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Director's Seminar Series
Presentations take place on Friday afternoons at 12 pm in The Finkel Lecture Theatre.
The full program of the Director's Seminar Series for 2024 can be found on the Intranet.
Upcoming events
03
May
2024
12pm 3 May 2024
Dr Samantha Barton will present 'Using iPSC-derived Organoids to Model MND and MS'.
10
May
2024
12pm 10 May 2024
Dr Kirsten Fairfax will present 'Immunogenetics'.
17
May
2024
12pm 17 May 2024
Professor Leonie Quinn will present 'Solving mysteries of the neural stem cell niche to understand brain cancer'.
Past events
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.
24
Aug
2018
Atomic resolution cryo-EM structures of mammalian pore forming immune effectors »
Professor James Whisstock, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne.
17
Aug
2018
Trafficking inside cells to initiate immunity »
Dr Justine Mintern, Senior Lecturer & Head of Vaccine Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne
10
Aug
2018
Generating CRISPR mouse models for neurodevelopmental disorders »
Dr Paul Thomas, Director, SA Genome Editing Facility¸ University of Adelaide and South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.
03
Aug
2018
When Immune responses go wrong – critical signalling pathways in lymphocytes balancing immunodeficiency and autoimmunity »
Dr Elissa Deenick, Laboratory Head, Lymphocyte Signalling and Activation, Immunology Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
29
Jun
2018
T cell receptor clustering - a mechanism of signal transduction »
Professor Katharina Gaus, EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science and ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
