Thursday, 11th July Melbourne Protein Group Student Symposium 2013
Registration
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium Entrance
Opening Address
9:30AM - 9:35AM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium
Science Session 1 - Keynote Speaker
9:35AM - 10:15AM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium
Chair: Daouda Traore
Science Session 1 - Student Speakers
10:15AM - 11:15AM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium
Chairs: Urmi Dhagat & Denis Burton
- Death to begin. Cell death can drive TNF dependent skin inflammation. - James Rickard
- Polyclonal T-cell Receptors Recognise an Unusually Long Tumour Antigenic Peptide Complexed to HLA-B*0702 - Kok-Fei Chan
- Structural & Functional Characterisation of a Novel Phospholipid Binding Protein in Mycobacterium smegmatis Implemented in Macrophage Survivability - Adam Shahine
Poster Session A
11:20AM - 12:20PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, First Level
- Allosteric Modulation of a Chemogenetically Modified G Protein Coupled Receptor - Alaa Abdul-Ridha
- Characterization of two Novel TNF Receptor Superfamily Members: Relt and Troy - Tanu S Arora
- Unravelling the potential mutations conferring resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors in Influenza A virus - Ivana Atmaja
- High resolution NMR studies of apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1), a target for antimalarial drug development - Krishnarjuna Bankala
- A role for a novel Plasmodium falciparum exomembrane system in trafficking of virulence proteins. - Steven Batinovic
- Determinants of interactions between proto-oncogene Src and its tumour suppressor CHK - Mohammed Ishtiaq bin Anasir
- Investigating substrate specificity and cooperation between mitochondrial proteases LONM and CLPXP - Erica J Brodie
- Correlation between Thiol-disulfide Oxido-reductase Activity and Cu(I) Binding Property of Human Grx1 Protein. Insights into Its Potential Roles in Cu(I) Homeostasis - Jens A. Brose
- Structural insights into Bak oligomerisation. - Jason Brouwer
- DPV022 – a newly identify viral Bcl-2 inhibitor of cell apoptosis - Denis R Burton
- Interactions of bioactive peptides with nanogold: Insights from theoretical simulations - Patrick Charchar
- Defining the actions and binding partners of c-Jun N-terminal Kinases (JNKs) - Wei-Kai Chen
- Structural Investigations into the Control of Pro-Apoptotic Bcl-2 Family Proteins - Angus D Cowan
- The Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) as a Novel Approach in Drug Design and Delivery for the Central Nervous System (CNS) - Claretta S D'Souza
- Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of irreversible allosteric ligands for the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - Briana J Davie
- Characterisation of Compound Induced Phosphatase Resistance of AMPK - Toby Dite
- The binding mode of SB269652: a novel bitopic ligand at the dopamine D2 receptor - Christopher J Draper-Joyce
- Putative role of PfGCN20 in PfEMP1 trafficking in Plasmodium falciparum - Claire DUMONT
- TRAF2 regulates Inflammation and cell death in keratinocytes. - Nima Etemadi
- Calpain-3 deficiency in Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2A (LGMD2A) patients results in perturbations of vital glycogen proteins within human skeletal muscle. - Barnaby P Frankish
- Development of chemosensor peptide determination to monitor the Bruton tyrosine kinase activity in leukemic cells of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) - Minglyanna Gaku Surudoi
- Structural Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid Precursor Protein – Towards Understanding Its Mechanism of Dimerisation - Chen Gao
- The Potential Role of Primary Cilia in Muscle Repair in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - Troy Gosetti
- Identification of novel therapeutics for complex diseases from genome-wide association data - Mani Grover
- Investigating HCV escape mechanisms towards a broadly neutralising monoclonal antibody, MAb24 - Jun Gu
- Mechanism of an antifungal peptide against Candida albicans - Brigitte Hayes
- HDL Modulates Glucose Metabolism in Cardiomyocytes - Sarah Heywood
- Most pro-apoptotic BH3-only proteins can directly activate Bak and Bax - Colin Hockings
- Defining the neurotoxic signalling mechanism of c-Src protein kinase in excitotoxic brain injury induced by acute ischaemic stroke - Md Ashfaqul Hoque
- Telling tails of Bak and Bax: Role for Bak and Bax C-termini in apoptotic function? - Sweta Iyer
- The role of EPHB4 Receptors in the Progression and Metastasis of Colorectal Cancers - Elif Kadife
- The Small Interacting Protein, CRIP1a, is a Novel Modulator of Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Mediated Signalling - Nilushi S Karunaratne
- Structure, Function and Inhibition of Aspartate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) - Leyla Kaya
- A novel analytical approach reveals a distinct pattern of stimulus bias for an antipsychotic drug at the dopamine D2 receptor - Carmen Klein Herenbrink
- Mapping subunit organisation within the T cell receptor (TCR)-CD3 complex - Logesvaran Krshnan
- Toward the Structural Characterisation of the CZCD1 Protein from Streptococcus Pyogenes - Daniel M La Porta
- Structurally guided small molecule targeting of the Insulin and Type 1 Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptors. - Callum Lawrence
- Adsorption of Hydrophobin Protein on Functionalized Silica Surfaces - Kamron J Ley
- Mapping the activation surface of the RXFP1 LDLa module - Lu Li
- Structural and functional studies of a cell polarity regulator and tumour suppressor protein, Scribble - Krystle Lim
Morning Tea
11:20AM - 12:20PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, First Level
Career Advice
12:25PM - 1:15PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium
