Events
Through knowledge exchange, collaboration and advocacy, our BABS Seminar Series will educate and empower audiences to improve lives and create real change.
BABS Seminar Series 2024
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| DATE | TIME | LOCATION | SPEAKER | Title |
| 1-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Selene Fernandez-Valverde, Senior Lecturer, BABS | Evolution as a lens into lncRNA functionality |
| 8-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Shane Grey, Head of School, BABS | From the silk road to human trial - gene therapy for type 1 diabetes |
| 15-Feb-24 | 3-4pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Prof Gerd Blobel, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA | Chromatin organizing principles |
| 22-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Emma Harding - BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Gee Chong Ling, Lecturer - Education Focussed, BABS | Emma - Expanding the global virome: utilising bioinformatics to discover new exogenous and endogenous viruses in vertebrates Gee - Integrating Students as Partner (SaP) Program into undergraduate courses |
| 29-Feb-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Annalise Psaila & Carina (Paola) Cornejo Paramo - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Annalise - Using immune cells to combat obesity: adipose tissue eosinophils as mediators of metabolic homeostasis Paola - Metazoan transcriptional regulation: Insights from motif models and evolutionary patterns |
| 7-Mar-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Allegra Angeloni & Isidora Simovic - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Allegra - DNA methylation in evolution, development, and disease Isidora - To eat or not to eat: the role of autophagy in Helicobacter pylori - related gastric carcinogenesis |
| 14-Mar-24 | No seminar this week (there will be a Gendered Violence Panel Discussion on instead) | |||
| 21-Mar-24 | No seminar this week - Flex week | |||
| 28-Mar-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | A/Prof Martin Smith, Director, Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, BABS | A regulatory symphony of RNA: Single molecule transcriptomics expands the importance of the non-coding genome |
| 4-Apr-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | A/Prof Tatyana Chtanova, BABS | Inflammation, infection and immunotherapy under the microscope |
| 11-Apr-24 | 3-4pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Judy Storch, Rutgers University, NJ, USA | Cholesterol trafficking in Niemann-Pick C disease |
| 18-Apr-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 25-Apr-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays & ANZAC DAY | |||
| 2-May-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Feifei Su, BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Lorenzo Travaglini, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | Feifei - Neuronal growth regulator 1 (NEGR1) promotes the synaptic targeting of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65) Lorenzo - Fabrication of electronically conductive protein-heme nanowires for power harvesting |
| 9-May-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Maddy Mccoy, Accelerator Program | The role of Accelerators in Building successful Biotech companies |
| 16-May-24 | 3-4pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Ira Deveson, Garvan | All the fun things we can do with long-read sequencing |
| 23-May-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof John Mattick, BABS | Enhancers are genes |
| 30-May-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Dougall Norris, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow & Dr Lana Ly, Associate Lecturer - Education Focussed, BABS | Dougall - The role of ORP proteins and phospholipids in plasma membrane repair Lana - Lecture Hacks: Boosting Student Engagement and Retention |
| 6-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Prof Andrew Brown, BABS | Coming to grips with a rogue cholesterol synthesis enzyme |
| 13-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Tansel Ersavas, BABS PhD Candidate | How to survive the AI tsunami: Transforming bioscience, biotechnology and beyond |
| 20-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Ksenia Svkortsova, Garvan Institute of Medical Research | Of Sea Urchins, mice and men: conservation of epigenetic regulation |
| 27-Jun-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Manan Shah, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | A epigenetic reader domain can direct an artificial transcription factor to new target genes |
| 4-Jul-24 | No seminar today - Flex week | |||
5-Jul-24 *SPECIAL SEMINAR* |
11am-12pm | Patricia O'Shane 105, Patricia O'Shane Building E19, UNSW | Dr Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. Director, National Human Genome Research Institute U.S. National Institutes of Health |
