Events

Please join us as at this MBS seminar by Dr Jon Mifsud (KU Leuven, Belgium) who will discuss both the promise and limitations of integrating protein structural prediction with phylogenetic approaches to study viral evolution. He will present recent work on the Flaviviridae, demonstrating how structure-informed phylogenetics reveals previously unrecognized evolutionary relationships underlying viral membrane fusion mechanisms and virus–host evolution.

Join us for a talk with Dr Juliana Valle from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where she will share an overview of the research environment at the Chair of Biological Imaging (TUM), where they develop novel optoacoustic imaging technologies for the life sciences and medicine.

SCMB invites to you an MBS seminar by A/Prof Federico Gaiti (University of Toronto), who will present 'Tracing pathogenic cell states and clonal trajectories: insights from cancer and autoimmunity'.

Please join the Infection & Immunity Theme for the first seminar of 2026. There will be 3 speakers: Wessel Willemsen (Wageningen University); Hylemariam Mengist (Short Lab); and Dr. Saber Abd Elkader (QBI).

Please join SCMB for its first Chemistry seminar of 2026 on February 27th by Professor Craig Hutton from the University of Melbourne.

The first MBS seminar of 2026 will be on Wednesday 18 February at 12:00 pm in the Hawken Engineering Building (50-T105). It is our pleasure to welcome Prof Yehuda (Dudy) Tzfati (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) to present “Beyond telomere length: Uncoupling telomere protection from length regulation in mouse models of telomere biology disorders”. Please come and support the MBS seminar series.

Please join SCMB for the 2026 Biochemisty Alumni Lecture, presented by A/Prof Martin Steinegger from Seoul National University. He will discuss his lab's fast computational methods Foldseek-Multimer, Folddisco, and Foldseek-Interface, which enable large-scale search, comparison, and clustering across these structural layers.

Please join SCMB for this special seminar by Dr Lisa Smith, University of Sheffield 'Malectin domain-containing kinases and kinesins in plant reproduction and abiotic stress responses'.

Please join us for the next MBS seminar by Associate Professor Rebecca Case (Nanyang Technological University Singapore), who will present 'Can plants drive succession in bacterial communities?' Using the seagrass, Halophila ovalis, to uncouple host-association and succession within the bacterial communities of Singapore’s coastal meadows.

The 2025 Skerman Lecture will be presented by Professor Stephanie Gras from La Trobe University. She will present 'Molecular Blueprint of Disease: Structural Insights into Viral Immunity'.

The 21st Annual Symposium is organised by and for SCMB's research (HDR, PGCW and Honours) students.

Please join us for the next MBS seminar by Dr Tim Bowser (Chief Technical Officer, River Stone Biotech Inc), who will be presenting 'SynBio scale-up challenges for small molecule Pharmaceutical Actives'.

Please join us for the next MBS seminar presented by Dr Jacob Lewis (University of Woolongong), presenting 'Decoding DNA replication using visual biochemistry'

Please join us for the next Chemistry seminar by Dr. Hangjuan Ren (School of Chemistry at Monash University), who will present 'Operando and In-situ Techniques and Insights into Electrocatalysis'.

Please join us for our next MBS seminar 'Secondary cell wall regulation and synthetic biology: lessons from Eucalyptus' presented by Prof Steven Hussey (Adelaide University).

Please join us for the next Chemistry Seminar 'Nitrogen-doped Carbon Supported Metal Catalysts for Green Organic Synthesis', presented by Dr Tomohiro Yasukawa from Monash University.

Please join us for the next SBB theme seminar presented by Dr Brett Hamilton (CMM), 'Using Mass Spectrometry Imaging to reveal the organisation of molecules in biological tissue samples'. He will discuss the evolution of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) tools which are used to determine the localisation of different biomolecules in a range of sample types.

Please join us for the next MBS seminar presented by A/Prof Jody Peters, 'Insect-Specific Viruses (ISV) to ISVac: Mosquito Virus-Powered Platforms for Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Bioprocessing Advancements'.

Please join us for this Molecular Bioscience Seminar presented by Prof Begoña Heras from La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science. She will present 'Structural insights into the function and inhibition of bacterial virulence proteins'.

It is our pleasure to announce the next chemistry seminar on 8 October by Dr. Haihui Joy Jiang, 'Plasma, magnetism, and polyphosphates'. In this talk she will discuss present plasma (air gap)-electrochemistry, magneto-electrochemistry, and polyphosphates as three innovations for a lower carbon future.

Please join us for the 2025 Biochemistry Alumni Lecture presented by A/Prof Danielle Grotjahn. She will be presenting 'Lessons from mitochondria on thriving under stress'.

Please join us for the MBS seminar presented by Prof Michael Beard from the University of Adelaide. He will present 'CRISPR genome-wide screens as a tool to identify novel host genes that control viral replication'.

It is our pleasure to announce the next chemistry seminar on September 29th by Dr Marcus Korb from the University of Western Australia, 'Internal Alkynes – From Metal-mediated activation to redox active Macrocyles'.

Please join the SBB theme for a seminar by Dr Kevin Chen (IMB), 'Assembly of Retromer–Rab7–Gyp6 Complex: A Novel Molecular Timer for Vacuolar Cargo Retrieval'.

We have an MBS seminar next Wednesday 24th of September at 12:00 pm in the AIBN seminar room. It is our pleasure to welcome Mirza S Baig (Institute of Technology Indore) to present “Targeting TIRAP-Mediated Inflammatory Signalling: A Promising Therapeutic Strategy for Sepsis and Chronic Inflammatory Diseases”. Please come and support the MBS seminar series.