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SUMMARY:Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System
DESCRIPTION:We tend to think of Melbourne and other cities in Australia as places that are food secure; nationally\, we produce enough food to support 60\,000\,000 people\, more than twice our population\, in service of our role as a major exporter of primary goods and food products. Supermarket shelves are usually filled with food\, all year around. But in the last 18 months we’ve seen images of sparsely-occupied shelves\, crops being dug back into their fields and students queueing for food vouchers. The compounding crises of bushfire and pandemic have revealed some of the cracks in our food supply system\, flaws that make our population vulnerable to scarcity. \nJoin Dr Rachel Carey\, who will be exploring what we need to do to strengthen the resilience of Melbourne’s food system to future shocks and stresses\, particularly those related to climate change and pandemic\, seeking a more nuanced conversation about matching up available resources with the healthy\, sustainable diets we want our population to be maintaining. \nWe can leverage the lessons from the pandemic to transform the way we manage our food system\, through strengthening local and regional food supply chains; sustaining the productivity of fertile land on the urban fringe; building efficient\, circular food economies to minimise waste; promoting resilient\, sustainable production systems adapted to a changing climate\, such as regenerative or agri-ecological approaches; building livelihoods through addressing insecure employment\, low wages and poor working conditions in the food industry; and redesigning systems of food relief to ensure equitable\, dignified access to healthy\, sustainable\, culturally-appropriate food during times of system stress. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Rachel Carey is a Lecturer in Food Systems at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences\, where her teaching and research focuses particularly on the governance of resilient and sustainable food systems. \nRachel leads the Foodprint Melbourne project\, which is investigating the resilience of Melbourne’s food system to shocks and stresses and the role of Melbourne’s foodbowl in increasing the resilience of the city’s food supply. The project team is working with a wide range of stakeholders to plan interventions to increase the resilience and sustainability of the city’s food system. Project partners include the City of Melbourne\, Resilient Melbourne\, Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority\, the Interface Councils and the Peri-Urban Group of Rural Councils. The project is funded by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation. \nOne of Rachel’s key research interests is the resilience and sustainability of city food systems in the face of growing challenges from climate change\, pandemic\, population growth\, urban sprawl and from declining supplies of natural resources\, such as land\, water and fossil fuels. Rachel’s research has also focused on analysis and development of food policies and the governance of ‘free range’ and other higher animal welfare labelling. She has a particular interest in integrated food policies and in cross-sector and collaborative approaches to developing food policy. \nStreamed online as part of the Inspiring Victoria initiative in 2021.\nRachel has worked on food policies for the City of Melbourne and the City of Greater Geelong\, and she is a member of the Melbourne Food Alliance. Rachel is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Agriculture and Human Values. She has a PhD from the University of Manchester (UK) and a Masters degree in Food Policy from City University (UK). \nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite.  Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. \n
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/foodprint-melbourne/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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SUMMARY:Electronic Skin: Sensing the World Around and Within Us
DESCRIPTION:Stretchable and wearable electronics represent a new wave in devices which can bend\, flex\, and stretch with the human body. Researchers from Melbourne’s RMIT University have developed a prototype to mimic real human skin\, with the aim to create a viable alternative to invasive skin grafts and conventional prosthetics. \nJoin Professor Madhu Bhaskaran\, who leads the team working to transform conventional\, hard electronics into soft\, unbreakable products\, thin enough to create “electronic skin.” These ground-breaking\, electronic\, prosthetic patches can adhere to the skin to mimic\, measure and diagnose body functionality\, and monitor the environment around\, on\, and within us. Their potential extends beyond improving the lives of people with prosthetic limbs and skin grafts to offer new tools for surgeons\, astronauts and other professions requiring a precise “feel” without direct contact. \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Madhu Bhaskaran is a multi-award winning electronics engineer and innovator. She was the 2014 recipient of the RSV’s Phillip Law Postdoctoral Award\, and has since been recognised for her outstanding achievements with a slew of awards\, including the 2018 Batterham Medal from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and the 2020 Frederick White Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. \nProfessor Bhaskaran co-leads the Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group at RMIT University\, which she established at the outset of an ARC postdoctoral fellowship in 2010\, and acts as Node Director and Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems. Her work on electronic skin and wearable sensors has been patented\, and her group now works collaboratively with multiple industry and design partners to commercialise the technology for healthcare and aged care. \nStreamed online as part of the Inspiring Victoria initiative in 2021.\nMadhu attained her Bachelor of Engineering at the PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore\, India\, before completing first her Master of Engineering then Doctor of Philosophy at RMIT University\, Melbourne. \nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite. RSV Members are prompted to enter their promotional code to access a member’s ticket. Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. \n
