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2010 faculty research seminar series

The faculty research seminar series program consists of presentations by faculty members and external speakers. It is designed to provide an opportunity for the description of research programs and findings in more detail and give staff and research students the opportunity to learn more about the research that is being conducted within the faculty and promote collaboration.

All university staff (research and academic), alumni, all higher degree by research students and honours research students are invited to attend the faculty research seminars.

The faculty research seminar series program will be held regularly on Friday afternoons from 4pm to 5pm in Lecture Theatre 3, Conference Centre, Monash University (Parkville Campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC.

Please rsvp to Carolyn Fox if you wish to attend.

Month	Date	Presenter and MIPS theme	Topic
November, 2009	27	Professor David E Nichols The Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, USA	Combining mutageneis and molecular modelling to the study of hallucinogens
March, 2010	12	Dr Bim Graham Faculty Early Career Researcher awardee, 2009 Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Towards catalytic metallo-drugs
March	26	Dr Masha Niv Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Computational design of cell signaling modulators
April	23	Professor Susan Charman Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Synthetic peroxides: A viable alternative to the artemisinins for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria?
May	7	Mr Kevin McNamara Centre for medicine use and safety Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences	Developing cardiovascular disease prevention models for community pharmacy
May	21	Associate Professor Kay Stewart Centre for medicine use and safety Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences	Disease state management programs in community pharmacy
June	4	Dr Richard Prankerd Drug delivery, disposition and dynamics Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Pharmaceutical applications of microcalorimetry
June	18	Dr Helen Irving Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Serotonin: a simple molecule with multiple receptors and variants - can this complexity be used in drug design and treatment?
August	6	Associate Professor Bernard Flynn Medicinal chemistry and drug action Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Crossing over to the 'dark side': commercialising research in the drug discovery sector
August	20	Professor Peter Stewart Drug delivery, disposition and dynamics Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Cohesive drug powders: a multi-particulate nightmare!
September	3	Professor David J Adams Director, Health Innovations Research Institute RMIT Institute	Conus peptides: modulators of pain pathways
October	1	Dr David Kong Centre for medicine use and safety Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences	Optimizing medication use in clinical settings with sciences and economics
October	29	Dr Joseph Nicolazzo Drug delivery, disposition and dynamics Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Overcoming the blood-brain barrier for effective treatment of CNS diseases
November	26	Dr Jian Li Drug delivery, disposition and dynamics Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Combating gram-negative 'superbugs': from redeveloping the polymyxins to discovering novel compounds