Seminars

• Seminar Program for Second Semester 2011 (PDF)

Latest news

• Congratulations to Amelia Edington (Transporter Biology Group) who recently won an ATA Scientific Travel Award, was awarded a Royal Society of NSW Scholarship and was a finalist for the Sydney Protein Group Thompson Prize.
• Congratulations to Vanessa Morris (Protein Biophysics Group) who won a poster prize at the 2011 Australian and New Zealand Magnetic Resonance Meeting conference and was also a finalist for the Sydney Protein Group Thompson Prize.
• Congratulations to Amanda Scopelitti (Transporter Biology Group)who was awarded the Best Oral Presentation by a Postgraduate Student at the 2011 Bosch Institute Young Investigator Symposium.
• Congratulations to Peter Succar (Pharmacoinformatics Laboratory) on the award of his MPhil.
• Discipline of Pharmacology Grant Success!
  Congratulations to Brian Oliver ($391, 076) and Janette Burgess ($432, 568) who both received NHMRC Career Development Fellowships; Rob Vandenberg and Renae Ryan who received an NHMRC project grant ($253, 086); Margie Sunde who received an ARC Discovery Grant ($290, 000) and Rachel Codd and Jonathon Arnold who were part of a group that was awarded an ARC LEIF grant toward the purchase of a new HPLC system which will be housed in Pharmacology ($150, 000).
• Congratulations to Jonathon Arnold and Aurelie Boucher on the birth of their son Koa on October 7.
• The 2012 Honours Information Booklet is now available. Please see the booklet for the projects on offer in 2012 and supervisor contact details.
• We are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members of staff; Professor MacDonald Christie, Dr. Elena Bagley, Dr. Margie Sunde and Dr. Lenka Munoz. We are very excited to have our new staff on board and anticipate they will have a long and productive association with the Discipline of Pharmacology.
• Congratulations to Elena Bagley and Mac Christie on their paper "Drug-induced GABA transporter currents enhance GABA release and produce opioid withdrawal behaviours" that was accepted for publication in the prestigious journal, Nature Neuroscience.
• Congratulations on Long Service awards to Dr Hilary Lloyd – 25 year Bronze medal; Dr Rujee Duke – 25 year Bronze medal and Prof. Rob Vandenberg – 15 year Certificate.
• Congratulations to Jonathon Arnold who was awarded the 2011 Sydney Medical School Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision ($5000 prize).
• Graham Johnston has retired after 31 years as Professor of Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry and been appointed as Emeritus Professor. He recently published his 400th paper, a commissioned review in the British Journal of Pharmacology. He has been cited more that 17,000 times in the Science Citation Index and his h-index is 68, meaning that 68 of his publications have been cited more than 68 times. He gratefully acknowledges his excellent colleagues and students who made this possible.