MRGS News Seminars

1.    MPA seminar day and free lunch - Gippsland
       Thursday 12 November 2009

Seminar day and free lunch and discussion for Gippsland postgrads. Note you must book each session individually.

LaTex session

Hands on session. Level: beginners and intermediate Time: 10:30am - 1:00pm
Venue: Crofton Hatsel Room, Gippsland
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Free lunch and discussion

The aim of the lunch is to inform Gippsland postgraduates about the services that MPA can provide, including advice and advocacy, postgraduate seminars and social events. This is also an opportunity to inform the MPA about the needs of Gippsland postgraduates. Meet other postgraduates, and help us develop a postgraduate network. Free lunch will be provided.

Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Venue: Crofton Hatsel Room, Gippsland
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Thesis by publication

Time: 2:00 - 3:30pm
Venue: Crofton Hatsel Room, Gippsland
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2.   2009 Postgraduate Symposium - Melbourne

We aim to improve the visibility of students and their research projects on a larger scale and celebrate their achievements. This year, six nominated final year/completed PhD students will showcase their results.

Speakers:

1. Betty Kafanelis, Medicine, Monash
2. David Barton, Baker IDI, Monash
3. Jacqueline Flynn, Immunology, Burnet, Monash
4. Mehran Ghasemzadeh, ACBD, Monash
5. Oanh Nguyen, Immunology, Monash
6. Clare Westhorpe, Burnet, Monash

Chair: A/Prof Rob Medcalf

Time: 1.30 to 5.30 pm
Date: Monday 16 November, 2009
Venue: AMREP Seminar Room, Alfred Hospital campus
RSVP: 9 November

For further information contact:
Name: Laisa Tigarea-Thomson
Telephone: +61 3 990 330 679
Email: Laisa Tigarea-Thomson@med.monash.edu.au

3.   Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Postgraduate Student Seminar

Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Venue: Multi-function Room, 2nd Floor, Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne

Introducing an Intra-Active Pedagogy: A postgraduate seminar
Presented by: Associate Professor Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Stockholm University, Sweden

To RSVP or for more information contact: Kate Alexander (klal@unimelb.edu.au

4.   Trauma Research Methods Workshop

The program covers a range of topics that are experienced through trauma research such as getting funding, overcoming problems and translating research into practice to name a few. The program is divided into two halves with the morning being dedicated to an introduction to trauma research, the methodology and practice designed for early researchers and the afternoon sessions will explore the more complex methodological issues for the advanced researcher.

The program will also include a session that will be applicable for both early and advanced researchers and will feature the perspectives of members of the wider trauma community.

Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Date: Thursday 19 November, 2009
Venue: Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne

For further information contact:
Name: Dr Phuong Nguyen
Telephone: +61 3 9076 8855
Email: phuong.nguyen@med.monash.edu.au
Website: Trauma Melbourne 2009 website

5.   Traffic Seminar and Launch with the Hon Michael Kirby

Monday, 23 November 2009, 2:30 PM - 4:40 PM
Venue: Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Reserach Centre
Building 1888, Melbourne University

In this seminar, the Hon Michael Kirby will discuss the topic of "Truth or Fiction?" and launch the latest edition of the refereed graduate student interdisciplinary journal, Traffic. The eleventh edition of the journal, published by the Graduate Student Association, includes contributions from fields as diverse as nursing, anthropology and history on the theme "Fact or Fiction?"

Michael Kirby will explain the differences we have had in the courts (including the High Court of Australia) concerning whether one can tell the difference between truth and falsehood by the impression of witnesses in the artificial circumstances of a court room. In recent years, the High Court has moved to reduce the previous confidence in the mystical judicial capacity to evaluation truth based upon impressions. Instead, it has insisted upon greater reliance on contemporaneous records, objective facts, and the internal logic of the circumstances.

A light snack and drinks will be provided at the seminar and copies of the latest edition of Traffic will be on sale.

Please RSVP to traffic@gsa.unimelb.edu.au for catering purposes

6.    The Epigenome - The Missing Link Between Nurture and Nature

Monday 30 November 2009 - 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm
Venue:  Ella Latham Lecture Theatre, First Floor, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville

The epigenome - the missing link between nurture and nature: implications for health and disease - Professor Moshe Szyf, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Prof Szyf will discuss how our DNA is 'programmed' during our development by another layer of machinery - the epigenome - a set of chemical tags that tells the genes within a cell what to do and will discuss how, in addition to our genetic heritage, exposures early in life may impact our behaviour and health throughout the rest of our life.

As epigenome tags are potentially reversible, he will explain how in the future we may be able to identify and reverse the effects of adverse environment previously encountered by us and even by our parents.

RSVP to hh@asnevents.net.au with your name, organisation and email address