Interested in getting involved in research? Need help getting started?
Come over and join us at UQ Centre for Clinical Research for an information session and tour of the facilities.
We’ll give several short talks regarding the different themes of research going on and the research opportunities available. Afterwards, tour the facilities and meet researchers over refreshments.
Program
5:30 | Welcome from the UQ Centre for Clinical Research and Infectious Diseases | Professor David Paterson |
5:45 | Overview of Research Options in the MD Program | A/Prof Di Eley |
6:00 | Neuroscience – perinatal – case studies of what you could expect from a career in science | Dr Tracey Bjorkman |
6:15 | Fertility – case studies and career research | Prof Hayden Homer |
6:30 | Women’s Cancer – case studies and career research | Dr Peter Simpson |
6:45 – 7:00 | Refreshments and tour of Clinical Trials space and lab space. Opportunity for networking and questions. |
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7:00 | Breast cancer cell culture room with inverted plate microscope viewing. Demonstration of microtomy - preparation of tissue sections from paraffin blocks. | Dr Malcolm Lim |
7:00 | Movies of eggs and confocal microscope viewing, for live cell analysis | Dr Jessica Greaney |
7:00 | Cool instruments demonstration’, Histology suite, mass spec facility and the Hamilton robot. | Dr Cindy Tan |
7:00 | Tour of the clinical floor space, EEG, Bod Pod, preparation rooms | Dr Derik Steyn |