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BABS Seminar Series 2025

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Date Time Venue Speaker Title
29-Jan-25 3-4pm John B Reid Theatre G07, AGSM (G27) Professor Eric Westhof, Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France The ribosome: a paradigm of RNA structure and dynamics in human health and disease
6-Feb-25 1-2pm

 

Patricia O'Shane G04, Patricia O'Shane Building (E19)  

 Dr Huan Ma, Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China Boosting neuronal activity-driven mitochondrial DNA transcription improves cognition in aged mice
12-Feb-25 1-2pm Boral Theatre G05, AGSM (G27) Professor Martin R. Larsen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Post-translational modifications of proteins in regulating cellular signalling
13-Feb-25     NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday  
20-Feb-25 1-2pm LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) Tansel Ersavas - BABS PhD Candidate (special AI talk) Bending Reality: How Generative AI is Transforming Biology and Beyond
27-Feb-25 1-2pm LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) Irina Kozlova & Zheng (John) Su  - BABS PhD Exit Seminars

Irina - NCAM2-induces EGFR-dependent actin cytoskeleton remodeling and filopodia formation in neurons 

 

Zheng (John) - Unravelling the Complexity of RNA Splicing and Gene Expression Regulation in Health and Disease
6-Mar-25 1-2pm LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27) Divya Shah & Veronika Petrova - BABS PhD Exit Seminars

Divya - Comparative analysis of 15 mitochondrial uncouplers reveals diverse phenotypes in cells and mice

 

Veronika -  Characterising genetic variation in early development using mouse cortical organoids  
13-Mar-25 1-2pm Civil Engineering G1, Civil Engineering Building (H20) Peter Ruochen Wu & Jack Clarke - BABS PhD Exit Seminars

Peter - Classification and surveillance of bacterial pathogens in the genomic era: Bioinformatic innovations for Campylobacter genomic species classification and C. jejuni epidemiology

 

Jack - Molecular Adaptation to Cardiac Aging: How Exercise Reprograms the Aging Heart
20-Mar-25 3-4pm

Webster Theatre B (G15)

 Professor Patrícia Neves, Head of RNA Products Development- Bio-Manguinhos/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Brazil RNA platform implementation in FIOCRUZ-Brasil: Seeding the innovation ecosystem in Latin America
27-Mar

1-2pm

LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27)

Assistant Professor Navid Bavi, Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

 Structural and functional mechanisms of the cochlear amplifier at high resolution
3-Apr-25 1-2pm Civil Engineering G1, Civil Engineering Building (H20) Pranita Poudyal - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Jacob Scadden, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow

Pranita - Role of prophage encoded sRNA EcOnc10 in regulating virulence in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli

 

Jacob - Investigating Outer Domain Redundancy of the Bacterial Flagellar Filament
10-Apr-25 3-4pm LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27)

Dr Hugh Goold FASM, MRSN, MRSB, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Chief Scientist Branch

 Synthetic genomics, how to build and study genomes by design
17-Apr-25

 

 

NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

  
24-Apr-25

 

 

NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

  
1-May-25 1-2pm Boral Theatre G05, AGSM (G27) Kim McIntyre - BABS PhD Exit Seminars & TBC TBC
8-May-25 1-2pm Mathews 214 (F23) Grant Pfundstein - BABS PhD Exit Seminars & Dr Bea Delgado Corrales, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow TBC
15-May-25 1-2pm Mathews 214 (F23) Muayad Al-Hadi & Dana Tribbia - BABS PhD Exit Seminars TBC
22-May-25 1-2pm

Mathews 214 (F23)

 Professor Mark Tanaka, BABS TBC
29-May-25 3-4pm Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) Dr Dhanushi Abeygunawardena, Lecturer & Nexus Fellow, BABS Nexus related - title TBC
5-Jun-25 1-2pm TBC Dr Sandeep Kaur, Postdoctoral Research Associate & Riya Shrestha - BABS PhD Exit Seminars TBC
12-Jun-25 1-2pm TBC A/Professor Brendan Burns, BABS TBC
19-Jun-25 1-2pm TBC Nishat Zaman & Tansel Ersavas - BABS PhD Exit Seminars TBC
26-Jun-25 3-4pm TBC A/Professor Elaine Sanij, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne TBC
3-Jul-25 1-2pm TBC Nicole Fenton & Gabrielle Smith - BABS PhD Exit Seminars TBC
10-Jul-25

