AIBN Seminar Series

We are pleased to present Professor Maria Josefa Alonso to speak on NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR HELPING COMPLEX DRUGS AND VACCINES REACHING THEIR TARGETS
Date: 6th October 2022
Time: 4pm
Venue: AIBN Seminar Room or Online Via Zoom

Presenter: Dr Chis Stowers
Sr Director of Biotechnology at Royal DSM

We are pleased to present Dr Gustavo Rodrigues Rossi from The University of QLD Diamantina Institute to speak on
and Minjun Kim from AIBN to speak on Strategic design of Fe and N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon as superior ORR catalyst: From the perspective of nanoarchitectonics
Date: 15th September 2022
Time: 12:30pm
Venue: AIBN Level 1 Seminar room

Distinguished Professor Yin Xiao
Griffith University School of Medicine and Dentistry

A Platform Technology for Generating Subunit Vaccines Against Diverse Viral Pathogens

Dr Andrew Young
School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences

Complex Macromolecular Architectures and their Interplay with Light

Hendrik Frisch
Queensland University of Technology

Competing with complexity: unlocking nature’s potential using synthetic biology

Dr Tom Williams
Macquarie University / Number 8 Bio

From bugs to brains: targeting the membrane to enhance drug efficacy

Professor Megan O’Mara
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland

A mosquito cell culture platform for the manufacture of arbovirus vaccines

Henry De Malmanche
ECR Postdoctoral research fellow SCMB

AIBN HDR Student Seminar
Fahima Akther and Xiao Tan
AIBN, Xu Group and Whittaker Group

Interplay of metal-organic framework crystals, liquids and glasses

Dr Jingwei Hou
School of Chemical Engineering, the University of Queensland

(Cancer) theranostics with radiolabeled nanomaterials

Professor Weibo Cai
Departments of Radiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Biomaterials and drug delivery: How they will change our lives

Professor Robert Langer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AIBN Seminar Series 2022 - HDR

Raïssa Teixeira and Feifei Liu
AIBN, The University of Queensland

Submicron-Sized Vermiculite Assisted Oregano Oil for Controlled Release and Long-Term Bacterial Inhibition

Sukitha Kothalawala
Yu Group

Precision diagnostics and therapeutics for paediatric cancers

Professor Maria Kavallaris AM
Children’s Cancer Institute, University of Technology Sydney

Biomimetic scaffolds for tissue engineering applications via melt electrowriting

Dr Elena Juan Pardo
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research

Professor d’Adda di Fagagna
FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation

Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney

Student Seminars
Tomota Nagaura and Saikat Ghosh
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Professor Dayong Jin
ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Technology Sydney

Professor Jose M Polo
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Presenter One: Ms Suchada Niamsuphap, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.
Presenter Two: Mr Nicolas Constantin, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.

Aswathi Gopalakrishnan
UQ-StemCARE, Cooper-White Group

Associate Professor Timothy Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute The University of Queensland

Professor Bernd H A Rehm
Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Australia

Presenter: Dr Evelyne Deplazes Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney

Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney

Presenter One: Mr Matthias Noebel, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.
Presenter Two: Dr Helen Gunter, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.

Presenter: Dr Mark Allenby, Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland

Mr Jiaxi Yong
Xu Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Presenter: Associate Professor Joy Wolfram, Group leader, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland

Presenter One: Mrs Malindrie Dharmaratne, Mar Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.
Presenter Two: Ms Fahimeh Farokhinejad, Trau Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.

Presenter: Professor Martina Stenzel, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor in the School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales

Presenter One: Mr Emtiaz Ahmed, Trau Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.
Presenter Two: Mr Mohamed Ahmed, Wang Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.

Presenter One: Dr Matthew Baker, University of New South Wales
Presenter Two: Dr Ira Deveson, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Presenter: Professor Christine Wells, Head of Laboratory, Wells laboratory, The University of Melbourne

Presenter: Dr Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Biodesign Center for Health Through Microbiomes, Arizona State University

Presenter One: Mr James Humphries, Thurecht Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.
Presenter Two: Mr Zhao Wang, Rowan Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.

Presenter: Professor Anthony J Ryan OBE, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and the founding Director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.

Presenter: Professor Marcela Bilek, Professor of Applied Physics and Surface Engineering, The University of Sydney

Presenter: Dr Ruirui Qiao, Group leader and NHMRC Emerging Leadership fellow at Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland

Presenter: Dr Christian Heim, Clinical Psychologist
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Presenter: Ms Weijing Chu, Thurecht Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.

Presenter One: Ms Cecilia Gomez Inclan, Wolvetang Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.
Presenter Two: Ms Yueqi Kong, Yu Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ.

Presenter: Dr Pablo Cruz Morales, Joint BioEnergy Institute, University of California, Berkeley. Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability. Yeast Natural Products, Denmark.

UPDATED Presenter: Professor Anthony J Ryan OBE, The Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and the founding Director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.

Presenter: Associate Professor Keith Chappell, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology / School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland

Presenter: Professor Hala Zreiqat AM, Biomedical Engineering, University of Sydney

Presenter: Sasdekumar (Sas) Loganathan, AIBN PhD Student (Mar Group)

Presenter: Ebony Watson, AIBN PhD Student (Mar Group)

Special Guest Speaker: Distinguished Professor Dr Kristi Anseth, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado.

Presenter: Huiwen Zheng, AIBN PhD Student (Mar Group)

Presenter: Kuok Yap, AIBN PhD Student from UQ PEF.

Professor Dongyuan Zhao

Dr Kaspar Valgepea and Dr Li Li

Dr Hang Ta

Dr Cheng Zhang

Dr Kelvin Tuong

Dr. Jazmina L. Gonzalez-Cruz

Professor Yi-Chin Toh

Professor Colin L Raston AO

Professor Gilles J. Guillemin

Professor Ed Rybicki

Dr Joanne Macdonald

Professor Qinghong Yuan

Professor Petr Král

Professor Eric Bakker

Dr Anthony Musumeci (Uniseed) and Dr Mike Molinari (MRCF)

Professor Claudia Kemper

Professor Hans Heus

Professor Wilhelm T.S. Huck

Professor Jerry Atwood

Dr Darren Platt

Professor George Whitesides

Dr Simon Puttick & Dr Petri Turunen

Dr Yuling Wang

Professor E.W. (Bert) Meijer

Professor Jennifer Martin