Friday 15 December 2017

• 13:05 - An introduction to Alzheimer's Research UK
  Various Speakers

Thursday 26 February 2015

• 16:00 - Unbiased Approaches to Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Discovery
  Prof. Alice Chen-Plotkin (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 16 April 2015

• 16:00 - Neuroinflammation Influenced by Parkinson's Disease genes SNCA and LRRK2
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 20 April 2015

• 09:00 - OPDC Research Day 2015
  Abstract Submission closes Friday March 20th 2015 Registration closes on April 10th 2015 If you have any further queries please contact opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
  TBA
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 5 May 2015

• 16:00 - Prof. Steven Gill "GDNF: Back to the Clinic"
  Professor Steven S Gill MB FRCS MS (Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, North Bristol NHS Trust)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 16:00 - Prof Giovanna Mallucci: Neurodegeneration: molecules to medicines
  Professor Giovanna Mallucci (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 16:00 - Elucidation of a set of validated physiological substrates for the Parkinson’s LRRK2 kinase
  Prof. Dario Alessi (MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 February 2016

• 16:00 - Does alpha-synuclein pathology spread in the brain?
  Professor Miquel Vila (Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (Barcelona))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 21 June 2016

• 16:00 - Professor Jia-Yi Li - 'Prion-like pathology propagation in Parkinson’s disease: the present standing'
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Jia-Yi Li (Lund University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 July 2016

• 16:00 - Cellular processing of Alpha-synuclein : implications for Parkinson’s Disease
  Mark Cooper (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 16:00 - What if we could target ageing in Parkinson’s disease?
  Mickael Decressac (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 5 December 2016

• 15:00 - Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration caused by defective synaptic vesicle recycling
  Dr. Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)

Thursday 8 December 2016

• 16:00 - Huntington’s Disease In A Dish: Current progress and future perspectives
  Professor Nick Allen (University of Cardiff)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 14 December 2016

• 15:00 - Making the most of your microscopy images with CellProfiler and CellProfiler Analyst
  Dr Beth Cimini (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 16:00 - Transgenic models of Parkinson's disease
  Olaf Horst Rieß (University of Tübingen)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 12:00 - Deadly cargoes: extracellular synuclein and Parkinson's disease progression
  Please note TALK AT NOON. Entrance to the Sherrington building will be via the temporary reception at the entrance to The Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre
  Kostas Vekrellis (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 20 March 2017

• 09:15 - OPDC Research Day
  Abstract Submission closes Friday February 17th 2017
  Prof. Dr. Birgit Liss (Ulm University), Professor Masud Husain (University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Dr Thomas Barber (University of Oxford ), Siddharth Arora (University of Oxford ), Johannes Klein (University of Oxford), Dr George Tofaris (University of Oxford ), Dr Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford ), Dr Jimena Monzon Sandoval (University of Oxford ), Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly (University of Oxford), Dr Brent Ryan (University of Oxford ), Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Paul Dodson (University of Oxford, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit), Dr Sarah Threlfell (University of Oxford )
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Saturday 25 March 2017

• 10:00 - Dementia Awareness Day
  Various Speakers
  Brain Diaries

Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 16:00 - Gene-environment interactions: a success story in Parkinson’s disease
  Prof Beate Ritz (School of Public Health at UCLA)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 15 May 2017

• 16:00 - Molecular and structural determinants of Alpha-Synuclein aggregation, toxicity and pathology spreading in Parkinson's disease: From mechanisms to novel biomarkers and therapies
  PLEASE NOTE New Date
  Hilal Lashuel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 16:00 - Cerebrospinal and serum alpha-synuclein species as potential biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease
  Please note, talk in small lecture theatre
  Prof. Omar El-Agnaf (Qatar Biomedical Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 16:00 - Applications of high throughput single cell analysis and deep learning to iPSC models of Parkinson’s disease and neurotherapeutics
  Prof Steven Finkbeiner (UCSF)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 12 July 2017

• 09:30 - ARUK Oxford/NIHR Oxford Health BRC Dementia Research Day
  Professor Zameel Cader (Director of the Oxford Headache Centre and Director of StemBANCC, University of Oxford), Dr Caleb Webber, MRC Programme Leader (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Sally Cowley (Head, James Martin Stem Cell Facility, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Francesca Nicholls (Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford), Professor John Gallacher (University of Oxford), Dr Samrah Ahmed (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford), Dr Mario Torso (University of Oxford), Dr Michele Veldsman (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of oxford), Dr Mark Dallas (Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and ARUK Oxford Network Committee member, University of Reading), Rupert McShane (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Professor John Geddes (Head of University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford), Elena Di Daniel, Head of Biology (Oxford Drug Discovery Institute, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford), Dr Jakub Scaber (University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Calvin (University of Oxford), Robert Quinlan (Dept. Chemistry, University of Oxford ), Claire Sexton, Professor Frank Gunn-Moore (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 19 July 2017

• 16:00 - Targeting mitochondrial biogenesis and function in Parkinson’s disease
  Please note now WEDNESDAY July 19th
  Michela Deleidi (DZNE)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 September 2017

• 16:00 - Of genes and mechanisms: cell biology of PD
  Dr Mattia Volta (​​​​​​European Academ​​y of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC) )
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 16:00 - Biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Brit Mollenhauer (University Medical Center of Goettingen (UMG-GOE))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 December 2017