History of the Human Genome Project: The Good, the Ugly, and the Funny …as Told by a Front-Line Participant |
| 11-Jul-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Adjunct Associate Lecturer Laurence Luu, BABS & Chancellor's Research Fellow and Lecturer at UTS | Mums and bubs: Tackling the whooping cough and chlamydia epidemic |
| 18-Jul-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 25-Jul-24 | 3-4pm | Mathews Theatre C (D23) | Dr Fabien Plisson, Centre of Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN), Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Mexico | Auditing and mitigating bias in machine learning-guided peptide design |
| 1-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Nicole Green, BABS Research Associate & Dr Pantea Pooladvand, BABS Research Associate | Nicole - CRISPRi Screening of Distal Enhancers in Human Astrocytes Uncovers their Contribution to Alzheimer’s Disease Pantea - How cultural innovations trigger the emergence of new pathogens |
| 8-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Megan Lenardon, Senior Lecturer & Associate Director of Teaching, BABS | Developing novel strategies to prevent and treat life-threatening Candida albicans infections |
| 15-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Paul Curmi, Physics & BABS & A/Prof Matthew Baker, BABS
Visiting Appointments: Paul – Visiting Professor, Protein Design, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Matt – Visiting Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB-FoRTH), Crete, Greece Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (ΕΚΠΑ), Athens, Greece |
Sabbatical insights: My big fat Greek (German) Research Collaboration |
| 22-Aug-24 | 3-4pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Prof Buzz Baum, MRC LMB, Cambridge UK | Our archaeal origins |
| 29-Aug-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Dr Daniel Fernández Ruiz, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW & Dr Juli Wang, Research Associate, BABS | Daniel - Leveraging T cell immunity for next generation vaccines: lessons from malaria research Juli - ZMYND8 knock-out leads to widespread transcriptional changes and impaired brain organoid development |
| 5-Sep-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Scientia Associate Professor Cecile King, BABS | RNA at the Immune Interface |
| 12-Sep-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Angelita Liang, BABS PhD Exit Seminar & Dr Saleh Alquethamy, BABS Postdoctoral Fellow | Angelita - Alternative splicing in humans – just how important is it? Saleh - Leveraging Metal Ion Homeostasis and Regulatory Small RNAs to Tackle Bacterial Infections |
| 19-Sep-24 | No seminar this week | |||
| 26-Sep-24 | 3-4pm | Patricia O'Shane G04, Patricia O'Shane Building (E19) | Dr Martyn Bullock, NSLHD Senior Scientific Officer & USyd Senior Research Fellow | What the FOXE1? Unraveling Its Secrets in Thyroid Diseases |
| 3-Oct-24 | No seminar this week - School Holidays | |||
| 10-Oct-24 | 3-4pm | Patricia O'Shane G04, Patricia O'Shane Building (E19) | Dr Beile Gao, Principal Investigator, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou, China | Tetrameric PilZ Family Protein Stabilizes the Stator Ring of Complex Flagellar Motor to Enhance Motility |
| 17-Oct-24 | No seminar this week - Flex week | |||
| 24-Oct-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Emma Li - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Investigating the intracellular trafficking and distribution of phosphatidylserine |
| 31-Oct-24 | No seminar this week |
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| 7-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Sergey Kurdyukov, BABS Research Associate & Dr Joshua Hamey, BABS Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow | Sergey - Beta test for delta globin gene: Could it help us to cure sickle cell disease? Joshua - More than histones – protein methylation of the translational machinery |
| 14-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | Mathews Theatre D (D23) | Dr Guang Yang, BABS Senior Research Associate & Kris Abdullah, BABS PhD Exit Seminar | Guang - Deciphering the regulation of glycerolipid synthesis Kris - Bacteria, Bio-piles and Beyond! A multiomic analysis of bioremediation in Hydrocabon contaminated Antarctic soils |
| 21-Nov-24 | 3-4pm | Patricia O'Shane G04, Patricia O'Shane Building (E19) | Dr Sandro Fernandes Ataide, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Sydney Drug Discovery Initiative, University of Sydney | The seekRNA is a programable gene insertion technology |
| 28-Nov-24 | 1-2pm | Pioneer International Theatre G04, AGSM (G27) | Lewis Mercer - BABS PhD Exit Seminars | Viruses in the water: molecular epidemiology of norovirus in NSW 2021 – 2023; and viral discovery in Australian fish |
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