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 Neil.Owens@monash.edu.

MIPS seminar program 2022

The 2022 MIPS seminar program.

Date	Presenter	Title	Host	Room
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
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
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
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 MIPS	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 or Cossar Hall
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
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
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
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

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