Monday 9 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The two faces of mesenchymal stem cells in myeloproliferative disorders
  Simon Mendez-Ferrer
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 10 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - How to build a complex nervous system with a small vocabulary of guidance cues?
  Prof. Ruediger Klein (Director, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 12 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Regulation of synaptic plasticity by neuropsychiatric disorder risk factors
  Dr Kate Smith (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Friday 13 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Esther T Stoeckli, University of Zurich - To cross, or not to cross axon guidance mechanisms at choice points
  Prof. Esther Stoeckli (University of Zurich, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 16 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Biomedical imaging / Epigenetics
  Prof. Jens Rittscher, Dr Susanne Muller-Knapp
  NDM Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Neuroprotection in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
  Prof. Miklos Szabo MD PhD (1st Department of Pediatrics, Semmelweis University Faculty of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Tuesday 17 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Gene vs. stem cell therapy for heart failure
  Prof. Sian Harding (Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 19 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - New connections between chromatin, the cell cycle and cancer
  Daniel Fisher (PhD)
  TDI Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Disease genes and 'healthy' human gene knockouts: Genetics for therapeutic innovation?
  Prof. Richard Trembath
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 24 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Why is mucus abnormal in cystic fibrosis?
  Prof. David J Thornton (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Wednesday 25 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Spacing out: distributed processing of spatial information across hippocampal-prefrontal-parietal networks
  Dr Matt Jones (University of Bristol)
  Cortex Club

Thursday 26 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Post-traumatic stress disorder: studies of flashback memories and their treatment
  Anke Ehlers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 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)

Friday 27 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor James Johnson, Visiting Professor of Integrated Physiology from The University of British Columbia - In vivo control of heart rate and cardiomyocyte metabolism by Ryr2-mediated calcium flux
  Prof. James Johnson (Visiting Professor of Integrated Physiology from The University of British Columbia)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Epigenetic pathways and their role in cancer
  Prof. Tony Kouzarides (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 3 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 11th DAVID SMITH LECTURE in ANATOMICAL NEUROPHARMACOLOGY: Plasticity of GABAergic synapses: mechanisms and implications
  Prof. Jean-Marc Fritschy (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Wednesday 4 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The RNA virus genome - an immunological and evolutionary melting pot
  Professor Peter Simmonds (The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh)
  NDM Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Nucloetide-binding domain motions during gating in CFTR channels, the ABC proteins whose dysfunction causes cystic fibrosis
  Prof David C. Gadsby, PhD (Patrick A. Gerschel Family Professor, Laboratory of Cardiac and Membrane Physiology, The Rockefeller University, New York)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Friday 6 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Rhys Evans - Substrate selection by the myocardium: the role of triacylglycerols in cardiac energy provision
  Dr Rhys Evans
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Natalie Connor-Robson - 'Translating Parkinson's: Integrating data from iPSC and transgenic rodent models'
  Dr Natalie Connor-Robson (Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 9 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry: Promises & Pitfalls
  Dr Mark Walton (University of Oxford), Dr Katie Jennings (University of Oxford)
  Dopamine Club

Tuesday 10 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Human gamma/delta T cells: from immunobiology to immunotherapy
  Prof. Marc Bonneville (Institut Merieux, Lyon, France)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Do GABAergic interneurons act as a scaffold for emergent neocortical networks?
  Dr Simon JB Butt (Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 12 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Thomas Willis Lecture - Protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases: untangling the tangled brain
  Prof. Maria Grazia Spillantini FRS
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 13 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Amanda Fisher, Director, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College - Linking epigenetics and signalling in the early mammalian embryo
  Prof. Amanda Fisher (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Oxford Brain Bank Open Day
  TBA
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 16:00 - Competition and Cooperation between Model-based and Model-free decisions
  Prof Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
  Cortex Club

Monday 16 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - 3D Chromatin interaction dynamics and gene regulation
  Wouter de Laat
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 18 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Tackling Brain Diseases
  Arjune Sen, Claire Sexton, Sarah Pendlebury, Michele Hu (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 20 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Self Organization in the Developing Nervous System
  Dr Michael Crair (Yale School of Medicine)
  Cortex Club

Monday 23 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Dendritic spine dynamics underlying animal behaviours
  Dr Haruo Kasai (The University of Tokyo)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 24 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Target and Polypharmacology Discovery with 3D Models of Everything
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Ruben Abagyan (Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 25 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Neuroscience Symposium 2015
  TBA
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 12:00 - Neurogenetics / Bacterial genomics
  Dr Angela Brueggemann, Dr Dianne Newbury
  NDM Seminar Series

Thursday 26 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genetic dissection of neurodegenerative disease
  John Hardy (Institute of Neurology, UCL)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 27 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Professional Master Class
  Claudia Kozeny-Pelling (Senior Funding Information & Communications Officer (Research Services))
  WHG Seminars

Thursday 2 April 2015 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Emergence of connectivity motifs via the interaction of long-term and short-term plasticity
  Dr Eleni Vasilaki (University of Sheffield)
  Cortex Club

Thursday 16 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dynamic protein structure: from protein disorder to membrane pores
  Frank Sobott (University of Antwerp)
  CMD Seminars
• 14:30 - Ageing of haematopoietic stem cells
  PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
  Gerald de Haan (European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 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)
• 19:15 - Town Hall Meeting
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)
  WHG Seminars

Friday 17 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - PKMzeta, LTP, and Memory
  Dr Todd Sacktor (Suny Downstate Medical Center)
  Cortex Club
• 16:30 - PKMzeta, LTP and memory networks?
  In partnership with the Cortex Club
  Dr Todd Sacktor (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Monday 20 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)
• 13:00 - Effects of Nurturing and Assortative Mating on genotype-phenotype associations
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Augie Kong (deCODE)
  WHG Seminars
• 16:00 - Homeostatic changes in cortex - how does the brain balance plasticity and stability?
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  Cortex Club

Thursday 23 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - What have we Learned about Ageing and Dementia from Mouse Models?
  Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University)
  Cortex Club

Friday 24 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Neural differentiation and characterization of cd31 positive cells derived from the mouse fetal cerebral cortex
  SPECIAL SEMINAR - CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE // DEVELOPMENT & CELL BIOLOGY
  Prof Tomohiro Matsuyama (Laboratory of Neurogenesis and CNS Repair, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Monday 27 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Cohesin, enhancers and gene regulation
  Prof. Matthias Merkenschlager (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 28 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Development of the virtual heart for testing the safety of drugs
  Professor Henggui Zhang (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 30 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Microglia, cytokines and synapses in chronic neurodegeneration
  Hugh Perry (Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 1 May 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Aziz Aboobaker : ‘Understanding stem cells and regeneration using the planarian model system’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – a debilitating lung disease and the discovery of a treatment option
  Dr Florian Gantner (Boeringer Ingelheim )
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 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)
• 16:00 - Imaging activity in the freely moving animal: from the eye to the plastic cortex
  Dr Jason Kerr (Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn)
  Cortex Club

Friday 8 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Keith Buckler : Mechanisms of oxygen sensing in arterial chemoreceptors.
  Dr Keith Buckler (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Melissa Bowerman : ‘Spinal muscular atrophy: more than just a motoneuron pathology’
  Dr Melissa Bowerman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The lysosome: from trash can to control center of the cell
  Professor Andrea Ballabio (Scientific Director, TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) and Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Monday 11 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Single molecule approaches to intracellular regulation
  Johan Elf (Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Structural biology / Computational genomics
  Professor Liz Carpenter (SGC, NDM, Oxford), Professor Gerton Lunter (WTCHG, NDM, Oxford)
  NDM Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Differentiating the highs and lows of THC
  Dr Peter McCormick (School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Victoria Baja Lorenzana : ‘Practice makes perfect – Neural circuits for auditory plasticity’
  Professor Victoria Baja Lorenzana (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Professor Simon Lovestone : 'Deconvoluting the amyloid cascade in Alzheimer’s disease; the role of wnt signalling’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Simon Lovestone, (Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Development and Evolution of Neocortical Projection Systems
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar
  Professor Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD (Departments of Neurobiology, Genetics and Psychiatry, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine )
  DPAG Guest Speakers
• 16:00 - Development and Evolution of Neocortical Projection Systems
  Dr Nenad Sestan (Yale School of Medicine)
  Cortex Club

Monday 18 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Genome regulation during developmental transitions
  Eileen Furlong (Head: Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mitochondria and lysosomes – the social life of organelles
  Dr Nuno Raimundo (Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Friday 22 May 2015 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Sarah De Val : ‘Transcriptional pathways controlling blood vessel development and differentiation’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Sarah De Val (LICR, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Statins and myopathy
  Dr Sarah Calaghan (Associate Professor in Cardiac Physiology, University of Leeds)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 28 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Oligonucleotide therapies for neuromuscular disease
  Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 29 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Regulation of Epithelial Growth and Homeostasis by Intrinsic and Exogenous Factors
  Dr. Jeremiah Zartman (Department of Chemical and Biomoleculer Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Monday 1 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Cardiac iPSCs for disease modeling and drug discovery
  Professor Joseph Wu (Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 14:00 - HIV viral genomics: virulence, pathogenesis and public health
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christophe Fraser (Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Imperial College)
  WHG Seminars

Tuesday 2 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - From rat hippocampal Œtheta to human prefrontal rhythmicity: The first anxiety syndrome biomarker?
  Professor Neil McNaughton (Department of Psychology, University of Otago )
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 4 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - RESOLFT Super Resolution Microscopy: Application for Life Science
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ilaria Testa (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Connectomics: The dense reconstruction of neuronal circuits
  Dr Moritz Helmstaedter (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt)
  Cortex Club

Friday 5 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Herman Steller : “Regulation of Proteasome Activity in Development, Aging and Disease”
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Herman Steller (Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 8 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Making Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Backwards and Sideways
  Derrick Rossi (Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Activation of ANO1 channels by localised Ca2+ signals in sensory neurons
  Professor Nikita Gamper (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Wednesday 10 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Temporal organization, health & disease: What do we really know from studies in animals and humans?
  Professor Thomas Erren
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 12 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Professor Oscar Marin, KCL : 'Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity'
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Oscar Marin (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 15 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Technical overview and discussion of single unit DA cell recordings in awake animals
  Dr Paul Dodson (University of Oxford, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit), Anna Kaufmann (University of Oxford, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit )
  Dopamine Club

Tuesday 16 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - From human stem cells to human synapses
  Dr Sarah Newey (Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Wednesday 17 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Pulse trains to percepts: The challenge of creating a perceptually intelligible world with sight recovery technologies
  Professor Geoff Boynton (Department of Psychology, University of Washington at Seattle)
  DPAG Guest Speakers
• 13:00 - Structural Biology/Respiratory Medicine
  Assoc. Professor Robert Gilbert (NDM, Oxford), Dr Najib Rahman (NDM, Oxford)
  NDM Seminar Series

Friday 19 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Building a Nanoscale Bushy Cell Connectome: Wiring Diagrams, Big Data Challenges and Hearing In Silico
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr George Spirou (Director, Center of Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine)
  DPAG Guest Speakers
• 13:00 - Professor Anna Gloyn : 'Unravelling causal mechanisms for diabetes pathogenesis’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Anna Gloyn (OCDEM, University of Oxford )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 22 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Dissecting cancer by epigenomics and single-cell sequencing
  All welcome
  Professor Christoph Bock
  TDI Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Centrosomes in asymmetric stem cell divisions
  Hosted by Tudar Fulga
  Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 24 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - 4th Oxford Symposium - Epigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease New Frontiers in Epigenetics
  Udo Oppermann (University of Oxford), Susanne Muller-Knapp (SGC, University of Oxford), Jorn Walter (Saarland University)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 25 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Translational neuroscience of the developing cerebral cortex
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Monday 29 June 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Immune sensing of vitamin B metabolites
  Jamie Rossjohn (Monash University, Australia)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 30 June 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Detection of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in cell-free plasma DNA
  All welcome
  Dr Chunxiao Song
  TDI Seminar Series

