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 will be held every third Wednesday 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 sandra.vargas@monash.edu.
MIPS seminar program 2023
The 2023 MIPS seminar program.
Date | Presenter | Title | Host | Venue | Master Class Chair |
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1 March | University of Sydney | Multimodal and multivariate approaches to elucidating the chemistry of biological systems | Associate Professor Ben Capuano | Lecture Theatre 1 | Dr Jeff Luo |
22 March | MIPS | Sam Mostafa (CMUS), Pharmacogenomics – Exploring the impact and challenges for medication optimisation in mental health | Associate Professor Joseph Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 | - |
3 May | Professor Roy Zwahlen UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy | Unlocking innovation: The innovation story in black America and novel approaches to enable innovation and entrepreneurship in underrepresented populations | Dean Professor Arthur Christopoulos | Lecture Theatre 3 | Dr Sam McNeill |
3 May | Professor Roy Zwahlen UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy | Unlocking innovation: The Australian opportunity | Director MIPS Professor Chris Porter | Lecture Theatre 3 | - |
24 May | PSA | The role of the future Pharmacist in Advanced Practice | Associate Professor Joseph Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 3 | Dr Amanda Cross |
14 June | Dr Chris Horne WEHIM | Decoding unconventional mechanisms of calcium signalling | Dr John Scott | Lecture Theatre 3 | TBA |
5 July | Dr Edna Choo Genentech | A DMPK scientist journey in unraveling the mysteries of drug disposition | Professor Michelle McIntosh | Lecture Theatre 3 | TBA |
MIPS seminar program 2022
The 2022 MIPS seminar program.
Date | Presenter | Title | Host | Venue | Master Class Chair |
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23 March | Meet the Emerging Leaders MIPS | Dr Tracy Josephs (DDB), A pharmacogenomic and structural-dynamic approach to inform autosomal dominant hypocalcaemia treatment Dr Liam Koehn (D4), The Central Nervous System: Drugs, Development and Disease | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Zoom | |
4 May | Prof Gary Egan Monash Biomedical Imaging | New research facilities and collaboration opportunities at the Australian Precision Radiopharmaceutical Facility, Monash Biomedical Imaging | Prof Christopher Porter | Lecture Theatre 2 | |
25 May | A/Prof Zanfina Ademi Centre of Medicine Use and Safety, MIPS | Decision Health Economic Modelling to address unmet clinical needs | Prof Simon Bell | Lecture Theatre 1 | |
14 June | A/Prof Misty Jenkins Division of Immunology, WEHI | Immunotherapy is a piece of the puzzle in the treatment of brain cancer | A/Prof Natalie Trevaskis | Lecture Theatre 1 | David Nash |
16 Aug | Prof Garry Williamson Department, Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash | Bioactive phenolics for health: interaction with the gut | Prof Christopher Porter | Lecture Theatre 1 | Dr Benoit Smeuninx |
7 September | Prof Wai-Hong Tham Division of Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence, WEHI | Nanobodies for infectious diseases | A/Prof Joseph Nicolazzo | Lecture Theatre 1 | Dr Arisbel Batista Gondin |
28 September | Prof Walter Koch Temple University USA | GRK2 and GRK5 in the Heart: A ‘Tail’ of 2 Kinases in Heart Failure | Prof Rebecca Ritchie | Zoom Webinar | |
19 October | Meet the Emerging Leaders | Dr Emily Reeve (CMUS), Patient-centred deprescribing and use of clinical practice guidelines to support deprescribing in the real world Dr Daniel Priebbenow (Med Chem), New Photochemical Strategies for Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry | Prof Christopher Porter | Lecture Theatre 1 | |
9 November | Dr Art Beyder Mayo Clinic, USA | Does the gut feel touch? | Dr Simona Carbone | Zoom Webinar | |
18 November | Prof Michael Karin University of California, San Diego USA | New insights to ER stress, lipid and glucose metabolism: From NASH to insulin resistance and back | Prof Mark Febbraio | Lecture Theatre 1 | |
7 December | Prof Kathryn North Murdoch Children's Research Institute | The Nadine Watson Lecture: The Gene for Speed: ACTN3, athletes and human health | Prof Mark Febbraio | Lecture Theatre 1 |
