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Seminars & Events Archive

Characterizing both neoantigen and microenvironment of colorectal cancer for precision immunotherapy
Professor Jimin Shao, Zhejiang University
Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 12:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 10.71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Therapy Resistance – Cancer Stem Cells and 3D Models of the Breast Cancer Microenvironment
Gillian Farnie, University of Oxford NDORMS
Monday, 25 November 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Clinical relevance of hyper-recombination in cancer
Dr. Anand Jeyasekharan, Consultant, Department of Haematology-Oncology, National University Hospital Singapore, and PI at the Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore
Monday, 7 October 2019, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig seminar room, basement of ORCRB, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Developing Affinity-Based Therapies for Targeting Metastatic Cancers
Dr. Yu Rebecca Miao, Dept. Radiation Oncology, Stanford University
Friday, 20 September 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, room 71 a,b,c ground floor ORCRB, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Reducing tumor hypoxia with mitochondrial inhibitors, translation to clinical studies
Professor Nicolas Denko, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Monday, 2 September 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71 a, b, c ground floor ORCRB, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Degrading activities: Regulation of cellular biology by the ubiquitous pathway
Professor David P. Toczyski, University of California San Francisco
Thursday, 25 July 2019, 12:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71 a, b, c ground floor, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Radiotherapy as Immunotherapy
Professor Alan Melcher, Translational Immunology, The Institute of Cancer Research
Friday, 12 July 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig Seminar Room, basement of ORCRB, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Impaired ribosome biogenesis and diseases
Prof Sinisa Volarevic, Medical School, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Monday, 8 July 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Taking apart the nuclear envelope for open mitosis
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kutay,
Monday, 24 June 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, room 71abc, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Ubiquitin, signaling in normal and cancer cell cycles
Michael J. Emanuele, UNC School Medicine, University of Virginia
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig Seminar Room, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Homologous recombination DNA repair is the major driver of PARPi sensitivity in breast cancer
Violeta Serra, Vall d'Hebrón Institut d’Oncologia
Monday, 13 May 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
7th Annual Department of Oncology Postdoc Away Day
An exciting line-up of speakers on the topic of AI in Cancer, including keynote talks on the topic of AI in Cancer from Dr Rajarshi Banerjee and Prof Michael Wooldridge. Plus 3-minute flash presentations from postdocs.,
Friday, 10 May 2019, 9am
St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road
 
The Triple Win: how the UK can achieve personalised medicine, a growing life science sector, and an affordable NHS
Lord James O'Shaughnessy,
Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 12:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c on the ground floor, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Topoisomerase II acts on SMC complex dependent DNA topological stress during both S phase and M phase
Dr Jon Baxter, University of Sussex
Monday, 18 March 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Blocking DNA replication before it starts: insights on CDC7 kinase inhibition by chemical genetics and genome editing approaches
Prof Corrado Santocanale, National University of Ireland Galway
Monday, 11 March 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The FANC (Fanconi anemia) pathway: far beyond the protection of DNA replication
Filippo Rosselli, Institut Gustave Roussy
Monday, 4 March 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Mechanisms linking DNA replication to cell fate determination under normal and stressful conditions
Dr Vincenzo Costanzo, IFOM
Monday, 18 February 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Regulation of ribosome biogenesis by RNA localisation
Faraz Mardakheh, University of London
Monday, 11 February 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, meeting rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Publishing and Careers at Nature Research
Dr Anne Mirabella, Nature Communications
Monday, 28 January 2019, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71 a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Epigenome maintenance in response to DNA damage
Sophie Polo, PhD, Universitè Paris Diderot, Epigenetics and Cell Fate Centre
Monday, 10 December 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
PET Imaging of PARP with with [18F]olaparib".
Anna Pacelli, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Developing T cell receptor therapies to target cancer
Marco Lepore, Immunocore
Monday, 19 November 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Fidelity of DNA double strand break repair is embedded in 3D structure of the neighboring chromatin
Dr Fena Ochs, University of Copenhagen
Monday, 12 November 2018, 11:00
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, WIMM seminar room , Headington OX3 9DS
 
