Seminar Series – Week Commencing 14 October 2019
Name of Presenter Title of Presentation Date Time Venue Further
Information Seminar Series
A/Prof Asha Bowen, Dr Dylan Barth & Dr Janessa Pickering
The Missing Piece Surveillance Study: A surveillance study for Strep A pharyngitis and impetigo in the Kimberley
16 October 2019 12pm – 1pm Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room Level 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
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Telethon Kids Research Seminars
Prof Steven Albelda Perelman School of Medicine, UPenn
Understanding the Immune Environment in Malignant Mesothelioma and Lung Cancer (Don’t believe everything your rodent friends tell you)
16 October 2019 4pm – 6pm
(3.45 arrival for a 4pm start)
Level 2 Seminar Room (Room 272), Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Nedlands
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ASI
Dr Brad Sutherland, Uni of Tasmania
The regulation of cerebral blood flow by pericytes and their dysfunction in disease
17 October 2019 1pm – 2pm
(Light Lunch 12.15pm 305:139)
Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley 408.2038LT
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CHIRI Seminar Series
Prof David Badcock Visual processing in Migraineurs: what happens between the headaches?
17 October 2019 3pm Sarich Neuroscience Research Institute Building, Bryant Stokes Seminar Room, Ground Floor
The Bryant Stokes Neuroscience Seminar Series
Dr Emilie L’Hôte, The FrameWorks Institute
Changing the ways we communicate to achieve social change: The FrameWorks approach to creating a Core Story for Early Childhood Development and Learning in Australia
18 October 2019 8am – 9am The Manda, Level 6, Telethon Kids Institute, Northern Ent, Perth Children’s Hospital, 15 Hospital Ave, Nedlands
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CoLab Telethon Kids Institute Minderoo Foundation
Click here to register: The FrameWorks Approach
UPCOMING SEMINARS
Mark Jones (Biostatician/Statistical Programmer, Telethon Kids)
Statistical Tips for Interpreting Scientific Claims
18 October 2019 12.30pm – 1.30pm Perth Children’s Hospital, Level 5, PCH Auditorium
Register online here:
Statistical Tips
Research Skills Seminar Series
Research Education Program Contact:
5th Perth Immunology Group (P.I.G.) Meeting National Guest Speakers: Dr Kylie Quinn Prof David Lynn
21 – 22 October 2019 This year’s themes include: Early life immunity, Systems immunology, Tumour immunology, Infection and immunity Registration extended to 4 October on below link: https://www.immunology.org.au/events/5th-Perth-Immunology-Group-PIG-Meeting/
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ASI WA
Prof Shelley Craig Uni Toronto
At the crossroads: Transdiagnostic approaches to address the intersections of adolescent mental and sexual health
23 October 2019 12pm – 1pm Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room Level 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
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Telethon Kids Research Seminars
CITEseq Seminar Program of Speakers
Towards Simultaneous Transcriptome and Protein Interrogation at Single Cell Resolution
24 October 2019 9.15am – 12noon
(followed by light lunch)
Seminar Room, Level 5, Telethon Kids Institute
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Telethon Kids Research Seminars
Prof Ruth Malone Uni of California, Editor-in-Chief of International Tobacco Control Policy Journal
What a BMJ Editor REALLY wants – inside view on maximising your publication
29 October 2019 12pm – 1.30pm Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room Level 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
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Telethon Kids Research Seminars
Registrations are essential:
RSVP
A/Prof Sue Skull (CAHS)
Grant Applications and Finding Funding
1 November 2019 12.30pm – 1.30pm Perth Children’s Hospital, Level 5, PCH Auditorium
Register online here:
Grant
Applications and Finding Funding
Research Skills Seminar Series
Research Education Program Contact:
Frontiers in Cancer Science - Singapore
4 – 6 November 2019 Frontiers in Cancer Science – Singapore 11th Annual Conference: – Converging the latest cancer discoveries around the world, FCS 2019 promises ground-breaking and innovative insights into cancer research. Join them to learn from the foremost cancer experts as they share their newest findings. Keynote speaker Sir Gregory Winter Cambridge University & Various international speakers
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FCS 2019
For further information and to register:
FCS2019
2019 Child Health Symposium Keynote Speakers: Prof Lyn Beazley & Prof Tobias Kollman
Save the Date 6 - 8 November 2019 Plus:
Breakfast Sessions See program updates at:
Poster Evening Event Child Health Symposium 2019
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Telethon Kids Institute Government of Western
Australia – Child & Adolescent Health Service
Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation
Accelerating Child Health Research Distinguished Speakers include: Prof Bob Hancock Prof Scott Tebbutt Prof Jianguo (Jeff) Xia Prof Peter Gething Prof Pinaki Panigrahi
11 – 13 November 2019 - A Systems Biology Symposium Save the Date
Symposium Themes: Precision Health - Multi-omics applications - Systems epidemiology - Data integration & visualization Mon – Tues: - Speakers presentations Wed: - Interactive data workshops (numbers are limited) Enquiries: [email protected] Abstract Submissions: [email protected] (limited numbers selected, 300 word limit)
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Respiratory Research Centre &
Centre for Personalised Medicine for Children
Pawsey Training on Scientific Workflow Tools Nextflow lead developers: Paolo Di Tommaso & Evan Floden
11 – 14 November 2019 Nextflow Workshop and Hackathon at Pawsey: Comprehensive Nextflow Training: from Basics to Real User Cases Watch this video to know what to expect during this session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8Bwc69c58&feature=youtu.be • Two days of workshop introduce the basic concepts and syntax of Nextflow • Two days of hackathon enable participants to apply Nextflow to a pipeline of their choice • By the end of the event, participants can confidently develop and deploy their own workflows using NextFlow, seeing increases in portability, reproducibility and scalability
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Nextflow
Workshop Pawsey
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Registration essential – places limited:
Nextflow Workshop Pawsey (Discounted early-birds rates are
available through October 18)
9 Barossa Meeting - Cell Signalling in Cancer Medicine Various International & National Speakers
12 – 15 November 2019 Conference Themes: Angiogenesis, apoptosis, cancer therapeutics, carcinogenesis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, cancer genomics, immunotherapy, lipid signaling, metabolism, signaling networks, stem cells, translational medicine, tumour microenvironment, cellular plasticity/heterogeneity, therapy resistance
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Centre for Cancer Biology
Prof W. Murray Thomson Editor-in-Chief - Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, Assoc Editor - European Journal of Oral Sciences
Poor oral health casts a long shadow: findings from the Dunedin Study
20 November 2019 6pm Kenneth JG Sutherland Lecture Theatre, UWA Dental School, 17 Monash Ave, Nedlands
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AJ Herman Fellowship Lecture UWA Dental School
RSVP mandatory by 5pm Tuesday 12
November: [email protected]
Australian Society for Medical Research National Scientific Conference
20 - 21 November 2019 - ASMR NSC 2019 Ebbs and Flows - From Discovery to Practice
Featuring:- Firkin Orator, Prof Daniel Drucker, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto Edwards Orator, Prof Christobel Saunders AO, UWA & Royal Perth Hospital
For more information about registration & abstracts please click below: ASMR NSC 2019 Registration & Abstract
(Abstract submission deadline extended until 6 October 2019)
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WA Maritime Museum Victoria Quay, Peter Hughes Dr,
Fremantle WA 6160
Maritime Museum Website http://museum.wa.gov.au/museums/
maritime/
Dr Christopher Minson Kenneth and Kenda Singer Professor
Heat therapy: An ancient practice to target modern diseases
27 November 2019 1pm John Bloomfield Lecture Theatre, UWA School of Human Sciences adjacent to Parkway Entrance 3.
Google Map Link Here
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School of Human Sciences Seminar Series
The 6th Annual EMBL Australia Postgraduate Symposium (EAPS19)
27 – 29 November 2019 EAPS19 - From Models to Systems Deciphering Biological Complexity
Registrations Open – 10 June 2019 Registrations Close - 1 November 2019 Abstract Submissions Close – 6 September 2019
Meet interstate and international speakers and researches from various disciplines. Invited speakers:- Prof Christine Wells, (Uni Melbourne) Prof Nadia Rosenthal, (Jackson Laboratories USA) Dr Damien Bates, BioCurate Dr Chris Langmead, Monash Inst. of Pharmaceutical Sciences Dr Talitha Santini, UWA Dr Irene Gallego Romero, Uni Melbourne Prof Matt Sweet, Inst. of Molecular Bioscience, UQ Prof. Ricky W. Johnstone, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre A/Prof Enzo Porrello, Murdoch Children’s Research Inst.
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Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne
For more information & to register:
EAPS19
WAHTN Clinical Research Support Service
The WAHTN are offering a Clinical Research Support Service for anyone currently involved in or interested in conducting clinical research in Western Australia.
To find out more or to make an appointment Email: [email protected] or Telephone: 9266-1970
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WAHTN
2020 SEMINARS
The Human Genome Meeting 2020
5 – 8 April 2020 Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre Abstracts for the 24th Annual Human Genome Meeting in either Oral Presentation or Poster Presentation are invited - please submit to: HGM 2020 Abstracts Submission – Oral Abstract Submissions close Friday 10 January Midnight AWST Poster Abstract Submissions close Friday 7 February Midnight AWST
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Registration
HUGO HGM 2020
GAP 2020 - Global Academic Programs
11 -13 May 2020 MD Anderson Cancer Center Global Academic Programs is coming to Australia
Call for Abstracts is now open - Registration open 1 September 2019 - Sponsorship opportunities available
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GAP 2020
To Register and for Abstract Submissions:
www.gap2020.com.au
Telethon Kids
Research Seminars
Wednesday 16 October 2019
12pm – 1pm
Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room
Level 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
A light lunch will be provided at 11.45am
for those attending the seminar
A/Prof Asha BowenNHMRC Fellow
Head, Skin HealthTelethon Kids and UWA
A/Prof Asha Bowen, Dr Dylan Barth and Dr Janessa Pickering will be co-presenting this week’s seminar.Together, they will provide an update on the clinical, epidemiological and laboratory progress for theMissing Piece Surveillance Study.
Associate Professor Asha Bowen is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) fundedFellow. She is a clinician-researcher at Perth Children’s Hospital and Telethon Kids Institute. Thispositions her for rapid translation of results from bush to bench to bedside. Dr Bowen has more than adecade of experience in conducting paediatric and infectious diseases research and in investigatorinitiated clinical trials focusing on issues of significance to Indigenous child health.
Dr Dylan Barth is an epidemiologist with a vast array of skills and expertise in disease surveillance and inundertaking epidemiological studies. Dr Barth recently relocated to Australia to join the world-leadingStrep A, rheumatic heart disease and skin health team at the Telethon Kids Institute under the expertguidance of Associate Professor Asha Bowen and Professor Jonathan Carapetis. Dr Barth is leading theschool-based prospective surveillance study in the Kimberley WA (The Missing Piece Study).
Dr Janessa Pickering is a research microbiologist with expertise in the molecular diagnostics and host-pathogen interactions of upper respiratory tract pathogens. She joined the Skin Health team in 2019 asan WAHTN Early Career Fellow to develop laboratory diagnostics for Strep A. Her research centres onthe colonisation and infection of Strep A and her work supports the large cohort and clinical trialsoccurring in the Skin Health and RHD teams.
The Missing Piece Surveillance Study: A surveillance study for Strep A pharyngitis and impetigo in the Kimberley
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Dr Dylan BarthEpidemiologist
Infections & VaccinesTelethon Kids and UWA
Dr Janessa PickeringWAHTN Early Career Fellow
Infections & VaccinesTelethon Kids and UWA
ASI Visiting Speaker Presentation & SundownerProfessor Steven AlbeldaPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Understanding the Immune Environment in Malignant Mesothelioma and Lung Cancer (Don’t believe everything your rodent friends tell you)”
Wednesday, 16th October, 20194pm – 6pm(3:45pm arrival for a 4pm start)Level 2 Seminar Room (Room 272)Harry Perkins Institute of Medical ResearchNorth Campus, Nedlands
Please RSVP to [email protected] for catering purposes
ASI WA BRANCH COMMITTEE:BREE FOLEY, SARAH DART, EMMA DEJONG, CONNIE JACKAMAN, ALISTAIR COOK, LELINH DUONG, SONIA FERNANDEZ, NICOLA PRINCIPE, RACHAEL ZEMEK, MONALYSSA WATSON, AMY PROSSER, JONATAN LEFFLER, JENNIFER CURRENTI, CAITLIN TILSED, JEANNE EDMANDS
CRICOS Provider Code 00301J
BIOGRAPHY Dr Brad Sutherland is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania. Brad graduated with a PhD from the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) in 2009 and then spent 7 years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. In 2016, Brad was recruited to the University of Tasmania to lead a neurovascular lab that aims to understand how blood flow is regulated in the brain and how this becomes dysfunctional in diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. In 2018, Brad was awarded an NHMRC Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellowship and this was followed up with an NHMRC Project Grant in 2019 to investigate the role of pericytes, a cell that controls capillary blood flow, in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Changing the ways we communicate to achieve social
change: The FrameWorks approach to
creating a Core Story for Early Childhood
Development and Learning in Australia
Emilie L’Hôte PhD
Senior Researcher, Manager of Qualitative Research
The FrameWorks Institute
EMILIE L'HÔTE is based in the UK and works as a Senior Researcher and Manager of Qualitative Research
with the FrameWorks Institute in Washington DC. In this role, she conducts research on public thinking and
develops and tests framing strategies for issue advocates. A linguist, Emilie studies the framing of political
discourse, with a specific focus on the use of metaphors as a framing tool. Emilie is an expert in Strategic
Framing Analysis® which is a multi-disciplinary approach that pays attention to the public's deeply held
worldviews and assumptions about social issues, and evaluates the effects of various frame elements on
support for social policies. Recognising there is more than one way to tell a story, Strategic Frame Analysis®
taps into decades of research on how people think and communicate. The result is an empirically-driven
communications process that makes academic research understandable, interesting, and usable to help
people solve social problems.
