Events

It is our pleasure to announce SCMB's next chemistry seminar on 20 July by Dr Sofia Canola, Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU). She will present recent work in the field, focusing on how the combination of experiments with accurate quantum-chemical calculations and modelling allow them to access unique information and to guide the design of experiments. Showing how the imaging capability of STM helps them follow the mechanism of molecular photoreactions, by visualizing elusive intermediates and tracking precursor structural changes. She will also show how STM luminescence spectroscopy can be employed to study single molecules and their aggregates, giving access to information beyond conventional spectroscopy, such as dark excited states, and spatial maps of molecular excitons with atomic resolution.

On behalf of the Infection and Immunity Seminar Series convenors, please join us this Friday (10 July) for the sixth instalment of the 2026 series. We have three great speakers joining us: 1) Dr Cameron Bishop, Research Officer, Emerging Viral Diseases Lab, QIMR Berghofer; 2) Lachlan Walker (PhD Candidate, Schembri Lab); 3) Dr Connor Scott, Postdoc, Watterson Lab, SCMB & Chappell Lab, AIBN

We have an MBS seminar on Thursday, 9 July at 12pm in the AIBN seminar room. It is our pleasure to welcome Dr Selene Fernandez-Valverde from UNSW to present “Evolution as a lens into lncRNA functionality”. Please come and support the MBS seminar series.

Our next chemistry seminar on 29 June by A/Prof Santosh Rudrawar, titled 'Building a Chemical Toolbox'.

Please join the SBB theme for this month's seminar, presented by A/Prof Seth Cheetham and Dr Pie Huda.

We have an MBS seminar on Wednesday, 24 June at 12pm in the AIBN seminar room. We welcome Dr Wen Shi Lee from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne to present “Monoclonal antibody therapeutics for pandemic preparedness”. Please come and support the MBS seminar series.

Please join us for our next chemistry seminar will be on 8 June by Dr. Sina Jamali from Griffith University.

It is our pleasure to announce the next chemistry seminar of 2026 on 11 May by Professor Justin Chalker from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University.

Please join the SBB Theme for a seminar by Dr Michael Healy 'Unfolding the AlphaFold Revolution'. Morning tea will be provided afterwards in the MBS secret garden (outside level 1 tea room).

We have an MBS seminar on Wednesday, 29 April at 12:00 pm in the AIBN seminar room. It is our pleasure to welcome Dr Juan Ignacio Eizaguirre from Technical University of Munic to present “The origin of lager brewing yeast”. Please come and support the MBS seminar series.

Please join use for the next chemistry seminar of 2026 on 27 April by Professor Michael Breadmore from the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS), School of Natural Science, University of Tasmania. Michael is the 2026 RSC Australasian lecturer.

We have an MBS seminar on Wednesday, 22 April at 1:00 pm in the AIBN seminar room. It is our pleasure to welcome SCMB’s own A/Prof Mariusz Skwarczynski to present “Structure Activity Relationships of Synthetic Vaccines”. Please come and support the MBS seminar series.

On behalf of the Infection and Immunity Seminar Series convenors, Dr Adriana Pliego Zamora and Dr Helen Mostafavi, we are pleased to invite you to the next Infection and Immunity Seminar Series session on Friday 24 April at 11:00 am.

Please join use for the next Chemistry seminar by Dr Stephen Sanderson, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. This talk explores recent theoretical developments in the treatment of nonequilibrium steady states towards improved understanding, more efficient simulations leveraging machine learning and time-series predictions, and potential opportunities in advanced sensing technologies.

On behalf of the Infection and Immunity Seminar Series we are pleased to invite you to the next Infection and Immunity Seminar Series session on Friday 27 March at 11:00AM.

Please join the SBB Theme for two seminars by Julia Huang and Jasper Stone on 26 March 2026 in Prentice Building (42) 216. The seminar will be followed by a morning tea in the MBS Secret Garden.

Please join us for the next chemistry seminar of 2026 on March 23rd by Dr Dan Priebbenow from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Daniel is the 2025 recipient of the RACI Organometallic Award.

Please join us for an MBS seminar by Prof Rainer Hedrich (Shenzhen University of Science and Technology (SUAT), China), who will present 'Ion channels, excitability, and memory: lessons learnt from the Venus flytrap'

Please join us for our next Chemistry seminar by Dr Laurence Jennings, who will present 'From the Irish Coast to the NMR: Discovery of Marine Natural Products'.

Please join us for the next Chemistry seminar on 9 March by A/Prof Amanda Bongers from the Queen's University (Canada). She will present 'Learning and note-taking in the sciences: exploring the cognitive demands of different generative learning strategies'.

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.