Western Australian Health Translation Network

WAHTN's Cutting Edge of Knowledge Translation workshop series
2016-09-01 09:00 - 2016-09-02 12:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, 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 Clinical Practice
Please see the attached flyer for further details and to RSVP

Telethon Kids Research Seminar Series: “A Stranger In Someone Else’s World” Fathers in the early parenting period
2016-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Presenter: Dr Rebecca Giallo
Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families
Population Health; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Please see the attached flyer for more information

Bayliss Seminar Series: Combining Chemistry and Biology to Target Parasitic Infections
2016-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Contact: scbevents on 6488 4402 or admin-scb@uwa.edu.au for more information

2016 Combined Biological Sciences Meeting: Promoting biological science in Western Australia by encouraging the interaction of scientists, students and industry from all of the life sciences
2016-08-26 08:00 - 17:30
Please contact cbsm@cbsmwa.org.au for more information

Health Informatics Society of Australia Event: The imperative to address better management of human disease through e-health & data science
2016-08-25 17:00 - 19:00
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:
states@hisa.org.au
03 9326 3311

The Research Development Unit presents Single Ethical Review and the Research Governance Service
2016-08-25 13:00 - 14:30 | Fremantle Hospital
Fremantle Hospital
Presenters: Katherine Coltrona – Senior Policy Officer
Diana Forster – A/ Senior Policy Officer
Please see attached flyer for more information
Venue:
CC Bennett Lecture Theatre, Fremantle Hospital

Perkins seminar series: Poly-arginine and Arginine-rich Peptides and Neuroprotection
2016-08-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, 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

Lions Eye Institute “Retinal Case Conference” Seminar Series: Autoimmune or Infective Immunosuppression versus antimicrobial therapy
2016-08-24 17:30 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenters: Maria Franchina & Jo Richards
Contact: Jade Knapp, jadeknapp@lei.org.au for more information

The Research Development Unit presents Single Ethical Review and the Research Governance Service
2016-08-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
PMH and available for videoconference
Presenters: Katherine Coltrona – Senior Policy Officer and Diana Forster- A/Senior Policy Officer
Please see attached flyer for more information

Perkins Seminar Series: “The SPARK Approach to Biotech Development in Academia”
2016-08-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, 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

Lions Eye Seminar Series: Seeing Eye to Eye
2016-08-17 17:30 - 20:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, 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

ECU Research & Innovation Seminar Series: Population Stratification using Personalised Metabolite Trajectories. A Case Study: Metabolomic Changes in Maternal Plasma and Urine During Normal Pregnancy
2016-08-12 15:00 | Edith Cowan University
Presenter: Professor David Broadhurst School of Science, ECU
Contact Details:
Caroline Chapman c.chapman@ecu.edu.au

Seminar: Scientific Writing
2016-08-12 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, 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 and researcher. She is an experienced teacher of research methods and enjoys helping others improve and enjoy their research experience.

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

*If you would like your host a regular videoconference at your site, please contact us.
or:
3. Online via scopia and your PC

How to install and use Scopia
How to access the seminar online via videoconference

A video recording of the presentation will be made available on Friday 19th August until Thursday 1st September.
After participating in the seminar – or viewing the recording- please complete a short 2-min online evaluation

This seminar is part of the Research Skills Seminar Series 2016 jointly hosted by the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation and the WA Department for Health, in collaboration with the WA Health Translation Network.
For further infromation email ResearchSkillsSeminar@health.wa.gov.au

Telethon Kids seminar series: Personalised medicine for patients with cancer
2016-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Presenter: Professor Ursula Kees: CLCRF Chair in Children’s Leukaemia; Head, Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Division

Contact Details:
Marina Stubbs, Marina.Stubbs@telethonkids.org.au

NCARD Seminar Series: Antigen cross presentation by dendritic cells
2016-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, 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

Lions Eye Institute “Research / Clinic Quarterly Breakfast Meeting” Seminar Series: A unique inherited blinding disorder caused by mutations in a voltage-gated potassium channel
2016-08-12 07:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, 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 S Carvalho

Venue:
Harry Perkins Institute Nedlands Level 1, Lotterywest Resource Room
Contact Details:
Jade Knapp jadeknapp@lei.org.au

Perkins Seminar Series: “Brain stimulation in animal models: is it worth the effort?”
2016-08-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, 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

Developing scalable assays to diagnose causative genetic mutations which underlie human brain disorders
2016-08-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Associate Professor Julian Heng
Head, Brain Growth & Diseases Laboratory, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Venue:
McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building

Research & Innovation Seminar Series : Clostridium difficile: One Health, genomics and beyond
2016-07-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Edith Cowan University
Presenter: Professor Tom Riley
Contact: Caroline Chapman c.chapman@ecu.edu.au

Venue:
Edith Cowan University, Joondalup JO 07 102-Lecture Theatre

Novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of high grade glioma
2016-07-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Presenter: Professor Terrance Johns
Research Group Head, Oncogenic Signalling Professor of Cancer Biology
Monash University, Director, Brain Cancer Discovery Collaborative
Contact: Marina.Stubbs@telethonkids.org .au

Dealing with partial NuRD complex : how the MTA1 subunit can recruit two copies of RBBP4/7
2016-07-29 12:00 - 13:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Presenter: Jason Schmidberger
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Contact: admin-scb@uwa.edu.au
Venue:
UWA Campus Bayliss Lecture Theatre G:33

Eye School Teaching
2016-07-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Please contact Jade Knapp for further information

