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2010 Sansom Institute Seminar Archives

Sansom Institute Visiting Research Scholar Seminars

2010 Seminar schedule

Monday 22nd November 2010 4pm P3-20 Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine

Associate Professor Young-Ho Khang

Exploring determinants of secular decrease in
blood pressure among children

Thursday 11th November 2010 4pm P3-20 Principal, Australian Wildlife Services

Dr George Wilson

Indigenous wildlife management - opportunities to improve human health

Thursday 4th November 2010 4pm P3-20 Molecular Genetics Division, Victor Chang Heart Research Institute

Dr Catherine Suter

Epigenetic programming by maternal nutrition

Thursday 28th October 2010 4pm P3-20 Professor of Molecular Host Defence, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht University

Prof Henk Haagsman

Host defence peptides and collectins: biology and medical applications

Monday 11th October 2010 4pm P3-20 Senior Scientific Advisor, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy (SCPHRP), Edinburgh

Sally Haw

Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy: Addressing social and health inequalities across the life course

Thursday 30th September 2010 4pm P3-20 National Breast Cancer Research Fellow, Centre of Cancer Biology, SA Pathology

Dr Philip Gregory

MicroRNAs as regulators of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and tumour metastasis

Monday 30th August 2010 1pm PM-06 Deputy Chief Executive Health, Nutrition and Scientific Affairs Director, Australian Food and Grocery Council

Dr Geoffrey Annison

Food regulation as it relates to nutrition and health

Thursday 26th August 2010 4pm P3-20 Group Leader Cancer Models Lab, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Melbourne

Dr Leonie Quinn

Modelling the regulation of the MYC oncogene

Tuesday 17th August 2010 4pm C4-16 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore

Prof R Manjunatha Kini

Fascinating future in snake venom research

Thursday 29th July 2010 4pm P3-20 Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Assoc Prof Young-Ho Khang

Why Early Life Conditions Are Important in Understanding Population Health in South Korea

Thursday 24th June 2010 4pm P3-20 Heart Research Centre, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Prof Kent Thornburg

The vulnerable heart from birth

Tuesday 25th May 2010 3pm R1-07 Technical Adviser, Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network, Kenya

Dr Eva Ombaka

Quality use of medicines in the developing countries: opportunities and challenges

Friday 21st May 2010 3pm PM-06 University of Copenhagen

Professor Birger Lindberg Møller

Planting the future - towards a bio-based society, Chemical Biology of Cytochrome P450s

Thursday 22nd April 2010 4pm P3-20 University of Nottingham

Dr Helen Budge

The role of nutrition in child development, learning and behaviour

Thursday 8th April 2010 4pm P3-20 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, The Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions

Dr Youssef Masharawi

Spinal Form and Function in the Cycle of Life: Kinanthropometric and Clinical Aspects

Friday 19th February 2010 9.35am C4-16 Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University

Associate Professor Michael Ryan

Mitochondria: building and maintaining the cell's powerhouse

Thursday 18th February 2010 4.00pm P3-20 National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), ANU

Professor Sharon Friel

Global health equity and climate stabilisation: the need for a common agenda

Thursday 4th February 2010 4.00pm P3-20 Oregon Health and Science University

Dr Daniel Gareau

Skin cancer diagnostics with confocal microscopy

Complete list of 2010 Seminars (PDF, 33KB - download Adobe Acrobat)


Sansom Seminar Series

2010 Seminar schedule

Thursday 25th November 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Mr Neil Coffee

A place in health

Friday 19th November 2010 2pm P3-20 University of Western Australia

Fritha Milne (PhD Student)

Early life influences endometrial cancer risk

Thursday 21st October 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Michael Sorich

Personalised Medicine: Hype and Reality

Thursday 7th October 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Prof Judith Finn

Are we facing a heart failure epidemic? a population-based study using WA linked health data

Thursday 23rd September 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Lisa Kalisch

Improving quality use of medicines and patient outcomes: results from the Veterans' Medicines advice and Therapeutics Education Services (Veterans' MATES) program

Thursday 16th September 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Mark McDonnell

Towards understanding the brain's mechanisms for processing information: some example roles for theoretical and computational neuroscience

Thursday 9th September 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Laima Brazionis

Omega 3 dietary guidelines

Thursday 12th August 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Prof Howard Morrris

Autocrine/Paracrine Effects of Vitamin D: A New Paradigm for Health

Thursday 22nd July 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Rebecca Golley

Supporting children's nutrition & health - research with families and schools within an ecological framework

Thursday 15th July 2010 4pm P3-20 SA Pathology, Centre for Cancer Biology

Dr Quenten Schwarz

Coordinating neural crest stem cell migration with cell specification

Thursday 8th July 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Natalie Sinn

The role of nutrition in child development, learning and behaviour

Thursday 1st July 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Michelle McDonnell

Changing the brain: studies of plasticity in the human motor cortex

Thursday 15th June 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Robyn Clark

"Where not to have a heart attack in Australia": The Cardiac Accessibility and Remoteness Index of Australia (Cardiac ARIA)

Thursday 3rd June 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Shona Kelly


Why someone moves from the lab bench to social sciences: a research odyssey

Thursday 27th May 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Tom Robertson

Recent studies in Therapeutics Research, Intravital Microscopy & Drug Analysis

Thursday 13th May 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Antonina Mikocka-Walus

Psychogastroenterology: A biopsychosocial approach to treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Thursday 6th May 2010 4pm P3-20 University of Adelaide

Dr Claire Roberts

Pregnancy complications: who's at risk?

