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Displaying from Thursday, March 31, 2016
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March 2016
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Thursday 31 |
18:00 - EVENT - China in Conversation : Seeking Harmony: Common Diseases in Chinese and Western Medicine
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China in Conversation is a high-level public forum series presented by Confucius Institute at UWA on hot topics in various aspects of contemporary China, inviting experts from China and Australia to dialogue in order to exchange their views and thus to enhance mutual understanding of different (...)
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April 2016
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Monday 04 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Australasian Cytometry Society 2016 Roadshow in Polychromatic Flow Cytometry
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CMCA@Perkins will be hosting this workshop. For bookings please email: cytometry.org.au/content/UpcomingMeetings. A one hour seminar will also be held on Tuesday 5 April.
Dr Pratip Chattopadhyay is from the ImmunoTechnology Section, Vaccine Research Centre, NIH, and Thomas Ashhurst from the (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Tone reinforces airway smooth muscle: A walk across the spectrum of biological scales : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The contractile capacity of airway smooth muscle (ASM) is labile and an abundant literature reports that a great diversity of inflammatory mediators increases its contractile capacity. This acquired hypercontractility is allegedly implicated in the variable component of airway (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Prof Brett Hayes (UNSW), with post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard
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Presenter: Prof Brett Hayes
Brett Hayes is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of New South Wales. He is a former Head of the School of Psychology at UNSW, and has held previous appointments at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, and honourary appointments (...)
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Friday 15 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Bayliss Seminar Series : Using a Novel Multi-Modal Spectroscopic Imaging “Platform” to Increase Our Understanding of the Biochemical Mechanisms of Brain Disease
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Neurodegenerative diseases and disorders are a huge health and economic concern, for both developed and developing countries. Unfortunately, despite large research efforts, few successful therapies have been developed. In part, this is attributed to incomplete understanding of the chemical (...)
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Monday 18 |
On behalf of the organising committee of the Symposium of WA Neuroscience (SWAN), in association with the Neurotrauma Research Program of WA and supported by the WA Neuroscience Research Institute, the Australasian Neuroscience Society and Murdoch University, it is my pleasure to announce that (...)
12:00 - EVENT - "Plan on a Page" Workshops : Learn about this new tool to help you draft a compelling and comprehensive case to research funders.
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UWA encourages its researchers to be proactive and plan early for applications to competitive grant schemes. With the move to continuous rounds of the ARC Linkage program from the 1st July, it is more important than ever to plan ahead!
To help you in this regard, the UWA Research Development team (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
8:30 - Short course - Introduction to statistics using Microsoft Excel : The course is open to anyone and is designed for those who have little or no experience with statistics or Microsoft Excel but who would like to learn more.
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This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
Professor David Lawrence from the Telethon Kids Institute and the Faculty of Education will present key results from Young Minds Matter, and will also draw on findings from Student Attendance and Educational Outcomes: Every Day Counts and the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey to (...)
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May 2016
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Monday 02 |
8:30 - WORKSHOP - Consumer & Community Involvement in Research - Workshop : One-day interactive workshop on practical ways to involve consumers and community members in your research.
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A training workshop for researchers and students who are looking to involve consumers and community members in health and medical research. This workshop is designed to help:
• Increase awareness of the value of involvement
• Develop understanding and skills on the ‘how and
why’ of (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - "Gut, Immunity and Brain Development in Early Life, Translational Aspects and Clinical Relevance� : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Birth is the most dramatic change in physiological and environmental conditions throughout mammalian life. Different organ systems develop at different rates in relation to this critical time across different species and not all organs are mature at birth. Lung maturation is closely (...)
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Thursday 12 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Functional characteriation of de novo FOXP1 variants in intellectual disability with speech and language impairment
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Elliot Sollis studied Genetics and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia and completed his Honours degree in 2010 with Prof. Nigel Laing and Dr. Gina Ravenscroft at the WAIMR. Presently, he is a PhD student with Prof. Simon Fisher and Dr. Pelagia Derizioti at the Max Planck Institute (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History: How the 25-billion dollar a year academic publishing industry is thriving in the digital era : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: On December 18 1995, Forbes predicted academic publisher Elsevier’s relevancy and life in the digital age to be short lived. 20-years later, the academic publishing oligopoly that Elsevier leads is thriving with an annual revenue of $25.2 billion at profit margins higher than Apple (...)
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Thursday 19 |
Professor Chris Parish received his undergraduate training at the University of Melbourne and then gained a PhD degree in Immunology at The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. He has spent most of his scientific career in Canberra at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU and (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Applying Functional Genomics to Define the Molecular Mechanisms for Brain Growth and Disease : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The functions of the human brain are predicated on the correct assembly of neural circuits during development. Failures in this process can lead to brain disorders including epilepsy, intellectual disability and autism. Over the last decade, significant improvements in DNA sequencing (...)
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Thursday 26 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - From 'Subject' to 'Partner': the changing role of patients and the public in health research
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Public lecture by Simon Denegri, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Director for Patients and the Public in Research and Chair, INVOLVE
The role of patients, carers and the public in medical and health research is changing fast. What are the challenges and (...)
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June 2016
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Wednesday 08 |
11:30 - EVENT - Fulbright Scholarships WA Information Day : Discover a world of opportunities for educational exchange to the U.S.
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The Australian-American Fulbright Commission promotes education and cultural exchange between Australia and the United States in order to enhance mutual understanding and strengthen relations between the two countries. The Commission facilitates this through the implementation of the Fulbright (...)
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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Thursday 09 |
10:00 - EVENT - Pawsey Roadshow at The University of Western Australia : The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and UWA would like to invite you to the Pawsey Roadshow.
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The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and The University of Western Australia would like to invite you to the Pawsey Roadshow, an event showcasing services and resources that Pawsey provides to researchers across Australia.
This free event will see researchers presenting about their (...)
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