Monday 6 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Using single-cell transcriptome profiles to analyse the cellular composition of the brain
  Dr Jesper Ryge (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
  MRC Functional Genomics Unit Talks (DPAG)
• 13:00 - The life of breath: stem cells of the adult lung
  Brigid Hogan (Duke University USA )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Genetics, epigenetics and stem-cell-based therapy for blinding eye diseases
  Kang Zhang (Institute for Genomic Medicine)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Tuesday 7 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Functional interpretation of genomes using biological networks
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Kasper Lage (Director of Bioinformatics, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard )
  WHG Seminars

Monday 13 July 2015 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Methods of Integrative genomics
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof. Raghu Machiraju (The Ohio State University)
  TDI Seminar Series

Thursday 16 July 2015 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Dementia Research Day
  Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor John Gallacher (University of Oxford), A full programme will soon be available. Speakers include
  Oxford Dementia and Ageing Research
• 16:30 - Specifying and maintaining neuronal fate in the developing nervous system
  Oxford Fly Club Seminar
  Dr Tony D. Southall (Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
  DPAG Guest Speakers

Thursday 23 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Rediscovering the importance of sleep, 'the chief of all earthly blessings', in the digital age
  Booking is essential, places limited
  Professor Colin Espie (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Tuesday 4 August 2015 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genomics and the nature of schizophrenia
  Prof Mike Owen (Cardiff University)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 7 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Taste Processing in Drosophila
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Kristin Scott (University of California, Berkeley)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - "Fine-scale genetic population structure in Finland" and "Efficient variable selection among thousands of correlated genetic variants using summary data from genome-wide association studies"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Sini Kerminen and Christian Benner (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland )
  WHG Seminars

Thursday 10 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding how alterations in cortical circuitry modify behavioral outputs
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Angelique Bordey, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 18 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - What are Fruitless proteins really doing for LOVEly fruit flies?
  Daisuke Yamamoto (Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Japan)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The role of the subplate layer in radial neuronal migration and cortical
  CELLULAR & SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, PhD (Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 24 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Brain mapping in primates: The twist and turns of the visual system
  TBA
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Wednesday 30 September 2015 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series: Contemplative Neuroscience: Application to Emerging Healthcare Technologies
  Dr Christopher Brown (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series

Monday 5 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Sleep and Circadian Disruption in Long Haul Airline Pilots: Applying Science to Manage Safety Risk
  Professor Philippa Gander (Massey University)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Tuesday 6 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Transcriptional and epigenetic signatures of neural stem cells; what do they tell us?
  Professor Noel Buckley (Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Motile Behaviour of E.Coli: Navigation by a single-celled Nervous System
  Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Neurobiology of Hunger
  Professor Scott Sternson (Janelia Farm)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Analysing the emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens using high-throughput genomics
  Julian Parkhill (Pathogen Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Molecular mechanisms of Morphogens in signalling and disease AND Ubiquitin takes control of immune regulation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Christian Siebold (Strubi), Dr Mads Gyrd-Hansen (Ludwig)
  NDM Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Annual Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture: 'Anti-Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Institutionalization for Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses: Finding Common Ground'
  Phyllis Solomon (University of Pennsylvania)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Tuesday 13 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Mental health and deafness - Listen to me!
  Dr Steven Carney (National Deaf Mental Health Service, Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Tankyrase – a central druggable biotarget in canonical Wnt signaling
  Professor Stefan Krauss (Unit for Cell Signaling, Oslo University Hospital)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 15 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Cellular Pacemaking - Crowd Behaviour?
  NOTE THURSDAY DATE
  Professor Dirk van Helden (University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Tilly Mommersteeg
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Dr Tilly Mommersteeg
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The blind cavefish: Unravelling the mechanisms underlying heart regeneration
  Dr Tilly Mommersteeg (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - ‘The family of CLC chloride channels and transporters: proteins with borderline personalities’
  Dr Giovanni Zifarelli (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Novel behavioural phenotypes in the Neuroligin-3 genetic mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Cellular & Systems Neuroscience Seminars
  Emma Burrows PhD (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne )
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Brain energy use and supply in health and disease
  David Attwell (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 20 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Should we abandon risk stratification for suicide among psychiatric in-patients?
  Dr Matthew Large (Senior Lecturer, University of NSW & Medical Superintendent, Mental Health Services, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Platelets in time and space: understanding the actions of anti-platelet drugs within the body
  Professor Tim Warner (Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Evaluation of an anti-stigma campaign in rural India
  Prof Pallab Maulik (George Institute for Global Health, Oxford University)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Modelling Facial Expressions of Emotion in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Kirsty Ainsworth (University of Glasgow)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Modelling Down’s syndrome in mice to learn about Alzheimer’s disease
  TBA
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Dormant stem/progenitor cells lurking in the adult heart’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Michela Noseda (Imperial College)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Gene Regulatory Networks, Germ Plasm and Rates of Evolution
  Matt Loose (Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Sleep Semantics and Memory Consolidation
  Dr Penelope Lewis (University of Manchester)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Targeting Redox-Regulation of Cell Mitophagy
  Dr Michelangelo Campenella (Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:30 - A Year of Living Mindfully
  TBA
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Flow Chemistry: Opening Up New Chemistry Frontiers
  Richard Jones (ThalesNano)
  CMD Seminars
• 16:00 - Astrocyte roles in CNS injury and disease
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Prof Michael Sofroniew, MD PhD (Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Metabolic reprogramming in innate immunity and inflammation: prospects for new therpeutics
  Luke O'Neill (Director, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 3 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The cannabis derivative cannabidiol in the treatment of schizophrenia: results of the first placebo-controlled clinical trial
  Dr Phil Robson (Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Biophysics and physiology of anion transport: ClC-7 in lysosomal function and LRRC8 heteromers in cell volume regulation
  Dr Tobias Stauber ( Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Uniersitate Berlin)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Case Presentation: Mood dysregulation or bipolar disorder? A case example
  Dr Lakshmeesh Muttur Somashekhar (Highfield Unit), Dr Tony James (Highfield Unit)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 18:00 - 2015 Loebel Lectures: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure - Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human
  All are welcome to attend these public lectures but BOOKING IS REQUIRED
  Professor Steven E Hyman (Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Regulation of human pluripotent stem cell differentiation by the cell cycle
  Siim Pauklin (Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Anne McLaren Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Guest Speakers
• 18:00 - 2015 Loebel Lectures: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure - Science is quietly, inexorably eroding many core assumptions underlying psychiatry
  All are welcome to attend these public lectures but BOOKING IS REQUIRED
  Professor Steven E Hyman (Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - 2015 Loebel Lectures: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure - What is the upshot?
  All are welcome to attend these public lectures but BOOKING IS REQUIRED.
  Professor Steven E Hyman (Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker: Professor Jean Rossier - ‘Cortical fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons enwrapped in the perineuronal net express the metallopeptidases Adamts8, Adamts15 and Neprilysin’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Jean Rossier (INSERM, Hôpital St Anne, Paris)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture - How do antidepressants work?
  TBA
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 17:00 - Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture - How do antidepressants work?
  Professor Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Monday 9 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The human retrovirus HTLV-1 alters higher-order chromatin structure in the host cell
  Professor Charles Bangham (Imperial College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Dermot Rowe Prize Presentations
  Winner & Runner Up
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Building synaptic connections: it's good to be spontaneous
  Dr Laura Andreae (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:00 - Building synaptic connections: it's good to be spontaneous
  Dr Laura Andreae (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Super-resolution optical microscopy: Current state-of-the-art of biomedical applications
  Prof Christian Eggeling (University of Oxford)
  CMD Seminars

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From structural biology to designing therapy for inherited metabolic diseases. AND Understanding HIV-immune system interactions to inform vaccine design.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Associate Professor Wyatt Yue (SGC), Dr Persephone Borrow (Jenner)
  NDM Seminar Series

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Neural Population Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex Indicate Changes-of-mind on Single Behavioral Trials
  William Newsome (University of Stanford Medical School)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton : A novel pathway of cardiac iron regulation that is critical for heart function
  Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Gaurav Das : ‘Fruit flies remember components of food’
  Dr Gaurav Das (CNCB, DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Mouse Talk: The applications of neurobiological models of mammalian hearing to the classification of mouse vocalizations
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
  Associate Professor Neil McLachlan (Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - THIS TALK AS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Cameliet (Chief Operating Officer VIB3 - Vesalius Research, Leuven, Belgium )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Data - a shared resource for research
  Professor Denise Lievesley (Professor of Social Statistics & Principal Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Discovery of Bcl3 inhibitors as anti-metastatic agents
  Dr Andrea Brancale (Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, Cardiff University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - The Brain in Autism
  Dr Steven Chance (UK Autism Brain Bank, University of Oxford)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Mental Maps for Memories & Space
  Christian Doeller (Donders Institute, Nijmegen)
• 16:00 - Inaugural Lecture: 'From touch to pain: making sense of sensation'
  Professor David Bennett (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 16:30 - What Does the Internet Tell Us about Human Behaviour?
  Dr Taha Yasseri (OII)

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Incorporating geographic context into intervention evaluation: cholera and malaria vaccine trials
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  WHG Seminars

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Early Executive Fuction: Social Origins and Social Consequences
  There will be a light buffet lunch to follow the talk in the common area next to theatre A. Please join us there. If you are interested in meeting Claire separately, please do get in touch with Gaia (gaia.scerif@psy.ox.ac.uk ), as there are a small number of remaining slots in her schedule of meetings with staff and students on Thursday. Early Career Researchers are particularly encouraged to speak to her - she is a role model.
  Professor Claire Hughes (University of Cambridge)
• 13:00 - Autism awareness and service provision: perspectives from Ethiopia
  Rosa Hoekstra (King’s College London)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 16:00 - Serotonin and the Regulation of Adaptive Behaviour
  Zach Mainen (Champlinaud Centre, Lisbon)
• 17:45 - What Animals Can Tell Us About Sleep
  Professor Irene Tobler (University of Zurich)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 20 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neurocomputational primitives for deciding with others' reward and choice
  Hiro Nakahara (RIKEN BSI)

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Transcriptional responses to Ras and Rho
  Richard Treisman (Director - Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Understanding excess: new insights into obsessive-compulsive disorders
  Professor Naomi Fineberg (Consultant Psychiatrist, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Chemical site-selective protein modification for basic biology and drug development
  Dr Gonçalo Bernardes (Royal Society URF, University of Cambridge)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:00 - Adaptation to Natural Input Statistics: a Key to Dendritic Computation and Plasticity
  Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Adaptation to Natural Input Statistics: a Key to Dendritic Computation and Plasticity
  Dr Máté Lengyet (University of Cambridge)
  Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
• 12:00 - Adaptation to natural input statistics: a key to dendritic computation and plasticity
  TBA
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - Prof Giovanna Mallucci: Neurodegeneration: molecules to medicines
  Professor Giovanna Mallucci (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:30 - Do Babies Feel Pain?
  Dr Caroline Hartley (Oxford Department of Paediatrics)

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Earliest Cortical Circuits
  Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)
  WHG Seminars

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Human enhancement: the future of neuroscience
  TBA
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Michiko Yamasaki-Mann : Ca2+ dynamics in neurons: from neuronal growth to oscillations
  Dr Michiko Yamasaki-Mann (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Gene expression oscillations control neural progenitor maintenance and the timing of differentiation
  Nancy Papalopulu (Faculity of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - CANCELLED - The Oxford Parkinson's Disease Discovery Cohort
  Dr Michele Hu (Associate Professor & Consultant Neurologist, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Vascular biology of the TRPM7 chanzyme
  Professor Rhian M Touyz (BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Supporting children whose parents have neurological illness or injury
  Dr Audrey Daisley (Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, Oxford Centre for Enablement Oxford )
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Neurocomputational mechanisms of moral decision-making
  Dr Molly Crockett (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Convergent & Divergent fMRI Responses in Children and Adults to Increasing Language Complexity
  Saloni Krishnan (University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 16:30 - Devices That See & Learn
  Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event!
  Dr Bharath (Research Board Imperial Data Sciences Institute)

