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Displaying from Wednesday, June 01, 2016
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June 2016
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Friday 03 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Impact of different water allocation strategies to manage groundwater resources in Western Australia: equity and efficiency considerations
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In many parts of the world groundwater is depleting at an alarming rate. Water regulation authorities are facing the challenge of reducing groundwater extraction by existing users. However, to take appropriate adaptation measures it is necessary to understand the distributional consequences of (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Postgraduate Showcase: Frontiers in Agriculture : Listen to some of UWA's top postgraduate students present the exciting highlights of their research in agriculture and related areas
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All are welcome to attend the annual Postgraduate Showcase: Frontiers in Agriculture.
The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their research. It highlights relevant research and progress being made in the area of Agriculture and (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Fresh Science Pub Night : Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as WA's fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.
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Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as our fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.
The ten young scientists will describe their scientific discoveries in the time it takes a party sparkler to burn out.
One hundred early-caree (...)
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Friday 10 |
18:30 - DINNER - ASMR MRW(R) Gala Dinner : Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Medical Research Week (R) WA Gala Dinner 2016
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The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)WA Branch invites you to share and enjoy the fellowship of the health and medical research community at our annual gala dinner to celebrate ASMR medical research week (MRW®)
Friday 10th June – 6:30pm for 7pm start
Ballroom - Duxton (...)
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July 2016
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Friday 08 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - How can CERI help researchers develop an entrepreneurial mindset? : Discover what the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation has to offer UWA researchers
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This workshop will outline how CERI can help researchers develop entrepreneurial skills and assist them through the innovation process. CERI is a not-for-profit organisation based in Nedlands.
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Tuesday 12 |
14:00 - Short course - ANOVA, Linear regression and Logistic Regression : The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA).
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This course covers techniques that can be used to analyse data with continuous and categorical variables. The course will begin with simple linear regression and then proceed with approaches that can be used with more than two variables such as multiple regression. ANOVA with interactions and (...)
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August 2016
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Tuesday 02 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Contemporary Measurements of Lung Mechanics � What are they? What do they tell us? : Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series
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Speaker: Professor Raffaele Dellacà was awarded a Masters degree in Information Technology Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1997. He obtained a PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2001 on the assessment of respiratory mechanics by opto-electronic plethysmography and forced oscillations (...)
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Friday 05 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Importance of accounting for private benefits and increasing opportunity costs in planning ecological restoration.
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Conservation projects implemented on private land often generate both public and private benefits. Private benefits are important determinants of cost-effectiveness, success, and adoption of such projects. However, they have not been adequately considered in ecological restoration planning and (...)
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Monday 08 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Why NMR matters in Metabolomics : In principle, NMR is an ideal technique for metabolomics.
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In principle, NMR is an ideal technique for metabolomics. It is non-destructive, non-biased, highly quantitative, requires no prior separation, permits the identification of novel compounds and needs no chemical derivatization. However, relative to other analytical techniques NMR is slow and (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Novel therapy by selective degradation of abnormal extracellular matrix : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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Dr. Juliana Hamzah is a NHMRC-National Heart Foundation R.D. Wright research fellow with expertise on targeted delivery for imaging and therapy. Previously she was an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Nanomedicine, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (...)
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Friday 12 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Category Errors in Natural Resource Management Planning � Issues and Solutions
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Documenting the contribution of nature to human wellbeing, e.g., as human values or ecosystem services, is critical to the effective management of natural resources. However, problems with classifying desirable end states, including the mixing of means and ends, undermine research, planning and (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
7:30 - PUBLIC TALK - 2016 Women in Agriculture Breakfast : Each year UWA SNAGS host a women in agriculture breakfast to introduce readily involved and influential women of the industry to those studying in the natural and agricultural sciences
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Each year UWA SNAGS host a women in agriculture breakfast to introduce readily involved and influential women of the industry to those studying in the natural and agricultural sciences.
This year the event will be on the 16th August at 7:30am. This event has been a great success in (...)
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Friday 19 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south-west of Western Australia
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This study aims provide a framework through which the trade-offs between prescribed burning, wildfire suppression and wildfire damages can be brought to light and evaluated. It uses an economic model in conjunction with a wildfire simulator to test different prescribed-burning strategies and (...)
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Saturday 20 |
Join us for a jam-packed weekend of FREE biology-based talks, hands-on workshops and two ticketed science-themed theatre shows! Meet and talk to scientists about their studies and what it is like to be a researcher. Explore the expanse that is biology; learn about the complex lives of sharks, how (...)
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Thursday 25 |
11:00 - EVENT - To tweet or not to tweet? Social media for Scientists (Thursday August 25th 11am-1pm)
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UWA scientists are invited to meet with Dr Melanie Bagg from the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC). Melanie will share tips and advice on the best use of social media to communicate your research with the media and the communities you want to reach.
Melanie has a PhD in Medicine (...)
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Friday 26 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Think long term: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning in the south-west of Western Australia
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This study aims provide a framework through which the trade-offs between prescribed burning, wildfire suppression and wildfire damages can be brought to light and evaluated. It uses an economic model in conjunction with a wildfire simulator to test different prescribed-burning strategies and (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - An Anthropological Journey Through Cellular Life : Public talk with SymbioticA resident researcher Christine Beaudoin
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Christine Beudoin will discuss her year-long research project which looks into the relationship between humans and lab-grown cells, as maintained by scientific methodology and harnessed by both biohacking and artistic practices. Her hands-on explorations have included mammalian tissue culture (...)
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Monday 29 |
18:15 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'Shooting an Elephant: Why I am Writing a History of Human-Animal Emotions in the Age of the African Safari' : Hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
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In this paper, Professor Iain McCalman will outline why and how a small episode of elephant killing during Theodore Roosevelt’s eleven-month African Safari of 1909–1910 led to his current book-in-progress on hunting and human-animal emotions. This book will tell the story of an eminent circle (...)
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September 2016
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Tuesday 06 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Novel mechanistic insights into energy dysfunction in cardiomyopathies : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Following completion of her PhD in cellular electrophysiology at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Livia Hool undertook 2 years’ postdoctoral research as recipient of an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (...)
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Thursday 15 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Importance of Marine Protected Areas for Our Oceans : A public lecture - part of the 2016 Our Ocean conference
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This satellite event is part of the 2016 Our Ocean Conference. Held in Washington, D.C. on September 15-16 and hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the conference focuses on the key ocean issues of our time – marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate-rel (...)
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