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