What's On at UWA

The Cullity Gallery is hosting an art exhibition to accompany the recent launch of the book, "Breast Cancer: The Facts".

The exhibition includes works featured in the book by photographer Jacquie Moran, accompanied by drawings by artists Hans Arkeveld and Jon Tarry, and (...)

Major depression is a serious psychiatric disorder characterized by two cardinal symptoms: low mood and anhedonia, which means sadness and loss of capacity for feeling pleasure. In addition, there are a considerable number of other complaints, such as fatigue, difficulty for concentration, pains (...)

Cuba gives more medical aid to the Third World than all the wealthy G8 countries combined and has more doctors working abroad than the World Health Organisation.

Today, 300 volunteer Cuban doctors work in East Timor and 1000 East Timorese students have been granted medical scholarships (...)

Tara French is a graduate research student working with Professor Raymond Macdonald who directs the music and health research unit at Glasgow Caledonian University. Tara’s research explores how people regulate mood and overall wellbeing through their choice of music. In this presentation she will (...)

Lung diseases comprise a major global burden of health and are characterized by loss of gas-exchange units and tissue remodeling. Conventional therapeutic interventions have not been effective in treating these conditions. In this talk, we explore the latest developments in cell biology, animal (...)

Apicoplasts are indispensable but their exact function remains uncertain. To understand more about the apicoplast we assembled a predicted organelle proteome.

The 2010 Scientific Meeting will present both international and keynote speakers and incorporate a series of procedural and research workshops.

As one of the biggest genome centers in the world, BGI owns high-throughput next-generation sequencing platforms (128 Hiseq2000, 30 Solexa sequencers from Illumina and over 30 units of ABI 3730 sequencers) and more than 400 bioinformatics scientist for fastest sequencing data generation and (...)

The symposium is an opportunity for undergraduate/postgraduate students, research assistants and postdoctoral fellows to present their work in a conference style seminar format and be in the running to win cash prizes.

Abstract deadline is Monday 10th May. Registration closes Monday (...)

The WA Committee of The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) are pleased to invite you to share and enjoy the fellowship of the health and medical research community at our annual ASMR Medical Research Week (R) Gala dinner. The Keynote Speaker and ASMR medallist for 2010 is Baroness (...)

The School of Population Health would like to invite you to their Information Evening for the Master of Nursing Science.

You will have an opportunity at this event to meet the staff and other prospective students interested in the course, to ask any questions you may have and to share (...)

This unit introduces the principles of essential human nutrition with applications to public health.

The unit will provide students with a basic introduction to food and nutrition as well as applications to public health. Applied topics include nutrition for different life stages; (...)

Students gain an understanding of the cultural definition of the concept of health and 'wellbeing' as described in the holistic health model; understand the origins of ill health in Aboriginal people; and can apply approaches to redress some of the health inequalities Aboriginal people face.

SPEAKER: Degree in Genetics, York University; PhD Bioinorganic Chemistry, University of London; Postdoc in Chicago researching genetics of metal transport in P.aeruginosa;Operations Manager in charge of 4 teams at UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre.

It has become a familiar refrain that completing the sequence of the human genome promises increased capacity to diagnose and treat disease and in so doing substantially improve the quality of life for millions (if not billions) of people. The vision includes the development of high quality tests (...)

A symposium exploring the culture and ethics of the use and ownership of living material, from the cell to the whole body, in art, science, law and philosophy.

The body is increasingly being transformed into commodity and media, put on display, fragmented, manipulated, preserved and (...)

Global Health Short Course 2010 A free 7 week lecture series at UWA with fourteen speakers from around Australia including Dr Norman Swan, Dr Carmen Lawrence and Professor Mike Daube, among others. Topics include Global Health and the Media; Refugee Health in Australia; Conflict, War and Displaced P (...)

‘On the couch with the recruiter session’ is targeted at postgraduate students, although all students are welcome.

Discover what you need to know about being competitive in the Australian market place - academia, government and industry. Be prepared to ask questions about resumes, pre (...)

The graduating MBBS class 1970 will meet for a yeargroup reunion. You have the opportunity to tour CTEC and get to know how anatomy and surgical skills are taught today. Thereafter you are invited to join for the cocktail type function at the UniClub. RSVP required. $90 / person To contribute to (...)