Events
Explore upcoming seminars, lectures, workshops and public events from the Big Data Institute.
Does a giraffe need a telomere-to-telomere diploid genome assembly?
Thursday, 3 September 2026, 10am to 11am
Speaker(s): Prof Pavel Pevzner (University of California at San Diego (UCSD))
Venue:
Big Data Institute - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0
Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Series: BDI Distinguished Seminar
DELPHI: AI in Epidemiology
Friday, 11 September 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Professor Ewan Birney (EMBL-EBI)
Venue:
Big Data Institute - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0
Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Series: BDI Distinguished Seminar
What can the eye tell us about our health?
Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Prof Denize Atan (NDCN, University of Oxford)
Venue:
Big Data Institute - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0
Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Series: Digital Phenotyping
Beyond Chatbots and Vibe Coding: AI Agents as a New Research Workflow
Thursday, 1 October 2026, 10am to 11am
Speaker(s): Yong Wang (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Series: Data Engineers Meeting
A Gentle Introduction to Python
Monday, 12 October 2026, 9am to 11am
Speaker(s): Dr Matthieu J. Miossec (Head of Computational Genomics SRF and Senior Computational Biologist, Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Advancing clinical utility of genomic discoveries with EHR and molecular biomarkers
Monday, 9 November 2026, 10am to 11am
Speaker(s): Dr Xilin Jiang (xj262@medschl.cam.ac.uk)
Venue:
Big Data Institute - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0
Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Series: BDI Distinguished Seminar
ML Workshop: Combining Machine Learning (ML) with Medical Statistics - A Worked Example
Thursday, 12 November 2026, 10am to 11.30am
Speaker(s): Dr Lei Clifton (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Fieggen (IBME, University of Oxford), Greg Simond (BDI, University of Oxford)
Venue:
Big Data Institute - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0
Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Series: AI/ML Workshop