Seminars in 2008
Forum, PHI's weekly seminar, is held at the Institute every Tuesday from 4.00 - 5.00pm. For more information contact Evan Simpson tel. 9594 4397.
1 April
A/Prof Matt Gillespie, Director PHI
"Bones, Cancer & the Immune System"
8 April
A/Prof Stuart Hooper
Department of Physiology, Monash University
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The transition to air-breathing at birth; imaging lung aeration using synchrotron radiation"
15 April
Dr Morag Young
Steroid Receptor Biology Group, PHI
“Novel mechanisms of MR activation in the development of vascular damage and cardiac fibrosis”
22 April
Professor George Muscat
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
"The orphan nuclear receptor (ROR alpha) regulates lipid homeostasis: insights into the mechanisms involved in resistance to diet induced obesity in staggerer mice"
29 April
Dr Tony Argentaro
Human Molecular Genetics Group, PHI
"Functional and structural studies of the Chromatin-remodeling protein ATRX"
6 May
Professor Michael Parker
Associate Director Biota Structural Biology Laboratory
St Vincent ’s Institute
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Structure-based drug discovery at St V’s"
13 May
Dr Peter Czabotar
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
"Structural studies of the Bcl-2 protein family"
20 May
Prof Evan Simpson
Group head, Sex Hormone Biology
“Dysregulation of metabolism and carcinogenesis (alias Sex, fat and breast cancer)”
27 May
SSR Annual Meeting
3 June
Dr Wah Chin Boon,
Howard Florey Institute
"The unexpected effects of estrogen on brain and behavour"
10 June
Dr Georgina (Gina) Caruana
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University
"Functional genomics of kidney and ureter development"
17 June
US Endocrine Society Meeting
24 June
No Forum
30 June
Joint PHI/MIMR Seminar, Lecture Theatre 2, MMC, 4-5pm
Dr David Mottershead, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
“GDF9, BMP15 and GDF3: Stem Cell Derived TGF-β Superfamily Members”
8 July
PHI FORUM, Seminar Room, Level 4, Block E, 4-5pm
Dr Belinda Parker
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Biology Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre "Suppression of Type 1 IFN defence pathways as a mechanism for breast cancer metastasis to bone"
17 July
Joint PHI/MIMR Seminar, Lecture Theatre 1, MMC, 4-5pm
Professor Lex Doyle. Head of Clinical Research Development, The Royal Women's Hospital
"The effect of changes in perinatal care over the past 50 years on outcomes for very tiny or preterm infants"
31 July
Joint PHI/MIMR Seminar
, Lecture Theatre 1, MMC, 4-5pm
Professor John Aitken. Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology and Development, University of Newcastle
Function and failure in the male germ line: a spermatozoon's perspective.
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