Program
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| Sunday 5th February, 2012 | ||
| 2:00PM | Registration | |
| 3:45 PM | Welcome Address | |
| Michael Parker, President of the Organising Committee | ||
| 4:00 PM | Session One: Folding One Proudly sponsored by Australian Society for Biochemistry Chairpersons: Jacqui Matthews and Paul Curmi |
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| 30 mins | David Eisenberg | Atomic Structures of a Toxic Amyloid Small Oligomer and Amyloid Fibers |
| 20 mins | Andrew Hill | High resolution structural analysis of exosomes using cryo-electron tomography reveals distinct features correlating with prion infectivity |
| 30 mins | Lila Gierasch | Moving the protein folding problem from the test tube to the cell |
| 30 mins | Jane Clarke | Using single molecule techniques to investigate rare misfolding events in multidomain proteins |
| 6:15 PM | Welcome BBQ The conference acknowledges the sponsorship of ANSTO |
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| 8:00 PM | Session Two: Leach Lecture Chairperson: Michael Parker |
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| 50 mins | Speaker to be announced | |
| 9:00 PM |
Trade Display / Mixer |
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| Monday 6th February, 2012 | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Barista-style coffee served in the foyer Proudly sponsored by Life Research |
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| 8:30 AM | Session Three: Solutions for challenging protein solutions Proudly sponsored by Agilent Technologies Chairpersons: Ray Norton and David Gell |
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| 30 mins | Ad Bax | Proteins and their interaction with lipids, as viewed by modern NMR |
| 15 mins | Yanling Lu | Structural flexibility of human cardiac myosin binding protein c facilitates its switch between myosin and actin |
| 20 mins | Gottfried Otting | Lanthanides as a tool in structural biology by NMR and EPR |
| 30 mins | Charles Sanders | Relationship of the 3D Structure of the Transmembrane Amyloid Precursor Protein to Alzheimer's Disease |
| 10:30 AM | Tea / Coffee Break Proudly sponsored by Agilent Technologies |
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| 11:00 AM | Session Four: Peptides! Proudly sponsored by Life Research Chairpersons: Phil Thompson and Jackie Wilce |
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| 30 mins | Samuel Gellman | Extrapolating from proteins |
| 20 mins | Mark Hulett | Nicotiana alata defensin 1 induces tumour cell lysis by forming a novel phospholipid recognition complex |
| 20 mins | Paul Alewood | Folding cysteine-rich miniproteins |
| 20 mins | David Fairlie | Downsizing a Protein Hormone for Modulating Disease |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch Proudly sponsored by Life Research |
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| 1:30 PM | Bio-Rad Laboratories Lunchtime Workshop: Lawreen Asuncion - New Technologies in Bio-Rad’s V3 Western Workflow bring Speed and Confidence to Western Blotting |
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| 4:00 PM | Session Five: Poster Session A The conference acknowledges the sponsorship of Australian Synchrotron |
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| 6:00 PM | Dinner (Own arrangements) | |
| 7:45 PM | Session Six: Hot Topics! Proudly sponsored by the Australian Synchrotron Chairpersons: Sheena McGowan and Juliet Gerrard |
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| 15 mins | Oliver Rackham | A universal code for protein-RNA recognition |
| 10 mins | Julian Vivian | Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 3DL1-mediated recognition of human leukocyte antigen B |
| 10 mins | Shaun Lott | The structure of a secreted insecticidal toxin complex containing chitinases |
| 10 mins | Catherine Latham | The COPII coat requires Sec13 to form vesicles from an asymmetrical ER membrane |
| 9:00 PM |
Session Seven: Poster Session B including Happy Hour & Trade Display |
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| Tuesday 7th February, 2012 | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Barista-style coffee served in the foyer Proudly sponsored by Life Research |
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| 7:15 AM | ATA Scientific Breakfast Workshop: Niko Granqvist - Multi-Parametric Surface Plasmon Resonance - The new generation of SPR |
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| 8:30 AM | Session Eight: Phosphorylation Proudly sponsored by GE Healthcare Chairperson: Tony Tiganis and Rick Pearson |
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| 30 mins | Nick Tonks | Protein tyrosine phosphatases: specific regulators of signal transduction |
| 20 mins | Nicole Verrills | Targeting a tumour suppressor, protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) for leukemia therapy |
| 30 mins | Anton Bennett | SHP-2 Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Functions as an Essential Nutrient-Sensor of mTOR/S6 Kinase 1 Signaling |
| 30 mins | Shirish Shenolikar | Targeting Protein Synthesis to Promote Cell Survival : Implications for Insulin Synthesis and Diabetes |
