What's On at UWA

The Seminar: The functions of the human brain are predicated on the correct assembly of neural circuits during development. Failures in this process can lead to brain disorders including epilepsy, intellectual disability and autism. Over the last decade, significant improvements in DNA sequencing (...)

While there are now many sophisticated imaging techniques to study biological systems, chemical tools are needed to gain an understanding of what is happening in the cell, on a molecular level. We are interested in designing small molecule sensors to probe sub-cellular molecular species, especially (...)

Simon Denegri, Patient and Public Involvement Director for the National Institute for Health Research, UK and chair of INVOLVE talks about consumer and community involvement in research and shares his UK perspective. Researchers, students, consumers and community members all invited to this FREE (...)

All are welcome to attend the annual Postgraduate Showcase: Frontiers in Agriculture.

The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their research. It highlights relevant research and progress being made in the area of Agriculture and (...)

Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as our fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.

The ten young scientists will describe their scientific discoveries in the time it takes a party sparkler to burn out.

One hundred early-caree (...)

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. Curtin and UWA have established a surface analysis (...)

The Western Australian Small Angle X-Ray Facility is based at Curtin University and has been the providing the local research community with the instrumentation and experience necessary for SAXS experiments in Western Australia since it was established in 2002. Due to the limitations of hardware (...)

In Australia, it is estimated in the next 1-2 years over a 1000 experienced scientists will become unemployed due to lack of funding. A concerned group met recently to discuss this issue and decided a BIGGER CONVERSATION is needed to create an action plan to avert the impending crisis.

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Stem cells rely on, and are finely tuned to respond to, their immediate microenvironment, which can be exceedingly complex. Biomaterials must present cells with finely tuned mechanical cues to systematically examine their control over development or pathological insults. Chief among these (...)

Professor Brimble’s research focuses on the synthesis of bioactive natural products and the synthesis of peptides, lipopeptides and glycopeptides as potential therapeutic agents. Prof Brimble’s lecture will showcase the intricate science of “making complex molecules.” The lecture will also (...)

The application of small molecules for the modulation of large biomacromolecules has seen much research in the last decades. This includes molecules capable of interfering with phosphate-transfer proteins such as kinases and phosphatases. These proteins have been identified as being of importance (...)

The '7th Wave' reflects the ever changing landscape in Higher Education - every 7th wave is larger than the rest and will bring the biggest learning innovation changes.

The first of the 7th Wave Conference Series is a two-day event exploring opportunities to build on the momentum of (...)

This workshop will outline how CERI can help researchers develop entrepreneurial skills and assist them through the innovation process. CERI is a not-for-profit organisation based in Nedlands.

One of the major challenges for the emergence of complex multicellular organisms is to generate an enormous diversity of cell types from a single genomic sequence. In the simplest scenario, the different cells would have the exact same protein complement available during embryo development to (...)