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.
01/05/2026 1:00 pm
The Plasma Membrane of a Living Cell: An ATP-powered membrane bilayer that encodes mechanochemical information
Speaker: Prof Jitu Mayor
Affiliation: University of Warwick
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series
08/05/2026 1:00 pm
Protein condensation phase transitions and signal transduction on the membrane: TCR signaling and beyond
Speaker: Prof Jay Groves
Affiliation: UC Berkeley
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series
15/05/2026 3:00 pm
Proteolysis-driven immunity: New insights into the role of proteasome-cleaved peptides in adaptive and innate immunity
Speaker: Prof Yifat Merbl
Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series
29/05/2026 1:00 pm
TBC
Speaker: Prof Clare Bryant
Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series
02/06/2026 2:00 pm
Inhibitory immune receptors control pain resolution through bidirectional immune-to-neuron communication
Speaker: Dr Michiel van der Vlist
Affiliation: UMC Utrecht
Location: Dunn School of Pathology - EPA seminar room
Series type: Research Seminar series
04/06/2026 3:00 pm
TBC
Speaker: Dr Stephanie Gaglione
Affiliation: Gladstone Institute, San Francisco
Location: Dunn School of Pathology - EPA Seminar room
Series type: Research Seminar series
12/06/2026 2:00 pm
TBC
Speaker: Prof David Sansom
Affiliation: UCL
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series
19/06/2026 2:00 pm
TBC
Speaker: Prof Friedrich Forster
Affiliation: University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series
06/07/2026 2:00 pm
Engineered Nanobodies to Direct and Visualize Immune Tolerance
Speaker: Dr Novalia (Nova) Pishesha
Affiliation: Division of Immunology at Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Location: Dunn School of Pathology - EPA Seminar Room
Series type: Research Seminar series