Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 09:30 - ‘Exploring determinants of response to immune checkpoint blockade agnostic to features of the tumour’
  Dr Ben Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 12:00 - Oligonucleotide therapies for genetic diseases: current landscape and perspectives
  Dr Francois Halloy (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Monday 27 February 2023

• 12:00 - Seminar by Dr Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco "Immune Environment shapes HIV broadly neutralising antibody responses: Providing rational vaccine design"
  Dr Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco (Borrow Group, University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Harnessing tumour metabolism to overcome immunosuppression
  The speaker will be conducting the seminar remotely. A Teams link will be sent to relevant mailing lists.
  Prof Massimiliano Mazzone (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 13:30 - Cancer vaccines targeting MAGE-type antigens
  Prof Benoit Van den Eynde (Tumor Immunology Group, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)
  Jenner Seminars

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 13:30 - Adaptive immune receptor repertoire profiling for diagnostics and therapeutics discovery and design
  Dr Victor Greiff (University of Oslo)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 13:30 - Data mining the human T-cell receptor repertoire.
  Dr Pieter Meysman (University of Antwerp)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 11:00 - Epigenetic Targets for the Treatment of Human Diseases
  This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Rabinder Prinjha (GSK)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 16 March 2023

• 08:30 - Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre 2023 Annual Symposium
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 28 March 2023

• 09:30 - Characterisation of alloantigens and their cognate T cell responses in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Implications For A Novel Approach To TCR Therapy
  Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 13:00 - Human immune repertoire mice in vaccine development and mAb discovery
  Prof Paul Kellam (Imperial College London)
  Jenner Seminars

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 15:00 - Prostate stromal microenvironment: A scRNASeq map in mice and men
  Professor Loda is the current Newton Abraham Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford
  Professor Massimo Loda (Weill Cornell Medicine)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Tuesday 20 June 2023

• 09:30 - Engaging the immunological synapse to combat infection and cancer
  Michael Dustin (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Friday 23 June 2023

• 09:30 - Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network Launch (OCION)
  The tickets for this event are limited. We reserve the right to close registration before the deadline if we reach capacity.
  Various Speakers
• 10:40 - Activation of antitumor immunity by bacteria-derived signals: Pyroptosis & Beyond
  This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Dr Feng Shao (National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 26 June 2023

• 13:00 - A Chaperone Turned into an Oncoprotein: The Case of Calreticulin Mutants as Rogue Chaperones and Rogue Cytokines in Blood Cancer
  The seminar will be followed by tea and coffee in the Combination Room
  Stefan N. Constantinescu (Professor, Université catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute / Member Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels and Oxford / Professor of Cancer Signalling, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 6 July 2023

• 11:00 - Single-molecule and single-cell epigenetics: Decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnostics
  This is a hybrid event; plfease contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Dr Efrat Shema (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 7 July 2023

• 09:15 - Modelling and comparing the binding sites of immune receptor proteins to enable design
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 18 July 2023

• 09:30 - Targeting Cues from the Extracellular Matrix to Re-educate Tumor Immunity
  Professor Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Thursday 3 August 2023

• 12:00 - Biological roles of hematopoietic niches in the origination and development of leukemia
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Dengli Hong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 11 August 2023

• 10:00 - 'Improving the efficacy of PD-1 blockade through antibody engineering' & 'What we’ve learnt about T-cell signaling from novel immunotherapeutics'
  Martin Fellermeyer, Mateusz Kotowski
  Science in Progress (SIP) Talks

Friday 15 September 2023

• 11:00 - Suppressive modifications of MHC class I antigen processing in bats
  Peter Cresswell PhD, FRS (Yale University School of Medicine)

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 13:00 - Modelling the effect of the microenvironment on the malignant brain tumour, medulloblastoma
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Dr John Jacob (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 13 October 2023

• 09:15 - HLA and response to checkpoint immunotherapy - déjà vu all over again
  In Person Only
  Dr Ben Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 12:00 - TALK CANCELLED - Rerunning cancer evolution: a genomic pathology approach
  CANCELLED
  Dr Sarah Aitken (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 20 October 2023

• 09:15 - Structural Correlates of T Cell Receptor Specificity and Cross-Reactivity
  In Person Only
  Julia McCarthy (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 15:00 - Machine learning for identifying translatable biomarkers and targets
  Professor Daphne Koller (Department of Computer Science Stanford University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 14:00 - Epigenetic moonlighting: Histone modifiers’ catalytic-independent functions in the regulation of transcription, providing new insight for cancer therapeutics - CANCELLED
  We regret to inform you that due to ill health, Prof Shilatifard's talk is cancelled. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this may cause - thank you.
  Dr Ali Shilatifard (Northwestern University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 11:00 - Modelling and synthetic lethal targeting of noncoding genome in hematological cancers driven by loss-of-function epigenetic mutations
  This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Eric So (King's College London)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology and immunosurveillance in cancer
  Dr Rachael Bashford-Rogers (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Colorectal Cancer Networking Afternoon
  Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford), Dame Fiona Powrie (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 October 2023

• 09:15 - MAIT cells - Killing with Kindness
  In Person Only
  Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford), Dr Katia Sayaf (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Amini (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 30 October 2023

• 11:00 - Innate regulators of tumour-directed T cell immunity
  Please contact adminsupport@oncology.ox.ac.uk for Microsoft Teams link
  Barbara Maier
• 12:00 - Targeting TCR and Co-Receptor Signaling in T Cell-Mediated Immunity
  Dr Ricardo Fernandes (Nuffield Department of Medicine - University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 16:30 - What can Artificial Intelligence do for people with MPN?
  TBA

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 11:00 - Host microbiome interaction in health and disease
  This is a hybrid event; please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 09:00 - Oxford Cancer: Spatial Biology Symposium
  Various Speakers

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 12:00 - Colorectal cancer in the 100,000 Genomes project
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Ian Tomlinson (NDM, University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 27 November 2023

• 11:00 - The role of RNA:DNA hybrids in DNA repair
  Please contact adminsupport@oncology.ox.ac.uk for Microsoft Teams link
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Martin Bushell

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 13:00 - Risk factors for oesophageal cancer: recent findings from the Million Women Study
  Professor Gill Reeves (Oxford Population Health)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 11:00 - Myeloid cells in cancer
  This is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Mikael Pittet (Université de Genève)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 December 2023

• 14:00 - New modules for antigen processing and recognition enable expansion of T cell therapy
  Dr Nik Sgourakis (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) / University of Pennsylvania)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 7 December 2023

• 11:00 - My journey exploring the T cell receptor through the lens of structure and engineering
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof. K. Christopher Garcia (Stanford University)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 15:00 - Joint 'Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network' and 'Oxford Immunology Network' seminar with networking drinks
  Prof Ignacio Melero (University of Oxford), Professor Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 11:00 - Fluctuating DNA methylation for lineage tracing in healthy human tissues and cancer
  This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Trevor Graham (The Institute of Cancer Research)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 22 January 2024

• 12:00 - Cancelled: Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes - guardians of the gut
  This seminar has been cancelled, and it will be rescheduled.
  Dr Mahima Swamy (University of Dundee)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 11:00 - Immunotherapy of Human Papillomavirus induced cancer
  This is a hybrid event; please contact marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Dr Marij Welters (Leiden University Medical Center)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Novel insights into determinants of response to cancer immunotherapy
  In person only
  Professor Benjamin Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  CIO Seminar Series
• 16:30 - TGU Talks: Immunomodulatory therapeutic approaches in liver disease by Dr Evangelos Triantafyllou (from Imperial College, London)
  **In Person Only**
  Dr Evangelos Triantafyllou (Imperial College London)
  TGLU Seminars

Friday 26 January 2024

• 15:00 - Harnessing Innate Immunity in Cancer Therapy
  Online seminar
  Professor Eric Vivier (Aix-Marseille University)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 09:30 - Chromatin regulation in cancer 
  Professor Yang Shi (Ludwig Institute, University of Oxford)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 13:00 - Maximising the impact of CAR T-cell therapy for acute leukaemia
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Sara Ghorashian (University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 19 February 2024

• 14:00 - Unlock the adaptive immune repertoire by controlling innate immunity with biomaterials
  Dr. Qian Yin (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 14:00 - Exploiting pathogen immune evasion strategies in vaccine design and therapeutics
  Professor Max Crispin (University of Southampton)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Mobilizing Mathematics for the Fight Against Cancer - Trachette Jackson
  Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 13:00 - Engineering Approaches to Cancer Immunotherapy
  Professor Betty Kim (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)
  CIO Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Immunotherapy for cancer by reprogramming of macrophages
  Dr Mikael Karlsson (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 21 March 2024

