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Displaying from Sunday, December 04, 2011
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December 2011
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Monday 05 |
16:30 - EVENT - SPH Information Sessions - Postgraduate courses : Find out if a course in population health, nursing or social work is for you!
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Come along to the School of Population Health Postgraduate Course information sessions. We'll present information about the degrees below and will have course experts on hand to answer all your questions.
- Master of Health Professional Education (4.30pm) - Empower yourself as an (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
15:45 - SEMINAR - Complex Periodic Magnetic Nanostructures : An Experimental Platform for Magnomics
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Periodic magnetic nanostructures are attracting considerable interest because of their
unique properties and potential in applications such as ultra-high density bit patterned media,
logic devices and non-volatile memory. Recently, there has been a growing interest aimed at the
fundamental (...)
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Thursday 08 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Stalking the 2-Hour Marathon : Public Lecture by Professor Mike Joyner, UWA Fulbright Senior Specialist 2011
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World records in athletic events can serve as physiological experiments in nature. By considering how the marathon record has changed over time it is possible to integrate ideas about oxygen consumption, running economy, and the "lactate threshold" and tell a coherent story about the (...)
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Monday 12 |
Health informatics is a relatively new scientific discipline that incorporates knowledge from biomedicine, computer science, information science, psychology, business and other fields.
It deals with the systematic processing of data, information and knowledge in health in order to (...)
9:00 - CANCELLED - WORKSHOP - Five-Day Ecology and Health/Medical Geology Unit : This 5-day postgraduate unit provides a regional and global perspective on health impacts from environmental disturbance.
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Lectures will supported by intensive use of case studies of recent national and international issues and the following topics will be covered
• historical, current and emerging perspectives (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
9:00 - CANCELLED - WORKSHOP - Medical geology unit : 3-day unit exploring the role of geological processes in the environment and their impact of human health.
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Offering an introduction to the emerging discipline of medical geology, this unit focuses on the origin, distribution and fate of geological/geochemical agents in the environment and their impact of (...)
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January 2012
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Monday 09 |
9:00 - FORUM - National Youth Science Forum : A two-week program in Canberra and Perth for students moving into year 12
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The National Youth Science Forum is a two weeks in January program of events for students about to enter Year 12 and who are considering going on to a tertiary education in the sciences. The Forum is run in three sessions: two in Canberra and one in Perth.
Selection of participants for (...)
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February 2012
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Monday 06 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - No more needles � Nanopatch technology for a healthier world
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The dynamic inventor of the vaccine Nanopatch, Prof. Mark Kendall, will talk about the development and enormous potential of this revolutionary technology for vaccine delivery. You can also explore the Incredible Inner Space exhibition, which includes an amazing microscope image of the Nanopatch.
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Thursday 09 |
13:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Scientific & Business Potentials in Exploring Marine Microbial Life : ABSTRACT AVAILABLE
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Professor Duarte is Director of the Oceans Institute at The University of Western Australia and Research Professor with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) in Mallorca, Spain. His research focuses on understanding the effects of (...)
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Monday 20 |
The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. Some basic categorical data analysis will be included with the emphasis (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
Nina V. Fedoroff received her PhD in Molecular Biology from the Rockefeller University, and has served on the faculties of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University and the Pennsylvania State University, where she was the Director of the Biotechnology Institute and the (...)
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Monday 27 |
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Molecular Basis of the Antifungal Activity of a Plant Defensin : JOINT PRESENTATION: ARC CoE PEB / UWA School of Plant Biology
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Professor Anderson's current work is focussed on defence molecules produced by plants for protection against insect pests and pathogens..
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Tuesday 28 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - Australian Society for Microbiology: Novel community acquired MRSA and the future control of MRSA
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The Australian Society for Microbiology and the Australian Society for Antimicrobials are pleased to support a visit by Dr Robert Skov. Dr Robert Skov is the Head of the Danish National reference laboratory for Staphylococci and is a physician specialising in Clinical Microbiology. His research has (...)
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March 2012
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Tuesday 06 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Metabolic regulation of insulin secretion and the impact of exercise : School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: A large body of work has been produced in the laboratory of Prof. Newsholme detailing the importance of amino acids to insulin secretion. While long-term exposure to high glucose induces oxidative stress in beta cells, conflicting results have been published regarding the impact of ROS (...)
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Friday 09 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - PaLM Seminar Series (RPH) 2012 - Professor Arunasalam Dharmarajan : Seminar presentation
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All welcome to attend the School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2012 Seminar Series (RPH). On a weekly basis we have local/guest speakers presenting to a wide audience typically in the fields of immunology, molecular biology and cancer related research. This week we are privileged to have (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Tissue Engineered Muscle Actuators as evocative cultural objects : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Speakers:
Chris Salter is an artist, Director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal and Associate Professor for Design + Computation Arts at Concordia. He studied philosophy and economics at Emory University and (...)
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Thursday 15 |
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Phosphite - a potent 'fungicide' .. but why? : PLS NOTE CHANGE OF TIME! Prev 1pm, now 4pm.
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Phosphorus (P) is essential for plant growth, but often has a low availability due to a low solution P pool and sorption to soil minerals.
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Friday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - PaLM Seminar Series (RPH) 2012 - Professor Keertan Dheda : Seminar presentation
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All welcome to attend the School of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2012 Seminar Series (RPH). On a weekly basis we have local/guest speakers presenting to a wide audience typically in the fields of immunology, molecular biology and cancer related research. This week we are privileged to have (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Deep breathing and obstructive lung disease : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Deep inspiration (DI) produces a pronounced bronchodilator response in healthy humans but this response is impaired in obstructive lung diseases including both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). How stretch of bronchi causes bronchodilation is still unclear (...)
13:00 - STUDENT EVENT - Exploring Finance Careers : The presentation will feature students who have worked in a number of different industries including Investment Banking, Private Equity, Management Consulting, and Accounting.
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FAWA’s junior seminars are a great opportunity to discover whether finance is the right fit for you. Learn more about what units and majors will maximise your chances of success in breaking into finance. The presentation will feature students who have worked in a number of different industries (...)
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