Department: Medical Sciences Division
Talks:

Monday 28 April 2025

Dissecting the the composition and function of intestinal immune compartments in health and disease
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : William Agace (Lund University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Host: Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

Lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of dengue
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicole Zitzmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Anti-bacterial vaccination in the context of gut ecosystem
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Astor Lecture: Treatment and Prevention of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Golda S. Ginsburg (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms, lift available
Organiser: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Theme: Granular Ethnicity and Environment Data: Bridging Gaps in Health Research
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Sara Khalid (NDORMS), Dr Marta Pineda-Moncusi (NDORMS), Dr Qingze Gu (NDORMS)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Multivariate Machine Learning Techniques for Data Preprocessing, Decomposition, and Integration: Radiomics, Sparse Partial Least Squares, and Transformers
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Online only, via Zoom
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Ultrasound: Examples from India, The Gambia, Kenya, & Mozambique in cardiac & maternal care
Date: 29 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Dr Manisha Nair (National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford), Prof Aris Papageorghiou (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Developing innovating and effective interventions for self-harm in young people: From educational settings and beyond
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Katrina Witt (University of Melbourne)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

EDI Media Club - "Black and British: a forgotten history"
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Christina Heroven (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)

Ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Claudio Baracchini (Stroke Unit & Neurosonology Lab, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padova, Italy)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Ovarian Biology: from Bench to Bedside and Biosphere, from humans to rhinos
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Suzannah Williams (Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford ), Nilay Kuscu (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Dr Peter Kilbride (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Emmerson Teas (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Heidi Long (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Janet Kwan (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Building wisdom: Active Inference, Consciousness, and Flourishing Intelligence
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ruben Laukkonen (Southern Cross University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Code Support Python Drop In Session
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Thomas Kiley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Fit-for-Purpose Natural Language Processing to Enrich Real-World Psychiatric Data
Date: 29 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh’s Inaugural Lecture ‘Catalysing the Data-enabled Transformation of Health - Globally’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: Examination Schools, 75 - 81 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG
Organiser: Lucy Curtin (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The discovery of ReNU syndrome
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker s: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Yuyang Chen (University of Oxford), Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Susan Walker (Genomics England), Dr Sarah Wynn (Unique)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Practical tools for supporting neurodivergence in the higher education workplace
Date: 30 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Cressida Ryan (Faculty of Theology & Religion)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Mandy Nicolle (IDRM and Department of Paediatrics)

An overview of diabetes-related research in the China Kadoorie Biobank
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Derrick A. Bennett (University of Oxford)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Ray (University of Oxford)

Epithelia and macrophages in lung infection: Roles in tissue damage, protection and repair
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Shedding Light on Conflict and Cholera: Using Night Lights to Track Infrastructure Collapse and Disease Risk
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Daniel Parker (Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: LG Seminar Room 0
Organiser: IDDO (Centre for Global Health Research, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Newton (University of Oxford)

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in spinal muscular atrophy
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Albero Kornblihtt (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Nick Proudfoot (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 1 May 2025

Enhancer variation and chromatin folding, shaping the face in evolution and disease
Date: 1 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Long (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Harnessing tissue regulatory T cells in the brain
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Hashem Koohy (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Opportunities in healthcare AI at Oxford
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Oliver Harrison (Royal Society EIR in Oxford- CEO of Koa Health)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room and via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Synucleinopathy disorders: A tale of two neurotransmitters
Date: 1 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ilse Pienaar (University of Birmingham)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Respiratory Medicine - 'Sleep disordered breathing: a clinical case, an update on management, and future directions'
Date: 1 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Maneesha Jayasiri, Clinical Fellow, Sleep & Ventilation Team, Dr Annabel Nickol, Respiratory Consultant, Lead Consultant for Sleep, Ventilation and Lung Function, Dr Chris Turnbull, Respiratory Consultant, Sleep & Ventilation Team
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for neuromodulation of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Sean Froudist-Walsh (University of Bristol)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Development of Motion Vision
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Regulation of integral membrane proteins through maintenance and loss of lipid asymmetry
Date: 1 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Edward Lyman (University of Delaware)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)

Friday 2 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 2 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Enhancer variation and chromatin topology, shaping faces in health and disease
Date: 2 May 2025, 10:45 - 11:45
Speaker : Hannah Long (Institute of Genetics and Cancer | The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Why the drugs should work: A deep cellular atlas reveals a mechanistic overlap between Parkinson’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Caleb Webber (UK Dementia Research Institute and Cardiff University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Steering the evolution of bacteria within hosts
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof. Médéric Diard (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The changing mental health research funding landscape
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

Molecular and functional heterogeneity of neural stem cells across lifespan
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Sebastian Jessberger (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Dr Abhishek Banerjee (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Does dysmenorrhoea in adolescence increase the risk of chronic pain in adulthood?
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Rachel Reid-McCann (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mechanisms of competition between healthy and malignant haematopoiesis
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Daniel Margulies (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
Date: 6 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Stefan Feuerriegel (University of Munich)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Clara Lloyd (Oxford Vaccine Group)
Host: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford Vaccine Group)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

WIN seminar by Daniel Reznik
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: Stuart Clare (University of Oxford), Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Jakub Hantabal (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744206771231?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Insulin: Exploring Low-Dose Sulfonylureas in Managing Type 1 Diabetes
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Patrik Rorsman (University of Oxford)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Amanda Adler (University of Oxford)

Using wearables to screen for atrial fibrillation
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Peter H. Charlton (Nokia Bells Lab)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: New Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Synaptic Neurotransmission
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James E. Rothman (Yale University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)

'Shaping the dynamic chromatin landscape for gene expression at single-molecule resolution'
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Carl Wu (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Humans As Ultra-Cooperative Great Apes
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:45 - 18:45
Speaker : Prof Michael Tomasello (Duke University)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre First floor with lift access
Organisers: TBA
Host: Robert Hepach (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 May 2025

Towards nanopore proteomics: Single-molecule detection of post-translational modifications on full-length proteins
Date: 8 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Yujia Qing (University of Oxford)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Genetic diseases of chromatin: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room K
Organiser: Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germline
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Raheleh Rahbari (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Oncology - 'Obesity, insulin resistance and cancer'
Date: 8 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Lord
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 9 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Abhinandan Devaprasad (Udalova Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Developmental programmes in cancer
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Mechanisms of Cellular Lipid Homeostasis: From Lipid Droplets to Ferroptosis
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Self-Control in Dietary Choices: A Value-Based Decision-Making Perspective
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Anita Tusche (Queen’s University (Canada))
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar room 2, 2nd floor
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford), Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 May 2025

An Introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Making Every Electron Count: Phase retrieval in electron microscopy at low fluence
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Angus Kirkland (Department of Materials, University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Host: Prof Marco Fritzsche (Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, University of Oxford)

The assembly and transport of carbohydrate (and other) polymers in bacteria
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Paris Lalousis (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Leveraging long-read sequencing to resolve regulatory and transcriptional complexity
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Adam Cribbs (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Andy Sewell (Systems Immunity Research Institute, University of Cardiff)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Digital Health: The Systematic Public Health Empowerment, Research, & Education sites (SPHERES) project in Indonesia & Examples in digital health from Viet Nam
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Prof Louise Thwaites (University of Oxford), Dr Anuraj Shankar (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Press (University College London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Marco Wittmann (University College London)

Self-harm, suicide, and causes of death among adolescents exposed to the youth justice system in Australia
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rohan Borschmann (University of Melbourne & University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

'Infection dynamics in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity and vaccination’ presented by Jess Metcalf
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Jessica Metcalf (Princeton University)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0+1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organiser: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Hosts: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)

Tandem lesion stroke
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Alexandre Y Poppe (Université de Montréal)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Sheriff (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Max Rollwage (Limbic AI)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Sleep: the fall guy
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Colin Espie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Ray (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025

Data Engineers Meeting
Date: 15 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Adam Huffman (University of Oxford), Isaac Wade (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

OUCAGS Forum - in-person event
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Richard Cornall (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Details to follow
Organiser: Medical Sciences Division
Host: Dr Katherine Bull

Maridebart Cafraglutide (Maritide) from bench to clinic
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Murielle Veniant (Cardiometabolic VP, Amgen)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Hodson (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Utilising multi-omics to better understand painful and painless peripheral neuropathy
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Georgios Baskozos (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How stochasticity and space shape the innate antiviral response to influenza virus
Date: 15 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Prof Christopher Brooke (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 16 May 2025

Sustainable Healthcare - Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions
Date: 16 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker s: Dr Soren Kudsk-Iversen (University of Oxford), Dr SanYuMay Tun (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Leveraging Clonal Dynamics to Identify Tumour Specific T Cells in Human Cancer
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Bates (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Metastatic dissemination from the perspective of the cancer cell, its microenvironment, and the host
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani (UCL Cancer Institute in London)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Hosts: TBA

Long-lived memory B cell responses against malaria
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Evelien M. Bunnik (The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)

Pathways for the entry and exit of solutes and proteins into and from the brain. Implications for neurological diseases
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Roxana Carare (University of Southampton)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TOP2B from discovery to first isoform selective inhibitor
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Caroline Austin (Newcastle University)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Monday 19 May 2025

YAP Activation Causes Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Disrupting Bile Acid Metabolism
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Yingzi Yang (Harvard School of Dental Medicine)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

