Seminars

Semester 2, 2012

All seminars are held at 12:00pm on Friday in the Hooper Lecture Theatre (building HSZ, reference C7 on the campus map), unless otherwise indicated.

Date
 Speakers
3 August Sam Manna (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
Breaking the mould: Characterisation of a unique mitochondrial transcription factor B homolog in Dictyostelium discoideum.

10 August

 Jessica Accari (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University) Dictyostelium model for Batten disease and transcription and transcript processing in Acanthamoeba.

17 August

 Celeste Donato (Enteric Virus Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute)
Suwei Chen (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
  1. Whole genome sequencing of Australian rotavirus strains.
  2. The role of DJ-1 and HtrA2 in Parkinson's disease using Dictyostelium as a model.

24 August

 Shawn de Piazza and Ben Cotton (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
  1. Mitochondrial disease in the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum.
  2. Innate Immunity and MNV-1.

31 August

 Professor Sharon Lewin (Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital,
Department of Medicine, Monash University, Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute)
Title to be advised

7 September

 Oana Sanislav and Ashley Harman (Department of Microbiology) La Trobe University
  1. The role of Raptor in mitochondrial disease in Dictyostelium discoideum.
  2. Title to be advised.
14 September
 Rebecca Ambrose (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
WNV NS4A and ER stress responses.
21 September
 Ferdiye Taner (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
The role of the rnpO-rsh region in Agrobacterium sp.LTU50

28 September

 Charlene Farah and Jasmina Ilievska (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
  1. AMPK mediated signalling pathways in the Dictyostelium mitochondrial disease model.
  2. The role of ESCRT-II in Dictyostelium discoideum.
5 October
 Tanya O'Donnell and Alkouni Makoulf (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
  1. Cellular responses to MNV-1 infection.
  2. Mitochondrial transcription in the marine choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis.

12 October

 Turgut Aktepe and Claire Strorey (Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University)
  1. Replication of West Nile Virus.
  2. Establishing Dictyostelium discoideum as a model for Alzheimer's disease.
19 October
 Jackie Mahar (Enteric Virus Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute)
Characterisation of Norovirus Strains in Children

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Contact 

Dr Sarah Annesley

+61 3 9479 1105 
s.annesley@latrobe.edu.au