Seminars

The Dunn School attracts stellar speakers from around the world.

Our flagship seminar series (Departmental Seminars) normally happen on a Friday at 2pm, while the annual Heatley Lecture is our most prestigious lecture, in honour of the unsung hero of penicillin, Norman Heatley. Upcoming seminars open to other University of Oxford members are listed below. We also host a progress seminar series for students and postdocs to present work in progress that is internal to the Dunn School.

30/04/2025 2:00 pm

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in spinal muscular atrophy

Speaker: Prof Albero Kornblihtt
Affiliation: Universidad de Buenos Aires
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series

View seminar

02/05/2025 2:00 pm

Steering the evolution of bacteria within hosts

Speaker: Prof. Médéric Diard
Affiliation: Biozentrum, University of Basel
Location: EPA Seminar Room - Dunn School
Series type: Research Seminar series

View seminar

09/05/2025 1:00 pm

Mechanisms of Cellular Lipid Homeostasis: From Lipid Droplets to Ferroptosis

Speaker: Prof James Olzmann
Affiliation: UC Berkeley
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series

View seminar

15/05/2025 3:00 pm

How stochasticity and space shape the innate antiviral response to influenza virus

Speaker: Prof Christopher Brooke
Affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: EPA Seminar Room
Series type: Research Seminar series

View seminar

16/05/2025 12:00 pm

Long-lived memory B cell responses against malaria

Speaker: Prof Evelien M. Bunnik
Affiliation: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Location: EPA Seminar Room
Series type: Research Seminar series

View seminar

16/05/2025 2:00 pm

TOP2B from discovery to first isoform selective inhibitor

Speaker: Prof Caroline Austin
Affiliation: Newcastle University
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series

View seminar

23/05/2025 1:00 pm

Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm-associated infection

Speaker: Prof Kimberly A Kline
Affiliation: University of Geneva
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series

View seminar

29/05/2025 3:00 pm

The role of the gut environment in shaping the intestinal microbiota and disease outcomes

Speaker: Dr Carolina Tropini
Affiliation: University of British Colombia
Location: EPA seminar room
Series type: Research Seminar series

View seminar

30/05/2025 1:00 pm

Discovering new membrane proteins’ functions with multi-scale molecular simulations

Speaker: Prof Stefano Vanni
Affiliation: University of Freibourg
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series

View seminar

06/06/2025 1:00 pm

TBC

Speaker: Prof Paul Kubes
Affiliation: Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series

View seminar

09/06/2025 2:00 pm

Chromothripsis and Genomic Instability from Mitotic Errors

Speaker: Prof Peter Ly
Affiliation: UT Southwestern Medical Center
Location: EPA Seminar Room
Series type: Research Seminar series

View seminar

02/07/2025 1:00 pm

TBC

Speaker: Dr Sooraj Achar
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Location: EPA Seminar Room
Series type: Research Seminar series

View seminar

11/07/2025 2:00 pm

TBC

Speaker: Prof Sarah McClelland
Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series

View seminar