The cardiovascular sequelae of preterm pre-eclampsia – rethinking the postnatal period
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Stillness to Motion… Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Lung Injury and Repair
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 14:45
Speaker : Assisstant Professor Maurizio Chioccioli (Yale University)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Manuela Zaccolo MD (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar: The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
Date: 20 May 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Christina Lamb (Athabasca University and University of Toronto)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 and on Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)

Title tbc
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Suicidal behaviour in transgender individuals
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Prof. Annette Erlangsen (Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

Global Health Theme seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Sodium channel dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Kevin Bender (Center for Intergrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)

BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE: Targeting calcium leak to treat disorders of heart, muscle and brain
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew R. Marks (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: CELS Group & CPM
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207060876?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Costas Christodoulides (University of Oxford)

Gender and intersectional analysis in health systems research: Lessons for studies in African hospitals - Webinar
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Bintu Mansaray (University of Bristol), Prof. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (University of Ottawa), Evelyn Kabia (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust)
Organisers: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Host: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 May 2025

Dr Damien Grégoire - title TBA
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Damien Grégoire (IGMM Montpellier)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Psychological Medicine
Date: 22 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: The Art of Choosing
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

MIDD’s Growing Role in Global Health: A Case Study of Primaquine Exposures in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Karen Rowland-Yeo (Certara), Prof Joel Tarning (MORU), Dr Mellie Gilder (MORU), Dr Nada Abla Geiser (Medicines for Malaria Venture)
Organiser: Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 23 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Causal inference Best Practice: How to Strengthen your Causal Analysis with Bounds On Your Causal Effect of Interest
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Jakob Zeitler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room LG0
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Barnes Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm-associated infection
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Kimberly A. Kline (University of Geneva)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Chris Tang (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Revisiting oxygen transport by red cells: getting excited about the most boring cell
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

AI & Global Health
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford), Dr Pratap Kumar (UCL & Strathmore)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Immunosenescence: opportunities to reduce macrophage functional decline in ageing
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Heather Wilson (School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
Date: 28 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Bauer (the Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1, Department of Biochemistry.
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Dr Ozgen Deniz - title TBA
Date: 29 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ozgen Deniz (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Geriatrics
Date: 29 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

The role of the gut environment in shaping the intestinal microbiota and disease outcomes
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Carolina Tropini (University of British Colombia)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 30 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Professor Ola Bratt (University of Gothenburg)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Spatially resolved insights into fistulating Crohn's disease pathogenesis
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Agne Antanaviciute (Simmons Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discovering new membrane proteins' functions with multi-scale molecular simulations
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stefano Vanni (University of Fribourg)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 2 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Avian and human influenza
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Oxford Parkinson's Research Day (this event is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only & is not aimed at members of the public)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Targeting the glutamate system to treat schizophrenia
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Katherine Beck (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title tbc
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Zhengming Chen (CTSU, University Of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

The potential of the school setting for supporting adolescents impacted by suicide: from prevention to postvention
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Eibhlín Walsh (National Suicide Research Foundation, Ireland)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sonia Muliyil (Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women’s Health)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Network Estimation via Source Separation (NESS): Novel Perspectives on Linear Decomposition for Functional Brain Mapping
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Prof Leonardo Bonetti (Aarhus University and University of Oxford), Dr Mattia Rosso (Aarhus University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Oxford Immunology Network termly seminar: Immunology and Metabolism
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl (University of Oxford), Prof Hal Drakesmith (WIMM HIU)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre and atrium
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (Universiy of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Why and how to publish with Nature Communications, and editorial careers
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Hayleah Pickford (Nature Communications)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: Prof Angela Brueggemann (University of Oxford), Professor Susie Dunachie (University of Oxford)

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: IMCM
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Ludo van Hillegondsberg (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207138678
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Long reads and organoid co-culture models: changing the way we treat cancer
Date: 5 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Beggs (University of Birmingham)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ross Chapman (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

50 years with David Smith on location: from chromaffin granules to neurodegeneration via synapses
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford) Decoding the molecular role of TDP-43 condensation in neurodegeneration using transcriptomics and biophysics
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Obstetric Medicine
Date: 5 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 6 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Knight Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

19th ANNUAL DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Opening windows for cognition through precise timing of cortical neurons
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Thomas Klausberger (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Paul Kubes (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof David R Greaves (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

IDEAL Conference 2025: Innovations in Surgical Research, Bridging Science & Practice
Date: 9 June 2025, 7:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas, USA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Better treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Chromothripsis and Genomic Instability from Mitotic Errors
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Peter Ly (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Tuesday 10 June 2025

