Monthly Archives: October 2008

MSPH Seminar 28-Oct-08: The Anti-Estrogenic Effect of Cigarette Smoking

3pm – 4pm, Tues 28th October 2008
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
John A. Baron, MD, MS, MSc, Professor of Medicine, and of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical Centre will explore the Anti-Estrogenic Effect of Cigarette Smoking.
In addition to effects on organs with direct smoke contact (eg  COPD and cancers [...]

McCaughey Seminar 28-Oct-08: Living Systems, Epistemology and Human Relations in Dynamic Equilibrium

12.30pm – 2pm, Tues 28th October
(presentation and questions, 12.30 – 1.30pm; café style discussion, 1.30 – 2.00pm)
Room 515, level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Organised by the McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, and presented by Yolanda Wadsworth. This seminar will investigate ‘Living Systems, Epistemology and Human Relations in [...]

KCWHS Seminar 27-Oct-08: What were we thinking!?… An Innovative Mental Health Promotion Intervention for New Parents

11am – 12noon, Mon 27 Oct 2008
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton
Pesented by Associate Professor Jane Fisher, Dr Heather Rowe and Dr Karen Wynter, all from the Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, University of Melbourne

All enquiries to Fulya Torun, Tel: 03 8344 0616

Tech Seminar 27-Oct-08: Now-Generation Sequencing on the Genome Analyzer II

2pm – 3pm, Mon 27th October 2008
Seminar Room 1.39, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton
Dr Brett Kennedy, Regional Account Manager, Australia with Illumina Inc. will provide an introduction to Illumina’s Genome Analyzer, with discussion of some of the more recent publications and applications of the technology including re-sequencing, epigenomics, digital gene expression, and small RNA [...]

PhD Completion Seminar 24-Oct-08: Lukar Thornton from KCWHS `Individual and Environmental Determinants of Fast Food Purchasing`

3pm – 4pm, Fri 24th October 2008
Room 1.39 (Seminar Room), 1st Floor, 723 Swanston St, Carlton
Name: Lukar Thornton
Title: Individual and Environmental Determinants of Fast Food Purchasing.
Supervisors: Professor Anne Kavanagh (Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society), Dr Rebecca Bentley (Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society), Assoc/Prof SV Subramanian (SPH Harvard University) [...]

CHS Seminar 23-Oct-08: Racialised Genetics – The Science and Politics of Biological Difference

1pm – 2pm, Thurs 23 Oct 2008
Room 410, Level 5, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton
Organised by the Centre for Health & Society,  presented by Dr Emma Kowal, NHMRC postdoctoral fellow in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inqury at the University of Melbourne
All enquiries to Odette Mazel Tel: 03 8344 9160

Training Course 15-Oct-08: SAS Enterprise Guide demo

9.45am – 12noon or 12.45pm – 3pm, Wednesday 15th October 2008
Percy Baxter Centre, Training Room 1
SAS experts from the SAS Institute Australia will present a SAS Enterprise Guide demonstration session for University of Melbourne staff and students. This session will be very beneficial for existing SAS users, as well as those, who use other statistical software [...]

MSPH Seminar 15-Oct-08: MABEL – an Overview of Methods and Randomized Trial of Response Mode

12.30pm – 1.30pm (light lunch 12.00 – 12.30pm), Wed 15th Oct 2008
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton
Professor Anthony Scott, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
This talk will provide an overview of the MABEL survey, a new longitudinal survey of doctors in Australia funded [...]

Workshop 14th-17th Oct 08: `Cancer Epigenetics` – Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Symposium 2008

14th  – 17th October 2008
Wilson Promontory National Park, Victoria
This international workshop is a select meeting that will comprise 80-100 delegates including research scientists, post-graduate students and cancer clinicians. All aspects of cancer epigenetics will be covered ranging from basic biology to therapeutic implications.
Please see event organiser’s website for further details: Peter MacCallum Research

CHS Seminar 14-Oct-08: Professional Development – Sharing Responsibility for Ethical Conduct in Research – There`s More to it than Forms!

1pm – 2pm, Tues 14th Oct 2008
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton
Presented by Guiliana Fuscaldo, from the Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
All enquiries to Amy McKernan Tel: 03 8344 9101

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