Healthy from the inside out Getting healthier with Dr Katherine Livingstone & A/Prof David Scott. Katherine’s research is focussed on dietary patterns, cardiometabolic health and nutrition. She also looks into people’s eating behaviours and habits. David focuses on age-related changes in skeletal muscle quality and obesity. He explores their effect on risk for falls, fracture and disability in older adults, and ways to...
Beyond the Lab with IMNIS Catalyst Beyond the Lab is a webinar series for students in years 8 to 12 around Australia in which IMNIS Catalysts will share their non-traditional STEM Career Journeys. Join IMNIS Catalysts Mohammad Zaidur Rahman Sabuj and Alejandra Fernandez as they discuss their career journeys and their life Beyond The Lab. Mohammad Zaidur Rahman Sabuj is developing nanoparticles that...
How to change your brain Using worm brains to understand our own with Dr Yee Lian Chew. Yee Lian explores how learning and gaining new memories can change chemical signals between brain cells. She uses worm brains to understand these chemical changes, hoping that we can translate it to the much bigger human brain. This may change the way we manage and...
Keep those muscles in shape Using muscle retention therapies with Dr Kate Murphy. Kate is investigating conditions and causes of muscle wasting such as cancer, ageing, injury and muscular diseases like muscular dystrophy. She aims to identify and test new therapies that will improve the life of affected patients. Join us to hear about Kate’s journey to become a researcher who looks at...
Beyond the Lab with IMNIS Catalyst Beyond the Lab is a webinar series for students in years 8 to 12 around Australia in which IMNIS Catalysts will share their non-traditional STEM Career Journeys. Join IMNIS Catalysts Dr Marisa Duong and Adam Johnston as they discuss their career journeys and their life Beyond the Lab Marisa has an unceasing love for learning – she...
How do you sniff out the answers in the worst of times? Understand how Dr Maiken Ueland uses scent to find and rescue victims of mass disasters. Maiken is currently working on creating better methods to find victims of mass disasters like floods, fires, explosions and earthquakes. This research is more necessary than ever, as these events increasing worldwide due to...
Beyond the Lab with IMNIS Catalyst Beyond the Lab is a webinar series for students in years 8 to 12 around Australia in which IMNIS Catalysts will share their non-traditional STEM Career Journeys. Join IMNIS Catalysts Francios Olivier and Ngozi Chidi-Egboka as they discuss their career journeys and their life Beyond The Lab. Francios is a life sciences researcher specialising in medical mycology,...
Good Information or Bad? Find out how Dr Dana McKay is helping you avoid getting bad information. Dana studies how people find, use, manage, and abuse information. She wants to make good, useful information easier to find, while helping people avoid misinformation. She also wants to help people to make choices about their own information. Dana is currently working on...
Nurturing happy & healthy oceans Dr Steph Gardner & Dr Alice Jones’s explorations in marine biology and ecology Environmental changes are affecting our marine and coastal systems. Steph’s research investigates how microbes, like bacteria, influence health and function of reef organisms like corals, fish and algae. Alice studies the human impacts on coastal habitats and nature-based solutions to climate change, her research focusses on ‘blue carbon’, which is...
The science behind the students Data science to improve teaching and learning with Dr Vitomir Kovanović How does a scientist help a teacher teach their students better? Vitomir has developed a way to use data science and machine learning to improve teaching and learning in Australian schools. His research has focused on developing systems that use student-generated data and learning management systems to provide important insights for student learning. Thus, improving student success and wellbeing. Join us to...
