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SubscribeDate: Tuesday 15 May 2012
Time: 12.00 - 1.00 pm
Venue: MISCL Semianr Room, Level 3, STRIP (Building 75)
Speaker: Dr Sam Wormald, Cell & Molecular Biology Laboratory, WEH systems Biology & Personalised Medicine
Topic: "Systematic mapping of genetic interaction networks governing embryonic stem cell self-renewal
Date: 15 May 2012
Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: Sanson Room
Speaker: Rob Gardener
Title: In Silico Microbial Community Analysis of a Yellowstone National Park Hot Spring and Bicarbonate Induced Lipid Production in Microalgae
Date: Wednesday 16 May 2012
Time: 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Venue: Sanson Room,Building 22
Topic: From plant defence to Medicinal Chemistry
Prof Møller is Professor of Plant Biochemistry and Director of three institutes at the University of Copenhagen. He is a world leader in the field of natural products (including cyanogenesis) and active in commercialisation and communication of science (for details see http://tiny.cc/ds4ydw).
Date: Thursday 17 May 2012
Time: 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre M3
Speaker: Dr Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Topic: "Ecological genetics of early speciation in Senecio pinnatifolius"
Host: A/Prof Suresh Balasubramanian
Alistair Evans, of Monash University's school of biological sciences, led an international team of 20 biologists and palaeontologists who measured large-scale evolution in mammals using fossils, skeletons, literature and historical documents, to come up with answers which have eluded scientists.
Read more: see the 'Age' article
Congratulations to Tony Rafferty for being awarded the runner-up prize for best student oral presentation in the biology section of the International Sea Turtle Symposium held in Mexico last week. Tony won first prize last year, so has had great back-to-back success.
Congratulations to the "Eliminate Dengue Team" of having 2 papers published in the latest edition of Nature.
Nature 476, 450-453(25 August 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10355
The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations
Nature 476, 454-457(25 August 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10356
Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission