Public seminars
Day Seminars
Lifestyle and Disease
25 March 2020, 10am to 11.30am
Lifestyle related diseases – diabetes, obesity and metabolic diseases are often associated with genetic and lifestyle factors. The onset of these diseases is insidious and once developed do not lend themselves to a cure. Our aim is to understand why these diseases occur and how we can better treat and hopefully prevent them. Join us for a motivational and practical session.
Cancer
24 June 2020, 10am to 11.30am
Cancer is a genetic disease and affects almost every Australian, directly or indirectly. We’re developing better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent cancers both rare and more common cancers like breast, prostate, pancreatic, brain, sarcoma and more. We also run extensive clinical trials programs Join us to hear the latest in cancer research.
Night Seminars
Where we came from
29 April 2020, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Each of us has around 6 billion letters in our genome (our entire genetic instruction manual). Our researchers seek to understand how evolution has influenced our genes and health
Get into your genes
22 July 2020, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Each of us has around 6 billion letters in our genome (our entire genetic instruction manual). At Garvan, we read an individual’s DNA sequence – the order of the As, Cs, Gs and Ts along our genome – to find variants in our DNA that could mean the difference between health and disease.
Location
All seminars take place in the auditorium at Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street (enter via Burton Street), Darlinghurst, NSW 2010.
