SBMS Seminar Series 2012

2012 Seminar Series

In 2012, the School of Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series will present local researchers and postdocs, and national and international researchers.

Seminars will be held every Friday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in Room 305; Seminar Room, Skerman Building. Details of seminars conducted outside this timeslot will also be posted on this webpage. 

Seminar schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
24/02 Dr Matt Cheesman School of Biomedical Sciences, UQ A Virtual Laboratory in Pharmacology education: outcomes and future prospects Dr Karin Borges
 16/03
 Dr Kylie Tucker
Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health,School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, UQ
Mechanisms that underlie movement changes with pain
 Dr Brad Launikonis

 23/03

Professor Mike Waters 

Institute of Molecular Biology, UQ

 Regulation of height, metabolism, neural stem cells and innate immunity by growth hormone  Dr Karin Borges
 30/03 Professor Barney Dalgarno  Faculty of Education, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW 3D Immersive Virtual worlds in Higher Education Dr Matt Cheesman
 20/04
 
Dr Grant Drummond
 		 Vascular Biology & Immunopharmacology Group
Department of Pharmacology
Monash University		 Chemokines receptors as drug targets to reduce vascular inflammation in hypertension Dr Garrie Arumugum
 27/04   Assoc Professor Dong-Gyu Jo School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Oxidative Lipid Modification of γ-Secretase in Alzheimer’s Dr Garrie Arumugam
04/05 Dr Stewart Head School of Medical Sciences, UNSW The role of branched skeletal muscle fibres in the pathogenesis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy Dr Brad Launikonis
11/05  Professor Greg Monteith School of Pharmacy, UQ Remodelling of calcium homeostasis in tumor progression: a focus on breast cancer Dr Brad Launikonis
18/05 Dr Trevor Biden Garven Insitute Beta cell lipid metabolism and the regulation and dysregulation of insulin secretion Assoc Prof Peter Thorn
         
 1/06 Dr Andy Stadnyk Mucosal Immunology Research,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada		 Dissecting the Role of Complement during Colitis. Dr Trent Woodruff
 08/06 Dr Mark Hullet   Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University Nicotiana alata defensin 1 induces tumour cell lysis by forming a novel oligomeric complex with phospholipids Dr Simon Phipps
15/06 Dr Annemiek Beverdam SBMS The Genetics of Smell and Skin Dr
22/06 Dr Kah Leong Lim Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore Harnessing the neuroprotective function of parkin as a therapeutic strategy for Parkinson’s disease Dr Garrie Arumugam
20/07 A/Prof Carol Wicking Insitute for Molecular Bioscience TBA Dr Angela Jeanes
27/07 Prof Alastair Stewart Department of Pharmacology
University of Melbourne		 Optimizing Glucocorticoids for inflammation: an enduring challenge to harness pleiotropism and minimize disease-induced resistance Prof Rod Minchin
03/08 Prof Matt Brown Diamantina Institute, University of Queensland Gene-mapping in Human Diseases Prof Wally Thomas
 24/08 Dr Dagmar Wilhelm    Institute of Molecular Bioscience, UQ  Towards a new understanding of the reproductive system, a tale of ncRNAs and ovaries Prof Wally Thomas
05/10 Dr Ulrike Siebeck SBMS Visual neuroethology of reef fish Dr Brad Launikonis
12/10 Dr Kirsty Short University of Melbourne A killer combination: Influenza A virus and pneumococcal coinfections Dr Simon Phipps
26/10 Dr Sandra Cooper Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research (INMR) at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Dysferlin and membrane repair in muscle Dr Brad Launikonis

 

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