10:00 - WORKSHOP - Masterclass: Endoscopic optical imaging technologies : Integrating endoscopic confocal and OCT imaging technologies into biomedical research
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The focus of this IAS Masterclass will be on advances in instrumentation for biomedical optical imaging. We will see how improvements in fibre optics, wavelength-swept lasers and miniature optical components improve the resolution, acquisition speed and signal to noise ratio of single fibre (...)
12:00 - TALK - SPEAKER Chiara Fiorentini "Perceiving facial expressions. Insights from normal population and autism" : Talk by Dr Chiara Fiorentini
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We are incredibly fluent in perceiving emotions from facial expressions and this ability plays an important role in our everyday social interactions. However, the exact cognitive mechanisms underlying this ability are still unclear. In my talk, I will focus on a few studies in which I have (...)
Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students
14:00 - SEMINAR - Sustainable Aquaculture : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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Worldwide fisheries production, from capture fisheries, has leveled off at a little less than 100 million tonnes annually, whilst aquaculture production still continues to expand rapidly. In Australia, the annual rate of growth in aquaculture production has increased at more than 10% per year since (...)
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Moral Pragmatism:Thin Universals and Thick Practices : Second in the 2012 series of the Three Universities Lectures
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Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral (...)
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - High affinity phosphate transporters in Arabidopsis: a complex story! : PHT1 high affinity Pi transporters belong to a highly multigenic family of genes.
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The PHT1 high affinity Pi transporters belong to a highly multigenic family of genes. They are tightly regulated spatially and temporally by Pi supply at transcriptional and post-translational level. Combinations of genetic, cell biology and molecular biology experiment will be presented to (...)
16:00 - FREE LECTURE - Ethics Lecture : Moral Pragmatism: Thin Universals and Thick Practices
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Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral (...)
A public lecture by Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College and 2012 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.
War is atrocious. In this this talk, Professor Joanna Bourke will explore the changing ways in which stories of murderous violence in wartime been told, reflecting on the terror (...)
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