RMH Academic Seminar Series
When: Fridays, 11.30 AM–12.30 PM, Light lunch available from 12.30 PM
Where: Ewing Theatre, Department of Surgery, 5th Floor Clinical Sciences Building, Royal Melbourne Hospital (enter via Royal Parade)
For all enquiries please contact Dr Chris French email frenchc@unimelb.edu.au
Date |
Host |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| 4 Mar 2016 | Chris French | Professor Andrea Maier | What we can learn from Elie Mechnikov | Professor of Aged Care, The University of Melbourne |
| 11 Mar | Mary Galea | Maya Panisset | PhD Oration: Measurement and prevention of muscle atrophy in acute spinal cord injury | Department of Medicine |
| 18 Mar | Chris French | Professor Emeritus Alan Mackay-Sim | Stem cell models for brain disease |
Griffith University, Queensland |
| 25 Mar | NO SEMINAR | EASTER FRIDAY | ||
| 1 Apr | Chris French | Professor David Story | MCATS - Enabling Investigator Led Clinical Research | Director (MCATS), Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne |
8 Apr Start Time: 11.00 am (registrations from 10.30 am) |
Sophie Arkoudis | Thesis with Publication Session followed by GR Supervisor Training | Melbourne CSHE | |
| 15 Apr | Rod Luwor | Jingyi Sheng | PhD Oration: The immune suppressive function of Transforming Growth Factor-β (TGF-β) in human diseases | Department of Surgery |
| 22 Apr | NO SEMINAR | |||
| 29 Apr | Chris French | Edwin Luk | PhD Oration: Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Department of Medicine |
| 6 May | Rod Luwor | David Rhodes | Commercial Development of Tissue Engineered Scaffolds | Chief Scientific Officer, Admedus Innovative Health Solutions |
| 13 May | NO SEMINAR | |||
| 20 May | Chris French | Ian Forster | The mechanism and structure of renal/intestinal phosphate transporters | Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne |
| 27 May | Chris French | Professor Gustavo Duque | Fat and Bone: An Odd Couple | Melbourne Medical School, Western Precinct, University of Melbourne |
| 3 Jun | Chris French | Professor Ashley Bush | Metals in Neurodegenerative disease | Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne |
| 10 Jun | Rod Luwor | Kris Genelyn Dimasuay | PhD Oration: Placental mTOR signaling and fetal growth restriction in placental malaria | Department of Medicine |
| 17 Jun | Chris French | Professor Jamie Vandenberg | Long QT syndrome and risk stratification in an era of precision medicine | Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, NSW |
| 24 Jun | NO SEMINAR - RMH Research Week | |||
| 1 Jul | Rod Luwor | Dr. Lev Kats | Targeting aberrant metabolic enzymes in acute myeloid eukaemia | Peter MacCallum Institute |
| 8 Jul | Chris French | Tobias Merson | Formation and regeneration of myelin in the central nervous system | Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health |
| 15 Jul | Chris French | Xi Zen Yap | PhD Oration: Dendritic cell responses to P. falciparum provide insights into disrupted immune responses during malaria infection | Department of Medicine |
| 29 Jul | Chris French | Reem Saleh | PhD Oration: Pro-inflammatory mediators in arthritic pain and disease | Department of Medicine |
| 5 Aug | Chris French | Peter Batchelor | Immediate cooling and emergency decompression (ICED) for cervical SCI | Department of Medicine |
| 12 Aug | Rod Luwor | Lahiru Gangoda | Understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating chemoresistance of colorectal cancer cells to 5-Fluorouracil | La Trobe University |
| 19 Aug | Chris French | Emma Callegari | PhD Oration: Vitamin D status and related health in young women; results from the Safe-D study | Department of Medicine |
| 26 Aug | Chris French | Dean Freestone | POSTPONED | St. Vincent's, The University of Melbourne |
| 2 Sep | NO SEMINAR | |||
| 9 Sep | Nigel Jones | Maarten Van Den Buuse | Brain mechanisms in schizophrenia and methamphetamine psychosis: animal model studies | Latrobe University |
| 16 Sep | Chris French | A/Prof Bernard Yan | Advances in Stroke Treatment | Department of Medicine |
| 23 Sep | Chris French | Marina Demetrios | PhD Oration:Rehabilitation Management of Post-stroke spasticity | Department of Medicine |
| 30 Sep | NO SEMINAR | |||
| 7 Oct | Chris French | Jingyi Tang | PhD Oration: Identification of regulatory elements in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum | Department of Medicine |
| 14 Oct | Rod Luwor | Kavi Haji | PhD Oration: The impact of ultrasound guided examination in internsive care medicine | Department of Surgery |
| 21 Oct | NO SEMINAR - Honours Students Presentations | |||
| 28 Oct | Chris French | Prof Glenn King | Potent neuroprotection after stroke afforded by a spider venom peptide that inhibits acid-sensing ion channel 1a | Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland |
| 4 Nov | TBA | |||
| 11 Nov | Chris French | Dean Freestone | Topic tba | Medicine - St. Vincent's, The University of Melbourne |
| 18 Nov | TBA | |||
| 25 Nov | Chris French | Dr. Katja Kobow | Epigenetic biomarkers in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy | University Hospital Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| 2 Dec, 9 am start | Chris French | Richelle Mychasiuk | Topic tba | Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary |
| 9 Dec | TBA |