dsb May 30-June 1, 2007,
 Stamford Plaza Hotel Brisbane
 Queensland, Australia

Past DSB Programs
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2006 Meeting ~ Melbourne, Australia
Tuesday 2nd May
Conference & Exhibition Areas
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Exhibition set-up
Exhibition Area
   
Wednesday 3rd May
Conference & Exhibition Areas
8:00 am (SHARP!) Intervenue bus departs for Rivers Reception Centre (limited seating - please book with Secretariat)
Flinders Street, outside the Ramada Hotel
8:00 am Registration
Conference Room
from 8:00 am Final touches to Exhibition set-up
Exhibition Area
Gene Expression Workshop, sponsored by CORBETT RESEARCH
Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
9:00 am - 10:30 am Session 1: Workshop Chair: Keith Stanley
9:00 am
 Stephen Bustin, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Queen Mary University, London Real-time reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) and its potential use in clinical diagnosis
9:50 am
 Helen Barraclough, Corbett  Research, Sydney Design of oligonucleotide primers
10:10 am
 Ulf Bech Christensen, Sydney EasyBeacons - a new probe system for Real-Time PCR
10:40 am - 11:10 am Coffee, Trade & Posters
Exhibition Area
11:10 am - 12:30 pm Session 2: Workshop
Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
11:10 am
Kristina Warton, Corbett  Research, Sydney Dealing with fragmented RNA from FFPE sections
11:30 am
 Alex Dobrovic, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Applying High Resolution Melting analysis to detection of mutation and methylation in clinical samples
12:00 pm
Keith Stanley, Corbett  Research, Sydney Gene expression profiling from FFPE sections and single cells using MT-PCR
   
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Trade & Posters
Exhibition Area
1:30 pm - 3:15pm Session 3: HIV vaccines and gene knockdown

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre

Chair:

1:30 pm
Ian Ramshaw, ANU Molecular vaccines for HIV-1: Where to next?
2:00 pm
John Rossi, City of Hope/CCC RNAi and small RNA based therapeutics for the treatment of HIV infection
2:45 pm
Kazuo Suzuki, CFI, UNSW Promoter-targeted dsRNAs induces HIV-1 gene silencing and de novo CpG methylation
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Afternoon tea, Trade & Posters
Exhibition Area
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Session 4: Computational Biology

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre

Chair:

3:45 pm
James Whisstock, Monash University High throughput protein production and crystallography
4:15 pm
Gordon Smyth, WEHI Calibrating microarray platform accuracy
4:45 pm
Simon Foote, University of Tasmania Expression array analysis on congenic mouse lines uncovers a novel mechanism of innate immunity in Leishmaniasis
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
 Corbett Reception
Exhibition area
6:30 pm (SHARP!) Bus leaves for Ramada Hotel
Rivers Carpark
   
6:30 pm ->
 Dinner - make up a party & enjoy Melbourne's gastronomic delights! China Town, St Kilda Road..
Thursday 4th May
Conference & Exhibition Areas
8:00 am (SHARP!) Intervenue bus departs for Rivers Reception Centre (limited seating - please book with Secretariat)
Flinders Street, outside the Ramada Hotel
9:00 am - 10:30 am Session 5: Immunotherapy
Chair: Richard Boyd

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
9:00 am
Richard Boyd, Monash Stem Cells: Tolerance and Thymic Function
9:30 am
 Andrew Scott, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Implications of Antibody:Receptor Binding Structure and Signalling on Tumour Growth
10:00 am - 10:30 am Coffee, Trade, Posters
Exhibition Area
 
10:30 am - 11:15 am Special Plenary: Australian of the Year:
Chair: Richard Boyd

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
  Ian Frazer, CICR UQ Vaccines to prevent and to treat HPV infection and cervical cancer
11:15 am - 12:15 pm Session 6: Tissue Engineering and Biomatrices

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre

Chair:

11:15 am
 Wayne Morrison, University of Melbourne  
11:45 pm
 Zee Upton, QUT New Approaches to tackling the Wound Care Challenge
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch & Trade Secrets™
Exhibition Area
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Session 7: Medical Genomics

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre

Chair:

1:30 pm
 Nicholas Hayward, QIMR Integrative functional genomics of melanoma
2:00 pm
 Ian Dawes, UNSW From yeast genomics to tumour biology
2:30 pm
 Thomas Preiss, VCCRI Control of Translation by microRNAs
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm  Tea, Trade & Posters
Exhibition Area
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Session 8: Stem Cells - Embryonic

