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Chromatin and disease

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This lecture forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute postgraduate lecture series running from March to August this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.

Unleashing Innovation

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Innovation succinctly articulates the purpose of St Vincent’s Institute and medical research in general: applying discoveries to create value. Medical research is not only about discovery and invention – which Australia has been very good at – but doing something useful and productive with that discovery. Australian medical research has been less adept at this step. Key ingredients in innovation include a highly educated work force, very good technology – and above all, collaboration across...

Contemporary Music Performance Large Ensemble Showcase

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Students and staff present a showcase performance featuring a range of large ensembles from the Contemporary Music Performance stream.

Backflip: Feminism and humour in Contemporary Art

Featuring work by Australian and international artists, BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art seeks to challenge the ongoing stereotype of feminism as dry, dull and humourless. The exhibition affirms laughter as an important and potent tool for feminist artists across generations, geographies and political contexts. Humour has a unique ability to simultaneously disrupt and entertain, and lends itself readily to one of the overarching goals that unites the many feminisms; namely, ...

Architecture, Building and Planning Alumni Survey Exhibition

This winter The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) plays host to an exciting exhibition which gives rare insight into the design process of architectural practice DENTON CORKER MARSHALL. The exhibition is part of ABP’s Alumni Survey Series, an annual series which celebrates the work of faculty graduates and highlights the exceptional contribution they make to Australia's design culture and built environment. DENTON CORKER MARSHALL has practised internationally for decades....

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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Aspen Technology presentation

AspenTech is a leading supplier of software for process optimisation across key industries, such as energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, oil and gas, and refining. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement...

It's all in the membrane: molecular mechanisms of early TCR triggering

Étienne Gagnon was appointed Principal Investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) in September 2011. He is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université d...

Servicing Asia’s Booming Middle Class - managing complexities and capturing growing opportunities with Ben Simpfendorfer

This first event in the 2013 Asialink Next Generation Series will focus on opportunities arising from massive demographic change in Asia. Ben Simpfendorfer, Managing Director, Silk Road Associates in Hong Kong will discuss • Planning a commerci...

Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century

Mr Richard Woolcott AC will launch the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) with a public lecture on “Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century”. The Asian Century, driven by the unprecedented transfer of wealth and influence ...

Focus On Commerce

Learn why the Bachelor of Commerce is the preferred degree of its type in Australia and how it will give you a competitive edge to launch your career. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent graduates about what it is like to study c...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

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

This seminar forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Wednesday seminar series running from March to December this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.

The Java Spirit - Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Indonesia

This public event will feature the premiere of a documentary film about changing attitudes toward religion and spirituality in Java, Indonesia produced by Professor Thomas Reuter. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A s...

The Apogee of Internationalism

When Australia recently earned a longanticipated seat on the UN Security Council, there was some discussion of its relevance, but little recognition of its historical significance, despite the fact for more than a century Australians have been dee...

Unlucky Country? Australian Literature, Risk & the Global Climate Challenge

This lecture assesses the role of imaginative literature in providing viable narrative forms of 'risk communication' (Heise 2008) in the context of current global climate challenge. Socalled 'climatechange fiction' (Trexler and JohnsPutra 2011) is...

The Java Spirit - Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Indonesia

This public event will feature the premiere of a documentary film about changing attitudes toward religion and spirituality in Java, Indonesia produced by Prof Thomas Reuter. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A sessio...

Melbourne Business School Information Evening

Find out more about your graduate study options in business and economics at our information evening. Speak with professional and acadmic staff about what its like to study at Melbourne Business School. Register now!

New News Warrnambool

The threat to independent journalism has never been more intimidating. Mainstream newspapers are downsizing, journalists are losing their jobs and the media ownership debate still rages. Some say we are facing a civic emergency and a drought of re...

Focus on Biomedicine

Covers the Bachelor of Biomedicine, Bachelor of Oral Health and graduate pathways, including graduate study in the health science disciplines Learn about the Bachelor of Biomedicine at Melbourne hear information about the pathways into graduate s...

Meet Melbourne Shepparton

We will be holding an information evening for you and your families in Shepparton as part of our Meet Melbourne program. Please come along to hear more about what the University of Melbourne has to offer. More information and registration can be ...

Thursday, 23 May 2013

Tiffin Talk: India and China: Rivals, Friends or Foes?

India and China today represent world’s two largest and fastest growing economies and societies. Even the continued global economic slowdown has not dented their growth. These unprecedented trends have triggered several internal and external syste...

Factors that influence the composition and function of the naive lymphocyte repertoire

Dr Jenkins and his colleagues investigate CD4+ T and B cell activation in vivo by directly tracking antigenspecific cells. Dr Jenkins will outline the goal of his research is a basic understanding of lymphocyte activation that can be used to impro...

Thinking with Rome: Space, Place and Emotion in the Making of the First World Religion

What happened to Rome and the idea of Rome in the age of the CounterReformation and of the missions to America and the Indies? Even as Roman Catholicism was ‘going global’ to an unprecedented extent, that preeminent symbol of its claims to univers...

Meet Melbourne Albury

We will be holding an information evening for you and your families in Albury as part of our Meet Melbourne program. Please come along to hear more about what the University of Melbourne has to offer.

