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School of Psychology, University of Western Australia

Ben has been a student in the UWA School of Psychology for the last 10 years or so. He completed his honours thesis, Masters of Psychology (Clinical) and PhD under the supervision of Prof colin MacLeod. This culminated in Ben being (...)

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Prof Seow's presentation will focus on recent findings on the structural and functional properties in smooth muscle and how these unique smooth muscle properties allow the muscle to function over a much larger length range compared with that in skeletal muscle, and also how dysregulation of these (...)

Dr. Seow specializes in smooth and skeletal muscle cell biology/physiology. His current research focus is on the mechanical function, ultrastructure and biochemistry of airway smooth muscle, in health and disease. There are two main components of his current CIHR-funded research program. One (...)

School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University

After completing my PhD at the University of Giessen, Germany, I joined the School of Psychology, University of Queensland as a post-doctoral researcher (1990-93) and member of the academic staff (1994-2014). I was awarded an (...)

The National Disability Insurance Scheme brings transformational changes to the disability sector. Most significant is the doubling of the 70,000 workforce over the next few years and the opportunities this will bring for new entrants to the industry and the contribution to the lives of people (...)

Samuel Lundin is a Visiting Professor at the Marshall Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Training. He received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he worked on T-cell regulation of immunity and tolerance to food antigens. This was followed by joining the group (...)

The Gates Foundation and its Grand Challenges partners are now accepting applications for a number of programs, including its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, which encourages innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions.

To learn more about the (...)

2015 UWA Gleddon Visiting Fellow Dr Kirill V. Larin, Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, USA will talk about "Optical Coherence Tomography: imaging from molecules to whole (embryonic) body" and Dr Kirk W. Feindel, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA (...)

School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology

David started his career as a theoretical physicist, completing his PhD at Caltech under Nobel prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann. His interest in neurophysiology started there under the influence of Prof Jack Pettigrew. David's (...)

As a health professional, a career within the Australian Defence Force means you'll get to apply your medical skills in unique circumstances. These include multinational peacekeeping and reconstruction interventions, critical incident recovery assistance, aero-medical evacuation, emergency response (...)

The Speaker: Dr David Coall completed his PhD in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia and his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Centre for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. After returning to UWA as a Research (...)

The Telethon Kids Institute Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines & Infectious Diseases invite consumers and community members to have a say on a wide range of research into childhood infectious diseases including: - Ear Health - Vaccines - Antibiotic use - Infections in pregnancy. If you have an (...)

Professor Hui Yao LAN is a Chon-Ming Li Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, an Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine; an Associate Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences; Director of (...)

The Symposium of WA Neuroscience (SWAN) will begin with a plenary presentation from Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, at 17:30 on Wednesday 8 April, at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. The meeting will continue on 9 April at the same venue, featuring four themed sessions on: (i) (...)

Heiko Lickert is a Full Professor and Chair of Beta-cell Biology in the Medical Faculty of the Technical University Munich (TUM). Professor Lickert is also Director of the Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research and Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Stem Cell Research at the (...)

Dear Researcher,

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (formerly known as iVEC) is calling for applications from researchers to access time on the Petascale supercomputer - Magnus. If you are interested in using supercomputing resources for your research in 2015 - 2016, please consider (...)

Find out which of our undergraduate mature-age entry pathways are most appropriate to you based on your individual study history, and learn more about what to expect from student life.

Our staff will also be on hand to answer any questions you have about studying at UWA.

Representatives from UWA's Exchange Partner institutions, returned students and faculty representatives will be there to tell you all about the fantastic opportunities they have available. Make sure your students come along to the Oak Lawn to check it out!

Kevin V. Morris received his BS degree from Humboldt State University in 1996 and his PhD in 2001 from the University of California Davis. During his post-doctoral training at the University of California San Diego (2001-2004) he determined that non-coding RNAs were capable of modulating (...)