FAN1: a Fanconi anaemia (FA) protein but not a FA gene
Professor Josef Jiricny, Institute of Biochemistry (ETH)
Monday, 5 November 2018, 12:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The role of ATRX in repairing internal and telomeric DNA double-strand breaks
Professor Markus Löbrich, Technical University Darmstadt Biology
Monday, 29 October 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Disassembly of replication machinery at termination of DNA replication forks
Dr Agnieszka Gambus, University of Birmingham
Monday, 22 October 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The International Marie Sklodowska-Curie Meeting: From Radiation to Innovation in Medicine
Please visit our website (http://www.radiate.eu/ - Marie Curie meeting) for our exciting Programme/Speaker details,
Friday, 12 October 2018
Institut Curie, Paris
 
CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology 2018: Radiotherapy in the era of cancer immunology
Our exciting line up speakers can be found in the Programme using the "click here" link below,
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD
 
Title TBC
Sabine Tejpar, KU LEUVEN, Molecular Digestive Oncology
Monday, 17 September 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b,c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Oxford Open Doors
Saturday, 8 - Sunday, 9 September 2018
Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7DQ
 
Development of targeted molecular MRI for detection of brain micrometastases
Niloufar Zarghami, University of Oxford
Thursday, 6 September 2018, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Vascular imaging in brain metastasis
Manon Simard, University of Oxford
Thursday, 6 September 2018, 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Find Your Transferable Skills Workshop: a careers workshop for Oncology
Friday, 17 August 2018 12:00 (noon)
 
An introduction to public engagement; why you should do it and some games to get you started
Martin Christlieb, Public Engagement Manager,
Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
71A-C, ORCRB
 
Annual Oncology Student Symposium (2018)
Monday, 9 July 2018
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road
 
Imaging Cancer with MR
Dr Shonit Punwani, University College London
Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 14:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Rooms 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Introduction to the Lab282 funding scheme
Mark Slack, Evotec AG,
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 12:00 - 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a,b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Implicit bias workshop
Liz Barnes-Moss and Alex Holmes,
Thursday, 28 June 2018 13:00 - 15:30
Ludwig seminar room, ORCRB
 
A computational model of the respiratory airway flow
Minsuok Kim, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 26 June 2018, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Roles and Regulation of the eukaryotic replisome
Professor Karim Labib, University of Dundee
Monday, 25 June 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Stres-Induced Dynamic Regulation of Mitochondrial STAT3 and Its Association with Cyclophilin D
Professor Andrew Larner, Virginia Commonwealth University
Monday, 18 June 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
7th Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre 2018 Symposium
Friday, 15 June 2018
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG
 
Unusual DNA/RNA structures in health and disease
Natalia Gromak, PhD, University of Oxford
Monday, 4 June 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Oncology Postdoc Away Day
Keynote Speaker: Ben Goldacre,
Friday, 18 May 2018
Oxford Martin School, Oxford
 
Human Factors
Dr Nicola Smith, Clinical Psychologist,
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 09:00 - 16:00
Ludwig seminar room, ORCRB
 
Allosteric regulation of RING E3 ligases
Professor Helen Walden, University of Glasgow
Monday, 14 May 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Molecular mechanisms of DNA-protein crosslink repair: implications for cancer therapy
Bruno Vaz, University of Oxford,
Friday, 11 May 2018, 12:00
WIMM seminar room
 
Old and new functions of BRCA1
Professor Jo Morris PhD MSc, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Sheffield
Monday, 30 April 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The role of ATRX during DNA double-strand break repair
Professor Markus Löbrich, Technical University Darmstadt Biology, Department of Biology
Monday, 16 April 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Exploiting tumour growth signals and microstructure for imaging
Professor Eric Aboagye, Imperial College London
Thursday, 29 March 2018, 14:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Rooms 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
CRL4 ubiquitin ligase regulates the response to UV- and cisplatin-DNA damage
Professor Hanspeter Naegeli, University of Zurich
Monday, 26 March 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Functional DNA repair testing for cancer risk assessment, prevention and early detection: Lung Cancer and more
Professor Zvi Livneh, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Monday, 19 March 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Advancing Precision Oncology by Computational Modelling
Professor Walter Kolch, University College Dublin
Monday, 12 March 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Radiation Break-through: from DNA damage responses to precision cancer therapy
Monday, 12 March - Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Wolfson College, Oxford
 