In this presentation, Dr Emilie L'Hôte will give an overview of the FrameWorks Institute's
unique approach to communications research and practice, and show how it has been
applied to early childhood development and learning in Australia as part of the Core Story
for Early Childhood Development and Learning.
Date: Friday October 18, 2019
Venue: The Manda, Level 6, Telethon Kids Institute, Northern
Entrance, Perth Children’s Hospital, 15 Hospital Ave, Nedlands
Time: 8:00am – 9:00am
RSVP: Click here to register
Live Stream Access: https://vimeo.com/event/5716 Password: TKI2019
Please contact: [email protected]
20 AUG | 12 AM
Dr. Kylie QuinnVice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, RMIT
Prof. David LynnDirector of
Computational and Systems Biology
Program, SAHMRI
ASI WA BRANCH COMMITTEE:BREE FOLEY, SARAH DART, EMMA DEJONG, CONNIE JACKAMAN, ALISTAIR COOK, LELINH DUONG, SONIA FERNANDEZ, NICOLA PRINCIPE, RACHAEL ZEMEK, MONALYSSA WATSON, AMY PROSSER, JONATAN LEFFLER, JENNIFER CURRENTI, CAITLIN TILSED, JEANNE EDMANDS
5TH PERTH IMMUNOLOGY GROUP (P.I.G.) MEETING
The ASI WA organizing committee warmly invites you to participate in the
21st-22nd October 2019
This year’s themes include:Early life immunity
Systems immunologyTumour immunology
Infection and immunity
Registration extended to the 4th October. All inclusive 2-day costs:-$45 for student ASI members
$65 for standard ASI members$95 for non-ASI student registration
$150 for non-ASI standard registration
Mounts Bay Sailing Club, Crawley
WITH NATIONAL GUEST SPEAKERS
Any questions contact: [email protected]
Registration now via:https://www.immunology.org.au/events/5th-Perth-Immunology-Group-PIG-Meeting/
Telethon Kids
Research Seminars
Wednesday 23 October 2019
12pm – 1pm
Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room
Level 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
A light lunch will be provided at 11.45am
for those attending the seminar
Invited Guest Speaker
Prof Shelley Craig
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Craig is Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at theUniversity of Toronto Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender MinorityYouth.
Her program of research, based on twenty-five years of community and clinicalpractice, is focused on developing affirmative programs and interventions toenhance the wellbeing of youth, particularly gender and sexual minoritypopulations.
At the crossroads: Transdiagnostic approaches to address the intersections of adolescent mental and sexual health
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Telethon KidsResearch Seminars
Date here
Time
Telethon Kids Institute Seminar RoomLevel 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
Towards Simultaneous Transcriptome and Protein Interrogation at Single Cell Resolution
24th October 2019
9:15 am – noon, followed by light lunch
Light Lunch will be provided afterwards by Biolegend in the Seminar Room, Level 5, Telethon Kids Institute
Program:9:15 – 9:20 am Brief introduction (Sebastien Malinge – Telethon Kids Institute)9:20 – 9:45 am Simultaneous detection of transcriptomes and proteins -
CITEseq methodology, tips and tricks (Kathryn Friend,Biolegend)
9:45– 10:05 am A Tale of Two Entities: Analyzing RNA and Protein with
SeqGeq (Jack Panopoulos, BD Life Sciences).10:05 – 10:15 am Break10:15 – 10:40 am 5’CITE-seq: Combining the power of transcriptomics with
cell surface protein expression profiling at a single cell level(Abba Chopra, IIID, Murdoch University).
10:40 – 11:05 am Intranuclear CITE-seq on neuronal tissues(Dulce Vargas Landin, Genomics andEpigenomics, Harry Perkins Institute)
11:05– 11:30 am Implementing 3’ CITE-seq to investigate clonal heterogeneityin Down Syndrome Leukaemia(Sebastien Malinge, Leukaemia and Cancer Genetic team,Telethon Kids Institute – Cancer Centre)
11:30 – 11:40 noon Final Discussion12:00 – 12:30 pm Light Lunch
Telethon Kids
Research Seminars
Tuesday 29 October 2019
12pm – 1.30pm
Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room
Level 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
A light lunch will be provided at 11.45am
for those attending the seminar
Invited Guest Speaker
Prof Ruth Malone
University of CaliforniaEditor-in-Chief, International Tobacco
Control Policy Journal
About this EventA workshop by Professor Ruth Malone, University of California, San Francisco, editor-in-chief of theinternational tobacco control policy journal, Tobacco Control, on how to get your paper published in aleading public health journal.
About Professor Ruth MaloneRuth E. Malone is Professor Emerita (Recalled), Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Schoolof Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Since 2009, she has also served as editor-in-chief ofthe leading international tobacco control policy journal, Tobacco Control. She is internationally knownfor her research on the social, political and policy dynamics of tobacco control and her work has beenfunded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Drug Abuse and California’sTobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Her writing and research for the last decade have focusedon articulating and advancing the tobacco endgame. She has served as an expert consultant to the USCenters for Disease Control, the US Department of Justice, and WHO.
Event supported by Healthway, Cancer Council WA, Telethon Kids Institute, and the Chronic DiseasePrevention Directorate, Public Health Division at the Department of Health WA.
Registrations are essential – RSVP here
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What a BMJ Editor REALLY wants - inside view on maximising your publication
Child Health Symposium2019
6 – 8 November 2019
Perth Children’s Hospital Auditorium and Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room
PLUS breakfast sessions and poster evening event
MAJOR SPONSOR
Keynote Speakers
Professor Lyn Beazley
Professor Tobias KollmannSee program updates at pch.health.wa.gov.au/childhealthsymposium
Accelerating Child Health Research A Systems Biology Symposium
Co-hosted by the Respiratory Research Centre & Centre for Personalised Medicine for Children
11-13 November 2019
Auditorium, Perth Children’s Hospital
Monday & Tuesday: Speaker Presentations
Wednesday: Interactive data workshops (numbers are limited)
Abstract Submissions – APPLY NOWA limited number of oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts.
We strongly encourage early and mid career researchers to apply. If you wish to be considered, please submit your abstract (300 word limit) to: [email protected].
Please note there will be no poster presentations at the Symposium.
Prof. Bob Hancock Canada Research Chair in Health and Genomics; Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia
Prof. Scott Tebbutt Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia; Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver
Prof. Jianguo (Jeff) Xia Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Big Data Analytics, McGill University, Canada
Prof. Peter Gething Kerry M Stokes Chair of Child Health, Telethon Kids Institute; Professor of Epidemiology, The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford.
