by the Million Veterans Program
  Benjamin J Voight (University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 29 July 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Geostatistics for Survey Sampling
  Michael Chipeta (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 July 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - China Kadoorie Biobank Workshop: Enhancing research using big data from diverse populations
  Various Speakers

Monday 16 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar - Genomic epidemiology approaches for understanding sexually transmitted infections
  Matthew Beale (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Monday 23 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar - The use of Kmer counts to train random forests to predict country of origin for bacterial pathogen sequencing data
  Lauren Cowley (University of Bath)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Brain imaging in the UK Biobank: Discovery science to hypothesis-driven research
  Professor Karla Miller (University of Oxford)

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

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Additional dimensions in mass spectrometry: velocity-map imaging
  Professor Claire Vallance (Department of Chemistry)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - BDI Seminar - Will big data deliver new drug targets?
  Dr Andrew Leach (European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)), Dr Rob Finn (European Bioinformatics Institute)

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar
  Xilin Jiang (Big Data Institute), Luca Ferretti (Bi Data Institute)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - BDI Seminar: Integrating genotype and phenotype for precision oncology
  Ian Overton (Queen's University, Belfast)

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - BDI Seminar - Big Data and the Big Future: how does data science relate to the long-term future of humanity?
  Anders Sandberg (Oxford Martin School)

Monday 9 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Multiple infections and GI cancer risks: evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank study
  Dr Ling Yang (University of Oxford)
• 14:30 - BDI Seminar - Obesity and cardiometabolic disease: disentangling causes and confounders
  Zoltan Kutalik (University of Lausanne)

Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Measuring impacts of gram-negative bacteraemia in Africa – challenges for a new prospective study
  Dr Alex Aiken (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Friday 13 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BDI Seminar Series
  Various Speakers

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

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Life course metabolomics: new insights into body composition and diabetes
  Dr Joshua Bell (University of Bristol)

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

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Opportunities and challenges in using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts
  Dr Katie Harron (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Infections@BDI Seminar: Progress in initiating a low-cost learning health system, 200,000 hospital events and counting for the Kenyan hospital Clinical Information Network
  Professor Mike English (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - The Global Response to the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak
  Various Speakers

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Cross-omics studies of Alzheimer’s disease: beyond the brain
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 December 2020 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Health Data Science CDT - COVID-19 Data Challenge
  TBA

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Ethical considerations of combining research, clinical practice and public health surveillance of infectious diseases in low income settings
  David Bonsall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 August 2022 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - BDI Seminar - Tackling Alzheimer's disease via '3A's: Ageing, Autophagy and Artificial Intelligence
  Dr Evandro Fei Fang (University of Oslo)

Thursday 15 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - BDI Seminar - Life at Nature Genetics: what we do, how scientific publishing works, and how I got here
  TBA

Wednesday 21 September 2022 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Algorithm Validation for Data Science
  Professor Joachim M. Buhmann (Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Transforming Drug Discovery using Digital Biology
  Professor Daphne Koller (Instiro)

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - BDI Genomics Seminars - Translating results from large-scale genetic association studies into public health-relevant measures
  Dr Andrea Ganna (FIMM)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Coding with AI: Experiments with GPT-4
  Dr Russ Poldrack (Stanford University)

Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:50 - AI tools for diagnostics in the clinical setting - pathway to successful implementation
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - BDI Codemonkeys: Scaling pandas workloads with Dask
  Patrick Höfler (Coiled)

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

• 14:00 - Leadership in the Life Sciences: A conversation with Dr Marcus Schindler
  Prof Cecilia Lindgren (University of Oxford), Dr Marcus Schindler (NovoNordisk)