What's On at UWA

Join us for a jam-packed weekend of FREE biology-based talks, hands-on workshops and two ticketed science-themed theatre shows! Meet and talk to scientists about their studies and what it is like to be a researcher. Explore the expanse that is biology; learn about the complex lives of sharks, how (...)

Selective drug delivery in parasitic and bacterial infections is a cornerstone of medicinal chemistry. There have been entire drug research programmes that have been shut down due to toxicity issues that have arisen from non-selective targeting and drug delivery. However, drug treatment has a (...)

Christine Beudoin will discuss her year-long research project which looks into the relationship between humans and lab-grown cells, as maintained by scientific methodology and harnessed by both biohacking and artistic practices. Her hands-on explorations have included mammalian tissue culture (...)

Quasi-one-dimensional (1D) colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals manifest linearly polarized emission, reduced lasing threshold, and improved charge transport compared with spherical quantum dots, and find diverse applications ranging from optics, electronics, photocatalysis, sensors to biology. In (...)

My research group is interested in developing new materials and coatings for understanding the interface between biology and surfaces. In this talk, I will discuss some of our core capabilities in applying surface coatings as well-defined interfacial modifiers. Nature provides many examples of key (...)

Across the month of September, the Centre for Education Futures will be hosting a range of workshops, presentations, webinars, panels and a half-day summit that will explore the use of mobile and in-context learning in Higher Education.

All mLearning Month events will be held at the (...)

The Seminar: Following completion of her PhD in cellular electrophysiology at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Livia Hool undertook 2 years’ postdoctoral research as recipient of an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (...)

Conventional polymers are normally produced in a linear form. With the development of controlled chain polymerization methods, synthesis of polymers with different architectures becomes possible. New architectures can be made as block, star, multi-star, branched, tree-like or brush polymer forms (...)

Barley and wheat both represent crop species of global importance; wheat and barley are two of the three most important crops of Europe. Despite their economic importance, both species are lagging behind many other plant / crop species in respect to access to their genomes and gene complements – (...)

As practising scientists, we all know that every measurement we make is subject to uncertainty - and we also all know that there are a whole set of protocols that have been developed to help you quantify that uncertainty and help you make decisions about and present your data. These tools are (...)

Today, almost all important microbial infections throughout the world, such as tuberculosis, malaria, nosocomial diseases, are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Antimicrobial multi-drug resistance has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problems. It is therefore urgent to (...)

Some of the most elementary questions that may be asked about a conjugated molecule is the degree to which its electronic structure can be considered as ‘localised’ or ‘delocalised’. Mixed-valence compounds have proven to be useful platforms through which to explore the spectroscopic (...)

European honey bees (Apis mellifera) are a key factor in the production of the food we consume as they pollinate more than 80 agricultural crops of interest, with an estimated value of more than US$ 200 billion each year. However throughout the past decade there has been an increased loss of honey (...)

There has been a trend in measurement science to smaller and smaller sample sizes, and with this an associated decrease in the number of molecules or cells that are analysed. This trend has reached its logical conclusion of a range of techniques developed that can detect single molecules or single (...)

UWA Staff are invited to join Mark Bailye (Blackboard) and Centre for Education Futures staff for this active workshop to explore how technological tools can support the UWA Policy on Assessment, and enhance good assessment and feedback practice. This session will help you get the most out of (...)

Nanotechnology is developing as an industry, with nanoparticles finding their way into products. It is important to keep the potential industry production in mind when synthesising nanoparticles in the laboratory. Industry prefers continuous flow reactors as they have benefits in efficiency, cost (...)

Marine invertebrate-derived polycyclic alkaloids with 16-18π electron containing cores have therapeutic interest since they interfere with many biological disease targets. These compounds, which are commonly isolated from sponges and tunicates, are an important class of biologically active (...)