What's On at UWA

Curated by Fiona Gavino, Yirrkala Drawings presents an exhibition of 1940s and beyond Yolngu stories told through crayon drawings on brown paper, bark paintings, and sculptures from the Berndt Museum Collection.

Presented by the Berndt Museum and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as a part of the Perth International Arts Festival, this exhibition is the first major presentation of these works in Western Australia and has been developed through careful communication with the descendants of the artists and the Yirrkala Community Art Centre, Buku-Larmggay Mulka.

The Exercise and Performance Centre is offering a weekly Sports Recovery Session. It's focus is to assist restoration, regeneration and adaptation to training loads and competition. This class is catered to all athletes with personalised sports specific exercises given to each attendee. This class is fully supervised by a Physiotherapist with post graduate Sports Physiotherapy certification.

'Development and analysis of anti-SFK (Src family kinase) drug resistance in basal breast cancer cells'

'Expression of CCL21 on LIGHT treated NIH/3T3 cell lines and RIP1-Tag5 mice'

'The Role of p53 in Spontaneous Transformation of Liver Progenitor Cells in Culture'

'Unravelling the Yin and Yang in Epigenetic Modifications and DNA Topologies: Investigating the Influence of Cytosine Methylation on G-Quadruplex DNA Formation and Stability'

'Towards identifying a modifier gene's for muscular dystrophy'

Dr Stoddart gained her PhD in 2007 from the University of Glasgow, UK under the supervision of Professor Graeme Milligan. In 2009, she took up a postdoctoral position with Professor Stephen Hill and Dr Stephen Briddon within the Cell Signalling Research Group at the University of Nottingham, UK. The main focus of her research has been the development of fluorescent small molecule agonists and antagonists for GPCRs, namely for the adenosine receptors and histamine H1 receptor, and their use to probe novel aspects of GPCR pharmacology. Leigh was named the BPS (British Pharmacological Society) and ASCEPT (Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists) Outstanding Young Investigator for 2014 and is visiting Associate Professor Kevin Pfleger's laboratory as part of this award.

Nicola Ferreira is a Perkins Vacation Scholarship Student in Professor Aleksandra Filipovska's laboratory.

Members, staff and postgraduate students from all WA universities are invited to a casual breakfast, simply buy your own coffee or breakfast and join our table. Come along to network and learn more about our organisations.

Graduate Women WA Postgraduate Bursaries 2015 application round opens in May. http://www.graduatewomenwa.org.au/scholarships [email protected]

UWA Club Friday menu special: $15 buffet breakfast http://www.universityclub.uwa.edu.au/uniclub_contact_us/club_cafe/cafe_menus

About the lecture

George Winterton was one of Australia's foremost experts on the Constitution and constitutional law, with an international reputation. A long-standing Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney and Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales, he is remembered as an outstanding scholar and teacher to generations of colleagues and students.

Professor Winterton was a member of the Constitutional Commission 1985-87 and of the Republic Advisory Committee 1993; an Appointed Delegate to the Constitutional Convention 1998; and foundation member of the Council and Trustees of The Constitution Education Fund Australia. He was the founding editor of Constitutional Law and Policy Review and author of the seminal book on executive power, Parliament, the Executive and the Governor-General. He was the lead author of the influential textbook Australian Federal Constitutional Law, currently being carried into its third edition by Professor Winterton's academic colleagues.

This lecture series was inaugurated in 2010 to commemorate this outstanding contribution and to maintain this legacy of high and uncompromising standards in constitutional law, of considered and dispassionate reflection on constitutional issues, and of dedicated service to the Academy, the Commonwealth and the Constitution.

About the speaker

Hoong Phun (HP) Lee is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Monash University where he has held the Sir John Latham Chair of Law since 1995. Professor Lee's publications include Winterton's Australian Federal Constitutional Law: Commentary and Materials (Lawbook, 2013) (co-author). Professor Lee will be speaking on 'Of Courts and Judges: Under the spotlight, in the limelight and seeing the light'; a stimulating and comparative journey exploring a number of well recorded significant episodes in which courts and judges have been thrust into a storm of controversies.

Prof Eric Bateman is visiting from the University of Cape Town. He is an Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Director of the UCT Lung Institute. A light lunch will be service after the seminar.

