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Displaying from Sunday, May 20, 2012
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May 2012
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Tuesday 22 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Integrating the fields of neuroscience and ecology to understand animal behaviour : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: By investigating the neural basis of behaviour in marine organisms, it is possible to identify the signals that govern a range of behaviours crucial for survival. In this presentation, the fields of neuroscience and ecology are integrated to explore animal behaviour and the processing (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Shamanism and the origin of creative genius in western Europe : A public lecture by David S Whitley
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The start of the European Upper Palaeolithic, about 35,000 years ago, is marked by the dramatic appearance not just of art, but of true creative genius.
World renowned cave art sites like Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira are widely recognised as artistic masterpieces. Although scientists (...)
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - Women Beware Women : English playwright Howard Barker's re-visioning of Thomas Middleton's Jacobean revenge tragedy
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Five nights only. From Tuesday May 22 through to Saturday May 26, at 8pm. $20 full; $15 concession. Tickets at door.
Theatre students in English and Cultural Studies present contemporary English playwright Howard Barker’s revisioning of Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean revenge tragedy Women Beware (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - "Investigation of the mechanisms and regulation of RNA binding by the paraspeckle proteins as a route to deciphering paraspeckle function". AND "Investigating the induction mechanism of a long non-coding RNA: NEAT1, and paraspeckles.�
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Ellen completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Western Australia in 2009. Following this she did Honours in the lab of Professor Charlie Bond (BBCS, UWA). After completing Honours, Ellen did an Internship at the University of Queensland in Professor John Mattick’s lab, a world leader (...)
17:15 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Address by Hon. Aburizal Bakrie, Chairman of the Golkar Party of Indonesia : “Indonesia- Australia Relations in a Globalised World”
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Honourable Aburizal Bakrie is visiting The University of Western Australia as a distinguished guest and speaker of the Centre for Muslim States and Societies. Mr Bakrie is the Golkar Party's nominee for the Indonesian Presidential elections in 2014. Given that Indonesia is the largest Muslim state (...)
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Thursday 24 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar: Sean Winter : Convict consumption in the regions of Western Australia
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In the mid 1850s the officers in charge of the convict system in Western Australia engaged in a lengthy debate over the make up of the official convict ration. The debate is captured in a voluminous correspondence, leading to a wide range of documentary evidence that recorded the official convict (...)
17:15 - SCREENING - Berndt Museum Film Night : Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1976, 51 minutes, PG)
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The film demonstrates how villagers living in the Trobriand Islands, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, transformed the game of cricket into their own form of ritual and fun. Methodist missionaries introduced cricket to the Trobriand Islands in 1903, the residents then altered the game to represent (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The regulation of brain temperature in mammals and factors affecting the daily rhythm of body temperature. : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The seminar will focus on the two main areas of research conducted in the comparative and thermal physiology lab; the mechanism and use of selective brain cooling in some animals, and the variation in the circadian rhythm of core body temperature (and what it might mean). When it was (...)
13:00 - TALK - Careers Centre: Deloitte Dream Team Competition 2012 Information Session : Deloitte Dream Team Competition 2012 Information Session information session
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Find out more about the Deloitte Dream Team, an annual inter-university competition where students compete in university teams to solve realistic business problems and scenarios.Book through Careerhub.
16:00 - EVENT - Same-Sex Relations: A First Century CE Perspective : Three Universities Lecture Series
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The next lecture in the ‘Three Universities Lecture Series’ is……
Same-Sex Relations: A First Century CE Perspective, Emeritus Professor Bill Loader
Tuesday 29th May, 4–6pm at Murdoch University, Education and Humanities Building, Room EH1.001. Use Car Park 4 or 5 (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Tumor-specific Regulation of MnSOD: Towards targeted "oxidation therapy" in estrogen negative breast cancer : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Compelling evidence suggests that cancer cells are generally under reactive oxygen species (ROS) stress. As mitochondria respiration is the main source of ROS generation in the cells, MnSOD is of prime importance in maintaining the tumor cellular ROS balance. It has recently been (...)
13:00 - TALK - Careers Centre: Employer Talk - Birman & Ride Law Cadetships 2012 : Birman & Ride law cadetships: We invite applications from law undergraduates (at any stage of their degrees) interested in a litigation or commercial career with a boutique city law firm.
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Applications must be made via our website www.cadetships.birmanride.com.au
Closing date - Friday 15 June 2012
Attend our free on-campus information session on Wednesday 30 May 2012 at 1pm at UWA Social Sciences Lecture Room 1 (SSLR1). Book via Careerhub.
My research focuses on the role of epigenomic modifications in genome organization and transcription in complex eukaryotic organisms. After receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia, I joined Joseph Ecker's laboratory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 2006. I (...)
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Thursday 31 |
15:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar: Professor Alistair Paterson : A millennium of cultural contact
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This seminar reviews the process of cultural contact over the last millennium throughout the world. Traversing the globe from crossing the North Atlantic at AD1,000, and opening trade routes across Asia by the 18th century, Europeans had established colonies and trading posts in the far reaches of (...)
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June 2012
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Tuesday 05 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Lung injury and fibrosis: can stem cells deliver regeneration? : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The lung is a remarkable organ with gas exchange and vital immune defence roles accomplished in a branching network of airways and about 200 million alveoli. It is also an extremely dynamic tissue with rapid turnover of lung cells and their surrounding matrix which may explain the (...)
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Friday 08 |
Melissa Little is a graduate of the University of Queensland having completed a PhD on the genetic basis of childhood cancer at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. She continued this work as an Endeavour Fellow and the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh before returning to the Centre (...)
12:30 - TALK - Postgraduate Course Guide Feedback Forum : Discussion of the current information available for prospective domestic postgraduate students at UWA
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The newly formed UWA Postgraduate Admissions Centre is looking for ways to improve the prospective UWA postgraduate student experience.
We’d love to get your thoughts and feedback on the current domestic postgraduate student course guide with the view to improving the content and (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
Cedric Gondro is a statistical geneticist from the University of New England with extensive
experience in analyzing and publishing data from various genomic platforms. He will be running a
3-day course on genomic analysis using the programming environment R. The course will be
suitable for (...)
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Thursday 14 |
DMA candidate Clare Tunney will be giving her final lecture-recital on the Bel Canto Cello next Thursday 14 June (5pm) in the Eileen Joyce Studio.
Entry is free, all welcome!
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Wednesday 20 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - 'To QC or to multi-level QC: A next generation DNA sequencing problem'
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Dr Barrero is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University. Dr Barrero was awarded a MONBUSHO (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Government of Japan) Scholarship to conduct his Master (1996-1998) and Doctoral (1998-2002) (...)
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