Mechanisms of oncogene-induced DNA replication stress
Professor Thanos Halazonetis, University of Geneva
Friday, 9 March 2018, 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig Seminar Room, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Multi-modal Image Fusion in Lung Cancer Application
Adam Szmul, University of Oxford
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 15:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The Influence of Local Variation and Local Similarity on Tumour Subregional Analysis
Jolanta Mirecka, University of Oxforf
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 14:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The interplay between nuclear, mitochondrial DNA repair and autophagy
Professor Sherif El-Khamisy, Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Sheffield
Monday, 5 March 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Distance effects on double strand break repair efficiency and accuracy: the double life of RAD51, and consequences on genome stability in mammalian cells
Professor Bernard Lopez, Institute Gustave Roussy, Paris
Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 11:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Exploiting Cancer’s Addiction to Deregulated G1/S Transcription
Professor Rob De Bruin, UCL Professor of Molecular Biology
Monday, 29 January 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Function and execution of RTEL1 activities at vertebrate telomeres
Simon Boulton PhD FMedSci, The Francis Crick Institute
Monday, 22 January 2018, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Regulation of Wnt/β-catenin signalling by tankyrase-dependent poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation and scaffolding
Sebastian Guettler PhD, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
Monday, 18 December 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Biochemical reconstitution of the Fanconi Anaemia pathway
Dr Andrew Deans, Head of Genome Stability Unit, St Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 13:00
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Roles and regulation of the eukaryotic replisome
Professor Karim Labib, University of Dundee
Monday, 11 December 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Novel DNA nuclease function governs cell fate decisions in response to ionizing radiation
Claus Storgaard Sørensen Ph.D., Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC)
Monday, 4 December 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Schizophrenic DNA repair: establishment and instability of a RNA/DNA hybrid genome
Giovanni Maga PhD, Institute of Molecular Genetics IGM-CNR, National Research Council, Italy
Monday, 6 November 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Polyadenylation as a therapeutic target in cancer
Cornelia H. de Moor, PhD, Faculty of Science, Nottingham University
Wednesday, 1 November 2017, 12:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Multimodality functional imaging in cancer treated with radiotherapy
Dr Tessa Greenhalgh, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
"Optimizing the efficacy of metal-based MRI probes at high magnetic fields"
Professor Mauro Botta, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 14:00
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Lecture Theatre of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road OX1 3QR
 
CHD6 is a novel oxidative DNA damage response factor
Dr Aaron Goodarzi, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute
Monday, 23 October 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting rooms 71a, b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
IGF2BP1 promotes the immune escape in advanced stage ovarian cancer
Dr Nadine Bley, University of Halle
Thursday, 19 October 2017, 12:30
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
63rd meeting of the Radiation Research Society
There is an exciting line-up of speakers invited to talk, please see website for further details,
Sunday, 15 October - Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Cancun, Mexico
 
PET for Radiation Treatment Planning and Monitoring
Professor Anca-Ligia Grosu, Department of Radiation Oncology University Medical
Monday, 9 October 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71a, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
CRUK Oxford Centre - Oesophageal Working Group
Dr John Findlay, Department of Oncology
Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Defining novel subsets of hereditary renal cancer with defects in DNA replication and repair pathways
Sanjeevani Arora PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Centre
Monday, 2 October 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
EMBO Conference 2017
Monday, 2 - Friday, 6 October 2017
Athens, Greece
 
Mechanisms regulating cellular plasticity underlying the initiation, progression and therapeutic resistance of pancreas adenocarcinoma
Professor Rosalie Sears, Knight Cancer Institute
Monday, 18 September 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Meeting Rooms 71a,b and c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology Symposium
We have an exciting line-up of invited speakers as detailed below,
Thursday to Friday, 7 September - Friday, 8 September 2017
Saïd Business School, Oxford OX1 1HP
 
Career Day for PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers
We have an exciting line up of invited speakers, please see details below,
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus
 
