Wednesday seminars

These seminars explore various topics in medical research and are held every Wednesday at 1.00pm in the lecture theatre on Level 7 at the institute's Parkville campus. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge. To join our Seminars and Conferences mailing list email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

22 May 2013

New insights into Bcl-2 pro-survival protein functioning and therapeutic targeting

Dr Doug Fairlie
Structural Biology division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

29 May 2013

Plasma cells from beginning to end

Associate Professor David Tarlinton
Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

5 June 2013

Refining murine models of osteosarcoma

Dr Carl Walkley
St Vincent’s Institute

12 June 2013

On the road to death: novel insights into Bax and Bak activation and oligomerisation

Dr Dana Westphal
Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

19 June 2013

Thrombopoietin and the control of hematopoietic stem cells and platelets

Professor Warren Alexander
Cancer and Haematology division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

26 June 2013

Insights into “functional cures” for chronic and overwhelming human infections

Dr Marc Pellegrini
Cancer and Haematology division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

3 July 2013

Screening for epigenetic regulators of X chromosome inactivation

Mr Jamie Gearing
PhD Student, Blewitt Lab, Molecular Medicine division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

10 July 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Ueli Nachbir
Cell Signalling and Cell Death division

17 July 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Chris Bakal
The Institute of Cancer Research, UK

24 July 2013

Cell-cell communication between malaria-infected red blood cells via exosome-like vesicles

Dr Neta Regev-Rudzki
Infection and Immunity division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

31 July 2013

Epigenetic pathways and autoimmune disease susceptibility

Dr Yuxia Zhang
Molecular Medicine division

7 August 2013

The making and breaking of blood stem cells

Dr Sebastian Carotta
Molecular Immunology division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

14 August 2013

Title to be advised

Mr Yunshun Chen
PhD Student, Bioinformatics division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

21 August 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Tracy Putoczki
Cell Signalling and Cell Death division

28 August 2013

Title to be advised

Mr Akshay D’Cruz
PhD Student, Inflammation division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

4 September 2013

No seminar

11 September 2013

Title to be advised

Mr Tommy Liu
PhD Student, Inflammation division

18 September 2013

Title to be advised

Ms Belinda Phipson
PhD Student, Smyth Lab, Bioinformatics division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

25 September 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Emma Josefsson
Cancer and Haematology division

2 October 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Daniel Gray
Molecular Genetics of Cancer division

9 October 2013

Title to be advised

Dr James Murphy
Structural Biology division

16 October 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Brad Sleebs
Chemical Biology division

23 October 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Kieran Harvey
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

30 October 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Yifan Zhan
Immunology division

6 November 2013

Title to be advised

Associate Professor David Curtis
Monash University

13 November 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Gabrielle Goldberg
Inflammation division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

20 November 2013

Title to be advised

Ms Elizabeth Valente
PhD Student, Strasser Lab, Molecular Genetics of Cancer division

27 November 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Mary Ann Anderson
Chemical Biology division

4 December 2013

Title to be advised

Mr James Rickard
PhD Student, Silke Lab, Cell Signalling and Cell Death division

11 December 2013

Title to be advised

TBA

18 December 2013

Title to be advised

Dr Ian Street
Chemical Biology division