Seminar Program - 2005

Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Monash University
“A structural quest for insight into protein aggregation and disease”

Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Monash University
“The Role of Bcl-2 in Hepatocarcinogenesis: Effects of Overexpression on Murine Liver Tumor Development and Hepatocyte Cell Cycle Progression”

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
"Targeting cell growth in the treatment of cancer"

Lion Eye Research Institute
University of Western Australia
“Viral interference with apoptosis: identification of a novel check-point in the Bcl-2 pathway”

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
"Implications of Antibody:Receptor Binding Structure and Signalling on Tumour Growth"

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Melbourne
“ Methods for identifying new drug
targets in microbial pathogens”

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and
Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute
University of Melbourne
"The molecular machines that drive protein import into mitochondria"

Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research
“ Identification of structural and functional domains in the HCV glycoproteins involved in receptor binding and viral entry”

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Melbourne
“Immune responses to post-translationally modified antigens - an immunological curiosity or the pathway to autoimmune disease?”

Centre for Inflammatory Diseases
Department of Medicine, Monash University
“ Tissue-specific mechanisms of leukocyte recruitment in inflammatory disease”

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
“ The molecular control of cell death”

Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research
Title to be advised
**NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: H4/11

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
“ Sexual advances: the molecular genetics of testis development”

Dept. of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Monash University
“ Genomic studies on mouse kidney development”

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
“ Exploring the potential of human artificial chromosomes as a novel gene delivery system”
**NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: H4/11

Dept. of Microbiology
Monash University
“ Investigating molecular pathogenesis of Pasteurella infections”

Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
Wellington, NZ
“Plasma membrane electron transport: a novel
target for cancer drug development”

Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Title to be advised

Confirmations

Dept. of Neurology, Sheffield University Medical School, UK
"Caught in the tetraspanin web: fertility, fusion and viral infection"

Dept. of Medicine, University of Melbourne
Repatriation Hospital

Dept. of Pharmacology
Monash University
“ The Good, the bad and the ugly: Radicals in Vascular Biology”

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
“ Manipulating cancers through cross talk signalling pathways"

Queensland Institute of Medical Research
“ Immune Control of an Old Foe - Epstein-Barr Virus”

Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology
“ NKT cells - conductors of tumour immunity”

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
"The role of growth factor receptors (VEGFRs, Ephs and Ryk) in angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis and development"

Murdoch Children's Research Institute
"Cartilage destruction in arthritis: studies with knock-in and knock-out mice"

Walter and Eliza Hall Medical Research Institute
"Proteomic approaches to antigen discovery in the human malaria parasite"

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
"Implications of Antibody:Receptor Binding Structure and Signalling on Tumour Growth"