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Biological Sciences
Research Seminar Program

Biological Sciences research seminars are held on Fridays from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in the Life Sciences Theatre (LSTH). If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the Research Seminar Program Coordinator.

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Semester 1

Date Presenter Title  
29 Feb Prof Keith Jones
School of Biomedical Sciences
Why ageing is not good for you: a lessong from our eggs  
7 Mar Feki Mantiri Ethylene induced genes in somatic embryogenesis in Midicago truncatula with particular reference to MtSerf1  
14 Mar Ulla Simanainen
University of Sydney
Developmental toxicity of doixins  
21 Mar No seminar this week
28 Mar Anthony Brzoska Partitioning of a plasmid carrying multiple antibiotic resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus  
4 Apr Dr Anthony Roach
NSW Dept of Environment & Climate Change
Monitoring for POPs: Lessons from measuring dioxins in fish and crustaceans from Sydney Harbour  
9 Apr
Special
Seminar
David Elliott
University of Newcastle, UK
RNA binding proteins and their role in alternative pre-mRNA splicing in germ cell development and infertility  
11 Apr Prof Glenn King
IMB, University of Queensland
Cell signalling?  
18 Apr Professor John Boyer Preventing Abortion in Water Deficient Maize  
  RECESS
2 May Dr Andrew McMahon The use of combinatorial chemistry to distinguish conformational isoforms of prion protein  
9 May No seminar this week
16 May Ian Paulsen
Macquarie University
Comparative and Functional Genomic Approaches for understanding microbial physiology and evolution  
23 May No seminar this week
30 May Kate Ewan TBA  
6 Jun Yun Lee TBA  

Semester 2

Date Presenter Title  
25 Jul Lisa Mitchell The Molecular Basis of Human Sperm-Zona Pellucida Interaction  
1 Aug No seminar this week
8 Aug Dr Christopher Lambrides Qld: Wheat Phenome Atlas - A 'global' view of the wheat genome  
15 Aug Muren Herrid
UNE
Testis Germ Cell Transplantation and Live Offspring Production  
22 Aug Craig Evans Exploring bacterial diversity in rainwater storage systems  
28 Aug No seminar this week
5 Sep Sean Doody
Canberra University
TBA  
12 Sep Dan TBA  
19 Sep Michael Brown TBA  
26 Sep Katherine Dibley TBA  
  RECESS
17 Oct Kieran Hinks TBA  
24 Oct Michelle Stockwell TBA  
IRUA