Western Australian Health Translation Network

Cell Line Authentication Seminar
2017-03-22 13:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Contact Details:
Dr Mala Reddy
mala.reddy@invit.com.au

Perkins Seminar Series:“Inside or outside, what’s best for your eyes”
2017-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter:Professor David Mackey
Managing Director, Lions Eye Institute
Professor of Ophthalmology, UWA
Director, Centre for Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Please see attached flyer for more information

HP HCA seminar:Let’s talk high-content analysis
2017-03-15 10:30 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
High-content analysis (HCA) enables the automated acquisition and analysis of fluorescent and bright field images. Join us and find out how HCA enables qualification of genetic variation, progression of in vitro diagnostic assays and advances in drug development.
Speaker: Scott Keefer, Sr, Product Manager for the Thermo Scientific line of HCA products with Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Please find the attached flyer for more information.
Contact Details:
Jad El-Hoss | jad.el-hoss@thermofisher.com | 0424 136 721

CMCA Seminar Series:‘Mechanobiology meets Immunology – Mechanical forces during T-cell activation’
2017-03-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter:Enrico Klotzsch
Head, Immuno-Mechanobiology Group
AC DECRA Research Fellow and Lecturer
EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science
ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, University of New South Wales
Please see the attached flyer for more information

Research Governance : Understanding processes and requirements within WA Health
2017-03-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
resenter: Dr Catherine Choong
This seminar will focus on the general principles and responsibilities related to research governance and provide practical tips for preparation of governance applications.
The seminar also covers recent changes to State and National Governance frameworks and implications for researchers.
For more information visit the RSSS page: Research Skills Seminar Series

Perkins Seminar Series: "’Sorting-Out’ Protein Trafficking in Skeletal Disease"
2017-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Associate Professor Nathan Pavlos
Head, Cellular Orthopaedic Laboratory
School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Western Australia

Please see the attached flyer for more information

Consumer & Community Involvement in Research - One day interactive workshop
2017-03-03 08:30 - 16:30 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
The workshop will be co-facilitated by a UK patient and public involvement consultant, Bec Hanley and Anne McKenzie AM
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
Seminar Room 3 &4, School of Population and Global Health, UWA Clifton St, Nedlands
Cost:
Free for WAHTN Partner Organisations
Registration information:
Places are limited – Register Online by 24/02/17
Contact Details:
9489 7742 or 6488 8176

Perkins Seminar Series: “High resolution analysis of quantitative traits, adaptive evolution and mRNA stability using budding yeast”
2017-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Professor David Gresham,Center for Genomics and System Biology,New York University
Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39
Please see the attached flyer for more information

Joining Forces on Falls Prevention
2017-03-01 16:00 - 19:00 | Fremantle Hospital
This interactive event is for health professionals with an interest in minimising harm in their patients and clients do to falls. The seminar will share the knowledge of experts involved in falls prevention based on local, national and international experiences and research. The speakers include:
Sandy Blake: Director of Nursing, Patient Safety & Quality at Whanganui District Health Board, New Zealand.
Jacqueline Francis-Coad: Research fellow at the Institute of Health Research and Lecturer at the School of Physiotherapy, University of Notre Dame Australia.
Melanie Farlie: Physiotherapist, clinical educator and Maxwell King PhD Scholar, in the Department of Physiotherapy, Monash University, Melbourne,
Associate Professor Anne-Marie Hill: Research Academic at The School of Physiotheapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University and Adjunct A/Professor in the Institute for Health Research, UNDA.
For more information and registration please see the following link Attend Event
Attached below is the Event’s program

Venue:
C.C. Bennett Lecture Theatre (L Block) Fremantle Hospital Alma Street Fremantle, WA 6160
Contact Details:
Jacqui at jacqui.francis-coad@nd.edu.au

Sir Walter Murdoch School Seminar: ‘Selling Your Public Health/Health Systems Research to Stakeholders’
2017-03-01 12:30 - 13:30 | Western Australia
WAHTN Visiting Professor : John Frank MD, CCFP, MSc, FRCPC, FCAHS, FFPH, FRSE
Director, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy*, University of Edinburgh; Professor Emeritus, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Background
Many research funders, and research grant recipients worldwide, now expect more than ever of their investigators aiming to influence policy and programme decisions in public health and health systems. Specifically, they want to see research project plans, included in grant applications, that: 1) detail precise actions to achieve these “knowledge transfer and exchange” goals; 2) lay out exactly how such impacts of the research will be evaluated. This presentation provides a potted history of thinking about these issues, since the pioneering work of Canadian Jonathan Lomas (founder of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation) more than two decades ago. The target audience is particularly early-to-mid-career researchers in these fields.
Discussant/Chair
Dr Francesco Paolucci, School of Business and Governance
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
McCusker Conference Room, Building 390, Health Research Centre, Murdoch University