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/electronic-skin/
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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SUMMARY:Improving Drug Discovery: A Molecular Understanding of Cell Surface Receptors
DESCRIPTION:The human animal is multicellular – an organism comprised of trillions of smaller organisms. As with any complex organisation\, each individual cell in our body must communicate with and respond effectively to the collective to keep our systems working. Our cells send and receive signals through the use of special proteins on their surfaces – receptors – that interact with the “extracellular matrix\,” a network of specialised molecules that perform structural\, biochemical and signalling functions between our bodies’ cells and systems. \nThe largest family of these cell-surface receptor proteins are called G Protein-Coupled Receptors\, or GPCRs. GPCRs respond to extracellular stimuli such as hormones\, neurotransmitters\, peptides\, metabolites and odours\, while controlling a variety of physiological functions. Importantly\, they have been found to have an excellent response as drug targets and are thus very useful in developing effective medicines to combat serious disease. Currently\, GPCR targets are implicated in around 25% of all medicines approved by the USA’s Food and Drug Administration. \nHowever\, many hurdles remain to improving GPCR drug discovery\, requiring an expanded\, interdisciplinary approach to open the door to new therapies. Join Dr Christopher Draper-Joyce to explore new\, proof-of-concept approaches that promise the development of safer and much improved options for GPCR therapeutics. \nAbout the Speaker\n \nDr Christopher Draper-Joyce is an ARC DECRA Fellow with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and a Lecturer on Drug Discovery with the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine\, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences\, where he earlier completed his PhD on the biomolecular actions of the dopamine D2 receptor using pharmacological assays\, molecular biology and biochemistry techniques. \nChristopher’s postdoctoral work has extended his analytical and molecular pharmacology skillset into the field of structural biology\, with a particular focus on solving and stabilising the GPCR-G protein complexes\, to shed new light on molecular mechanisms of drug-receptor action. He has contributed to the pandemic effort with colleagues at the Florey\, bringing the Institute’s collective skillset in protein engineering to bear on SARS-CoV-2\, developing novel lead proteins that can bind to the S glycoprotein (Spike) of the virus\, and may be useful as antiviral agents. \nDr Draper-Joyce’s efforts have been recognised with an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and the Asia-Pacific Protein Association Young Scientist Award in 2020 and\, in 2021\, he is the recipient of the Royal Society of Victoria’s Phillip Law Postdoctoral Award in Category II: Biomedical and Health Sciences. \nStreamed online as part of the Inspiring Victoria initiative in 2021.\nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite. Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. \n
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/drug-discovery/
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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SUMMARY:Bioremediation: Restoring Contaminated Ecosystems\, Naturally
DESCRIPTION:Nature-harnessing technologies are key to effectively and sustainably restoring contaminated ecosystems\, using naturally occurring microorganisms to clean up contamination from oil and other organic pollutants in soils\, groundwater and water bodies. The bioremediation process both destroys contaminants and restores an ecosystem’s microbiome. \nBut every local ecosystem is unique when it comes to microbiological communities\, so new and innovative approaches are required for each contaminated site. \nUnderstanding the factors that determine the stability and resilience of contaminated ecosystems\, and the critical role of that system’s natural microbial community\, remains one of the frontiers of environmental science. Join Professor Andy Ball to explore how environmental microbiology can be scaled up for impactful and commercially successful applications to contaminated sites all over our highly industrialised world. \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Andrew Ball is the Director of the ARC Training Centre for the Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resource at RMIT University. With deep expertise in environmental microbiology and biotechnology\, Professor Ball was\, until recently\, the Director of the Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation (EnSuRe) at RMIT. \nAndy has headed the Environmental Biotechnology Group\, now based at RMIT University (previously based at Essex University and Flinders University)\, since 1995. He has brought a wealth of research and teaching expertise to Victoria at an international level\, particularly in the fields of bioremediation\, organic waste treatment\, and the environmental fate of organic pollutants. His contributions to his field and to the research community in Victoria were recognised this year with the award of the Royal Society of Victoria’s Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research in Category I: Biological Sciences. \nStreamed online as part of the Inspiring Victoria initiative in 2021.\nTickets are available below to participate in the webinar via Zoom and/or Eventbrite.  Alternatively\, you can watch along via Facebook Live at the appointed time without buying a ticket. \n
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/restoring-contaminated-ecosystems/
CATEGORIES:Lifelong learning
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SUMMARY:Queers in Science: on Neurodiversity
DESCRIPTION:Join Queers in Science\, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health\, and the Royal Society of Victoria for an online lecture on Neurodiversity. This lecture is presented as part of the Midsumma Festival and Inspiring Victoria. \n  \nWe recognise that the brain of every individual is unique\, meaning not everyone learns or thinks the same way. To reduce the stigma around neurodivergence and mental illness\, we will explore not only the science behind it\, featuring queer neuroscientists with expertise\, but also have a panel discussion with neurodivergent individuals sharing their day-to-day experience. \n  \nSpeakers\nDr Emma Burrows\nDr Emma Burrows leads a laboratory of enthusiastic people at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Her team train mice to play games on touch-screens to learn about how genetic mutations linked to autism can change a mouse’s ability to learn and pay attention. Emma hopes a greater understanding of brain differences will help to mitigate challenges faced by some people on the autism spectrum. \n\n  \n\n  \n \nKate Huckstep\nKate Huckstep (they/them) is a queer PhD student at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health\, where they are currently researching Alcohol Use Disorder. They are fascinated by happens in the brain when people experience alcohol addiction and are passionate about finding new potential treatments for this debilitating yet highly stigmatised disease. Kate is also an avid science communicator\, hosting both a regular science comedy podcast (Curiosity Killed the Rat)\, and a science radio show (Radio Sci-Lens) on the University of Melbourne’s student radio station. \n\n  \nLiam Leyden\nLiam Leyden is currently completing his PhD at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He is interested in investigating mechanisms of learning and memory by using cutting-edge microscopy techniques. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n  \nPanellists\n \nDr Sophia Frentz\nSophia has a PhD in Genetics and a large number of opinions on the intersections between science\, technology\, and society. Sophia is currently a Data Consultant at  Eliiza  and is based in Melbourne\, Australia. They received one of Out for Australia’s 30 under 30 Awards in 2020 and are now a Non-Executive Director for this organisation. \n  \n  \n  \n \nDr Daphne Cohen\nDr Daphne Cohen is an emergency physician-in-training\, currently working in clinical forensic medicine. She is a published poet\, bioethicist\, aspiring novelist\, and all-round overachiever. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/queers-in-science-on-neurodiversity/
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SUMMARY:Planetarium Nights
DESCRIPTION:Join Scienceworks’ popular Planetarium Nights programs to explore rare and rarely seen events such as a total solar eclipse\, supernovae\, and gravitational waves. Astronomers have a strange relationship with the idea of ‘rare’; something we seldom see on Earth may be commonplace at a universal scale. Museums Victoria astronomer Dr Tanya Hill has carefully curated a special selection of rare (or maybe not-so-rare) astronomical events for the show Ticket to the Universe. Or go on a poetic journey into the rarely detected phenomena of gravitational waves with the full-dome feature show Particle/Wave.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/planetarium-nights/
LOCATION:Scienceworks\, 2 Booker Street\, Spotswood\, VIC\, 3015\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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SUMMARY:Planetarium Nights
DESCRIPTION:Join Scienceworks’ popular Planetarium Nights programs to explore rare and rarely seen events such as a total solar eclipse\, supernovae\, and gravitational waves. Astronomers have a strange relationship with the idea of ‘rare’; something we seldom see on Earth may be commonplace at a universal scale. Museums Victoria astronomer Dr Tanya Hill has carefully curated a special selection of rare (or maybe not-so-rare) astronomical events for the show Ticket to the Universe. Or go on a poetic journey into the rarely detected phenomena of gravitational waves with the full-dome feature show Particle/Wave.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/planetarium-nights-2/
LOCATION:Scienceworks\, 2 Booker Street\, Spotswood\, VIC\, 3015\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220813T140000
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SUMMARY:Science on Show
DESCRIPTION:Museums Victoria has more than 17 million collection objects\, and we’re bringing out some of our rarest and most fascinating samples and specimens at Melbourne Museum for Science on Show. This event will feature curators and scientists delivering pop-up talks on their research\, rare artefacts\, and the stories behind them\, and one of the rarest dinosaur fossils in the world – the most complete Triceratops skeleton ever unearthed\, on display for your palaeontological pleasure.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/science-on-show-2/
LOCATION:Melbourne Museum\, 11 Nicholson Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220817T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220817T191500
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SUMMARY:Snap\, CT Scan\, Model\, Predict!
