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.
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
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
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
22/05/2025 2:00 pm
Mechanism of DNA binding by the ALT-essential factor FANCM
Speaker: Dr Lara Abbouche
Affiliation: St Vincents Institute, Melbourne
Location: EPA Seminar Room
Series type: Research Seminar series
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
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
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
06/06/2025 1:00 pm
Imaging Immunity within the peritoneal cavity
Speaker: Prof Paul Kubes
Affiliation: Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series
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
02/07/2025 1:00 pm
TBC
Speaker: Dr Sooraj Achar
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Location: EPA Seminar Room
Series type: Research Seminar series
11/07/2025 2:00 pm
TBC
Speaker: Prof Sarah McClelland
Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London
Location: MSTC
Series type: Departmental Seminar series