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

SPECIAL ATTENDEES

 
     
     
     

Japanese Government
Mr. Osamu Izawa: Minister of Japanese Government, Embassy of Japan.
Mr. Yoshihide Miwa: First Secretary, Embassy of Japan.

Australian Government
Dr Brendon Hammer: First Assistant Secretary, Americas Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

University of Sydney, Department of Medicine
Prof. Cris dos Remedios

 
      ATTENDEES    
     

RSC Australian National University
Prof. John Carver
Prof. Gottfried Otting
Prof. Thomas Huber
Prof. David Ollis
Prof. Chris Easton
Dr. Colin Jackson
Dr. Megan O’Mara
Dr. Damien Hall

RSB Australian National University
Prof. Stefan Broer
Prof. Kiaran Kirk
JCSMR Australian National University
Prof. David Tremethick
Prof. Marco Casarotto

CSIRO
Dr. Maud Bernoux
Dr. Peter Dodds

Osaka University Institute for Protein Research
Prof. Atsushi Nakagawa
Prof. Toshimichi Fujiwara
Assoc. Prof. Miki Shinohara
Prof. Haruki Nakamura
Prof. Yuji Goto
Assoc. Prof. Akira Kinjo
Assist. Prof. Masatomo So

Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering Science
Assoc. Prof. Hirotsugu Ogi

Osaka University Medical School
Prof. Hideki Mochizuki

Osaka University IFREC / Kyoto University Institute of Virology
Prof. Daron Standley

Kyoto University Pharmacy School
Assoc. Prof. Masaru Hoshino

Nihon University
Prof. Fumio Arisaka

Kindai University
Assoc. Prof. Kazumasa Sakurai

Kobe University
Assoc. Prof. Eri Chatani

 
      SPEAKERS    
      DR
KATSUYA ARAKI
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Synchrotron FTIR micro-spectroscopy for structural analysis of Lewy bodies in the brain of Parkinson’s disease patients

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      MR
MASAYUKI ADACHI
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Amorphous vs Amyloid Aggregation with the Effect of Heating

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
FUMIO ARISAKA
   
      INSTITUTION
Nihon University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Gene Products that drive the formation of the baseplate of bacteriophage T4

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      DR
MAUD BERNOUX
   
      INSTITUTION
CSIRO
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Plant immune receptors function

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
STEFAN BROER
   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Membrane complexes in the brush-border membrane and their role in protein nutrition

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
JOHN CARVER
   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
The prevention of protein unfolding and aggregation via molecular chaperone action

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MARCO CASAROTTO
 
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Decrypting the Excitation Contraction coupling machinery in skeletal muscle

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
ZENGYI CHANG
   
      INSTITUTION
Peking University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Protein Research in China

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ERI CHATANI
   
      INSTITUTION
Kobe University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Exploring the early stages of protein association in the formation of amyloid fibrils

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
YUN-RU CHEN
   
      INSTITUTION
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Full-length TDP-43 Forms Toxic Amyloid Oligomers in Frontotemporal Lobar Dementia-TDP Patients and Disturbs Amyloid-β Fibrillization

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
CHRIS EASTON
   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Enzymatic production of fertilizers and transport fuels

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
TOSHIMICHI FUJIWARA

   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Solid-state NMR study of proteins and the signal enhancement by DNP using unpaired electron spins

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
JULIET GERRARD

   
      INSTITUTION
University of Auckland
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Protein Science in New Zealand

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
YUGI GOTO
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Supersaturation-Limited Phase Transitions of Proteins

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      DR
BRENDON HAMMER
   
      INSTITUTION
DFAT
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Introduction to IPR Conference

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      DR
DAMIEN HALL
   
      INSTITUTION
Australian National University
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Amyloidosis from a Physical Biochemistry Perspective

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
KYOU-HOON HAN
   
      INSTITUTION
University of Science & Technology, Korea
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
The pre-structured motifs (PreSMos) as the active sites in intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MASARU HOSHINO
   
      INSTITUTION
Kyoto University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
The interaction between transcription factors Sp1 and TAF4 via the intrinsically disordered regions

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
THOMAS HUBER

   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Computational protein design: On the cusp between futility and necessity?
 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      MINISTER
OSAMU IZAWA

   
      INSTITUTION
Embassy of Japan (Australia)
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Welcome Address
 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      DR
COLIN JACKSON

   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Engineering new proteins to degrade nerve agents
 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
JAMES KETUDAT CAIRNS
   
      INSTITUTION
Suranaree University of Technology
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
A bacterial beta-glucosidase serves as a model for human genetic disease

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
AKIRA KINJO
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
A unified statistical model of protein multiple-sequence alignment integrating direct coupling and insertions

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
ALEX LAW
   
      INSTITUTION
Nanyang Technological University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Regulation of protein function by structural

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
HIDEKI MOCHIZUKI
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Parkinson’s disease and α-synuclein

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
ATSUSHI NAKAGAWA
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Crystallography using Synchrotron Radiation

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      MR
KICHITARO NAKAJIMA
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
The nucleus factory on bubble for amyloid beta peptide

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
HARUKI NAKAMURA
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Computational Analysis on Electrostatic Properties of Protein and Protein-Protein Interaction

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
RAY NORTON
   
      INSTITUTION
Monash University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Structural Basis for Antibody Recognition of an Intrinsically Disordered Antigen

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
HIROTSUGU OGI
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Ultrafast propagation of A(beta) fibrils in oligomeric cloud studied by TIRFM-QCM

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
DAVID OLLIS
   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Evolving Proteins: Bio-inspired Chemistry

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      DR
MEGAN O'MARA
   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Understanding multidrug transporter function: the delicate balance between substrate specificity and transporter promiscuity.

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
GOTTFRIED OTTING
   
      INSTITUTION
The Australian National University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Magnetising Proteins for NMR and EPR Spectroscopy

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
     
PROFESSOR
RAJA NOOR ZALIHA RAJA ABD. RAHMAN
   
      INSTITUTION
Universiti Putra Malaysia
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Molecular and Structural Biology of New Lipases and Proteases

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
KAZUMASA SAKURAI
   
      INSTITUTION
Kindai University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Insights into the pressure-induced conformational change of β2-microglobulin and its pathogenic variants

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MIKI SHINOHARA
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
The MRX/N complex ensures DSB repair fidelity through multiple pathways including Xrs2-FHA–dependent Tel1/ATM activation

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MASATOMO SO
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Competing pathway of solubility-limited formation of protein aggregates

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
SANKARANARAYANAN RAJAN
 
      INSTITUTION
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
Chiral Proofreading During Translation of the Genetic Code

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      PROFESSOR
DARON STANDLEY
   
      INSTITUTION
Osaka University
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
A 3D view of B cell repertoires

 
      BIOGRAPHY  
      ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
LEMUEL TAYO
   
      INSTITUTION
Mapua Institute of Technology
 
      SEMINAR TITLE
TBA

 
      BIOGRAPHY