Programme

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  • Wednesday

    27th of November

      Location: Atrium, Level 7, VCCC
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Prof. James Whisstock – Scientific Chair of EMBL Australia
    • Gabriel & Kenji - EAPS19 Convenors

    Sponsored by: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Prof. Christine Wells
    • Stamp collectors and data parasites - how atlas projects have accelerated the life sciences

    Sponsored by: Macrogren Oceania
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • A/Prof Enzo Porrello
    • A neonatal blueprint for cardiac regeneration


    Sponsored by: Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
      Location: Atrium, Level 7, VCCC
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC

    • Riley McMahon
    • A mechanistic insight into building the embryonic head

    • Sam Francis
    • Rapid isolation of mesenchymal stem cells to treat clinically significant cartilage defects in one surgical biofabrication procedure

    • Yi-Cheng Chang
    • Revealing the function of Nr6a1 in axial elongation and body size determination

      Location: Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC

    Sponsored by: Murdoch Children's Research Institute
  • Thursday

    28th of November

      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Dr Kate Lawlor
    • RIPing advice for a career in medical research


    Sponsored by: Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
    • Stephanie Carmen Tran
    • Plag1 expression in adult mouse brain and effect of Plag1 knockout on selected behaviours

    • Elizabeth S. Stout
    • A regulatory mutation in the foetal globin promoter reduces the severity of sickle cell disease via re-activation of foetal haemoglobin

    • Martha Blank
    • EphrinB2 deficiency in osteocytes leads to increased mineralisation and autophagosomes due to a Golgi-mediated lysosomal storage disorder

      Location: Atrium, Level 7, VCCC
    Sponsored by: Abcam
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Dr Irene Gallego Romero
    • 70,000km of human evolutionary genomics


    Sponsored by: Garvan Institute of Medical Research
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Gyan Prakash Mishra
    • Epigenetic control of cDC1 DC responses by nuclear receptor co-repressor NCoR1

    • Ruining Dong
    • SVEnsemble: an algorithm for ensemble structural variant calling using re-evaluated quality scores via probabilistic random forest

    • Yiwen (Eva) Wang
    • PLSDA-batch: A multivariate method to correct for batch effects in microbiome data

      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • 13 talks: A1-4, B1-5, C1-2, D1-2

    Sponsored by: University of Western Australia
      Atrium and Lecture Theatre A & C, Level 7, VCCC
    • Posters in A, B, C and D

    Sponsored by: University of Wollongong
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Dr Talitha Santini
    • Microbes, mining, and mud - exploring natural systems to develop new technologies for environmental management


    Sponsored by: University of Western Australia
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Noor-ul-Huda Ghori
    • Uncovering the microbial interactions: The social life of extremophiles

    • Jody McKerral
    • Synergetic impacts of turbulence and fishing reduce ocean biomass

    • Selene Cannelli
    • Development of an extraction method to isolate novel viral samples from turbid seawater samples

      Location: Grand Hyatt Melbourne

    Sponsored by: Abcam
  • Friday

    29th of November

      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Prof Matt Sweet
    • Innate immunity as a model system for deciphering biological complexity


    Sponsored by: CSL Limited
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Rebecca Buckland
    • A novel method for detecting neutrophil extracellular traps

    • Shilian Xu
    • Saturation of virus neutralisation leads to bistable growth kinetics

    • Yusun Jeon
    • Targeting host factors in infections

      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • ​Prof Ricky Johnstone
    • The ups and downs on the road to scientific independence and leadership


    Sponsored by: South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
      Location: Atrium, Level 7, VCCC
    Sponsored by: Abcam
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Adam Hagg
    • Muscle Fibre denervation and Inhibited Bone Morphogenetic Protein signalling promote cancer associated muscle wasting

    • Ho Yi Wong
    • Laser Epidermal ablation reduces keratinocyte mutation load through sequencing: a clinical trial

    • Brittany Dewdney
    • Hepatocellular carcinoma growth can be reduced with fructose and two novel metabolic inhibitors

      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • ​Dr Damien Bates
    • Transitioning one's career from academia to industry - trials and triumphs


    Sponsored by: BioCurate
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Poster IDs: E1-4, F1-5, G1-4
    Sponsored by: Murdoch Children's Research Institute
      Atrium and Lecture Theatre A & C, Level 7, VCCC
    • Posters in E, F and G
    Sponsored by: University of Wollongong
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • ​Dr Chris Langmead
    • Driving drug discovery from bedside to bench

    Sponsored by: South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Cameron McKnight
    • Using human pluripotent stem cell models of mitochondrial disease to identify candidate drug treatments

    • Ece Egilmezer
    • Human Cytomegalovirus differentially dysregulates dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinases and sonic hedgehog signalling pathway proteins in Astrocytes– A mechanism for virus-induced fetal neural malformation

    • Feby Savira
    • Inhibition of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase for cardiorenal syndrome therapy: a proof-of-concept study

      Location: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, VCCC
    • Gabriel & Kenji - EAPS19 Convenors

    Sponsored by: Garvan Institute of Medical Research