Thursday 3 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Moving towards a transcription factor-centric view of "epigenetics"
  Professor John Greally (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)
  WHG Seminars

Friday 4 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Robert Gillies, Moffit Cancer Centre, University of South Florida, Tampa USA : ‘Causes and Consequences of The Hostile Microenvironment of Tumors’
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Robert Gillies (Moffit Cancer Centre, University of South Florida, Tampa USA)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 7 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - THIS TALK AS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED
  Michele DeLuca (Professor of Biochemistry, Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine "Stefano Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 8 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - "Light, Clocks & Sleep: Neuroscience to Therapy"
  Professor Russell Foster (Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and The Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute)
• 13:00 - Pharmacological Enhancement of Goal-Direct Behaviour in Mice
  Eleanor Simpson (Columbia University)

Thursday 17 December 2015 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The tempos of perception in the human brain
  Professor Kia Nobre (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 18 December 2015 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Maximising clinical relevance in small animal models of perinatal brain injury for mechanistic and neurotherapeutic trials
  SPECIAL SEMINAR – CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Bobbi Fleiss PhD (Centre for the Developing Brain, Perinatal Imaging & Health Imaging Sciences & Biomedical, Engineering Division, King’s College London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 12:00 - Impact of inflammation on the perinatal brain
  CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
  Pierre Gressens MD PhD (Inserm U1141 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris & Centre for the Developing Brain, KCL, London)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 13 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Cognitive Development as a Skill
  Professor Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institutet)
• 14:00 - Using High Throughput Sequencing To Study Tumour Clonal Populations
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Andy Roth (University of British Columbia)
  WHG Seminars

Thursday 14 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Insights into malaria parasite protein translation machinery and implications for drug discovery
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Amit Sharma (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India )
  WHG Seminars

Friday 15 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Voltage-gated calcium channels and their roles in disease
  Annette Dolphin (University College London)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 18 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Cost-effectiveness - Lessons from the Global Response to HIV/AIDS
  Markus Haacker (Harvard School of Pulic Health)
  Health Economics Seminars
• 13:00 - Clinical application of gene therapy in Hematology, where do we stand
  Prof Mariana Cavazzana (Hospital Necker Paris)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Long-term antipsychotic treatment: time for re-evaluation
  Dr Joanna Moncrieff (Division of Psychiatry, University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - A therapeutic potential of stem cells for arteriosclerosis
  Professor Qingbo Xu (BHF Centre of Vascular Regeneration, King's College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 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)

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:45 - New insights into LRRK2 and SGK3 signalling pathway and relevance to Parkinson’s disease and cancer
  Dario Alessi (University of Dundee)
  CMD Seminars
• 16:00 - Forming Beliefs: Information Seeking, Avoidance & Integration in the Human Brain
  Dr Tali Sharot

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Identification of Critical Effectors of C/EBPalpha mutant AML - Novel Molecular Insights and Targeting Strategies
  Dr. Florian Grebien (CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Vienna, Austria)
  TDI Seminar Series

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Matthew Freeman : The cell biology of intercellular signalling
  Guest Speaker
  Professor Matthew Freeman (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Great expectations: using whole-brain computational connectomics for understanding neuropsychiatric disorders
  Dr Morten Kringelbach (Associate Professor, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Visualisation and control of in-vitro models of arrhythmogenesis
  Dr Gil Bub (BHF CRE Intermediate Research Fellow, Oxford Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Jumping the Gun: Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans
  Dr Valerie Voon (University of Cambridge)
• 15:00 - Lexical-Semantic System Organisation: Semantic similarity effects during word recognition in 24-month-old mono- and bilingual toddlers
  If you would like to meet with Dr Sirri to talk about research, please email us.
  Dr Louah Sirri (Lancaster University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Probabilistic Synapses
  Prof Peter Latham (University College of London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - Effective Altruism: Why Don't We Do the Best We Can?
  Dr Hauke Hillebrandt (Director of Research at 'Giving What We Can')

Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mindfulness in Depression: A mixed methods investigation into the role of mindfulness in chronic, recurrent depression
  Tim Sweeney (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Ian Robertson (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - Pathologies and Remedies in Sustaining Attention
  Professor Ian Robertson (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Dr Lyndsay Murray, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh : Motor Unit Pathology in Mouse Models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Lyndsay Murray (Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 1 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - How Big Image Data Can Help the Smallest Patients
  Associate Professor Marius Linguraru (Associate Professor of Radiology and Paediatrics - George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC and Director of Quantitative Imaging Group - Children’s National Health System, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Washington, DC, USA)
  WHG Seminars
• 13:00 - Mitochondrial Eye Diseases - New Insights and Therapeutic Strategies
  Dr Patrick Yu Wai Man (Newcastle University)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Linking senesence and inflammation: the senesence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP)
  Jesus Gil (Hammersmith Hospital)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Altered senses and excited brains: researching the neural basis of autism in Oxford
  Professor Steven Chance (Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Ectotherm cardiac Ca2+ signalling in an era of climate change
  Dr Holly Shiels (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: Title TBC
  Dr Nahid Zokaei (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - What Skills are Related to Bilingual Spelling Outcomes? Evidence from Grade 1 French Immersion Children
  Sheila Chung (University of Toronto)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Uncovering intratumor heterogeneity with Bayesian nonparametrics
  Ke Yuan (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge)
  WHG Seminars
• 13:00 - Dr Joaquim Vieira : Epigenetic mechanisms of epicardial gene reactivation to repair the adult heart
  Dr Joaquim Vieira (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Jeroen de Baaij : Magnesium Transport in the Kidney and the Brain: CNNM2 as Novel Regulator
  Dr Jeroen De Baaij (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Harnessing sequencing innovations to identify and implement cancer predisposition genes
  Zazneen Rahman (institute of Cancer Research)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Beware of Kinked Frontiers: A Systematic Review of the Choice of Comparator Strategies in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Human Papillomavirus Testing in Cervical Screening
  James O'Mahoney, Post doctoral researcher (Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin)
  Health Economics Seminars

Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - A social view of (big) data sharing in medicine: mutual dependence, task certainty and the advance of science.
  Professor Eric Meyer (Director of Graduate Studies & Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Cross-frequency coupling between field potential oscillations
  Associate Professor Adriano Tort (Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - All the World's a Stage: The benefits of theatre projects for young people with autism
  Ms Joanne Skapinker (Shakespeare Schools Festival)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory
  Professor Klaus Oberauer (University of Zurich)
• 15:00 - Vocal Emotional Processing Across the Adult Life Span
  Dr Cesar Lima (University College London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: Title TBC
  Dr Valentin Wyart (Inserm, France)
• 13:00 - Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation
  TBA
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - How Can We Use Psychology to Reduce Missed Hospital Appointments?
  Dr Michael Saunders (Head of Research, Behavioural Insights Team)

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - How specific is 'specific' language impairment? Evidence from a population study
  Professor Courtney Norbury (Royal Holloway University of London)
• 12:00 - How specific is 'specific' language impairment? Evidence from a population study
  Professor Courtney Norbury (Royal Holloway University of London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker Professor William A Harris FRS, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge : ‘Of Cell Types and Cell Numbers in the Retina’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor William A Harris FRS (Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Mitochondrial control of heterogeneity in platelets
  Dr Matthew Harper (Cardiovascular Strategic Research Initiative, University of Cambridge)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: Mechanisms of Adaption in Inferior Temporal Cortex
  Professor Rufin Vogels (K.U.Leuven)
• 16:00 - Does alpha-synuclein pathology spread in the brain?
  Professor Miquel Vila (Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (Barcelona))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A single pair of neurons links sleep to memory consolidation in Drosophila melanogaster
  Prof Leslie Griffith (Brandeis University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - Barriers to Academic Success in 'Bright but Poor' Young People: Findings From the EPPSE Study
  Professor Kathy Sylva

Monday 22 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Big Data and Biomedical Research: Developments and Implications
  Professor Sir John Bell (Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  The 2016 Green Templeton College Lecture Series: Living by numbers: Big data and society

Tuesday 23 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Using computational models to guide the development of new treatments for depression.
  Dr Michael Browning (Clinical Researcher & Hon. Consultant Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Structural and biophysical mechanisms of K2P channel gating by polymodal stimuli
  Professor Stephen Tucker (Biological Physics Group, Oxford Department of Physics)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:00 - Bootstrapping Language Acquisition
  Professor Rushen Shi (University of Quebec)
• 13:00 - Memory of time facilitates retrieval of visual events
  Dr Vincent Van de Ven (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
• 14:00 - Parenting programmes for child conduct problems: NICE guidelines and Nasty realities
  Professor Stephen Scott (Kings’s College London)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 15:00 - The Role of Attention in Explaining the Overlap Between ADHD and ASD
  Professor Maddie Groom (University of Nottingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Phenotype-genotype relationships in autism - a top-down approach to Autism Etiology
  Katarina Vrcelj (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Psychological Approaches to Reducing Alcohol Related Harms in Adolescents
  Dr Emma Davies

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Emotions and Social Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective”
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - Emotions and Social Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective
  Professor Tony Manstead
• 13:00 - How do risk genes for psychosis operate?
  Professor Paul Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Alison Woollard, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford : How the worm completes its skin, and other stories
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Alison Woollard (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 29 February 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Cell death and ubiquitin in cancer and inflammation
  Henning Walczak (Cancer Research UK)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Drop in clinic with The Conversation technology editor
  Michael Parker (Technology Editor, The Conversation)
  The Conversation Training Series
• 16:30 - Significant Form
  Semir Zeki (University College London), Gerhard Lauer (University of Göttingen)
  Humanities and Science

Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Bridging the gap: using psychology to understand antidepressant drug action
  Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - How the sins of your grandparents affect your health: exploring the mechanisms of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
  Dr Erica Watson (Lecturer in Reproductive Biology, University of Cambridge)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Pablo Jercog (IDIBAPS & Cellex Inst., Barcelona)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - How Can We Use Psychology to Promote Sustainable Consumption?
  Professor Janine Dermody

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Speaker - Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle, Université de Versailles St Quentin : Tricyclo-DNA: highly promising antisense oligonucleotides for splice switching therapeutic approaches
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle (Université de Versailles St Quentin)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: The Reflective Mind: Neural Building Blocks of Metacognition
  If you are interested in talking to Dr Fleming before or after his talk, please contact Nils at nils.kolling@psy.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Steven Fleming (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL)

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Translating genomic discovery into improved therapies for childhood brain tumours
  Professor Steve Clifford
  Department of Oncology
• 13:00 - Molecular anatomy of the brain by large-scale single cell RNA-seq
  Sten Linnarsson (Karolinska Insitute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Costs and benefits of confabulation
  Professor Lisa Bortolotti (Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - The Achilles’ heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system
  Professor Mark Boyett (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Sex, violence and complexity: service development and clinical priorities for specialist services working with high risk young people
  Dr Nick Hindley (Boundary Brook House)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Anxiety across adaptive and pathological states: from unpredictable shocks to anxiety disorders
  Dr Oliver Robinson (UCL)
• 15:00 - Keeping Grounded: A Longitudinal Study Exploring Immersive Strategies to Improve Children's Comprehension of Narrative Texts
  Molly Berenhaus (University of Sussex)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Epidemiology of Mental Disorders & Violence
  Professor Seena Fazel

