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Displaying from Tuesday, September 23, 2014
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September 2014
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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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Wednesday 15 |
A public talk by Alice Vrielink, Professor of Structural Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia.
The science of crystallography has had an enormous impact on our understanding of molecules, their structures, chemical and physical properties (...)
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Thursday 16 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - Speaker Call out! : 2nd Oceans Institute Postgraduate Conference
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We are organising the 2nd Oceans Institute Postgraduate Student Conference on Thursday 16 October 2014, taking place at the University Club of Western Australia.
The idea is to give you a platform to discuss and present your latest research (Research Proposals can also be presented) (...)
The conference will provide a platform to discuss and present the latest research from OI Post Grads. Different laboratories will introduce the in house research facilities at UWA and time will be allocated during the conference for ‘speed dating’ sessions - one on ones with current post docs (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series:"Hacking the Environment of Living Cells"
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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 strategies to use physical cues (...)
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Monday 27 |
12:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture: The best laid schemes of airway repair : Dr Adam Giangreco
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Chronic airway diseases including COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and lung cancer are leading causes of worldwide mortality with annual healthcare costs of billions of pounds. Despite this, there have been only a few therapeutic advances in these conditions over the past 20 years (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - �Combined molecular and cellular therapies promote the regeneration of adult retinal ganglion cell axons� : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The mature CNS has limited intrinsic capacity for repair after injury. I will summarize results from the lab over the past 10 years that have quantified the effects of various pharmacotherapy and gene therapy regimes on the survival and regenerative capacity of injured adult retinal (...)
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Friday 31 |
Under the auspices of the Australian Academy of Science,
the National Committee for Chemistry and the Royal
Australian Decadal Plan for Chemistry. As part of the
consultation process, we are holding a series of open
forums called ‘town hall meetings’ around Australia.
What do you think the (...)
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November 2014
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Friday 07 |
12:00 - EVENT - UWA Staff Sports Fun Day : There is a time for work...and a time for play!
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UWA Staff Sports Fun Day is a day on campus for staff and postgraduate students to get together and participate in sport and activity. This year's theme is Brazil - be loud, be colourful and join in - up to 1000 participants expected throughout the day.
Get Involved: Contact your Team (...)
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Monday 24 |
13:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture: Professor Phil Ainslie : New Concepts in the Regulation of Cerebral Blood Flow in Humans
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Professor Phil Ainslie received his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University (UK) followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Calgary (Canada) and a Faculty appointment at the University of Otago (NZ). Phil is currently Professor and Research Chair at The University of British Columbia (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
17:00 - EVENT - INFORMATION SESSION: POSTGRADUATE COURSES IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION : Course Information Session
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Postgraduate Courses in Health Professions Education
Do you have a background in health or science?
Do you teach or supervise students or peers and are you interested in improving your skills as an educator?
Do you have an interest in educational research and (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture: Testing the Limits of the Human Brain : Public Lecture presented by Professor Phil Ainslie
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Relative to its size, the brain is the most oxygen-dependent organ in the body, but many pathophysiological and environmental processes may either cause or result in an interruption to its oxygen supply. Remarkable feats, however, have been achieved where the human brain has survived extremely low (...)
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