What's On at UWA

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 (...)

With life expectancy on the rise, osteoporosis, the most common form of skeletal disease, is likely to pose a significant burden on both patients and healthcare infrastructure for the foreseeable future. Imbalances at the unique immunological niche of the bone marrow in osteoporosis, and diseases (...)

Dr Yuya Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Organometallic Molecular Wires: Mixed Valency across Porphyrin linkers

Mixed-valence (MV) complexes serve as models of molecular wires due to their remarkable electron transfer processes between terminal metal ends. In particular, MV (...)

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are synthetic chemicals that are released into the environment. They bio-accumulate in the adipose tissue stores in the human via inhalation, ingestion or dermal adsorption. During milk synthesis, these bio-accumulated pesticides are secreted into the milk. This (...)

The nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex remodels the genome in the context of both gene transcription and DNA damage repair. It is essential for normal development and is distributed across multiple tissues in organisms ranging from mammals to nematode worms. In common with other (...)

Speaker: Professor Raffaele Dellacà was awarded a Masters degree in Information Technology Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1997. He obtained a PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2001 on the assessment of respiratory mechanics by opto-electronic plethysmography and forced oscillations (...)