Early Career Research Showcase
Program
The showcase will be held on Monday 28th of September, in the Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre.
Welcome | 2:00 pm | ||
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Session 1 | 2:10 - 2:45 pm | Chair: Tara Murphy | |
Kate Fullagar | Department of History | Indigenous travellers in the eighteenth century | abstract |
Tamara Watson | Brain and Mind Research Institute | Perceiving a stable world despite eye movements | abstract |
Alistair McEwan | School of Electrical and Information Engineering | Electrical Impedance Tomography | abstract |
Bronwen Ackermann | Discipline of Biomedical Science | Hitting the right note with musicians' health | abstract |
Tanya Latty | School of Biological Sciences | Complex decision making in an amoeboid organism | abstract |
Break | 2:45 - 2:50 pm | ||
Session 2 | 2:50 - 3:30 pm | Chair: Charles Wolfe | |
Fabienne Brilot-Turville | Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health | Antibodies and paediatric multiple sclerosis | abstract |
Emma Carberry | School of Mathematics and Statistics | Geometry: When All Is Simpler Than It Seems | abstract |
Christine Lin | The George Institute for International Health | Treatments for back pain: are they worthwhile? | abstract |
Vanessa de Souza | School of Chemistry | Exploring the Structure of Disordered Solids | abstract |
Roslyn Bathgate | School of Veterinary Science | Sperm sex-sorting for the animal industries | abstract |
Break | 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Afternoon tea/coffee | |
Session 3 | 4:00 - 4:35 pm | Chair: Sam Solomon | |
Yasmine Musharbash | Department of Anthropology | Everyday life in a remote Aboriginal community | abstract |
Russell Dale | Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health | Autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders in children | abstract |
Helen Mitchell | Sydney Conservatorium of Music | When the words get in the way: linguistic limitations of describing music performers | abstract |
Nick Coleman | School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences | Microbes for bioremediation and biocatalysis | abstract |
Helena Mangs | Discipline of Pathology | The metastasis suppressor NDRG1: leading the way for a new treatment option for prostate cancer | abstract |
Break | 4:35 - 4:40 pm | ||
Session 4 | 4:40 - 5:25 pm | Chair: Renae Ryan | |
Anika Gauja | Department of Government and International Relations | Does Democracy Need Political Parties? | abstract |
Lisa Askie | NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre | Improving research transparency | abstract |
Peter Domachuk | School of Physics | Optofluidics: Micro-scale Fluids and Light | abstract |
Michele Zappavigna | Department of Linguistics | The world is full of #fail tonight: Ambient affiliation on Twitter | abstract |
Andrea Marshall | Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery | Verbal testimony: legitimate evidence for practice? | abstract |
Laura Beth Bugg | Department of Sociology and Social Policy | The Negotiation of Sustainability and the Rejection of Islamic Schools on Sydney's Urban Fringe | abstract |
Concluding remarks | 5:25 pm | Followed by drinks |
2008 Program
The ECR Showcase program is still available here.