Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 11:00 - Just Development and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
  Bendert Zevenbergen (Princeton University)

Tuesday 19 May 2020

• 11:00 - Machine Learning in Python with scikit-learn
  TBA

Wednesday 3 June 2020

• 11:00 - Introduction to FUNPACK
  Joining instructions will be sent by Sarah Laseke
  TBA

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 11:00 - BDI R Code Clinic - Handling data frames the data.table way
  TBA

Wednesday 1 July 2020

• 11:00 - BDI R Code Clinic - Intuitive interactive data exploration with iSEE
  TBA

Tuesday 28 July 2020

• 11:00 - BDI Python Code Clinic - More Machine Learning in Python with scikit-learn
  TBA

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 11:00 - BDI Code Clinic - Snakemake
  Dr Srinivasa Rao Rao (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 11:00 - Coding Community Slack Channel
  TBA

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 11:00 - An introduction to the R ggplot2 package
  Dr Jason Torres (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 14:00 - Core Skills for the BMRC Cluster
  TBA

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 11:00 - Advanced workflow management with Snakemake
  TBA

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 10:00 - Continuous Integration for Automating Software Testing, 24 November, 10am - 1pm
  TBA

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 11:00 - Extracting Variables from the UK Biobank
  TBA
• 15:00 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Discussing the ethical considerations around public, policy and research partner engagement in the formation of global pathogen molecular surveillance systems
  Dr George Busby (Nuffield Department of Medicine)

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 11:30 - Reproducible Analysis using R
  Dr Christiana Kartsonaki (Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 11:00 - Computational Notebooks for Biomedical Research
  TBA

Tuesday 8 December 2020

• 10:00 - Research Data Management (RDM), Reproducibility, and Open Science
  Laurence Brown

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 13:00 - Oxford & Janssen BDI Fellowship Programme Inaugural Seminar and Round-table Discussion: The use of human genetic data to explore linkages between genetic variants, disease phenotype and the causal effects of genetic variation in human disease.
  Professor Martin Landray (Nuffield Department of Population Health), Guna Ragaopal (VP - Global Head, Computational Sciences, Discovery Sciences, Janssen Pharma)

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 11:00 - Introduction to Matplotlib: data visualization with Python - Jia-Yuan Zhang
  TBA

Wednesday 17 March 2021

• 10:00 - Introduction to Workflow Management with Snakemake
  Dr Srinivasa Rao Rao (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 11:00 - An Introduction to Text Mining in R - Dr Shelly Lachish
  TBA

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 11:00 - SIMON: open-source software for application of machine learning to biomedical data - 5 & 12 May
  Dr Adriana Tomic (Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford)
  SIMON: open-source software for application of machine learning to biomedical data - Dr Adriana Tomic

Monday 17 May 2021

• 11:00 - Machine Learning in Python - 17, 18 and 19 May
  TBA

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 11:00 - Introduction to Git
  TBA

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 10:00 - Jupyter Notebooks: Getting started with interactive and reproducible data analysis
  Laurence Brown

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 11:00 - Using Git in a small team
  TBA

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 10:00 - Data visualization using Python and Jupyter Notebooks
  Laurence Brown

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 11:00 - Workflow Description Language (WDL) running on Cromwell: An introduction
  TBA

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 10:00 - Data visualization in Python: An Introduction to Matplotlib
  This event will take place on Microsoft Teams
  TBA

Monday 29 November 2021

• 09:00 - Software Carpentries Workshop
  We now welcome bookings from those who are able to attend all four workshops
  TBA

Wednesday 8 December 2021

• 10:00 - Plotting in ggplot2 - An Introduction
  TBA

Wednesday 21 September 2022

• 11:00 - Algorithm Validation for Data Science
  Professor Joachim M. Buhmann (Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 11:00 - Deep learning at the forefront of cardiac MR imaging
  Dr Qiang Zhang

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 15:30 - Coding with AI: Experiments with GPT-4
  Dr. Russ Poldrack (Stanford University)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 11:00 - Phenotyping Parkinson's Disease
  Michele Hu (University of Oxford)
• 11:50 - AI tools for diagnostics in the clinical setting - pathway to successful implementation
  Various Speakers
  BDI seminars

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 09:30 - Using genomics and functional genomics to inspire advanced therapeutics in single gene disorders
  Professor Stephen Sanders (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 11:00 - Alcohol phenotypes and how they are related to fMRI derived brain health measurements
  Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 July 2023

• 13:30 - Sustainable Big Data Conversations - Tackling the hidden costs of computing: GREENER principles for sustainable computational science
  Professor Michael Inouye (University of Cambridge), Dr Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 7 September 2023

• 15:00 - Selective Inference: The Silent Killer of Replicability
  Professor Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University)

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 12:00 - BDI Codemonkeys: Scaling pandas workloads with Dask
  Patrick Höfler (Coiled)
  BDI seminars

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 09:30 - ‘Life by a Thousand Cuts’: DNA breaks drive mutagenesis in the human germline
  Dr Anjali Hinch (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 12:00 - Oxford Research Software Engineering (OxRSE)
  Dr. Martin (Robinson)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 14:00 - Data-driven clinical decision-support tools in labour and their implementation into maternity wards
  Dr. Antoniya Georgieva (University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 13:00 - BDI-IEU Joint Workshop in Health Data Science
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense
  Clare ByCroft (DeepMind)
  Machine Learning@BDI Seminar Series

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 09:30 - “De novo mutations and human disease: the role of sex, age and selfishness”
  Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 12:00 - Elevate Your Code in One Line: Boosting Python Performance with Numba
  Ao Zhang (University of Oxford)
  Code Monkeys@BDI
• 14:00 - Leadership in the Life Sciences: A conversation with Dr Marcus Schindler
  Prof Cecilia Lindgren (University of Oxford), Dr Marcus Schindler (NovoNordisk)
  BDI seminars

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 14:00 - AI/ML & Biomedical Imaging in Disease
  Dr Bartek Papiez (University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 13:00 - “Machine learning for computational phenotyping and genetic discovery”
  Dr Craig Glastonbury (Human Technopole, Italy)
  Digital Phenotying

Thursday 14 December 2023

• 09:30 - “A Comprehensive genetic profile of 140,000 adults from Mexico City”
  Dr Jason Torres (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 11:00 - Environmentally Sustainable Health Research: the Funders’ Perspective
  Dr Melissa Lewis-Brown (Cancer Research UK), Dr Susan Simon (Medical Research Council), Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford), Talia Caplan (Wellcome Trust)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 09:30 - What can large-scale metabolomic and genetic profiling of population biobanks tell us about common disease?
  Eirini Trichia (University of Oxford), Dr Luke Jostins-Dean (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 14:00 - Big Data and Pain
  Various Speakers
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 09:30 - Regulating cortical development through enhancer usage and genome topology
  Dr Emily Brookes (University of Southampton)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 10:30 - An introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford), Yangmei Li (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 February 2024

• 15:00 - Maximizing the Potential of Whole Genome Sequencing in Psychiatry: Deep Phenotyping, Extreme Traits, and Extended Pedigrees
  Prof David Glahn (Harvard Medical School)

Monday 19 February 2024

• 16:00 - Integrating GWAS, omics QTLs and gene networks to reveal drug target genes
  Dr Zoltán Kutalik (University of Lausanne)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 10:30 - Cleaning and Manipulating CPRD Data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 14:10 - Phenotyping beyond (national) borders: tools, processes, and examples of transportable phenotypes based on the OMOP Common Data Model
  Please note that the seminar will commence at 2:10pm.
  Prof Daniel Prieto-Alhambra (NDORMS, University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 09:30 - Unravelling the full spectrum of pathogenic variation using Saturation Genome Editing
  Dr Greg Findlay
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 14:00 - Assessing Morphology in all Dimensions: 3D Analysis of Face and Brain
  Dr Mike Suttie (University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 19 March 2024

• 09:30 - The genetic basis of infertility and reproductive hormones across the allele frequency spectrum
  Please contact sumeeta.maheshwari@ndph.ox.ac.uk for Teams meeting link
  Samvida Venkatesh (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 March 2024

• 10:30 - Designing an Algorithmically Enhanced NHS
  Dr Jessica Morley (Yale Digital Ethics Center)

Tuesday 16 April 2024

• 14:00 - “In and Out of Context: Deciphering the Genetic and Genomic Architecture of Type 2 Diabetes”
  Dr Cassandra Spracklen (University of Massachusetts)

