Watch our seminars
Our Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars are held every Tuesday lunchtime during term time. The programme features speakers covering all our main research themes - signalling, cardiovascular pharmacology, neuropharmacology and medical chemistry/drug discovery - and includes academics from the UK and overseas.
We also aim to feature academics at all stages of their career. Each seminar is hosted by a member of our academic staff and are held from 12noon on Tuesdays, in person in our David Smith Lecture Theatre and available remotely via Teams.
From Hilary Term 2023, seminars will be recorded (where speakers are happy for us to do so) and will be available to view here.
Professorial Lecture Series 2025
| 29 May 2025 | Host: Professor Fran Platt | |
| Professor Grant Churchill, Professor of Chemical Pharmacology | The road not taken – pragmatic adventures in academia, second messengers and drug discovery | Watch |
Trinity Term 2025
| 17 April 2025 | Host: Professor Antony Galione | |
| Professor Claudio Cuello, School of Biomedical Sciences, McGill University | Debunking old dogmas leading to the discovery of a brain NGF metabolic pathway, explaining the Alzheimer’s cholinergic atrophy | Watch |
| 20 May 2025 | Host: Professor Antony Galione | |
| Professor Jaswinder Sethi, School of Human Development and Health, University of Southampton | Obesity and immunometabolic health – mechanistic insights from adipose tissue | Watch |
| OxON Seminar: 23 May 2025 | Host: Professor Antony Galione | |
| Dr Margarida Ruas, Oxford Centre for Medicines Discovery | Targeting organelle dysfunction for new therapeutics at the ARUK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute | Watch |
| OxON Seminar: 30 May 2025 | Host: Dr Ira Milosevic | |
| Professor Timothy A Ryan, Tri Institutional Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine | Metabolic vulnerabilities and opportunities in brain function | Watch |
Hilary Term 2025
| Tuesday 11 February 2025 | Host: Professor Ming Lei | |
| Professor Dario DiFrancesco, The PaceLab, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan | The ‘funny’ current revisited: structure mirroring function | Watch |
| Tuesday 18 February 2025 | Host: Professor Antony Galione | |
| Professor Mike Ludwig, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh | There is more to vasopressin than meets the eye | Watch |
| Tuesday 25 February 2025 | Host: Dr Abhi Banerjee | |
| Dr Mike Ashby, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol | Early postnatal development of neocortex-wide activity patterns in GABAergic and pyramidal neurons | Watch |
Trinity Term 2024
| Tuesday 23 April 2024 | Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro | |
| Professor David Beech, School of Medicine, University of Leeds | PIEZO1 force sensor in cardiovascular health and its potential as a drug targeta | Watch |
| Tuesday 14 May 2024 | Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro | |
| Associate Professor Bernard Drumm, Dundalk Institute of Technology | Sex differences in neural control of urethral smooth muscle | Watch |
Hilary Term 2024
| Tuesday 16 January 2024 | Host: Dr Liliana Minichiello | |
| Professor David Wyllie, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh | Modelling fragile X syndrome with human iPSC-derived neurons: don’t ignore the glia | Watch |
| Tuesday 23 January 2024 | Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro | |
| Professor Iain Greenwood, Vascular Biology Research Centre, University College London | Not just an affair of the heart: a look at ERG channels and Kv7 channels in smooth muscle | Watch |
| Tuesday 27 February 2024 | Host: Dr Barbara Zonta | |
| Professor Peter Brophy, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh | Assembly of axonal domains that promote nerve conduction: the Axon Initial Segment and the node of Ranvier | Watch |
Michaelmas Term 2023
| Tuesday 31 October 2023 | Host: Associate Professor Ming Lei | |
| Professor Steve Watson, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham | Pharmacology of platelet immune receptors: mechanisms of activation and development of therapeutics | Watch |
| Tuesday 28 November 2023 | Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan | |
| Dr John O’Neill, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge | Daily regulation of osmostasis and mammalian cell function | Watch |
Trinity Term 2023
| Tuesday 25 April 2023 | Host: Dr Kerstin Timm/Associate Professor Lisa Heather (DPAG) | |
| Professor Mike Murphy, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge | Preventing mitochondrial superoxide production as a therapeutic strategy in heart attack and stroke | Watch |
| Tuesday 2 May 2023 | Host: Professor Trevor Sharp/Dr Lauren Burgeno | |
| Professor Catharine Winstanley, University of British Columbia | Following the cues - how do sound and light cues impact risky decision making? | Watch |
| Tuesday 6 June 2023 | Host: Professor Chris Garland | |
| Professor Hikaru Hashitani, Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University | Pharmacological targets in the treatment of LUTS focusing on microvasculature and spontaneous contractions of muscle components including muscularis mucosae | Watch |
Hilary Term 2023
| Tuesday 24 January 2023 | Host: Professor Nigel Emptage | |
| Professor Dmitri Rusakov, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology | Adaptive plasticity of central synapses and their astroglial environment | Watch |
| Tuesday 31 January 2023 | Host: Professor Trevor Sharp | |
| Professor Graeme Henderson, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol | Opioid pharmacology: from molecule to coffin | Watch |
| Tuesday 7 February 2023 | Host: Professor Fran Platt | |
| Professor Mina Ryten, Genetics and Genomic Medicine, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health | Using long-read RNA-sequencing to study the hidden transcriptome at the GBA1/GBAP1 locus with implications for our understanding of its role in Parkinson's disease | Watch |
| Tuesday 21 February 2023 | Host: Dr Thomas Lanyon-Hogg | |
| Assistant Professor Marina Rubini, School of Chemistry, University College Dublin | Non-natural amino acids and bio-orthogonal ligations in peptide and protein engineering | Watch |
| Tuesday 28 February 2023 | Host: Dr Barbara Zonta | |
| Professor Hendrik van Veen, Cambridge Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge | Mechanisms and inhibition of multidrug transportersMechanisms and inhibition of multidrug transporters | Watch |