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Can We Teach Machines to Think?
  Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - Can we teach machines to think
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 15:30 - Neuronal Underpinnings of Social Interaction
  Keren Haroush (Harvard)
• 16:00 - Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation
  TBA
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Speaker Professor Martina Muckenthaler, Heidelberg University Hospital : The role of the hepcidin/ferroportin regulatory system in health and disease
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Martina Muckenthaler ( Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 14 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Predicting cancer patients’ quality of life: an analysis of the relationship between utility, treatment regimes and time
  Paula Lorgelly (Office of Health Economics)
  Health Economics Seminars
• 13:00 - Nutritional control of neural stem cells
  Prof Andrea Brand (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Elucidating the role of GBA mutations in Parkinson’s disease using iPSC-derived neurons
  TBA
  Dopamine Club
• 16:00 - Elucidating the role of GBA mutations in Parkinson’s disease using iPSC-derived neurons and Action initiation shapes mesolimbic dopamine encoding of future rewards
  Emilie Syed, Hugo Ribeiro Fernandes
  Dopamine Club

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - The modulation of brain function by the gut microbiota: introducing the "psychobiotics"
  Dr Phil Burnet (Research Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:15 - ‘DISCOVER' CBT workshops for 16-18-year-olds with emotional difficulties: Development and feasibility randomised controlled trial of an open-access psychological intervention in inner-London secondary schools
  Dr Daniel Michelson (University of Oxford)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice.
  Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice
  Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 15:00 - Translational stem cell biology: Developing Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Malin Parmar (Lund University )
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:45 - The Glymphatic System
  Thomas Willis Day Annual Lecture
  Professor Maiken Nedergaard (University of Rochester Medical Center)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 19:00 - Our Perception of Pain
  Professor Irene Tracey (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Neural Mechanisms Underlying State Dependent Modulation of Sexual Behaviour
  TBA
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation
  Prof Andrea Herz (LMU Munich)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - Sleep, Insomnia and Mental Health
  Dieter Riemann (Freiburg University)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 16:00 - Stem Cell Neuroscience Forum: Transcriptomics and RNA sequencing
  Dr Michael Clark (University of Oxford), Dr Jakub Scaber (University of Oxford)

Friday 18 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Odour representation in the awake mouse and a scalable approach to neural recordings in vivo
  Professor Andreas Schaefer (Francis Crick Institute)
  Cortex Club

Saturday 19 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Visual Brain - the House of Deceits of the Sight
  Professor Christopher Kennard (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Monday 21 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - A role for neutrophils in Alzheimer’s disease
  Prof Gabriela Constantin (University of Verona)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - The control of T cell metabolism and differentiation
  Prof Doreen Cantrell (Wellcome Trust Biocentre)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 22 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - CPD Morning - undergraduate medical education
  Various Speakers
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 14:00 - Harnessing multimodal plasticity to treat tinnitus
  Professor Susan E. Shore (University of Michigan)
• 16:00 - Neural mechanisms of emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex
  Marco Tamietto (Tilburg University)
  Cortex Club

Thursday 24 March 2016 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Advanced imaging of the spinal cord in multiple sclerosis
  Professor Olga Ciccarelli (University College London)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Tuesday 29 March 2016 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Pragmatic Computational Psychiatry: Effects of Mood, Anxiety, and Addiction on Computational Decision Processes and the Implications for Clinical Psychiatry.
  Professor Martin Paulus (Scientific Director and President, Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK)

Tuesday 5 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - DNA repair, NAD+ and mitophagy in neurodegeneration and ageing
  Dr Evandro Fang (National Institutes on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 16:00 - Dementia Diagnosis Today and Tomorrow
  Professor Eric Westman (Karolinska Institute)
• 16:00 - Zika virus impairs growth in human neurospheres and brain organoids
  Dr Patricia Pestana Garcez

Wednesday 6 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Emergence of connectivity motifs via the interaction of long-term and sort-term plasticity
  Dr Eleni Vasilaki (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - The Function of alpha-Synuclein
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Robert Edwards (University of California, San Francisco)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 7 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - IDEAL Collaboration Conference 2016
  TBA
• 13:00 - Neuroendocrine Control Mechanisms in Social Emotional Action
  Professor Karin Roelofs (Donders Institute for Brain Cognition & Behaviour, Radboud University)

Monday 11 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Perceptual Adaptation & Speech Motor Control: A new perspective on some well-known mechanisms
  Professor Douglas Shiller (School of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, Université de Montréal)

Tuesday 12 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Representation of Actions in the Human Brain
  Dr Angelika Lingnau (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Wednesday 13 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Long lasting effect of mesenchymal stem cells treatment in BTBR autism model
  Prof. Daniel Offen (Tel Aviv University)
• 16:00 - Evolutionary tradeoffs and the geometry of gene expression space
  Professor Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 17:15 - Love and fear in the lab - a guitar talk on the importance of emotions in science
  Professor Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 15 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - The role of genomic imprinting in sleep, circadian clock and behavioural processes
  Dr Valter Tucci (Neuroscience and Brain Technologies Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Monday 18 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities
  TBA
  Evidence-Based Health Care Programme

Wednesday 20 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mindfulness and cardiovascular disease risk
  Eric Loucks
• 14:00 - Imaging genomics of functional brain networks
  Dr Jonas Richiardi (Standford University and University of Geneva)
  WHG Seminars
• 14:00 - Specificity, cross-talk and adaptation in Type I Interferon signaling
  Professor Anton Zilman (Department of Physics and Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 21 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Understanding regulatory circuitry through large-scale genetic perturbation analyses
  Prof Frank Holstege (University Medical Center, Utrecht)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - BRC Open Day 2016: Celebrating Biomedical Research
  TBA

Friday 22 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - CANCELLED: Self-Tuning Neurons and Firing Rate Homeostasis
  CANCELLED
  Gina Turrigiano (Department of Biology, Volen Centre for Complex Systems, Brandeis University)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics
  Shaul Druckmann (Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics
  TBA
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 13:00 - Targeting aberrant transcriptional and epigenetic networks for AML treatment
  Professor Eric So (Head, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, King’s College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Targeting aberrant transcriptional and epigenetic networks for AML treatment
  Professor Eric So (Head, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, King’s College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Just how smart are dolphins and whales in reality? Challenging an ingrained sciento-social preconception
  Dr Pual Manger (University of the Witwatersrand)
• 16:30 - Supporting the development of looked-after children: what we know and what we need to do
  Dr Sara McLean (University of South Australia)
  Department of Education Public Seminars
• 17:00 - Identification, diagnosis and management of neurodisabilities in LMICs
  Prof Charles Newton (Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Dr Melissa Gladstone (Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool)
  Building capacity on disability in low- and middle-income countries

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Self-harm in adolescents: implications for families
  Professor Keith Hawton (University of Oxford ), Dr Anne Ferrey (University of Oxford ), Dr Anne Stewart (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - A Computational Account of the Role of Dopamine in Model-Free Learning and Exploration Modulation
  Dr Mehdi Khamassi (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

Thursday 28 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Defining the genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Julie Williams (Cardiff University)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Defining the genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Julie Williams (Cardiff University)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 14:00 - A Discussion with Professor Jay Winter: "The Geometry of Memory"
  Jay Winter (Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University)
  Globalising and Localising The Great War
• 14:30 - Using Molecular Imaging of Brain Amyloid and Tau in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Treatment Trials: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)
  All are welcome to attend.
  Professor Michael Weiner (University of California, San Francisco)

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Prof Fiona Watts FRS FMedSci, Director, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine. Guy's Hospital King's College London :- ‘Signals that control exit from the stem cell compartment in human epidermis’
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Fiona Watt FRS (Director, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Guy's Hospital King's College London,)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - What does cortex do (in a rat)?
  Adam Kampff (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)
  Cortex Club

Sunday 1 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 20:00 - The Dark Side - Professors Russell Foster & Ron Douglas The Phronesis Jazz Trio - "Pitch Black"
  Professor Russell Foster (Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and The Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute)

Tuesday 3 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - BAP Guidelines for the treatment of bipolar disorder, or trying not to be NICE
  Professor Guy Goodwin (University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Fuelling the calcium pumps during pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
  Dr Jason Bruce (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Control of entropy in internal models
  Dr Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 14:00 - Thalamocortical Interactions
  Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (University of Oxford ), Dr Tim Vogels, Dr Holly Bridge (University of Oxford ), Professor Simon Butt (University of Oxford ), Miss Jacqui Stacey (University of Oxford ), Dr Anna Hoerder Suabedissen (University of Oxford), Dr Louise Upton (University of Oxford), Mr Michael Lohse (University of Oxford), Mr Sebastian Vásquez-López, Dr Tommas Ellender (University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Thursday 5 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Measuring mindfulness
  Ruth Baer (University of Kentucky)
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Disease Biomarkers for Schizophrenia - From Laboratory to Patient Bedside
  Professor Sabine Bahn

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Professor Jordan Raff, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology - ‘The molecular mechanisms of centriole and centrosome assembly'
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The emergence of a circuit model for addiction
  After the talk we will go to the pub for some food and drinks. If you want to join for the pub, please write an email to sofia.deleniv@balliol.ox.ac.uk, so we have an estimate of how many people are coming.
  Christian Luscher (University of Geneva)
  Cortex Club

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Control of stem cell fate in mammalian epidermis
  Fiona Watt (Kings College, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - One clock? Mechanisms of explicit and implicit timing
  Dr Sophie Herbst (MPI Leipzig)

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - The Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre Discovery Cohort
  Dr Michele Hu (Associate Professor & Consultant Neurologist, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - A fishy story: vascular relaxation mechanisms of n-3 PUFAs
  Dr Alister McNeish (School of Pharmacy, University of Reading)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - From Sensory Processing to Conscious Perception
  Professor Heleen Slagter (University of Amsterdam)
• 16:00 - Dr Valerio Zerbi - 'The structural basis of large-scale functional connectivity in the mouse'
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Valerio Zerbi (ETH Zurich)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Functional genomics approaches to find novel disease genes
  Greg Neely (University of Sydney)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Eliminating malaria / Pioneering Chromatin for Neural Crest Specification.
  Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford), Professor Nicholas White (University of Oxford)
  NDM Seminar Series

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Positive Psychology: Measuring and building well-being in schools, corporations and nations
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - Positive Psychology: Measuring and building well-being in schools, corporations and nations
  Professor Martin E.P.Seligman

Friday 13 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dr Duncan Sparrow : Environmental influences on mouse heart development
  Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Dr Diogo Pimentel - 'Operation of a Homeostatic Sleep Switch’
  Dr Diogo Pimentel (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 16 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Chemotaxis using self-generated gradients - planning your own route works better than waiting for a signal
  Prof Robert Insall (CR-UK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Genomics of Hereditary Deafness
  Professor Karen B. Avraham (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Tuesday 17 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Calcium channel antagonists in bipolar disorder: state of the art and some considerations for their future development
  Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford), Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Dendritic and cellular mechanisms of grid cell firing
  Dr Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Autism in Lithuania
  Dr Audronė Prasauskienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 14:00 - Research Ethics in the Oxford Medical Sciences Division - who to apply to, and how to prepare the application
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)
  Medical Sciences Division Events

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Multidimensional imbalances in excitation/inhibition in Fragile-X Syndrome
  Dr Cian O'Donnell (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 15:00 - PsyNAppS Symposium: Human Advancement in the 21st Century
  Professor Roi Cohen-Kadosh (University of Oxford), Dr Lennart Verhagen, Professor Mark Levine, Dr Chris Cocking, Dr Mark Burgess, Dr Jacqueline Scholl (University of Oxford), Dr Joao Fabiano
• 16:00 - Is your glass half empty or half full? The role of medial prefrontal-hippocampal circuitry in negative emotion and cognition
  Hannah Clarke
  Cortex Club

Thursday 19 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Value-based decision making by populations of probabilistic neurons
  Professor Christian Ruff (University of Zurich)

