Thursday 30 January 2025

• 12:00 - Large scale systematic identification of extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: case studies in host-pathogen interactions for vaccine design and the human immune system
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 31 January 2025

• 13:00 - Synaptic propagation of tau in Alzheimer’s disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  Professor Tara Spires-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 3 February 2025

• 12:00 - Gene regulatory signatures of pesticide exposure in in vitro and in vivo models of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Sarah Marzi (UK Dementia Research Institute, London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 15:00 - Developmental Mechanisms in Schizophrenia
  Professor Konstantin Khodosevich (University of Copenhagen)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Cellular Models of Schizophrenia
  Associate Professor Carl Sellgren Majkowitz (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 10:45 - Personalised Prevention Research Showcase
  Dr Sarah Briggs (University of Oxford), Dr Louisa Chenciner (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Horton (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Kay (University of Oxford), Sally Sansom (University of Oxford), Dr Susie Weller (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 12:30 - CDL Seminar: Learning to read and write in different languages: What’s the difference?
  Dr Beth Ann O'Brien (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  TBA
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 13:00 - Bridging intuitive physics and working memory in dynamic visual processing
  Dr Halely Balaban (Open University of Israel (Israel))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - The Social Architecture of Human-AI Collaboration: Understanding Barriers to Mental Health AI Implementation
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Dr Andreas Kappes (City, University of London)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 09:30 - Get that grant (in-person)
  Learn the art of writing compelling research proposals, uncover potential pitfalls to avoid, and discover what reviewers look for in a proposal.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Zoe Lee (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - Lung cancer initiation, metastases and immune evasion: 10 years of TRACERx
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Brain image analysis across scales: from high-resolution histology to low-resolution clinical and portable MRI
  Juan Eugenio Iglesias Gonzalez (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard University)
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Evaluating Long-term Neurodevelopmental Benefits of RTS,S/AS01 Vaccine in Children
  Dr Symon Kariuki (Africa Population and Health Research Centre,)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 09:00 - External Virtual Human Factors Course
  Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research (online)
  Ready to bring your engagement idea to life?
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - A cognitive inquiry into blind wine tasting
  Prof Qian Janice Wang (University of Copenhagen)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Friday 7 February 2025

• 13:00 - A depth map of visual space in the primary visual cortex
  Dr Petr Znamenskiy (Francis Crick Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 09:30 - Towards Unequal Care: Developing Sex Informed Treatments for Psychotic Disorders
  Dr Bodyl Brand (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Why should the global and intergenerational challenges posed by infectious diseases reshape the duties to protect the human right to health?
  Dr Romina Rekers (University of Graz / FLACSO)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - The ‘funny’ current revisited: structure mirroring function
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Dario DiFrancesco (The PaceLab, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:00 - Insight into Academia: finding and applying for research funding
  Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 12:15 - Scaling up Mental Health Services for Adolescents in Africa: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities
  Dr Amina Abubakar (Pwani University)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Tonia Williams (University of Oxford)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 14:00 - What is the critical level of description for consciousness? Implications for the possibility of conscious AI
  Dr Shamil Chandaria (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Validation of a Mobile App for Remote Autism Screening in Toddlers
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Geraldine Dawson (Duke University)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 15:00 - Information flow across hippocampal circuits during memory reactivation
  Prof. Tristan Geiller (Yale School of Medicine)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 12:00 - Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 15:00 - The hippocampus and memory: the right amount of disorder for the curious mind
  Professor Alessandro Treves (The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Italy))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 17:30 - How life works: Dealing with biology’s changing narrative
  Philip Ball
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Friday 14 February 2025

• 13:00 - Regulation of ATP Production by Mitochondria
  Dr Liron Boyman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 February 2025

