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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 (...)

Alternative splicing plays a pivotal role in normal development and key cellular processes via its capacity to promote diversity in mRNA and protein isoforms. Aberrant alternative splicing has been found in many disease states including cancer. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms underlying (...)

The human mammary gland (MG) is unique in that it fully matures only in pregnancy and lactation, and has the ability to do so repeatedly during life. The function of the gland is to synthesise, secrete and deliver milk specifically for the nourishment, development and protection of the offspring (...)

Many pathogenic bacteria produce outer polysaccharide capsules which play a major role in disease progression. The capsules bestow protection against host immune responses such as opsonisation, phagocytosis and complement mediated lysis. Certain capsules also act to mask the bacterium from the host (...)

Sight is arguably the most important of the five senses. Consequently, eye diseases and eye injuries that lead to visual impairment and blindness can have severe impacts on the lives of the victims. Worldwide, millions of people suffer traumatic eye injury or surgical wounds yearly, and these (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium. This will be the first talk by our newly appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics, please come along to welcome Professor Abarzhi to the School.

Talk title: Rayleigh-Taylor instability and interfacial mixing
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Soft core-shell polymeric nanoparticles are an area of great research interest, due to their potential advantages in the sustained and targeted delivery of therapeutic payloads. These systems can offer significant improvements in the temporal and spatial control of drug delivery. In this talk, the (...)