Events

Please join us for this chemistry seminar on 3 March by Dr Sinead Keavaney, visiting from the University of Wollongong, she will be presenting the RACI Athel Beckwith Lectureship 'Catalytic reaction development and investigating mechanism'.

Molecular Bioscience Special Seminar will be presented by Dr. Caroline Puente-Lelievre (University of Auckland) is entitled 'Structural phylogenetics: tracing evolution through protein structure'.

SCMB welcomes you to join a Molecular Bioscience Special Seminar presented by Professor Albert Heck (Utrecht University), who will be presenting 'From in-depth high-throughput plasma glycoproteomics to fine details of antibody glycosylation.'

Please join us for the Chemistry seminar by Prof Adam Lee (Griffith University), 'Catalysing sustainable chemical manufacturing from biomass'. Prof Lee's presentation will describe challenges in the design of catalytic technologies for biofuels and platform chemicals synthesis.

Please join us for a Molecular Bioscience Special Seminar - Restoring Protein Glycosylation with GlycoShape, presented by A/Prof Elisa Fadda (University of Southampton, UK).

The first Chemistry Seminar of 2025 will take place on Tuesday 28 January, with a talk by Prof Anil Kumar, 'Mechano, Electro-Organic and Flow Chemistry: A New Paradigm in Organic and Materials Syntheses'.

The SCMB Molecular Biosciences Seminar series welcomes Assistant Professor Jenny Hyde from the University of Washington (USA), to present 'Leveraging bioinformatics to identify functional RNA structures necessary for viral replication and emergence'.

The next SCMB Chemistry Seminar will be presented by Professor Simon Kuhn (KU Leuven, Belgium), titled 'Continuous manufacturing of polymers and particles in ultrasonic microreactors'.

Associate Professor Lutz Krause, of Microba Life Sciences, will be presenting the 2024 Skerman Lecture entitled 'From Testing to Therapeutics: Harnessing Metagenomics for Advanced Clinical Diagnostics and Microbiome-Derived Therapeutics'. His presentation will explore how metagenomic technologies enable the development of both rationally selected therapeutics and advanced pathogen diagnostics.

Please join us at the next chemistry seminar on 11 November by Professor Daniel Werz, visiting from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität. His presentation is titled 'Gain by Strain: Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes to Access Carbo- and Heterocyclic Compounds'.

The SCMB Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series welcomes A/Prof Yann Gambin, UNSW/EMBL Australia, who will be presenting 'Immunity, neurodegeneration and phase transition: molecular biology at the single molecule resolution'.

The Chemistry Seminar Series welcomes Dr Tristan Reekie from the University of New South Wales Canberra, who will be presenting 'Organic chemistry for drug discovery and back again'.

Prof Spencer Williams (University of Melbourne) will be presenting the 2024 Bertram Dillon Steele lecture. In his 'The Secret Chemistry and Biology of the Sulfur Cycle' lecture he will describe the discovery of specialised glycosidases termed sulfoquinovosidases that release SQ from sulfolipids, a new pathway for SQ degradation that achieves the cleavage of the distinctive carbon-sulfur bond, and the development of synthetic tools that can be used to study and exploit the new enzymes and proteins that we have discovered.

Prof Sally Dunwoodie (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute) will be presenting the 2024 Biochemistry Alumni Lecture, titled 'Congenital malformation: Identifying causes, disease mechanisms, and opportunities for possible prevention'.

We are excited to invite you to our final SBB theme seminar for 2024. This month we will have PhD students Shulei Liu and Bryan Lim from the Schulz and Kobe group. We hope to see you there.

Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series welcomes Prof Mark Schembri (SCMB/IMB), who will be presenting 'Antibiotic resistant superbugs: it’s all about the clones.'

The SCMB Chemistry Seminar Series Welcomes Prof Stephen Moggach (UWA), who will present 'Why squeeze MOFs? The Effect of Pressure, Guest Uptake and Structural Flexibility on Porous Materials'.

MBS Seminar Series welcomes Prof Mathew G Lewsey of La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and Food, and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space. Prof Lewsey will be presenting 'What happens when a genome wakes up: gene regulation during seed germination'.

SCMB Seminar Series welcomes guest speaker A/Prof Nicholas Furnham (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine). Nicholas will be presenting 'Developing and applying AI/XAI methods in hit drug discovery & in understanding antimicrobial drug resistance'.

SCMB will host an an extra Chemistry Seminar this Friday, 4 October. It is my pleasure to announce a presentation by Prof Colette Boskovic, who will present 'Australia, Women and Rare Earth Chemistry'. In this lecture she will present her own journey as a woman in chemistry and discuss some of the challenges that remain for the full participation of women in science.

The next MBS seminar will be presented by A/Prof Paul Dawson (Mater Research Institute), entitled 'Neuroprotective benefit of magnesium sulfate therapy in preterm infants: is it magnesium or is it sulfate?'

Please join us for the next chemistry seminar on September 30th by Prof. Alex Bissember. Prof Bissember will be presenting 'Synthesis and Reactivity of N-Heterocycles and Photoactive Copper(I) Complexes'. This presentation describes his team's efforts to prepare and study of original classes of photoactive copper(I) complexes bearing tetradentate, phenanthroline-based supporting ligands with a view to better understanding the subtle interplay between structure and function. Also, the presentation will outline their progress exploring the fundamental properties and synthetic applications of various classes of N-heterocycles.

The Biomolecular and Medicinal Chemistry Themes will be hosting a joint symposium on 24 September 2024.

The next Chemistry seminar will be presented by Prof Shang-Cheng Hung from the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei. Prof Hung will be presenting 'Probing Specific Interactions of Synthetic Cell-Surface Carbohydrates with Disease-Related Proteins'.