Thursday 29th April 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Diana Gentilcore

The use of acarbose as a potential treatment strategy in the management of postprandial hypotension

Thursday 25th March 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Assoc Prof Jon Buckley

Will you lose weight drinking low-carbohydrate beer? (Greater weight loss with low-carbohydrate diets, fact or fiction?)

Thursday 18th March 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Ravinder Anand-Ivell

Relaxin and INSL3 - novel applications in mammalian physiology

Thursday 11th March 2010 4pm P3-20 UniSA

Dr Andrea Gordon

Buprenorphine and methadone in pregnancy: Effects on the mother, fetus and neonate

Thursday 4th
 March 2010
4pm P3-20 Australian Patient Safety Foundation

Dr Tim Schulz

An introduction to the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: key projects and relationships

Thursday 25th February 2010 4pm P3-20 RiAus

Dr Lisa Bailey

The RiAus - bringing science to people and people to science...where, why and how?

Complete list of 2010 Seminars (PDF, 36KB - download Adobe Acrobat)


2009 Sansom Institute Seminar Archives

Sansom Institute Visiting Research Scholar Seminars

2009 Seminar schedule

Monday 23rd November 2009 12.00pm C3-16 Brain Sciences Institute,
Swinburne University

Professor Andrew Scholey

Food for thought: natural products as cognitive enhancers

Tuesday 10th November 2009
 
4.00pm H2-02 Rural Pharmacist - remote Western Australia
Andrew Roberts

Medication usage in remote Aboriginal communities - tales from a solo pharmacist

Monday 19 October 2009 4.00pm-5.00pm P3-20 Biomedical Sciences,
Sheffield Hallam University

Professor Kim Rainsford

Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases by NSAIDs

Wednesday 23 September 2009 4.00pm C3-16 Division of Social and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester

Professor Steve Kunitz

Political Culture, Social Capital and Mortality

Monday 21 September 2009 12pm C3-16 NHMRC CDA Fellow, Diabetes and Obesity Program, Garvan Institute

Dr Leonie Heilbronn

Factors contributing to weight gain induced insulin resistance in humans.

Monday
7 September 2009
1.00pm P3-20 Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, Canadian Institutes for Health Research
Professor Michael Kramer

The Long-Term Child Health Effects of Prolonged and Exclusive Breastfeeding.

Listen to a podcast of Prof Kramer's presentation.

Wednesday
8 July 2009
1.00pmH2-02 University of Melbourne D.O.M. & Diabetes CCRE
Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos  

Would you trade in a meal of chargrilled octopus and souvlaki for a slow-cooked lentil soup and chicken and broadbean casserole? The impact of cooking methods on the AGE content of a healthy Cretan Mediterranean Diet

Download Dr Itsiopoulous' presentation (PowerPoint, 7Mb)

Wednesday
17 June 2009
12.30pm H2-02 School for Social and Policy Research and Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University
Prof Tess Lea

Monday
25 May 2009
12.00pm P3-20 Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Prof Garry Jennings
 
Friday
1 May 2009
12.00pm H2-02 Centre for Health Promotion and Research, Sydney, Australia and 
Lifestyle Medicine and Applied Health Promotion, Southern Cross University
Prof Garry Egger

Monday
20 April 2009
12.00pm H2-02 University College
Prof John Yudkin 
Thursday
5 February 2009
12.00pm H2-02 Monash University
Dr Laima Brazioni

Friday
30 January 2009
10.30am H2-02 Leiden University
Freek Vonk

Complete list of 2009 Seminars (PDF, 24KB - download Adobe Acrobat)


Sansom Seminar Series

2009 Seminar schedule

9th December 2009 4.00pm H2-02 School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
Dr Emma Parkinson-Lawrence

Future Funding of the NHMRC: What You Need to Know & What Can Be Done

26th November 2009 4.00pm C3-16 Human Movement, School of Health Sciences
Dr James Dollman

Conducting research in schools; do's, don'ts, doozies and dramas

12th November 2009 4.00pm C4-16 University of Adelaide
Dr Mark Hutchinson

The "Toll" of Glial activation: Implications for chronic pain and opioid pharmacology

5th November 2009 4.00pm H2-02 Sleep Research Centre, UniSA
Dr Sally Ferguson

What makes doctors, miners and pilots think they are fatigued?

