Program

Thursday, 12 July 2018

08:15am - 08:45am	Registration Tea & coffee available
08:45am - 09:00am	OPENING ADDRESS Room: South One Foyer
08:45am	Symposium Chairs: Sarah Atkinson and Doug Fairlie
08:50am	Head of Department of Biochemistry (Monash University): Professor Roger Daly
09:00am - 10:40am	SCIENCE SESSION 1 Room: South One Lecture Theatre
	Chair: Doug Fairlie
09:00am	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr Erinna Lee Journey in the valley of (cell) death
	Student Speakers Chairs: Tess Malcolm and Bronte Johnstone
09:40am	Student Speaker 1: Suresh Banjara Grouper Iridovirus GIV66 is a Bcl-2 protein that inhibits apoptosis by exclusively sequestering Bim
10:00am	Student Speaker 2: Gabriela Constanza Targeting bacterial adhesins using shark antibodies: alternatives against Urinary Tract Infections
10:20am	Student Speaker 3: Gatham Balaji Recognition of host Clr-b by the inhibitory NKR-P1B receptor provides a basis for missing-self recognition
10:40am -11:30am	Poster Session A & Morning Tea (South One Foyer) Please refer to the poster listing below
11:30am - 01:10pm	SCIENCE SESSION 2 Room: South One Lecture Theatre
	Chair: Daniel Scott
11:30am	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr David Thal My career as a structural biologist trying to understand protein-drug interactions
	Chairs: Shadi Maghool and Blake Mazzitelli
12:10pm	Student Speaker 4: Katherine Davies The brace helices of MLKL mediate interdomain communication and oligomerisation to regulate cell death by necroptosis
12:30pm	Student Speaker 5: Feng-Jie Wu Tracking ligand induced changes in the conformational equilibrium of a1A-adrenergic receptor using NMR
12:50pm	Student Speaker 6: Joshua Hardy Investigating the architecture of an assembled non-contractile bacteriophage tail using cryo-EM and helical reconstruction
01:10pm - 02:30pm	Poster Session B & Lunch (South One Foyer) Please refer to the poster listing below
02:30pm - 03:40pm	CAREER Q&A PANEL Room: South One Lecture Theatre
	Chair: Urmi Dhagat
02:30pm	CAREER PERSPECTIVE: Dr Janet Newman A career path made crystal clear
03:10pm	Panel discussion with Keynote Speakers
03:40pm - 04:00pm	AWARDS & CLOSING REMARKS Room: South One Lecture Theatre
	Symposium Chairs: Sarah Atkinson & Doug Fairlie
04:00pm - 05:00pm	Social Hour (Mixer, Drinks & Nibbles) South One Foyer

Poster Session A

Poster Session B