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Summer Discoverers

Join us for one of a special series of Natural History Discoverer sessions here at the Museum of Natural History this Au

Thursday, 13 August 2026, 2pm to 3pm

Venue: University Museum of Natural History
University Museum of Natural History Parks Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3PW United Kingdom

Department: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Department)

Audience: Public Format: In Person

Title TBC - CAMS Oxford Institute Seminar

CAMS Oxford Institute - Seminar Series

Tuesday, 18 August 2026, 9.30am to 10.30am

Venue: Henry Wellcome Building Rooms A & B
Room A+B Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Headington Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7BN United Kingdom

Department: NDM (CAMS Oxford Institute) (Unit)

Host: Ricardo Fernandes, Dannielle Wellington, Mimie Szyk

Series: CAMS Oxford Institute - Seminar Series

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

Summer Discoverers

Join us for one of a special series of Natural History Discoverer sessions here at the Museum of Natural History.

Thursday, 20 August 2026, 2pm to 3pm

Venue: University Museum of Natural History
University Museum of Natural History Parks Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3PW United Kingdom

Department: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Department)

Audience: Public Format: In Person

What Defines An Outstanding Scientific Job Application: An Insider Panel Discussion on Scientific Careers in the Age of AI

What defines an outstanding scientific job application: An insider panel discussion on scientific careers in the age AI

Thursday, 20 August 2026, 3pm to 4pm

Speaker(s): Prf Anne Goriely (University of Oxford), Dr Elisa Rosati Scalchi (Immunespec), Prof Hashem Koohy (University of Oxford)

Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)

Organiser: Prof Hashem Koohy

Host: Hashem Koohy

Series: Immunity By Design

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Online

Oxford Summer Academy for the Social Science of Health Innovation (SASHI) 2026

Join us for this 3-day summer school exploring translational healthcare innovation

Monday, 24 August 2026 to Wednesday, 26 August 2026, 8.30am - 5pm

Venue: St Hilda's College
Cowley Place Oxford

Department: Primary Care Health Sciences (Department)

Organiser: Dr Anne Ferrey

Audience: Public Format: In Person

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED OPDC Seminar: Dr Rebecca Wallings

Seminar talk titled, Investigating the role of immune cell exhaustion and an aging immune system in Parkinson's Disease

Thursday, 27 August 2026, 12pm to 1pm

Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building - DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2
DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building off South Parks Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3QU United Kingdom

Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)

Organiser: Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre

Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins

Series: Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre Seminar Series 2026

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

"Good growth in every postcode": the role of employee ownership

We warmly invite you to join us for the 2026 Robert Oakeshott Lecture.

Thursday, 27 August 2026, 6pm to 6.45pm

Speaker(s): Professor Jonathan Michie (Kellogg College President)

Venue: Kellogg College - The Hub
The Hub Kellogg College 62 Banbury Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6PN United Kingdom

Department: Kellogg College (College)

Audience: Public Format: In Person

From the Laboratory to the Clinic 2026: Complex pathogenesis of disease

An annual translational research conference established in 1984, held at Trinity College, Oxford.

Tuesday, 1 September 2026 to Friday, 4 September 2026, 9am - 6pm

Venue: Trinity College
Broad Street Oxford

Department: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (Unit)

Audience: Public Format: Hybrid

Protein-protein interaction networks of leukemia

Tuesday, 1 September 2026, 1pm to 2pm

Speaker(s): Akhihiko Yokoyama

Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine - Seminar Room
Seminar Room MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Headington Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 9DS United Kingdom

Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)

Organiser: Emma Butterfield

Host: Tom Milne

Series: Molecular Haematology Unit

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid

Between Lived Experience and Clinical Wisdom in Mental Health Research and Policy

A panel discussion on the future of expertise in mental health research and policy.

Tuesday, 1 September 2026, 6pm to 7.30pm

Department: Psychiatry (Department)

Organiser: ANTITHESES & NEUROSEC

Host: ANTITHESES & NEUROSEC

Audience: Public Format: In Person

Social Outcomes Conference 2026 (SOC26)

Join the Government Outcomes Lab for the Social Outcomes Conference 2026.

Thursday, 3 September 2026 to Friday, 4 September 2026, 9am - 5pm

Speaker(s): Professor Ole Helby Petersen

Venue: Blavatnik School of Government
Blavatnik School of Government Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG United Kingdom

Department: Blavatnik School of Government (Department)

Organiser: Government Outcomes Lab

Host: Government Outcomes Lab

Audience: Public Format: Hybrid

Does a giraffe need a telomere-to-telomere diploid genome assembly?

Thursday, 3 September 2026, 10am to 11am

Speaker(s): Prof Pavel Pevzner (University of California at San Diego (UCSD))

Venue: Big Data Institute - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0
Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom

Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)

Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari

Host: Prof Trey Ideker

Series: BDI Distinguished Seminar

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid

Chemical Approaches to Decoding Epigenetics

Ludwig External Seminar Series

Thursday, 3 September 2026, 11am to 12pm

Speaker(s): Prof David Xiang

Venue: NDM Building
NDM Building Headington Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7FZ United Kingdom
Venue details: Seminar Room

Department: Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Unit)

Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates

Host: Prof Yang Shi

Series: Ludwig Institute External Seminar Series

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

Celebrating the Centenary of Women's Library and 100 Years of Women's History

The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference

Thursday, 3 September 2026 to Friday, 4 September 2026, 1pm - 5.30pm

Department: History (Department)

Host: London School of Economics and Friends House, London

Audience: Public Format: In Person

Spatially visualising RNA biology in action in human tissues

Thursday, 3 September 2026, 4pm to 5pm

Speaker(s): Rong Fan (Yale School of Medicine)

Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building - IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building Roosevelt Dr, Headington Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7TY United Kingdom

Department: IDRM (DPAG) (Unit)

Host: Esra Sengul

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid

Reuben College Entrepreneurship Forum 2026

A day of entrepreneurship at Reuben College, with keynotes, a networking reception, and a £25,000 pitching competition.

Friday, 4 September 2026, 9.30am to 5.45pm

Speaker(s): Catherine Spence (Oxford University Innovation and Reuben College), Professor Lord (Lionel) Tarassenko (Reuben College), Venetia Jennings (Oxford Science Enterprises), Odhran O'Donoghue (Magnetic), Vishal Gulati (Recode Ventures and Reuben College), Mark Younger (Acclimate Ventures), David Mott (Oxford Capital Partners)

Venue: Reuben College
Oxford
Venue details: Reuben College Dining Hall

Department: Reuben College (College)

Organiser: Reuben College

Audience: Member of University - Students Format: In Person

Epigenomic Variation Reveals the Hijacking of Transposable Elements in Cancer

Ludwig External Seminar Series

Friday, 4 September 2026, 11am to 12pm

Speaker(s): Dr Mathieu Lupien

Venue: NDM Building
NDM Building Headington Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7FZ United Kingdom
Venue details: Seminar Room

Department: Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Unit)

Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates

Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour

Series: Ludwig Institute External Seminar Series

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

Full-Network River Flow Modelling in the Era of Big Data

Explore how advanced modelling and satellite data are improving understanding of human impacts on river flow.

Friday, 4 September 2026, 12pm to 1pm

Speaker(s): Dr Yinxue Liu (School of Geography and the Environment), Dr Peirong Lin (Peking University)

Department: School of Geography and Environment (Department)

Organiser: Nancy Gladstone

Host: Dr Yinxue Liu

Series: Oxford Water Network Michaelmas Term

Audience: Public Format: Online