HGSA – WA BRANCH, Seminar Notice: Aetiology and Pathogenesis of Cardioskeletal and Severe Recessive Paediatric Muscle Diseases
2017-02-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Prof Homa Tajsharghi
Professor and Senior Lecturer of Biomedicine at the University of Skovde, Sweden
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Time:
4:00 – 4:15pm: Drinks & appetizers (ground floor foyer); 4:15 – 5:15pm: Seminar
Venue:
Seminar Room G24, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building
Contact Details:
Caitlin Edwards on 6383 4227 or Caitlin.Edwards@health.wa.gov.au

Lunchtime seminar - ADHD and psychiatric disorders
2017-02-23 12:30 - 13:30 | Murdoch University
Presenter: Dr Martin Whitely
Venue:
Murdoch University Building 513 Learning Link LL1.003
Registration information:
RSVP to SBG@murdoch.edu.au by Wednesday 22nd February

2017 Dick Lefroy Oration
2017-02-21 18:00 - 19:30 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
You are invited to hear Professor Brayne from the University of Cambridge, UK to present the 2017 Dick Lefroy Oration
Professor Carol Brayne is an internationally recognised leader in dementia and public health. She has made an outstanding contribution to dementia research and to our understanding of the ageing brain.
She will present “Dementia and our brains in contemporary ageing societies”
Register your attendance here
This is a free event. All welcome. RSVP essential.
Light refreshments served on arrival.
More information: wacha@uwa.edu.au or call (08) 9224 2750
This event is proudly supported by Dementia Training Australia and WA Centre for Health & Ageing

Professor John Frank’s visit to Perth
2017-02-20 00:00 - 2017-02-23 00:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor John Frank FRSE will be visiting Perth between February 11 and March 4 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of WAHTN, supported in part by funding to WAHTN from Lotterywest.
Professor John Frank is currently Chair of Public Health Research and Policy and the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy. Previously he served as inaugural Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute for Public and Population Health, Professor at the University of Toronto. He has also held faculty appointments at UC Berkeley and at McMaster University in Ontario. Professor John Frank is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He has published more than 150 papers in the peer reviewed literature and several books and book chapters.
He will be leading workshops on “How do you sell your research” and “how do you measure impact” at the UWA University Club, 20 – 23 February. Professor John Frank will work with small groups and individually for this workshop series. Places are limited; please contact Lauren White at WAHTN llauren.white@uwa.edu.au for further information and reservations.
Professor John Frank’s schedule can be found here

Perkins Seminar Series - Vacation Scholarship Student Seminar
2017-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Hannah Newnes
Laboratory for Cancer Medicine
“Investigating the therapeutic potential of ciclopirox olamine for treatment of metastatic melanoma”
Fiona Nugent
Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
“Evaluating the effectiveness of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in correcting a mutation in the PTEN tumour suppressor in triple-negative breast cancer”
Rowan Sanderson
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
“OCE Smart Surgical Glove”
Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

Visiting Professor Lecture Series: Critical Appraisal for Public Health Course
2017-02-13 10:00 - 2017-02-17 13:00 | Curtin University
Presenter: Professor John Frank
Professor John Frank is visiting Curtin School of Public Health in conjunction with WAHTN
Session Dates/Times:
*Monday 13th February from 10.00am -1.00pm
*Tuesday 14th February 2017 from 10.00am -1.00pm
*Wednesday 15th February 2017 from 10.00am -1.00pm
*Thursday 16th February 2017 from 10.00am -1.00pm
*Friday 17th February 2017 from 10.00am -1.00pm
*The series of workshops are continuing professional development sessions therefore all sessions need to be attended. Places are limited to 30 people and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Please go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/professor-john-frank-visiting-curtin-school-of-public-health-tickets for information and registration

RPH Medical Research Forum: ''From individual to population and back again, learning from long term studies of the older old''
2017-02-10 15:00 | Western Australia
Presenter: Professor Carol Brayne
Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK
Raine visiting Professor
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
5th Floor Seminar Room, MRF Building, Rear 50 Murray Street
Contact Details:
W/Prof Markus Schlaich phone: 9224 0382
email: markus.schlaich@uwa.edu.au

Special Perkins Seminar: “An Atlas of Human Long Non-Coding RNAs with Accurate 5’ Ends”
2017-02-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Dr Chung-Chau Hon
Division of Genomic Technologies
RIKEN, Yokohama Japan
Please see the attached flyer for more details.
Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

RAINE Seminar: “Cell Fate Decisions during Somatic Cell Reprogramming”
2017-02-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Professor Duanqing Pei
Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

Research Basics: Question and Protocol Development
2017-02-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Please join us for our first seminar in the 2017 Research Skills Seminar Series (RSSS) for health professionals, clinical researchers, research students and support staff.
This seminar looks at the steps involved in the research process from deciding whether an idea is worth pursuing through to putting together a quality protocol, and your responsibilities as a researcher.

