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We offer a busy calendar of events, which are variously available to the public, our graduates, future and current students, and staff.

Featured events
Research Students Symposium
Skerman Lecture
School research seminars
Research theme seminars

Adventures in the Virosphere

1 August 2018 1:00pm–3:30pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Edward Holmes, University of Sydney

The Chemical Sciences and a Sustainable Future

16 July 2018 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Professor Stephen Matlin, Institute of Global Health Innovation/Imperial College, London

Cryo-electron Microscopy of Helical Protein and Nucleoprotein Polymers: Insights into Evolutionary Divergence.

15 November 2017 5:30pm–8:30pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor Edward Egelman, University of Virginia

The Role of Glycan Interactions in Cell and Host Tropism of Bacterial Pathogens

2 November 2017 3:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Michael Jennings, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University

Nature microbiology writing workshop

20 October 2017 4:30pm
 
in Writing Workshop
Presenter: Dr Michael Chao Associate Editor, Nature Microbiology publication

Sensing Our World: From glucose sensors to counting single molecules and cells

18 September 2017 1:00pm–2:00pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Justin Gooding, University of New South Wales

The Discovery of Temsavir and its Prodrug Fostemsavir

31 July 2017 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture

Walking in the Woods with Quantum Chemistry - New Concepts in the World of Natural Products Biosynthesis

5 December 2016 4:00pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Dean Tantillo, The University of California (Davis), USA

12 Annual SCMB research students symposium

24 November 2016 8:45pm
 
in SCMB Research Students Symposium

Reconstructing ancient proteins: mechanisms for the evolution of protein structure and function

5 October 2016 4:30pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor Joe Thornton, University of Chicago

Redefining Bacterial Virulence in terms of Evolution, Metabolism, Immune

19 July 2016 11:30am–12:30pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Harry Mobley, Frederick G. Novy Distinguished University Professor and Chair, University of Michigan

Simple/Low-cost Bioanalysis for the Developing World and Point of Care

30 June 2016 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Prof George Whitesides, Harvard University

Capture and characterisation of reactive intermediates in P450 catalysis: Insights into biological C-H bond activation

20 July 2015 5:45pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Mike Green, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA

Using Ancient DNA to time travel through megafaunal extinctions, climate change and human microbiomes

20 July 2015 5:15pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Alan Cooper, from the University of Adelaide

MAIT cells: Friend or Foe in recognising microbial vitamin meabolites presented in the MHC-I-related molecule MR1

28 May 2015 12:15pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor James McCluskey, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Melbourne

Chemistry alumni reunion 2015

1 April 2015 4:45pm
 
in Chemistry alumni reunion

The Magic of Molecular Machines

18 December 2014 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Prof David Leigh, University of Manchester

Brazilian Biodiversity, a Sophisticated Lab of Biologically Active Compounds: Tracing New Models for Medicinal Chemistry

20 July 2014 5:45pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Vanderlan Bolzani, Universidade Estaduai Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

Death receptors and bacterial diarrhoea

20 July 2014 5:15pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Elizabeth Hartland, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne

Characterization of Orphan Human Cytochrome P450 Enzymes & Their Metabolic Roles: The General Problem of Gene Annotation

3 December 2013 5:45pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor F Peter Guengerich, Tadashi Inagami Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Better Mitochondia through Imine Addition Chemistry

29 July 2013 4:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Prof Peter Wipf (pictured, with descendents of TGH Jones), University of Pittsburgh

A Materials Genome Approach to Complex Biological-Like Systems

20 July 2013 5:45pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Virgil Percec, P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania

Into the Natural Microbial World: Metagenomics and the Tree of Life

20 July 2013 5:15pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Norman Pace from the University of Colorado

Where would we be without Chemical Synthesis? From Rhodium Metal to Potential Medication

30 July 2012 4:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Prof Huw Davies, Emory University, USA

Organic Electronic Materials: a Licence to Print Money

20 July 2012 5:45pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Andrew B Holmes AM FRS FAA, CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering; University of Melbourne School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute ; Imperial College Department of Chemistry

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