Seminar program, Semester 2, 2011
PhD orations are held on Mondays (as indicated in the program).
All other seminars, mainly from visiting speakers, are held on on Wednesdays at 12 noon.
Unless otherwise indicated, PhD orations and seminars are held in the Bio21 Auditorium
- August 3: Kate Weeks, BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Targeting critical nodes on the IGF1-PI3K signalling pathway to improve function of the failing heart' - Monday August 8: Chor Teck Tan, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Counting with a mass spec: Direct quantitation of type 2 diabetes epitopes' - August 10: Dr James Vince, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
'Inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein regulation of IL-1 activity' - Monday August 15: Ben Burgess, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Structural analyses of dihydrodipicolinate synthase from a clinically-important pathogen' - August 17: Dr Sheena McGowan, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University
'Structural analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum metalloaminopeptidases' - August 24: Ann Koay, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Structure, dynamics and function of the carbohydrate-binding module in AMP-activated protein kinase' - Monday August 29: Tom Barnes, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Identification and preliminary validation of candidate biomarkers of colorectal cancer progression' - August 31 (Note change of venue to VRI theatre): Dr Jennifer Potts, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, University of VRI Theatre York, UK
'Staphylococcal surface proteins and tales of the unexpected' - September 7: Prof. Robert Pike,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Monash University
'Molecular dissection of the interaction of complement proteases with their substrates' - September 14: William Ng, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'The metabolic network of Leishmania spp.' - Monday September 19: Brett Drummond, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'The role of citrullination in multiple sclerosis' - September 21: Assoc. Prof. John Silke, Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University
'IAPs, no longer just inhibitors of apoptosis' - Monday September 26 Charles Reilly, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Stable isotope directed mass spectrometry strategy for the targeted identification of antigen specific T-cell epitopes' - September 28 Dr Mike Kuiper, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
'Molecular dynamics drug docking- modelling ligand interactions in the age of high performance computing' - Monday October 3: Zhenyu Zie, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne
'Parallel DNA assembly by recombination' - October 5: Assoc. Prof. Philip Thompson, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
'PI3 kinase inhibitors: how do they tell the isoforms apart' - October 12 (Note change of venue to VRI theatre): Dr Ross Dickins, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
'Investigating hematopoiesis and leukemia using RNAi in mice' - October 19: Dr. Matthew Call, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
'The role of transmembrane domain interactions in immunoreceptor assembly and function' - Monday October 31: Alessia Belgi, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Structure and function of insulin-like peptide 5 (INSL5) and its interaction with the GPCR142 receptor' - November 2: Sevgi Irtegun, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Tracking protein conformational changes in the cell with fluorescent sensors' - Monday November 7: Mohammed Iqbal, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Role of protooncogenic c-Src kinase in neuronal death - how a cell protector becomes a killer' - November 9: Dr Dorothee Bourges, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Evolution of protein functions and structures'
Dr Matthew Dixon, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Why Plasmodium gametocytes go bananas when preparing for sexual reproduction' - Monday November 14: Natalie Gunn, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Conformational change within the SH2 domain and its role in the regulation of Src family kinases and an SFK inhibitor Csk homologous kinase' - Venue to be confirmed November 16: Ben Woodcroft, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
'Post-genomic analysis of protein sub-cellular localisation in malaria' - Monday November 21: Roy Chze Khai Kong, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Studies on the role of the low density lipoprotein class A (LDLa) module in the activation of the relaxin family peptide receptors 1 and 2' - November 30: Lilian Hor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Structure and function of diaminopimelate epimerase' - Monday December 5: Professor Ron Kopito, Department of Biology, Stanford University
'Systems-level analysis of the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation (ERAD) pathway reveals an unexpected role for protein quality control machinery in metabolic regulation' - December 7: Sarah Atkinson, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
'Dihydrodipicolinate synthase from bacteria and plants: the same just upside down'