Events

Dr. Michelle Wille, University of Melbourne, will be presenting 'Evolutionary ecology of avian influenza viruses in Australia, and how this may inform our preparation for HPAI'

Prof. Debabrata Maiti of the Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, will be presenting 'En-Light-ening C-H functionalization'.

Dr Zhian (Anthony) Chen of the UQ Frazer Institute will be presenting 'Unlocking the biochemical “secrets” that control T cell-mediated antibody response'

The 19th Annual Symposium is organised by and for SCMB's research (HDR, PGCW and Honours) students.

Prof Johnson Mak, of the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University (Gold Coast) will be presenting 'A journey in understanding HIV assembly - implications on protein trafficking'.

A/Prof Fernando Guimaraes will be presenting 'The emergence of natural killer cells as a major target for immunotherapy'.

Professor Gareth Denyer will be presenting 'Teaching Innovations in Biochemistry: the ‘triumphs’ and the disasters'.

Prof Dee Carter will be presenting 'Using drug synergy to combat fungal infections'.

Registration closes 23 October 2023 for the 2023 Skerman lecture by Prof Dee Carter of the University of Sydney.

Prof. Qianqian Lin of the School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, China will be presenting 'Optoelectronic Characterization and Device Considerations of Next-generation Semiconductors'.

Structural Biology and Biochemistry (SBB) Theme Seminar is pleased to welcome Dr Farrah Blades and Xin Lin to present their work. The presentation by Farrah is of special interest for people interested in cryo-EM data processing so do not miss out!

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. Ben Hankamer of the Centre for Solar Biotechnology at IMB will present 'Design and Development of Next-Generation Light Driven Biotechnologies'.

The Infection and Immunity Theme seminar with feature three SCMB speakers: Adriana Pliegro Zamora, Ellesandra Noye, and Jessica Harrison.

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'.

Dr Jessica Neil of the Doherty Institute will be presenting 'Using stem cell models to study SARS-CoV-2 infection'

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.

Dr. Tim Wells will be presenting.

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 Birthe Kragelund of the University of Copenhagen will be presenting "Context matters – order and disorder in cellular signalling".