• 16:00 - Parkinson’s Disease Seen from the alpha-Synuclein Perspective
  Professor Donato A. Di Monte (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 15 December 2017

• 13:05 - An introduction to Alzheimer's Research UK
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 16 January 2018

• 16:00 - Parkinson's disease: environmental clues and transporter blues
  Professor Gary Miller (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 19 January 2018

• 11:30 - REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder: from circuits to pathology
  Pierre-Hervé Luppi (Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 12:00 - Cell type-specific translation profiling in fragile X
  Dr Emily Osterweil (University of Edinburgh)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 12:00 - Immune and inflammatory mechanisms underlying risk for age-related neurodegenerative disease
  Please note new time!
  Prof. Malú Tansey (Emory University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 13 March 2018

• 16:00 - Gene therapies for Parkinson's disease
  Stephane Palfi (IMRB - Mondor Biomedical Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Saturday 17 March 2018

• 10:00 - Alzheimer's Research UK Dementia Awareness Public Open Day
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 10 April 2018

• 16:00 - Achieving Neuroprotection in Parkinson’s Disease
  Andy West (UAB School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 16:00 - Local and global facets of sleep regulation
  Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 12:00 - Mitophagy modulation as a potential therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases
  Please note this talk is now at NOON in the Small Lecture Theatre
  Dr Hélène Plun-Favreau (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 12 July 2018

• 09:00 - ARUK/BRC Dementia Research Day
  Registration required
  Dr Claudia Manzoni (University of Reading ), Professor Noel Buckley (Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford), Liu Shi (University of Oxford), Fiona Menzies (Eli Lilly), Naiara Demnitz (Department of Psychiatry, Oxford), Vanessa Raymont ( Department of Psychiatry, Oxford), Rosemary Lim (Reading School of Pharmacy), Dr Chris Butler, Clare O'Donoghue ( Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)), Toms Voits (Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences), Dr Nahid Zokaei (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 September 2018

• 16:00 - Behaviour and synaptic plasticity in a model of early Parkinson's: the role of alpha-synuclein
  Dr Barbara Picconi (IRCCS San Raffaele University, Rome, Italy.)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 2 October 2018

• 09:00 - OPDC Parkinson's Research Day
  Registration for the 2018 OPDC research day is free and includes refreshments, lunch and reception. Please complete the registration form below to join us at this exciting event. Registration closes on September 26th 2018
  Various Speakers
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 19 November 2018

• 12:00 - Using transcriptomics to understand neurodegenerative disorders
  PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME!
  Dr Mina Ryten (UCL)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 12 December 2018

• 16:00 - Challenges and Opportunities of Translational Neurogenomics
  Dr Sonja Scholz (Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Unit, NIND, NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 12:00 - Molecular pathways to Parkinson's disease: more than neurons?
  Note earlier time
  Dr. Elisa Greggio (University of Padova)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Saturday 2 March 2019

• 10:00 - Dementia Information Morning - Alzheimer's Research UK Oxford Network
  Talks will be filmed and made available via the ARUK Oxford YouTube Channel
  Dr Mark Dallas (Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and ARUK Oxford Network Committee member, University of Reading), Katy Stubbs (Alzheimer's Research UK), Emma Mead (ARUK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute), Dr Claudia Manzoni (University of Reading ), Dr Sana Suri (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford ), Yaomeng Liu (Oxford Brookes University)

Wednesday 27 March 2019

• 16:00 - LRRK2 Mediated Cellular Function from Vesicular Trafficking to Gene Expression
  Professor Kirsten Harvey (UCL School of Pharmacy)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 April 2019

• 16:00 - Pathway to Parkinson’s Disease: A Tale of Two Genes
  Darren Moore (Van Andel Research Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 12:00 - The toxic consequences of protein aggregation in Parkinson's disease
  Please note this talk is at noon.
  Dr Sonia Gandhi ( UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 11 July 2019

• 12:00 - The Quest for Neuroprotection in Parkinson’s disease: reversing synaptic dysfunction
  Please note this talk is at noon in the small lecture theatre
  Austen Milnerwood (McGill University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 16 July 2019

• 16:00 - Shining light on Parkinson’s disease by interrogating the LRRK2 kinase pathway
  Esther Sammler (University of Dundee)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 31 July 2019

• 10:30 - ARUK Oxford Ntework Dementia Research Day 2019
  This attend is free to attend, but registration is required via email
  Francesco Tamagnini (University of Reading), Emma Mead (University of Oxford), Anne Hedegaard (University of Oxford), Nora Bengoa-Verngiory (University of Oxford), Vincenza Andrisano (University of Reading/University of Bologna), Cheng Jiang (University of Oxford), Richard Killick (King's College London)

Tuesday 17 September 2019

• 12:00 - Mechanisms of axon degeneration in injury and disease.
  Please note talk is at noon
  Professor Michael Coleman (University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 16:00 - Striatal synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
  Professor Paolo Calabresi (University of Perugia, Italy)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 28 October 2019

• 12:00 - The magic in the web of it: How a rare disorder is helping to untangle the mysteries of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Ellen Sidransky (NIH)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 10:00 - Synaptic alterations in the indirect-pathway of the basal ganglia in experimental Parkinsonism
  Jerome Baufreton (The Neuroscience Institute at Bordeaux)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)