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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

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chairs: Will Hughes and Sally Dunwoodie

Session 1: "Big"

Session 2: "Little"

Session 3: "Tiny"

 

 

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

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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
ANZSCDB
Ed Munro

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

 
 

 


 

6:15 PM

Roche Diagnostics:

Prof Terry Johns

 

The plasticity of oncogene addiction: Implications for targeted therapies directed to receptor tyrosine kinases

 


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
Michael Way

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

A Novel Control Point in Cholesterol Biosynthesis in Mammalian Cells


   



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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