| 2006 HUNTER CELLULAR BIOLOGY MEETING |
Wednesday 22nd March |
2:00 pm- 3:45 pm: |
Symposium 1: Biology of Stem cells and Progenitor Cells
Chair: Carol Wicking
The Hunter Room |
2:00 pm |
Nadia Rosenthal |
IMPROVING REGENERATION OF THE MAMMALIAN HEART |
2:35 pm |
Naoki Nakayama |
Mesoderm development and positional specification by Wnt and BMP during embryonic stem cell differentiation |
3:00 pm |
Brandon Wainwright |
The hedgehog signalling pathway regulation of stem cell niches |
3:25 pm |
Edna Hardeman |
Enrichment of Muscle Stem Cell Transplantation Using Chemotherapeutic Drug Selection: A Paradigm for Enhanced Stem Cell Transplantation in Tissues |
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4:15 pm - 6:45 pm: |
Symposium 2: Membrane and Trafficking
Chair: Phil Robinson
The Hunter Room |
4:15 pm |
Bill Wickner |
Vacuole Membrane Fusion by 5 SNAREs, 4 Regulatory Lipids, 3 GTPases, 2 chaperones, and Actin, all in a Ring |
5:00 pm |
Jennifer Stow |
SNARE-mediated immune efficiency |
5:25 pm |
David James |
Dissection of Insulin Action at the molecular level |
5:50 pm |
Simon Myers |
Mutations in Dynamin 2 (K558E), cause dominant-intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome by blocking receptor mediated endocytosis |
6:10 pm |
Sally Martin |
Regulated localisation of Rab18 to lipid droplets |
6:30 pm |
Carlos Enrich |
Calmodulin and PKC-delta are crucially involved in the regulation of intracellular trafficking at the early endocytic compartment. |
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8:00 pm -10:30 pm: |
Posters and wine |
The Rothbury and Assembly Rooms/Exhibition area |
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Thursday 23rd March |
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8:30 am - 10:30 am: |
Symposium 3:Apoptosis / Programmed Cell Death
Chair: Sharad Kumar
The Hunter Room |
8:30 am |
Shigekazu Nagata |
Clearance of apoptotic cells and nuclei expelled from erythroid precursors |
9:15 am |
David Huang |
Interactions between Bcl-2 family proteins during apoptosis signaling |
9:40 am |
David Vaux |
cIAP1 and cIAP2 in health and disease |
10:05 am |
Sharad Kumar |
CASPASES AND CELL DEATH EXECUTION: LESSONS FROM DROSOPHILA |
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm: |
Symposium 4: Cell Cycle
Chair: Will Hughes
The Hunter Room |
11:00 am |
Brian Gabrielli |
Cyclin A Regulates Mitotic Spindle Orientation |
11:30 am |
Andy Choo |
Structural Properties of the Human Centromere |
12:00 pm |
Megan Fabbro |
Characterisation of novel players involved in regulating cytokinesis |
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: |
Trade Secrets™ |
The Rothbury and Assembly Rooms/
Exhibition area |
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: |
Symposium 5: Organogenesis and Differentiation
Chair: John McAvoy
The Hunter Room |
2:00 pm |
Frank Lovicu |
Sef: A negative regulator of FGF signalling in the lens. |
2:30 pm |
Martin Lackmann |
Mechanisms of Eph-coordinated Cell Communication |
3:00 pm |
Lorine Wilkinson |
Crim1, a new regulator of the VEGF-A pathway? |
3:25 pm |
John McAvoy |
Role of Wnt signalling in lens development |
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3:45 pm - 4:30 pm: |
Posters |
The Rothbury Room/Exhibition area |
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4:30 pm - 5:55 pm: |
Symposium 6: Extracellular Matrix and EMT
Chair: Jennifer Gamble
The Hunter Room |
4:30 pm |
Amanda Fosang |
ADAMTS-5 is the major aggrecanase in mouse articular cartilage |
4:55 pm |
Tony Weiss |
Tissue engineering with synthetic human elastin |
5:20 pm |
David Pennisi |
A gene-trap mutant for Crim1 reveals a role for this protein in cell migration and adhesion |
5:35 pm |
Yeesim Khew-Goodall |
TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE PEZ: A NOVEL REGULATOR OF SNAIL EXPRESSION AND EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION |
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6:00 pm - 6:50 pm: |
 The EMBO Lecture: Nadia Rosenthal – Mechanisms of Mammalian Regeneration
Chair: Patrick Tam
The Hunter Room |
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10:30 pm - ....: |
Posters, Trade & Talk |
the Bar |
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Friday 24th March |
8:30 am - 10:00 am: |
Symposium 7: Cell Basis of Morphogenesis
Chair: Kate Loveland
The Hunter Room |
8:30 am |
Blanche Capel |
The Battle of the Sexes: Cell Signaling in Mammalian Sex Determination |
9:05 am |
Rob Saint |
The cytoskeleton and cell signaling: roles of the Pebble Rho-f |
9:25 am |
Peter Koopman |
What makes germ cells enter meiosis? |
9:45 am |
Peter Gunning |
Tropomyosin regulates the size and composition of actin compartments |
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm: |
Symposium 8: Protein import
Chair: Trevor Biden
The Hunter Room |
10:30 am |
Antony Cooper |
Synuclein toxicity involves inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi trafficking |
10:55 am |
Nick Hoogenraad |
A Cytosolic Complex for Targeting Proteins to Mitochondria |
11:20 am |
Trevor Lithgow |
The evolution of molecular machines to drive protein import into mitochondria |
11:45 am |
David Jans |
REGULATED SWITCHING BETWEEN NUCLEAR IMPORT AND EXPORT OF VIRAL GENE PRODUCTS DURING INFECTION; A THERAPEUTIC TARGET? |
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1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: |
Symposium 9: Intracellular trafficking and organelle fusion
Chair: Paul Gleeson
The Hunter Room |
1:00 pm |
Murray Stewart |
HOW CARGO:CARRIER INTERACTIONS AND IMPORTIN RECYCLING ARE ORCHESTRATED IN NUCLEAR TRANSPORT |
1:45 pm |
Paul Gleeson |
The GRIP domain golgins define subdomains of the TGN |
2:10 pm |
Malcolm McConville |
Living in a macrophage; survival strategies used by Leishmania parasites |
2:35 pm |
Andrew Brown |
New Insights into ER to Golgi Transport: Interplay between Membrane Synthesis and the Akt Signalling Pathway |
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Saturday 25th March |
10:00 am: |
Bus departs for Sydney Domestic Airport + 2 Wine tastings en route |
Meet at Reception - selected boutique wineries en route to the Airport (Collect packed lunch if ordered) |
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