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August 2014
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Tuesday 12 |
16:00 - STUDENT EVENT - Student Information Sundowner for potential PhD and honours : Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Tuesday 12 August 4pm to 6pm
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Talk to our internationally renowned medical researchers individually. All available Honours and PhD student projects outlined at this casual sundowner in the stunning foyer of the new Perkins building within QEII. Park in the visitors carpark off Verdun street.
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Thursday 14 |
16:00 - TALK - The new X-ray Surface Analysis Facility at Curtin
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Surface science underpins all modern technology from Gore-Tex to the iPhone. We need to think about surfaces for catalysis, corrosion, coatings, growth of thin films, chemical/biological functionalization and nanotechnology just to name a few. Over the last few months Curtin has established a (...)
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Saturday 16 |
15:00 - EVENT - More Than Honey - The Movie - Free Event : Fifty years ago, Einstein had already insisted on the symbiotic relationship binding these pollen gatherers to mankind: “If bees were to disappear from the globe,” he predicted, “mankind would only have four years left to live.”
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More Than Honey is a film on the relationship between mankind and honeybees, about nature and about our future.
This documentary by the Swiss filmmaker Marcus Imhoof and narrated by John Hurt is looking into the fascinating world of bees, showing small family beekeepers (including the (...)
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Monday 25 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - What is X-ray Crystallography and How Did It Transform Our View of the World?
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A public talk by Stephen Curry, Professor of Structural Biology, Imperial College London.
Just over a hundred years ago a narrow beam of X-rays was fired at a crystal for the very first time. The experiment, an early attempt to investigate the nature of this recently-discovered radiation (...)
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September 2014
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Monday 08 |
Professor John Fingert is a US Board-certified ophthalmologist with fellowship training in glaucoma and a PhD in ophthalmic genetics. He is a clinician-scientist internationally recognised for his research work investigating the genetic basis of optic nerve disease.
Glaucoma is a (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
12:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture : Molecular Genetics of Glaucoma: Hopes for Better Management
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Professor Alward is primarily a glaucoma clinician. His areas of research interest include pigmentary glaucoma, combined glaucoma and cataract surgery, normal tension glaucoma, and gonioscopy. The major focus of his research over more than two decades has been the molecular genetics of glaucoma (...)
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Friday 12 |
12:00 - CANCELLED - EVENT - Raine Lecture : High myopia registry in Guangzhou - CANCELLED
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Professor Mingguang He is unable to visit The University of Western Australia in September, owing to circumstances beyond his control.
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Professor Mingguang He is an ophthalmologist and Deputy Director of (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - The 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Research Students : The key habits underlying success and enjoyment of a research degree will be covered.
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This workshop is for research students who would like to be more effective in their studies.
An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Mark Spackman, Winthrop Professor and Head, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia.
We all know what crystals are, but how much do we know about what lies within? And how do we know it? This year celebrates the centenary of (...)
19:00 - FREE LECTURE - CMSS Presents: Preventive Medicine, Muslim Children and Our Community: World�s First Halal Vaccines � Globalvacc �Al Shifa� : A public lecture by Mr VT Ragupathy
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We have certainly come a long way in preventive medicine. Viruses are becoming more resistant and toxins continue to be the scourge of modern living. Although health and wellness may be on everyone’s minds these days, attention to wellbeing is by no means a new concept. People have been searching (...)
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Thursday 18 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - In silico reconstruction of ancestral adeno-associated viruses for retinal gene therapy : Animal Biology Seminar Series
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Adeno-associated virus vectors (AAV) are a safe and effective tool for gene therapy, particularly for the treatment of inherited blindness. However AAVs are endemic in the human population and its efficiency is subjected to circulating neutralizing antibodies which significantly limit broader (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
iVEC’s Supercomputing Team invites you to join them at iVEC@UWA for “Profiling Party IV”. The Profiling Party is from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, but you are welcome to take part at any time during the day.
This is an opportunity to spend a day with iVEC Supercomputing team members and (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
18:30 - SEMINAR - SPAMH presents Q&A: Out of Sight, Out of Mind : An expert panel, including Tim Marney, will be exploring the issue of stigma and discrimination against mental illness in a question and answer session with audience involvement.
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“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.”
Bill Clinton
In Australia, it is estimated that 45 per cent of people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime.
This prevalent condition should be at the forefront of social (...)
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Thursday 25 |
In the past decade, the first human reference genome was generated. Within the last several months, a steep decline in sequencing costs has enabled the analysis of entire populations. However, initial efforts almost entirely concentrated on the sequencing of individuals of European descent and (...)
16:00 - EVENT - CMCA Seminar Series 2014: Design and manufacture of complex titanium scaffolds using selective laser melting
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This seminar will outline some of our recent research in Selective Laser Melting at The University of Western Australia in two main areas: Titanium - this work includes the development, production and testing of high strength to weight ratio structures: Aluminium - here recent results on the effect (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
This course is aimed at anyone wishing to improve their survey questionnaires. This course is useful for both people new to questionnaire design and those who have experience and would like to extend their knowledge. It will be a benefit not only for people who anticipate designing a questionnaire (...)
13:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Symposium of WA Neuroscience : Half day symposium featuring an invited lecture and selected presentations
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This year The Symposium of WA Neuroscience will constitute a half day symposium beginning with an invited lecture by Dr Julian Heng (NHMRC CDF, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research) entitled "Understanding the Neurobiology of Childhood Brain Disorders", followed by oral (...)
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October 2014
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Friday 10 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - 2nd National SKMRC Melanoma Conference : Register now for SKMRC’s 2nd National Melanoma Conference in Perth
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If you are a clinician, researcher or industry representative interested in cutting edge melanoma research and the very latest treatment developments, please register now for SKMRC’s 2nd national melanoma conference in Perth, WA this October at skmrc.org.au
This is a rare opportunity for Perth (...)
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Tuesday 14 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Pushing Living Cells to Artificial Extremes : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series
The Seminar: Living cells possess an exquisite ability to sense and respond to physical information in their microenvironment. This ability plays a key role in many fundamentally important physiological and pathological processes. I will describe (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture: Professor Andrew E Pelling : Pushing Living Cells to Artificial Extremes
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Living cells possess an exquisite ability to sense and respond to physical information in their microenvironment. This ability plays a key role in many fundamentally important physiological and pathological processes. I will describe our work utilizing a variety of biophysical tools to investigate (...)
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