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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 | 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) | Maddy Mccoy, Accelerator Program | The role of Accelerators in Building successful Biotech companies |
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 | Enhancers are genes |
30-May-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Dougall Norris, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow & Dr Lana Ly, Associate Lecturer - Education Focussed, BABS | Dougall - The role of ORP proteins and phospholipids in plasma membrane repair Lana - Lecture Hacks: Boosting Student Engagement and Retention |
6-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Prof Andrew Brown, BABS | Coming to grips with a rogue cholesterol synthesis enzyme |
13-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Tansel Ersavas, BABS PhD Candidate | How to survive the AI tsunami: Transforming bioscience, biotechnology and beyond |
20-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Ksenia Svkortsova, Garvan Institute of Medical Research | Of Sea Urchins, mice and men: conservation of epigenetic regulation |
27-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Manan Shah, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow & TBC | TBC |
4-Jul-24 | No seminar this week - Flex week | |||
11-Jul-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Adjunct Associate Lecturer Laurence Luu, BABS & Chancellor's Research Fellow and Lecturer at UTS | TBC |
18-Jul-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
25-Jul-24 | 3-4pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Dr Fabien Plisson | TBC |
1-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Nicole Green, BABS Research Associate & Pantea Pooladvand, BABS Research Associate | TBC |
8-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Megan Lenardon, Senior Lecturer & Associate Director of Teaching, BABS | TBC |
15-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Paul Curmi, Physics & A/Prof Matthew Baker, BABS | TBC - SSP talks |
22-Aug-24 | 3-4pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Buzz Baum, MRC LMB, Cambridge UK | Our archaeal origins |
29-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Daniel Fernández Ruiz, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW RNA Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences & Dr Juli Wang, Research Associate, BABS | TBC |
5-Sep-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | A/Prof Cecile King, BABS | TBC |
12-Sep-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Angelita Liang, BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Saleh Alquethamy, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | TBC |
19-Sep-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Dr Frances Byrne, BABS | TBC |
26-Sep-24 | 3-4pm | TBC | Dr Martyn Bullock, NSLHD Senior Scientific Officer & USyd Senior Research Fellow | What the FOXE1? Unraveling Its Secrets in Thyroid Diseases |
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 (Teaching seminar) |
TBC |
7-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Dr Sergey Kurdyukov, BABS Research Associate & Dr Mitchell Cummins, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | TBC |
14-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Tanu Sridhar & Kris Abdullah - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
21-Nov-24 | 3-4pm | TBC | Dr Sandro Fernandes Ataide, University of Sydney | TBC |
28-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | TBC | Tansel Ersavas & Lewis Mercer - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | TBC |
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