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2012 MIPS Seminar Program

The 2012 MIPS seminar program will consist of an increased number of research seminars across this year, (20 in total), of which 10 will be by leading external scientists who will deliver a seminar during their visit to MIPS. During their visits, MIPS will be show cased and the visitor will have an opportunity to meet with various MIPS scientists. 10 of the seminars will consist of presentations by faculty members.

The purpose of the MIPS research seminar series is 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 externally, and within the faculty and promote collaboration.

Some of the seminars delivered by the external presenters will be tagged as ‘MIPS Molecular Medicine Seminars' and will be delivered by outstanding clinical scientists or outstanding scientists working on clinical problems. This is to raise and maintain awareness of the clinical problems that are out there to be solved.

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

The 2012 MIPS seminar program will be held on Wednesdays (fortnightly) between 11am-12pm at Monash University (Parkville Campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC.

Please rsvp to Carolyn Fox if you wish to attend.

Date	Presenter	Topic	Host	Room
29 February	Dr Rob Lane Drug Discovery Biology Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	New Tricks For Old Dogs: Novel Modes of Targeting G protein-Coupled Receptors	Professor Arthur Christopoulos	Lecture theatre 3
14 March	Associate Professor Jonathan Baell Medicinal Chemistry Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (formerly of WEHI)	From antiparastic to anticancer agents with screening, design or the literature as starting points	Professor Peter Scammells	Lecture theatre 3
28 March	Professor Andrew Abell University of Adelaide	Defining biomolecular structure and function in solution and on surfaces	Professor Peter Scammells	Lecture theatre 3
3 April	Professor Allan Basbaum Chair in Anatomy University of California, San Francisco	Neurobiology of Pain	Profesor Nigel Bunnett	Lecture Theatre 1 at 1 pm
11 April	Dr Tony Velkov Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Molecular recognition, the driving force for biological systems	Associate Professor Jian Li	Lecture theatre 1
18 April	Professor Tom Davis University of New South Wales	The design of polymeric nanoparticles for medical applications	Associate Professor Ben Boyd	Lecture theatre 3
2 May	Professor Ashley Bush Mental Health Research Institute University of Melbourne	Metals in Alzheimer's disease	Dr Joseph Nicolazzo	Lecture theatre 3
16 May	Associate Professor Martin Scanlon Medicinal Chemistry Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Turning Bad Bugs Good. Targeting virulence in the treatment of bacterial infections.	Professor Chris Porter	Lecture theatre 3
30 May	Professor Jennifer Martin University of Queensland	Bragging rights: 100 years of crystallography	Associate Professor Martin Scanlon	Lecture Theatre 1
13 June	Professor Terry O'Brien The James Stewart Profesor of Medicine and Head of Department of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital	Molecular Medicine Developing disease modifying treatments for epilepsy	Professor Roger Summers	Lecture Theatre 1