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - GUEST: Professor William Wisden Dept Life Sciences, Imperial College London : Capturing the neuronal ensembles underlying sleep and sedation
  GUEST SPEAKER
  Professor William Wisden MA PhD FRSB FMedSci (Dept. Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Signalling, cell biology, and rhomboids
  Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:30 - Royal Society Research Funding Talk
  TBA
• 15:00 - A new mechanism of nervous system plasticity: activity-dependent myelination
  TBA
  Cortex Club
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Changing genetic information to fight Parkinson’s disease
  Cecelia Lee (third year DPhil student)
  Medical Sciences Division Events
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Detangling dementia: Can stem cells live up to the hype?
  Jacqueline Robbins ( final year PhD student)
  Medical Sciences Division Events

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Does your brain look as old as you are? - The Oxford Whitehall MRI Study
  Professor Klaus Ebmeier (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - The inflammatory response to atherogenic lipid
  Professor Chris O’Callaghan (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - The Cingulate Cortex in Autism: Anatomy, connectivity, and perturbed social decision making
  Dr Josh Balsters (ETH Zurich)
• 15:00 - Neural Sex Differences, Hormones & Autism
  Amber Ruigrok
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Friendship and social networking Friends on tap, or why Facebook wont get you any more friends 
  Professor Robin Dunbar (Department of Experimental Psychology)
  Medical Sciences Division Events
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Artificial intelligence: Fact and Fiction
  Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From genome-wide association studies to physiology: the example of melatonin pathway
  Dr Amélie Bonnefond (Institut de Biologie de Lille)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Pint of Science: Brain networks in cognition Working memory: how the brain keeps thoughts in mind
  Dr Mark Stokes (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity)
  Medical Sciences Division Events

Thursday 26 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Functional imaging of dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease
  Paola Piccini (Imperial College London)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 16:30 - Imaging and Neuroimaging Analysis: Utilities for Generating Useful Regional Anatomical Labels
  Followed by a drinks reception
  Professor Mark Jenkinson (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Identification of novel variants in familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia and familial juvenile hyperuricaemic nephropathy
  Ms Lottie Philpott
  OCDEM Friday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Dr Michele Lufino - Dissecting the silencing effect of non-coding triplet repeat expansions on gene expression using tagged genomic models of Friedreich’s ataxia’
  Dr Michele Lufino (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Opportunities for Scaling Up Genetic Analysis
  Prof Ben Neale (ATGU/MGH, Broad Institute or Harvard and MIT)
  WHG Seminars
• 13:15 - Human interaction with artificial agents
  Dr Serge Thill (School of Informatics, University of Skövde)
• 13:30 - Dr Simon Guiraud : Utrophin modulation strategy in the therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  Dr Simon Guiraud (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Targeted anticancer drug discovery: chemical tools and clinical candidates
  Professor Ian Collins (Medicinal Chemistry Team, Institute of Cancer Research)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Altered senses, excited brains and ageing grey matter: investigating the brain basis of autism, schizophrenia and dementia
  If you have a University or Bodleian Reader’s card, you can get to the Centre for Digital Scholarship through the Mackerras Reading Room on the first floor of the Weston Library, around the gallery. If you do not have access to the Weston Library you are more than welcome to attend the talk: please contact Pip Willcox before the event (pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).
  Dr Steven Chance (UK Autism Brain Bank, University of Oxford)
  Research Uncovered: public talks on digital scholarship
• 15:00 - Acquisition of non-adjacent phonological dependencies: from speech perception to lexical acquisition
  Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 16:00 - The Evolution of Cortical Development
  Dr André M. Goffinet (Institute of Neuroscience)

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - “Imaging proteins at the single molecule level”
  Jean-Nicolas Longchamp (University of Zuerich)
  CMD Seminars
• 13:30 - Emerging roles for autism-associated chromatin remodelling factors in brain development
  M. Albert Basson (King's College, London)
  Oxford Autism Research seminar series
• 14:15 - From lunatic asylums to mental hospitals: Professionalization and medicalization of colonial psychiatry, 1895-1947
  Shilpi Rajpal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali)
  Medicine in the non-European World
• 16:00 - Coordination of gene expression within the mammalian circadian timing system
  Professor Ulrich Schibler (Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Thursday 2 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Navigating posttraumatic growth in female survivors of childhood sexual abuse: A South African strengths-based intervention
  Dr Hayley Walker-Williams (North-West University, South Africa), Professor Ansie Fouché (North-West University, South Africa)
  Navigating life in sub-Saharan Africa – adolescent socio-ecologies

Monday 6 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of lymphocyte development by RNA binding proteins
  Martin Turner (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Looking inside the cell to understand bipolar disorder and its treatment
  Professor Trevor Young, Dean Faculty of Medicine (University of Toronto, Canada)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - mGluR5 receptors: a promising target for CNS drug discovery?
  Dr Gary Gilmour (In-Vivo Pharmacology, Lilly UK)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - What rich countries can learn from global mental health
  Prof Atif Rahman (University of Liverpool)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 15:00 - Do autistic children really see details at the expense of the whole?
  Catherine Manning (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 17:30 - India: Maternal and Child Health and NCDs, and Mental Health
  To register to attend, please follow the link and complete the online form: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/direct/eval-evaluation/13536
  TBA
  Global Health Policy Programme (GHPP)

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Academic collaborations to advance early-stage drug discovery
  1:1 meetings are also available to discuss your projects or ideas. Please contact Nicholas Irving to book your place: nicholas.irving@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Daniel Marshall (MRC Technology)

Thursday 9 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Annual Anne Treisman Lecture: Kernel of truth in the indigo myth?
  Marian J.Bakermans-Kranenburg (Leiden University)
• 12:00 - The impact of stress on post-transcriptional regulation of the glutamate system
  Dr Monsheel Sodhi (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Research Ethics in the Oxford Medical Sciences Division - who to apply to, and how to prepare the application
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)
  Medical Sciences Division Events
• 16:00 - Researching the causes of differential attainment
  Dr Duna Sabri (Kings College, London)
  The Learning Institute Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Sleeping Sense
  Professor Russell Foster (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - New Insights into the Mechanisms of Human Observational Learning
  Dr Wako Yoshida (ATR Institute International, Kyoto, Japan / Visiting Researcher, Cambridge)
• 14:00 - Meiosis, recombination, and the origin of a species
  Peter Donnelly
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 15:00 - GUEST Dr Matthias Munk, University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology - Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
  Dr Matthias Munk (University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology, Technical University Darmstadt)
• 15:00 - Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
  Dr Matthias Munk (University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology, Technical University Darmstadt)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 15:00 - Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
  Dr Matthias Munk (University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology, Technical University Darmstadt)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:30 - "Macroautophagy, alpha-synuclein, and dopamine neurotransmission" and "Dopamine timing and reinforcement. Relevance to dyskinesias in PD"
  Ben Hunn, John Reynolds (University of Otago, New Zealand)
  Dopamine Club

Tuesday 14 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Perspectives on transcranial direct current stimulation in the treatment of affective disorders
  Professor Andre Brunoni, Research Psychiatrist (Service of Interdisciplinary Neuromodulation, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Optical interrogation of sub-cellular cardiac signalling in atrial and sino-atrial node arrhythmias at high-spatiotemporal resolution
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Rebecca Burton (Sir Henry Dale Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Fellow, Oxford Department of Pharmacology)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Self-harm in adolescents: Parental perspectives
  Dr Anne Stewart & Dr Anne Ferrey (University Department of Psychiatry)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - The treachery of images: Why the brain responds differently to real objects than photos
  Professor Jody Culham (Western University, London, Canada)
• 15:00 - Neuroimaging work on social interaction in both neurotypical adults and those with Autism
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Kyle Jasmie
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 16:00 - There and back again: corticothalamic modulation of cortical sound processing
  Dr Daniel Pooley (Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
• 17:15 - Adventures in Phonetic Neuroscience
  Professsor Keith Johnson (University of California, Berkeley)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Moving beyond injury: Prenatal hypoxia ischemia diffusely disrupts cerebral development via neuronal dysmaturation
  Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D (Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Clyde and Elda Munson Professor of Pediatric Research)

Thursday 16 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Motor System Involvement in the Perception of Time: Music, Rhythm and the Brain
  Dr Jessica Grahn
• 12:00 - Motor system involvement in the perception of time: music, rhythm, and the brain
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Friday 17 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST: Professor Kenneith Fischbeck MD, NINDS, NIH Bethesda MD : ‘Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy’
  INT'L GUEST SPEAKER
  Prof Kenneth Fischbeck MD (NINDS, NIH Bethesda)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The Bioinformatics Core: Past, Present and Future / Cellular High Throughput Screening at the TDI and NPSC/PDi
  Dr Helen Lockstone (University of Oxford), Daniel Ebner (University of Oxford)
  NDM Seminar Series

Monday 20 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Martin Pule (Cancer Institute, UCL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Active Cognition
  Dr Angela Yu (University of California San Diego)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - General psychopathology in children and adolescents: a useful construct?
  Dr Preveetha Patalay (University College London)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 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)
• 16:00 - Roles and representations for visual motion
  Sam Solomon (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL)
  Cortex Club

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Information seeking and randomness drive human exploration
  Dr Bob Wilson (University of Arizona)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 14:00 - Offspring phenotypes influenced by paternal environmental factors
  TBA
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar
• 15:00 - Wise intention and wise effort: Mindfulness in the global Chinese community
  Hui-Qi (University of California San Francisco)

Monday 27 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Modelling Neurodegeneration Symposium
  Various (See programme)
  Medical Sciences Division Events
• 13:00 - Inflammasomes dysbiosis and human disease
  Richard Flavell (Yale University School of Medicine)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 29 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Light regulation of circadian and arousal neural circuits
  Professor Todd Holmes (University of California, Irvine)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 1 July 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - A ‘VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION’ TO… SLEEP
  Suitability: 14+
  Russell Foster
• 16:00 - Variability, Neuromodulation and Robustness of Neurons and Networks
  Eve Marder from Volen Center, Brandeis University
  Cortex Club

Monday 4 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Chromosome DNA strand break repair and genetic disease
  Keith Caldecott (Deputy Director, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Imaging somatosensory cortex at 7 tesla: maps, neurochemicals, and perception.
  James Kolasinski (NDCN, Oxford)

Tuesday 5 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Proteomics technologies and their application in biomedical research
  Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann (Director Dept. Proteomics and Signal Transduction, MPI, Germany)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar

Thursday 7 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells in multiple sclerosis
  Anne Willing (University of Hamburg, Germany)
• 18:15 - Digital health devices: how mobile computing and communication are shaping the future of health care
  Prof Andrew Farmer (University of Oxford, Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences)

Friday 8 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genetics and genomics of human sperm production
  Assistant Professor Don Conrad (Washington University School of Medicine)
  WHG Seminars
• 13:00 - Gene-environment interactions mediating experience-dependent plasticity in the healthy and diseased brain
  Professor Tony Hannan
  Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Seminar
• 14:00 - Translating Genomics and Stem Cell Technology into Therapies in Precision Medicine
  Professor Kang Zhang (University of California San Diego)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 11 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomia: Masterclass
  Applications for this class close on the 16th June and payment must be made by 30th June to confirm your place.
  Dr. Pilip Gehrman (University of Oxford/ University of Pennsylvania)
• 13:00 - Genome structure, gene expression and phenotypes
  Alex Reymond (Director, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Modeling Human Brain Function with Artificial Neural Networks
  Professor Marcel van Gerven (RU Nijmegen)
• 14:00 - Reducing bias of genetic effect estimates when transforming between linear and non-linear scales
  UNFORTUNATELY, THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED
  Dr Chris Foley (University of Cambridge)
  WHG Seminars

Tuesday 12 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - C1q in health and disease – roles outside the complement system
  Prof Marina Botto (Professor of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London )
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Innate Immunity as potential therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease
  All Welcome
  Dr. David Brough (University of Manchester)
  TDI Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Cellular processing of Alpha-synuclein : implications for Parkinson’s Disease
  Mark Cooper (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Coding in high dimensional state space? A novel interpretation of cortical processing
  Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (MPI)/Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience)
  Cortex Club

Wednesday 13 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Memory Research Day
  Various Speakers

Thursday 21 July 2016 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - More than meets the eye: Sensory processing in the non-image forming visual system
  Dr Timothy Brown (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Thursday 28 July 2016 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Sleep Loss and Sleep Disorders —A Major Unmet Public Health Need
  Professor Allan Pack (University of Pennsylvania)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Thursday 4 August 2016 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Molecular mechanisms of synaptic function and dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders
  This lecture has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Apologies for this - we hope to reschedule in the coming months.
  Dr Deepak Srivastava
• 16:00 - What is C9orf72-ALS/FTD and why is it changing the way we are thinking about neurodegeneration?
  Litchfield Lectureship
  Professor John Ravits MD (University of California, San Diego)

Friday 5 August 2016 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Neuro-anatomical propagation in ALS neurodegeneration: Where did this start, and where is it going?
  Grand Round
  Professor John Ravits MD (University of California, San Diego)

Wednesday 17 August 2016 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - A mean-field theory for drift-diffusion dynamics of spiking continuous attractor models
  Mr Alex Seeholzer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 22 August 2016 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Molecular and cellular basis of a neuro-developmental disorder caused by SYNGAP1 haploinsufficiency
  Martin Berryer PhD (Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada)

Wednesday 31 August 2016 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Modelling rare genetic variation to investigate recent human history
  Dr. Stephan Schiffels (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
  WHG Seminars

Monday 5 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Circuits for speed control in the spinal cord
  Prof. David McLean (Northwestern University)

Wednesday 7 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Probabilistic Nonlinear Modeling for the Instantaneous Assessment of Human Heartbeat Dynamics
  Dr Getano Valenza (Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pisa, Italy)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 14:30 - The dynamical complexities underlying different brain states
  Professor Gustavo Deco (ICREA / UPF, Center for Brain and Cognition, Barcelona)
• 15:00 - The development of Keap1-interactive compounds that regulate Nrf2 transcriptional activity
  Dr Geoff Wells (University College London)
  CMD Seminars

Friday 9 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Bioinformatics Tools and Pitfalls with single-cell Data
  Davis McCarthy (EMBL-EBI)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 15:00 - Mechanisms of Cortical Development: Migration, Circuit Formation and Synaptic Plasticity
  Prof Mary E Hatten (The Rockefeller University )
  Strubi seminars

Monday 12 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Probiotic and Prebiotic modulation of Brain Function
  Dr Philip Burnet (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Athena SWAN Seminar: Plasticity and Juggling (in science and in life)
  Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (FMRIB Centre)
  Population Health Seminars

Tuesday 13 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Role of DNA damage signaling machinery in innate immune regulation
  Professor Nelson Gekara (Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University)
  MRC HIU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Data Protection and Clinical Research
  Free seminar. Please book your place by emailing octrutrialshub@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Mark Taylor (University of Sheffield)
  OCTRU/CSM Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Sleep and Cortical Plasticity: Living the Dream
  Dr Marcos Frank (Washington State University)
  Cortex Club

Wednesday 14 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - What is impact? A lunchtime seminar for early-career researchers
  For Primary Care staff and students only
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
• 19:00 - Rhythms of Life: biological clocks
  Leon Kreitzman
  Scibar

Friday 16 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition and Decision Making
  Professor Michael Platt (Penn, University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 19 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Birth of the Cool: Multitemperature Multiconformer X-Ray Crystallography and Allostery
  Dr James Fraser (UCSF)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 20 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Applying Perceptual Learning to produce broad-based benefits to vision
  Professor Aaron Seitz (University of California, Riverside)

Wednesday 21 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Reconciling flexible neuromodulation, variability and regulatory control in neurons
  Dr Tim O'Leary (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 13:00 - The paradoxes of busyness: Rethinking time management, busyness and distraction
  Please reserve a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-paradoxes-of-busyness-with-oliver-burkeman-tickets-26839702272
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian)
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Mindfulness in the modern world: Behind the hype
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian), Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series

Monday 26 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - At the Physical Limit - How to Detect a Single Molecule
  Ulrich Benjamin Kaupp (Center for Advanced European Studies and Research, Max Planck Society)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Emulating physiological dopamine receptor activation in Parkinson’s Disease
  Professor John Reynolds (University of Otago Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 29 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - From bed to bench side: developmental and translational research pathways for cardiovascular patients
  Professor Raimondo Ascione (Translational Biomedical Research Centre, University of Bristol)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - CNS remyelination: from mechanisms to medicines
  Robin Franklin (University of Cambridge)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - Diversity and interactions in tumor growth and treatment
  Dr Philipp Altrock (Harvard School of Public Health)
  WHG Seminars
• 13:45 - Advanced Chemical Genetics for Epigenetics: Bump-and-hole and PROTACs
  Dr. Alessio Ciulli (University of Dundee)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 3 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular Instruments
  Professor Niles Pierce (California Institute of Technology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 4 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The power of high content imaging and screening in addressing DNA damage stress response
  Dr Velibor Stavic (Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Wednesday 5 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Not desperately seeking healthcare; autistic adults and an ‘uncommon’ sense
  Dr Sara Ryan (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
• 12:00 - Multi-scale integration of cardiac excitation: from ion-channel molecular structure to the human heart
  Professor Yoram Rudy (Washington University in St. Louis)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Epigenetic Targets for the Treatment of Human Diseases
  All welcome.
  Rab Prinjha (GSK Biology Council)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 6 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - How simulation can complement experiments
  Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
  SBCB Seminar Series

Friday 7 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Tracing Memory Circuits in Drosophila melanogaster Using Whole-Brain Electron Microscopy
  Davi Bock (Janelia Research Campus)
  CNCB Seminar Series

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of distinct states of stem cells during development and regeneration
  Shahragim Tajbakhsh (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Using genetics and epigenetics to understand ageing, dementia, and longevity
  Dr Riccardo Marioni (University of Edinburgh )
• 16:00 - Social learning in songbirds: dissecting neural algorithms using behavioural experiments
  We are very pleased to be hosting Dr Richard Hahnloser, from the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Richard will be discussing, on Monday, 10th of October, about Social learning in songbirds: dissecting neural algorithms using behavioural experiments. The talk will be held in the Le Gros Clark Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building DPAG 4-5:30pm. After the talk we will go to the pub for some food and drinks. Please write an email to monzilur.rahman@psy.ox.ac.uk if you would like to join us. Don’t forget, feel free to send us any speaker suggestions you might have.
  Dr Richard Hahnloser (Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 11 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Misremembrance of things past: Autobiographical memory disturbances in mood and anxiety disorders and the emergence of memory therapeutics
  Tim Dalgleish (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Insulin sensitisation in the endothelium: all that glitters isn’t gold
  Professor Mark Kearney (Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Case Presentation: A Case of Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia- a Rarity?
  Drs Lakshmeesh Muttur (Highfield Unit), Tony James (Highfield Unit), Rachel Brown (Highfield Unit)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Cell signalling in the amygdala and the reactivation of a fear memory
  Dr Emma Cahill (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Synaptic Vesicle Tethering to the Drosophila Active Zone Cytomatrix
  Robert J Kittel (Institute of Physiology, Universitat Wurzburg)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 18:30 - Innovation in Oxfordshire and trends shaping the industry
  Professor Sir John Bell (Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Health and Life-Sciences Entrepreneurship Lecture series

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Ubiquitin in cancer and neurodegeneration
  Professor Michael Clague (University of Liverpool), Professor Sylvie Urbe (University of Liverpool)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Adventures in neuroimaging: Building bridges between physics and neuroscience
  Professor Karla Miller (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Prof Ester Hammond - ‘Hypoxia induced replication stress: causes, consequences and opportunities’
  Professor Ester Hammond (Gray Institute for Radiation, Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 17 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - En route to mending broken hearts
  Paul Riley (Dept of Physiology, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 18 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Using genomics to direct treatment of cancer and haematological malignancies
  Professor Anna Schuh (Associate Professor for Molecular Diagnostics & Head of BRC/NHS Translational Molecular Diagnostic Centre, Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Novel approaches to treat airway remodelling in severe asthma - the importance of phenotypic assays in drug discovery
  Dr Elizabeth Rosethorne (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Earliest relationships and community life: impact and outcomes
  Clair Rees (PIP UK)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Spatial scales of homeostatic plasticity in mouse visual cortex
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 15:00 - Making Sense of an Uncertain World: Probabilistic Computation in the Developing Brain
  Marko Nardini (Durham University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Developing Visual Brain - from Newborns to Numeracy
  Professor Oliver Braddick (University of Oxford), Professor Jan Atkinson (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 17:00 - Brain and Mind - from Concrete to Abstract: Depression and the Brain
  Various Speakers

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Int'l Guest Spkr Professor Christian Broberger MD, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute - ‘Neurons and transmitter actions that underlie the switch between network states associated with sleep and wakefulness’
  Professor Christian Broberger MD (Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 24 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “What does neuroscience tell us about freedom of the will?”
  Professor Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College)

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Computational studies of bacterial membrane proteins: potential targets for novel antibiotics
  Dr Phillip J Stansfeld (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Functional gradients in the prefrontal cortex can be predicted from individual sulci morphology
  Dr. Celine Amiez (INSERM, Lyon)
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Alastair Noyce (University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation of polyA tail length by cellular machines
  Lori Passmore ( MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  CMD Seminars

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Delivering precision medicine: are we ready yet?
  Richard Marais (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Eosinophils in Lung Disease / Scalable real-time global DNA databases for M. tuberculosis and enteric bacteria: aspects of Google and Facebook for the clinic and public health
  Professor Mona Bafadhel (University of Oxford), Dr Zamin Iqbal (University of Oxford)
  NDM Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Translational Neuroimaging
  Professor Clare Mackay (Professor of Imaging Neuroscience, Oxford Department of Psychiatry)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Getting to grips with a slippery modification: why we should all care about adding fats to proteins
  Dr Will Fuller (Cardiovascular and Diabetes Medicine, University of Dundee)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Exploring the neural computations of episodic and semantic memory
  Dr Martin Chadwick (UCL/Deepmind)
• 15:00 - Investigating the development of early executive function skills in infants at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Alex Hendry
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 17:00 - Inside the Mind of a Heretic: moral psychology and heresy in the thirteenth century
  Gustav Zamore (Merton)
  Medieval Church and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - NDCN Seminar for Early Career Researchers (Two Talks: Connectivity Fingerprints and Augmented Reality Glasses)
  Free pizza lunch
  Rogier Mars (University of Oxford), Joram Van Rheede (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Research Ethics in the Oxford Medical Sciences Division - Who to apply to and how to apply
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Why does dopamine encode the value of future rewards?
  Dr Mark Walton (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 17:30 - Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture: Mind the gap: do psychiatry and science belong together or not?
  Reception afterwards. Free and open to all.
  Professor Guy Goodwin (University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Julie Gorelik, Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart & Lung Institute,Imperial - ‘New nanoscale technique to study signalling in the cardiomyocyte’
  Professor Julie Gorelik (Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart & Lung Institute,Imperial College London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - An epidemiologist's life on the edge (of the science-policy interface)
  Professor Christl Donnelly (Imperial College, London)
  WHG Seminars
• 13:00 - Light on the dark side of the genome - lessons from T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  Marc Mansour (UCL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:30 - Biological imaging and ultrafast spectroscopy facilities in the Research Complex at Harwell, and their role in the study of structure/function relationships of EGF receptor complexes
  Prof MarisaProf. Marisa Martin-Fernandez (Harwell), Dr Dave Clarke (Harwell)
  CMD Seminars