 

 

NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

  
17-Jul-25

 

 

NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

  
24-Jul-25 1-2pm TBC A/Professor Fatemeh Vafaee, BABS TBC
31-Jul-25 3-4pm TBC Dr Alain Wuethrich, Group Leader, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Centre for Personalised Nanomedicine, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland TBC
7-Aug-25 1-2pm TBC Janelle Ramos - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Pietro Ridone, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow TBC
14-Aug-25 1-2pm TBC Maximilian Baker & Stephanie Nobs - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & TBC TBC
21-Aug-25 1-2pm TBC

Sonia Goozee & Alexandra Young - BABS PhD Exit Seminars

 TBC
28-Aug-25 3-4pm TBC

External Speaker - TBC

 TBC
4-Sep-25 1-2pm TBC Ashley Milton & Vibhuti Nandel - BABS PhD Exit Seminars  TBC
11-Sep-25 1-2pm TBC

EF speaker - TBC

 EF topic - TBC
18-Sep-25 1-2pm TBC Benjamin Hanrahan & Anthea Lee - BABS PhD Exit Seminars TBC
25-Sep-25 3-4pm TBC External Speaker - TBC TBC
2-Oct-25

 

 

NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

  
9-Oct-25

 

 

NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

  
16-Oct-25 1-2pm TBC Yau Man Christopher Luk & Si-Mei Xu - BABS PhD Exit Seminars  TBC
23-Oct-25

 

 

NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

  
30-Oct-25 3-4pm TBC External Speaker - TBC TBC
6-Nov-25     NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday  
13-Nov-25 1-2pm TBC Bianca Briscas & James Gaston - BABS PhD Exit Seminars TBC
20-Nov-25 1-2pm TBC A/Professor Chris Marquis, BABS TBC
27-Nov-25 3-4pm TBC External Speaker - TBC

TBC
  • Date
    29-Jan-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    John B Reid Theatre G07, AGSM (G27)
    Speaker
    Professor Eric Westhof, Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France
    Title
    The ribosome: a paradigm of RNA structure and dynamics in human health and disease
  • Date
    6-Feb-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue

    Patricia O'Shane G04, Patricia O'Shane Building (E19)  

    Speaker
    Dr Huan Ma, Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
    Title
    Boosting neuronal activity-driven mitochondrial DNA transcription improves cognition in aged mice
  • Date
    12-Feb-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    Boral Theatre G05, AGSM (G27)
    Speaker
    Professor Martin R. Larsen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    Title
    Post-translational modifications of proteins in regulating cellular signalling
  • Date
    13-Feb-25
    Time
     
    Venue
     
    Speaker
    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday
    Title
     
  • Date
    20-Feb-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27)
    Speaker
    Tansel Ersavas - BABS PhD Candidate (special AI talk)
    Title
    Bending Reality: How Generative AI is Transforming Biology and Beyond
  • Date
    27-Feb-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27)
    Speaker
    Irina Kozlova & Zheng (John) Su  - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title

    Irina - NCAM2-induces EGFR-dependent actin cytoskeleton remodeling and filopodia formation in neurons 

    Zheng (John) - Unravelling the Complexity of RNA Splicing and Gene Expression Regulation in Health and Disease

  • Date
    6-Mar-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27)
    Speaker
    Divya Shah & Veronika Petrova - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title

    Divya - Comparative analysis of 15 mitochondrial uncouplers reveals diverse phenotypes in cells and mice

    Veronika -  Characterising genetic variation in early development using mouse cortical organoids  

  • Date
    13-Mar-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    Civil Engineering G1, Civil Engineering Building (H20)
    Speaker
    Peter Ruochen Wu & Jack Clarke - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title

    Peter - Classification and surveillance of bacterial pathogens in the genomic era: Bioinformatic innovations for Campylobacter genomic species classification and C. jejuni epidemiology

    Jack - Molecular Adaptation to Cardiac Aging: How Exercise Reprograms the Aging Heart

  • Date
    20-Mar-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue

    Webster Theatre B (G15)

    Speaker
    Professor Patrícia Neves, Head of RNA Products Development- Bio-Manguinhos/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Brazil
    Title
    RNA platform implementation in FIOCRUZ-Brasil: Seeding the innovation ecosystem in Latin America
  • Date
    27-Mar
    Time