• 13:00 - Understanding where, how and why immune cells become altered in the response to cancer
  IN PERSON ONLY
  Professor David Withers (Institute of Immunology & Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham)
  CIO Seminar Series

Monday 25 March 2024

• 12:00 - Lymphocyte mechano-regulation for immunotherapies
  In person only
  Dr Enrico Klotzsch (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 4 April 2024

• 13:00 - Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC
  In person only
  Professor Linda Wooldridge (Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol)
  CIO Seminar Series

Thursday 11 April 2024

• 13:00 - Drilling Down on the Correlates of Tumour Rejection
  In person only
  Prof Awen Gallimore (University of Cardiff)
  CIO Seminar Series

Thursday 18 April 2024

• 09:00 - Oxford Gastro-Oesophageal Cancer Symposium 2024
  Various Speakers

Monday 22 April 2024

• 12:00 - Cancer related research in the Million Women Study: key findings
  Professor Gill Reeves (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 11:00 - Turning up the Heat on Cancer
  this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Judy Lieberman (Harvard University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 13:30 - Exploring and Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment
  this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Johanna Joyce (University of Lausanne)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 29 April 2024

• 12:00 - Regulation and immunotherapy responses of NK cells (and T cells) against tumors
  In person only
  Professor David Raulet (UC Berkeley)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 13:00 - Developing in vivo CRISPR system-based technologies to study clonal and malignant haemopoiesis
  Dr Justin Loke (University of Birmingham)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 15:00 - Cancer Vaccines joint 'Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network' and 'Oxford Immunology Network' seminar with networking drinks
  Prof. Benoit van den Eynde (Ludwig Cancer Research), Dr Cesar Lopez-Camacho (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 11:00 - Spatial effects in models of solid tumour growth and control
  this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Philip Maini (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 20 May 2024

• 12:00 - CAR T-cell immunotherapy of solid tumours: moving through the generations
  In-person only
  Dr John Maher (King's College London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 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

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 13:30 - Retroviral legacy in immunity and cancer
  In person only
  Professor George Kassiotis (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 24 May 2024

• 13:00 - Targeting the Epigenetic Machinery to Modulate Anti-tumor Immunity
  In person only
  Professor Sangeeta Goswami (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas)
  CIO Seminar Series

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 11:00 - Targeting TCR and Co-Receptor Signaling in T Cell-Mediated Immunity
  this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 7 June 2024

• 08:30 - Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network 2024 Annual Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Cancer Centre for Immuno-Oncology

Friday 28 June 2024

• 09:15 - Engineering T cells with reduced cross-reactivity
  In-person only
  Jose Cabezas Caballero (Dushek Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 4 July 2024

• 12:00 - Harnessing the Power of Multiomics from a Single Sample to Explore Tumor Heterogeneity and Advancing Immuno-oncology
  Dr David Buck (Azenta Life Sciences)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Comprehensive therapeutic targeting of the oncogene driver MYCN in childhood cancer
  Prof Louis Chesler (The Institute of Cancer Research), Professor John Anderson (University College London)

Monday 8 July 2024

• 12:00 - Sympathetic neuroimmune interactions regulating outcomes of viral infection and cancer
  In-person only
  Prof Scott Mueller (University of Melbourne)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 17 July 2024

• 12:00 - Cancer-causing infections in rural Africa – missed opportunities for prevention
  Seminar postponed due to speaker being unwell.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Robert Newton (University of York / MRC-Uganda Virus Research Institute)
  Jenner Seminars

Wednesday 31 July 2024

• 12:00 - The Hypoxia Paradox: Friend or Foe for T cell Cancer Therapies?
  Dr Iosifina Foskolou (Sanquin Institute (Amsterdam))

Tuesday 10 September 2024

• 15:00 - Litchfield Lecture: Decoding CD8 T cell metabolism in infection and cancer
  Dr Ramon Arens (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Monday 16 September 2024

• 12:00 - Effector and regulatory T cells balance in inflamed human livers
  In person only
  Prof Ye Htun Oo (University of Birmingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 19 September 2024

• 11:30 - Spatially resolved tissue imaging to analyse the tumor immune microenvironment: beyond cell-type densities
  Dr. Carlos E de Andrea (Dept. of Pathology, University of Navarra)
  CIO Seminar Series

