Events
Through knowledge exchange, collaboration and advocacy, our BABS Seminar Series will educate and empower audiences to improve lives and create real change.
BABS Seminar Series 2024
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| DATE | TIME | LOCATION | SPEAKER | Title |
| 1-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Selene Fernandez-Valverde, Senior Lecturer, BABS | Evolution as a lens into lncRNA functionality |
| 8-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Shane Grey, Head of School, BABS | From the silk road to human trial - gene therapy for type 1 diabetes |
| 15-Feb-24 | 3-4pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Prof Gerd Blobel, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA | Chromatin organizing principles |
| 22-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Emma Harding - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Gee Chong Ling, Lecturer - Education Focussed, BABS | Emma - Expanding the global virome: utilising bioinformatics to discover new exogenous and endogenous viruses in vertebrates Gee - Integrating Students as Partner (SaP) Program into undergraduate courses |
| 29-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Annalise Psaila & Carina (Paola) Cornejo Paramo - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Annalise - Using immune cells to combat obesity: adipose tissue eosinophils as mediators of metabolic homeostasis Paola - Metazoan transcriptional regulation: Insights from motif models and evolutionary patterns |
| 7-Mar-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Allegra Angeloni & Isidora Simovic - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Allegra - DNA methylation in evolution, development, and disease Isidora - To eat or not to eat: the role of autophagy in Helicobacter pylori - related gastric carcinogenesis |
| 14-Mar-24 | No seminar this week (there will be a Gendered Violence Panel Discussion on instead) | |||
| 21-Mar-24 | No seminar this week - Flex week | |||
| 28-Mar-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | A/Prof Martin Smith, Director, Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, BABS | A regulatory symphony of RNA: Single molecule transcriptomics expands the importance of the non-coding genome |
| 4-Apr-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | A/Prof Tatyana Chtanova, BABS | Inflammation, infection and immunotherapy under the microscope |
| 11-Apr-24 | 3-4pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Judy Storch, Rutgers University, NJ, USA | Cholesterol trafficking in Niemann-Pick C disease |
| 18-Apr-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 25-Apr-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays & ANZAC DAY | |||
| 2-May-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Feifei Su, BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Lorenzo Travaglini, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | Feifei - Neuronal growth regulator 1 (NEGR1) promotes the synaptic targeting of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65) Lorenzo - Fabrication of electronically conductive protein-heme nanowires for power harvesting |
| 9-May-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Ashton Curry-Hyde, BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Maddy Mccoy, Accelerator Program | TBC |
| 16-May-24 | 3-4pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Ira Deveson, Garvan | All the fun things we can do with long-read sequencing |
| 23-May-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof John Mattick, BABS | TBC |
| 30-May-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | Dr Dougall Norris, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow & Dr Lana Ly, Associate Lecturer - Education Focussed, BABS | TBC |
| 6-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | Prof Andrew Brown, BABS | Coming to grips with a rogue cholesterol synthesis enzyme |
| 13-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | Tansel Ersavas, BABS PhD Candidate | TBC - AI Talk |
| 20-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | Dr Manan Shah, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow & Dr Mitchell Cummins, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | TBC |
| 27-Jun-24 | 3-4pm | TBC | AI presentation | TBC |
| 4-Jul-24 | No seminar this week - Flex week | |||
| 11-Jul-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 18-Jul-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 25-Jul-24 | 3-4pm | TBC | Dr Fabien Plisson | TBC |
| 1-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | Dr Nicole Green, BABS Research Associate & Pantea Pooladvand, BABS Research Associate | TBC |
| 8-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | Dr Megan Lenardon, Senior Lecturer & Associate Director of Teaching, BABS | TBC |
| 15-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | Prof Paul Curmi, Physics & A/Prof Matthew Baker, BABS | TBC - SSP talks |
| 22-Aug-24 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| 29-Aug-24 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| 5-Sep-24 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering 101 | A/Prof Cecile King, BABS | TBC |
| 12-Sep-24 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| 19-Sep-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Dr Frances Byrne, BABS | TBC |
| 26-Sep-24 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| 3-Oct-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 10-Oct-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 17-Oct-24 | No seminar this week - Flex week | |||
| 24-Oct-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Benjamin Hanrahan & Divya Shah - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 31-Oct-24 | 3-4pm | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| 7-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Dr Sergey Kurdyukov, BABS Research Associate & Peter Wu, BABS PhD Exit Seminar | TBC |
| 14-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Tanu Sridhar & Kris Abdullah - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 21-Nov-24 | 3-4pm | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| 28-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Tansel Ersavas & Lewis Mercer - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
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