Public Symposium: Plants and Drugs to Help Obesity and Diabetes

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Time:

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Room:

216

UQ Location:

Prentice Building (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.uq.edu.au/gilbertgroup/

Event category(s):

Full Description:: How is 'useless' maths leading to real products? Plants and drugs to help obesity and diabetes.

Prof Robert (Bob) Gilbert is giving the third public symposium of the year within the 'Where Is Science Heading' series, hosted by the UQ Science Undergraduate Student Society.

Refreshments will be provided afterwards.
This lecture is accepted as a seminar for second-year ASPinS students at UQ.

Professor Gilbert is a Research Professor at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). His research program centres on the relations between starch and glycogen structure (both being highly branched glucose polymers) and nutrition, especially diabetes and obesity.
His research group has developed new experimental and theoretical methods for the characterization of starch, glycogen and other branched polymers. These new methods open doors for understanding of starch and glycogen biosynthesis-structure-property relations, especially with regard to human health.