C&P Bulletin

The School Christmas party will be held on the 16th of December.  Further details to follow.

Please find below a PDF regarding the University’s casual pay and public holiday information over the Christmas break.

casual-pays.pdf

There are vacancies on the Alumni Advisory Committee for the positions of Postgraduate Student Representative and Recent Graduate Representative. If you or someone you know is interested in acting in an advisory capacity to the University Council or are keen to influence a number of key alumni activities in 2010, please complete the appropriate nomination form by the 4 December 2009 and submit to:

Ms Kim Harvey
Manager, Alumni Relations
Development and Alumni Office
University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA 5005
AUSTRALIAPhone: +61 8 8303 3196
Fax: +61 8 8303 5808

kim.harvey@adelaide.edu.au

The Terms of Reference for the Alumni Advisory Committee and the nomination forms are below.

aac-terms-of-reference-211009.doc
nomination-form-for-recent-graduate-rep-2010.doc
nomination-form-for-postgraduate-rep-2010.doc

There will be a chemistry research seminar this Friday presented by Dr Douglas Smyth.  Douglas is a radiochemist in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and will be discussing molecular imaging in clinical and biomedical research (see abstract).

This seminar will be held at 2:10pm on Friday November 6th, in the Rennie Lecture Theatre.

SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE

MONDAY 9th NOVEMBER - 1:00p.m.

PROFESSOR JAMES WHISSTOCK

ARC Federation Fellow

Honorary NHMRC Principal Research Fellow Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Monash University

“STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES ON PERFORIN-LIKE PROTEINS”

Benham Lecture Theatre

Lunch Provided from 12:15p.m. in the 1st Floor Breakout Space Molecular Life Sciences Building

Contact:  Briony Forbes ph 8303 5581, briony.forbes@adelaide.edu.au

Wednesday 2 December, 6.30-8pm, the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus)

Documentary screening

TITLE: Driven to diffraction

VENUE: The Science Exchange, 55 Exchange Place, Adelaide

‘Driven to diffraction’ is new documentary about the joint 1915 Nobel Prize winners William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg, whose work across a range of fields has made possible an astonishing list of breakthroughs including Watson and Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA, radio therapy for cancer, solid state electronics, modern pharmaceuticals, superconductivity and radio astronomy.

Hosted by John Carver from the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide.

More info on the RiAus website.

SA: Thursday 19 November, 6 pm, SA AIP

TITLE: The arrow of time

SPEAKER: Sean Carroll, CalTech

VENUE: Union Hall, University of Adelaide

More info: http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/aip-sa/

SA: Monday 23 November, 6.30pm, SA AIP

TITLE: Exploding stars and the accelerating cosmos: Einstein’s blunder
undone

SPEAKER: Robert Kirshner, Harvard University

VENUE: Union Hall, University of Adelaide

More info: http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/aip-sa/

SA: Wednesday 25 November, 9.30am-2.30pm, SA AIP - event booked out

TITLE: IYA09 AstroFest

VENUE: Flinders University

The Astronomy Festival (IYA09 AstroFest) is for year 9 students. This event consists of a lecture (The Milky Way in a Different Light) given by astrophysicist Dr Gavin Rowell from the University of Adelaide, followed by a number of interesting astronomy-related activities including Q&A sessions with several university students, a discussion on an astronomy/space-related topic (such as new missions to the Moon, Mars, how to see black holes) and telescope viewing of the Sun and planets (weather permitting).

More info at the SA AIP website.

The University of Adelaide closes for Christmas and New Year from 25 December 2009 to 4 January 2010.To facilitate the processing of deliveries and invoices before the shut down period, the Procurement Team must complete all purchase orders in early December 2009.

Please note that the last day for purchase requisitions to be entered onto Access Adelaide will be Friday 4th December 2009.

If you have any queries please contact Jan Soltys on 8313 5363.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation,

Janis Soltys
Procurement Team Leader
Faculty of Sciences

Monday 9th November - 1.00pm

SCHOOL LECTURE - 2009 BILL ELLIOTT LECTURE

Prof. James Whisstock, ARC Federation Fellow, Honorary NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash University

“Structural and functional studies on perforin-like proteins”

Benham Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Benham Bldg.
Lunch provided from 12.15pm in the 1st Floor Breakout Space, Molecular Life Sciences Bldg.
Contact:
Dr. Briony Forbes ph. 8303 5581
briony.forbes@adelaide.edu.au

NCCARF- Terrestrial Biodiversity Network

PhD collaborative travel grants: Applications due COB 20^th Nov 2009

NCCARF is an initiative of the Federal Government, based at Griffith University’s Gold Coast Campus. The key roles of NCCARF include establishing and maintaining adaptation research networks to assist in information transfer to end users and linking together researchers across Australia who have interests in climate change adaptation research. The student funding described here are available from the NCCARF - Terrestrial Biodiversity Network (hosted at James Cook University) and are to encourage research that will facilitate adaptation to a changing climate that will help protect Australia’s terrestrial biodiversity.

The primary goal of the Terrestrial Biodiversity network is to develop explicit and practical strategies that increase the resilience of terrestrial ecosystems and maximise their adaptive potential under climate change.  The research priorities of this network are to collate knowledge, co-ordinate expertise and synthesise these inputs into recommendations and frameworks that will guide the way forward for Australia to adapt to global climate change. Applicants should make sure that the proposed research explicitly addresses adaptation and not be purely impacts research.

To find out more information about the network or to subscribe please visit http://www.nccarf.edu.au/terrestrialbiodiversity/

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