Wednesday 17 April 2024

• 14:00 - "Linking smartphone, wearable and medical device data with routinely collected NHS data for the research community"
  Prof Tim Chico (University of Sheffield)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 09:30 - Investigation of structural variants in clinical whole genome sequencing data leading to new genetic diagnoses
  Various Speakers
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 14:00 - Prognostic significance & genetic basis of premature ventricular contractions during exercise
  Dr Stefan van Duijvenboden (University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 09:30 - The genetics of reproductive behaviour and relationship amongst 36 reproductive traits
  Prof. Melinda Mills (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 09:30 - Towards understanding cell types relevant for psychiatric disorders
  Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 09:30 - Leveraging Genomes to Phenomes to Advance Cardiovascular Precision Medicine
  Associate Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 14:00 - Recent advances in the application of compositional data analysis: Bayesian modelling for longitudinal compositional data and evolutionary algorithms for optimal time-use compositions
  Dr Dot Dumuid (University of South Australia), Flore Le (Monash University)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 18 June 2024

• 09:30 - Genes & Health: a British Bangladeshi and Pakistani cohort for your research
  Prof David A van Heel (Queen Mary University of London)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 10:30 - An introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 June 2024

• 12:30 - Large biobanks for genetic studies of psychiatric traits: Finding risk variants and learning from them
  Prof Joel Gelernter (Yale School of Medicine), Prof Daniel Levey (Yale School of Medicine)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 4 July 2024

• 14:00 - Multimodal and Generative AI for Pathology
  Dr Faisal Mahmood (Harvard Medical School)
  Digital Phenotying

Thursday 11 July 2024

• 09:30 - Follow up of breast cancer GWAS through drug repositioning and CRISPR screens
  Prof Georgia Chenevix-Trench (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Thursday 12 September 2024

• 10:00 - HDRUK Oxford Community Meeting
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 18 September 2024

• 14:00 - What can your shopping basket say about your health?
  This talk has been cancelled, it will be rescheduled for early next year.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Anya Skatova (University of Bristol)
  Digital Phenotying

Wednesday 25 September 2024

• 14:00 - Towards precision epidemiology: digital measurements of SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk and real-time drivers of epidemic dynamics
  Dr Luca Ferretti (University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 1 October 2024

• 09:30 - De novo variants in the RNU4-2 snRNA cause a frequent neurodevelopmental syndrome
  Various Speakers
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Monday 7 October 2024

• 14:00 - HDRUK Oxford Monthly Community Meetings
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 9 October 2024

• 14:00 - A funders perspective on leveraging digital tools for science and health research
  Matthew Brown (Wellcome Trust)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 09:00 - A Gentle Introduction to Python
  Matthew Miossec (University of Oxford)
• 09:30 - Combining evidence from human genetic and functional screens to identify pathways altering obesity and fat distribution
  Nicolas Baya (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 14:00 - From big data to niche data: the challenge of minimizing sample size in clinical trials
  Professor Derek Hill (UCL)
  Digital Phenotying

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 09:30 - Scalable inference and analysis of ancestral recombination graphs in large data sets including modern and ancient genomes
  Prof Pier Palamara (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 09:30 - Chromatin organisation and human disease
  Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 14:00 - Integrating mouse and human imaging studies of autism to identify molecularly defined subtypes
  Professor Jason Lerch (University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Monday 25 November 2024

• 10:00 - Python Drop in session
  Ellen (Visscher)

Monday 2 December 2024

• 14:30 - HDRUK Oxford Monthly Community Meetings
  Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)
  HDRUK Oxford Monthly Community Meetings

Friday 6 December 2024

• 15:00 - Selecting informative conformal prediction sets with false coverage rate control
  Dr Ruth Heller (Tel Aviv University)
  Machine Learning@BDI Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 December 2024

• 09:30 - The trajectories of human disease
  Professor Gil McVean (University of Oxford)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 January 2025

• 14:00 - Enhancing Health Behaviors: Leveraging Smartphone Data and Electronic Medical Records for Optimized Health Outcomes
  cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Samah Hayek (University of Tel Aviv)
  Digital Phenotying
• 14:00 - Extracting features from electronic health records, efficiently and accurately, with shared open tools: ehrQL and OpenSAFELY
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ben Goldacre (Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Digital Phenotying

Monday 20 January 2025

• 02:00 - HDRUK Oxford Monthly Community Meeting
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Alexander Tinworth (University of Oxford), Dr. Lazaros Belbasis (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr James Davies (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Monday 3 February 2025

• 10:00 - An introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Yan Wong (Dr.)
  BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 10:00 - Phenotyping and wrangling of CPRD data
  Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 14:00 - Characterising mental disorder phenotype and outcomes using electronic health record data
  Dr Rashmi Patel (University of Cambridge)
  Digital Phenotying

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 09:00 - A Gentle Introduction to Python
  Matthew Miossec (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 11:00 - Medical Statistics Drop In Session
  Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)