Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 9am to 5pm
Richard Doll Lecture theatre, Old Road Campus,
Oxford OX3 7LF
An interactive networking day for early-career researchers working across the ‘brain omics’ spectrum from genomics to transcriptomics to proteomics and epigenomics. With a focus on psychiatric and brain-related conditions, the event will highlight the opportunities and challenges of working with large-scale datasets, while fostering connections and collaborations across disciplines.
[REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED]
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09:00-10:00 |
Registration and tea/coffee |
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10:00-10:10 |
Welcome and overview – Prof Naomi Wray |
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10:10-10:55 |
Keynote 1 | Prof Nicola Whiffin |
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10:55-12:10 |
Research Talks – Genetics & Psychiatric Genomics |
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10:55 |
Medication-wide association study of polygenic risk for addiction in UK Biobank |
Dr Michal Mateusz Graczyk |
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11:10 |
Genomic network analysis (gna): a multivariate framework for dissecting pleiotropy and identifying trait-specific biology |
Dr Jackson Thorp |
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11:25 |
Mitochondria and psychiatric disorders |
Dr Xiaotong Wang |
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11:40 |
Stage-resolved multi-omic annotations from human prefrontal cortex refine schizophrenia heritability estimation and polygenic prediction |
Dr Ang Li, |
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11:55 |
Genetic and phenotypic associations with sustained antidepressant use in mdd |
Ms Alicia Walker, |
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12:10-1:25 |
Lunch |
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1:25-2:10 |
Keynote 2 | Dr Lahiru Handunnetthi |
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2:10-2:45 |
Flash Talks |
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2:10 |
What can genetics and immunology tell us about psychiatric disorders? |
Dr Mary-Ellen Lynall |
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2:15 |
Functional genomic investigation of the immune hypothesis of psychiatry disorders |
Dr Isabelle McGrath |
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2:20 |
Brain disorder mechanisms and therapeutic targets from developmental gene regulation |
Dr Narjes Rohani |
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2:25 |
Voltage-gated calcium channels in bipolar disorder: Transcriptomic isoform discovery |
Dr Adam Bates |
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2:30 |
Rare Variant Association Testing in Ribosome-Profiling smORFs |
Dr Ruebena Dawes |
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2:35 |
Omics, but for physiology – brain-distributed recordings across genetic models for schizophrenia |
Dr Jeffrey Stedehouder |
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2:40 |
Polygenic prediction of serious and common antipsychotic side-effects |
Ms Sasha Proctor |
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2:45 |
The NIHR SMILE BioResource: A platform for severe mental illness research |
Dr Anthony Quinn |
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2:50-3:20 |
Break and tea/coffee |
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3:20-5:00 |
Research Talks – Multi-omics and Machine Learning |
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3:20 |
Biobank-scale modelling of circadian misalignment in blood |
Dr Clara Albinana |
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3:35 |
Peripheral omics biomarkers in psychiatry: hazards and hope |
Dr Chloe Yap |
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3:50 |
Using proteomics to understand disease subtypes in neurodegeneration |
Dr Laura Winchester |
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4:05 |
A single-nuclei multiome map of Wernicke’s area in autism |
Dr Emilie Wigdor |
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4:20 |
Do fats foretell the future? Using lipidomics and ML to predict psychosis onset |
Dr Emily Bowman |
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4:35 |
Benchmarking ML-guided design vs directed evolution for AAV capsid engineering
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Ms Marina Luchner |
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4:50 |
Discussion and closing remarks | Prof Stephan Sanders |
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