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
Chair:

3:30 pm
 Bing Lim, GIS, Singapore Regulatory networks of embryonic stem cells: coding and non coding RNA
4:15 pm
 Peter Rathjen, Adelaide Directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
4:45 pm
 Megan Munsie, Stem Cell Sciences Delivering on the Promise – Stem Cells in Research and the Clinic
5:15 pm
Ivan Rajkovic, ShelstonIP  
 
5:30 pm
Shelston IP Mixer
Exhibition area
6:30 pm (SHARP!) Bus leaves for Ramada Hotel and the Stokehouse
Rivers Carpark
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Conference Dinner - The Stokehouse
St Kilda
Friday 5th May
Conference & Exhibition Areas
8:00 am (SHARP!) Intervenue bus departs for Rivers Reception Centre (limited seating - please book with Secretariat)
Flinders Street, outside the Ramada Hotel
9:00 am - 10:45 am Session 9: Cancer
Chair:

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
9:00 am
 Howard Chang, Stanford Genetic regulators of large-scale transcriptional signatures in cancer
9:45 am
 Lillian Soon, EMU, University of Sydney Cancer cell motility and invasion
10:15 am
 Colin Dunstan, ANZAC Research Institute Feeding the Invader: Role of Host Tissues in Supporting Breast Cancer Metastasis
10:45 am - 11:15 am Coffee
Exhibition Area
11:15 am -12:30 pm

Session 10: Stem Cell differentiation

Chair: Richard Boyd

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centr
11:15 am
Jane Visvader, WEHI Identification of mammary stem cells and their role in breast cancer
11:45 am
Alan Trounson, Monash University Stem cells: real or imaginary promise?
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm  Lunch, Trade & Posters
Exhibition Area
 
1:30 pm Exhibition pack-up  
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Session 11: Medical Proteomics
Chair:

Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
1:30 pm
 Jennifer Martin, IMB Structural genomics of inflammation
2:00 pm
 Gregory Rice, Baker, Melbourne Protein profiling - developing predictive capacities in medicine
2:30 pm
Brad Walsh, Minomic, NSW A new tool to assist in proteomic profiling and its application to human disease
3:00 pm
 Ian Smith, Monash University Cryptomics: Identification of Novel Bioactive Peptides from Intact Proteins
3:30 pm
Izuru Matsumoto, University of Sydney Proteomics in Psychiatric Illnesses
4:00 pm (SHARP!) Bus leaves for Ramada Hotel
Rivers Carpark
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon tea
Conference Room, Rivers Reception Centre
2005 DSB Meeting ~ Melbourne, Australia

 Wednesday 4th May
Conference Rooms 1&2
11:00 am Registration
Conference Foyer

12 midday

Lunch
Conference Room 3
 
1:30 pm Exhibition set-up
Conference Foyer
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm Conference opening:
Welcome: TBA
Conference Rooms 1&2

Quantitative Genomics Workshop, sponsored by CORBETT RESEARCH               Conference Rooms 1& 2

1:15 pm - 3:05pm

Session 1

 Chair: Keith Stanley
1:15 pm
Michael Pfaffl, Technical University, Munich Quantification of gene expression by real-time qRT-PCR
2:00 pm

Kristina Warton, Corbett  Research, Sydney

 Improvements to RNA extraction from formaldehyde fixed tissues
2:15 pm
Mark Jones, University of Western Sydney Applications of Direct Real Time PCR on Lymphocytes.
2:40 pm
Keith Stanley, Corbett  Research, Sydney Highly multiplexed SyBr green qPCR of breast cancer genes
3:05 pm - 3:45 pm Afternoon tea
Conference Foyer
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm Session 2 Chair: John Corbett
3:45 pm
Paul Pilowsky, University of Sydney Quantitation of neurotransmitter-related gene expression in the brain stem.
4:10 pm
Brant Bassam, Corbett  Research, Melbourne Assay Design for Real-Time PCR
4:25 pm
Valin Reja, Corbett Research, Sydney High resolution melt analysis
4:50 pm
Peter Williamson, University of Sydney The use of Real-Time PCR in a comparative genomics Programme
5:15 pm
Panel Discussion Chair: Keith Stanley
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
 Cocktails
Conference Foyer
6:30 pm ->
 Optional Dinners - make up a party with colleagues. Enjoy Melbourne's wonderfully varied dining, at Rydges Restaurants or one of the CBD restaurants close by.
China Town, St Kilda Road

Thursday 5th May
Conference Rooms 1&2
8:15am
 Welcome and Conference Opening:
The Hon Matt Viney MP, Victorian Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry		 Chair: Keith Stanley
VPC
8:30 am -10:45 am
 Session 3: Victorian Proteomics Consortia Proteomics Session

Chair: Mark Baker

Sponsored by: IIRD, Victorian State Government
8:30 am
Ruedi Aebersold, Institute for Systems Biology, Vancouver, Canada
9:15 am
Kevin Downard, University of Sydney Flu takes flight: Influenza surveillance by mass spectrometry
9:45 am
Jeff Gorman, IMB, Queensland Multidimensional Mass Spectrometric Analyses of Regulatory Post-Translational Modifications of Proteins
10:15 am
Anthony Purcell, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, Melbourne
 Antigen post-translational modification – insights into the targets of the elusive autoreactive T cell!
10:45 am - 11:15 am Coffee
Conference Foyer
VPC
11:15 am - 12:15 pm		 Session 4: Immunology
 Chair: Richard Boyd
11:15 am
Chris Goodnow, APF, JCSMR, Canberra Controlled variation of the mammalian genome: the rosetta stone for decoding genome - phenome programming
11:45 am
 Jose Varghese, CSIRO In silico screening of drug targets and the Australian Synchrotron
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch
Conference Foyer
 
VPC 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Trade Secrets™
Conference Foyer
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Session 5: Biotechnology drivers & Commercialisation Chair: Iain Scott
2:00 pm
David Blake, BIMA, Melbourne Biotech drivers
2:30 pm
Rowan Gilmore, Australian Institute for Commercialisation The Road from Discovery to Market
3:00 pm
 Richard Wettenhall, Bio21 Molecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Melbourne Integrating research innovation, commercialisation and industry engagement in the new Bio21 Institute
3:30pm
 Silviu Itescu, Columbia University, NY Commercialisation of adult stem cells
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm  Tea
Conference Foyer
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Session 6: Genome wide studies and Systems Biology Chair: Mark Ragan
4:00 pm
Malcolm McConnville, Bio21 Molecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Melbourne Metabolomics and the Identification of new metabolic pathways in human pathogens
4:45 pm
Peter Hunter, Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland Multiscale modelling and the Physiome Project
5:15 pm
Sean Grimmond, IMB, University of Queensland Computational and genomic characterization of signal transduction networks
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Mixer
Conference Foyer
6:45 pm - 10:00 pm Conference Dinner
The Stokehouse, St Kilda

Friday 6th May
Conference Rooms 1&2
8:30 am -10:15 am Session 7: Neurobiology Chair: Brian Dean
8:30 am
 Seth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
Hinxton, Cambridge		 From Genes to Cognition
9:15 am
Colin Masters, The University of Melbourne Pathways towards drug development in Alzheimer's disease
9:45 am
Phil Robinson, Children's Medical Research Institute, Sydney Mass Spectrometry Approaches to Phosphorylation Sites in Endocytic Proteins at the Synapse
10:15 am - 10:45 am Coffee
Conference Foyer

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

 Session 8: Gene expression and knockdown

Sponsored by: Antisense Therapeutics Limited 		Chair: Christopher Wraight
10:45 am
Andrew Holloway, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne A systematic analysis of microarray platform accuracy
11:15 am
Greg Arndt, Johnson & Johnson Research Gene knockdown using long complimentary RNAs
11:45 am
Nick Dean, ISIS, California Antisense approaches to gene therapy
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm  Lunch
Conference Foyer
2:00 pm - 4:35 pm Session 9: Cancer Chair: Erik (Rik) Thompson
2:00 pm
 Thomas Schmittgen, College of Pharmacy
Ohio State University		 Real-time expression profiling of microRNAs in cancer
2:45 pm
 Roger Lord, University of Tasmania Breast cancer proteomics
3:15 pm
 Michelle Haber, Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research Childhood neuroblastoma: From target identification and validation through to drug discovery
3:45 pm
Robin Anderson, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne A search for the genes that regulate breast cancer metastasis
4:15 pm
 Alex Dobrovic, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Towards pharmaco-epigenomics: profiling DNA repair in cancer cell lines using high throughput quantitative RT-PCR
4:35 pm - 5:15 pm Afternoon tea
Conference Foyer
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