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April 2013
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Thursday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - HDR Supervision Series : “Supporting HDR supervision: Lessons from the field”
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This event is open to both new and more seasoned staff who would like to gain a wider perspective on the joys and challenges of supervision from an Education perspective.
Topics include: Supervising at a distance/Supervising international students; and Balancing the fine line between (...)
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Friday 19 |
17:30 - FREE LECTURE - Raine Lecture : Raine Visiting Professor Lecture - Strabismus and other eye motor disorders
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Professor Engle’s research combines clinical, genetic, and molecular biological approaches to the study of strabismus (commonly referred to as 'misaligned eyes' or 'squint') and ocular motor neuron and axon development. As a paediatric neurologist, her research has focused primarily on a set of (...)
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Monday 22 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : "Liver progenitor cells: friend or foe"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Liver progenitor cells: friend or foe" by Prof George Yeoh, Head, Liver Disease and Carcinogenesis, Centre for Medical Research, UWA
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, UWA. A light lunch will be served (...)
Jennifer has recently submitted her PhD in epidemiology investigating the role of sleep as a risk factor for breast cancer. She has previously worked with the cancer epidemiology group at the WA Institute for Medical Research on studies of non-melanoma skin cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer (...)
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Friday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Thesis as a Series of Papers : An outline of UWA rules and advantages and disadvantages of this format
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The Graduate Education Officers will outline the UWA rules on formatting your thesis as a series of papers. The advantages and disadvantages of this format will also be discussed.
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May 2013
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Wednesday 22 |
16:00 - Public Forum - The Deeble Institute � the new national health policy research institute : Connecting health policymakers, practitioners and researchers
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Come and hear the Director of the Deeble Institute, Dr Anne-Marie Boxall, talk about how they can work with individuals and organisations to enhance the development of policy.
The Deeble Institute's mission is to support the development of evidence-informed health policy and practice by (...)
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Friday 24 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Exhibition Talk: Aspects of Traditional Life in the South Fore : An account of the transformation of the South Fore villages in Papua New Guinea
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Michael Alpers shares his experiences of the changes that took place in the South Fore villages (Papua New Guinea) in this insightful talk at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 24 May 2013.
In the 1960s, Michael Alpers (John Curtin Distinguished Professor of International Health (...)
15:00 - EVENT - FMDHS Education Research Symposium 2013 : A research showcase from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
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The Education Centre is pleased to present the 2nd Biennial FMDHS Education Research Symposium on Friday 24th May at the University Club.
This is a great opportunity to lend your support and hear about the innovative research ideas, best practices and projects undertaken in the Faculty (...)
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Monday 27 |
Through the UWA Health & Rehabiliation Clinic a variety of Clinical Pilates options are now available to staff and general public!
Clinical Pilates is a form of physical exercise that focuses on posture, balance, control, strength, flexibility, and breathing. It incorporates mat and (...)
Statistical meta-analysis deals with a variety of sophisticated statistical methods to efficiently combine the results of several studies that have a common target.
In this course, we will describe the basic concepts of effect size for continuous measurements as well as qualitative attributes (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : "A microscope in a needle: New technologies to image disease"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "A microscope in a needle: New technologies to image disease" by A/Professor Robert McLaughlin, Optical+Biomedical Engineering Lab, The University of Western Australia. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
Bring your biomarkers to life with simultaneous multianalyte detection. This seminar will showcase the use of cytometric bead assays to provide very highly multiplexed simultaneous analysis. A much more efficient approach than multiple ELISAs.
At the CMCA, we have instrumentation which (...)
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June 2013
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Tuesday 04 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Quantitative MRI applications for investigating disease and monitoring the cellular uptake and biodistribution of nanoparticles and therapeutic drugs.
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MRI is an incredibly versatile imaging modality stemming from the wide range of approaches that can be applied to generate image contrast. While qualitative imaging is common in clinical MRI, increasingly quantitative methods capable of measuring molecular tissue properties are being exploited. In (...)
Please join us for this meeting of WA Flow, a Western Australian flow cytometry interest group. There will be presentations of applications, protocols, results, information and general discussion of current flow cytometry.
Three presentations:
Dr Coral-Ann Almeida (IIID, Murdoch (...)
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Thursday 06 |
10:00 - EVENT - CMCA Seminar: Applications of magnetic resonance: From crickets to cortical dysplasias
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based techniques have revolutionized chemical characterization of materials and non-invasive in-vivo diagnostics, with pioneers garnering Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for NMR spectroscopy, and in Medicine for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This seminar will begin (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: "Preclinical MRI. An Advanced and Reliable tool for Biomedical Research. Are we there yet ?"
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Dr Daniel Procissi, visiting from Chicago's Northwestern University, will be presenting a series of preclinical MRI experiments which he has conducted in different areas ranging from neurology and oncology to hybrid modality imaging (PET-MRI).
This overview of imaging research will be discussed (...)
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Saturday 08 |
8:00 - EVENT - DIABETES SEMINAR : Multidisciplinary CPD seminar - Diabetes: Priorities, targets & the annual cycle of care
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UWA CPD Health presents a Multidisciplinary CPD seminar on Saturday June 8th 2013.
In association with the Diabetes and Endocrine Health Network and Diabetes WA, UWA CPD Health is presenting a unique education seminar on Diabetes: Priorities, targets & the annual cycle of care.
The event (...)
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Thursday 13 |
13:00 - PRESENTATION - Preparing and presenting a Three Minute Thesis talk : Guidelines on how to present a suitable talk for UWA's 3MT competition in 2013.
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The rules and details of UWA's Three Minute Thesis Competition will be described, and guidance will be given on how to present a talk suitable for this event.
Doctoral and Masters Researchers, ECRs and academics within 7 years of PhD completion are eligible to compete.
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Friday 21 |
12:30 - EVENT - TMS and Movement Disorders by Professor Chen : Dr. Robert Chen is Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Toronto, the Catherine Manson Chair in Movement Disorders, Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Research Institute and the Director of the Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto. His research interests are human motor physiology, brain plasticity and pathophysiology of movement disorders such as dystonia and Parkinson’s disease. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed research papers and two books. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of CJNS, Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, Muscle & Nerve, and a reviewing editor of PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Neuroscience and Neural Plasticity. He was recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. He holds research funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson Research and the Ontario Brain Institute
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Monday 24 |
9:00 - COURSE - Food and Nutrition in Population Health : Winter School - 5 day intensive unit
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This five-day 6 point unit introduces the principles of essential human nutrition with applications to public health.
This 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; (...)
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