Dr Samantha South is a Life Sciences technology transfer manager in the Research Development & Innovation (RDI) office at UWA. She has a PhD in behavioural pharmacology and an extensive background in medical research which includes working at Cornell University (NY), The University of Queensland and The Garvan Institute (UNSW). She has previously been involved in managing honours and PhD students, writing journal articles and involved with journal review panels and the scientific advisory committee of the Australian Pain Society. She was the preclinical manager at TetraQ, a preclinical contract organization specializing in providing preclinical drug development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and complementary medicine industries. This included contract research efficacy and pharmacokinetics assessment, development and validation of animal models of disease, managing an animal facility and participating on animal ethics committees. As such, she has extensive experience with commercial preclinical drug development strategies, regulatory milestones, and performance criteria (commercial go/no-go).

Samantha has an MBA and many years' experience in the technology transfer/biotech sector which includes the assessment and valuation of new technologies, devising IP protection strategies, managing out-licensing/partnering activities, raising investment into managing new start-up companies, research and licensing deals with a wide range of clients including Universities, SMEs, multinationals, state and federal governments. She is also currently involved on NHMRC development grant review panels and is the UWA nominee Director on new UWA spin-out companies, MiReven (miR-7 therapy) and Eridan (nanoparticle delivery).

The Prospective Students Office invites future students and their families to join us on a guided tour of UWA's stunning Crawley campus.

You will have the opportunity to explore our beautiful grounds and heritage buildings while learning more about the University, our courses and admission requirements.

The tour runs for about an hour, and ends at Student Central, where you will be able to collect course information booklets and other brochures.

This tour will be held on the Labour Day public holiday in March.

Online registrations will open in mid February via the website mentioned below.

Please note: tours are not intended for the general public.

The University of Western Australia's Careers Fair provides excellent opportunities for students to engage, network and meet prospective employers looking to recruit students for graduate programs, vacation work, internships and voluntary positions. From first year to final year, Undergraduate to Post-Graduate, the Careers Fair is for you. Come along and meet more than 80 exhibitors and attend the 10 presentations.

We generally think of bubbles as benign and harmless and yet they can manifest the most remarkable range of physical effects. Some of those effects are the stuff of our every day experience as in the tinkling of a brook or the sounds of breaking waves at the beach. But even these mundane effects are examples of the ability of bubbles to gather, focus and radiate energy (acoustic energy in the above examples). In other contexts that focusing of energy can lead to serious technological problems as when cavitation bubbles eat great holes through ships' propeller blades or cause a serious threat to the integrity of the spillways at the Hoover Dam.

In liquid-propelled rocket engines bubbles pose a serious threat to the stability of the propulsion system and in artificial heart valves they can cause serious damage to the red-blood cells. In perhaps the most extraordinary example of energy focusing, collapsing cavitation bubbles can emit not only sound but also light with black body radiation temperatures equal to that of the sun.

But, harnessed carefully, this ability to focus energy can also be put to constructive use. Cavitation bubbles are now used in a remarkable range of surgical and medical procedures, for example to emulsify tissue (most commonly in cataract surgery or in lithotripsy procedures for the reduction of kidney and gall stones) or to manipulate the DNA in individual cells.

By creating cavitation bubbles non-invasively and thereby depositing and focussing energy non-intrusively, one can generate minute incisions or target cancer cells. This lecture will begin by ranging over some of the fundamentals of cavitation and will end with a vision of the new horizons for the amazing bubble, in the process ranging from ship's propellers to medical supertools.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

All Welcome

In this public lecture, Professor Roland Span, Dean, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum will highlight how models developed for oil and gas applications are deficient for many important Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) applications. He will discuss new models for predicting the properties of CCS mixtures that have been developed by his research group.

Cost: free but RSVP required via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/span

After graduating from The University of Western Australia, Professor Anthony Levitt undertook his specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, which he completed in 1989. From 1992-2002 he was Head of the Mood Disorders Programs, initially at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto, followed by McMaster University in Hamilton, and subsequently, the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. In 2002 Professor Levitt was appointed Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Sunnybrook and at the Women's College Hospital, and in 2014 became Chief of the Brain Sciences Program at Sunnybrook. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts; served for 4 years as Chair of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (formerly MRC) Randomized Controlled Trials Committee, and has participated in large-scale, multi-site clinical trials for the past 2 decades. Professor Levitt's clinical practice and research is focused on the treatment of patients with resistant mood and anxiety disorders. He also has expertise in the facilitation of patient and family access to care in complex mental health and addiction systems. As a result of his expertise in this area of clinical medicine, Professor Levitt was recently appointed Medical Director of the newly created Family Navigation Project - a non-profit program designed to provide expert navigation of the mental health and addictions service system for youth aged 13-26 with serious mental health and/or addiction problems.

