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May 2015
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Monday 18 |
19:00 - FUNDRAISER - Fundraising Auction for Nepal Earthquake Apeeal : Let's join hands in providing help to the people of Nepal who have suffered an earthquake of 8 magnitude.
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The 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April has already claimed the lives of more than 7,000 people with an estimated eight million people affected.
The Red Cross is at the forefront of the international response, sending shelter and water and sanitation specialists, setting up (...)
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Sunday 24 |
15:30 - CONCERT - Chopin Spree Concert (postponed from 19 April to 24 May) : An afternoon of Chopin's greatest solo piano hits.
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An afternoon of Chopin's greatest solo piano hits performed by Resident Music Fellow Raymond Yong and Emerging Artists Anastasia Buettner-Moore and Yiannis Maxwell.
Admission is free, bookings required as there is limited space.
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June 2015
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Monday 08 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Targeting the small airways - no longer the �silent zone� in chronic lung diseases : The Institute for Respiratory Health presents Dr Jane Bourke, Head of Respiratory Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Monash University
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Increasing evidence suggests that small airways (defined as <2mm) are important sites of inflammation,
remodelling and altered reactivity in chronic lung diseases. Dr Bourke has applied a unique in vitro
approach to examine small airway dysfunction, visualising changes in intrapulmonary airway (...)
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July 2015
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Wednesday 08 |
10:00 - EVENT - Hologic DXA Training Program : Latest technology Hologic 2D scanning densitometer Horizon W for measuring body composition
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You are invited to attend a training session supported by the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, SCGH Unit outlining the use of the latest technology Hologic 2D scanning densitometer the Horizon W. This is the most sophisticated machine for measuring body composition in the world. Body (...)
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August 2015
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Tuesday 04 |
18:30 - EVENT - WXED HEALTHCARE : Is it still healthcare or is it now budget-care? The story of Christian cultural impact on public healthcare.
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If you expect that, when you get sick, someone will (of course) help you, no matter who you are, then you have a Christian culture in your head. It is not civilised, rational, common sense or efficient. But then, let us admit that there were some terrible things done in the church's name too. Let's (...)
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September 2015
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Monday 14 |
Professor Joseph Piven is currently Director of the federally-funded University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of North Carolina and NICHD-funded Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, while leading an NIH-funded T32 Post-Doctoral (...)
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Thursday 17 |
17:30 - ORATION - Air pollution and lung health � A global problem with special importance for Asia Pacific : The Institute for Respiratory Health presents: The Philip Thompson Oration
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Is air pollution as bad for us as smoking? Is the growing economy affecting our health?
Only 12% of people in the world live in cities which meet WHO air quality standards, and acute effects of air pollution have caused lung illness symptoms, heart issues, hospitalisations and death. Long term (...)
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Saturday 26 |
18:00 - DINNER - Perth's Early Music Project Fundraising Dinner : A fundraising dinner, in support of the development of Perth's Early Music Project, will be held at the historic St George's College in September.
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A fundraising dinner, in support of the development of Perth's Early Music Project, will be held at the historic St George's College in September. Perth's Early Music Project is to be hosted by St George's College from next year and will feature the creation of an Early Music Festival and a (...)
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October 2015
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Thursday 15 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Interactions, Distractions and Attractions: The art of ligand binding studies using NMR spectroscopy
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy may not be the first technique on your list for understanding ligand-target interactions but it is a powerful approach that is capable of monitoring and understanding interactions at the atomic level. This presentation outlines two on-going projects (...)
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November 2015
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Wednesday 04 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Asthma: genes versus the microbiome at the airway barrier : The Institute for Respiratory Health presents Raine Visiting Speaker Prof Bill Cookson
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Prof Bill Cookson of Imperial College London discusses "Asthma: genes versus the microbiome at the airway barrier". A light lunch follows the presentation.
William Cookson is Professor of Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London and Head of Respiratory Sciences for the College. He is Head of the Asmarley Centre for Genomic Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute. He won a Joint Wellcome Senior Investigator Award with Professor Miriam (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
10:00 - CONFERENCE - GeneMappers 2015 : Conference focusing on novel concepts for the genetic dissection of common complex human diseases.
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The GeneMappers conference has traditionally focused on novel concepts for the genetic dissection of common complex human diseases. This year the emphasis of the conference will be on exploring these themes in detail, with a particular focus on the contemporary methods and techniques that will take (...)
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Monday 23 |
8:30 - Course - Model Selection in R : This course focuses on model selection techniques for linear and generalised linear regression
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This course focuses on model selection techniques for linear and generalised linear regression in two scenarios: when an extensive search of the model space is possible as well as when the dimension is large and either stepwise algorithms or regularization techniques have to be employed to identify (...)
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Thursday 26 |
12:00 - CANCELLED - EVENT - Raine Lecture: Professor Dr Magdalena G�tz : From scar formation to neurogenesis - towards neuronal repair after brain injury
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Professor Dr Magdalena Götz is the Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, and Chair of the (...)
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Monday 30 |
11:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Studying the genetics of smoking behaviour, lung function, and COPD in UK Biobank. The UK BiLEVE study : Busselton Health Study Visiting Speaker
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Professor Martin Tobin holds a UK Medical Research Council Senior Clinical Fellowship and is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Leicester, UK.
He has established, led and co led national and international genomic epidemiology studies including the (...)
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December 2015
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Tuesday 01 |
0:00 - EVENT - GivingTuesday : Celebrate Giving, Generosity and Doing the Most Good
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#GivingTuesday is a movement to celebrate and provide incentives to give. It will culminate with a global day of giving on the first Tuesday of December every year. The idea is to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.
What can you do? Can you (...)
8:30 - CANCELLED - Course - Multivariate Analysis : The course is intended as an introduction to some of the more commonly used multivariate statistical methods of data summary and analysis.
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Topics will include Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Canonical Variate (or Canonical Correlation) Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis (...)
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Monday 07 |
Professor Stephen Hill studied Pharmacology in Bristol (BSc, 1976) and then undertook PhD studies in the Department of Pharmacology in Cambridge (PhD 1979). After postdoctoral studies in Cambridge (1979-1981) he was appointed to a lecturer position in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of (...)
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Thursday 10 |
Interested in developing and funding international research collaborations, particularly in the fields of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences? Come hear how others have been able to do so, and learn how you can be more strategic in your approach.
The Seminar will run from 12:00 - 1:00 (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series - Professor Hiroshi Takayanagi
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Professor Takayanagi combines his experiences as an orthopaedic surgeon and an immunologist; Since May 2012, he has been appointed as Professor of Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. Professor Takayanagi has regularly published (...)
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