The Oliver Scott and Jack Fowler Memorial Symposium
We have an exciting line up of invited speakers,
Wednesday, 6th September 2017
Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford
 
Identification of a targetable EGFR-associated tumor-initiating program in breast cancer using single cell genomics
Prof Jiannis Ragoussis, McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre
Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 12:30
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
A loop of cancer-stroma-cancer interaction promotes peritoneal metastasis of ovarian cancer via TNFα-TGFα-EGFR
Dr Joseph Kwong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 15:30
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
The Nucleolar Response to Chromosome Breaks
Manuel Stucki PhD, Dept. of Gynecology, University of Zurich
Monday, 17 July 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Annual Oncology Student Symposium
Thursday, 13 July 2017
St Anne's College, Oxford
 
NON-KINASE TARGETS OF PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS
Associate Professor Lenka Munoz, University of Sydney, Australia
Thursday, 6 July 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Clinical & Radiation Oncology Research Training Meeting
Tuesday, 27 - Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Old Road Campus Research Building (and others), Oxford
 
ARR2017 - Improving Radiotherapy Response through Radiation Research
Monday, 26 - Wednesday, 28 June 2017
St Hilda's College, Oxford, OX4 1DY
 
Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre 2017 Symposium
Friday, Friday 23 June 2017
Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP
 
Using planarian flatworms as a model system for stem cells, regeneration and cancer
Aziz Aboobaker, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Monday, 19 June 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI of Gas-Flow and Gas-Exchange Dynamics to Improve Treatment Planning and Detection of Treatment Complications in Oncology
Dr Ozkan Doganay, University of Oxford
Thursday, 1 June 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Early Observations on the Use of EGFRvIII-directed CART cells for Human Glioblastoma: Clinical Results and Future Directions
Donald M. O’Rourke, M.D, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia
Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig Seminar Room, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Regulation of genome maintenance throughout the cell cycle
Marcel A.T.M van Vugt PhD, Department of Medical Oncology,
Monday, 22 May 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
An integrated ATR, ATM and mTOR-mechanical network controlling nuclear plasticity and cell migration
Marco Foiani, Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan
Monday, 15 May 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71a, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Postdoc Away Day 2017
Friday, 12 May 2017
Oxford Martin School, Broad Street
 
Genomic instability and disease: opportunities for clinical translation
Dr Gabriel Balmus, Gurdon Institute/Sanger Centre
Thursday, 27 April 2017, 12:30
 
The p53 family in cancer biology
Professor Gerry Melino, Head of 'Apoptosis & Cancer' Section, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester
Monday, 27 March 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Bouncers of the chromatin: Ubiquitin and SUMO tell when it is time to leave
Professor Nico Dantuma, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Monday, 20 March 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
TBA
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 11:00
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
STAT Transcription Factors in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Cancer
David A. Frank, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Monday, 13 March 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Controlling nucleases that determine our genetic make-up
Joao Matos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich
Monday, 27 February 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The Cancer Cell Map Initiative : Using Network Biology to Interpret Cancer Genomic Data
Professor Nevan Krogan, University of California
Friday, 24 February 2017, 11:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The response of tumour vasculature to irradiation: what can in vivo microscopy add?
Dr Bostjan Markelc, University of Oxford
Monday, 13 February 2017, 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The toxicity of polonium-210 and its use by Russian agents to poison Alexander Litvinenko
Dr John Harrison, Public Health England
Friday, 10 February 2017, 12:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig Seminar Room, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Success in Science: promoting the next generation
Various speakers with the event being chaired by Professor Louise Richardson, University of Oxford
Friday, 27 January 2017, 13:45
Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Oxford
 
The role of homologous recombination proteins in vertebrate DNA replication
Dr Vincenzo Costanzo, DNA metabolism laboratory, IFOM, Milan
Thursday, 26 January 2017, 14:00
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
DNA supercoiling, SMC complexes and chromosome segregation
Professor Camilla Sjögren, Professor in Cell and Tumour Biology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Thursday, 26 January 2017, 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig Seminar Room, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Tissue-specific binding of transcription factors and genetic association studies
Dr Vsevolod Makeev, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia
Tuesday, 24 January 2017, 14:00
Richard Doll Building, Lecture Theatre, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
 
From Chernobyl to Fukushima: environmental consequences of nuclear accidents
Professor J T Smith, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth
Monday, 23 January 2017, 11:00
 
PET for radiation treatment planning and monitoring
Professor Anca-Ligia Grosu, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center, Freiburg
Monday, 16 January 2017, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
A novel mechanism for controlling the bioavailability and activation of latent TGFb
Tonia Vincent, University of Oxford
Monday, 12 December 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
A novel mechanism for controlling the bioavailability and activation of latent TGFb
Tonia Vincent, University of Oxford
Monday, 12 December 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Phosphorylated CtIP functions as a co-factor of the MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 endonuclease in DNA end resection
Professor Petr Cejka, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona, Switzerland
Thursday, 8 December 2016, 14:00
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
The radiobology of proton beam therapy: Associateds with DNA damage complexity and ubiquitin-dependent responses
Dr J L Parsons, University of Liverpool
Monday, 5 December 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Early diagnosis of Pancreatic cancer using a simple blood sample
Professor Carl Borrebaeck, Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, Sweden
Monday, 28 November 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Deciphering the role of non-canonical ubiquitination in DNA damage response and DNA replication
Professor Lorenza Penengo, Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich
Monday, 14 November 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Imaging Biomarkers for Oligometastatic Colorectal Cancer
Dr Jamie Franklin,
Friday, 11 November 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, b & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
RNA processing proteins required for DNA replication and the repair of DNA
Professor Kevin Hiom, Head of Division of Cancer Research, University of Dundee
Monday, 7 November 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Decoding the human antiviral gene expression code
Dr Marios Agelopoulos, Biomedical Research Foundation, Athens
Thursday, 20 October 2016, 12:30
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Title TBC
Professor Paul Lockhart, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia
Monday, 10 October 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
'Image Reconstruction for Dynamic PET'
Friday, 7 October 2016, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Rooms 71a, b & c, Department of Oncology, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Temporal regulation of genome replication
Professor Conrad Nieduszynski, University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 12:30
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology Symposium 2016: Personalising Radiotherapy
We have an exciting line-up of 14 internationally-recognised invited speakers,
Thursday, 29 - Friday 30 September 2016
Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD
 
Alternative End joining, the lesser of two evils
Dr Macel Tijsterman, Leiden University Medical Center
Monday, 26 September 2016, 12:15
 
Essential functions of the Zinc-finger transcription factor ASCIZ in DNA damage responses, development and cancer
Professor Jorg Heierhorst, St Vincents Institute of Medical Research, Austria
Monday, 19 September 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Structural insights into LARP1, a significant player in epithelial cancers
Dr Andrea Berman, Pittsburgh University
Monday, 12 September 2016, 11:00
 
Title TBC
Dr James Franklin, University of Oxford
Thursday, 8 September 2016, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, b & c, Department of Oncology, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Endogenous / exogenous Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) Applications in Oncology
Professor Xavier Golay, UCL Institute of Neurology
Friday, 1 July 2016, 12:00
Old Road Campus, Room 71a and 71b, Department of Oncology
 
The study of anti-cancer drug resistance using genetically engineered mouse models for BRCA1/2-mutated breast cancer
Dr Sven Rottenberg, University of Bern
Monday, 27 June 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy
Monday to Thursday,
Imperial College, London
 
Strategies for radiosensitization with gold nanoparticles
Sunil Krishnan, Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston
Monday, 13 June 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Control of cancer cell growth and drug sensitivity by EGFR palmitoylation
Dr Eric Witze, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 3 June 2016, 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Structural mechanisms of innate immune recognition of cytosolic DNA
Professor Dr Karl-Peter Hopfner, Ludwig-Maximillians-University of Munich
Monday, 23 May 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Site-specific generation of Herceptin radioimmunoconjugates and their in vivo evaluation by PET
Dr Cristina Marculescu, University of Oxford
Friday, 20 May 2016, 13:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71a, b & c, Department of Oncology, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Linking histone and DNA recognition to the epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation
Prof Brian Strahl,
Tuesday,
New Biochemistry Seminar Room
 
Translational control visualised in human tumour tissue
Dr John Le Quesne, Leicester University
Monday, 9 May 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
DNA interstrand cross-link and mismatch repair
Dr Jean Gautier, University of Columbia/Institut Curie
Friday, 29 April 2016, 11:30
 
Using RNAseq to investigate why oral ‘precancer’ becomes oral cancer
Dr Lucy Stead, University of Leeds
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 10:30
 
Stem cell ecological dynamics, leukaemia prognosis, and the robustness of the niche
Adam Maclean, Imperial College London
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 10:30
 
New radiolabelling approaches for translating PET
Dr Laurence Carroll, Imperial College
Monday, 18 April 2016, 13:15
Old Road Campus Research Building, Rooms 71a, B & c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
‘Image guided surgery, arguments for combining fluorescence approaches with nuclear medicine and vice versa’
Dr Fijs W.B. Van Leeuwen, Leiden University Medical Centre
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 13:15
Old Road Campus, 71a, b and c
 
Insulin Receptor Degradation Controlled by the Quality Control Ubiquitin Ligase CHIP Adjusts Longevity and Proteostasis
Professor Thorsten Hoppe ,
Monday,
71A, B and C
 
Radiological Protection - a case of the Emperor's New Clothes
Prof Wade Allison, University of Oxford
Friday, 8 April 2016, 12:00
 
How does the Fanconi pathway promote unhooking of DNA interstrand crosslinks?
Dr Puck Knipscheer, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 12:30
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Genomic regulatory architecture in human stem cell commitment and heamopoiesis
Dr Mikhail Spivakov, Babraham Institute
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71ab, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Translating genomic discovery into improved therapies for childhood brain tumours
Professor Steve Clifford,
Monday, 7 March 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Lineage bias and restriction of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
Joana de Teixeira Carrelha, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
Tuesday,
John Radcliffe Hospital, Lecture Theatre 2
 
Mechanisms of DNA Replication Control from Yeast to Human
Professor Anne Donaldson, University of Aberdeen
Monday, 8 February 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
How to be open about the use of animals in scientific research
Carmel Turner, Chief Press Officer, Medical Research Council
Friday,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Seminar room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
“Quantitative DCE-MRI in oncology: current status and future challenges”
Tuesday, 2 February 2016, 13:30
Old Road Campus, Rooms 71a, b & c
 
Metabolic Imaging using Hyperpolarised 13C Compounds in MRI
Dr Rolf Schulte, GE Research, Munich
Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 14:00
 
Genomic characterisation and personalised risk stratification of acute myeloid leukaemia
Dr Moritz Gerstung, EMBL-EBI
Thursday, 21 January 2016, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71ab, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Protein ADP-ribosylation in regulation of genome stability
Dr Ivan Ahel, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Thursday, 21 January 2016, 12:30
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Ubiqutin-dependent responses to DNA damage
Professor Niels Mailand, Protein Signalling Progress, The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
Monday, 11 January 2016, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The ins and outs of centrosome amplification-mediated invasion
Dr Susana Godinho, Queen Mary University of London
Monday, 7 December 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Innovation in the NHS
Monday,
John Radcliffe Academic, Lecture Theatre 2, Headington OX3 9DU
 
Liver Fibrosis: making sense of inflammation, repair and resolution
Professor John Iredale, Queen's Medical Research Institute
Monday, 30 November 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Classifying transcriptional and genetic heterogeneity in single-cell measurements
Dr. Peter Kharchenko, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, 26 November 2015, 14:00
Richard Doll Building, Lecture Theatre, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
 
Maximising anti-tumour immune activation with oncology virotherapy
Professor Alan Melcher, University of Leeds
Monday, 16 November 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Cancer Research UK & EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre in Oxford Annual Retreat
Wednesday,
St Hugh's College, Oxford
 
Development of AZD5363, an inhibitor of AKT with activity in tumours containing mutations in the P13K-AKT pathway
Dr Barry Davis, AstraZeneca
Monday, 2 November 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Clinical Face Phenotype Space: dysmorphology photographs to aid diagnosis of genetic syndromes
Dr. Christoffer Nellåker, University of Oxford
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, room 71a/b, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
DNA replication and genome stability: novel molecular insights from a vertebrate cell free system
Dr Vincenzo Costanzo, IFOM
Monday, 26 October 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Exploiting replication stress to target histone H3K36me3-deficient cancers
Dr Tim Humphrey, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building
Tuesday,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Mechanisms of synergy between ionizing radiation and a therapeutic HPV vaccine
Professor Eric Deutsch, Gustave Roussy, France
Monday, 14 September 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
3rd CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology Symposium
Thursday to Friday,
Mathematical Institute, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford
 
Study of the early radiation-induced DNA damage: a computational approach
Professor Dr Mario Bernal, UNICAMP
Wednesday, 9 September 2015, 10:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Pluripotent stem cells to study neurodegenerative disease and treat neurological disorders
PD Dr Philipp Koch, Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, Life & Brain Center, Sigmund-Freud-Str.25,
Monday, 7 September 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Basic Mechanisms of Fibrosis and Epigenetic Control
Professor Derek Mann, Newcastle University Medical School
Tuesday, 1 September 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Understanding estrogen receptor activity in breast cancer
Dr Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge
Tuesday,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Seminar room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
pH Responsive Near-infrared Fluorescence Probe Imaging Tumors by Sensing the Acidic Microenvironment
Professor Cong Li, School of Pharmacy at Fudan Unviersity, Shanghai
Tuesday, 4 August 2015, 11:00
Chemistry Research Laboratory, Wolfson Seminar Room, 12 Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
 
From Genome Integrity to Genome Plasticity: the Yin-Yang of DNA Replication Control
Professor Zoi Lygerou, University of Patras, Greece
Monday, 27 July 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Replication fork collapse through ATR inhibition as a cancer treatment
Dr Eric Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 24 July 2015, 12:15
Old Road Campus Research Building, Ludwig Seminar Room, Lower Ground Floor, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Forward genetic screens in haploid mammalian stem cells: looking beyond CRISPR/Cas9
Dr Josep Forment,
Thursday,
Seminar Room, WIMM
 
Untitled talk
Thursday,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
OCIC seminar - Programme 1
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, 13:15
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71a, 71b & 71c, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Oxidation of nucleic acids and control mechanism of spontaneous mutagenesis and tumorigenesis in mammals
Professor Yusaku Nakebeppu, Medical Institute of Bioregulations, Japan
Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 13:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Deciphering cancer clonal population structures
Sohrab Shah, University of British Columbia
Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 10:30
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71abc, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
The DNA Damage Response
Dr Kyle Miller, University of Texas at Austin
Monday, 8 June 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, 71A, B and C, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Stem Cells, Clones and Cancer
Dr Connie Eaves, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
Wednesday,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Seminar room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Applications of cancer biology to statistics and combinatorics
Dr Chris Greenman, University of East Anglia
Thursday, 14 May 2015, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71abc, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Career paths, work/life balance and quality/diversity (Athena Swan - Equality and Diversity Seminar)
Professor Marella de Bruijn, University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Friday,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Seminar room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Searching function of non-coding RNAs in complex mammalian transcriptomes
Dr Piero Carninci, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Division of Genomic Technologies, Japan
Friday, 1 May 2015, 11:00
Richard Doll Building, Lecture Theatre, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
 
DNA double-strand break repair in immunity and tumour suppression
Dr Ross Chapman, University of Oxford
Thursday,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM), Seminar Room, Headington OX3 9DS
 
Translating sequencing-based tumour profiling and prediction models to the clinic
Dr Mattias Rantalainen, Karolinska Institutet
Thursday, 16 April 2015, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71abc, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Molecular archaeology of cancer
Peter Van Loo, LRI/Crick Institute
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Room 71abc, Ground floor, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Empowering T cells to combat cancer
Prof. Aymen A-Shamkhani,
Monday, 9 March 2015, 14:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Department of Oncology seminar room (71A/B/C), ground floor, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
Robustness in biological systems: from DNA replication to cancer
Prof. Julian Blow,
Monday, 16 February 2015, 11:00
Old Road Campus Research Building, Department of Oncology seminar room (71A/B/C), ground floor, Headington OX3 7DQ
 
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