Name: Tiny Tech, Big Impact
Start: 2025-05-21T19:00:00
End: 2025-05-21T20:30:00
Location: Stomping Ground

Join us for a dynamic evening as we delve into how cholesterol impacts heart health, unlock the secrets of empowering T cells to more effectively combat cancer, and discuss the exciting role of nanomaterials in modern medicine. Discover the tiny tech making a big impact on our health!

Is heart disease nature or nurture?

Shawn Mo (Post-doc, St Vincent's Institute for Medical Research)

Heart disease impacts heart or vascular functions, such as coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, etc. Heritability is the proportion of variation in the trait that can be attributed to genetic factors. Shawn's talk will focus on explaining how genetic factors play a role in heart diseases and what statistical genetics is.

Environmental DNA: How to Find Nemo Without a Net

Laura Fitzgerald (Post-doc, CSIRO)

Creatures leave DNA everywhere—water, soil, even air. Environmental DNA (eDNA) lets us track life without ever seeing it. But eDNA degrades fast. Enter metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), tiny sponges that soak up and preserve these genetic clues before they disappear.

γδ T cell… is that a sorority?

Rebecca Brown (PhD candidate, Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute)

The sorority sisters of your immune system, γδ T cells, patrol your body during cancer progression, and it changes them... They can get exhausted or frustrated and fall asleep or turn on each other. Rebecca is taking advantage of this and trying to fix it.

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