We offer a busy calendar of events, which are variously available to the public, our graduates, future and current students, and staff.

Simple/Low-cost Bioanalysis for the Developing World and Point of Care

30 June 2016 4:00pm5:00pm
Presenter: Prof George Whitesides, Harvard University

Using Ancient DNA to time travel through megafaunal extinctions, climate change and human microbiomes

20 July 2015 5:15pm
Presenter: Professor Alan Cooper, from the University of Adelaide

MAIT cells: Friend or Foe in recognising microbial vitamin meabolites presented in the MHC-I-related molecule MR1

28 May 2015 12:15pm
Presenter: Professor James McCluskey, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Melbourne

The Magic of Molecular Machines

18 December 2014 4:00pm5:00pm
Presenter: Prof David Leigh, University of Manchester

Brazilian Biodiversity, a Sophisticated Lab of Biologically Active Compounds: Tracing New Models for Medicinal Chemistry

20 July 2014 5:45pm
Presenter: Professor Vanderlan Bolzani, Universidade Estaduai Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

Death receptors and bacterial diarrhoea

20 July 2014 5:15pm
Presenter: Professor Elizabeth Hartland, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne

Characterization of Orphan Human Cytochrome P450 Enzymes & Their Metabolic Roles: The General Problem of Gene Annotation

3 December 2013 5:45pm
Presenter: Professor F Peter Guengerich, Tadashi Inagami Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Better Mitochondia through Imine Addition Chemistry

29 July 2013 4:00pm
Presenter: Prof Peter Wipf (pictured, with descendents of TGH Jones), University of Pittsburgh

A Materials Genome Approach to Complex Biological-Like Systems

20 July 2013 5:45pm
Presenter: Professor Virgil Percec, P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania

Into the Natural Microbial World: Metagenomics and the Tree of Life

20 July 2013 5:15pm
Presenter: Professor Norman Pace from the University of Colorado

Organic Electronic Materials: a Licence to Print Money

20 July 2012 5:45pm
Presenter: Professor Andrew B Holmes AM FRS FAA, CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering; University of Melbourne School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute ; Imperial College Department of Chemistry

Where to next for international disease control and eradication?

20 July 2012 5:30pm
Presenter: Dr Martyn Jeggo, CSIRO Animal Health Laboratories, Geelong

Ethical dilemmas and missed opportunities

23 October 2011 3:00pm
Presenter: Professor Neva Haites OBE, of the University of Aberdeen

Tangling with Long Molecules

25 July 2011 4:00pm
Presenter: Prof Dame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FREng, Imperial College, London

Tangling with Long Molecules

25 July 2011 4:00pm
Presenter: Prof Dame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FREng, Imperial College, London

Preventing and Curing Infectious Diseases: Carbohydrate Vaccines and Continuous Flow Synthesis

20 July 2011 5:45pm
Presenter: Professor Peter H. Seeberger, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Bacteria and Phagocytes: Mortal Enemies

20 July 2011 5:15pm
Presenter: Prof Victor Nizet, Professor of Paediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego and Chief of the Division of Paediatric Pharmacology & Drug Discovery at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Design and engineering of oxidoreductases

3 December 2010 4:00pm
Presenter: Prof Les Dutton, The Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania

Life on the Edge- the Generic Nature of Protein Misfolding Disorders

30 August 2010 12:30pm
Presenter: Prof Christopher Dobson, Master of St John's College, The University of Cambridge

Fragments-Based Approaches for Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology

20 July 2010 6:00pm
Presenter: Prof Chris Abell, Professor of Biological Chemistry, the University of Cambridge

Inevitability and Evolution

20 July 2010 5:15pm
Presenter: Prof Paul Rainey, Profesor of Evolutionary Genetics, NZ Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University

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