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Enquiry in Life Science Education: Asking good questions, Finding good answers

1.45pm - 5.30pm, Friday, 1 October 2010
Melbourne Convention Centre

Enquiry-based learning strategies are used to develop core skills in analysis and problem-solving, foster active engagement in learning and to model scientific inquiry. Problem-based learning, case-based learning and similar approaches ask students to investigate real-world problems: identifying the issues, gathering information, developing hypotheses, drawing conclusions. This workshop will explore practical strategies to bring enquiry into molecular and life science courses and to design tasks that specifically develop scientific inquiry skills.

The Enquiry in Life Science Education workshop is a public workshop and includes the preceding education plenary lecture delivered by Professor Harvey Lodish, MIT. Registrants to the OzBio2010 meeting have complimentary registration. Online registration will be available to external participants in mid June, on this site

REGISTRATION FEES

All prices are quoted in Australian dollars ($A) and include GST (Goods and Services Tax).

By 27.08.10: $30 / After 27.08.10: $40 / After 22.09.10/Onsite: $50

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

• 11:30 Registration Opens
• 12:00 Invitrogen Education Award – Presented to Dr Janet Macaulay, Monash University, Australia
• 12:05-12:50 IUBMB Ed Wood lecture Prof Harvey Lodish, MIT, USA The education of undergraduate and graduate students in the biomedical sciences – education for what?
• 12:50-13:45 Lunch break (lunch may be purchased at nearby cafés)
• 13:45-17:30 Enquiry in Life Science Education Workshop:
  Prof. Vicky Minderhout, Seattle University, USA
  Assoc. Prof. Pauline Ross, University of Western Sydney, Australia
  Assoc. Prof. Trevor Anderson, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  Dr Janet Macauley, Monash University, Australia
  Dr Kristine Elliott, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Dr Helen Irving, Monash University, Australia
  Dr Elizabeth Johnson, La Trobe University, Australia

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

For further information please contact:
Assoc. Prof. Trevor Anderson (Anderson@ukzn.ac.za)
Dr Janet Macauley (janet.macaulay@med.monash.edu.au )
Dr Elizabeth Johnson (E.Johnson@latrobe.edu.au )

Super Resolution Microscopy Workshop

1.45pm - 6.00pm, Friday, 1 October 2010
Melbourne Convention Centre

Dear Colleagues

In the last few years, the development of improved optical components has pushed the spatial resolution of optical microscopy techniques into the sub-micron regime. For many years it was assumed that the resolution of light microscopy could not be further improved because conventional light microscopy is limited by the degree to which light can be focussed - effectively to about half of the wavelength of the light used (i.e. about 0.25 micrometres). However, the so-called "diffraction barrier" can be circumvented. New techniques have been developed that use tricks such as interfering light beams, or saturation of the photons that are imaged or photo-activation of fluorescent chromophores, coupled with careful and sophisticated data analysis. Very recent developments have pushed the achievable resolution towards the nanometre scale. These so-called "super-resolution" optical microscopy methods will provide detail that was beyond imagining only a few years ago.

Members of the CXS (ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science; www.coecxs.org/ are putting together a workshop on Super-Resolution Microscopy Techniques. The Workshop will highlight recent developments and applications of super resolution imaging methods. It will be held as a public session within the OzBio2010 meeting.

The Workshop will be held on Friday 1st October 2010, 1.45 pm to 6 pm at the Melbourne Convention Centre (see flyer). We have the following speakers and hope that you will find the workshop informative and stimulating.

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Sam Hess, University of Maine, USA
• Assoc Prof. Cynthia Whitchurch, University of Technology, Sydney
• Assoc. Prof. Kat Gaus, University of New South Wales
• Assoc. Prof. Trevor Smith, University of Melbourne
• Prof. Leann Tilley, La Trobe University
• Prof. Guy Cox, Sydney University

Registration is free but numbers are limited. If you would like to attend this forum, please reply to Fabienne Perani (f.perani@latrobe.edu.au).