A Postcard from my Journey with the T cell Receptor: Nerding out on the TCR
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Chris Garcia (Stanford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Technologies in Medicines Quality
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Paul Newton (University of Oxford), Dr Celine Caillet (IDDO, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title tbc
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Parental Self-Harm and Offspring Psychosocial Outcomes: Systematic Literature Review
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Irem Yanardoner (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room, Lower-Ground Floor
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Eileen Parkes (University of Oxford)

Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
Date: 10 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: The Role of Calcium and Phosphorylation in Sleep
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Hiroki R. Ueda (University of Tokyo)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation Medicine
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Insights into Scientific Publishing (Oxford Virology and Immunology Networks joint seminar)
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Dr Duc Le (Med journal), Dr Zoltan Fehervari (Springer Nature)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: seminar rooms A+B
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Miles Carroll (University of Oxford), Prof Fadi Issa (Department of Surgical Sciences)

Title TBC
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network 2025 Annual Symposium
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:30 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor James Davies (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away?
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population Health), Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Harnessing neuroscience to translate genomic discoveries in psychiatry
Date: 17 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Hall (Director, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute & Theme Lead for Mind, Brain & Neuroscience, Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Spatial-temporal dependency & interventions for radiation-induced cardiac toxicity
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Karl Butterworth (Queen's University Belfast)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Dr Kristoffer Petersson (University of Oxford)

RyR2 in the spotlight: how mutations and phosphorylation shape cardiac rhythm and arrhythmia susceptibility
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ana Maria Gomez (Faculty of Pharmacy, INSERM, University of Paris-Saclay)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

The CaTS-App: A new collaborative assessment tool for adolescent self-harm
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Prof. Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Advanced meditation and the third wave of meditation research
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Matthew Sacchet (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Celebrating Early Career Immunology at Oxford
Date: 17 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Adrien Sprumont (Bannard Group, University of Oxford), Veronika Pfannenstill (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford), Yavuz Yazicioglu (Clarke Group, University of Oxford), Sooraj Achar (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: iPSC & Cellular Imaging Facilities
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1745403260622?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Shedding new light on GPCR signalling: why space and time matter
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Davide Calebiro (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Ray (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

Spatially mapping immune mediated kidney disease
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Respiratory
Date: 19 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

RESPOND Conference
Date: 20 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Organiser: Professor Peter McCulloch (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 June 2025

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 23 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Clinical decision support: Examples from Viet Nam in dengue management and the South and Southeast Asian Community-based Trials Network (SEACTN) in Thailand
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Chanh Ho Quang (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 June 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Genitourinary Medicine
Date: 26 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Preventing the Preventable: Health Economic Case for Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 26 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Zanfina Ademi (Monash University)
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 July 2025

TBC
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sooraj Achar (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 3 July 2025

Dr Elisa Oricchio - title TBA
Date: 3 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Elisa Oricchio (Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Medical Grand Rounds - Palliative Care/Pain
Date: 3 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A view of RNA isoform expression across single cells, cell types and anatomical structures in postnatal development of the brain and neurodegeneration
Date: 4 July 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Hagen Tilgner (Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof. Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

Monday 7 July 2025

PAEDIATRICS, KAVLI & DPAG SPECIAL LECTURE: Bespoke CRISPR Gene Editing Therapies at Nationwide Scale: an Actionable Path
Date: 7 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Fyodor Urnov (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Innovations in epilepsy diagnosis in Kenya
Date: 8 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Arjune Sen (Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group), Dr Symon Kariuki (Africa Population and Health Research Centre,)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

Enhancing Health Behaviors: Leveraging Smartphone Data and Electronic Medical Records for Optimized Health Outcomes
Date: 9 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Samah Hayek (University of Tel Aviv)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: seminar room 0
Organiser: Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Renal Medicine
Date: 10 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 10 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Friday 11 July 2025

TBC
Date: 11 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Sarah McClelland (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Call for Papers : Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Date: 15 July 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 15 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Infectious Diseases
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Ideas for accelerated and integrated compute in imaging, genomics, and devices, in Biobank and other datasets
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Busby (NVIDIA)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Stroke Medicine
Date: 24 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 July 2025

Preeclamptic placental extracellular vesicles; a cause of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of preeclampsia
Date: 28 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Larry Chamley (University of Auckland)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 31 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Dermatology
Date: 31 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rubeta Matin
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 September 2025

From the Laboratory to the Clinic: Generating more effective vaccines and therapies
Date: 2 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Various (See programme)
Organisers: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS), Professor Fiona Powrie (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatlogy)
Host: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS)

Thursday 4 September 2025

TBC
Date: 4 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 9 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 September 2025

Global Surgery Course 2025
Date: 15 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 September 2025

Biomechanical contributions to cancer progression
Date: 18 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Maddy Parsons (King's College London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Tuesday 23 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 October 2025

TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 January 2025

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )