This one-day symposium will bring together international and national experts to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the field of nutrition and genetics that determine the quality of growth and development from conception and throughout early life.

The Preventative Health Flagship is working to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians through research into prevention and early detection of common chronic diseases.

Australians who are serious about losing weight are being asked to help CSIRO develop a web-based diet management program.

CSIRO has signed a global licensing agreement for its patented RAFT technology. Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer (or RAFT) technology is an elegant and powerful polymerisation process that has given rise to a new branch of polymer chemistry.

This Symposium is a satellite meeting of OzBio 2010 and is sponsored by CSIRO, Bruker, Life Technologies and the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

This four-day workshop will cover a range of topics to enable successful production of proteins.

Through the Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO invests significantly in using information and communication technologies to improve healthcare and clinical treatment for all Australians.

CSIRO's Diagnosis, Surveillance and Response Group provides a comprehensive diagnostic service for emergency animal diseases, routine quarantine testing, technical advice, education and training.

Computational fluid dynamics is a key tool for optimising performance, developing new processes, and improving the design and operation of equipment.

Our Molecular and Cell Biology capability employs expertise in antibody engineering, the molecular and cellular biology of biomaterials, matrix biology, protein and scaffold display technology, growth factor receptor biology and molecular evolution.

A video showing an interview of the Kolling Institute's Kerrie MacDonald, as she speaks about how the Kolling Institute and CSIRO have discovered genes that differentiate between different types of brain tumours. (0:49)

A CSIRO team - led by Dr Linfa Wang - has played a key role in uncovering a new reovirus that can cause a respiratory tract illness in humans. In this video, Dr Wang explains the significance of the discovery to CSIRO Communication Advisor, Ms Emma Wilkins. (6:00)

The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) is the largest national research facility applying information and communication technologies (ICT) to improving health services and clinical treatment for all Australians.

Dr Wang is the architect and main developer of HCA-Vision, CSIRO's automated image analysis software package that rapidly and reproducibly measures functional features of neuronal cells in two-dimensional (2D) images.

A one-page information sheet for a workshop that will cover a range of topics to enable successful production of proteins.

Download the registration form for the 11th Annual Protein Expression Workshop, held on 27-30 July 2010 at CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia. (1 page).

An overview of CSIRO's Structure based drug design research including services, expertise, collaboration and facilities. (1 page)

CSIRO can provide assistance with optimisation, scale-up, production and purification of recombinant proteins in large quantities: from hundreds of milligrams to kilograms. (2 pages)