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 |
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| Date | Presenter | Title | |
| 29 Feb | Prof Keith Jones School of Biomedical Sciences |
Why ageing is not good for you: a lesson 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 | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 17 Oct | Prof Rick Lewis University of Newcastle-upon-tyne |
Molecular architecture of the *stressosome*, a signal integration and transduction hub | |
| 24 Oct | Michelle Stockwell PhD completion seminar |
The role of the amphibian chytrid fungus in the decline of the green and golden bell frog | |
| 30 Oct THURSDAY Room SLRT3 SPECIAL |
A/Prof Bernie Carroll University of Queensland and ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research |
Long-distance spreading of gene silencing in Arabidopsis and the search for the mobile silencing signal | |
