Location:
Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room, Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, UNSW Sydney.
Cost
Free
A catered lunch will be provided at 12:30pm. Please RSVP to rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au by COB Friday 28th April.
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Senior Lecturer, Medicine, University of New South Wales |
About your speaker
Dr Darren Saunders is a medical researcher, science communicator and Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of NSW in Sydney.
Dr Saunders has a BSc(hons) and PhD from the University of Wollongong and undertook post-doctoral training at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.He received an Australian Leadership Award and NSW Life Scientist Research Award, and has held fellowships from the US Dept. of Defenseand Cancer Institute NSW.
Darren’s research is focused on proteostasis and metabolic reprogramming in cancer and neurodegeneration. His work integrates various platforms to better understand genotype-phenotype relationships including proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics, and he has developed novel platforms for exploring interactome diversity in cell signaling.
Darren is a regular science contributor on television and radio, and writes for ABC Online, The Conversation, New Scientist and others. Darren is the Secretary of Science and Technology Australia, and was a founding member and deputy chair of the Australian Academy of Science Early-Mid Career Researcher Forum.