School Seminars

Semester 2, 2011

12:00pm -1:00pm, Biochemistry Building Room 471, G08

Enquiries: Prof. Joel Mackay
Email: joel.mackay at sydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9351 3906

  Date Speaker Topic

 

15 July

Prof. Adrian Goldman

University of Helsinki, Finland

 Flipping the switch: how Factor H distinguishes you from E.coli

 

22 July

Simon Melov

Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA

 From single cells, to complex tissues: adventures in aging research

 

   29 July

A week off!

 

 

5 August

Dr Jane Visvader

WEHI

 Gene regulation in breast development

 

12 August

A/Prof Nigel MacMillan

Diamantina Inst., UQ

 RNAi therapy: are we there yet?

 

19 August

Prof. Kathy North Children’s Hospital at Westmead

 A gene for speed: ACTN3, athletes, evolution and impact on human health

 

26 August

Dr Shane Thomas

UNSW

 Oxidative Stress and Endothelial Dysfunction

 

2 September

Dr Ian Grainge

University of Newcastle

 Repair, recombination and pumping of the bacterial chromosome

 

9 September

Dr Nik Zeps

SJOC Healthcare

 Managing the ethics of genomic research

 

16 September

Dr Sakkie Pretorius

Australian Wine Research

Institute

 The art of wine and the science of yeast - a magic blend

 

23 September

Richard Brennan

Duke University

 Mechanisms of drug resistance in bacteria

 

30 September    Festschrift for Prof. Philip Kuchel – see School website for more details

 

7 October

Dr Richard Payne

School of Chem., USyd

Chemical Approaches to Neglected Disease Drug

Discovery and Novel Vaccines

 

14 October

Prof. James Whisstock

Monash University

 Fibrolytic system

 

21 October

Dr Till Boecking Lowy Cancer Centre UNSW

 Under the hood of molecular motors: Single- molecule view of chaperone dynamics

 

28 October

A/Prof. David Sullivan

RPA

Macro vascular and micro vascular disease in type 2 diabetes: Receiving interest from your bio bank

 

Study Vacation

 

4 November

 

Filip Braet

New biomolecular microscopy and related correlative imagin tools to dissect cellular structure and function (in hepatic colorectal metastasis).