Do you or does someone close to you suffer from Type 1 Diabetes?

Dinner with a Scientist Do you or does someone close to you suffer from Type 1 Diabetes? Join Professor Len Harrison and his team of researchers for a three course dinner to talk about new research being done to treat and cure Type 1 Diabetes. ...

Friday, 24 May 2013

Monday, 27 May 2013

Epigenetic regulation of virulence genes and antigenic variation in protozoan parasites

This lecture forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute postgraduate lecture series running from March to August this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.

Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance: painting and illumination 1300-1350

Dr Ursula Betka, Research Fellow at La Trobe University, will talk on the exhibition and symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in February 2013, and the significance of the relationship between panel painting and manuscript illu...

Cultural and Global Mental Health Film Initiative-Film Screening: Hidden Pictures

Please come join the Cultural and Global Mental Health Film Initiative in our second monthly film screening! This month we will be screening the documentary Hidden Pictures. Hidden Pictures explores the experience of mental illnesses in India, Ch...

U.S. Policy Priorities and the 'Rebalance' to the Asia-Pacific

Asialink, The U.S. Consulate General, Melbourne, The U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney along with ACBC and Confucius Institute are proud to present Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies and Senior ...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

The art and science of Biomedical Animation

Two of the worlds leading biomedical animators, Graham Johnson from the University of California, San Francisco (USA) and Drew Berry from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, will explore the tension between scientific accuracy and creating conten...

Launch of the Australian Centre

Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Australian Centre. The Centre will be launched by Dr Chris McAuliffe. The Australian Centre was founded in 1989 with the assistance of a grant from the Hugh Williamson Foundation. From 2013, followin...

From Technology to Sight - looking into the future of the bionic eye

The story of the bionic eye has captured the imagination of people all over the world. Following the announcement of Australia’s first successful bionic eye implants last year, testing of an early prototype device continues with three patients in ...

Boosting your Brain Power - The Hype and the Hope

The Melbourne Neuroscience Institute and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health are pleased to present 'Boosting your Brain Power – The Hype and the Hope'. Join us as we take a look at current research into cognitive performance a...

Focus on Engineering

Do you love creating solutions to problems and want to make a difference to the world? Come along to find out how to study Engineering at Melbourne. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent graduates about what it is like to study eng...

Focus on IT

The world is awash with information. In the last five years, we’ve produced and recorded more information than in the previous 50,000 years; and almost all of this new information is digital. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent g...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Plasma cells from beginning to end

This seminar forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Wednesday seminar series running from March to December this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.

Strawberries and port wine: disorders of vascular development

Vascular anomalies are localised disorders of the blood vessels that predominantly affect children. They range from simple vascular birthmarks like ‘strawberry naevi’ and ‘port wine stains’ to complex lesions that can be life threatening. Vascular...

Meet Melbourne Hamilton

We will be holding an information evening for you and your families in Hamilton as part of our Meet Melbourne program. Please come along to hear more about what the University of Melbourne has to offer.

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Do Indians really face racism in Australia? A journalist's perspective with Sushi Das

Since stories of dodgy colleges and violence against Indian students came to light a few years ago, accusations of racism have repeatedly hit the headlines. Racism is an issue that the Indian diaspora has had to deal with all over the world. While...

Beneath the surface: bravery and beauty in Afghanistan

There is an Afghanistan beyond the headlines of war and atrocities, a place of anonymous heroes and wild beauty. In 1991, Christopher Kremmer landed in Kabul for the first time. The Afghan countryside was in the grip of an Islamist insurgency, bu...

Meet Melbourne Warrnambool

We will be holding an information evening for you and your families in Warrnambool as part of our Meet Melbourne program. Please come along to hear more about what the University of Melbourne has to offer.

Sunday, 2 Jun 2013

A Wayward Girl - the early life of Ella Grainger

In 1928 Percy Grainger married his ‘Nordic Princess’ Ella Viola Ström in front of 25,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. They had met two years earlier sailing from Australia to the United States on the S.S. Aorangi. Grainger had been drawn to Ella ...

Monday, 3 Jun 2013

Nuclear structure, paraspeckles and long non-coding RNA

This lecture forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute postgraduate lecture series running from March to August this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.

On Wind Energy: It is About Turbulence. A Melbourne Engineering Research Institute (MERIT) Seminar

In order to improve the understanding of the vertical transport of momentum and kinetic energy across a boundary layer flow with wind turbines, windtunnel experiments were performed to include a scaled down wind farm of 3x5. Particleimagevelocity ...

Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Student Research Symposium 2013

The Student Symposium has proven to be a friendly environment for students to gain confidence in presenting and answering questions on their research. Thanks to the new venue this year there are over 30 speaking slots available this year. This ev...

Tertiary Education Policy Seminar - Students and Money

The University of Melbourne’s series of Tertiary Education Policy Seminars is an important platform for discussion and debate of current tertiary education issues, and the 2013 electionyear series is primed to be one of the most interesting and th...

Monday, 20 May 2013

Architecture, Building and Planning Alumni Survey Exhibition

This winter The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) plays host to an exciting exhibition which gives rare insight into the design process of architectural practice DENTON CORKER MARSHALL. The exhibition is part of ABP’s Alumni Su...

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