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Director's Seminar Series
Presentations take place on Friday afternoons at 12 pm in The Finkel Lecture Theatre
Upcoming events
01
Dec
2023
12pm 1 December 2023
Professor Jean Yang (University of Sydney) will present "How data can help fight disease".
Past events
22
Mar
2019
Combating latency of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Toxoplasma gondii infections »
Dr Andreas Kupz
Senior Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine
James Cook University
08
Mar
2019
Understanding genomic instability in cancer: chromosomal catastrophes, genome doubling and clinical implications »
Professor Tony Papenfuss, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
01
Mar
2019
Exploring the influence of tissue resident leukocytes on transplantation tolerance »
Clinical Professor Michaela Lucas, Sir Charles Gairdner and Perth Children's Hospitals, Western Australia
22
Feb
2019
Exploring the genetic landscape of hearing loss: towards new therapies for deafness »
Professor Steve Brown FRS FMedSci, Director, MRC Harwell Institute
15
Feb
2019
Mechanisms of Object Recognition in the Visual Brain »
Professor Michael Ibbotson,
National Vision Research Institute, Australian College of Optometry
and Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Melbourne
23
Nov
2018
Understanding the role of platelets in lung cancer »
Dr Emma Josefsson, Cancer and Haematology Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
16
Nov
2018
Cancer to Cardiology: the enigma of EGF receptors »
Professor Walter (Wally) Thomas, Professor and Chair in General. School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland.
26
Oct
2018
CD8+ T cell immunity: What makes it and what breaks it »
Professor Nicole La Gruta, ARC Future Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University
19
Oct
2018
Exploring disease heterogeneity in multiple sclerosis: can autoimmune reactivity against a single protein explain much of this diversity? »
A/Prof Judith Greer, Principal Research Fellow | UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Director of Research Training | Faculty of Medicine (North), The University of Queensland
12
Oct
2018
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy pre-cancer surgery relieves tumor-specific CD8+ T cell dysfunction and restores memory differentiation potential »
A/Prof Michele Teng, Head, Cancer Immunoregulation and Immunotherapy, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane
28
Sep
2018
Clinical trials for spinal cord injury: Acute care to the community »
Professor Sarah Dunlop leads an integrated program of laboratory and clinical research at UWA and at Royal Perth & Fiona Stanley Hospitals to promote functional recovery after traumatic injury to the nervous system, in particular spinal cord injury.
21
Sep
2018
Putting the R in Bioinformatics to develop better tools for gene expression analysis »
Dr Matt Ritchie, Laboratory Head, Molecular Medicine Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
14
Sep
2018
Your DNA matters, from conception to old age: Human genetics and genomics, DNA testing in research and healthcare »
Professor Hamish S. Scott, Head, Department of Genetics and Molecular Pathology, Beat Cancer Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Cancer Biology, A SA Pathology & UniSA alliance
31
Aug
2018
Development of a new cancer therapy: Translation of BCL2 inhibition from lab to trial to practice »
The talk will summarise progress to date from concept through discovery and translation to trials and to registration. Andrew will highlight the clinical impact of venetoclax and the many unresolved translational research questions which must be answered for these new drugs to reach their full potential to benefit patients.
24
Aug
2018
Application of state of the art Electron Microscopy to modern biochemistry and cell biology »
Professor James Whisstock, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne.
