Science In Public
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University of Melbourne, Tuesday 11 June
Understanding neurodegeneration is one of the big life science challenges. It’s attracting massive international investment but the complexity of the brain means there will be no simple answers.
That’s why we’ve chosen neurodegenerative diseases as the topic for the first Victorian Systems Biology Collaborative on Tuesday 11 June.
[Read more…] about Neurodegeneration: from lab to clinic with systems biology
In this month’s EMBL Australia newsletter:
Around Australia, hundreds of scientists, science communicators, outreach officers, teachers and students are running engagement projects, planning National Science Week events and entering science awards – all with the support of Inspiring Australia. [Read more…] about Fact or fiction in sci-fi, Indigenous rangers talk science, and the power of dog poo: building the Inspiring Australia community
Tanya Plibersek, Richard Champion de Crespigny, Justice Margaret Beazley, Tom Wenkart and many other Sydney luminaries will join Centenary Foundation chairman Joseph Carrozzi, a managing partner of global accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, at the 2013 Foundation Dinner this Friday, 31 March.
They’ll have the opportunity to bid for: Chairman box seats at ANZ Stadium for the Bledisloe Cup; their own private jazz performance by the Jonathan Zwartz Trio; five luxury nights in Tasmania to experience Hobart, the Bay of Fires and the innovative Museum of Old and New Art; or the work of some of Australia’s finest artists.
[Read more…] about The arts, business and government come together to support medical science
Symposium: Royal Children’s Hospital, Monday 3 June
Professor Howard Jacob is getting genomics out of the research lab and into the clinic.
He’s at the forefront of personalised medicine. He and his colleagues successfully treated a five year old with a life threatening digestive condition in 2010, sequencing the boy’s genome to find a rare mutation.
He says we need to not just talk about how personal genomes will change medicine. It’s time to use it now especially for undiagnosed conditions.
[Read more…] about Personalised medicine: a young life saved through genomics and systems biology
Darwin Harbour has extreme tidal rises and falls of up to eight-metres. So the ebbing and flowing currents in the channels are strong and fast, all of which makes it difficult for pilots to berth bulk carriers or manoeuvre dredges. [Read more…] about Modelling Darwin Harbour’s extreme tides
The community and governments here and around the world have increasing expectation that publicly funded research will reap benefits more quickly and fully.
Expectation are particularly high for health and medical research because if offers solutions for better health care, restraining costs of providing care, and building national prosperity through innovative industry growth.
This talk will discuss who benefits from health and medical research, including individuals, health consumers, policy makers, practicioners, business, governments and researchers themselves; and how.
[Read more…] about Who benefits? A question about the future of health & medical research
The community and governments here and around the world have increasing expectation that publicly funded research will reap benefits more quickly and fully.
Expectation are particularly high for health and medical research because if offers solutions for better health care, restraining costs of providing care, and building national prosperity through innovative industry growth.
This talk will discuss who benefits from health and medical research, including individuals, health consumers, policy makers, practicioners, business, governments and researchers themselves; and how.
[Read more…] about Who benefits? A question about the future of health & medical research
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To coincide with the broadcast of Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines (SBS ONE, Sunday 26 May at 8.30pm) the first ever national survey* on Australian attitudes to vaccination reveals surprising statistics including half of Australians opposing immunisation get their information from the net. According to the survey those in favour of vaccination consult their GP. [Read more…] about 50% of Australians who oppose vaccination get their information from the Internet
Today at Scienceworks, 15 of Victoria’s future science leaders were put to the test at the Victorian Fresh Science state final.
In total, 60 state finalists have been chosen competitively for their discovery and for the quality of their research.
Today, they will be trained in how to talk science to journalists, business and the public at a one day media and communication workshop.
We wrapped up the event with an evening reception where we challenged them to excite and inspire over a canapé.
The 2013 Victorian state finalists are: