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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 TBC
11-Apr-24 3-4pm Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) Prof Judy Storch, Rutgers University, NJ, USA TBC
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 & TBC TBC
9-May-24 1-2pm Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) Tansel Ersavas, BABS PhD Candidate TBC - AI Talk
16-May-24 3-4pm Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) Dr Ira Deveson, Garvan  TBC
23-May-24 1-2pm Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) Dr Lana Ly, Associate Lecturer - Education Focussed, BABS & TBC TBC
30-May-24 1-2pm TBC Dr Juli Wang, Research Associate, BABS & TBC TBC
6-Jun-24 TBC TBC TBC TBC
13-Jun-24 TBC TBC TBC TBC
20-Jun-24 1-2pm TBC Dr Manan Shah, Postdoctoral Fellow, BABS & Dr Mitchell Cummins, Postdoctoral Fellow, BABS TBC
27-Jun-24 TBC TBC TBC 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 TBC TBC
1-Aug-24 1-2pm TBC Dr Nicole Green, Research Associate, BABS & Pantea Pooladvand, Research Associate, BABS TBC
8-Aug-24 1-2pm TBC Dr Megan Lenardon, Senior Lecturer & Associate Director of Teaching, BABS TBC
15-Aug-24 1-2pm TBC 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 TBC 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, Research Associate, BABS & 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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