Past Events

Centenary’s Inclusion Gender Equity Program (IGEP) brings an entertaining and exciting half-day event

About the talk: Sudden cardiac arrest in the young (1-50) is a common condition, affecting 3000 Australians nationally with 90% mortality. In Victoria, the End Unexplained Cardiac Death (EndUCD) registry commenced in 2019, with prospective collection of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests attended by Ambulance Victoria. These cardiac arrests have comprehensive adjudication against hospital and forensic data, ...

This year’s Meeting sponsored by AstraZeneca and GSK, will be held at the Centenary Institute on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 November.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a scientist?

About the talk: In this presentation, Connie will go through some of our recent published and unpublished work on the effect of stroke on the lung neutrophil function and gut barrier integrity. Connie and her team believe revealing the underlying mechanisms behind stroke-induced impairment of these vulnerable mucosal sites will lead to the discovery of ...

Abstract: Lipids comprise thousands of individual species, spanning many classes and subclasses and are integral to cellular signalling, metabolism and function. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of lipid species can provide novel insights into human physiology, inborn errors of metabolism andmechanisms for complex traits and diseases. We integrated lipidomics and genomics to unravel the genetic architecture ...

Ageing represents one of the greatest medical, social and economic challenges – in Australia and globally.

We have partnered with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and Australian Museum in celebration of science and National Science Week

About the talk: INPP4B suppresses PI3K/AKT signalling by converting PI(3,4)P 2 to PI(3)P and we recently demonstrated INPP4B facilitates class PI3Kα crosstalk with Wnt signalling in ER+ve breast cancer on late endosomes. We observed in these studies that the conversion ofPI(3,4)P 2 to PI(3)P on late endosomes by INPP4B, was associated an increase in the ...

About the talk: Traditional medicine has only taken us so far in promoting tissue regeneration. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) – cell-drived membranous nano-structures – have been hailed as the next generation in regenerative medicine. EVs ferry hundreds of bioactive molecules such as proteins, lipids and RNAs to synergistically influence the behaviour of multiple target cells in a ...

About the talk: Our blood vessel system is an extremely complex network consisting of distinct vessel types including arteries, capillaries and veins. These different vessel beds also experience local environmental cues that drive tissue specific vascular network through organotypic differentiation. Transmembrane integrin heterodimers formed by a-and β-subunits are the major adhesion receptors that reside at the ...

About the talk: The human genome contains many types of repetitive material including short tandem repeats. Expansions of short tandem repeats can cause rare diseases including Friedreich’s ataxia and Huntington’s disease but are also responsible for GWAS hits such as the C9orf72 repeat expansion in motor neuron disease. In recent years several methods have been developed ...