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Breast cancer hijacks the brain via inflammation to cause memory impairment
Friday, 31 July 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases
Speaker: Dr Adam Walker, Laboratory of ImmunoPsychiatry, Neuroscience Research Australia School of Psychiatry, UNSW
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“Recreating human kidney tissue based on our understanding of kidney development”
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
School of Medical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Melissa Little BSc PhD GAICD, FAAHMS, FAAS
Theme Director of Cell Biology at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia.
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"New insights into neutrophil biology in atherosclerosis"
Friday, 3 July 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Blake Cochran, PhD GradCertIP FAHA
Lecturer and Head of the Atherosclerosis and Cardiometabolic Research Group, Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney.
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“Fall risk factors and intervention strategies: recent findings from Neuroscience Research Australia”
Friday, 26 June 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Scientia Prof Stephen Lord, University of New South Wales and Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney
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"Proteomic analysis of the intermittent fasting response identifies a novel peptide hormone"
Friday, 19 June 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Serise
Speaker: Mark Larance, Cancer Institute NSW Future Research Leader Fellow at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
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“Non-ribosomal functions of the nucleolus in development and cancer"
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
School of Medical Sciences Seminar Series
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“Glycine Transport Inhibitors for the Treatment of Chronic Pain”
Friday, 22 May 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases WEBINAR
Speaker: Professor Rob Vandenberg, University of Sydney
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Dr Ethan Scott “Whole-brain imaging of sensory processing in larval zebrafish”
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
School of Medical Sciences Seminar Series
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‘Investigating the Interaction of Biology and Culture Through Bioarchaeological Analysis of Ancient Mayan Skeletons’
Friday, 8 May 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases WEBINAR
Speaker: Stanley Serafin, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at UNSW Sydney
Stanley Serafin is Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at UNSW Sydney. He completed a PhD in Biological Anthropology at Tulane University (2010). He has excavated and analysed ancient human remains in Egypt, Peru and, since 2002, Mexico.
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‘HIF-1 HIF-1 Hooray! Hypoxia inducible-1 (HIF-1) as a target for brain repair after stroke’ - Dr Nicole Jones, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
Friday, 1 May 2020
SoMS Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases WEBINAR
Speaker: Dr Nicole Jones, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
Nicole Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at UNSW Sydney. She completed a PhD in Pharmacology at Monash University (1998) and Postdoctoral fellowships at Eli Lilly UK and USA (1998-2002) and the Howard Florey Institute (2002-2008).
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