Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Speaker: Dr Brendan Crabb,Director and CEO, Burnet Institute

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Speakers: Elizabeth Cham, Research Fellow in Philanthropy, University of Melbourne; Chair of Advisory Council of the Non-Profit Round-table; and
Wendy Brooks, Director, Advancement and Communications, Faculty of Medicine,
Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

Research-powered careers series - 27-30 April

A graduate research degree can open doors to unique careers in all sorts of places, not just the university. This series of panel events will feature research graduates, researchers and industry representatives who will show you how their graduate research experience led to careers tackling the big challenges of our time.

Speaker: Dr Terry Kwok-Schuelein, Department of Biochemistry, Monash University.

Find out more about the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar Series.

Speaker: Professor Ruth Fincher, Director, Institute for a Resilient Society, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University Of Melbourne

Find out more about the Melbourne School of Population Health Seminars

Speaker: Associate Professor David Howells, National Stroke Research Institute, Florey Neuroscience Institutes

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Research-powered careers series - 27-30 April

A graduate research degree can open doors to unique careers in all sorts of places, not just the university. This series of panel events will feature research graduates, researchers and industry representatives who will show you how their graduate research experience led to careers tackling the big challenges of our time.

Research-powered careers series - 27-30 April

A graduate research degree can open doors to unique careers in all sorts of places, not just the university. This series of panel events will feature research graduates, researchers and industry representatives who will show you how their graduate research experience led to careers tackling the big challenges of our time.

Speaker: Dr Chris Reid, Florey Neurosciences Institute, The University of Melbourne

Find out more about the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Seminars

Speaker: Philomena Horseley, PhD Candidate, Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne.

Find out more about Key Centre for Women's Health in Society Research Seminars

Speaker: Dr Justin Rubio, MS group, Neurogenetics Laboratory, Howard Florey Institute

Find out more about the Centre for Neuroscience Seminar Series

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Dean's Lecture

Speaker: Professor Hugh McDermott, Chair of Auditory Communication and Signal Processing, Department of Otolaryngology.

Speaker: Professor Konrad Beyreuther, Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of Network Aging Research University of Heidelberg, Germany

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Speaker: Dr Philip Darcy,Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

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Speaker: Prof Charles Watson, Exec Dean, Div of Health Sciences WABRI,Curtain University of Technology, Perth

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Speaker: A/Prof Anthony Hannan,Howard Florey Institute

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Speaker:  Dr Annie Bolitho, Executive Officer, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne.

Speaker: Prof Andy Choo, Laboratory and Community Genetics, Murdoch Children’s
Research Institute.

Find out more about the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar Series.

Speaker: Dr Nigel Gray, AO, Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria

Find out more about Melbourne School of Population Health Seminars

Speaker:  A/Prof. Martin Delatycki, Director Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research & Clinical Geneticist, Genetic Health Services Victoria, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital

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Public Lecture

In conjunction with the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Speaker: Associate Professor Murat Yücel, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry and ORYGEN Youth Health Research Centre, The University of Melbourne.

Speaker: Dr Hyung-jung Cho,Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Melbourne

Find out more about the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Seminars

Speaker: Professor Anne Kavanagh, Director, Key Centre forWomen’s Health in Society, University of Melbourne.

Find out more about Key Centre for Women's Health in Society Research Seminars

Speaker: Dr Mirella Dottori Stem Cell Laboratory,Centre for Neuroscience,University of Melbourne

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Events: UniMelb Obesity Consortium Launch

Dates: Wednesday 20 May

Location: Melbourne Business School, 200 Leicester St, Carlton

Speaker:  Dr Jie Zheng from University of California Davis, USA

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Speaker:  Professor Ian Caterson, Boden Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Sydney and Director of the Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Excersice

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Speaker: Prof Tony Burgess,Ludwig Cancer Institute, Melbourne

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Speaker: Dr Helmut Butzkueven, MS Group, Howard Florey Institute

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Speaker: Dr Judy de Haan, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute

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Speaker:  Professor Wayne Lewchuck, McMaster University (Canada)

3rd Vera Scantlebury Brown Memorial Lecture

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Speaker: Professor Cathy Humphreys, Alfred Felton Chair of Child and Family Welfare, School of Nursing and Social Work.

Speaker: Professor Simon Chapman, Director of Research, Associate Dean Communications, Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Find out more about Melbourne School of Population Health Seminars

Speaker: Dr Helmut Butzkueven, Florey Neurosciences Institute

Find out more about the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Seminars

Marian Barrett Lecture

Speaker: Dr Stella Aguinaga Bialous, President, Tobacco Policy International, USA.

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Attendance is free and open to the public. Please indicate your intention to attend.

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Speaker: Dr Erinna Lee, Structural Biology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research.

Find out more about the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar Series.

Speakers: Dr Michael Kearney, Zoology & Prof Ary Hoffmann, CESAR/Bio21, University of Melbourne

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Speakers: Dr Marion Frere, Deputy Director, McCaughey Centre;
Associate Professor Tony LaMontagne, Principal Research Fellow, McCaughey Centre; and Professor Elizabeth Waters, Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health, McCaughey Centre.

Speaker: Associate Professor Berge Solberg, Department of Social Work and Health Science, Faculty of Social Science & Technology Management,Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Speaker: Professor Paul Martin, National Vision Research Institute of Australia and Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Dean's Lecture

Speaker: Professor Albert Frauman, Chair and Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of Melbourne and Medical Director, Austin Centre for Clinical Studies

Speakers include: Stephen Turner, (Pfizer Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne), Ian van Driel (Laboratory Head, Bio21, University of Melbourne) and many more

Find out more about Masterclass in Basic Immunology

Speaker: Professor Susan Glasser,Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

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Speaker: Prof Paul Pilowsky, Deputy Dean, Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University

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Speakers: Professor John Wiseman, Director, McCaughey Centre; and
Taegen Edwards, Research Fellow, McCaughey Centre

Speaker: Associate Professor Jim Black, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne

Find out more about Melbourne School of Population Health Seminars

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Speakers include: Professor Paul Hertzog,Senior Research Fellow (Monash University), Professor Fabienne Mackay, Head of Dept of Immunology (Monash University) and many more

Find out more about Masterclass in Applied Immunology

4th David Danks Oration

Speaker: Professor Loane Skene, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Adjunct Professor of Law, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

Special Dean's Lecture

Speaker: Professor Richard Pestell, Director, Kimmel Cancer Centre, Thomas Jefferson University, Professor and Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, USA.

Speaker: Professor Robert D Moir,  Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

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Len Tierney Lecture

Speaker: Ms Naomi Eisenstadt, Director, Social Exclusion Unit, Cabinet Office, UK.

More details to come.

Attendance is free and open to the public. Please indicate your intention to attend.

RSVP: +61 3 8344 9433 or jescott@unimelb.edu.au

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Speaker: Professor Margaret Stanley, Professor of Epithelial Biology, Department of Pathology,University of Cambridge UK

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Speaker: Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care, University College London

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Speaker: Dr Simon Murray, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne

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Speaker: Associate Professor Simon Koblar, Director, Stroke Research Program, School of Molecular Biomedical Science & Basil Hetzel Institute of Medical Research, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Adelaide

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Annual Ethics Seminar - Flyer

Convenor: Professor Jeffrey Zajac, Head, Department of Medicine, Austin Health/Northern Health.

Would you donate your heart to save another person's life?

Would you want an organ from a man on death row?

Speaker:  Simon Melov, PhD, Associate Professor & Director of Genomics, Buck Institute for Age Research Novato, California, USA

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Speaker: Dr Rosememary Mann, Research Fellow, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age

The explosion in the aged population has led to a rapid increase in the number of people affected by late-life psychiatric disorders (including dementia).

Special Public Lecture

Speaker: Professor Debra Humphris, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Professor of Health Care Development, University of Southampton, UK.

Australian Health Workforce Institute Public Lecture

Speakers: Professor Paul F Clark, Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations and Department of Health Policy and Administration, Penn State University, USA and Professor Darlene Clark School of Nursing, Penn State University, USA

Speaker: Dr Peter Crouch, Centre for Neuroscience and Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne

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Speaker: A/Professor Bryn Austin, Assistant Professor in Paediatrics,Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston,USA

Find out more about Key Centre for Women's Health in Society Seminar Series

Plenary Session Speakers: Michael Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA, Jan-Eric Litton, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, Sean Grimmond, IMB, Queensland, Merridee Wouters, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, New South Wales

Plus presentations from projects in the areas of:

Dean's Lecture

Speaker: Professor Nigel Curtis, Chair of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics; Head, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital

Plenary Session Speakers: Michael Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA, Jan-Eric Litton, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, Sean Grimmond, IMB, Queensland, Merridee Wouters, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, New South Wales

Plus presentations from projects in the areas of:

The 3rd Annual St.Vincent’s Mental Health & University of Melbourne Conference

This conference will take the novel approach of following the course of the Route 109 tram from the leafy outer Melbourne suburb of Box Hill to beautiful bayside Port Melbourne, picking up & responding to the special mental health needs of communities and environments encountered along the way.

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Transforming Australia for our children’s future: Making prevention work

The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) is a national non-profit organisation working to create better futures for all Australia’s children and young people.

Speaker: Dr Julie Simpson, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne

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Ilana Rischin Oration

Speaker: Diana Slade, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre for Health Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.

Dean's Lecture

Speaker: Professor Patricia Desmond, Edgar Rouse Chair of Radiology, Department of Radiology.

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Speaker: Professor Helen Herman, Professor of Psychiatry, ORYGEN Youth Health Research Centre, The University of Melbourne

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Speakers: Associate Professor Tony LaMontagne and Dr Rebecca Bentley, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health & Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne

Dementia Awareness Week 2009 Free Public Lecture

Speaker: Professor Constantine Lyketsos MD, MHS,FAPM. An active clinician, teacher and researcher, Professor Constantine Lyketsos is the Vice Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, America’s first research university.

Speaker: Dr Maggie Kirkman, Research Fellow, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health

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Speaker: Professor Ian Anderson, Director, Centre for Health & Society and Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Research Director, CRC for Aboriginal Health Melbourne School of Population Health

Forum

Speakers: Professor Jonathan Crowston, Ringland Anderson Chair of Ophthalmology, Managing Director and Head of Department and Professor Rasik Vajpayee, Head of Anterior Segment Research Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia.

R Douglas Wright Lecture

Speaker: Dr Edward J (Ted) Steele, Research School of Biology, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University.

Speaker: Professor Eleanor Holroyd, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health

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Australian Health Workforce Institute Public Lecture

Speaker: Dr Stephen Campbell, Senior Research Fellow, National Primary Care Research and
Development Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Speaker: Professor Sharon Straus, Clinical Studies Resource Centre Member, Toronto General Research Institute (TGRI)

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Free Public Lecture and Discussion

Guest speaker: Prof David Penny, Theoretical Biologist, Alan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Speaker: Dr Karalyn McDonald, Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University

Find out more about Key Centre for Women's Health in Society Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr Karen Wynter, Research Fellow, Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health

Speaker: Professor Haydn Walters, Health School of Medicine, University of Tasmania

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Speaker: Associate Professor David Dunstan, Head, Physical Activity & VicHealth Research Fellow, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

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