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MIPS seminar program 2025

The 2025 MIPS seminar program.

Date	Presenter	Title	Host	Venue
19 February	Professor Sarah-Maria Fendt KU Leuven, Belgium	Metabolic rewiring driving metastasis formation	Professor Mark Febbraio	Lecture Theatre 3
12 March	Professor Juliet Gerrard University of Auckland, NZ	A Front Row Seat: Lessons Learned at the Intersection of Science, Policy, and Politics	Associate Professor Nicholas Veldhuis	Lecture Theatre 3
17 March	Dr David Kang Halozyme Therapeutics	Subcutaneous drug delivery: So what’s the big deal?	Professor Christopher Porter	Lecture Theatre 3
11 April	Professor Alessio Ciulli University of Dundee, UK	Protein degraders: New insights and twists of molecular mechanism and drug design	Senior Lecturer Manuela Jorg	Lecture Theatre 3
7 May	Professor Junle Qu Shenzhen University, China	High spatiotemporal resolution multimodal in vivo optical microscopy	Dr Bo Peng	Lecture Theatre 3
21 May	Dr Karla Seaman ConnectAbility and Macquarie University	Unlocking synergies: Practice-based pharmacy research in aged care and disability	Professor Simon Bell	Lecture Theatre 3
18 July	Meet the emerging leaders MIPS	Dr. Anida Velagic (Drug Discovery Biology) Boosting endogenous cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) to treat cardiovascular disease Dr. Carlo Giannangelo (Drug Delivery Disposition & Dynamics) Discovering new, irresistible medicines for malaria with metabolomics and proteomics Dr. Alene Yong (Centre for Medicine Use and Safety) Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice: My Journey Across Settings	Associate Professor Ben Capuano	Lecture Theatre 3
4 July	Professor Colin Sutherland LSHTM, UK	Preparing for the next generation of malaria chemotherapeutics – Adventures with Plamsodium knowlesi and P. falciparum	Professor Darren Creek	Lecture Theatre 1
8 July	Professor Daniel K. Nomura UC Berkeley, USA	Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms	Professor Arthur Christopoulos	Online
16 July	Cathy Sertori Creative Advocacy Solutions	Patients as partners: Transforming healthcare pathways through purposeful engagement - An industry perspective	Natalie Diepenhorst	Lecture Theatre 3
23 July	Dr Tatiana Pinedo Rivera Monash	Introducing Lab Sustainability: Practical Principles Through Grassroots and Leadership Collaboration	Associate Professor Lauren May	Lecture Theatre 3
6 August	Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan UNSW Sydney	Uncovering the rules underlying mitochondrial volume homeostasis	Senior Lecturer Amandeep Kaur	Lecture Theatre 3
27 August	Professor Thomas Preiss Australian National University	Scientific travels around mRNA	Professor Colin Pouton	Lecture Theatre 3
15 October	Professor Rebecca Ritchie MIPS	Adventures in therapies for the diabetic heart	Professor Chris Porter	Lecture Theatre 3
12 November	Professor Denise Wootten MIPS	Nadine Watson Lecture: Targeting class b1 GPCRs for metabolic diseases	Professor Mark Febbraio	Lecture Theatre 1
2 December	Program	MIPS Research Symposium 2025