| 10:30 AM | Tea / Coffee Break Proudly sponsored by Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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| 11:00 AM | Session Nine: Tracks and Motors Proudly sponsored by Perkin Elmer Chairpersons: Mike Ryan and Bob Graham |
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| 30 mins | Anne Houdusse | How myosin motors powers cellular functions : new insights from coupling structural and functional insights |
| 15 mins | Paul Curmi | The tumbleweed: towards a synthetic protein motor |
| 20 mins | Jake Baum | Structural basis for actin filament disassembly in the malaria parasite |
| 30 mins | Andrew Carter | Structure of the dynein motor domain |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch Proudly sponsored by the Australian Synchrotron |
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| 1:00 PM | Student Lunch (ticketed event) The conference acknowledges the sponsorship of the Australian Synchrotron |
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| 2:00 PM | Twenty20 Cricket Match - Trade vs Delegates |
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| 4:00 PM | Session 10: Poster Session C The conference acknowledges the sponsorship of Australian Synchrotron |
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| 6:00 PM | Young Investigator Mixer (Ticketed Function) Proudly sponsored by The Aviv Family Foundation |
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| 6:00 PM | Dinner (Own Arrangements) | |
| 7:45 PM | Session 11: Young Investigators Award Session Proudly sponsored by Shimadzu Scientific Chairpersons: Lawrence Lee and Erinna Lee |
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| 15 mins | Awardee to be announced | |
| 15 mins | Awardee to be announced | |
| 15 mins | Awardee to be announced | |
| 15 mins | Awardee to be announced | |
| 9:00 PM | Session Twelve: Poster Session D including Happy Hour & Trade Display Proudly sponsored by Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative |
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| Wednesday 8th February, 2012 | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Barista-style coffee served in the foyer Proudly sponsored by Life Research |
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| 8:30 AM | Session Thirteen: Emerging Technologies Proudly sponsored by Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Chairpersons: James Whisstock and Daniel Christ |
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| 30 mins | Stephen Pak | A High-Content Screen For Compounds That Enhance Clearance Of Misfolded Proteins Using C. elegans |
| 20 mins | Bostjan Kobe | TLR adaptor protein MAL-function and structure |
| 15 mins | Roger Daly | Identification of tyrosine kinase signalling networks in human cancer through mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomic profiling |
| 30 mins | Carol Robinson | The role of lipid and drug binding on the structure of intact membrane protein complexes C. V. Robinson |
| 10:30 AM | Tea / Coffee Break Proudly sponsored by Life Research |
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| 11:00 AM | Session Fourteen: Pathogenesis Proudly sponsored by the Australian Synchrotron Chairpersons: Heidi Drummer and Peter Lewis |
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| 30 mins | Mike Summers (US Protein Society Speaker) |
New insights into the mechanism of HIV-1 genome packaging and assembly |
| 15 mins | Anna Roujeinikova | Helicobacter pylori flagellar motor: structural insight into the mechanism of stator assembly and activation |
| 15 mins | Michael Johnson | Structure-based development of papain-like protease inhibitors as SARS antiviral therapeutics |
| 30 mins | Rick Lewis | The missing link in bacterial cell wall biosynthesis revealed by X-ray crystallography? |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch Proudly sponsored by AgilentTechnologies |
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| 1:30 PM | Australian Synchrotron Users Group Workshop Chair: Matthew Wilce Tom Caradoc-Davies, Nigel Kirby, Katy Woods - Structural biology at the Australian Synchrotron |
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| 60 mins | Tom Caradoc-Davies | Structural Biology at the Australian Synchrotron |
| 4:00 PM | Session Fifteen: Folding Too Proudly sponsored by Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Chairpersons: Andrew Aquilina and Danny Hatters |
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| 30 mins | Sophie Jackson | Untangling the structure, function and folding of knotted proteins |
| 15 mins | John Carver | Amyloid fibrils and molecular chaperones |
| 15 mins | Young Investigator Award speaker to be announced | |
| 30 mins | Sheena Radford |
Molecular insights into protein-protein interactions in amyloid formation |
| 6:15 PM | Poster Prize Presentations Proudly sponsored by the Australian Synchrotron |
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| 7:30 PM | Conference Dinner Proudly sponsored by Perkin Elmer |
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| 9:30 PM | Conference Social Proudly sponsored by ANSTO |
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| Thursday 9th February, 2012 | ||
| 9:00 AM | Bus Departures (9:00 AM sharp) | |
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