News & Events
Regulation and Heterogeneity of Dormant Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Adult Cancer Program Seminar Series: Special Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, Group Leader: Cellular and Molecular Immunology Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics.
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Fractals, Sensory Coding and Aesthetics
Friday, 9 August 2019
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Branka Spehar, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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A window into the Brain: Plasticity of Neural Circuits after Injury – a key role for glia.
Thursday, 8 August 2019
Neuroscience, Mental Health & Addiction Special Seminar
Speaker: Prof Junichi Nabekura, National Institutes for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
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Astrocytic modulation of neuronal activity
Friday, 2 August 2019
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Yossi Buskila, Western Sydney University, NSW
Dr Buskila received his PhD in 2010 from Ben-Gurion University, Israel, conducting his research on neuronal-glia interactions. Following his PhD, he joined the lab of Prof. Graham Ellis-Davies (Drexel University) as a postdoctoral research fellow to study the effect of β-amyloid on cortical neurons using electrophysiological and 2-photon imaging techniques.
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Changes in neuronal excitability and proteostasis in neurodegenerative disease
Friday, 26 July 2019
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: A/Prof Lezanne Ooi, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute
A/Prof Ooi is an NHMRC Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellow. She established her laboratory in the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in 2012.
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Understanding interpersonal touch from a sensory neuroscience perspective
Friday, 19 July 2019
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Sarah McIntyre, Linköping University, Sweden
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Food, Genes & Life
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
School of Medical Sciences (SoMS) 2019 Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor David James, Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life & Environmental Science and School of Medicine University of Sydney, NSW Australia
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SoMS Research Information Night
Friday, 5 July 2019
The SoMS Research Information Night is essentially a ‘one-stop-shop’ for future research projects and will be a great opportunity to meet with researchers (potential supervisors and current students) to find out more about honours & research projects on offer through the School of Medical Sciences (SoMS), Prince of Wales Clinical School (POWCS), Children’s Cancer Institute (CCiA), Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Kirby Institute, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, and other schools in the Faculty of Medicine as well as affiliated research
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“Gene Therapy Approaches to Hearing Loss”
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
SoMS TNF Special Seminar
Speaker: Associate Professor Zheng-Yi Chen, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Department of Otolaryngology Harvard Medical School Boston, U.S.A.
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