Seminars

Program - Semester 2 2012

Wednesdays, 4.00 - 5.00pm
Molecular Sciences seminar room, room 351, Physical Sciences 4

Internal Biochemistry seminars listed in grey

Date
Speaker
Host
11 July
Professor David Thorburn (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute)
Mitochondrial OXPHOS disease: new genes found by massively parallel sequencing and new mouse models
Professor Mike Ryan
18 July
Dr Ira Cook
Bioinformatics with Galaxy at La Trobe

25 July
Dr Ross Dickins (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)
Haematopoietic transcription factors in acute leukaemia genesis and therapy
Professor Mike Ryan
1 August
Dr Kai Ing Soo
Dysfunction in ER-Golgi transport is a common mechanism of toxicity in Motor Neuron Disease

8 August
Professor Rob Parton (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland)
New insights into the formation and function of caveolae
Professor Mike Ryan
14 August
4-5pm
Professor Jacqui Matthews (University of Sydney)
Regulating transcriptional regulators
Dr Matt Perugini
22 August
1-2pm
Professor Adrienne Clarke (Chancellor, La Trobe University) 
Biochemistry Open Day seminar
Dr Mark Hulett
29 August
Dr David Stroud
Characterisation of the ER-Mitochondria encounter structre and biogenesis of Complex IV of the respiratory chain

5 September
Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)
Regulation of adult stem cells: from breast to lung
Dr Hamsa Puthalakath
12 September
Dr Suresh Mathivanan
Exomes in cancer and intercellular communication

19 September
Professor Jiri Neuzil (Griffith University)
Mitochondrially targeted anti-cancer agents (mitocans): A new paradigm in efficient cancer treatment
Dr Kaye Truscott
1 October
Professor Marilyn Anderson
My career with circular molecules

3 October
Professor Scott O’Neill (Monash University)
Using Wolbachia infections to control dengue transmission
Dr Begona Heras
10 October
Dr Hamsa Puthalakath
Bim mediated apoptosis: from heart to immunity

17 October
Dr Salvatore Pepe (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute)
Mitochondrial bioenergetics, redox and heart failure
Dr Suzanne Cutts
24 October
Dr Suzanne Cutts
Taming the red devil—mechanism-based strategies for improving doxorubicin chemotherapy

31 October
Professor Susan Charman (Monash University)
Genesis of the antimalarial OZ439: from preclinical studies to clinical trials
Em. Professor Robin Anders
7 November
Dr Christine Hawkins
Persuading diseased cells to make the ultimate sacrifice

14 November
Dr Helen Thomas (St Vincent’s Institute)
Apoptosis and necrosis of pancreatic beta cells in diabetes

Dr Hamsa Puthalakath
21 November
Dr Mark Hulett
A novel mechanism of cell lysis in innate immunity: lessons from defensins

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For further information contact:

Dr Giselle Roberts

Phone +61 3 9479 2196
Email g.roberts@latrobe.edu.au