Prof. Pinaki Panigrahi Center for Global Health and Development, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health
SYMPOSIUM THEMES
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS INCLUDE
THE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH CENTRE
Precision health
Multi-omics applications
Data integration & visualisation
Systems epidemiology
Enquiries: Mitali Manzur [email protected]
SAVE THE DATE
REGISTRATION OPENING SOON
Cell Signalling in Cancer Medicine
International Speakers
Organising Committee
Program Committee
Centre forCancer Biology
International Advisory Committee Vishva Dixit, Richard Flavell, Wanjin Hong, Tony Hunter, Joseph Schlessinger, John D Scott
Program updates www.centreforcancerbiology.org.au
Yeesim Khew-Goodall and Stuart Pitson (Co-Convenors), Claudine Bonder, Angel Lopez, Michael Samuel, Hamish Scott
Claudine Bonder, Cameron Bracken, Susan Branford, Anna Brown, Michael Brown, Richard D’Andrea, Loretta Dorstyn, Guillermo Gomez,
Phillip Gregory, Chris Hahn, Natasha Harvey, Sharad Kumar, Angel Lopez, Stuart Pitson, Jason Powell, Paul Reynolds, Nirmal Robinson,
David Ross, Michael Samuel, Andreas Schreiber, Quenten Schwarz, Hamish Scott,
Vinay Tergaonkar, Damon Tumes
Ivan Dikic Goethe University School of Medicine, Frankfurt, Germany
Lucy Godley University of Chicago, IL, USA
Ming Lei Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Shiva Malek Genentech, CA, USA
Madelon Maurice University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
Gerry Melino University of Cambridge, UK
Erik Sahai Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Tuomas Tammela Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA
Wee Wei Tee Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
Karen Vousden Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Conference Themes Angiogenesis, apoptosis, cancer therapeutics, carcinogenesis, epithelial-mesenchymal
transition, cancer genomics, immunotherapy, lipid signalling, metabolism, signalling networks, stem cells,
translational medicine, tumour microenvironment, cellular plasticity / heterogeneity, therapy resistance
Marie-Liesse Assalin-Labat Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, VIC
Kate Burbury Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,VIC
Lisa Butler University of Adelaide, SAHMRI, SA
Thomas Cox Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW
Sarah-Jane Dawson Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,VIC
Charley de Bock Children’s Cancer Institute, NSW
Paul Ekert Children’s Cancer Institute, NSW
David Komander Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, VIC
Steven Lane QIMR Berghofer, QLD
Fabienne Mackay University of Melbourne, VIC
Marina Pajic Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW
Belinda Parker Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,VIC
Clare Scott Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, VIC
Daniel Thomas SAHMRI, University of Adelaide, SA
Paul Timpson Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW
Anne Voss Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, VIC
Vi Wickramasinghe Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,VIC
Alpha Yap Institute of Molecular Bioscience, UQ, QLD
National Speakers
Registration and Abstract submission deadline extended to 30 September 2019- slots still available for selected abstract talks
PROFESSOR W. MURRAY THOMSON
AJ HERMAN FELLOWSHIP LECTURE
The UWA Dental School is delighted to host Professor W. Murray Thomson as the 2019 AJ Herman Fellowship Lecturer. Professor Thomson is an experienced dental researcher and specialist in dental public health. He is Editor-in-Chief of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology,
and Associate Editor for the European Journal of Oral Sciences. Professor Thomson conducts research in the broad fields of dental epidemiology, dental public health and dental health services. His work over the years has had considerable impact in socio-dental epidemiology, health services research and understanding of the oral health of older people. His influential life-course work in the renowned Dunedin Study has been complemented by his pivotal role in the development and testing of a number of important self-report measures now in wide use in oral health care. His contribution to new knowledge is best evidenced by his inclusion as one of the top contributors to dental public health research in the last half century in a published bibliometric analysis (doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12249).
To date, Professor Thomson has published 351 research papers and 5 book chapters in the scientific literature; his Scopus h index is 48, and his Google Scholar h index is 70. Professor Thomson was a co-recipient of the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2016 and has been honoured with two IADR Distinguished Scientist Awards (the 2010 H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award and the 2014 Geriatric Oral Research Award).
Professor Thomson will be speaking on the topic: “Poor oral health casts a long shadow: findings from the Dunedin Study”
Overview of the topic: Imagine what we could find out about oral health if we followed an entire birth cohort from the cradle to the grave. The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study is one such study, having followed 1037 individuals born in Dunedin in 1972-3, with the most recent assessments undertaken at age 45. It has produced unprecedented and important information on the natural history of oral health and disease through the life course. In this presentation, Professor Thomson will share some findings from that study.
Please register your attendance with the event coordinator: Jane Burnell, RSVP mandatory at [email protected] by 5.00pm Tuesday 12 November 2019. Light refreshments will be served from 6.00pm with the lecture to commence at 6.30pm. This is an excellent, complimentary continuing education event brought to you by the UWA Dental School.
