Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Conscious Flourishing Symposium Day
  Various Speakers
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 09:30 - CBT for Insomnia: Ingredients, Indications, and Implementation
  Dr Yuki Furukawa (Technical University of Munich)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Genomically driven discovery of novel cardiovascular signalling pathways
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Andrew Tinker (William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine )
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: '‘Too much of a bad thing - mea culpa’ The Perils of Naso-Gastric Feeding in the Treatment of Eating Disorders'
  *Postponed to Trinity Term 2025*
  Dr Lakshmeesh Muttur Somashekhar (Highfield Unit), Dr Tony James (Highfield Unit)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for authorising access and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Ethox Seminar – The ethics of voice-based conversational agents for people with dementia
  Rasita Vinay (University of Zurich)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 15:00 - The efficacy of automated feedback after internet-based depression screening (DISCOVER): an observer-masked, three-armed, randomised controlled trial in Germany
  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
  Professor Sebastian Kohlmann (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Interpretable artificial intelligence to identify brain aging trajectories leading to Alzheimer's disease
  Associate Professor Andrei Irimia (University of Southern California)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mutational order and stem cell plasticity in cancer evolution
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Hands on Science
  Dive into the world of experiential learning with our immersive course, 'Hands-On Science.' This programme is designed to equip you with the practical skills and insights needed to effectively communicate your research through engaging desktop activities.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Understanding entrapment neuropathies and neuropathic pain: insights from bench to bedside
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Professor Annina Schmid (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars
• 16:00 - Pleasure or Pain? On the illusion of emotion recognition from facial expressions
  Professor Hillel Aviezer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 11 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation
  Professor Sander van der Linden (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Scientific writing: core skills
  This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 09:30 - Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Psychiatry: Insights From Genetic Association Studies and Peripheral Blood Immunphenotyping
  Dr Mary-Ellen Lynall (Cambridge University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar - The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
  Dr Christina Lamb (Uehiro Oxford Institute)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - Peroxisome dynamics and organelle interplay in health and disease
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Michael Schrader (Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: ‘Early intervention in mental health: can evidence and implementation live together?’
  Professor Paul Ramchandani (University of Cambridge)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Vascular Surgery Review
  Please contact Maxine for access authorisation and meeting link on maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Nature recovery
  Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 19:30 - Journalism and Media in the Psychedelic Revolution
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Psychedelic Society Talks

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Insights and strategies during learning
  Assistant Professor Kishore Kuchibhotla (Johns Hopkins University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Proteome complexity in Alzheimer’s Disease
  Dr Becky Carlyle, ARUK Coordinator (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars
• 13:00 - Deep screening for antibody discovery
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 15:00 - A prospective code for value in the serotonin system
  Dr Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - The interplay of peripheral of immune cells associated cytokines with induced pluripotent stem cell astrocytes; implications for Parkinson’s Disease
  Professor Maeve Caldwell (Trinity College Dublin)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Online platforms for symptom characterisation and tracking in spinocerebellar ataxias
  Louisa Selvadurai (Monash University)
• 13:30 - Novel Imaging Approaches for Tracking Cerebellar Neurodegenerative Diseases
  Ian Harding (Queensland Institute of Medical Research)
• 14:00 - Neural mechanisms for flexible and goal-directed sensorimotor transformations during decision-making
  Mr Michael Lohse (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 19:30 - Theochemistry: Chemical Mediators of the Unknown
  Aidan Hurst (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Psychedelic Society Talks

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

• 11:00 - Decoding the prefrontal cortex through single cell omics
  Aritra Bhattacherjee (Harvard Medical School)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Physics of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as a new biomarker for health and disease
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Assistant Professor Erdinc Sezgin (SciLifeLab Fellow, Karolinska Institute)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:00 - Mitochondria at neuronal synapses: why are they there?
  Dr Mike Devine (Francis Crick institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 12:15 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Giving voice to bereaved siblings “the invisible”'
  Dr Ulrika Kreicbergs (Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Working Out Programme – Post Stroke Vocational Rehabilitation
  Please contact Maxine for access authorisation and meeting link on maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  Martin Hillier (Community Head injury Service), Ben Chetland (Community Head injury Service)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Blossoming, regrowth and flourishing: natural and social cycles in Yanomami society
  Dr Alejandro Reig
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Development and Validation of a Machine Learning–Based Model of Mortality Risk in First-Episode Psychosis
  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
  Dr Johannes Lieslehto (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - External Virtual Human Factors Course
  Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Changing Connectomes: Towards Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Techniques to Improve Cognitive Performance
  Prof. Markus Kaiser (University of Nottingham)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Impacts of childhood cancer treatment on testicular function and new approaches to preserve and restore fertility
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

