In November this year The University of Ballarat will be hosting an international workshop that will bring wetland scientists from around the world to discuss how the Ramsar Protocol for Wetlands of  International Significance can accommodate change and variability to wetland condition.

Prof Peter Gell, leader of CRN element 3, is the convenor of the meeting with colleagues from Monash University, Charles Sturt University, Southampton University and the Deputy Secretary General of Ramsar. The workshop is supported by the CRN as well as PAGES (Past Global Changes), a core project of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program.

It is also supported under the project to Prof. Gell on the history of drought in western Victoria funded under the Australian Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation.

Details of the workshop are available at: http://crnballarat.com/ramsar/

[Read more...]

As part of the Regional Youth Homelessness project, an interdisciplinary workshop will be held at the University of Melbourne on 15 July 2013.

The workshop aims to bring together scholars in this field for collaborative discussions about conceptual issues in homelessness research and will be convened by Dr David Farrugia (University of Ballarat) and Dr Jessica Gerrard (University of Melbourne).

Please click here if you wish to register to attend this workshop.

Professor Stagnitti is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Rob Wallis to the CRN.  Professor Wallis will be involved in developing research engagement and partnerships.

For all enquiries please contact Ms Rebecca Perovic CRN@ballarat.edu.au

Telephone: 53279825

Dr Francine Marques, a Research Fellow at the University of Ballarat and member of the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) Self-sustaining Regions Research and Innovation Initiative, today became the first researcher from the university to be awarded a Peter Doherty Fellowship.

The Peter Doherty Fellowship is a prestigious Early Career Fellowship for biomedical science research in Australia, awarded by Australia’s peak body for supporting health and medical research, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

The aim of the four-year fellowship is to enable developing health and medical researchers of outstanding ability to undertake advanced training in health and medical research either in Australia or overseas. For Dr Marques the fellowship will contribute to her research of the molecular genetic components of cardiac hypertrophy, an unhealthy increase in heart size. [Read more...]

The University continues to focus its research in those areas that both serve and benefit our region. The University’s staff is well-grounded in research theory, training and practice and you will be supported throughout your candidature by world-class specialists, as well as our Graduate Centre programs designed specifically to enrich your research experience. [Read more...]

BALLARAT’S Cancer Research Centre yesterday announced its newest research fellow in association with Dorevitch Pathology.

The centre’s director Professor George Kannourakis and Dorevitch CEO Neville Moller named Associate Professor Stuart Berzins to become the inaugural Cancer Research Fellow, a joint position with the University of Ballarat.

Read more: http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/ballarats-cancer-centre-gets-new-research-fellow/2500006.aspx

IN THE early 1990s Australian researchers played a key role in discovering how the Y chromosome contributes to sex determination — now Victorian scientists are showing how this tiny threadlike structure contributes to a major killer in men, heart disease. University of Ballarat medical scientist Fadi Charchar and his team analysed DNA from more than 3000 men in a collaboration with Britain’s University of Leicester. Their results were published recently in The Lancet medical journal.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/does-the-y-chromosome-influence-mens-health-20120326-1vug9.html#ixzz1qNpqxLbu