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JCSMR School Seminars
Unless otherwise indicated, all JCSMR School Seminars are held on Fridays at 12.00 noon in the Finkel Lecture Theatre, followed by a light sandwich lunch in the foyer.
Any enquiries can be directed to:
Dr Marco Casarotto T:
02 612 52598, E: marco.casarotto@anu.edu.au or
Doris Morales T: 02 61254996, E: doris.morales@anu.edu.au
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
HOST
25 July Daniel Eichner
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
“Doping in Sport – are all athletes equal?” Klaus Matthaei
14 August
Note:Thursday Special JCSMR School Seminar
Professor Rob Knight
University of Otago
“Defining a Core Human Microbiome.”
Gavin Huttley
15 August Dr Marc Wilkins
University of NSW
“Exploring the Dynamics of the Interactome.”
Rohan Williams
29 August Professor Wolfgang Weninger
Centenary Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Sydney
"Real Time imaging of immune responses in tumours and during infections."
Guna Karupiah
5 September Dr Maarten Kole & Dr Nicole Beard, JCSMR "The origin of nerve cell activity"

"Mechanisms underlying defective calcium homeostasis in cardiac disorders"
Marco Casarotto
10 September
Note: Wednesday Special JCSMR School Seminar
Professor Richard Cotton
University of Melbourne
“The Human Variome Project and progress towards collecting variation causing human disease” Simon Easteal

12 September

Dr Brian Dalrymple
Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane

"Building a sheep genome assembly and designing a 60K sheep SNP chip from 3 fold 454 sequencing and limited reduced representational SOLEXA sequencing." Gavin Huttley
19 September Professor Alan Cowman
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
“Moving in and Renovating: invasion and remodelling of the host erythrocyte by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum"
Geeta Chaudhri

17 October

Note:1.30pm start for this week only

Dr Joan Heath
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital
“Fishing for insights into intestinal development and colon cancer.” David Tremethick
31 October

Associate Professor Maarten van den Buuse
Head, Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory
Mental Health Research Institute, Victoria

“Testing for schizophrenia and depression endophenotypes in genetically-modified mice” Klaus Matthaei
7 November Professor Kathryn North
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
“A Gene for speed? ACTN3, evolution and athletes.” Simon Easteal
14 November Professor Francis Carbone
The University of Melbourne

“Dendritic cells and local T cells in immune memory responses.”
Gerard Hoyne
21 November Professor Marc Feldmann Curtin Medal Recipient Madeleine Nicol
28 November
Dr Ryszard Maleszka
RSBS, ANU

“Epigenetic integration of environmental and genomic signals in honey bees: the critical interplay of nutritional, brain and reproductive networks.”

David Tremethick