• 14:00 - Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents
  Dr Polly Waite (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 12:00 - There is more to vasopressin than meets the eye
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Mike Ludwig (University of Edinburgh)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:30 - CDL Seminar: Trusting trusted evidence: Exploring the impact of flooring effects on large-scale assessments of learning
  Dr Heather Kayton (University of Oxford)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Luke Taylor (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - From Stem Cells to Assembloids to Constructing Human Neural Circuits to Study Development and Disease
  Professor Sergiu P. Pașca (Stanford University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 09:30 - Population health impact of new medicines recommended by NICE in England, 2000-2020
  Dr Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Early postnatal development of neocortex-wide activity patterns in GABAergic and pyramidal neurons
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Mike Ashby (Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Negative Experiences and Mental Health of Neurodivergent UK Secondary School Students
  Alice Quinton (Kings College London)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 12:30 - CDL Seminar: Developing language and communication in the secondary mathematics classroom
  Professor Jenni Ingram (University of Oxford)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 14:00 - Far from equilibrium: supra-molecular mechanism of energy-driven genome regulation
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Sebastian Eustermann (EMBL)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Dimensions of interoception for cognition and emotion
  Prof Sarah Garfinkel (UCL)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 10:00 - Inhibitory interneurons participate in reactivated memory engrams during sharp wave ripple replay
  Dr. Silvia Viana da Silva (DZNE Berlin)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Cellular responses to DNA and RNA damage
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Julian Stingele (Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Movement in MRI, 7T Radio Frequency Fields, and Where They Meet
  Hybrid Seminar. In-person: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital or Online via Teams
  Dr. Aaron Hess (Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 28 February 2025

• 13:00 - Modelling cerebral Small Vessel Disease in a dish – towards new treatments
  Dr Alessandra Granata (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 3 March 2025

• 12:00 - The Epigenome of brain cell types and associations with disease
  Dr Alexi Nott (UK Dementia Research Institute, London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 14:00 - ‘Crossing the Line’: A Dynamic, Dual Pathway Model of Resegregation
  Professor John Dixon (Open University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 09:30 - The efficacy and safety of pramipexole augmentation in treatment resistant depression: Results of the PAX-D trial.
  Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Defining mechanisms of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases using advanced organ-on-a-chip models
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Neurodevelopmental delay in children with perinatally acquired HIV
  Dr Rebecca Horton (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Seminar Series: Hilary Term 2025
• 12:30 - CDL Seminar: Growing up in Germany – research for policy advice at the German Youth Institute
  Professor Susanne Kuger (Deutches Jugendinstitut (DJI), the German Youth Institute, Germany)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Entangled life: A conversation
  Dr Merlin Sheldrake
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Enhancing Suicide Risk Prediction With Polygenic Scores in Psychiatric Emergency Settings: Prospective Study
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Jordan Smoller (Harvard Medical School)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 12:00 - Industry Insights Seminar - Olink
  TBA
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

Friday 7 March 2025

• 13:00 - Is brain myelin an energy source/store?
  Dr Carlos Matute (University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU))
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 09:30 - Understanding and treating social anxiety in youth.
  Eleanor Leigh (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Covalent small molecule approaches to challenging protein targets
  Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Dr Elena De Vita (Biologial and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:30 - CDL Seminar: Effects of Home Language and Language of Instruction in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Fatma Abdelkhalek ((Faculty of Commerce, Assiut University; Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, Egypt), Dr Ray Langsten (Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, Egypt)
  Child Development and Learning Research Group Seminars
• 14:00 - The BLACK-ARTS study: Creative Arts Therapies as a tool for flourishing
  Briana Applewhite (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - A Data-Centric Approach to Detecting and Mitigating Demographic Bias in Pediatric Mental Health Text: A Case Study in Anxiety Detection
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Julia Ive (University College London)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Mahsa Shoaran (EPFL, Lausanne)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 14 March 2025

• 13:00 - Dementia: the role of the microvasculature
  Professor David Attwell (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 14:00 - Nature-based solutions for systemic change: Transforming climate action through local, ecological and relational knowledge
  Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 13:00 - Understanding and improving sleep after brain injury
  Hybrid Seminar In-person: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital or Online via Teams
  Melanie Fleming (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 1 April 2025

• 13:00 - TIA Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 2 April 2025

• 15:00 - Enhancing post stroke recovery: Vagus nerve stimulation and rehabilitation
  Prof. Teresa Kimberley (MGH Institute of Health Professions)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 17 April 2025

• 12:00 - Insights into myeloid malignancies from human iPSC models
  This is an Ad-Hoc Talk and hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Eirini Papapetrou (Mount Sinai, NY)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 15:00 - Natural language processing to identify suicidal ideation and anhedonia in major depressive disorder
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 15:00 - Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Professor Stefan Feuerriegel (University of Munich)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Monday 12 May 2025

• 14:00 - Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
  Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue details". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  TBA
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 10:00 - Title TBC
  Prof. Ole Jensen (University of Birmingham)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum