Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.

Sep 18 @ 6:00 pm Burton Taylor Studio
Now that you’re over the age of 10 asking ‘silly’ questions about dinosaurs may feel well… a little silly! So we’re offering you the opportunity to ask anything and everything you ever wanted to know[...]
Sep 18 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Port Mahon
From the struggle to get up on a Monday morning to coping with jet-lag, the body has to carefully balance our need to be alert or to be at rest. But how does the brain[...]
Oct 16 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Examination Schools
Discuss the clinal and ethical implications of the 100,000 Genomes Project An evening event organised by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in partnership with Genomics England. The event is free to attend, but advance booking[...]
Oct 17 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Henry Wellcome Building for Human Genetics, SR A
Prof Peter Visscher, Professor and Chair of Quantitative Genetics, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Driven by advances in genome technologies, the last 7 years have witnessed a revolution in our understanding of complex[...]
Oct 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Queens College Oxford, Shumann Lecture Theatre
The first speaker in Oxford Females in Engineering, Science and Technology brand new speaker series ‘Inspiring STEM’ promises a fascinating talk on her research and personal experiences in combining professional career and personal life, do[...]
Oct 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live[...]
Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest[...]
Nov 5 @ 6:00 pm St Catherine's College, JCR Lecture Theatre
The Innovation Forum, a student led, UK-wide network, invites all medics, entrepreneurs, scientists and coders to connect at our Oxford Launch event and to find out about “Digital Health: Opportunities and challenges in Oxford”. Our[...]
Nov 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College
The Colloquium is a seminar series at Kellogg College, Oxford. Poppy is a 2nd year DPhil student at the department of Oncology. She completed her BSc Biochemistry at the University of Southampton and did a[...]
Nov 19 @ 6:30 pm The Port Mahon
What lifestyle changes are you willing to try in order to reduce your carbon footprint? Walking or cycling to work? Taking less long haul flights? How about going vegan? A new study suggests that greenhouse[...]
Nov 20 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Public Seminar: Thinking About the Brain With speakers: Professor Chris Kennard; Professor Glyn Humphreys; Professor David Lomas; Dr Joshua Hordern; Dr Ayoush Lazikani; Dr Matthew Broome; Dr Chrystalina Antoniades Thursday 20 November, 5.30-8.30pm Ashmolean Education[...]
Nov 24 @ 1:00 pm Dept. of Engineering, Thom Building, Lecture Room 2
Interested in nano research combining physics, chemistry, engineering and materials science? The following talk may be of interest: Nanoscience is the science of the very small. But why is that interesting? Alexandra Grigore and Tarun[...]
Jan 16 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm SR A, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
DR SARAH TEICHMANN, Group Leader Teichmann Group, EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,Cambridge From techniques such as microscopy and FACS analysis, we know that many cell populations harbour heterogeneity in morphology[...]
Feb 7 @ 10:00 am Maths Institute
21CC is a multidisciplinary conference, which unites leading minds to explore the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Led by Oxford students it is partnered with the Oxford Martin School, which pioneers research, policy[...]
Feb 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Seminar Rooms A and B
Pluripotency, the capacity to generate all cell types of the body, lies at the foundation of development in mammals. In 1981 scientists discovered that pluripotency could be maintained in the laboratory in cells called embryonic[...]
Mar 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm MSTC (Medical Science Teaching Centre)
https://www.facebook.com/events/674554706001395 OGHG are very fortunate to host the Student Stop AIDS Campaign speaker tour! The Student Stop AIDS Campaign is a network of young people who are fighting for a world where no one dies[...]
Mar 13 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College
Alpár, a research associate at the University of Cambridge, guides us through some of the mysteries of sleep and circadian rhythms. He will present ground-breaking new research into the effects on our everyday lives of[...]
Mar 18 @ 7:00 pm St Aldates Tavern
Welcome to the tiny but well-ordered world of the nematode C. elegans. Prof Alison Woollard (University of Oxford, 2013 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer) is a “worm-person” – one who seeks answers to some of Life’s[...]
Mar 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Large Lecture Theatre
Long-term memory storage depends on transcription in the nucleus, an organelle shared by all synapses of a neuron. This raises a question: Are long-term changes cell-wide, or can induced gene products be spatially compartmentalized so[...]
Apr 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm The St Aldates Tavern
Dr. Sylvia McLain is biophysicist at the University of Oxford where she runs a research group who’s primary aim is to understand the physics of life, by looking a biology on the atomic level. Sylvia[...]
Apr 29 @ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Radcliffe Humanities, Seminar Room
Part of Book at Lunchtime, a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Free, all welcome – no booking required. Join us for a sandwich lunch from 12:45,[...]
May 6 @ 8:15 pm – 9:45 pm Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
On Wednesday of Week 2, we will be hosting Dr Joao Pedro Magalhaes who leads the Integrative Genomics of Aging Group at the Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool. As usual, our talks cost[...]
May 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern
As adults can tell us when they are feeling pain we can often simply ask them whether pain medication is working. As babies cannot talk, we need to rely on other measures to find out[...]
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford Museum of Natural History
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In ‘How to Clone a Mammoth’, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in “ancient DNA” research, walks readers[...]
May 20 @ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities
Part of Book at Lunchtime, a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Free, all welcome – no booking required. Join us for a sandwich lunch from 12:45,[...]
Jun 4 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Museum of Natural History
Join us at the Museum of Natural History for an evening of talks and networking to celebrate the research behind our new exhibition,‘Biosense’. The exhibition features contemporary research, including how bacteria sense their micro-world, why[...]
Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre
Professor Sir John Bell has been invited to Oxford Brookes to discuss the future of medicine and the role of the Oxford Academic Health Science Centre. His research interests are in the area of autoimmune[...]
Jun 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Brookes University, JHB Lecture Theatre, Headington Campus
Biomedical instrumentation challenges electronic engineers to create innovative circuits and systems that produce useful, reliable information about the human body. The electrical signals within the body can be monitored by biomedical equipment to diagnose a[...]
Jul 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern
How can we use chocolate to understand the neurobiology of depression? Join us to hear Dr Ciara McCabe discuss how we investigate reward function in the human brain and how this is related to depression.[...]
Jul 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Modern Art Oxford
Exhibition Tour with Paul Teigh Join Modern Art Oxford’s Production Manager, Paul Teigh, for a tour of the Lynn Hershman Leeson exhibition Origins of the Species (Part 2). Free, booking essential via https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-with-paul-teigh/