News & Events
‘Understanding the Cause of Fibromuscular Dysplasia and Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection’
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
School of Medical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Jason Kovacic, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
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Spatio-temporal EEG patterns in wakeful rest and sleep, from oscillations and spectra to a cortical weather report
Friday, 28 August 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Webinar Series
Speaker: Dr Frederic von Wegner, SoMS, UNSW.
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School of Medical Sciences (SoMS) Research Information Session
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Looking to do Honours in 2021, a Masters or PhD? School of Medical Sciences (SoMS) Research Information Session
Meet with some of Australia’s leading researchers and students – find out about research underway in SoMS and Honours projects offered.
Enrol for study with the School of Medical Sciences and other Schools/Centres/Institutes affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine.
E-posters and a Zoom link for the live event will be sent out on Tues 25 August.
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“From Hendra to Wuhan: emerging zoonotic viruses of bat origin in a quarter of century”
Friday, 21 August 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases WEBINAR
Speaker: Prof Linfa Wang is the director of the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
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'Restoring neuroprotective lipid signalling in neurodegenerative diseases'
Friday, 14 August 2020
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Associate Professor Anthony Don, University of Sydney Medical School and Centenary Institute, Sydney
A/Prof Anthony Don completed PhD at UNSW Sydney in 2004, then undertook postdoctoral research at the Scripps Research Institute, USA, supported by an NHMRC fellowship. He established a lipid biochemistry and lipidomic research team at UNSW in 2009, relocating to the Centenary Institute and University of Sydney in 2016.
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‘Big data and hyperspectral imaging uncover hidden regularities of native colours and patterns in cells and tissues’
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
School of Medical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Ewa Goldy, Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Nanoscale Biophotonics and Professor at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW Sydney.
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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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