    1-2pm

    Venue

    LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27)

    Speaker

    Assistant Professor Navid Bavi, Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

    Title
    Structural and functional mechanisms of the cochlear amplifier at high resolution
  • Date
    3-Apr-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    Civil Engineering G1, Civil Engineering Building (H20)
    Speaker
    Pranita Poudyal - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Jacob Scadden, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow
    Title

    Pranita - Role of prophage encoded sRNA EcOnc10 in regulating virulence in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli

    Jacob - Investigating Outer Domain Redundancy of the Bacterial Flagellar Filament

  • Date
    10-Apr-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    LG03, Wallace Wurth (C27)
    Speaker

    Dr Hugh Goold FASM, MRSN, MRSB, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Chief Scientist Branch

    Title
    Synthetic genomics, how to build and study genomes by design
  • Date
    17-Apr-25
    Time

     

    Venue

     

    Speaker

    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

    Title
     
  • Date
    24-Apr-25
    Time

     

    Venue

     

    Speaker

    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

    Title
     
  • Date
    1-May-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    Boral Theatre G05, AGSM (G27)
    Speaker
    Kim McIntyre - BABS PhD Exit Seminars & TBC
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    8-May-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    Mathews 214 (F23)
    Speaker
    Grant Pfundstein - BABS PhD Exit Seminars & Dr Bea Delgado Corrales, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    15-May-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    Mathews 214 (F23)
    Speaker
    Muayad Al-Hadi & Dana Tribbia - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    22-May-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue

    Mathews 214 (F23)

    Speaker
    Professor Mark Tanaka, BABS
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    29-May-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27)
    Speaker
    Dr Dhanushi Abeygunawardena, Lecturer & Nexus Fellow, BABS
    Title
    Nexus related - title TBC
  • Date
    5-Jun-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Dr Sandeep Kaur, Postdoctoral Research Associate & Riya Shrestha - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    12-Jun-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    A/Professor Brendan Burns, BABS
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    19-Jun-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Nishat Zaman & Tansel Ersavas - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    26-Jun-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    A/Professor Elaine Sanij, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    3-Jul-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Nicole Fenton & Gabrielle Smith - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    10-Jul-25
    Time

     

    Venue

     

    Speaker

    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

    Title
     
  • Date
    17-Jul-25
    Time

     

    Venue

     

    Speaker

    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

    Title
     
  • Date
    24-Jul-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    A/Professor Fatemeh Vafaee, BABS
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    31-Jul-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Dr Alain Wuethrich, Group Leader, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Centre for Personalised Nanomedicine, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    7-Aug-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Janelle Ramos - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Pietro Ridone, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    14-Aug-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Maximilian Baker & Stephanie Nobs - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & TBC
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    21-Aug-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker

    Sonia Goozee & Alexandra Young - BABS PhD Exit Seminars

    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    28-Aug-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker

    External Speaker - TBC

    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    4-Sep-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Ashley Milton & Vibhuti Nandel - BABS PhD Exit Seminars 
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    11-Sep-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker

    EF speaker - TBC

    Title
    EF topic - TBC
  • Date
    18-Sep-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Benjamin Hanrahan & Anthea Lee - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    25-Sep-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    External Speaker - TBC
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    2-Oct-25
    Time

     

    Venue

     

    Speaker

    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

    Title
     
  • Date
    9-Oct-25
    Time

     

    Venue

     

    Speaker

    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

    Title
     
  • Date
    16-Oct-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Yau Man Christopher Luk & Si-Mei Xu - BABS PhD Exit Seminars 
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    23-Oct-25
    Time

     

    Venue

     

    Speaker

    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday

    Title
     
  • Date
    30-Oct-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    External Speaker - TBC
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    6-Nov-25
    Time
     
    Venue
     
    Speaker
    NA - No BABS seminar this Thursday
    Title
     
  • Date
    13-Nov-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    Bianca Briscas & James Gaston - BABS PhD Exit Seminars
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    20-Nov-25
    Time
    1-2pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    A/Professor Chris Marquis, BABS
    Title
    TBC
  • Date
    27-Nov-25
    Time
    3-4pm
    Venue
    TBC
    Speaker
    External Speaker - TBC
    Title

    TBC

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