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

• 19:30 - Pint of Science: Stem Cells: Hope and Hype in Medical Research
  Dr Sally Cowley (Head, James Martin Stem Cell Facility, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford), Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Professor Zameel Cader (Director of the Oxford Headache Centre and Director of StemBANCC, University of Oxford)
  Medical Sciences Division Events

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

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

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)

Wednesday 12 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding tau and Abeta biology in health and disease
  Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

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

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

• 14:00 - Intracellular signalling mechanisms underlying memory enhancement
  TBA

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

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

Friday 6 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson’s progress: novel genes, mouse models and synthesis
  Professor Matt Farrer (University of British Columbia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Genes to clinic in an autoimmune disease
  Professor John Todd (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Pathways in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Matthew LaVoie (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Combining iPSCs and ‘omics to identify molecular convergence in neurodegenerative disorders
  Dr Michael Ward (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mitophagy: from genetics to biology, and back
  Dr Hélène Plun-Favreau (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 20 April 2020 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Targeting cytotoxic alpha-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson’s Disease
  Please note change of timing from 4pm to 2pm. The seminar will now be presented online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for the link to access the online seminar.
  Professor Daniel Otzen (Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University)

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - An update on the quest for genetic determinants in Parkinson's Disease and related disorders
  Professor Vincenzo Bonifati (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Selective brain region vulnerability in Parkinson’s Disease is governed by α-Synuclein conformations
  This seminar will be held online. Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Tim Bartels (Dementia Research Institute at the University College London)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 6 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Exploring human brain structure and function using cerebral organoids
  This seminar will be held online. Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Madeline Lancaster (Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 22 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Function and Dysfunction of Synucleins – Membranes Matter
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Jacqueline Burré (Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Time to revise the classical model of basal ganglia dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: New insights from a novel, progressive mouse of mitochondrial complex I dysfunction
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr D. James Surmeier (Northwestern University, Chicago)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Decoding Parkinson’s Disease: New Therapeutic Opportunities
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Valina Dawson (John Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanisms of Innate Immunity and Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Richard Youle (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Institutes of Health (NIH))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Tales from the human brain: a multi-scale approach to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Wilma van de Berg (Amsterdam UMC)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screens to ameliorate cellular stress in neurodegeneration
  Dr. Emmanouil Metzakopian (UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), University of Cambridge)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Modulation of striatal circuits by midbrain dopamine neurons
  Dr. Nicolas Tritsch (Neuroscience Institute and Marlene & Paulo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders, New York University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 19 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mitochondrial DNA at the interface between mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation in Parkinson’s disease
  Dr. Anne Grünewald (University of Luxembourg)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Developing approaches to explore proteome complexity in the human brain
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Becky Carlyle (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Body-first & Brain-first Parkinson's disease - explaining motor asymmetry, non-motor subtypes, and dementia
  This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Per Borghammer (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 22 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Mitophagy dysfunction in autosomal recessive Parkinson’s disease: is it the whole story?
  Dr Olga Corti (Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 6 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sub-second Striatum Neuromodulatory Signaling on Multiple Spatial Scales During Learning and Action
  Dr Mark Howe (Boston University)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Wednesday 22 September 2021 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Autophagy and neurodegeneration
  Professor David Rubinsztein (University of Cambridge.)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis and Parkinson’s disease
  Dr Sreeganga Chandra (Yale School of Medicine)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Modulators of pathology progression in neurodegenerative disease
  PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO MONDAY 22ND NOVEMBER
  Dr Michael Henderson (Van Andel Institute)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 7 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Molecular and functional organization of the mouse striatum
  Prof. Konstantinos Meletis (Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

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

• 14:00 - Intracellular signalling mechanisms underlying memory enhancement
  TBA

Friday 6 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Parkinson’s progress: novel genes, mouse models and synthesis
  Professor Matt Farrer (University of British Columbia)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 17 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Pathways in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
  Dr Matthew LaVoie (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Combining iPSCs and ‘omics to identify molecular convergence in neurodegenerative disorders
  Dr Michael Ward (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS))
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mitophagy: from genetics to biology, and back
  Dr Hélène Plun-Favreau (UCL Institute of Neurology)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Developing approaches to explore proteome complexity in the human brain
  This seminar will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please join with your video off and mikes muted. Email hod-pa@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
  Dr Becky Carlyle (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)