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Scientific Program outline, The 10th Anniversary Hunter Meeting
All scientific sessions are held in the James Busby Room (end of the main bar and breakfast wing)
Exhibition and Poster displays are in the combined Hunter/Rothbury Room at the Conference Centre
All teas and Wednesday and Thursday lunches are held with the Exhibitors and Posters in the
combined Hunter/Rothbury Room at the Conference Centre
TUESDAY
12 NOON- 6:30 - 3rd IMAGING WORKSHOP
Click here for Workshop Program |
chairs: Will Hughes and Sally Dunwoodie |
Session 1: "Big"
Session 2: "Little"
Session 3: "Tiny" |
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TUESDAY
8:05 PM - 9:05 PM: Keith Stanley Lecture |
chair: Phil Robinson |
| 8:05 PM |
Sandy Schmid |
Dynamin-catalyzed Membrane Fission |
| 9:05 PM - 10:05 PM: Posters A and Exhibition |
The Conference Centre |
WEDNESDAY
8:30 AM - 10:20 AM: Biology/pathology of the vascular system |
chair: Peter Currie |
| 8:30 AM |
Martin Schwartz |
Mechanical forces and mechanotransduction in vascular biology |
| 9:00 AM |
Richard Harvey |
Adult Cardiac Stem Cells and the Pericyte Continuum |
| 9:30 AM |
Ben Hogan |
Dissecting the molecular and cellular regulation of lymphatic vascular development using the zebrafish |
| 10:00am |
Madhavi Maddugoda |
Membrane dynamics during transendothelial permeability |
| 11:00 AM - 12:50 PM: Protein transport in health and disease |
chair: Sharad Kumar |
| 11:00 AM |
Bill Balch |
Managing Folding Disease through Proteostasis |
| 11:30 AM |
John Bateman |
Endoplasmic reticulum stress: A new player in the pathophysiology of skeletal dysplasia |
| 12:00 PM |
Peter Thorn |
Real-time single vesicle analysis of secretion |
| 12:30 PM |
Antony Cooper |
Alpha-Synuclein's role in Parkinson's Disease- defects in both anterograde trafficking and endocytosis |
| 2:30 PM - 3: 50 PM: Quantitative biology |
chair: Alpha Yap |
2:30 PM  |
Ed Munro
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Sequential activation of apical and basolateral contractility drives ascidian endoderm invagination. |
| 3:00 PM |
Geoff Goodhill |
Axonal chemotaxis |
| 3:30 PM |
Katerina Gaus |
Membrane organization and early T cell signaling events |
| 4:20 PM - 5:40 PM: Cell division and polarity |
chair: Helena Richardson |
| 4:20 PM |
Cayetano Gonzalez |
Neural Stem Cell Polarity and Malignant Growth in Drosophila |
| 4:50 PM |
Kum Kum Khanna |
Centrobin contributes to the maintenance of centrosomal and spindle integrity |
| 5:20 PM |
Patrick Humbert |
The Scribble/Dlg/Lgl Polarity Module in the Control of Mammalian Development and Cancer |
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM: Main Program Workshop
5:45 PM |
Olympus:
Prof Keith Jones |
The Anaphase-Promoting Complex does more than Anaphase in Female Meiosis |
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6:15 PM |
Roche Diagnostics:
Prof Terry Johns |
The plasticity of oncogene addiction: Implications for targeted therapies directed to receptor tyrosine kinases
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THURSDAY
8:30 AM - 10:20 AM: Signaling and cancer |
chair: Will Hughes |
| 8:30 AM |
Margaret Frame |
Targeting invasion and metastasis |
| 9:00 AM |
Mathias Ernst |
Linking inflammation to gastrointestinal cancers - a novel role for STAT3 |
| 9:30 AM |
Sharad Kumar |
Caspase-dependent and independent modes of programmed cell death in development |
| 10:00AM |
Terry Kwok-Schuelein |
Integrin signalling targeted by the carcinogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Building tissues, preserving tissues |
chair: Peter Gunning |
| 11:00 AM |
Mark Peifer |
Building the Body Plan: the Miracle of Morphogenesis |
| 11:30 AM |
Patrick Tam |
WNT signalling in lineage differentation and morphogenesis |
| 12:00 PM |
Helena Richardson |
Cell proliferation, survival and tumour suppression by the polarity regulators, Lgl, aPKC and Crb |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Cell origin, cell fate |
chair: Anne Voss |
| 3:30 PM |
Kat Hadjantonakis |
Imaging the cell dynamics directing the morphogenesis of the early mouse embryo |
| 4:00 PM |
Pritinder Kaur |
Quiescent stem cells of the human skin |
| 4:30 PM |
Dagmar Wilhelm |
The role of non-coding RNAs in mouse gonad development |
| 5:10 PM - 6:10 PM: The EMBO Lecture |
chair: Alpha Yap |
5:10 PM
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Michael Way
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Using vaccinia virus to understand signalling network dynamics and regulation of actin polymerization |
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FRIDAY
8:30 AM - 10:20 AM: Metabolism, signaling and traffic |
chair: Jenny Stow |
| 8:30 AM |
Frances Brodsky |
Function of the CHC22 clathrin isoform in endosomal sorting and glucose metabolism |
| 9:00 AM |
David James |
Insulin resistance in Mice and Men |
| 9:30 AM |
Paul Gleeson |
Retrograde trafficking in development and disease |
| 10:00 AM |
Andrew Brown
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A Novel Control Point in Cholesterol Biosynthesis in Mammalian Cells
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| 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Signaling, migration and development |
chair: Sally Dunwoodie |
| 11:00 AM |
Carl-Phillip Heisenberg |
Cell and tissue mechanics in zebrafish gastrulation |
| 11:30 AM |
John McAvoy |
Secreted frizzled-related protein disrupts PCP in eye lens fiber cells that have polarised primary cilia |
| 12:00 PM |
Martin Lackmann |
Molecular Mechanism Controlling Eph-guided Cell Positioning |
| 12:30 PM |
Pamela Stanley |
Roles for O-Fucose Glycans in Notch Signaling |
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