DESCRIPTION:Learn what new technology can reveal about rare reptiles and frogs! \nFor a deep dive into some fascinating science\, come to our National Science Week edition of MV Lectures to hear about how cutting-edge technology is helping to detect and study rare species. Hear from the scientists on a bold new research project combining the fields of palaeontology\, macro-ecology\, computed tomography (CT scanning)\, taxonomy and genetics. They will illustrate how museum-based work with large\, data-rich collections and new non-invasive techniques can reveal more than ever before and built an interactive\, online space for collection access.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/snap-ct-scan-model-predict/
LOCATION:Melbourne Museum\, 11 Nicholson Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220819T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220819T220000
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SUMMARY:Planetarium Nights
DESCRIPTION:Join Scienceworks’ popular Planetarium Nights programs to explore rare and rarely seen events such as a total solar eclipse\, supernovae\, and gravitational waves. Astronomers have a strange relationship with the idea of ‘rare’; something we seldom see on Earth may be commonplace at a universal scale. Museums Victoria astronomer Dr Tanya Hill has carefully curated a special selection of rare (or maybe not-so-rare) astronomical events for the show Ticket to the Universe. Or go on a poetic journey into the rarely detected phenomena of gravitational waves with the full-dome feature show Particle/Wave.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/planetarium-nights-3/
LOCATION:Scienceworks\, 2 Booker Street\, Spotswood\, VIC\, 3015\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220821T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220821T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T053212
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SUMMARY:Science on Show
DESCRIPTION:Museums Victoria has more than 17 million collection objects\, and we’re bringing out some of our rarest and most fascinating samples and specimens at Melbourne Museum for Science on Show. This event will feature curators and scientists delivering pop-up talks on their research\, rare artefacts\, and the stories behind them\, and one of the rarest dinosaur fossils in the world – the most complete Triceratops skeleton ever unearthed\, on display for your palaeontological pleasure.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/science-on-show-3/
LOCATION:Melbourne Museum\, 11 Nicholson Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220821T163000
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SUMMARY:RARE @ Parliament of Victoria
DESCRIPTION:Champions of conservation and biodiversity will gather at Parliament House for this vital Science Week discussion about the extinction crisis facing thousands of Australia’s native species\, and what we can do about it. \nOur State’s remarkable botanical and zoological collections are carefully managed by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Zoos Victoria\, while Museums Victoria maintains significant collections related to the natural history of our region and the wider world. These familiar institutions do more than offer an interesting place for Victorians to visit – they are also engines of research and field work\, helping the State of Victoria to future-proof the unique plants and animals of our region against bushfires\, floods\, the ongoing impacts from our spreading towns and cities\, our intensive farming practices\, and our changing climate. \nOur public science institutions all care for the rare – through the Seed Bank maintained at the National Herbarium\, through activating the amazing network of community botanic gardens across metropolitan and regional Victoria\, through the tissue and DNA samples cryogenically stored by Museums Victoria in a BioBank to safeguard the genetic diversity of threatened species\, and through the captive breeding programs for species on the brink of extinction\, diligently nurtured back to population health by biologists and ecologists at Zoos Victoria. \nJoin us for this RARE panel conversation\, streamed live from Parliament House\, to learn from the botanists\, zoologists and collection managers leading this important work. Find out some of the ways they are planning to help our plants and animals adapt and persist through the multiple challenges in our immediate future. \nPresented in partnership with the Royal Society of Victoria\, the Parliament of Victoria\, and the Victorian Parliamentarians for STEM for National Science Week 2022.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/rare-parliament-of-victoria/
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220826T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220826T220000
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SUMMARY:Planetarium Nights
DESCRIPTION:Join Scienceworks’ popular Planetarium Nights programs to explore rare and rarely seen events such as a total solar eclipse\, supernovae\, and gravitational waves. Astronomers have a strange relationship with the idea of ‘rare’; something we seldom see on Earth may be commonplace at a universal scale. Museums Victoria astronomer Dr Tanya Hill has carefully curated a special selection of rare (or maybe not-so-rare) astronomical events for the show Ticket to the Universe. Or go on a poetic journey into the rarely detected phenomena of gravitational waves with the full-dome feature show Particle/Wave.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/planetarium-nights-4/
LOCATION:Scienceworks\, 2 Booker Street\, Spotswood\, VIC\, 3015\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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