All events
Upcoming university events.
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
Workshop: Ethics and Innovative Clinical Trial Design: Adaptive and Fixed Designs in Confirmatory Clinical Trials
A workshop focused on ethical and methodological issues surrounding innovative clinical trial designs.
Monday, 6 July 2026, 1pm to 4.30pm
Department: Oxford Population Health (OxPop) (Unit)
Host: Ethox Centre
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Engineered Nanobodies to Direct and Visualize Immune Tolerance
Monday, 6 July 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Dr Novalia Pishesha (Division of Immunology at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
Department: Pathology Dunn School (Department)
Organiser: Melissa Wright
Host: Prof Omer Dushek & Dr Fabian Rehm
Series: Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Antigen specificity of clonally enriched CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis
Dr Joseph Sabatino, University of California San Francisco, will discuss antigen specificity of clonally enriched CD8+ T
Monday, 6 July 2026, 3pm to 4pm
Speaker(s): Dr Joseph Sabatino (University of California San Francisco)
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Prof Hashem Koohy
Host: Hashem Koohy
Series: Unravelling T Cell Recognition: Insights from Immunology and AI
Audience: Public Format: Online
Keynote Lecture: The Inter-Pandemic as a Global Historical Challenge: Plague between 1770-1890
Keynote Lecture, Workshop: Plague in the Nineteenth Century: Epidemiological and Epistemological Connections
Monday, 6 July 2026, 4.30pm to 6pm
Speaker(s): Professor Christos Lynteris (St Andrews)
Department: Humanities Divisional Office (Department)
Host: TORCH Medical Humanities Hub
Audience: Public Format: In Person
A Practical Guide to Classical Arabic Poetry: Tools for Understanding Form and Meaning, Art and Function
Three-day conference exploring classical Arabic poetry through form, meaning, performance, genres, and interpretation.
Tuesday, 7 July 2026 to Thursday, 9 July 2026, 9am - 5pm
Speaker(s): Tahera Qutbuddin, Kevin Blankinship, Nathaniel Miller, Hilary Kilpatrick, Beatrice Gruendler, David Larsen, Nefeli Papoutsakis, Geert Jan van Gelder, Marlé Hammond, Theodore Beers, Bilal Orfali, Yaron Klein, Julia Bray, Stefan Sperl
Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Department)
Organiser: Tahera Qutbuddin
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Immunisation and Influenza Update Training
A short-day immunisation and influenza training course, targeted at healthcare professionals and healthcare support work
Tuesday, 7 July 2026, 9am to 3.30pm
Speaker(s): Karen Ford (Oxford Vaccine Group)
Department: Paediatrics (Department)
Organiser: Clara Lloyd
Host: Karen Ford
Audience: HCP's Format: In Person