LOCATION
RN Robertson Lecture Theatre Research School of Biology
DATE
14th to 16th November 2015
 
     
         
       
   

PROGRAMME

 
     
     
     

Saturday 14th November
Session One (3pm-6:30pm): 8 talks (with 1 coffee break)

2.00PM

2.00PM Registration: RSC Drop in Centre
Building 137 ANU Campus

3.00PM Introduction Dr Brendon Hammer, Aust Govt First Secretary of DFAT

3.10PM Welcome Minister Osamu Izawa (Embassy of Japan)

3.35PM Photograph and Signing
Onstage photograph with Minister Ozawa, First Secretary Hammer, Director of IPR Nakamura, Director of RSC Carver

3.45PM Prof John Carver (Director of the RSC)

4.15PM Prof Haruki Nakamura(Director of the IPR)

4.45PM Coffee

5.00PM Special Student Talk 1: Mr Masayuki Adachi

5.15PM Dr Colin Jackson

5.45PM Prof Atsushi Nakagawa

6.15PM Prof Daron Standley


6.45PM to 7.00PM Transfer to Dinner (15 minutes)


Session Two (7pm-10:00pm): 2 talks over dinner

7.00PM - 10.00PM Dinner event "Vivaldi Restaurant"

8.10PM Prof Yuji Goto

8.45PM Prof Zengyi Chang

10.00PM - Volunteer guided return of speakers to hotel#1
10.30PM - Volunteer guided return of speakers to hotel#2


Sunday 15th November
Session Three (9am-12:00pm): 6 talks (with 1 coffee break)

Early morning poster setup

8:00AM – 9:00AM Poster setup in RSC Student Drop in Center

9.00AM

9.00AM Prof David Ollis

9.30AM Prof Toshimichi Fujiwara

10.00AM Dr Megan O'Mara

10.25AM Coffee

10.35AM AProf Masaru Hoshino

11.00AM Prof Gottfried Otting

11.30AM AProf Miki Shinohara


12.00PM Lunch and Student Poster Display (Setup < 9:00am)

12.15PM APPA Council Meeting

Session Four (1:30pm-6:30pm): 11 talks (with 2 coffee breaks)

1.30PM

1.30PM AProf Akira Kinjo

2.00PM Prof Sankaranarayanan Rajan

2.30PM Prof Stefan Broer

3.00PM Prof Kyou Hoon Han

3.30PM AProf Lemmuel Tayo

3.55PM Special Student Talk 2: Dr Katsuya Araki

4.10PM Coffee

4.25PM AProf Kazumasa Sakurai

4.50PM Prof Yuji Goto

5.20PM Prof Christopher Easton

5.50PM Prof Fumio Arisaka

6.20PM Special Student Talk 3: Mr Kichitaro Nakajima

6.35PM to 7.00PM Transfer to Dinner (25 minutes)


Session Five (7:00pm-11:00pm): 2 talks over dinner

7.00PM Dinner & Beer Tasting event "Wig & Pen"
Llewellyn Hall William Herbert Pl Canberra ACT 2601, Australia‎
+61 2 6248 0171

7.15PM Mr Lachlan McOmish (Owner & Proprietor of Wig & Pen)
'A short history of beer and beer tasting'

7.40PM Professor Cris dos Remedios
Announcement of poster prize winners Category 1-5

8.15PM Prof Juliet Gerrard

8.50PM Prof Alex Law

10.30PM - Volunteer guided return of speakers to hotel#1
11.00PM - Volunteer guided return of speakers to hotel#2

Monday 16th November
Session Six (9:00am-12:00pm): 6 talks (with 1 coffee break)

9.00AM

9.00AM Prof Thomas Huber

9.30AM Prof Hideki Mochizuki

10.00AM AProf Yun Ru Chen

10.25AM Coffee

10.35AM Prof James Ketudat Cairns

11.05AM AProf Masatomo So

11.30AM AProf Marco Cassarotto


12.00PM Lunch and Student Poster Display (Setup 9:00am)

Session Seven (1:30pm-5:00pm): 7 talks (with 1 coffee break)

