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Displaying from Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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July 2012
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Tuesday 31 |
17:00 - EVENT - Mother's eating habits affect her daughters' milk production : Public lecture on the effects of fetal programming and their transmission to offspring
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What makes a healthy start to life? This is the single overarching question and focus of the NRCD, a New Zealand government-funded Centre of Research Excellence, bringing together leading scientists from six organisations across New Zealand to answer this question.
Acting Director, Prof Hugh Blair (...)
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August 2012
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Wednesday 15 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Reflecting on how education researchers are tackling some of Australia’s pressing issues
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The Graduate School of Education invites you to participate in this inaugural Seminar Series.
With a focus on sharing personal insights into timely and relevant topics in education research, these seminars will engage participants in a lively discussion of some of the pressing issues (...)
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Monday 20 |
15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - New and Complementary Approaches to Equality : Guest lecture regarding alternative ways to achieve equality policy objectives
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The presentation is concerned with alternative ways to achieve equality policy objectives - drawing upon unrelated areas such as dietary health or workplace health and safety. It is based on current inter-disciplinary work with the UK Government to generate practical insights to inform policy and (...)
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September 2012
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Wednesday 05 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CLIMA Seminar - " Introgression of pea weevil resistance into cultivated field pea ".
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October 2012
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Wednesday 03 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CLIMA-Seminar The Status of pulses and prospects of the Rice -pulses project in Bangladesh : Dr Rahman is a member of a visiting scientist team from Bangladesh
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Dr Rahman is a member of a visiting scientist team from Bangladesh, in connection with an ACIAR project: Introduction of short duration pulses into rice-based cropping systems in western Bangladesh.
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Wednesday 10 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Generation of homozygosity and genome fixation in field pea : Federico Ribalta presenting his PhD work
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This research involves the development of two complimentary in vitro approaches for the accelerated achievement of homozygosity in Australian field pea genotypes. These techniques include: 1) haploidisation from anthers in selected field pea genotypes of varying genetic backgrounds; and 2) in (...)
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Thursday 18 |
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - The mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase complex of plants: Function in respiration and photosynthesis : The mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase complex (complex I) is the largest enzyme complex of the Oxidative Phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system and the main entrance site for electrons into the respiratory electron transfer chain.
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Complex I has several unique features in plants. Most notably, it includes 15 extra subunits, some of which introduce side activities into this respiratory enzyme. For example, subunits resembling an archaebacterial gamma-type carbonic anhydrase form an integral part of complex I in plants. These (...)
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Wednesday 31 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : NAPLAN: Driving school improvement or doing the work of the devil?
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Controversy continues to surround national student assessment in Australia. However, I argue that testing is neither good nor bad: the devil lies in what people – teachers, school, systems and even parents – do about the tests and the data they generate. I report the experiences of principals (...)
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November 2012
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Wednesday 07 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CLIMA-Seminar Tedera research projects : Presented by Dr Daniel Real; Department of Agriculture and Food WA
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This will be the 2nd last seminar of the 2012 CLIMA-Seminar series
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Monday 12 |
11:00 - WORKSHOP - Unlocking soil�s secrets to open the door to agricultural productivity gains : Soil Biology Workshop with international, national and local speakers
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As the world population grows and we are facing a 70% increase of food demand over the next four decades,the need to retain versatile and productive soils for food production and to maximise the output from the land is one of the most important issues of our time.
This symposium will bring together (...)
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Thursday 22 |
The Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) provides local researchers and students in biology and biomaterials with access to infrastructure and expertise across imaging (small animal, optical, confocal, 3-D and electron microscopies), analytical (elemental, isotopic, and (...)
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December 2012
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Wednesday 05 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CLIMA Seminar : Prof Karam Singh (CSIRO & UWA): Genomics research for legume crops
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February 2013
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Wednesday 20 |
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Turf Research Program Open Day : Managing turfgrass on a water allocation
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You are invited to an informal Open Day at the UWA Turf Research Facility to see how different water allocations, in combination with wetting-agents, have influenced the development of dry-patch.
A brief presentation will commence at 10:15am sharp. Please remember to wear sturdy footwear, as the (...)
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June 2013
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Thursday 06 |
13:10 - EVENT - IOA Postgraduate Showcase 2013: Frontiers in Agriculture : 6 of UWA's best PhD students present their research
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Each year The UWA Institute of Agriculture hosts an annual Postgraduate Showcase where selected postgraduate students in Agriculture and related areas present their research.
The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their (...)
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September 2013
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Monday 02 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - InterDrought-IV Conference : on key issues and strategies relevant for increasing the yield and stability of crops under drought conditions by genetic and crop management approaches
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This conference explores the possibilities of scientific and technological applications to crop improvement and crop management under drought-prone farming, by linking progress made at the molecular level to that at the whole plant and crop levels in the field.
The conference will also provide (...)
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