What's On at UWA

The next meeting of the Faculty of Science, Women in Science group will be a morning tea. All are welcome.

The morning tea is a great opportunity to network with other scientists in an informal setting. We will be discussing the implementation of the Faculty of Science mentoring (...)

Find out what opportunities are available in management consulting. Six firms will present over 2 days. This is your chance to meet and network with employers.

Presentation/Networking (Mon 22 February):

9.00am-10.30am: McKinsey and Company

10.30am-12.00pm: Bain (...)

Plant communities can be strongly influenced by their associated root microorganisms, such as mutualistic symbionts and soil-borne pathogens. I studied changes in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi associated with two plant species along a south-western Australian dune (...)

White leaf spot (Pseudocercosporella capsellae) occurs across many Brassicaceae including oilseed, vegetable, condiment and fodder Brassica species and results in significant yield losses worldwide. Current management of white leaf spot relies heavily upon chemical control options that only provide (...)

You are invited to join many of Australia's leading organisations at the year’s most important free careers event – The Big Meet.

Whether you're looking for graduate employment, a new job, vacation work, an international internship, a gap-year experience, voluntary work, travel (...)

Global changes, such as in atmospheric composition, land use, introduction of non-native species, and changes in soil structure can act individually or in combination to change plant-pollinator interactions. Impacts of global changes can influence both plant reproductive traits and/or pollinator (...)

The analysis of thin films introduces numerous unique complexities compared to bulk materials. A thorough knowledge of thin film XRD enables researchers to gain a detailed understanding of their structure and composition and hence, arms them with the knowledge to better predict their in-service (...)

Conservation of large, relatively intact landscapes in the face of widespread development such as resource extraction is a challenge of global conservation significance. Growing human populations and economies and increasing scarcity of natural resources are pushing the frontiers of rapidly (...)

Your application is a powerful marketing tool that can gain an employer's interest. This session hosted by Goldman Sachs will talk through ideas for your application that will sit you on top of the pile.

RSVP - CareerHub - http://uwa.careerhub.com.au

The bottom-up approach is considered a potential alternative for the low cost manufacturing of nanostructured materials. It is based on the concept of self-assembly of nanostructures on a substrate, and is emerging as an alternative paradigm for traditional top down fabrication used in the (...)

The diseases caused by Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) decrease the productivity of Brassicaceae crop species worldwide. If available, virus-resistant cultivars can provide an effective method of controlling the diseases TuMV causes. Many new sources of diverse TuMV resistance phenotypes were identified (...)

Find out about exchange opportunities to study overseas as part of your UWA degree including semester long and short term programs. Meet international students from UWA partner universities from all over the world and get advice on how an overseas experience can add to your UWA degree.

The Seminar: Imagine a technique that requires minimal or no sample preparation and allows you to explore the internal structure of your sample down to the micrometre scale without the need for a single cut. This can be achieved using X-ray microscopy (XRM), which, as for medical CAT scanners (...)

Increased ability to predict respiratory fluxes in plants would facilitate better global climate change models, plant carbon budget models and efforts aimed at engineering plant primary metabolism. However, plant respiration has proved difficult to model because of the size and complexity of the (...)

The objective of this paper is to model the conditional distribution of Body Mass Index (BMI) by examining the relations between a set of covariates and the moments of the BMI distribution. While BMI is often seen as a leading indicators of health, most studies on the distribution of BMI did not (...)

Seagrass meadows are often highly productive in oligotrophic waters despite extremely low nutrient concentrations. Seagrass sediments, in contrast, are often enriched in organic matter (OM) that could potentially be a major source of nutrients, particularly of phosphorus (P), following microbial (...)

A public lecture by Miranda Hart, School of Biology, University of British Columbia and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

The use of bioinoculants (bacteria or fungi) is a common practice in many managed systems. In some cases, this practice is essential and plants will not grow (...)