“Poor oral health casts a long shadow: findings from the Dunedin Study”
School of Human Sciences Seminar Series
Title: Heat Therapy: An ancient practice to target modern diseases
Presenter: Christopher T. Minson, Phd Kenneth and Kenda Singer Professor
When: Wednesday 27 November 2019 @ 1pm
Venue: John Bloomfield Lecture Theatre, UWA, School of Human Sciences (Exercise and Sport
Science) adjacent to Parkway Entrance 3. Parking on Parkway and in UWA carpark entrances 3 & 4.
https://goo.gl/maps/D1RQGxN5wGNUZfdRA
Presentation Summary: Chronic heat exposure, in the form of saunas, hot water baths, and sweat lodges have been utilized in many cultures for thousands of years. While repetitive bouts of heat exposure is generally believed to be healthy, it is only recently that we are beginning to understand the full benefits of ‘heat therapy’ across the spectrum of human health. Passive heating results in a rise in body temperature and changes in cardiovascular hemodynamics, including altered shear patterns of blood flow. There is growing evidence that these responses to acute heat stress combine over repetitive sessions to provide a stress-resistant profile to counter inflammation and oxidative
stress, as occurs with aging and chronic disease, as well as from acute damaging events such as ischemia-reperfusion injury. There is also growing evidence heat therapy can be used to target metabolic dysfunction in obesity and diabetes through improvements in insulin signaling in fat and muscle cells. This ancient therapy needs broader application to treat modern diseases, particularly in those not able to obtain the full benefits of exercise.
Speaker Biography: Dr. Christopher Minson is the Kenneth and Kenda Singer Professor of Human Physiology. His research focuses on topics related to integrative cardiovascular physiology in humans. His lab investigates how we can use exposures to extreme environments to gain a healthy and resilient physiology. He is also involved in projects related to endocrine function in women, biomarkers of aging and the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and finding novel ways to improve thermal comfort and safely in work environments. He also works with elite athletes in the use of environmental stressors to improve performance.
Christine Page (Mon - Wed) Academic Services Officer School of Human Sciences, Faculty of Science Service • M309, 35 Stirling Hwy, Perth WA 6009 Australia T +61 8 6488 7126 • E [email protected]
CRICOS Code: 00126G
First 25 registrants
for early bird deal!
Friday 6th September
Abstract submissions
close
Join us in Melbourne for EAPS19 to present your research to your peers and
hear from world-class researchers! We welcome and
encourage all Honours,Masters & PhD Students to
attend and submit an abstract.
Invited speakersProf. Christine Wells, The University of Melbourne
Prof. Nadia Rosenthal, The Jackson Laboratories (USA)Dr. Damien Bates, BioCurate
Dr. Chris Langmead, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical SciencesDr. Talitha Santini, The University of Western Australia
Dr. Irene Gallego Romero, The University of MelbourneProf. Matt Sweet, Institute of Molecular Bioscience, UQ
Prof. Ricky W. Johnstone, Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreA/Prof. Enzo Porrello, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
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f @EMBLAphdsymposium @EMBLAuSymposium
Monday 10th June
Registration Open
Friday 1st November
Registration close
Meet interstate and international
speakers and researchers from
various disciplines!
The 6th Annual EMBL Australia Postgraduate Symposium
From Models to SystemsDeciphering Biological Complexity
27-29 November 2019Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne
Need help with Clinical Research ?
The WAHTN are offering a Clinical Research Support Service for anyone currently involved in or interested in conducting clinical research in Western Australia.
This service is provided by the Clinical Trial and Data Management Centre (CTDMC) who will be visiting WAHTN member partners.*
We will provide advice on various aspects of clinical research including
• how to get started with clinical research
• navigating the regulatory environment
• where to find training and networking with other researchers
• setting up essential documents for a clinical trial
• data management and database design
• review of protocols and other research related documents
Site: Harry Perkins Institute, QE2, Room SR 612
Dates Times
Tues 19th February 2019 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Tues 30th April 2019 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Tues 18th June 2019 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Tues 20th August 2019 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Tues 22nd October 2019 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
To find out more or to make an appointment Email: [email protected] or Telephone: 9266-1970.
*WAHTN Member Partners Curtin University - Department of Health WA - Ear Science Institute - Edith Cowan University - Fiona Stanley Hospital - Fremantle
Hospital - Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research - Institute for Respiratory Health - King Edward Memorial Hospital - Lions Eye
Institute - Murdoch University - PathWest - Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science - Princess Margaret Hospital -
Ramsay Health Care - Royal Perth Hospital - Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - St John of God Health Care - Telethon Kids Institute - The
University of Notre Dame - The University of Western Australia