Events
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BABS Seminar Series 2025
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| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Title |
| 29-Jan-25 | 3-4pm | John B Reid Theatre G07, AGSM (G27) | Professor Eric Westhof, Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France | The ribosome: a paradigm of RNA structure and dynamics in human health and disease |
| 6-Feb-25 | 1-2pm | Ìý Patricia O'Shane G04, Patricia O'Shane Building (E19) Ìý |
Dr Huan Ma, Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China | Boosting neuronal activity-driven mitochondrial DNA transcription improves cognition in aged mice |
| 12-Feb-25 | 1-2pm | Boral Theatre G05, AGSM (G27) | Professor Martin R. Larsen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark | Post-translational modifications of proteins in regulating cellular signalling |
| 13-Feb-25 | Ìý | Ìý | NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday | Ìý |
| 20-Feb-25 | 1-2pm | LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) | Tansel Ersavas - BABS PhD Candidate (special AI talk) | Bending Reality: How Generative AI is Transforming Biology and Beyond |
| 27-Feb-25 | 1-2pm | LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) | Irina Kozlova & Zheng (John) Su Ìý- BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Irina - NCAM2-induces EGFR-dependent actin cytoskeleton remodeling and filopodia formation in neuronsÌý Ìý Zheng (John) - Unravelling the Complexity of RNA Splicing and Gene Expression Regulation in Health and Disease |
| 6-Mar-25 | 1-2pm | LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) | Divya Shah & Veronika Petrova - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Divya - Comparative analysis of 15 mitochondrial uncouplers reveals diverse phenotypes in cells and mice Ìý Veronika -Ìý Characterising genetic variation in early development using mouse cortical organoidsÌýÌý |
| 13-Mar-25 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering G1, Civil Engineering Building (H20) | Peter Ruochen Wu & Jack Clarke - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Peter - Classification and surveillance of bacterial pathogens in the genomic era: Bioinformatic innovations for Campylobacter genomic species classification and C. jejuni epidemiology Ìý Jack - Molecular Adaptation to Cardiac Aging: How Exercise Reprograms the Aging Heart |
| 20-Mar-25 | 3-4pm | Webster Theatre B (G15) |
Professor PatrÃcia Neves, Head of RNA Products Development- Bio-Manguinhos/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Brazil | RNA platform implementation in FIOCRUZ-Brasil: Seeding the innovation ecosystem in Latin America |
| 27-Mar | 1-2pm |
LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) |
Assistant Professor Navid Bavi, Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA |
Structural and functional mechanisms of the cochlear amplifier at high resolution |
| 3-Apr-25 | 1-2pm | Civil Engineering G1, Civil Engineering Building (H20) | Pranita Poudyal - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Jacob Scadden, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | Pranita - Role of prophage encoded sRNA EcOnc10 in regulating virulence in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli Ìý Jacob - Investigating Outer Domain Redundancy of the Bacterial Flagellar Filament |
| 10-Apr-25 | 3-4pm | LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) | Dr Hugh Goold FASM, MRSN, MRSB, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Chief Scientist Branch |
Synthetic genomics, how to build and study genomes by design |
| 17-Apr-25 | Ìý |
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NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday |
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| 24-Apr-25 | Ìý |
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NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday |
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| 1-May-25 | 1-2pm | Boral Theatre G05, AGSM (G27) | Kim McIntyre - BABS PhD Exit Seminars & TBC | TBC |
| 8-May-25 | 1-2pm | Mathews 214 (F23) | Grant PfundsteinÌý- BABS PhD Exit Seminars &ÌýDr Bea Delgado Corrales, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | TBC |
| 15-May-25 | 1-2pm | Mathews 214 (F23) | Muayad Al-Hadi & Dana Tribbia - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 22-May-25 | 1-2pm | Mathews 214 (F23) |
Professor Mark Tanaka, BABS | TBC |
| 29-May-25 | 3-4pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Dhanushi Abeygunawardena, Lecturer & Nexus Fellow, BABS | Nexus related - title TBC |
| 5-Jun-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Dr Sandeep Kaur, Postdoctoral Research Associate &ÌýRiya Shrestha - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 12-Jun-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | A/Professor Brendan Burns, BABS | TBC |
| 19-Jun-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Nishat Zaman & Tansel Ersavas - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 26-Jun-25 | 3-4pm | TBC | A/Professor Elaine Sanij, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne | TBC |
| 3-Jul-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Nicole Fenton & Gabrielle Smith - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 10-Jul-25 | Ìý |
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| 17-Jul-25 | Ìý |
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| 24-Jul-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | A/Professor Fatemeh Vafaee, BABS | TBC |
| 31-Jul-25 | 3-4pm | TBC | Dr Alain Wuethrich, Group Leader, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Centre for Personalised Nanomedicine, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland | TBC |
| 7-Aug-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Janelle Ramos - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Pietro Ridone, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | TBC |
| 14-Aug-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Maximilian Baker & Stephanie Nobs - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & TBC | TBC |
| 21-Aug-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Sonia Goozee & Alexandra Young - BABS PhD Exit Seminars |
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| 28-Aug-25 | 3-4pm | TBC | External Speaker - TBC |
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| 4-Sep-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Ashley Milton & Vibhuti Nandel - BABS PhD Exit SeminarsÌý | TBC |
| 11-Sep-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | EF speaker - TBC |
EF topic - TBC |
| 18-Sep-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Benjamin Hanrahan & Anthea Lee - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 25-Sep-25 | 3-4pm | TBC | External Speaker - TBC | TBC |
| 2-Oct-25 | Ìý |
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NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday |
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| 9-Oct-25 | Ìý |
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NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday |
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| 16-Oct-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Yau Man Christopher Luk & Si-Mei Xu - BABS PhD Exit SeminarsÌý | TBC |
| 23-Oct-25 | Ìý |
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NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday |
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| 30-Oct-25 | 3-4pm | TBC | External Speaker - TBC | TBC |
| 6-Nov-25 | Ìý | Ìý | NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday | Ìý |
| 13-Nov-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | Bianca Briscas & James Gaston - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
| 20-Nov-25 | 1-2pm | TBC | A/Professor Chris Marquis, BABS | TBC |
| 27-Nov-25 | 3-4pm | TBC | External Speaker - TBC | TBC |
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