A/Prof Marloes Dekker will be presenting 'Diet, metabolism and gut microbiome in pregnancy'. In this seminar she will talk about her studies into the relationship between dietary fibre, the gut microbiome and metabolites in pregnancy.
Dr. Maria Ikonomopoulou, a Senior Research TALENTO Fellow and Head of the Translational Venomics Group at IMDEA-Food Institute in Madrid, will be presenting 'Venom-Senolytics: A new class of senolytics with applications in cancer and other aging-related diseases'.
Prof. Ulrike Kappler (SCMB) will be presenting 'Should you care what your favourite pathogen likes to eat? – Insights into the role of metabolism for virulence of Haemophilus influenzae strains'.
We will be joined by three speakers: PhD candidate Korawich Uthayopas, who will discuss PRIMITI, a machine learning model for accurate prediction of miRNA-target mRNA interaction; PhD candidate Oliver Hughes, on his work on evaluating regional bias between replicates that are inherent to ChIP-seq and is widespread across ENCODE, and a flash talk by PhD candidate Sophie Leech on her research on altered gut microbiome composition in women with pre-existing type 2 diabetes mellitus during pregnancy.
Dr Stefan A. Pieczonka of Technical University of Munich will be presenting 'Comprehensive molecular characterization of Beer: Unveiling a complex biochemical system'.
SCMB's Dr Alex de Sá will be presenting 'LEGO-CSM: Predictive building blocks for construction functional protein insights' at the Structural Biology and Biochemistry theme seminar.
Dr Ramunas Stepanauskas, Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine (USA) will be presenting "Genomes and phenomes of individual cells in the ocean". In this presentation, presentation Dr Stepanauskas will review recent work performed by his group on the genome and phenome analyses of individual cells and extracellular genetic elements in the ocean, where unicellular microorganisms dominate ecosystem’s processes, biomass and biodiversity.
This week's Infection and Immunity seminar will be presented by 3 SCMB students and ECRs. Speakers include: Dr Emily Strong (West Lab), Dr Lian Zheng Jie (Schembri Lab), and Yanshan Zhu (Short Lab).
Dr David Aragao, of Diamond Light Source Limited - Diamond House, will present "Latest news from structural Biology at Diamond Light Source from the instruments to the support laboratories"
Prof. Kazuhiro Yabana of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba (Japan) will be presenting "Computational Optical Science at the Atomic Scale: First-Principles Approach "
A/Prof Anastasios Polyzos from the University of Melbourne will be presenting "Harnessing Potent Reductants via Multiphoton Tandem Photoredox Catalysis"
The 2023 UQ Metals in Biology Group Symposium will be held 1 August 2023, featuring presentations by several international, SCMB, IMB, and CAI researchers.
Dr. Raine Thomson will present "Unlocking non-natural chemistries in ancestral cytochromes P450" and Qian Guo will present "Structural Characterisation of Endosomal Trafficking Protein Sorting Nexin 27"
Prof. Lena Daumann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany will be presenting "Inspired by Nature: Separation of Lanthanides and Actinides Using Bacteria and their Biomolecules".
Dr Priyankar Paira, Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT, Tamilnadu, India, will be presenting "A scope of synthetic approaches for the development of Mitochondria targeting Ru(II)/Ir(III)/Re(I) based mono metallic and bimetallic complexes for cancer therapy"
