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Department of Statistics

Bioinformatics at the heart of biology and genomics medicine

The Ninth annual Florence Nightingale Lecture, given by Professor Dame Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. Held on Thursday 21st April 2016.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Relationships' part 2 - New fathers

How do new fathers form relationships with their children? What is the unique role of a father? What do they contribute to the development of their children? What is male post-natal depression?
Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life

What Makes You Tick?

How do you know when it's time to wake up or go to sleep? More powerful than any alarm are your circadian rhythms.
Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life

Shedding Light on the Situation

Light is more than just light bulbs and sunshine! Researchers at the University of Oxford use different types of light to learn more about all sorts of interesting things.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Relationships' part 1 - People and plants: balancing conservation and commerce

How can working with people to understand how they use their local plants be used to protect them when industry moves in? How do we find and conserve areas of high 'bioquality'?
The Physics of Fine-Tuning

Fine Tuning in Biology

Ard Louis in conversation with George Ellis. Part three - Fine Tuning in Biology.
Anthropology

'Fat knowledge', epigenetics and the enchantment of relational biology

An Anthropology Departmental Seminar presented by Megan Warin (Adelaide) on the ways in which obesity is understood, embodied and enacted, 16 October 2015
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Killers' part 3 - Mental illness and violence

Forensic psychiatry can help us understand the causes and best treatments for mentally disordered offenders inside and outside of the prison system
Christmas Science Lectures

Carrots, spiders and red salt – a fascination with light capture in biology

Using physics, chemistry and biology, the fascination with light capture in nature will be explained in a multi-coloured and animated well – prepare for six-eyed spiders, purple carrots and red salt.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Clues' part 3 - Picking apart the genetics of speech and language disorders

How do you start to pick apart speech at the genetic level? Dr Dianne Newbury explains what Specific Language Impairment is and how her research is unravelling a pretty complicated picture.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

The Heart and the Head, Part 5

Daniel Bulte, from the Department of Oncology, speaks about what happens when they discover an ‘incidental finding’.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

The Heart and the Head, Part 4

Portia Westall, from the Donnelly group at the WTCHG, speaks about how she thinks about music when working on DNA sequences.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

The Heart and the Head, Part 3

Erwan Atcheson, from the Jenner Institute, speaks about his time studying parasitic worms, and the worries that come with it.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

The Heart and the Head, Part 2

Anna Fowler, from the Lunter group at the WTCHG, speaks about how the patterns around a close-call in the desert makes her think about her work.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

The Heart and the Head, Part 1

Irina Pulyakhina, from the Julian Knight group at the WTCHG, speaks about her time helping a Masters student through an important presentation.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Clues' part 2 - Watching penguins

How do you understand how large populations of penguins on Antarctica change? And how can you use this information to protect penguins?
St Hugh's College

A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us

Professor Anthony Watts, C W Maplethorpe Fellow in Biological Sciences delivers a very interesting lecture entitled 'A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us'.
St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Teddy Talks

Seeing the Invisible in Health and Disease

How our ability to now see the invisible is central to research in biology – from infectious disease to cancer and Alzheimers.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Suffering History: Phenomenology at the Intersection of Disease and Illness

A presentation by Austin Argentieri.
Keble College

The Avian Genome Explosion

The ASC Trinity Term Lecture delivered by Professor Tom Gilbert, exploring the analysis of bird genomes and evolution.

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