University Grants Committee

Plenary Lectures

  • Professor

    David A. Clifton
  • Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Clinical Machine Learning
    NIHR Research Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Professor David A. Cliftondeco

Advances in Non-imaging AI for Healthcare Interventions

Modern capabilities in (non-imaging) AI have advanced a great deal over recent years, and offer many opportunities for improvements in patient care. This talk will provide a bird's-eye view of the landscape in modern AI outside medical imaging, with examples from Oxford research in creating healthcare interventions that are making impact with patients' lives.

  • Professor

    Mitinori Saitou
  • Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, Japan
  • Professor Mitinori Saitoudeco

From in vitro gametogenesis to Human Biology

The germ-cell lineage ensures the creation of new individuals, perpetuating/diversifying the genetic and epigenetic information across the generations. We have been investigating the mechanism for germ-cell development, and have shown that mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs)/induced pluripotent stem cells (miPSCs) are induced into primordial germ cell-like cells (mPGCLCs) with a robust capacity both for spermatogenesis and oogenesis and for contributing to offspring. These works have served as a basis for elucidating key mechanisms during germ-cell development such as epigenetic reprogramming, sex determination, meiotic entry, and nucleome programming...

  • Professor

    Justine D. Mintern
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Research
    Bio21 Institute
    The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Professor Justine D. Minterndeco

Decoding Dendritic Cell Signalling Pathways

Vaccination is now the most successful method for eradicating infectious diseases. It also has the potential to prevent and/or treat cancer. A deeper comprehension of the underlying mechanisms involved in an immune response is needed in order to advance the fields of immunotherapy and vaccine development. The Mintern laboratory examines the molecular pathways that enhance efficient immunity during vaccination, infection, and cancer immunity. To do this, Professor Justine Mintern and the members of her research team investigate the fundamental biology of dendritic cells. This involves investigation of cellular pathways including endocytosis, recycling, ubiquitin-mediated trafficking, and autophagy, as well as identifying...