Seminars
GDRC Seminar Series
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street (corner or Grattan Street), Carlton South
Dates: 1st Wednesday of every month at 1:00 pm
There will be a light lunch before each lecture in the Boardroom, Level 2, Alan Gilbert Building at 12:15 pm PLEASE RSVP if you would like to attend.
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
A/Prof. Ravi Savarirayan
Associate Professor and Head Royal Children's Hospital Clinical Genetics Service
Group Leader, Skeletal Dysplasia Clinical Research Group
Genetic Health Services Victoria
Wednesday 16th December, 1pm
A/Prof. Andrew Kornberg
Director of Neurology, Chair, Medical Staff Association
Royal Children's Hospital
Past Seminars 2009
Friday 6th March, 12:00 pm
Special Lecture
Genetic health care activity in the USA
Dr. Michael Watson
Executive Director
American College of Medical Genetics
Wednesday 18th March, 1 pm
Pathogenic mediators, environmental modulators and gene-environment interactions in mouse models of brain disorders
A/Prof. Anthony Hannan
Senior Research Fellow, RD Wright Fellow
Neural Development, Howard Florey Institute
Wednesday 22nd April, 1 pm
Using genetics to save lives
Prof. John Hopper, AM
NHMRC Australia Fellow & Professorial Fellow
Centre for M.E.G.A. Epidemiology
Melbourne School of Population Health
The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 13th May, 1 pm
Friedreich ataxia - therapies are on the way
A/Prof. Martin Delatycki
Director, Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research
Clinical Geneticist, Genetic Health Services Victoria
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Wednesday 17th June, 1 pm
A 21st Century model to link Australian Evidence-Based Practice resources
Terence Harrison
Clinical Librarian
Health Sciences Library incorporating The Victorian Mental Health Library
Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Royal Women's Hospital Library Service
Wednesday 22nd July, 1 pm
Mutation scanning in the Breast Cancer Susceptibility Gene PALB2: Are some female carriers at high risk of Breast Cancer?
A/Prof. Melissa C. Southey
Head, Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory
Department of Pathology
The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 19th August, 1 pm
Breast stem and progenitor cells - getting abreast of BRCA1-associated breast cancer
Dr. Geoff Lindeman
Molecular Genetics of Cancer
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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Wednesday 23rd September, 1 pm
Mapping structural landmarks and mutations to the type IV collagen heterotrimers predicts major functional domains, novel interactions and phenotypes of inherited diseases affecting basement membranes
Prof. Judith Savige
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine (Northern Health)
The University of Melbourne
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Monday 12th October, 1 pm
NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE: Lecture Theatre 2, Level 1, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street (corner or Grattan Street), Carlton South
Genes in clinical practice
Prof. Ingrid Winship
Professor of Adult Clinical Genetics
The University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Executive Director of Research
Melbourne Health
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Mutation Interest Group Meetings
Thursday 13th August 2009 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Guest Speaker - A/Prof. David Kennaway, Robinson Institute, Research Centre for Reproductive Health University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Clock Gene Transcription Factors: How Cells Tell the Time
Company Lecture - Janice Woods, CE Technologies Product Manager, Beckman Coulter Australia
GeXP Gene Expression technology- How to multiplex up to 30 genes at a time
Sponsored by Beckman Coulter Australia
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Past MIGs 2009
Thursday 18th June 2009 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Guest Speaker - Dr. Howard Slater, Head, Cytogenetic Laboratory, Victorian Clinical Genetic Services, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital
"Assessing the clinical significance of new copy number variations: How's it done?"
Company Lecture - Dr. Russell L McInnes, Manager, ASEAN and ANZ Applications Team, Applied Genomics, Agilent Technologies
''Workflow Solutions for Molecular Karyotyping"
Sponsored by Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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