Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genomic instability: tumor suppressor BRCA2 and DNA breaks
  Please note this is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Brain changes following hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
  Dr Winok Lapidaire (University of Oxford)
  CDPRC Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Brain vulnerability for psychosis: from mechanisms to real-world outcomes
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Gemma Modinos (Kings College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar – The Ethics of Transformative Experience and Psychotherapy
  Dr Farbod Akhlaghi (University of Cambridge)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - Developing a viable MYC inhibitor for cancer treatment: a challenging journey from the lab to the clinic
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Laura Soucek (CEO and PI, Peptomyc)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Genetics and a family-based approach in psychiatry'
  Prof Christel Middeldorp (Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland; affiliated with Amsterdam University Medical Center, Arkin and Levvel)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - Ischemic stroke at young age: investigating the prognosis
  Please contact Maxine by email in advance to arrange your access to the private Microsoft Team and meeting Link
  TBA
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - Deep flourishing: Ecstasy and agony in music
  Prof Milton Mermikides (University of Surrey & Royal College of Music London)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 15:00 - Large language models for data-driven insights from real-world health data
  This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue" section. Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
  Dr Danielle S. Bitterman (Harvard Medical School)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
  Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bridging the divide: translational research with a canine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  This is a hybrid seminar. Students/postdocs are welcome to sign up for lunch with the speaker, which will occur immediately following the talk.
  Prof Richard Piercy (Royal Veterinary College)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Metabolites and lipids in early psychosis
  Professor Alex Dickens (University of Turku)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Centrosome function in health and disease: a small organelle with a big reach
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Fanni Gergely (Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

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)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Evolutionary Implications of Drosophila Social Networks
  Joel Levine (University of Toronto)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Towards understanding cell types relevant for psychiatric disorders
  Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
• 09:30 - Get that fellowship (in-person)
  This session will help you to understand the dos and don’ts of a fellowship application. It will guide you through the process and explain the support that is available. A holder of a research fellowship will discuss their application experience.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 12:00 - NEAT1 and paraspeckles: nuclear hubs regulating cellular stress responses
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Maria Perander (The Arctic University of Norway)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 14:00 - Computational Neurotherapeutics for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Neurology and Psychiatry
  TALK DATE CHANGED! PREVIOUSLY 21ST CHANGED TO 28TH!
  Prof Giulio Ruffini (Neuroelectrics)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 14:30 - Decoding Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation Using Explainable AI
  Prof. Christopher Rozell (Georgia Tech)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
  Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transformation of sound representations in the auditory system across wakefulness, sleep and anesthesia
  Brice Bathellier (Institut de l’Audition, Paris)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 18TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Genetics of neurodegeneration: progress towards mechanistic treatments
  18th DAVID SMITH LECTURE Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Sir John Hardy (Chair of the Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 3
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 14:30 - Awareness and Knowledge Session on Neurodivergence and the Student Experience at Oxford
  Dr Laurence Leaver, Umme Hani Imani (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sculpting subjective reality in health and disease
  Prof Predrag Petrovic (Karolinska Institut, Sweden)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 14:00 - The flexible control of motivational strategy: role of dopamine
  Professor Roshan Cools (Radboud University Medical Centre)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Placebo Studies & the Replication Crisis
  Dr Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Pharamcology Research Staff Society
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Findings & Learning from the national STADIA (Standardised Diagnostic Assessments in CAMHS) study – a multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial'
  Professor Kapil Sayal (University of Nottingham)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - Thrombolysis Review
  Please contact Maxine by email in advance to arrange your access to the private Microsoft Team and meeting Link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
• 14:00 - On the perception of ‘now’: intriguing evidence from confabulating patients
  Prof Armin Schnider (University Hospital Geneve)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 14:30 - Ethox Seminar - Neuroethics of lumbar punctures (aka ‘spinal taps’) for psychiatric indications (provisional title)
  Dr Matthew Baum (Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - Sparse coding – how a neurophysiological constraint is also a ubiquitous and powerful cortical learning mechanism
  Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 15:00 - Learning representations for image-based profiling of perturbations
  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 Juan C. Caicedo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mitophagy, from genetics to biology, and back (rescheduled date)
  Professor Hélène Plun-Favreau (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 15:00 - Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by repetitive transcranial ultrasound stimulation in humans
  Dr Elsa Fouragnan (University of Plymouth)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Replication fork plasticity and its emerging role during physiological and malignant haematopoiesis
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Massimo Lopes (University of Zurich)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - The transformative role of Somascan for protein biomarker discovery, validation and translation
  Dr Shea Hamilton (Imperial College London)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

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

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Wearables in mega-scale biobanks – are there some learnings for rare disease research?
  Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - New insights into smooth muscle peacemaking
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Hikaru Hashitani (Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 14:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture - Developmental Amnesia: From discovery to brain and behavioural phenotypes.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Nancy Zucker (Duke University, Durham, USA)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Sleep for synaptic functions
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Julie Seibt (Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Case Presentation: Treating ARFID isn’t scary. We can all do it!
  This talk is for clinical staff only. Please email shona.oleary@psych.ox.ac.uk to request to attend.
  Dr Kate Stein (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Sally Burne (CAMHS Eating Disorders), Sarah Wilcock (Clinical Lead & Specialist Occupational Therapist PEACE Pathway)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Sound Gathers: collaborative curation with The Black Power Station
  Prof Noel Lobley (University of Virginia)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 16:00 - Natural language processing of multi-hospital electronic health records for public health surveillance of suicidality
  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
  Ariel Cohen (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (Paris, France))
  Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - How X-linked sequence variation shapes organismal development
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Matthias Merkenschlager (Imperial College London)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 14:30 - Predictive and interpretable: using artificial neural networks and classic cognitive models to understand human learning and decision making
  Maria Eckstein (Deepmind)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

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

• 13:00 - Sherrington Talks
  Various Speakers
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - TBC
  Professor David Kleinfeld (UC San Diego)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycle: The roles of Calcium and Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep
  Professor Hiroki Ueda (School of Medicine, University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR))
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Lottery or Triage? Controlled experimental evidence from A controlled experiment the COVID-19 pandemic on public preferences for allocation of scarce medical resources
  Professor Philip Clarke (University of Oxford)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - Gut Macrophages Modulate Body-First Synucleinopathies
  Dr Tim Bartels (Dementia Research Institute at the University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The musicality of mental time travel
  Prof Nicola Clayton (University of Cambridge), Mark Baldwin (University of Cambridge)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Tuesday 25 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar - The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India
  Dr Eva Fiks (Keele University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 27 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Non-invasive blood flow imaging in the brain: novel methods and applications
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Thomas Okell (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 2 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar – The place of health in the justification of protest
  Dr Ryan Essex (University of Greenwich)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 13:00 - Hybrid Oxford Stroke Seminar - TIA Review
  Please contact Maxine by email in advance to arrange your access to the private Microsoft Team and meeting Link
  Various Speakers
  NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 17 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Prof. Dimitri Kullman (University College London)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 August 2024 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Invasive neurophysiology and connectomics for brain signal decoding in brain implants
  Dr Julian Neumann (Charite University, Berlin)
  Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

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

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

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

• 13:00 - TBC
  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

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

• 13:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Rod Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

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

• 12:00 - TBC
  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