Programme
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Wednesday
28th of November
- Location: Auditorium entrance
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Location: Auditorium
- Jasmina Markulić – EAPS 2018 Chair
- Prof. Josephine Forbes – Professorial Research Fellow & Program Leader of the Chronic Disease Biology and Care Research, Mater Research, Brisbane AUS
Sponsored by: Translational Research Institute
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Location: Auditorium
- A/Prof. Cedric Bardy - Senior Research Fellow & Group Leader of the Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, Adelaide AUS
Sponsored by: South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Location: Auditorium
- Henriette Dohnt – QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
- Sherouk Fouda – RMIT University
- Lawrence Liew – Ear Science Institute Australia, University of Western Australia
- The growing gap in education: Using quantile regression to identify genetic and environmental sources
- Does cigarette smoking exacerbate high-fat induced hepatosteatosis to NASH in C57BL/6J mice
- Tympanic membrane derived stem cell-like culture for tissue regeneration
- Location: Auditorium
- A/Prof. Tracy Ainsworth – Scientia Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney AUS
- A/Prof. Cedric Bardy – Senior Research Fellow & Group Leader of the Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, Adelaide AUS
- Dr. Lynn Fink – Director of Research, BGI Australia, Brisbane AUS
- Prof. Josephine Forbes – Professorial Research Fellow & Program Leader of the Chronic Disease Biology and Care Research, Mater Research, Brisbane AUS
- Prof. Ian Frazer – Chair of the TRI Foundation Board & Program Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane AUS
- A/Prof. Lutz Krause - Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane AUS
Sponsored by: Charles Sturt University
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Location: Atrium
Sponsored by: CSL Limited
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Thursday
29th of November
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Location: Auditorium
- Dr. Glenn Begley - Chief Executive Officer of BioCurate Pty Ltd, Melbourne AUS
Sponsored by: Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
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Location: Auditorium
- Stefan Bader – Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, La Trobe University - Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University - ARC Centre for Excellence in Bio-Nano Science
- Denise Heckmann – The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- Ming-Jie Luo – The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- Anti-metastasis therapy via nanoparticle mediated drug delivery
- Combining forces to treat cancer: how inhibiting the MAPK p38 increases cell death in Smac mimetic-treated leukemic cells
- Advancing BH3 mimetics for treating non-hematological cancers
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Location: Atrium
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Location: Auditorium
- Session 1
Sponsored by: Australian National University – Research School of Biology
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Location: Auditorium
- Priscila Lima – The University of Queensland
- Belal Shohayeb – The University of Queensland
- Sunyuan Zhang – The University of Melbourne
- Addressing Unmet Therapeutic Needs in Oncology: Perineural Disease
- The microcephaly gene wd40-repeat protein 62 (wdr62) has a role in cilia regulation in embryonic mice brains
- The ataxin-1 interactome reveals direct connection with multiple disrupted nuclear transport pathways
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Location: Auditorium
- Prof. Ian Frazer – Chair of the TRI Foundation Board & Program Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane AUS
Sponsored by: QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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Location: Room 2003 + 2004
- Poster Session A
Sponsored by: Macrogen
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Location: Auditorium
- Dr. Kim-Anh Lê Cao - NMHRC Career Development Fellow & Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne AUS
Sponsored by: Charles Sturt University
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Location: Auditorium
- Jose Alquicira – Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- Cristina Fortuno – QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
- Jamila Iqbal – Griffith University
- scPred: Single cell type prediction using singular value decomposition and machine learning method
- A quantitative model to predict pathogenicity of p53 missense variants
- Cytological Profiling with Human Olfactory Neurosphere-derived cells
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Location: Rydges Hotel
Sponsored by: Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
Friday
30th of November
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Location: Auditorium
- A/Prof. Tracy Ainsworth - Scientia Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney AUS
Sponsored by: University of Sydney – Faculty of Science
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Location: Auditorium
- Melissa Pappas – University of New South Wales
- Caitlin Romanis – University of Newcastle
- Timothy Stephens – The University of Queensland
- The stability of the giant clam holobiont over time and during bleaching stress
- Annual variation in bloom-forming Microcystis genotypes from an Australian wastewater lagoon
- Understanding cold adaptation and evolutionary transition to symbiosis in dinoflagellates using genomics approaches
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Location: Atrium
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Location: Auditorium
- A/Prof. Natalie Sims - Deputy Director & Head of the Bone Cell Biology & Disease Unit, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne AUS
Sponsored by: St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research
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Location: Auditorium
- Mischa Lundberg – Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland
- Gayathri Thillaiyampalam – The University of Queensland
- Sofiya Tsimbalyuk – Charles Sturt University
- Detecting transposable element insertions from whole genome and targeted sequencing data
- Developing a systems-based analysis of miRNA target networks
- Structural basis for importin alpha 3 specificity of W proteins in Hendra and Nipah viruses
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Location: Auditorium
- Session 2
Sponsored by: Abcam
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Location: Room 2003 + 2004
- Poster Session B
Sponsored by: Illumina
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Location: Auditorium
- Prof. Jenny Martin - Director & Principal Research Leader at the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Brisbane AUS
Sponsored by: University of Wollongong, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
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Location: Auditorium
- Amlan Chakraborty – Monash University
- Minnie Jacob – King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, James Cook University
- Harrison Madge – The University of Queensland
- Effect of a Small Natural Dietary Compound on Lung Pathology in Acute Airway Inflammation
- Quantitative Biomarker profiling in DOCK8 deficiency and atopic dermatitis patients
- Cyclic Multicomponent Lipopetide Vaccine Candidates Against Group A Streptococcus (GAS)
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Location: Auditorium
- Jasmina Markulić - EAPS 2018 Chair
Sponsored by: Translational Research Institute