Presenter: A/Prof. Sue Skull
Associate Professor Sue Skull is a paediatrician, epidemiologist, public health physician and researcher. She is an experienced teacher of research methods and enjoys helping others improve and enjoy their research experience.

Perkins Seminar Series with Prof Matthew Brown & Prof Emma Duncan
2017-02-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Professor Matthew Brown
Director of Genomics, Queensland University of Technology
“Leveraging Ethnicity to find Arthritis Genes”

Professor Emma Duncan
Eminent Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology,
Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland
“Genomics and Bone: Translating the genetics revolution into clinical practice”

Additional information:
Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

CMCA Seminar Series: “IN-VIVO Imaging”
2017-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT): A Novel Multimodal Imaging Technology
Presenters: Dr Thomas Sardella, Application Scientist, iTheraMedical, Germany
Investigation into the Development of Successful Nanomedicines
Presenters: Anna Gemell, University of Queensland, Centre for Advanced Imaging
Please see attached flyer for more information
Contact Details:
Serena Hui
serenah@trendbio.com.au

Perkins Seminar Series: “Transcriptional control of stem cell biology in development and disease”
2017-01-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Dr Michael Piper
The School of Biomedical Sciences and the Queensland Brain Institute
The University of Queensland

Special Perkins Seminar: “MicroRNA-135b acts as a node of convergence for multiple oncogenic pathways in gastrointestinal carcinogenesis”
2016-12-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Associate Professor Dominic Voon
Cancer Research Institute & Institute for Frontier Science Initiative
Kanazawa University, Japan
Please see the attached flyer for details
Contact Details:
Dr Andrew Woo at andrew.j.woo@uwa.edu.au

Multi-disciplinary approaches for biomedical research workshop
2016-12-08 14:00 - 17:30 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
See attached flyer for details
Registration information:
RSVP to cctrm-smp@uwa.edu.au

Raine Lecture Series : Engineering Vascularised Tissue Constructs
2016-12-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Professor Shulamit Levenberg
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Please see the attached flyer for more information

Invitation to the Health Research Symposium at The University of Notre Dame
2016-12-08 08:00 - 17:00 | The University of Notre Dame Australia
The Institute for Health Research is delighted to host the Health Research Symposium, showcasing the wide range of research being undertaken through The University of Notre Dame Australia’s schools of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and health sciences.
Professor Fiona Wood AM, Burns Specialist and Professor Paul Cohen, Gynae-oncologist will present their respective research programs, highlighting cases involving UNDA based research students.
The sessions will be broadcast in real time via the web.
Please see the attached flyers for more information

Updated information: Joint 6th Margaret River Region Forum and 9th ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting
2016-12-04 00:00 - 2016-12-07 00:00 | Western Australia
This conference brings together local, national and international experts, students and early career researchers in basic science, clinical research and clinical practice who share common interests in studying stem cells to understand the fundamental mechanisms of organ formation, and to develop new therapies for the treatment of human diseases.
For more information go to the following websites:
www.surgery.uwa.edu.au/research/Orthopaedic-Research-Unit/margaret-river-region-forum
www.asscr.org
Please see the attached flyer for more information

Venue:
Pullman Resort, Bunker Bay, Margaret River WA
Registration information:
Registration opens on 6th June 2016

Research Skills Seminars : Consumer Participation
2016-12-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Anne McKenzie AM
Please register online to attend the seminar, choosing one of the three attendance modes available:
1. The seminar venue at Princess Margaret Hospital
2. A hosted videoconference site at one of the following locations:

Fiona Stanley Hospital
Royal Perth Hospital
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Lion’s Eye Institute
DonateLife

Online via scopia and your PC
Instructions for video conference participation

Research Skills Seminar Series: Consumer and Community Participation
2016-12-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Anne McKenzie AM
For more information and registration details, please visit the RETP page: RETP Research Skills Seminar Series