Friday 4 October 2024

• 12:00 - From immune regulation to anti-tumor effects: A tale of cytotoxic regulatory T cells
  In person
  Prof Bruce Blazar (University of Minnesota)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 12:00 - The remarkable intracellular dynamics of cytotoxic T lymphocytes
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 18 October 2024

• 09:15 - Engineering Proximity-Induced Signaling: Novel Approaches to Modulate Immune Checkpoints and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
  in-person only
  Dr Victoria Junghans (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Christina Heroven (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:00 - Novel multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
  Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 09:30 - How far are we from designing an antibody therapeutic on a computer?
  Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford)
  CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 11:00 - Predictive Preclinic Patient Organoid Models and Emerging Therapeutic Targets for Glioblastoma
  this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Dr Hai-Kun Liu (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 1 November 2024

• 09:15 - Targeting HLA-E for translation
  This talk is for members of Oxford University only.
  Dr Hongbing Yang (University of Oxford), Max Quastel (Gillespie / McMichael Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 4 November 2024

• 12:00 - Axes of T cell diversification
  In person
  Dr Carmen Gerlach (the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 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 - Failure to activate lymph node resident cDC1 results in poorly functional anti-tumour CD8 T cell responses
  Dr Ed Roberts (University of Glasgow)
  CIO Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Screening for Copy Number Alterations in Hepatocellular Carcinoma using High-Resolution Multiplex Paralogue Ratio Test
  Dr. Waleed Fateen (Consultant Hepatologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Professor John Armour (Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Nottingham), Miss Nouf ALSultan (PhD student at the University of Nottingham)

Friday 8 November 2024

• 09:15 - Engineering TCR-controlled Fuzzy Logic into CAR T Cells Enhances Therapeutic Specificity
  in-person only
  Sooraj Achar (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 13:00 - Epidemiology and Our Future Health
  Professor David Hunter (University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars
• 15:00 - Joint 'Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network' and 'Oxford Immunology Network' seminar with networking drinks
  Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Barbora Schonfeldova ((Udalova Group), University of Oxford), Kerry Fisher (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2024

• 09:15 - Can infection confer protection? Identifying determinants of response and toxicity to checkpoint immunotherapy
  in-person only
  Professor Benjamin Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 11:00 - Differential deployment of oncogenic translational gene expression programmes by the eIF4F and CCR4-NOT complexes: The hidden information within our genomes
  this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Martin Bushell (CRUK Scotland Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 29 November 2024

• 11:00 - Precision medicine and the immune response: insights from infection
  this is a hybrid event - please email marie-laure.foisneau-bates@ludwig.ox.ac.uk for zoom details
  Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 2 December 2024

• 12:00 - Molecular and spatial control of tumor-associated macrophages
  In person
  Prof Renato Ostuni (San Raffaele Telethon Institute, Milan)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Cross-species MAIT cell immune responses
  Prof Paul Klenerman (Oxford, NDM)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Friday 6 December 2024

• 09:15 - Decoding Immune Checkpoint Signalling Pathways Through CRISPR-Based Screening Approaches
  in-person only
  Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford), Dr Joseph Clarke (T-cell Biology Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 10 December 2024

• 09:00 - Oxford Centre for Cancer Early Detection and Prevention (OxCODE) symposium
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 15 January 2025

• 14:00 - Extracting features from electronic health records, efficiently and accurately, with shared open tools: ehrQL and OpenSAFELY
  Dr Ben Goldacre (Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 15:00 - Joint 'Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network' and 'Oxford Immunology Network' immunotherapy seminar with networking drinks
  Professor Elizabeth Smyth (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Fairfax (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 13:30 - Imaging lung lymphatics in inflammation and metastatic cancer
  in person only
  Dr Simon Cleary (King's College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 31 January 2025

• 14:00 - Revisiting the neoantigen approach to cancer immunotherapy
  Prof Yardena Samuels (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 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

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 11:00 - Tumor-associated macrophages in tumor progression: double edged swords
  Prof Alberto Mantovani (Queen Mary University of London)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 14 February 2025

• 11:00 - Computational investigation of single-scale and multi-scale heterogeneous immune responses during cancer evolution
  Prof Raluca EFTIMIE (Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 11:00 - Targeting KRAS oncogenic signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer
  Prof Julian Downward (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Ludwig Institute 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 - Joint 'Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network' and 'Oxford Immunology Network' Spatial Biology seminar with networking drinks
  Professor Simon Leedham (University of Oxford), Professor David Withers (University of Oxford)