Department of Chemistry - Macquarie University

Seminar Schedules

Postgraduate Seminar Schedule for information on postgradute seminars this year.
Organishe Zeitschrift Kolloquium for the current organic Journal Club schedule.

SCHEDULE Semester 1, 2008

All seminars are from 12:00 Thursdays in Rm F7B322 (unless otherwise stated); all welcome.

This semester we highlight local talent in the Sydney region relevant to the depth of research in the new Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences as well as some distinguished overseas visitors.

Time & Date	Speaker	Seminar title
6 March	CBMS Honours students	CBMS Honours seminars
13 March	Dr Tom Roberts CBMS, Macquarie University	"DNA Damage Responses in Plants and their Regulation by Serpins"
27 March	Dr Nikki Verrills School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle & Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI)	"Protein phosphatases in cancer: the crucial role of PP2A and its potential as a novel anticancer target"
3 Apr	Prof. Ed Nice Protein Biosensing Department, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne	"Biosensors, biomarkers, micropurification and cancer"
10 Apr	Prof. Mark Willcox School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW	"Tear Film in Health and Disease"
17 Apr	Dr. Heung-Chin Cheng Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne	"CSK-homologous kinase (CHK) an endogenous inhibitor targeting all active conformations of the Src-family protein tyrosine kinases "
8 May	Prof. Marc Wilkins School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences University of New South Wales	"The Dynamics of the Interactome "
22 May	Daniela Stock Department Structural and Computational Biology Division Affiliation Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute	"Structure, function and regulation of proton translocating ATPases"
5 June	Dr. Robert Moritz Director, Australian Proteomics Computational Facility Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research, Melbourne Victoria	"The Australian Proteomics Computational Facility - Utilising a large computing resource for your Proteomics research "
12 June	Dr Xavier Franck CNRS, University Rouen, France	"Synthesis of natural products and analogues: From cytotoxicity to fluorescence "
19 June	Peter J. Hudson PhD, FTSE. CSIRO Fellow and HUPO-Human Antibody Co-Chair. CEO (and Co-founder) of AviPep Pty Ltd and Co-founder of EvoGenix (now Arana Ltd).	"Engineered antibodies are high-value Biopharmaceutical and Diagnostic reagents and also validate novel proteomic biomarkers"
26 June	Associate Professor Maria Kavallaris Pharmacoproteomics Program, Children’s Cancer Institute Australia	"Cytoskeletal Proteins and Drug Resistance in Cancer"
7 Aug	Dr Ben Herbert Proteomics Technology Centre of Expertise. University of Technology, Sydney	"Fractionation for proteomics"
21 Aug	Warren Bailey and invited speakers MQ Office of Commercialisation	"Alternate ways of funding your work"
4 Sept	Dr Ashley Franks University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA	"Real time imaging and spatial gene expression of current-generating Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms in fuel cell mode."
18 Sept	Assoc Prof Cynthia Whitchurch NHMRC R. Douglas Wright Research Fellow, Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)	"Multitasking by the Extracellular DNA Slime of Pseudomonas aeruginosa "
9 Oct	Mitchell Guss School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney	"Interesting chemistry in a metalloenzyme"
16 Oct	Neville Firth University of Sydney	"Molecular Biology of Multiresistance Plasmids from Golden Staph"
6 Nov	Dr William E. Hughes Garvan Institute of Medical Research & Faculty of Medicine, UNSW.	"Trying To Make Sense Of Intracellular Events:The Signalling controlling secretion."
13 Nov	Prof Nick Jacques IDR, Westmead Millennium Institute and Westmead Centre for Oral Health	"The Human Microbiome and Disease (Advanced Caries as an Example of a Polymicrobial Disease). "
Fri 14 Nov	Prof. Romuald Zabielski Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw	"Neurohormonal regulation of small intestine development."
19 Nov	Prof W.S. Hancock Barnett Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston	"From Protein therapeutics to Clinical Proteomics"

Please e-mail Nicki Packer (nicki.packer@mq.edu.au) for the 2008 seminar schedule or to make enquiries about presenting a seminar.

Directions for getting to the Department can be found here.

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SCHEDULE Semester 1, 2008

All seminars are from 12:00 Thursdays in Rm F7B322 (unless otherwise stated); all welcome.

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