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Displaying from Saturday, July 14, 2012
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July 2012
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Tuesday 17 |
A public lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director, The UWA Oceans Institute.
In this lecture, Professor Duarte will develop a case for the existence of a long relationship, at the deepest possible level, between humans and the ocean and submit that the depth of this relationship (...)
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Wednesday 18 |
10:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - The Transition from Health to Sickness - the role of plant hormones in underpinning plant pathogen virulence strategies : Speaker will also present at CSIRO Floreat on previous day.
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"Our research focuses upon how the virulent bacterial phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae establishes disease in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. P. syringae delivers a suite of ~ 30 effector proteins into the plant cell." Detailed abstract available [email protected]
12:00 - SEMINAR - School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar : Towards Enzyme Enhancement Therapies for Gaucher Disease
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Gaucher disease (GD) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the accumulation of β-D-glucosylceramide within the lysosomes of the cell. This occurs because of insufficient lysosomal glucocerebrosidase (GBA) activity, which is a direct result of mutations in the encoding gene. Some (...)
Dr Lloyd D’Orsogna is a Clinical Immunologist and fellow of both the Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) and Royal College of Pathologists of Australiasia (RCPA). He is a new investigator recently returned from overseas after completing his PhD studies with honours (Cum Laude) in the (...)
18:30 - SEMINAR - New Treatments in Huntington's Disease - FREE public seminar : The seminar is designed as an information and discussion session for patients, families and interested individuals
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The management of Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Pty Ltd under the auspices of York Neuroscience Discovery Inc invite you to join us at a seminar presented by Dr Peter K Panegyres on the New Treatments in Huntington’s disease.
Topics covered during the seminar include updates on the Reach (...)
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Saturday 21 |
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - Roman Archaeology Group Free Lecture : Two illustrated lectures on Roman Archaeology: Palmyra, and the Roman Peloponnese
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The Roman Archaeology Group of Perth presents two fully illustrated lectures on Roman Archaeology: Palmyra: an ancient oasis between East and West presented by Rebecca Banks; and The Roman Peloponnese presented by Kevin O'Toole.
Saturday 21 July, 1:30pm at Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA.
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Tuesday 24 |
The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The course is hosted by the Centre for Applied Statistics and we offer discounted rate fees to UWA Graduate Research Students.
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A public lecture by Michael Collins, Emeritus Professor, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton.
Michael Collins is Ikerbasque Fellow at the Plentzia Marine Station (PIE), the University of the Basque Country(UPV/EHU), Spain and Emeritus Professor in the School of (...)
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Wednesday 25 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Turning Back the Cardiac Regenerative Clock: Lessons from the Neonate�
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I received my Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne in 2009, where I studied the developmental origins of cardiac hypertrophy under the supervision of Prof. Lea Delbridge and Prof. Walter Thomas. Following my Ph.D., I undertook postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, USA) (...)
17:00 - EVENT - Oxford and Rhodes Information Evening : An information evening on applying to Oxford University and the Rhodes Scholarship.
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The Oxford University Society of Western Australia Inc. invites you to an information evening on applying to Oxford University and the Rhodes Scholarship.
Join Rachel Paterson (2011 WA Rhodes Scholar), Justin Audcent (Oxford University graduate and partner at Ernst & Young) and (...)
18:15 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society Annual Lecture 2012 : Mathematics and Women - 36 years at The University of Western Australia
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The Annual Lecture is the highlight of the year for the UWA Historical Society and Convocation and we are delighted to welcome Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger to the podium to reflect upon her years on Campus and subsequent experiences
and achievements.
Mathematician Cheryl Praeger (...)
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Thursday 26 |
8:30 - EVENT - Quiet Day for Academics and General Staff : Time to reflect, create and renew
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Set on a lovely bush block in Mundaring, the Quiet Day provides some space to 'be alone' in the company of other UWA academics and general staff with the intention of marking out some good quality thinking/reflection time.
There is no formal content to the day – no presentations or (...)
9:00 - COURSE - Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis : A Short Course using IBM SPSS
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The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about how to analyse binary or survival data.
The course is hosted by the Centre for Applied Statistics and we offer discounted rate fees to UWA Graduate Research Students.
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The UWA LMS (Moodle) has been successfully upgraded to Version 2.2. If you missed the demonstration last week, we are running a repeat session.
16:30 - SEMINAR - UWA Religion and Globalisation Seminar - Economics and Theology : An Overview of the new Interdisciplinary Field and its Significance
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Professor Paul Oslington will present dimensions of the renewed engagement between economics and theology. He will trace the theological influences and origins of economics, discuss religious economics as well as religion and development. The seminar will cover Adam Smith’s invisible hand (...)
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Monday 30 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Geoff Laurent presents "Stem cells and lung regeneration"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Stem cells and lung regeneration" by Professor Geoff Laurent, Director, Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, UWA. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Sexuality as a Human Right: The transformation of sex from sin, disease, identity, companionship, and recreation, to rights
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A public lecture by Dr Gilbert Herdt, Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC).
Over the past two centuries, Western civilization has witnessed a broad set of paradigm changes that characterize how and why we think about human sexuality as a social expression (...)
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August 2012
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Thursday 02 |
14:00 - PUBLIC TALK - STATISTICS SEMINAR : Bootstrap Methods for Inference with Cluster-Sample IV Models
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Microeconomic data often have within-cluster dependence. This dependence affects standard error estimation and inference in regression models, including the instrumental variables model. Standard corrections assume that the number of clusters is large, but when this is not the case, Wald (...)
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Friday 03 |
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music and Institute of Advanced Studies presents: Chamber! Three: Julianne Baird
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American soprano Julianne Baird returns to The University of Western Australia as IAS Professor-at-Large to perform in this special event. Baird is renowned as an early music specialist and possesses a magnificent voice. She will be joined in recital by Paul Wright (violin) and other outstanding (...)
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