MIPS Seminar Program
All university staff (research and academic), alumni, all higher degree by research students and honours research students are invited to attend these Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences seminars.
The seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays 12-1pm at Monash University's Parkville campus, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria (unless otherwise stipulated).
If you wish to be added to the seminar mailing list email Asuntha.Munasinghe@monash.edu.
The 2019 MIPS Meet the Fellows seminar program.
Date | Presenter | Topic | Host | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Mar | Dr Andrew Clulow Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash University | Milk Mimickry - Cracking the Chemical Code Behind Nature’s Nutrient Delivery Vehicle | Professor Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 27 Mar | Dr Ghizal Siddiqui Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash University | Multi-omics analysis of artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites demonstrates key roles of glutathione and haemoglobin metabolism | Professor Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 27 Mar | Dr Jenni Ilomaki Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University | Big data in dementia research: opportunities in Australia and internationally | Professor Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 25 Sep | Dr Roey Elnathan Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash University | Engineered cell–nanostructured interfaces: from self-assembly to cellular manipulation | Professor Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
25 Sep | Dr Tracy Josephs Drug Discovery Biology, Monash University | Beyond structural snapshots: Exposing protein dynamics in structural biology | Professor Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 25 Sep | Dr Elva Zhao Drug Discovery Biology, Monash University | proximal study of biased agonism at G protein-coupled receptors | Professor Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
2019 MIPS seminar program :
| Date | Presenter | Topic | Host | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Feb | Prof Mark Febbraio Drug Discovery Biology, Monash University | Metabolism in Health & Disease | Prof Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 27 Feb | Mr Mark Sullivan Medicines Development for Global Health | Turning our research into medicines: throwing a spotlight on development | Prof Sue Charman | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 13 Mar | Prof Natasha Harvey Centre for Cancer Biology, UniSA | Defining the genetic and developmental basis of human lymphatic vascular disease | Dr Natalie Trevaskis | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 4 Apr | Prof Robert Young Simon Fraser University, Canada | Bone Targeting Pro-drug Conjugates for treatment of Osteoporosis and Other Bone related Conditions | Prof Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 10 Apr | Dr Cornelia Landersdorfer Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University | Optimising antibiotic therapy against ‘superbugs’: towards precision medicine | Prof Simon Bell | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 22 May | Prof Andrew Scott Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute | Development of novel therapies for brain tumours | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 5 Jun | Dr Denise Wootten Monash University | Structural and molecular insights into the control of signalling at class B GPCRs | Prof Arthur Christopoulos | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 19 Jun | Dr Ben Capuano Monash University | Antipsychotic Drug Discovery... The Long And Winding Road | Prof Peter Scammells | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 3 Jul | Prof Jonathan Cebon Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute | Antigen targeted cancer therapy in the era of immune checkpoint inhibition | Prof Colin Pouton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 17 Jul | Prof Steven Petrou Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health | Precision medicine in epilepsy | Prof Ray Norton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 31 Jul | Prof Grant McArthur Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre | Novel approaches to overcome resistance to BRAF-targeted therapy for melanoma | A/Prof Erica Sloan | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 14 Aug | Prof Glenda Halliday The University of Sydney | Catching Parkinon’s disease – does the evidence stack up? | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 28 Aug | A/Prof Megan Munsie The University of Melbourne | Clash of hopes: The challenge of managing expectations in stem cell science | Prof Colin Pouton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 11 Sep | Prof Michael Sailor University of California, San Diego | Treatments of bacterial infections with porous silicon Nanoparticles | Prof Nico Voelcker | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 23 Oct | A/Prof Jonathon Arnold The University of Sydney | Beyond cannabidiol: the discovery of novel cannabis-based therapeutics for drug-resistant epilepsy | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 6 Nov | Prof Mark von Itzstein Griffith University | Structure-guided inhibitor discovery in targeting clinically-important viruses | Prof Peter Scammells | Lecture Theatre 3 |
| 20 Nov | Prof Fabienne Mackay The University of Melbourne | Novel immune checkpoint in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia | Prof Mark Febbraio | Lecture Theatre 1 |