School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy

Seminar Schedule

Location: MS202, Start Time: 12:15 pm (Unless Otherwise Noted)

2013

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

February 13

Prof Ralph Bradshaw
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California
San Francisco

Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Sorting TrkA Signaling Sites with Quantitative Phosphoproteomics

Hubert Hondermarck

March 8

Prof Saxon White
School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy
University of Newcastle

Evolution and the control of coronary blood flow in man: the vagus nerve

Brett Graham

March 15

A/Prof Eugene Nalivaiko
School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy
University of Newcastle

Nausea, a Neglected Symptom

Brett Graham

March 22

Dr Simon Keely
School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy
University of Newcastle

Hypoxia and Mucosal Healing in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Brett Graham

April 5

Prof. Istvan Toth
Chair in Biological Chemistry
Professor of Pharmacy
University of Queensland

Lipids and sugars in peptide and vaccine
delivery

Roger Liang

April 12

Prof.Kim Chan
Pharmaceutics
University of Sydney

Translational Pulmonary Drug Delivery by Aerosol Technology

Philip Hansbro

April 26

Prof George Augustine
Director, Center for Functional Connectomics, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and
Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Neuroscience Research Partnership, Singapore

New insight into neural circuits using optogenetic approaches

Brett Graham

May 10

Professor Robert Callister
School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy
University of Newcastle

Can Glycine receptors be a target for pain therapy?

Bob Callister

May 17

Professor Jonathon Crowston
Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne
Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA)
Senior Clinician, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital (RVEEH)

Ageing and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Glaucoma

Doug Smith

May 24

Professor Claire Roberts
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Adelaide

Reproductive Health Matters

Jon Hirst

May 30

Prof Matt Cooper
NHMRC Australia Fellow
Institute of Molecular Bioscience
School of Chemistry & Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland

Building an antibiotic pipeline in academia

Phil Hansbro

June 7

Prof.Mark Connor
Professor of Pharmacology
Australian School of Advanced Medicine

Title TBA

Philip Hansbro

June 14

A/Prof Rainer Haberberger
Neuroscience in Anatomy & Histology
Flinders University

The sphingosine 1-phosphate system in peripheral nociception

Brett Graham

June 21

A/Prof Amanda Page
Gastrointestinal Vagal Afferent Group
University of Adelaide

Plasticity of Peripheral Vagal Afferent Satiety Signals

Phil Jobling

July 3rd

Professor Andrew  Scholey
Director, Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University

Title TBA

Peter Howe

July 19

Prof Russ Chess-Williams
Bond University

Functions of the bladder urothelium and the effects of intravesical treatments for cancer

Karen Kerr

August 9

Lisa Ogle
Research Publications Librarian
Library Services
University of Newcastle

2013 Research Publications Collection - New System

Brett Graham

August 16

Prof Vaughan Macefield
Foundation Chair of  Integrative Physiology
School of Medicine
University of Western Sydney, &
Conjoint Senior Principle Research Fellow
Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Sydney

"Real-time fMRI of human cardiovascular control: studies using concurrent recordings of sympathetic nerve activity and fMRI"

Philip Bolton

August 23

Dr Goli Samimi
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
St Vincent's Clinical School

Early Detection and Identification of Novel
Therapeutic Targets in Ovarian Cancer

Pradeep Tanwar

August 30

Pankaj Sah
Deputy Director
Queensland Brain Institute

Title TBA

Brett Graham

September 9

Dr Tao
Histone Modification Lab
Children Cancer Research Institute, Sydney

Long Intergenic Non-coding RNAs in N-Myc-induced Oncogenesis

Xu Dong Zhang

September 13

Justine Stehn

Development of anti-tropomyosin compounds which target the actin cytoskeleton of tumour cells.

Judith Weidenhofer

September 20

Bradley Launikonis

Calcium handling by the skeletal muscle tubular (t-) system

Dirk van Helden

September 27

Professor Richard J. Lewis
NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience (QBP)
University of Queensland

Dissecting pain pathways with toxins

Phil Jobling

October 4

Dr Betty Exintaris
Monash University

Understanding the aetiology of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH): changes in spontaneous smooth muscle contractility with age

Karen Kerr

October 11

Lars Ittner

Title TBA

Estelle Sontag

October 18

Emeritus Professor Roger Dampney
School of Medical Sciences
University of Sydney

Central mechanisms regulating coordinated cardiovascular and respiratory function in  stress and arousal

Saxon White

October 25

Dr Gwilym Morris  Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology  School of Medicine, University of Manchester

Title TBA

Dirk van Helden

November 1

Prof Glenda Halliday
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, NeuRA
Conjoint Professor, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW
Honorary Visiting Scientist, Westmead Hospital, Concord Hospital

Frontotemporal and motor neurodegenerative syndromes

Liz Milward

November 8

Dr Peter Mole
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
The University of Queensland

Title TBA

Susan Hua

November 15

Prof Jens R. Coorssen
School of Biomedical & Health Sciences
University of Western Sydney

High resolution gel-based proteomics for the analysis of biomolecular mechanisms

Hubert Hondermarck

November 22

Jhodie Duncan  ARC Future Fellow
FNI, MBC, University of Melbourne

Title TBA

Chris Dayas

December 6

Bjorn Knollmann
Vanderbilt University

Title TBA

Derek Laver

   

 

 

Details for 2013 Seminar Speakers are updated regularly, please check back soon for upcoming speakers.

For any questions with regards to the seminar series, please contact Brett Graham.

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