After graduating from The University of Western Australia, Professor Anthony Levitt undertook his specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, which he completed in 1989. From 1992-2002 he was Head of the Mood Disorders Programs, initially at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto, followed by McMaster University in Hamilton, and subsequently, the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. In 2002 Professor Levitt was appointed Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Sunnybrook and at the Women's College Hospital, and in 2014 became chief of the Brain Sciences Program at Sunnybrook. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts; served for 4 years as a Chair of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (formally MRC) Randomized Controlled Trials Committee, and has participated in large-scale, multi-site clinical trials for the past 2 decades.

Professor Levitt's clinical practice and research is focused on the treatment of patients with resistant mood and anxiety disorders. He also has expertise in the facilitation of patient and family access to care in complex mental health and addiction systems. As a result of his expertise in this area of clinical medicine, Professor Levitt was recently appointed Medical Director of the newly created Family Navigation Project - a non-profit program designed to provide expert navigation of the mental health and addictions service system for youth aged 13-26 with serious mental health and/or addiction problems.

You are invited to attend a free study day of Arts in the Early Modern Period devised for students and the general public. This day includes lectures, workshops and activities in Renaissance power politics, music dance, the art of rhetoric and visual material culture.

You're invited to attend a free public event with Mr Patrick Suckling, High Commissioner to India. 2014 was an important year for Australia - India relations with Prime Minister Tony Abbott's visit to India in September and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic address to Parliament during his official visit to Canberra in November. Come hear what 2015 holds for bilateral relations from Australia's High Commissioner to India. We look forward to seeing you there!

After more than a decade, world-renowned musical director William Christie returns to Australia with the phenomenal Les Arts Florissants and his selection of the world's most talented singer soloists of Les Jardin des Voix (The Garden of Voices). He will present a lecture-recital focusing on emotions conceived by Italian composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tickets $35 - please book at link for event information

If you're a Year 12 student (or a parent of a Year 12 student), this session will provide information about UWA's courses, admission requirements and how to achieve your study and career goals.

UWA Prospective Students Office staff will be on hand to answer your queries following the presentation.

About the talk

Listening to artefacts: decay on historic shipwrecks interprets the past and provides future hope.

About the Speaker

Dr Ian MacLeod works for the Western Australian Museum and is the Executive Director of the Fremantle Museums. He has over 36 years' experience as a conservator. His biggest preventive conservation task was the relocation of 3.5 million items from their central Perth location to a collection centre and suite of laboratories 9 km down the road in Welshpool. Installed shelving covers the distance of the round trip between Perth and Fremantle.

Ian gained his BSc (Hons) in fluorine chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1970 and completed his PhD in 1974 on the polarography of the highly reactive hexafluoride metal complexes dissolved in liquid anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. He had postdoctoral stints at the University of Glasgow and at Murdoch University between 1974-1978. He has pioneered the use of in-situ corrosion studies to determine decay and preservation methods for stabilising shipwreck artefacts. He has also applied his skills to solving complex deterioration processes on Aboriginal rock art sites, tombstones and cathedrals. He gained his Doctor of Science in Materials Conservation in 2007.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the International Institute for Conservation and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He is also an accredited professional conservator (PMAICCM). He has written more than 170 conservation and corrosion research papers. His passion for decay has been applied to the preservation of St George's Cathedral and to the conservation of textiles at New Norcia. In his spare time he is a bellringer and chair of the Swan Bells Foundation and President of the Clan MacLeod Society of WA.

Door open at 7.00pm. (There will be a short AGM at 7:15pm followed by the speaker at 7:30pm)

Cost: $5 donation. (Members free).

This lecture will examine new paradigms for developing cultural heritage as embodied museum experiences inside a series of large-scale immersive and interactive museum display systems.

The lecture will conclude with a focus on two exhibitions currently in production: the 'Atlas of Maritime Buddhism', about the spread of Buddhism from India to China, and 'Illuminating Asia', the world touring show.

Cost: Free, but RSVP requested via the webpage http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/kenderdine