What's On at UWA

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

High-energy X-ray beams have become the principal tool for radiation oncology in Australia and are used in treatment of almost half of all cancer patients. Protons and heavy ions offer an alternative with particularly appealing characteristics for the treatment of specific cancer types and in (...)

In Australia, it is estimated in the next 1-2 years over a 1000 experienced scientists will become unemployed due to lack of funding. A concerned group met recently to discuss this issue and decided a BIGGER CONVERSATION is needed to create an action plan to avert the impending crisis.

We (...)

Join this exclusive meet and greet with a specialist Defence Force Recruiter to learn about opportunities within the Health Field over light lunch. Hear and discuss life in the ADF, career opportunities and the recruitment process.

This session is exclusively for UWA students and staff.

The WA Medical Students Society (WAMSS) elective photographic exhibition captures the art of medicine and gives insight into medicine in different parts of the developing and developed world.

It highlights the global health issues that we all face ahead of us in the future. Learn the (...)

The UWA Future Students team will be running School Advisory Sessions in the July school holidays.

This is a chance for high school students and parents to come on campus and speak directly to a Future Students Adviser. The sessions will last about 30 mins each and will give a chance for (...)

The '7th Wave' reflects the ever changing landscape in Higher Education - every 7th wave is larger than the rest and will bring the biggest learning innovation changes.

The first of the 7th Wave Conference Series is a two-day event exploring opportunities to build on the momentum of (...)

The Australian-American Fulbright Commission offers Scholarships to Australian citizens across all career stages: Postgraduate,Postdoctoral, Professional, Senior Scholars and Distinguished Chairs.

The 2017 Fulbright Scholarships round closes on 1 August 2016. It's not too late to learn (...)

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.

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has a range of training sessions coming up in July. If you are interested in learning how to apply advanced computing to solve research problems, please register for the training sessions below:

11-13 July: introductory and Intermediate Supercomputing

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 (...)

If you’re an UWA’s researcher and your computational science, big data or visualisation work is limited by the computational resources, come and talk to the specialists from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre at the upcoming Pawsey Clinic. Find out how you may benefit from the Pawsey resources (...)

Psychology Colloquium Tuesday 19th July 4-5pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post talk drinks (mulled wine?) in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in really bad weather,the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)

Presenter: Prof David Alais (U Sydney)

David (...)

Determination of inter and intracellular distribution of platinum chemotherapy using mass cytometry and nanoSIMS.

Seminar starts at 5.00pm. Refreshments from 4.30pm. All welcome