Perkins Seminar Series: “Brain stimulation in animal models: is it worth the effort?”

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Presenter: Dr Jennifer Rodger NHMRC Senior Research Fellow School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia All welcome Followed by a light lunch courtesy of Pakair   Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

Free

Lions Eye Institute “Research / Clinic Quarterly Breakfast Meeting” Seminar Series: A unique inherited blinding disorder caused by mutations in a voltage-gated potassium channel

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

This quarterly meeting is intended to provide new opportunities for scientists and clinicians to share their most novel and important findings. The Lions Eye Institute has a unique clinical interface that I hope will be further exploited, and these meetings are a great way to commence and/or strengthen interactions within the Institute. Presenter: Associate Professor Livia … Continued

Free

NCARD Seminar Series: Antigen cross presentation by dendritic cells

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Presenter: Professor Sebastian Amigorena, Director of Immunity and Cancer,  Institut Curie, Paris   Venue: Harry Perkins Institute Nedlands McCusker Auditorium Contact Details: Tracy Hayward Tracy.hayward@uwa.edu.au

Seminar: Scientific Writing

Perth Children's Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, Australia

Are you currently trying to write a scientific paper?  Do you find it hard to get started, write efficiently or write well?  This one hour seminar will provide a practical overview of scientific writing including how to negotiate authorship and publication. Presenter: Associate Professor Sue Skull  Dr Sue Skull is a paediatrician, epidemiologist, public health physician … Continued

Free

Lions Eye Seminar Series: Seeing Eye to Eye

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Some of the doctors and their area of expertise include: Prof David Mackey - Hereditary and genetic eye diseases Prof Bill Morgan - Glaucoma A/Prof Mei-Ling Tay-Kearney - Ocular infections and inflammation Dr Fred Chen - Retinal diseases More information can be found at: http://www.scienceweek.net.au/events/ Contact Details: Livia Carvalho or Seyhan Yazar liviacarvalho@lei.org.au or seyhanyazar@lei.org.au

Free

Perkins Seminar Series: “The SPARK Approach to Biotech Development in Academia”

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Presenter: Associate Professor Kevin Grimes Co-director of the SPARK Program in Translational Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

Free

Perkins seminar series: Poly-arginine and Arginine-rich Peptides and Neuroprotection

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Presenter: Adjunct Associate Professor Bruno Meloni Head, Stroke Laboratory Research, Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute (WANRI) Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

Health Informatics Society of Australia Event: The imperative to address better management of human disease through e-health & data science

HISA Event on Technology and Human Disease Speakers: Professor Matthew Bellgard, Dr Jing Pang & Jacqueline Ryan For more information go to: https://ccg.murdoch.edu.au/news/2016/07/19/HISA-Event/ Venue: CSC Level 1, 516 Hay Street Subiaco, Western Australia 6008 Cost: This event is free for HISA member and $25.00 for non-members Registration information: Online registration is available until: 26/08/2016 Contact Details: … Continued

WAHTN’s Cutting Edge of Knowledge Translation workshop series

Perth Children's Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, Australia

Professor Iona Novak (Head of Research at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute, The University of Sydney) will be presenting as part of WAHTN's Cutting Edge of Knowledge Translation workshop series. Thursday 1 and Friday 2 September 2016 Workshop 1: How to Improve Your Success in Grant Knowledge Translation Workshop 2: Implementation- Knowledge Translation into … Continued

Research Skills Seminar Series: How to inform your audience and maintain the waking state

Perth Children's Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, Australia

Please register online  to attend the seminar, choosing one of the three attendance modes available: 1. Attend at the seminar venue at Princess Margaret Hospital     or 2. Attend a hosted videoconference site at one of the following locations: Fiona Stanley Hospital Royal Perth Hospital Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 3. Online via scopia and your PC How … Continued

WAHTN Retreats – 5 and 13 September

Nedlands Yacht Club

WAHTN will be holding a two day retreat between 8am – 3.30pm at Nedlands Yacht Club on Monday 5 September and Tuesday 13 September. The first day focusses on our platform activities. The second day on our research translation successes, themes, and on building physician-research translation. Please rsvp via the following links: Monday 5 September: … Continued

Consumer and Community – one day interactive workshop

Curtin University

Anne McKenzie (Head, WAHTN Consumer and Community Health Research Network) will be holding a one-day interactive workshop on Consumer and Community Involvement. Places are strictly limited Please register here: http://bit.ly/training1209  by 31 August 2016 Additional information can be found on the attached flyer. Venue: Curtin University, School of Public Health Building 400, Level 3, Room … Continued

Perkins Seminar Series:“Structure, regulation and therapeutic targeting of mesenchymal stem cell compartments in the adult mammalian heart”

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Presenter: Professor Richard Harvey Co-Deputy Director and Head, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39

Perkins Seminar Series:“Redefining Bacterial Virulence in Terms of Evolution, Metabolism, Immune Response, and Gene Expression During Infection”

Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Presenter: Professor Harry L.T. Mobley Frederick G. Novy Distinguished University Professor and Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan Medical School   Hosted by Amanda McGuire, Ph.D,Translational Renal Research Group Venue: Seminar Room G24, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building