Chair: David Stapleton
Lunch
1:15PM - 2:00PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, First Level
Science Session 2 - Keynote Speaker
2:00PM - 2:40PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium
Chair: Catherine Winbanks
Science Session 2 - Student Speakers
2:40PM - 3:40PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium
Chairs: Gabrielle Watson & Jason Brouwer
- Extracellular wildtype and mutant SOD1 induces ER-Golgi pathology characteristic of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in neuronal cells - Vinod Sundaramoorthy
- GPR119 agonism regulates AMPKα and MAPK protein signalling cascades in skeletal and cardiac muscle cells - Lauren M. Cornall
- Cold Bacteriology Offers Insight into Molecular Evolution of Enzyme Quaternary Structure - Jacinta M Wubben
Poster Session B
3:40PM - 4:45PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, First Level
- Identification of the determinants in CSK-Homologous Kinase (CHK) essential for its tumour suppressor function - Ya Chee Lim
- Dimensionality of carbon nanomaterials determines the aggregation propensity of amyloidogenic peptides: multiscale theoretical simulations - Adam J Makarucha
- Site specific mutational analysis of apolipoprotein C-II amyloid fibril assembly pathways - Yu Mao
- Structure and function of the N-terminal region of Vaccinia viral F1L - Bevan Marshall
- Trafficking of virulence proteins in malaria parasite-infected erythrocytes - Emma McHugh
- Biochemical characterization of mitochondria from Tom40 mutant mice - Ved Mooga
- A Dimeric Calcium-modulated GC-linked Receptor Kinase, PSKR1 - Victor Muleya
- Molecular dissection of the ClpP protease from Mycobacterium smegmatis: assembly and activation. - Jyotsna Nagpal
- Defining the relationship of the abnormal Huntingtin monomer structure with cellular engagement mechanisms. - Estella A Newcombe
- Characterization of a microtubule-associated protein, doublecortin (DCX), as a substrate of c-Jun N-terminal Kinases (JNKs) - Kevin R Ngoei
- Structure-function analysis of orthosteric, allosteric and bitopic ligand binding at adenosine A1 receptors. - Anh TN Nguyen
- Regulation of pro-apoptotic Bak by Voltage Dependent Anion Channel 2 (VDAC2) at the mitochondrial outer membrane - Thanh N. Nguyen
- Investigating PIN proteins interactions in a plant system using Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) - Azadeh Niknejad
- Elucidating Physiological N-end rule Substrates and the Molecular Details of their ClpS-mediated Degradation by ClpAP - Ralf Ottofuelling
- Protein Disulphide Isomerase is protective against mutant SOD1, TDP-43 and FUS pathology in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. - Sonam Parakh
- Getting through a wall- mechanism of an antifungal protein - Jennifer A E Payne
- Probing the Importance of Quaternary Structure to Enzyme Function - Martin G Peverelli
- The Binding Activity of Recombinant Plant-made Soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts (sRAGE) to HMGB-1 - Dinamithra S.R. Premaratne
- Binding studies of human plasminogen and α2-antiplasmin - Juinn Quek
- Structural analysis of the MiD51 receptor domain involved in mitochondrial fission - Viviane Richter
- Structural and chemical studies targeting pro-survival Bcl-2 family members - Michael Roy
- A common mechanism of clinical HIV-1 resistance to the CCR5 antagonist maraviroc despite divergent resistance level and lack of common gp120 resistance mutations - Hamid Salimi
- Production, characterisation and immunogenicity of plant-made Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein 4, a malaria vaccine candidate, in Nicotiana benthamiana - Kartika Setyabudi
- High level expression and purification of Adenovirus core protein V in Escherichia coli - Gaurav Sharma
- Structural studies on the nucleotide-binding protein (PsaB) from the ABC transporter PsaBCA. - Mwilye Sikanyika
- The relationship between ER-Golgi transport and axonal transport – the implications in the pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - Brooke Smith
- Investigating the role of PlyA dimerisation to initiate pleurotolysin pore formation. - Bradley Spicer
- Phosphorylation of αSnap is required for secretory organelle biogenesis in Toxoplasma gondii. - Rebecca Stewart
- Cellular Pathogenic Mechanisms Induced by Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - Jessica M. Sultana
- Development of inhibitors to hepatitis virus C - Zhaoyang Sun
- Development of inhibitors to Hepatitis virus C - Zhaoyang Sun
- Understanding PCBP binding affinity and specifity for C-rich oligonucleotides - Chris Szeto
- IFNy and Smac mimetic induce synergistic killing of various cell lines - Maria Tanzer
- Biophysical analysis of a ‘coupling protein’ involved in Gram-positive bacterial conjugation. - Von Torres
- PcoE – a metal sponge expressed to the periplasm of copper resistance E. coli. Implication of its function role in copper resistance - Saumya R Udagedara
- Interplay between Jak2 and receptor in myeloproliferative neoplasms - Leila N Varghese
- Optimisation and characterisation of cyclic peptides targeting the Grb7 SH2 domain. - Gabrielle Watson
- Defining the roles of activin receptor (ActRIIB) in the proliferation and migration of human breast cancer cells - haiyan wei
- Two Myosin Essential Light Chains are critical for motility and host cell invasion in Toxoplasma gondii - Melanie J Williams
- Elucidating the molecular details of RssB-mediated turnover of SigmaS by the AAA+ protease, ClpXP - Jessica E Zammit
Afternoon Tea
3:40PM - 4:45PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, First Level
Awards & Closing Remarks
4:45PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, Auditorium
Mixer
5:00PM - 5:45PM
Thursday, 11th July
LIMS Complex, First Level
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