MIPS seminar program 2021
Date | Presenter | Topic | Host | Room |
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24 Mar | A/Prof Bradley Turner The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health | Developing a personalised medicine approach for motor neuron disease | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Webinar |
5 May | Prof Kevin Plaxco University of California, Santa Barbara | Counting molecules, dodging blood cells: continuous, real-time molecular measurements directly in the living body | Professor Nico Voelcker | Webinar |
26 May | Prof Kirsten Howard The University of Sydney | Using health economic approaches to understand stakeholder preferences | Professor Simon Bell | Webinar |
2 Jun | Prof Suresh Sundram Dept Psychiatry, Monash University | Psychiatry in the light of precision medicine: A time for reconsideration | A/Prof Chris Langmead | Webinar |
7 Jun | Prof Elga de Vries Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Brain barriers in health and disease | A/Prof Joe Nicolazzo | Webinar |
3 Aug | Prof Mike Waring Newcastle University, UK | New approaches to hit finding using FragLites and DNA encoded chemical libraries | Professor Peter Scammells | Webinar |
18 Aug | Prof Jony Kipnis Washington University | Brain edges at the center of neuro-immune interactions | Professor Chris Porter | Webinar |
2 Oct | Prof Ruiping Xiao Peking University | Use of E3 ligase-dead mutants to treat cardiometabolic disease | Dr Helena Qin | Webinar |
10 Nov | Prof Andrew Murphy Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute | Haematopoiesis and the bone marrow microenvironment in health and disease | Professor Rebecca Ritchie | Webinar |
1 Dec | Prof Christina Mitchell Faculty of Medicine Nursing and health Sciences, Monash University | The role of termination of phosphoinositide signalling in human disease | Professor Arthur Christopoulos | Lecture Theatre 1 |
MIPS seminar program 2020
Date | Presenter | Topic | Host | Room |
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21 Feb | Dr Timothy Wells Medicines for Malaria Venture | Lessons from Malaria drug development and how to apply them elsewhere | Professor Sue Charman | Lecture Theatre 1 |
13 May | Professor Rebecca Ritchie Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Introducing the Heart Failure Pharmacology team to MIPS - an overview of our strategies for preserving and restoring the function of the heart in health and disease | Professor Patrick Sexton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
8 Jul | Dr Chengxue Helena Qin Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical | Targeting an anti-inflammatory pathway against cardiovascular disease | Professor Patrick Sexton | Lecture Theatre 3 |
5 Aug | Professor Phil Thompson Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical | Development of dual PI3K/BET bromodomain inhibitors for the treatment of aggressive blood cancers | Professor Peter Scammells | Lecture Theatre 3 |
19 Aug | Dr Karen Gregory Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical | Harnessing molecular insights into allosteric modulation of glutamate receptor activity to inform neuroscience drug discovery | Professor Rebecca Ritchie | Lecture Theatre 3 |
30 Sep | Dr Johnson George Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical | Interdisciplinary interventions targeting chronic health conditions in Australian Healthcare Settings | Professor Simon Bell | Lecture Theatre 3 |
14 Oct | Dr Dale Abel University of Iowa | Novel Mitochondrial Mechanisms for Cardiometabolic Disease | Professor Rebecca Ritchie | Lecture Theatre 3 |
11 Nov | Professor Doug Green St Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA | LAP and LANDO: Noncanonical functions of autophagy proteins in anti-cancer immunity and Alzheimer's Disease | Professor Mark Febbraio | Lecture Theatre 3 |
18 Nov | Professor Janelle Ayres The Salk Institute | Host-microbe interactions: Harnessing co-evolution to treat disease | Professor Mark Febbraio | Lecture Theatre 3 |
MIPS seminar program 2019
Date | Presenter | Topic | Host | Room |
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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 |