What's On at UWA

Nanotechnology is developing as an industry, with nanoparticles finding their way into products. It is important to keep the potential industry production in mind when synthesising nanoparticles in the laboratory. Industry prefers continuous flow reactors as they have benefits in efficiency, cost (...)

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Anti-Poverty Week is a week where all Australians are encouraged to organise or take part in an activity aiming to highlight or overcome issues of poverty and hardship here in Australia or overseas. It was established in Australia as an expansion of the UN's annual International Anti-Poverty Day on (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

Obligation has arisen that speaker must attend. Will be rescheduled in Semester 1, 2017. Apologies.

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The Seminar: Research, training and professional practice in forensic anthropology has been (...)

Marine invertebrate-derived polycyclic alkaloids with 16-18π electron containing cores have therapeutic interest since they interfere with many biological disease targets. These compounds, which are commonly isolated from sponges and tunicates, are an important class of biologically active (...)

Alternative splicing plays a pivotal role in normal development and key cellular processes via its capacity to promote diversity in mRNA and protein isoforms. Aberrant alternative splicing has been found in many disease states including cancer. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms underlying (...)

The human mammary gland (MG) is unique in that it fully matures only in pregnancy and lactation, and has the ability to do so repeatedly during life. The function of the gland is to synthesise, secrete and deliver milk specifically for the nourishment, development and protection of the offspring (...)

The Seminar: The neuropeptide kisspeptin and its receptor, KiSS1R, govern the reproductive timeline of mammals. Previous studies pointed to their central role to maintain fertility by triggering puberty onset and promoting ovulation by stimulating gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion (...)

Next Wed26 October at 5:30pm we will be having a free wonderful event focused on promoting UN World Food Day and UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 to ' End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition plus promoting sustainable agriculture' from a WA perspective.

Here is the (...)

What is Open Access? An overview of OA plus an update on the latest global and local developments

Open Access publishing offers benefits to individual researchers and to the wider community, and key Australian funding agencies have mandates supporting it. If you have heard the term but (...)

Sight is arguably the most important of the five senses. Consequently, eye diseases and eye injuries that lead to visual impairment and blindness can have severe impacts on the lives of the victims. Worldwide, millions of people suffer traumatic eye injury or surgical wounds yearly, and these (...)

Many pathogenic bacteria produce outer polysaccharide capsules which play a major role in disease progression. The capsules bestow protection against host immune responses such as opsonisation, phagocytosis and complement mediated lysis. Certain capsules also act to mask the bacterium from the host (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium. This will be the first talk by our newly appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics, please come along to welcome Professor Abarzhi to the School.

Talk title: Rayleigh-Taylor instability and interfacial mixing
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Soft core-shell polymeric nanoparticles are an area of great research interest, due to their potential advantages in the sustained and targeted delivery of therapeutic payloads. These systems can offer significant improvements in the temporal and spatial control of drug delivery. In this talk, the (...)

Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)

Psychology Colloquium

Monday 31st October 5-6pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)

Presenter: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)

Title: Testing (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to the Joint Physics and Mathematics Colloquium. This special event is due to the visit of Professor Rod Gover from the University of Auckland. Please come along to hear about some interesting developments in mathematical physics.

Talk title: Conformal geometry (...)

The integration of biology into synthetic systems is an exciting concept and humans have much to learn from how nature appears to seamlessly undertake programmable assembly. Through this process exquisitely engineered structures with both function and hierarchy can be produced. Mimicking, and even (...)

Successful PhD supervision requires the management of numerous milestones together with ongoing documentation of meetings, research outputs and supervisor feedback. Regular communication among the student, individual supervisors and other relevant bodies is critical to the process. This (...)

Pluripotent (embryonic) stem cells have long been an elusive target for livestock as they were seen as the exclusive route for effecting precise genome editing. The first generation of cattle and reprogrammed sheep induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from our lab raised exciting possibilities to realise (...)