Wednesday 27 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New therapeutic approaches to tuberculosis
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan (University of Cambridge)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 28 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - AI genomics for target discovery and other applications
  Assoc Prof Alejo Nevado (Dept of Psychiatry University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 2 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:25 - Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience 2023
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 4 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The BigMac Dataset: linking microscopy-derived microstructure with MR signals throughout the macaque brain
  Amy Howard (University of Oxford)
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series

Thursday 5 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Maintaining human livers outside of the body
  Quin Wills (Ochre Bio)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Sleep, circadian rhythms and anxiety
  Associate Professor Sarah Chellappa (University of Southampton)
  Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute Seminars

Friday 6 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Writing a Narrative CV
  To join the event, click on the link provided in the abstract.
  Dr Mary Muers (Senior Science Writer, Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)
  Postdoc Power Hour (PoPoH)
• 11:00 - The organization of the molecular force sensor in cochlear hair cells.
  TBA
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructiions
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBC
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Novel approaches to the treatment of mental health disorders ​​​​​​​in young people with Long Term Conditions'
  Contact shona.oleary@psych.ox.ac.uk for the Zoom link
  Professor Roz Shafran (Professor of Translational Psychology at UCL and Co-founder of Bespoke Mental Health), Dr Sophie Bennett (Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Science and Islam: A Perspective from Rural Bangladesh
  Dr Abed Chaudhury (Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Genofax, Australia & USA; Chairman, Krishan Foundation, Bangladesh)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Lynne Cox (University of Oxford)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Modelling the effect of the microenvironment on the malignant brain tumour, medulloblastoma
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Dr John Jacob (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mapping sounds into space
  Professor Jenny Bizley (UCL Ear Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Algorithms in clinical decision making
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Olga Kostopoulou (Imperial College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 09:30 - What causes 'brain fog' after COVID-19? Results from the PHOSP-COVID prospective cohort study
  Dr Maxime Taquet (University of Oxford), Professor Paul Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 09:30 - What causes 'brain fog' after COVID-19? Results from the PHOSP-COVID prospective cohort study
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Maxime Taquet (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBC
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 17:00 - Artificial Intelligence - Hopes and Fears
  Dr Christopher Ganz (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Towards HBV cure-new approaches targeting HBV replication and protein expression.
  Prof Peter Revill (Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
  NDM Seminar Series

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Protecting motor neurons from degeneration by targeting bioenergetics
  Hybrid event - please contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk to receive the online link.
  Tom Gillingwater (University of Edinburgh)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars
• 12:00 - TALK CANCELLED - Rerunning cancer evolution: a genomic pathology approach
  CANCELLED
  Dr Sarah Aitken (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Advanced biomimetic 3D models to mimic tumour-stroma
  Professor Umber Cheema (UCL)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Elizabeth Tunbridge (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBC
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Pre-clinical modelling for drug discovery in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  Professor Kevin Talbot (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Sleep – a brain state serving memory
  Professor Jan Born (University of Tübingen)

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Pharmacology of platelet immune receptors: mechanisms of activation and development of therapeutics
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Steve Watson (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  In-person only event.
  Professor Ingo Willuhn (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Separate but Connected: Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Stability
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Agnel Sfeir (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Identifying novel regulators of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake from ‘omics analyses
  Dr Daniel Fazakerley (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Establishing psychological universals
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - LINGO proteins – novel regulatory subunits of BK channels
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Mark Hollywood (Smooth Muscle Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 17:00 - The Past, Present, and Future of Earthquake Risk in Asia
  Prof Richard Walker (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Genome integrity disorders in the Information Age
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh )
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Developing therapies for muscle and brain in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  Hybrid event - please contact chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk for Teams details. Drinks reception to follow talk
  Prof Francesco Muntoni (UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Human Metabolic Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia
  Professor Andrew Murray (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The Rise and Fall of Kraepelinian Psychiatry
  Professor Awais Aftab (Case Western Reserve University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 11:00 - The gut microbiome controls our health – or is it the other way around?
  Please note that this is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Professor Klaus Kaestner (University of Pennsylvania)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Title tbc
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBC
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The intersection of dementia and epilepsy: leading insights from NDCN
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Arjune Sen
  NDCN Departmental Seminars
• 16:00 - Standing on the Edge of Error: Science in the Age of AI
  Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The nucleus as a dynamic metabolic compartment linking nutrients to chromatin modification
  Dr Sophie Trefely (Babraham Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Melissa Võ (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Imaging the IR injured beating heart coronary microcirculation in vivo
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining details
  Dr Neena Kalia (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences , University of Birmingham)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - TBC
  In-person only event.
  TBA
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
• 17:00 - The use of Behavioural Science Models to shift diets for Health and Climate
  Dr Cother Hajat (Director, Real World Health; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The brain control of appetite and bodyweight: Is obesity a choice?
  Professor Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Placebo Studies and the Replication Crisis
  Dr Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Daily regulation of osmostasis and mammalian cell function
  Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
  Dr John O’Neill (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Obstacles on genes & the Poll II ubiquitin code
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Ana Tufegdžić Vidaković (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - AI-driven brain-wide principles of learning
  Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Selective neuronal vulnerability in neurodegeneration and dementia
  Dr Hugo Ribeiro Fernandes (University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Thursday 7 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Towards a network-based understanding of Parkinson's disease symptoms and therapies
  A sandwich lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
  Dr Ashwini Oswal (University of Oxford)
  NDCN Departmental Seminars

Friday 8 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - TBA: topic will be use of stem cells in neuromuscular research
  Hybrid seminar - Lunch with students/postdocs to follow. Email chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk for further info.
  Prof Jennifer Morgan (UCL)
  MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminars

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Jayne Wallace (Oxford Nanopore)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Prof Kodi Ravichandran (Washington University School of Medicine)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - TBC
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Mounia Lagha (Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Why do people experience uncontrollable worry – and what can we do about it?
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Frances Meeten (King's College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)