MBS Bulletin

Some science and information news of late…

• Apple on e-textbook and ibooks2:

• Some enhancements to ScienceDirect:

• Innovation in the classroom:

• IBM donates chemical database to PubChem:

• Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online. http://bbc.in/rBVTn1 (Follow the link through to the collection. (http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/) – the quality of the digitisation is amazing!)

And a few resources for your teaching:

http://www.csun.edu/science/index.html (These are resources for high school students and could be useful for ASPIRE work) and http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/conten

Louise Gillis, Research Librarian

Barr Smith Library

The Hickinbotham Roseworthy Wine Science Laboratory announces a New Year Wine Sale, to be held on Wednesday 1 February 2012, starting at 10 am until 3 pm.

More information in this wine sale notice.

Click on this link for the WSL Wine sales order form and price list

Cash or cheque only.

Please if you have got 15 minutes to spare and are aged 18-24yrs could you assist Gemma Sharp (Beard Lab) and complete an online food attitudes survey? (See link below.)

It is hoped that by investigating attitudes towards food, the survey can assist in the prevention of some types of cancer. Feel free to pass this link on to anyone else you think might be interested.  If you have already completed the paper version of this survey, there’s no need to complete the online version.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NH96ZGL

If you would like further information please contact Gemma Sharp.

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Hoffmann on his promotion to Associate Professor (Level D).

Wednesday 15th February 2012,  10:00 to 11:00am

The presentation gives an overview on a new technology for the measurement of biomolecule interactions that is termed Microscale Thermophoresis (MST).  Please see attached flyer.  Microscale Thermophoresis

Seminar Room 5.01, Level 5, Molecular Life Sciences Building

The Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology, currently have two Research Assistant positions available in the Molecular Regulation Laboratory, led by Professor Sharad Kumar.  Please see attached.  RA job ad

The winners of the 2011 Image, Movie and Poster Competitions at the School Research Symposium were;

Open Science 1st prize winner: (Prize $200, sponsored by John Morris) – Erin McCartney

Open Science 2nd prize winner:(Prize Sanyo Micro system, sponsored by VWR International) – James Hughes

Popular Vote Winner:(Prize Sanyo DVD player, sponsored by VWR International) – Rethish Raghu Nadhanan

Movie Winner: (Prize $50 voucher, sponsored by School of Molecular & Biomedical Science) Aaron Casey

1st Prize Poster winner: (Prize $200, sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich Sales) – Saumya Samaraweera

2nd Prize Poster winner: (Prize $200, sponsored by Coherent Scientific) – Zeeshan Shaukat

Thank you to our sponsors, the Judges and to all who took part in this year’s competition.

The Research Symposium Committee

The Adelaide Microarray Centre will be closed from 23-27 December. In 2012 the centre will integrate with the new ACRF SA Cancer Genome Facility and both Affymetrix and Illumina microarray services will be offered. We have recently introduced a new lower cost Affymetrix Human (PrimeView) 3’ expression array service @ $350 per sample. Custom array manufacturing has now been discontinued.

Ion Torrent and Roche Junior next generation sequencers have been installed and sequencing services are now available on these machines. An Illumina Hiseq sequencer will be installed in early 2012.

Mark Van der Hoek

Manager, Adelaide Microarray Centre

Manager (acting), ACRF SA Cancer Genome Facility

Dr. Georget Reaiche and Dr. Darren Miller would like to announce their marriage which took place on Sunday 27th of November at the Old Noarlunga Uniting Church followed by an intimate reception with close family and friends at Serafino McLaren Vale.

The School of Agriculture, Food and Wine is seeking expressions of interest for casual teaching in 2012. The School teaches into a wide variety of courses and requires casuals to aid our academics with practical demonstration and tutorials. They are looking for individuals that have some expertise and background knowledge in areas such as chemistry, biology, genetics, viticulture/agriculture, agronomy and/or microbiology.

If you are interested then please send a CV to the Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching) Dr Amanda Able at amanda.able@adelaide.edu.au. Your application/CV should outline why you would like some casual teaching experience, your educational background, any teaching experience you may have already had, areas you would feel most comfortable tutoring or demonstrating in and how many hours per week you are able to act as a casual. If you are an international student, details of visa requirements and IETLS/TOEFL should also be included. The School will maintain all applications on a casual teaching register.