Venue:
Harry Perkins Institute, Level 4, Room 436

Perkins seminar series: “Setting up screening systems for epigenetic modifiers and characterizing the molecular mechanisms of epigenetic control”
2016-07-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Dr Marnie Blewitt
NHMRC RD Wright Fellow, Co-Chair of the WEHI Gender Equity Committee, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Please see attached flyer for more information

Venue:
McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building

Bayliss Seminar Series: Development and validation of a methodology for the determination of persistent organic pollutants in human milk
2016-07-28 12:00 - 13:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Presenter: Jian Du
PhD Candidate School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Please contact admin-scb@uwa.edu.au for more information
Venue:
UWA Campus, Bayliss Building G33

CMCA Seminar: “Optical coherence tomography: an imaging tool for mechanobiology research”
2016-07-26 16:00 - 17:00
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become the optical modality of choice for label-free imaging of scattering biological tissues with resolution in the 1-10 mm range. This has facilitated widespread clinical application to the fields of ophthalmology, cardiology, oncology and dermatology; however, the application of OCT in the basic sciences is less developed. In this talk I will focus on the imaging capabilities that OCT can offer the emerging field of mechanobiology, which studies the role that mechanical cues play in both normal development and disease. Important examples include the onset and development of cancer, and the differentiation of stem cells in growth and regeneration. These areas of research rely heavily on in vitro studies of single cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions or ex vivo measurements of tissue biomechanics, and so new imaging approaches that enable a stronger connection between in vitro and in vivo behavior are needed. The talk will focus on computed OCT approaches for high‑throughput cellular-resolution volumetric imaging, and the mapping of the mechanical properties of viscoelastic biological media with optical coherence elastography (OCE). Computational adaptive optics (CAO) is a technique that leverages commonalities between OCT and digital holography to correct for defocus and other optical aberrations post-data-acquisition. We have combined CAO with aberrated optical design to optimize both resolution and depth-dependent photon collection for volumetric imaging of the dynamics of cell-ECM interactions during collective cell migration. I will also present our recent work on the development of OCE methods to reconstruct quantitative mechanical properties based on localized dynamic excitation (‘palpation’) with focused acoustic radiation forces. Finally I will highlight the role that these methods can play in spanning the in vitro–in vivo–clinical spectrum, to motivate further development of an OCT-based imaging platform for translational mechanobiology research.
About the presenter:

Dr. Steven Adie completed a BSc(Hons) in Chemical Physics in 1997 and a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2007, both from The University of Western Australia. Between his undergraduate and postgraduate studies he worked as a Research Engineer at Q-Vis Limited – a startup company that grew out of the Lions Eye Institute to commercialize solid-state laser technology for LASIK eye surgery. After completing his PhD he did a postdoc in the Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2013 he started as an Assistant Professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. His group develops novel optical imaging approaches, primarily based on optical coherence tomography, for basic science and clinical applications. Dr. Adie recently received a Discovery and Innovation Research Seed Award from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Cornell.

Venue:
CMCA (Physics) Seminar Room 1.80

UWA School of Population Seminar Series: Geographic health risk to inform service commissioning : The SIMLR Cohort Study
2016-07-26 11:00 - 12:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Presenter: Professor Andrew Bonney
Venue:
UWA Nedlands Campus (corner Clifton St and Stirling Hwy – Entrance off Clifton Street) Seminar Room 5, School of Population Health
Contact Details:
Contact: Chloe Thomson
chloe.thompson@uwa.edu.au

Cancer Prevention Forum
2016-07-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Cancer Council WA Seminar Room, 15 Bedbrook Place, Shenton Park, Perth, WA, 6008, Australia
Venue:
Cancer Council WA, Gordon Basford House, Bedbrook Place, Shenton Park

Research & Innovation Seminar Series- Breaking the Brick Wall of Solid Tumours: what do we get out of it
2016-07-22 15:00 - 17:00
Presenter: Associate Professor Juliana Hamzah
contact :Caroline Chapman c.chapman@ecu.edu.au for more information
Venue:
ECU Joondalup Campus JO 19 141 -Lecture Theatre

Seminar: Conducting Research with the Indigenous Community
2016-07-22 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Are you conducting or planning a research project that could involve indigenous participants? This seminar provides an overview of important considerations for engaging Indigenous people in research, including understanding cultural differences, ethical considerations and the importance of community consultation.
Presenters: Dr Michael Wright and A/Prof Sue Skull
Dr Wright is a Yuat Nyoongar man from the Moora and New Norcia area of Western Australia, north of Perth. He is currently an Early Career Research Fellow with Curtin University and is based at the National Drug Research Institute. Dr Wright has worked across the spectrum of health as manager, social work practitioner and policy officer and has extensive experience as a researcher in Aboriginal health and mental health.
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.
REGISTRATION:
Please register online to attend the seminar, choosing one of the three attendance modes available:
1. At the seminar venue at Princess Margaret Hospital
2. At a hosted videoconference site at one of the following locations:

Fiona Stanley Hospital
Royal Perth Hospital
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

*If you would like to host a regular videoconference at your site, please contact us.
3. Online via scopia and your PC

How to install and use Scopia
How to access the seminar online via videoconference

[UPDATE] This video recording has now been taken down. If you would like a copy, please contact us.
A video recording of the presentation will be made available on Friday 29 July until Friday 12 August 2016.
After participating in the seminar – or viewing the recording- please complete a short 2-min online evaluation

Telethon Kids Research Seminar Series-The Developmental Pathways Project: Bridging the gap between researchers and government agencies to improve children’s outcomes
2016-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Presenter: Dr Melissa O’Donnell
Please see attached invitation for more information