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The earliest cortical circuits and cognitive disorders
  Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 11:00 - Forgetting: Sources, Modulation, and Benefits
  Professor Ralph Miller (Binghampton University)
• 12:00 - The calcium-sensing receptor in physiology and disease
  Professor Daniela Riccardi (Deputy Head, Cardiff School of Biosciences)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Autism in Africa: current state
  Professor Charles Newton (University of Oxford)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Decoding clonal dynamics in cancer, to single cell resolution
  Professor Samuel Aparicio (Department of Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver)
  WHG Seminars
• 15:00 - Stroke Seminar: Rehabilitation Review
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 17:00 - Forty years on: from frogs to man
  Professor Christopher Kennard (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - An introduction to public engagement with research
  Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division)
• 13:00 - Investigating neuropsychological mechanisms in depression
  Dr Emma Robinson (University of Bristol)

Monday 14 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Characterising genetic causes of bone marrow failure
  Tom Vulliamy (Queen Mary University of London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 19:30 - The Neurophysiology of Puberty
  Dr Channa Jayasena (Imperial College, London)

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The crisis in adolescent mental health - is the answer in schools?
  Professor Mina Fazel (NIHR Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - New insights into pain mechanisms
  Professor John Wood (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Pure alexia and visual word recognition
  Dr Randi Starrfelt (University of Copenhagen)
• 15:00 - Neuroimaging of autistics and controls in spontaneous multimodal conversation
  Dr Kyle Jasmin (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 15:00 - Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network Meeting
  Dr Matthew Burn (Thames Valley Stroke Clinical Network)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 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)

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Preplay and path planning in maze-like environments with attractor networks
  Mr Dane Corneil (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - From Single Cells and Columns to Cortical Networks: Coincidence Detection and Synaptic Transmission
  Professor Bert Sakmann (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - From Single Cells and Columns to Cortical Networks: Coincidence Detection and Synaptic Transmission
  Professor Bert Sakmann (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
• 13:00 - Eye movements and cognitive function in Parkinson’s disease
  Chrystalina Antoniades (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Int' Guest Spkr Prof Michaela Kuhn MD, Head of the Institute of Physiology, University of Würzburg : ‘Cell-specific actions of natriuretic peptides: lessons from genetic mouse models’
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Informatics methods for understanding drug action
  Prof Russ Altman (Stanford University)
  CMD Seminars
• 13:00 - Control of B cell immunity and leukaemia by the transcription factor Pax5
  Meinrad Busslinger (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Self-harm in Oxford: Key findings from 40 years of data collection
  Professor Keith Hawton (Director, Centre for Suicide Research, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Single cell transcriptomics identify a long coding RNA that regulates cardiomyocyte cell cycle
  CANCELLED
  Associate Professor Roger Foo (Cardiovascular Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Constructing and updating models of others and the world
  Dr Mona Garvert (University of Oxford/UCL)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neuronal computation: A tale of dendritic structure and function
  Dr Ben Torben-Nielsen (University of Hertfordshire)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:00 - I am therefore I think
  Professor Karl Friston (University College of London)
  Cortex Club

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Thomas Voit, NIHR GOSH UCL Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital : 'Developing a gene therapy approach for Duchenne muscular dystrophy'
  Professor Thomas Voit (NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Digital technology and psychological treatment
  Professor Christopher Fairburn (Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Competition and cooperation in the striatum: of nitric oxide and acetylcholine
  CANCELLED
  Dr Enrico Bracci (Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - The Art of Seeing
  Chrystalina Antoniades (University of Oxford)
  Research Uncovered: public talks on digital scholarship
• 15:00 - Longitudinal development of attention and executive function during the first year of life
  Dr Karla Holmboe (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - NDCN Seminar for Early Career Researchers
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 16:00 - Schreckstoff and the regulation of brain state
  Prof Suresh J. Jesuthasan (A*Star - Institute of Molecular an Cell Biology, Singapore)
  Cortex Club

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - How do People with Dementia and Their Carers Make Assistive Technology Work for Them: Innovation, personalisation and bricolage
  Dr Grant Gibson (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
• 12:00 - Working memory training does not improve performance on measures of intelligence or other measures of far transfer: Evidence from a meta-analytic review.
  Professor Monica Melby-Lervag (University of Oslo)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 13:00 - New Approaches to Volition
  Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London)
• 14:00 - Connecting genetic risk to disease endpoints through the human blood plasma proteome
  Prof. Dr. Karsten Suhre (Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar )
  WHG Seminars

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Spkr Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Dept. of Pharmacology : ‘Lysosomal dysfunction in rare and common diseases’
  Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 5 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Synchrony in Drosophila melanogaster: From Peripheral Cells to Group Dynamics
  Professor Joel Levine (University of Toronto)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 13:00 - 3D Chromatin Folding Determines Pathogenicity of Structural Variations
  Stefan Mundlos (Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration caused by defective synaptic vesicle recycling
  Dr. Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)

Tuesday 6 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Democratic therapeutic community treatment for personality disorder: a randomised controlled trial
  Dr Steve Pearce (Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Adaptive cognitive control over different timescales: beta oscillations, feedback and dopamine
  Dr Charlie Wilson (INSERM, Lyon)

Thursday 8 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Huntington’s Disease In A Dish: Current progress and future perspectives
  Professor Nick Allen (University of Cardiff)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
• 16:00 - Sleep: so familiar, so elusive
  Prof. Vlad Vyazovskiy (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Geneitcs, University of Oxford)
  Cortex Club

Monday 12 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - My Achievements and Failures in Stroke Trials in 35 Years
  Professor Hans-Christoph Diener (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany )
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Tuesday 13 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - NIHR Oxford Health BRC
  Professor John Geddes (Head of University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Representations of task relevant information in orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus: mental maps of decision spaces?
  Dr Nico Schuck (Princeton)

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Predictive coding as a model of cortical function
  Dr Michael Spratling (Kings College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 14:00 - Identification of novel functional sites in protein domains from the analysis of human variation
  Prof Geoff Barton (Dundee University)
  CMD Seminars
• 14:30 - Physiological role and optogenetic modulation of the transcription factor REST/NSRF in the nervous system
  Prof Fabio Benfenati (Professor of Neurophysiology, Center for Synaptic Neuroscience and Technology, The Italian Institute of Technology)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 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)

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - [Cortex Club special Christmas event] Neuroscience Model Organisms Panel
  cortex
  Various Speakers
  Cortex Club
• 12:30 - Consciousness and Complexity: from theory to practice
  Marcello Massimini (University of Milan)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 17:00 - The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - SOLD OUT
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  TBA
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding the function and evolution of regulatory protein-RNA complexes
  Professor Jernej Ule (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, The Francis Crick Institute, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:00 - New mathematical models for estimating generalised HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Jeff Eaton (Imperial College London)
  WHG Seminars
• 14:00 - Scents and sensitivity: experience-dependent plasticity in olfactory circuits
  Dr Matthew Grubb
• 16:00 - The Science of Laughter
  Prof Sophie Scott (University College of London)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 10 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Learning from the uncertain: modelling and forecasting infectious disease dynamics
  Dr Sebastian Funk (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  WHG Seminars
• 14:00 - Beauty and Benefits of cryo-EM; our new endeavors in vitrification of proteins and cells
  Prof Peter Peters (Maastricht University)
  Strubi seminars

Wednesday 11 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Next generation neural field modelling
  Prof Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 12 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - How can psychology make healthcare safer?: A half-day interdisciplinary seminar for early career researchers
  Advance booking essential
  Prof Charles Vincent (University of Oxford), Prof Rebecca Lawton (University of Leeds), Dr Lucie Byrne-Davis (University of Manchester), Dr Joanne Hart (University of Manchester), Dr Lauren Morgan (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Publishing: A 'Behind-the-Scenes' Look at the Editorial Process in Neuron
  Christiana Konen (Neuron Scientific)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - HCN2 ion channels – drivers of chronic pain and tinnitus
  Prof Peter McNaughton (King's College, London)
  CMD Seminars
• 13:00 - Transcriptional programmes of leukaemic fusion genes: from “omcis” to drugs
  Olaf Heidenreich (Newcastle University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Backing into the future: Pharmacological approaches to treatment-resistant depression
  Professor Phil Cowen (Professor of Psychopharmacology, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Agonist efficacy in the Cys-loop superfamily of channels: the single molecule view
  Professor Lucia Sivilotti (AJ Clark Professor of Pharmacology, UCL)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 16:00 - Transgenic models of Parkinson's disease
  Olaf Horst Rieß (University of Tübingen)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Metabolomic and proteomic aberrations in diabetes: cause or consequence?
  Associate Professor Tove Fall (Uppsala University)
  WHG Seminars

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The effects of heatwave on the health of the ageing: climate change in the post-Trump era?
  Professor Deborah Black (University of Sydney)
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - The surprising story of NMDAR1 autoantibodies in neurology and psychiatry
  Professor Hannelore Ehrenreich (Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany)
• 13:00 - Understanding susceptibility to Salmonella in HIV-infected Africans / Control of inflammation by myeloid cells
  All welcome
  Professor Calman MacLennan (Jenner Institute), Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  NDM Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Translational informatics for mental health and dementia research; the Digital theme of the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre
  Professor Simon Lovestone (Professor of Translational Neuroscience, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Opioid polypharmacology: towards treatments for drug abuse, depression and pain
  Professor Stephen Husbands (Head of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Bath)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Simultaneous EEG - fMRI: Spatiotemporal characteristics of reward-based learning and value-based decision making
  Dr Elsa Fouragnan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - What is the impact on alcohol purchases of increasing the price of sugary drinks?
  Dr Diana Quirmbach (Research Fellow in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Health Economics Seminars
• 12:30 - Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Development in ALS.
  Dr Lucie Bruijn (Chief Scientist, ALS Association (USA))
  CMD Seminars
• 14:30 - Imaging Biomarkers for Dementias and Multiple Sceloris – From Development to Translation
  TBA
• 14:30 - Imaging Biomarkers for Dementias and Multiple Sclerosis – From Development to Translation with Prof Sebastien Ourselin
  Professor Sebastien Ourselin
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Moral Disgust Responds to Bad Character
  Professor Roger Giner-Sorolla (University of Kent)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 14:00 - Population ageing and brain health: the role of nutrition in mental resilience
  Dr Alex Richardson (University of Oxford)
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Seminar for Early Career Researchers
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Guest Speaker- Dr Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute : ‘Polarity remodelling in asymmetric cell division’
  Dr Nic Tapon (The Francis Crick Institute )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Structure and function of K2P and PKD ion channels, targets for pain and polycystic kidney disease
  Professor Liz Carpenter (SGC, NDM, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - ‘Fears, phobias and obsessions in the late-nineteenth century’
  Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 31 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Is there a role for risk assessment tools to predict violence and suicide in individuals with severe mental illness?
  Professor Seena Fazel (Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Finding chemical modulators of mitochondrial function for neurodegenerative diseases
  CANCELLED
  Dr Heather Mortiboys (Parkinson's UK Senior Research Fellow, University of Sheffield)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Conducting child abuse research in South Africa: prevalence, risk factors, prevention and measurement issues
  Franziska Meinck (University of Oxford)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Pathologies of Solitude
  Professor Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary University of London)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Sarah Tarbrizi, UCL Inst Neurology : “Meeting the Therapeutic Challenge in Huntington's disease”
  Professor Sarah Tarbrizi (Dept. of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Inst. Of Neurology )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The challenge of translating new therapies to patients for Parkinson's Disease
  Roger Barker (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Cortisol and inflammation in depression: How can water fuel the fire?
  Professor Carmine Pariante (Professor of Biological Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:15 - Pervasive Refusal Syndrome: Working systemically with a family with a very sick child
  Dr Tanya McGregor (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Dr Shona Reed-Purvis (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Dr Gurdeep Kalsi (South Oxfordshire CAMHS)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 12:30 - engage: OxReach - Crowdfunding for Oxford University
  Zoe Reich (Oxford University Innovation), Philippa Nuttall (Oxford University Innovation), Sarah Deakin (Oxford University Innovation)
  #OxEngage Engage
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Jean Daunizeau ((Brain & Spine Institute & INSERM Paris))
• 15:00 - Looking and learning: insights from atypical spontaneous gaze behaviour in autism
  Dr Mary Hanley (Durham University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission
  12TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE
  Professsor Thomas Südhof (Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Advanced oligonucleotide therapeutics for neuromuscular disease
  Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Nostalgia Potentiates a Positive and Attainable Future
  Professor Constantine Sedikides (University of Southampton)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 14:00 - Effecting behaviour change in older adults through smartphone technology
  Dr Alessandro Guazzi (Sentimoto)
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Polycomb system in X inactivation and beyond
  Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  WHG Seminars
• 13:00 - INT'L GUEST SPEAKER- Professor Stefan Treue PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen: ‘Visual cortical area V5/MT - a prototype for shaping sensation into perception’
  Professor Stefan Treue PhD (Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen )
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Probabilistic models of sensorimotor control and decision making
  Prof Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge)
  Cortex Club

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Phase contrast cryo-electron microscopy
  Maryam Khoshouei (Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
  CMD Seminars
• 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)
• 12:00 - Oxytocin and vasopressin signalling in myometrium: finding ‘new’ targets and therapies for preterm birth
  Dr Sarah Arrowsmith (University of Liverpool)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 13:00 - Integration of magnitude information in human working memory and decision making
  Dr Bernhard Spitzer (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Pain and the Developing Brain, 3rd Annual Mabel FitzGerald Lecture
  Professor Maria Fitzgerald (UCL)
  Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture
• 16:00 - The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)
  William Casebeer (Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Patient & Public Involvement in Medical Research
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Modeling Neural and Performance Correlates of Attention
  Miss Grace Lindsay (Columbia University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Learning from amnesia: the clinical neuroscience of memory impairment
  Dr Chris Butler
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 14:00 - Major longevity drivers in the next 10 years: antibiotic resistance, metabolic syndrome and national health expenditure
  Mr Matthew Edwards (Willis Towers Watson)
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Africa Health Research Institute- a new multidisciplinary HIV and TB centre in South Africa
  Prof. Deenan Pillay (Africa Centre for Population Health)
  WHG Seminars
• 13:00 - Dynamic interactions of healthy and malignant haematopoietic stem cells with the bone marrow microenvironment
  Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Delivery of psychological treatment over the internet: promises and challenges
  Professor Anke Ehlers (Professor of Experimental Psychopathology & Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 10:00 - Podcast your research
  Dr Michaela Livingston-Banks (Public Engagement Facilitator (Oxford Sparks), University of Oxford), Brian Mackenwells (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics), Stephen Eyre (IT Services, University of Oxford)
• 11:00 - The calcium-sensing receptor in physiology and disease
  Professor Daniela Riccardi (Deputy Head, Cardiff School of Biosciences)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Chronic irritability in ADHD: examining clinical and genetic links with depression & The neural correlates of chronic, severe childhood-onset irritability in ADHD
  Dr Olga Eyre (Cardiff University), Dr Miriam Cooper (Cardiff University)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - Banishing the shifty homunculus from frontal cortex: attentional set-shifting deficits re-examined
  Professor Verity Brown (University of St Andrews)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Charo Rueda (University of Granada)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Pioneering- one of our core values and how it influences everything we do
  David Jenkinson (Chief Scientist, The Brain Tumour Charity)
  CMD Seminars

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Cognitive gadgets: the cultural evolution of thinking
  Please note change of venue
  Professor Cecelia Heyes (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - Prospects for the use of Mendelian Randomization in Economic Evaluation
  Dr Padraig Dixon (Senior Research Associate in Health Economics, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol)
  Health Economics Seminars
• 14:00 - Tapping the foundation of youth: exploiting stem cells for the treatment of degenerative disease
  Professor Paul Fairchild (University of Oxford )
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Dysbindin-1 genetics as a precision medicine marker for core cognitive deficits in schizophrenia
  TBA
• 12:00 - Seminar for Early Career Researchers
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Anthony Galione FRS, Dept of Pharmacology : ‘Calcium signalling from the lysosome’
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Wolfgang Blankenburg, First steps toward a psychopathology of ‘common sense’, in: The Maudsley Reader, 158-165 (also in: Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 8(4), 2001, 303-15).
  Marcin Moskalewicz (University of Oxford)
  Phenomenological Psychopathology

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chromosome 21: its critical role in childhood leukaemia (other than Down Syndrome)
  Christine Harrison (Newcastle University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Reflections on Health Partnerships
  Dr John Williams (Managing Director Birmingham Health Partners, Institute of Translational Medicine, R&D University Hospitals Birmingham)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - What does the assumed light source bias tell us about the nature of perceptual representations?
  Dr Ayelet Sapir (Bangor University )
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: From bench to front-bench: using laboratory studies to inform tobacco and alcohol policy
  Professor Marcus Munafò (MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol)
• 13:00 - Revisiting the effect of red on competition in humans
  TBA
  Research Uncovered: public talks on digital scholarship
• 16:30 - Detecting, tracking, and predicting motor neuron disease
  Professor Martin Turner
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - A 3D atlas and database of human development.
  Prof. Antoon FM Moorman (University of Amsterdam)
  DPAG Guest Speakers
• 17:00 - The discovery of the third photoreceptor within the eye: Science to Medicine
  Professor Russell Foster (NDCN, University of Oxford )

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - On the Impact of Genetic Variation on Molecular and Organismal (Immunological) Phenotypes
  Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Anti-ageing and personalised medicine
  Dr Avi Roy (University of Buckingham)
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing
• 17:30 - Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes
  Professor Kenneth Richman (MCPHS University, Boston)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Professor Erwin Neher, Georg August Universität Göttingen : TBA
  NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/
  TBA
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - : Viktor Emil von Gebsattel, The world of the compulsive, in: The Maudsley Reader, 233-240 (also in: Existence, ed. R. May et. al. New York 1958).
  Marcin Moskalewicz (University of Oxford)
  Phenomenological Psychopathology
• 17:00 - Motor - auditory interactions for listening and learning
  TBA
  Cortex Club

Monday 6 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Peer support, mental health activism, and changing doctor-patient relationships in Uganda’
  Yolana Pringle (University of Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED - Psychiatric drug discovery in Industry - Quo vadis?
  Dr Magnus Walter (Chief Scientific Officer Global Neurodegeneration and Head of Chemistry, Lilly UK)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Normal and abnormal transmural electrophysiology in the intact mammalian ventricle
  Professor Godfrey Smith (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 12:15 - Self-harm in young people: an update
  Professor Keith Hawton (University of Oxford)
  CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
• 13:00 - The psychological and neural basis of incentive habits: relevance for our understanding of addiction
  Dr David Belin (University of Cambridge)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Please note there will be a change of venue
  Dr Josie Booth (University of Edinburgh)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Compulsivity: Neuropsychological substrates and neuropsychiatric implications
  Please note there will be a change of venue
  Professor Trevor Robbins (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 14:00 - Imaging the Ageing Brain
  Dr Claire Sexton (University of Oxford)
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing
• 14:30 - Brain Diaries Symposium & Drinks Reception
  Various Speakers
  Brain Diaries
• 18:30 - The Weekend Effect: Is it real, and what can we do about it?
  Professor Nick Freemantle (University College London)

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Translating Parkinson's for target discovery: From patient cohorts to genetic models / Understanding endometriosis: genomics meets phenomics
  Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor Krina Zondervan (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics)
  NDM Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Guest Speaker - Professor Mark Kearny, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Mark Kearny (Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 17:30 - From Molecules to Medicine - The Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
  Professor Dame Janet Thornton DBE, FRS, FMedSci

Saturday 11 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Super Science Saturday: The Brain
  Various Speakers
  Brain Diaries

Monday 13 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Identification of a novel DNA replication protein mutated in microcephalic primordial dwarfism
  Professor Grant Steward (University of Birmingham)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Next generation association studies for complex traits: Progress in understanding the genomic landscape of osteoarthritis
  Professor Ele Zeggini (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
  WHG Seminars
• 16:00 - Improving reproducibility in neuroscience
  Prof Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford)
  Cortex Club
• 16:30 - Dopamine neurons: morphology, connections, functional properties and susceptibility in Parkinson's disease
  Professor Paul Bolam
  Dopamine Club
• 19:00 - Sex, flies and videotape
  Professor Stephen Goodwin (University of Oxford)
  Brain Diaries

Tuesday 14 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Storage and use of memory: can we infer the underlying circuit level processes in humans?
  Dr Helen Barron (University of Oxford )
• 19:00 - What makes the human brain different?
  Rogier Mars (University of Oxford)
  Brain Diaries

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Treatment is just the beginning: trajectories of vulnerability and resilience in recurrent depression
  Professor Norman Farb (University of Toronto)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:00 - Bayesian Analysis for Big Data, Lecture
  Prof Zoltan Dienes (University of Sussex)
  Big Data in Developmental Science
• 13:00 - Testing complex brain-computational models to understand how the brain works
  Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 13:00 - Bayesian Analysis for Big Data, Workshop
  Prof Zoltan Dienes (University of Sussex)
  Big Data in Developmental Science
• 18:00 - How to raise capital: From who and from where?
  Andrew McClean (Lead Life Sciences Investor - Oxford Sciences Innovation), Dr Mike Stein (CEO - OxStem), Tom Britton (Co-founder and CTO - SyndicateRoom), Andrea Mica (Oxford Technology)
  Health and Life-Sciences Entrepreneurship Lecture series
• 18:30 - ‘The Shaking Palsy’: past, present and future of Parkinson’s disease
  Professor Paul Bolam (University of Oxford)
  Brain Diaries
• 19:00 - Has your brain developed normally?
  Professor Simon Butt (University of Oxford )
  Brain Diaries

Thursday 16 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Neurodevelopment Consortium Inaugural Meeting
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Molecular exploitation of an extremophile mammal
  Gary Lewin (Berlin)
  Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
• 13:00 - Protein Folding Machines- Molecular Machines for Complex Problems
  Kelly Knee (Pfizer)
  CMD Seminars
• 18:30 - Sir Hugh Cairns: A Pioneering Neurosurgeon
  Professor Gabriele De Luca (University of Oxford)
  Brain Diaries

Saturday 18 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - The Upside-Down Brain: Art and Neuroscience at the Ashmolean
  Various Speakers
  Brain Diaries
• 14:00 - Brain Diaries Demos
  Various Speakers
  Brain Diaries

Sunday 19 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Brain Aware
  Various Speakers
  Brain Diaries

Monday 20 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)
• 11:00 - The study of Optical Topography and the trends in industry based on Brain Science
  Dr Atsushi Maki (Research & Development Group, Centre for Exploratory Research, Saitama, Japan)
• 13:00 - Brain imaging then and now
  Chrystalina Antoniades (University of Oxford), Dr Alexandra Franklin

Tuesday 21 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Shona Fielding (Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen)
  Health Economics Seminars
• 12:00 - Dissecting the Circuits and Algorithms That Process Visual Motion
  Thomas R. Clandinin (Stanford University )
  CNCB Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Dissecting the Circuits and Algorithms That Process Visual Motion
  Thomas R Clandinin
  Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Marinella Cappelletti
• 13:00 - Research Ethics in the Oxford Medical Sciences Division - Who to Apply to and how to Prepare the Application
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)

Thursday 23 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Brain Diaries Psychology Day: ‘A Look Inside the Brain’
  Various Speakers
  Brain Diaries
• 12:00 - Efficient introduction of disease-related mutations into human iPSCs using CRISPR/Cas9 to model Alzheimer’s disease
  Dylan Kwart (The Rockefeller University)
• 12:00 - Deregulation of a novel NGF metabolic pathway as the cause of Cholinergic atrophy in Alzheimer’s
  Professor Claudio Cuello (McGill University)
  Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
• 14:00 - Wellcome Open Research – author led publishing
  Mr Michael Markie (F1000)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum