All events
Upcoming university events.
Professor Stefano Fusi
The geometry of spatial neural codes in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Professor Randy Bruno
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
The geometry of spatial neural codes in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr. Stefano Fusi (Columbia University)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Organiser: Ian Cone
Host: Randy Bruno, Rui Ponte Costa
Series: Oxford NeuroAI Forum
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Timing Matters: How Hormonal Rhythms Govern Mutation Spread, Cancer Initiation, and Treatment Response
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Dr Jacco Van Rheenen
Department: Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Unit)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates
Host: Prof Richard White
Series: Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Exploiting Cancer's Achilles' Heels
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): John Pollard PhD (Dark Blue Therapeutics, Visiting Professor Oxford University)
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Yasmine Saito
Host: Professor Simon Davis
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Medical Grand Round - Palliative Care/Pain Medicine
‘A framework for navigating uncertainty and challenging conversations'
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Department: Medical Sciences (Division)
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Audience: OUH clinical, University academic staff and medical students Format: In Person
Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 3pm to 4.30pm
Speaker(s): Carolyn Smith
Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)
Organiser: Helen Bond
Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Online
Decoding T cell antigen specificity through structural analysis and deep learning
In person only
Friday, 3 July 2026, 9.15am to 10.15am
Speaker(s): Benjamin McMaster, Koohy Group University of Oxford
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Renata Sojka, Alina Bovtenko
Series: MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Sensing self-derived dsRNA: distinct functions of Dicer and LGP2 in cell-intrinsic immunity
Friday, 3 July 2026, 10.30am to 11.30am
Speaker(s): Laurens ter Haar, Department of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, NL
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Renata Sojka, Alina Bovtenko
Host: Prof Jan Rehwinkel
Series: TIDU seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Botanical Design Embroidery Workshops
Learn the botanical painting/drawing and embroidery techniques to complete your own 'Flanders Cherry'. Booking required
Friday, 3 July 2026 to Saturday, 4 July 2026, 10.30am - 4pm
Department: Ashmolean Museum (Department)
Organiser: Public Programmes
Series: Shaped by Nature Season
Audience: Public Format: In Person
DPAG Neuroscience Seminar: 'A Preconceptional Stress Model Identifies Thalamostriatal Substrates of Intergenerational Vulnerability'
Friday, 3 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Professor Anthony Vernon (King's College London)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Professor Zoltán Molnár and Professor Stuart Peirson
Series: DPAG Neuroscience Seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
How a single kinase switch dissociates sleep depth, quantity, and circadian timing
Friday, 3 July 2026, 3pm to 4pm
Speaker(s): Staci Jakyong Kim (KAIST)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Organiser: Fiona Woods
Host: Haram Park
Series: CNCB Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Productioon: ROBOTA
A creation story for the end of time.
Friday, 3 July 2026 to Saturday, 18 July 2026, 7pm - 9.30pm
Host: Headlong and Schwarzman Centre
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Science Wonder Garden Party 2026
Everyone is welcome at this free, family-friendly science engagement event at Oxford University Science Park, Begbroke.
Saturday, 4 July 2026, 11am to 4pm
Organiser: Eleanor Mathieson
Host: Oxford University Development
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Early disease risk prediction from longitudinal clinical records using AI
Monday, 6 July 2026, 9am to 10am
Speaker(s): Chris Sander (Harvard Medical School)
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari
Host: Prof Trey Ideker
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
2-Day Workshop: Plague in the Nineteenth-Century: Epidemiological and Epistemological Connections
Monday 6 July 09:00-18:00 / Tuesday 7 July 09:30-12:15
Monday, 6 July 2026 to Tuesday, 7 July 2026, 9am - 6pm
Speaker(s): Keynote: Professor Christos Lynteris (St Andrews)
Department: Humanities Divisional Office (Department)
Organiser: Hande Yalnizoglu and Utsa Bose
Host: TORCH Medical Humanities Hub
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
The Body in History | Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Career Researcher and Early Career Researcher Conference
Monday, 6 July 2026, 9am to 5pm
Department: History (Department)
Series: TORCH Body in History Network
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
AI Exploration Week
AI Exploration week will help University staff build confidence and critical judgment in using AI for their own work.
Monday, 6 July 2026 to Friday, 10 July 2026, 10am - 5pm
Speaker(s): Anders Reagan (University of Oxford), Dominik Lukes, Kelly Webb-Davies (University of Oxford), Ella Wicks (University of Oxford), Alok Sahu
Department: Digital Governance Unit (Unit)
Organiser: Zoe Case
Host: AI Competency Centre
Audience: Member of University - Staff Format: In Person
Barrier tissue immunity to pathogenic and commensal fungi
In Person Only
Monday, 6 July 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): Dr Eric Van Dang
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Renata Sojka, Alina Bovtenko
Host: Prof Oliver Bannard
Series: TIDU seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Organ Crosstalk Immunology in the Exposome Era
Monday, 6 July 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): Prof. John Grainger (The University of Manchester)
Department: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (Unit)
Organiser: Tess Lawless
Host: Prof Dame Fiona Powrie DBE FRS FMedSci
Series: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology External Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Protein biogenesis and quantity control at the ribosome
Monday, 6 July 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Zhewang Lin (Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore.)
Department: Biochemistry (Department)
Organiser: Haoxi Wu
Host: Dr Haoxi Wu
Series: Microbiology and Systems Biology Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person