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

• 11:00 - Multimodal Multiscale Microscopic Imaging of the Brain: Revealing Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
  Mark H. Ellisman (Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences Director, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), UCSD )
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 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)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Decision making in dynamically evolving, naturalistic environments
  Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Advancing the genetics of psychiatric disorders: depression and eating disorders
  Professor Gerome Breen (Kings College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Keeping the rhythm: how hERG potassium channels links genetics, drugs and pollution to cardiac arrhythmias
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Jules Hancox (School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'What works for whom for preventing depression and anxiety'
  Dr Josefien Breedvelt (Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Journal club: Focus on clopidogrel
  Please contact Maxine for access authorisation and meeting link on maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Water in the brain: Challenges and opportunities for survival and thriving
  Professor Nanna MacAulay (University of Copenhagen)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 17:00 - Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
  Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 19:30 - Squingle: The Psychedelic VR Game
  Dr Benjamin Outram
  Oxford Psychedelic Society Talks

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neurophysiology of human pharyngeal and swallowing function in health and disease
  Shaheen Hamdy (University of Manchester)
  Ventilator Weaning and Extubation in Neurocritical Care Network Talks

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

• 13:00 - hnRNP K pathology in neurodegenerative diseases
  Professor Tammaryn Lashley (University College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Pharmacogenetic and pharmaco-epidemiological approaches to synergistically boost precision pharmacotherapy in psychiatry
  Professor Jurjen Luykx (Maastricht University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Brain-wide approaches to neuroplasticity and emotional behavior in the mouse
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Tommaso Pizzorusso (Professor of Physiology, Scuola Normale Superiore)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Scaling out: Realising the promise of self-help online Single Session Interventions for adolescents with depression symptoms in the UK'
  Dr Maria Loades (University of Bath)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - UK Stroke Forum
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for authorising access and meeting link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 15:00 - Detection of Suicidality Through Privacy-Preserving Large Language Models
  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
  Dr Isabella C Wiest (Else Kröner Fresenius Zentrum for Digital Health, TU Dresden)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Disruption of neural periodicity predicts response after DBS for OCD
  Asst. Prof. Nicole Provenza (Baylor College of Medicine)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Transient promoter interactions modulate developmental gene activation
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Angelika Feldmann (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - From Paperwork to Patients: AI in Healthcare
  Kuldeep Singh (Softude)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Brain Mechanisms of Breathlessness
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Kyle Pattinson (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars
• 19:30 - Yawanawa Traditions: Researching Amazonian Psychedelics
  Dr Maria Fe Gebara
  Oxford Psychedelic Society Talks

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)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 December 2024 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - U-Flourish research: Translating evidence into sustainable early intervention targeting common mental health concerns in university students
  Professor Anne Duffy (Queen's University, Ontario)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar: Understanding Moral Injury in Healthcare: A Conceptual Analysis from the Clinic
  TBA
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 13:00 - Triangulating the role of type I interferons in sporadic human disease
  Please contact Maxine for access authorisation and meeting link on maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Bastien Rioux (University of Edinburgh)
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Tuesday 17 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Journal Club: Title TBC
  Please contact Maxine for access authorisation and meeting link on maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  TBA
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 18 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Leveraging the actinobacteria strain collection and genome database at NPDC for natural products and drug discovery
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Professor Ben Shen (Natural Products Discovery Centre, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Tuesday 7 January 2025 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 23 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Nicky Whiffin (Big Data Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 30 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 4 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
  TBA
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 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
  Dr Andreas Kappes (City, University of London)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  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

Thursday 6 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - External Virtual Human Factors Course
  Dr Helen Higham (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  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

Thursday 27 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  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

Tuesday 4 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 6 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 13 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 1 April 2025 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 6 May 2025 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Monday 12 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 3 June 2025 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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