News & Events
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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Hypertension in Africa
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Hypertension in Africa: Involvement of the micro- and macrovasculature in hypertension development in populations from African descent
You are warmly invited to attend a Presentation by Visiting Speaker, Alta Schutte, Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology. Introduction by Professor Vlado Perkovic, Executive Director of The George Institute for Global Health, Australia
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Molecular Pharmacology of Cannabinoids: Beyond THC
Friday, 21 June 2019
Neuroscience and Non-communicable diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Prof Mark Connor, Macquarie University
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‘HDL function and cardiovascular risk’
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
School of Medical Sciences 2019 Seminar Series
About the Speaker:
Professor Len Kritharides, Senior Staff Specialist and Head of the Department of Cardiology at Concord Repatriation General Hospital (CRGH) Sydney, Conjoint Professor in Medicine at The University of Sydney, Head of the Atherosclerosis Research Laboratory Group at the ANZAC Research Institute and Deputy Clinical Director of the Cardiovascular Stream of the Sydney Local Health District.
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Binge-drinking is ERK-some for your BNST
Friday, 14 June 2019
Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series
Speaker: Prof Karen Szumlinski, University of California Santa Barbara
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