29 October 2009 4.00pm C3-16 Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide University
Ms Lisa Jamison


Oral health research among Aboriginal populations

22 October 2009 4.00pm H2-02 School of Psychology, UniSA
Dr Janet Bryan

Nutrition and cognition: How can we be confident of an association between them?

9 October 2009
 


12.30pm H2-02 School of Nursing and Midwifery, UniSA
Prof Adrian Esterman

Partial Least Squares, a new method for dealing with correlated predictor variables

1 October 2009 4.00pm C3-16 Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, UniSA
Dr Matt Haren

The Fat Frail
 
24 September 2009 4.00pm C3-16 School of Health Sciences, UniSA
Dr Dominic Thewlis  

Biomechanics & modelling of human movement: what can they tell us about the treatment available for osteoarthritis?
 
11 September 2009 12.30pm H2-02 School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, UniSA
Associate Professor Sandra Orgeig

Environmental selection of pulmonary surfactant – evolutionary and medical consequences

3 September 2009 4.00pm C3-16 CSIRO
Professor Manny Noakes

The Role of Protein in Weight Management - Risk or Benefits?

27 August 2009 4.00pm R1-07 Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment, UniSA
Associate Professor Desmond Lun

Understanding cells through systems biology: Inference and modelling of gene regulation and cellular metabolism

20 August 2009 4.00pm C3-16 School of Nursing and Midwifery, UniSA
Associate Professor Nicolas Procter

How did I get here and what do I do now? The developing role of transition to practice programs for newly graduated mental health nurses. A critical review.

13 August 2009 1.00pm C3-16 School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
Professor Ross Butler

Environmental Enteropathy and a Stressed Mucosa.

3 August 2009 1.00pmP3-20 University of Wollongong
Professor Tony Worsley

New directions in Public Health Nutrition Research.

30 July 2009 4.00pmC3-16 School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, UniSA
Dr Tetyana Shandala

Secretion of immune-mediators: How essential is it for immunity?

23 July 2009 4.00pmC3-16 UK Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow and
University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology
Dr David Batty

Is there a link between IQ in early life and health in adulthood?

16 July 2009 4.00pmC3-16 School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
Prof Gary Wittert

Gonadal Steroids, Ageing and Cardiometabolic Risk in Men.

9 July 2009 1.00pmC4-16 Lyell McEwin Hospital
Dr Margaret Arstall  

Mars and Venus: are women that different when it comes to heart disease?

Complete list of 2009 Seminars (PDF, 26KB - download Adobe Acrobat)


2008 Sansom Institute Seminar Archives

Sansom Institute Visiting Research Scholar Seminars

2008 Seminar schedule

Thursday
6 November 2008
1:00pmRoom H2-02 Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University
Dr Karen Campbell
 

Click the links below to download audio and video of Dr Karen Campbell's Seminar presentation.
Video - Large file size (WMV 103MB  download Windows Media Player)
Audio - Large file size (MP3 12.5MB  download Windows Media Player)

Friday
26 September 2008
12:00pmRoom H2-02 St Vincents Hospital
Prof Carl Walkley
Wednesday
28 May 2008
12:00pmRoom C6-27 Potchefstroom University
Prof Aletta Schutte
Tuesday
27 May 2008
11:00amRoom C6-26 York University
Prof Joel Lexchin
Thursday
23 April 2008
12:00pmRoom H2-02 Monash University
Professor Jeff Richardson
Thursday
4 March 2008
11:00amRoom R3-18 KILEN - Consumer Institute for Medicines and Health
Lena Westin and Jan Albinson

Sansom Seminar Series

2008 Seminar schedule

Thursday
27th November 2008
4.00pm Room P3-20 Royal Adelaide Hospital
Prof Richard Holloway
 
Thursday
20th November 2008
4.00pm Room PM-06 Neurogenetics Laboratory, Dept Genetic Medicine, WCH
Dr Cheryl Shoubridge
 
Thursday
6th November 2008
4.00pm Room PM-06 Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide
Dr Karen Kind
 
Thursday
30th October 2008
4.00pm Room PM-06 The University of Adelaide
Dr Rebecca Robker
 
Thursday
23rd October 2008
4.00pm Room PM-06 The University of Adelaide
Dr Rachael Gibson
 
Thursday
16th October 2008
4.00pm Room P3-20 UniSA
Dr Matt Haren
 
Thursday
9th October 2008
4.00pm Room PM-06 UniSA
Dr Ellen Nisbet
 
Thursday
2nd October 2008
4.00pm Room P3-20 WCH
Dr Gordon Howarth
 

Complete list of 2008 Seminars (PDF, 116KB - download Adobe Acrobat)

 

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