AIBN Seminar Series

Professor Ranjeny Thomas
University of Queensland Diamantina Institute

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi
The University of Queensland

Dr Merja Joensuu
The University of Queensland

Associate Professor Joseph Cotruvo Jr
Penn State University

Professor Hongjie Dai
Stanford University, USA

Dr Fernanda Caldas Cardoso
The University of Queensland

Professor Di Yu ​
​The University of Queensland​

Professor Kevin Plaxco
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California Santa Barbara

Presenter: Assistant Professor Nian Liu School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

We are pleased to present Sophie Kenny from The University of QLD to speak on Tuning the target-binder interface with PCR-based phage-target sensing and electrohydrodynamic mixing on microfluidic devices to improve molecular detection and molecular library panning and
Karthik Balaji Shanmugasundaram from The University of QLD to speak on Phospho PD-L1 in extracellular vesicles as a proxy for tumour PD-L1 expression in lung cancer.
When: Thursday 4th May
Time: 11am
Where: AIBN Leve1 1 Seminar room or online via zoom https://uqz.zoom.us/j/84905769928

Assoc Professor Arnold Lining Ju
The University of Sydney

Professor Mark Hutchinson
Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics.
University of Adelaide

Dr. Stacey D. Wetmore
University of Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Asep Nugraha and Yilun Weng
AIBN The University of QLD

Professor Debra J. Bernhardt
The University of Queensland

Dr. Bin Luo
AIBN The University of Queensland

Presenter: Professor Kristala L J Prather
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Presenter: Dr Min Meng CEO of Chongqing Denali Medpharma

Assistant Professor Sui Wang
Departments of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University

HDR Student Seminar Marco Antonio Enriquez Martinez and Yixin Chang
AIBN The University of QLD

Professor Alan E Rowan Australian, Director and Group Leader, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

We are pleases to present Dr Giuseppe Balistreri
Master of Science in Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Palermo University, Sicily, Italy
to speak on Mechanisms of particle transport across the nasal epithelium: brain access to pathogens and drug carriers.
Where: AIBN Level 1 Seminar room or online via zoom https://uqz.zoom.us/j/85052664955
Time:12:30pm-1:30pm
Daye: Thursday 15th December 2022

​We are pleased to Present Professor Joost N.H Reek 

Professor at the University of Amsterdam

Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences

Date: Thursday 8th December

Time: 12pm

Venue: AIBN Level 1 Seminar room and online via zoom https://uqz.zoom.us/j/85815716624

We are pleased to present Associate Professor Leonardo Rios Solis
University of Newcastle, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. United Kingdom
to speak on Metabolic engineering and early scale up of cell factories and microbial consortia: case studies to produce anticancer drugs and biofuels.
Date: Wednesday 7th December 2022
Time: 11:00am
Venue: AIBN Level 1 Seminar room or online via zoom https://uqz.zoom.us/j/83277475089

Presenter: Assistant Professor Damien Hall

WPI - Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Japan

We are pleased to present Dan Cheng to speak on Surface Chemistry of Spiky Silica Nanoparticles Tailors Polyethyleneimine Binding and Intracellular DNA Delivery and Lauren Geurds to speak on Understanding mechanisms of aging in human brain organoids and in vivo.

We are pleased to present Dr Julio Aguado of the Wolvetang group AIBN The University of QLD and
We are pleased to present Lauren Geurds of Amarilian group AIBN The University of QLD

We are pleased to present Professor Paul Mulvaney
School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne.

Presenter: Jingjing Wang from Xu group at AIBN The University of QLD
Presenter: Chengxi Zhang from Wang group at AIBN The University of QLD

Presenter: Dr Tushar Kumeria from University of New South Wales and  David Harrich  from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

We are pleased to present Associate Professor Leonardo Rios Solis to speak on Understanding of the overlapping between Biochemical Engineering and Synthetic Biology
Date: 27th October 2022
Time: 12.30pm
Venue: AIBN Level 1 Seminar Room or Online Via Zoom

We are pleased to present Professor Bryan Day, Group Leader, Sid Faithfull Brain Cancer Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer MRI, Brisbane, Australia to speak on Defining Effective Therapies for the Treatment of Aggressive Adult and Pediatric Brain Cancer.
Date: 20th October
Time: 12.30pm
Venue: AIBN Level 1 Seminar room or online via zoom. Click here to join

We are pleased to present Professor Lei Jiang from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (TIPC) to speak on Super-wettability and Beyond - Quantum-confined Superfluid: Biological Energy Conversion, Chemical Reaction and Information Transfer.
Date: 17th October 2022
Time: 1pm-2pm
Venue: AIBN Seminar Room or Online Via Zoom

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: 4:00pm
Venue: AIBN Level 1 Seminar Room or Online Via Zoom

Deploying Biotechnology at DSM to Address Global Challenges in Nutrition, Health and Sustainability

Dr Chris Stowers
Sr Director of Biotechnology at Royal DSM

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