What's On at UWA

Ms Jamie Summerfield, postgraduate student (PhD), will give a talk on a search for marine bacterial quorum quenching compounds in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 14 October 2011 at 9:00am. Bacteria use a process called quorum sensing to communicate with each other (...)

A. Professor, Jon Tarry, will discuss the art works in Recent Past as explorations of the 70s and 80s Australian vernacular which focussed on the local, the everyday, and the 'here and now' of the times. Much of this has been replaced today by internationalism, and a desire to seek out Otherness (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Simon Guest (UWA)

will speak on

The spread of a finite group

at 1pm on Friday 14th of October in MLR2

Abstract: Let G be a finite group. We say that G has spread at least k if for any k distinct nontrivial (...)

The 2011 Ian Constable Lecture will be given by Professor Ian Frazer FAA, FRS, CEO and Research Director, Translational Research Institute.

Australians born in 2011 can expect to live to see the 22nd century, but how can we ensure that they will enjoy their 90+ years of life? Professor (...)

The 2011 Ian Constable lecture will address the topic; “Now, free, and perfect? How to live a long and healthy life in the 21st century.”

This will be presented by Professor Ian Frazer, the internationally renowned co-creator of the technology for the cervical cancer vaccine and (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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The Seminar: Human breastmilk is the gold standard for the nutrition of the human infant at the early stages of life. In addition to its valuable nutritional components, breastmilk also contains (...)

The Soil&Water Seminar at 1pm on Tues, Oct. 18th will be given by Dr Margaret Roper from CSIRO, an invited speaker for Soil Science Australia (WA Branch). All welcome!

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For CREATEC’s annual symposium, researchers across disciplines will gather to consider the influence of embodiment on their work. Embodiment is a concept that underpins an array of research ranging from education and environmental studies, poetry and the performing arts to philosophy and (...)

Researchers and service providers involved in all aspects of child and adolescent health are invited to attend the annual Child and Adolescent Health Research Symposium at Princess Margaret Hospital (WB Macdonald Lecture Theatre) and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (Seminar Room) (...)

In the course of undertaking a number of complex molecule total synthesis campaigns (target orientated synthesis) our group was forced by the nature of these projects to push literature methodology to its limits and purpose design new methods. In other examples synthetic methodology was developed (...)

Recent advances in environmental monitoring and modelling have led to improved knowledge on how aquatic environments function. The Centre for Water Research at The University of Western Australia has developed a software suite, the Aquatic Real-time Management System and the Real-time Management (...)

It’s been nearly two decades since the Hubble Space Telescope began giving us its awe inspiring view of the cosmos. The images it has sent back to Earth have revolutionised astrophysics and inspired people all over the globe, both in terms of scientific understanding and pure artistic beauty.

The ACRF funded small animal imaging facility incorporating PET/CT, SPECT/CT and MRI will be the only lab of its kind in Australia and will provide researchers with powerful and unique new opportunities for preclinical research commencing in 2012.

Molecular imaging with small animal PET/ (...)

Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.

In this free lunchtime concert, Brett Baker performs (...)

Intended Audience: Lecturing staff who want to explore alternate ways to evaluate teaching in their classroom.

Workshop Description: The workshop will built upon the scholarship of research around collecting student feedback to improve teaching. It will offer a range of tips and (...)

Mid-Ocean Ridges (MORs) are probably the most conspicuous underwater features of the World-Ocean. Forming a continuous mountain chain that runs around the globe like the seam of a baseball, ridges extends over 60000 km, transcending latitudes, biomes, and oceans. This study builds on the decadal (...)

The UWA Arts Union is proud to present the inaugural Arts Union Public Policy Address, this year being presented by the US Consul General, Aleisha Woodward.

The topic on which she will be speaking is entitled "Diplomacy and Technology – Opportunities and Challenges" and will (...)

Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.

Observe Brett Baker working with some of WA’s most (...)

Those with an interest in primary health care will be 'Looking to the Future' at the University Club of WA on Friday 21st October. This event provides opportunities for learning and networking among primary health care workers, researchers, allied health professionals, general practitioners, nurses (...)

Ms Tingting Liao will give a talk on "Helicobacter pylori outer membrane vesicles: biogenesis and protein sorting" in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 21 October 2011 at 9:00am. The release of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) is conserved among Gram-negative (...)