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August 2017
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Friday 25 |
11:00 - EVENT - Psychology Special Colloquium; Leadership and Safety Performance in High Risk Industries: New Advances in Research (Dr. Mario Martinez Corcoles
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Title: Leadership and Safety Performance in High Risk Industries: New Advances in Research
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Leadership is of paramount importance to ensure employees’ safety performance in high risk industries. Over the last few years, significant research has been carried out in (...)
15:00 - EVENT - Psychology Special Colloquium: Enhancing Diversity via Hiring Practices: Revisiting the use of Second-Stratum Cognitive Abilities (Dr. Serena Wee)
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Title: Enhancing Diversity via Hiring Practices: Revisiting the use of Second-Stratum Cognitive Abilities
Many organisations believe that hiring a diverse workforce is important for ethical, legal and business reasons. However, one of the most criterion-valid selection tools—the (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Super-resolution and correlative imaging of malaria parasites
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New microscopy techniques are providing amazing views of the cellular landscape. We have used 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM), direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (dSTORM), 3D-Electron Tomography and Block-Face Scanning EM to explore the sub-cellular topography of the (...)
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Thursday 31 |
12:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - Assessment of Future Risk in Asthma: Opportunities and New Technologies
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Dr Blakey's interest is in improving the assessment and management of people with asthma by incorporating newer data streams and measurement of future risk into models of care.
Note: 12.30pm lunch for 1.00pm - 2.00pm presentation
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September 2017
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Tuesday 05 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Viral adaptation to host immune responses: a story about evolution, frequent flyer points and country music : School of Human Sciences (APHB) Seminar Series
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More than 35 million people worldwide are infected with HIV including >22,000 Australians. Anti-HIV therapy can reduce mortality associated with infection but treatment does not provide a cure, is life-long and remains a substantial financial burden in Australia and worldwide. Harnessing (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
18:00 - EVENT - WA Department of Health Youth Health Policy Community Conversation #1 : If you are 13-24 we want to hear your thoughts on the new Youth Health Policy!
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Are you aged 13 - 24? We want to hear from YOU! We want to find out what you think about health services for young people. The WA Department of Health wants to hear from people aged 13 – 24 about the WA Youth Health Policy. You are invited to come along and share your thoughts and ideas.
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Thursday 07 |
7:00 - Health & Wellness - Health Coaching : Free health coaching on campus
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Participants needed to assist our 4th year Post Graduate Health students in Health Coaching.
**What’s required from you**
2 sessions of about 1 hour each, 3-4 weeks apart, held at UWA at times convenient to yourself and subject to student availability
**What is Health (...)
13:00 - PRESENTATION - Researching without the red-tape* : Join the Risk and Legal team for a discussion on clinical trials, complex research collaborations and data ownership.
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Step beyond the tangle of red tape and start your research sooner.*
Meet the UWA team who are here to work with researchers and central experts to quickly navigate the formalities of agreements and approvals. The Risk & Legal unit welcome researchers and peers to an informal open (...)
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Friday 08 |
This event will showcase services and resources that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre can provide to UWA researchers to take their research to the next level. There will be time in the morning for existing users and potential users to have one-on-one assistance with Pawsey staff. This will be (...)
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Monday 11 |
18:00 - EVENT - WA Department of Health Youth Health Policy Community Conversation #2 : If you are 13-24 we want to hear your thoughts on the new Youth Health Policy!
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Are you aged 13 - 24? We want to hear from YOU! We want to find out what you think about health services for young people. The WA Department of Health wants to hear from people aged 13 – 24 about the WA Youth Health Policy. You are invited to come along and share your thoughts and ideas.
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Tuesday 12 |
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Early intervention for cognitive decline and dementia: targeting modifiable risk factors (Prof Sharon Naismith, University of Sydney)
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Psychology Colloquium
Tuesday 12th September 4:00-5:00pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)
Presenter: Prof Sharon Naismith (University of Sydney)< (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
18:00 - EVENT - WA Department of Health Youth Health Policy Community Conversation #2 : If you are 13-24 we want to hear your thoughts on the new Youth Health Policy!
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Are you aged 13 - 24? We want to hear from YOU! We want to find out what you think about health services for young people. The WA Department of Health wants to hear from people aged 13 – 24 about the WA Youth Health Policy. You are invited to come along and share your thoughts and ideas.
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Tuesday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Whoops: Aussie kids� dental decay reported as �somewhat inflated�. Ethical Dilemmas in Money, Research and Policy : School of Human Sciences (APHB) Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Modern research in public health can make substantial differences to millions of people. With this scale in change comes responsibility. Responsibility in ensuring high quality evidence-based decisions are made, resting on good, sound evidence. It brings substantive risk when (...)
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October 2017
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Tuesday 03 |
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: From clinical to pre-clinical research - using animal models to understand the neurobiology of schizophrenia (E/Prof Pat Michie, University of Newcastle)
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Psychology Colloquium
Tuesday 3rd October 4:00-5:00pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)
Presenter: E/Prof Pat Michie (University of Newcastle)
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Wednesday 11 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Genome research produces new anti-malarial drug targets : The 2017 Ian Constable lecture by Professor Simon Foote - Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research at The Australian National University
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In a malarial infection, there is a competition between the malaria parasite and the host. If the malarial parasite can reproduce sufficiently rapidly, it can reach a level of parasitaemia that is lethal to the host. However, if its rate of growth is slowed, the host’s adaptive immune response (...)
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Monday 16 |
14:00 - SYMPOSIUM - The Clever Country: The importance of investing in regional and remote students
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This symposium brings together a panel of experts from across Australia to discuss ways to support regional and remote students to succeed in higher education. The purpose is to explore the value of investing in higher education from the perspective of the individual, community and the university (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The early life origins of cardiorespiratory disease : School of Human Sciences (APHB) Seminar Series
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Dr. Wang’s PhD was carried out with the Early Origins of Adult Health Research Group, University of South Australia. Her research focused on the associations between low birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular disease in adult life. Her studies demonstrated that reduced substrate supply in (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Assessing APP96-110 as a novel neuroprotective agent against traumatic spinal cord injury. : School of Human Sciences Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Sarah’s PhD thesis entitled “Immunomodulatory and neuroprotective approaches including human mesenchymal precursor cell transplantation for spinal cord injury repair” investigated combined immunomodulatory, drug and cell based therapies for spinal cord injury (SCI) repair in a (...)
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November 2017
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Wednesday 08 |
12:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - What causes asthma? Genes, infections, and therapeutic choices
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12.30pm – lunch
1.00pm – 2.00pm – 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 (...)
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Tuesday 21 |
A public lecture by Philip Ainslie, Canada Research Chair in Cerebrovascular Physiology and Co-Director, Centre for Heart, Lung & Vascular Health, The University of British Columbia and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Relative to its size, the brain is the most (...)
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