1.30PM

1.30PM Prof Ray Norton

2.00PM AProf Hirotsugu Ogi

2.30PM Dr Maud Bernoux

3.00PM Coffee

3.10PM Prof Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

3.40PM Associate Professor Eri Chatani

#Early departure for participants to Canberra airport to make 6.00PM flight

4.05PM Dr Damien Hall


Concluding Remarks

4.35PM Joint Chair Comments: Prof Yuji Goto/Prof John Carver

 
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
     


Poster Presentations

Alexandra Schumann-Gillett

Structural characterisation of the “relaxed” E-cadherin strand-swapped dimer

RSC

David Thorn

New Proteins for an Old Problem: Characterisation of γS-Crystallin Variants and their Implications for Cataract Formation

RSC

Elena Sugrue

Loss of an ancestral metal ion coordination site enables xenobiotic hydrolysis

RSC

Hafna Ahmed

Sequence-structure-function classification of a catalytically diverse oxidoreductase superfamily in mycobacteria

RSC

Elmira Bahraminejad

Interspecies comparison of the chaperone ability of milk casein proteins

RSC

Manjeet Kumar

TPE-TPP as an external novel fluorescent probe to detect prefibrillar and fibrillar protein aggregates: a suitable alternative to Thioflavin T.

RSC

Nathaniel Bloomfield

A Novel Data-reduction Method for Aggregation Progress Curves

RSC

Nicholas Fraser

Elucidating the role of Esterase-6 from Drosophila melanogaster in reproduction

RSC

Shu Ann Chan

Directed evolution of b-glucuronidase (b-GUS)

RSC

Vy Cu

Directed Evolution Of The Vitreoscilla Hemoglobin

RSC

Wan-Na Chen

o-tert-Butyltyrosine presents an exceptionally sensitive NMR Tag

RSC

Nicholas Ray

Deamidation of N76 in human γS-crystallin promotes dimer formation

RSC

Dongdi Li

Biosynthesis of omega-3/6-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids

RSC

Charlotte K. Rouse

Self-Assembly of a Metal Receptor via Peptide Structure Modification

RSC

Ran Zhao

Simulation of Turbidity Profiles for Mixed Protein Aggregation

RSC

Nishank Shah

Docking the B0AT: Identification of novel amino acid transport inhibitors

RSB

Brendon Conlan

Improving Rubisco Biogenesis – Improving Crop Yields

RSB

Meng Zhang

Trafficking and Function of the Malaria Protein PIESA2 in Parasite-Infected Human Red Blood Cells

RSB

Nandhitha Subramanian

The binding of morphine and nicardipine to the multidrug transporter P-glycoprotein

RSB

Stephen J. Fairweather

Different Location Same Story: Identification of a Common Binding Site for Membrane-anchored Ancillary Proteins in the SLC6 Family of Neural and Epithelial Transporters.

RSB

Masayuki Adachi

Amorphous vs fibrillar aggregation induced by heat

IPR (JAPAN)

Kichitaro Nakajima

The nucleus factory on bubble for amyloid beta peptide

Graduate School of Engineering and Science Osaka University (JAPAN)

Katsuya Araki

Synchrotron FTIR micro-spectroscopy for structural analysis of Lewy bodies in the brain of Parkinson’s disease patients Poster presentation: Structure analysis of post-translationally modified alpha-synuclein

Graduate School of Medicine. Osaka University. (JAPAN)

Jean Ral

Engineering alpha-amylase 3 (amy3) in wheat fastens starch degradation and improves baking properties

CSIRO

Stella Cesari

Cytosolic activation of cell death and wheat stem rust resistance by self-interacting MLA-related CC-NLR proteins

CSIRO

Trevor D. Rapson

Engineering solid-state metalloproteins

CSIRO

Xiaoxiao Zhang

Structural and functional investigation for plant TIR domain interaction

CSIRO

Soumya Joseph

Self-interaction of the dihydropyridine β1a subunit

JCSMR

Shouvik Aditya

Role of STAC3 in EC coupling

JCSMR