Events

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'.

We are very excited to announce this month's SBB seminar speaker, Dr. Rosemary Cater. Rosemary is a new group leader in structural biology at the IMB. She will be presenting 'Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Nutrient Transport at the Blood Brain Barrier'.

The SCMB - Molecular Bioscience Seminar Series Welcomes Dr Miloš Tanurdžić (SCMB), who will be presenting 'Chromatin-based gene regulatory mechanisms controlling plant architecture'.

Dr Carol Hua, University of Melbourne, will be presenting 'Chiral Chemical Sensors and Stimuli Responsive Materials'.

Please join us at the next chemistry seminar on August 12th by Dr. Laura Burchill (University of Melbourne), who will be presenting 'Charting Metabolic Pathways in Ocean Ecosystems'.

Dr Joel Hooper from Monash University as our next speaker in the SCMB chemistry seminar series with his presentation 'Catalytic solutions for the synthesis of molecules big and small'.

We are very excited to announce this months SBB seminar speaker, Dr. Nick Ariotti. Nick is a group leader at the IMB and an expert in the emerging field of in situ cryogenic electron microscopy. We are very excited to have him present at the SBB seminar series this month.

Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Zhernakova, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, The Netherlands, will be presenting a special MBS Seminar entitled 'Host and environmental determinants of gut microbiome: lessons from Dutch population studies'. In this seminar she will be presenting the initial results of the gut microbiome and virome analysis, highlighting significant findings and their implications.

Prof Kathryn E Fairfull-Smith will be presenting 'Synthetic Strategies to Combat Bacterial Biofilms'. In this presentation, she will discuss two of their recent approaches to target bacterial biofilms: modification of oxazolidinones and the design and synthesis of LasR inhibitors.

The SCMB Chemistry Seminar Series welcomes Associate Professor Luke Hunter (UNSW), who will present 'On the hunt for an elusive telomerase inhibitor'.

Dr Stefan Oehlers (A*STAR Infectious Diseases) will be presenting 'Studying ageing-related susceptibility to mycobacterial infection with zebrafish embryos'. In this presentation he will be discussing the mechanisms by which loss of telomerase expression impairs immunity and his approach to dissecting the mechanism by which prior TB infection increases the risk of infection with superinfecting mycobacteria.

Dr Jeffrey Mak, IMB, will be presenting 'Bacterially-derived heterocyclic immunostimulants'. His talk will describe the discovery of 5-OP-RU, its rationally described synthesis via kinetic control, its vaccination and immunotherapeutic properties, as well as its systematic modification leading to the creation of stable analogues and chemical tools for studying MAIT cell biology.

The Infection and Immunity Theme welcomes everyone to attend the May seminar session, presentations by Sophie van Leur, Xiaohui Wang, and Hyoyoung (Lia) Kim.

The SCMB- Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series Welcomes Assistant Professor Leen Delang (KU Leuven) who will be presenting 'Antiviral strategies for mosquito-borne viruses: a ‘buzzing’ role for the mosquito vector?'

Dr Anne-Sophie Bergot (Frazer Institute) will be presenting 'The interplay of myeloid cells and autoreactive T lymphocytes activated by gut-derived bacteria in spondyloarthropathy'.