Special Invited Conference Presentations

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dulhunty AF

Invited Speaker
Gordon Conference on Muscle Excitation-Contraction Coupling
New Hampshire, USA, 11-16 June 2000

Invited Speaker
Physiological Genomics 2000, Melbourne University, 21 November 2000


Foster PS


Invited Speaker
Cytokines and cytokine therapy for the allergic disease; which is the most critical?
The American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology 56th annual meeting, San Diego, March 3-8th, 2000.


Invited Speaker
The role of animal models in understanding the pathogenesis and treatment of asthma
Workshop presentation
The American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology 56th annual meeting, San Diego, March 3-8th, 2000.

Invited Speaker
Biology of Airway inflammation in Allergic Asthma: cells, molecules and signals
American Thoracic Society annual meeting, May 2000, Toronto, Canadia

Invited Speaker
Regulation of eosinophil trafficking by IL-5 and eotaxin
International Symposium Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Allergic Inflammation.
May 2000, Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati

Invited Speaker
Determinants and targets in progressive airways disease
Joint Satellite Meeting of the British and Australian Pharmacological Societies.
April 2000, University of Melbourne, Department of Pharmacology.

Invited Speaker
Distinct spatial requirement for eosinophil induced airways hyperreactivity
Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (WA Branch)
Winter Scientific Meeting, Settler’s House, York, August 2000,

Invited Speaker
Modulation of airways hyperreactivity by IL-5 and eotaxin
National Asthma Workshop, Sir Charles Gardner and QE 11 Hospital, Margaret River, WA, University of Western Australia 16th – 18th, November

Invited Speaker
DNA vaccination with modified IL-5 inhibits allergic disease of the lung
IL-5 Clinical Workshop on Vaccine Approaches to Asthma, M@E Biotech, Horsholm, Denmark, October 27th 2000

Invited Speaker
Role of cytokines and chemokines in the induction of bronchial hyperreactivity
Lung Biology Conference, Yale University School of medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, , May 2000

Invited Speaker
Molecular regulation of allergic inflammation
School of Pathology, University of New South Wales, June 2000



Gage PW

Invited Speaker
Modulation of GABA channel conductance by drugs
GABA 2000 Conference Palm Cove, Cairns, QLD. July 2000

Invited Speaker
.Ion channels-an emerging target for rationally designed drugs
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, June 2000

Invited Speaker
Ion channels in viruses
Australian Society for Biophysics Symposium, Melbourne, November 2000

 

Jans DA
Regulation of nuclear protein import: phosphorylation-mediated enhancement of targeting signal recognition
Plenary Joint International Meeting of International Federation for Cell Biology and International Society for Differentiation (24-28.9.2000, Gold Coast)

Soft condensed matter: physical and biological aspects
Plenary. (16-29.10.2000, R S Phys S, ANU, Canberra)

 

Mathaei KI
Transgenesis and cloning: The ultimate answer to procreation without germinal cells?
Ist International Conference on Erectile Dysfunction and Infertility
Dohar Qatar February 2000

Should human beings be cloned? Some ethical questions
1st International Conference on Erectile Dysfunction and Inferrtility
Dohar, Qatar February 2000

Shannon MF
Regulation of cytokine gene transcription in a chromatin context
Lorne Genome Meeting,
Plenary Lecture (Julian Wells Lecture) Feb 2000


High Blood Pressure Research Unit

Whitworth JA
Guest speaker, University of Sydney Medical Graduation Ceremony.

Guest speaker, Cancerians Dinner, Canberra.

Guest speaker, ACT Government Regional Leaders Forum, Canberra.

Guest speaker, ACT Royal Australian College of Practitioners Winter Clinical Meeting
Cortisol and Cardiovascular Disease, Canberra.

Guest speaker, Aoris Nova Biobusiness Forum - Research Funding -
Is it a Question of Distribution?, Sydney.

Guest speaker, Australian Institute of Management Leadership breakfast, Canberra.

Invited speaker, ACT Government
Commericalisation from the Perspective of a Publicly Funded Research Institution,
Canberra.

Invited speaker, Biotech 2000, The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Princess' Lecture Series -
The JCSMR Experience of Commercialisation, Sydney.

Guest speaker, The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Opening Ceremony and Admission of Fellows, Canberra.


Speaker, John Ludbrook APPS Symposium
Clinical Research, Melbourne.

High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting
Decreased renal expression of nitric oxide synthase isoforms in ACTH - and corticosterone-induced hypertension, Sydney.

18th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension, Breakfast Workshop, Chicago
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension, Hypertension and Pre-Eclampsia: Pathophysiology and Therapy.

Colin Johnston Celebration,
Cushing, cortisol and cardiovascular disease, Lorne.



Immunology and Cell Biology

Lobigs M

Invited symposium speaker.
A glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-dependent entry pathway revealed by attenuated variants of an encephalitic flavivirus
8th Arbovirus Research in Australia Symposium, Gold Coast, 3-7 July 2000

Invited symposium speaker.
Upregulation of antigen presentation via MHC class I during flavivirus infection
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting, Cairns, 8-13 July, 2000

Parish CR

Invited plenary lecturer.
Interdependence of innate and adaptive immune responses
8th Congress of the International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Cairns, 2-6 July, 2000

Invited symposium speaker.
Heparanase: A novel new target for anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs
Joint WAA, HSANZ, ASBT Congress, Perth, 25-28 July, 2000

Invited symposium speaker.
Heparanase: A new target for anti-cancer drugs
5th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and 3rd International Symposium on Molecular Medicine, Hersonnissos, Crete, Greece, 19-21 October, 2000

Invited symposium speaker.
Heparanase" A new target for anti cancer drugs
2000 Hanson Symposium, Adelaide, 13-16 November, 2000

Invited symposium speaker.
CFSE and its relatives: Current uses and future developments
Australasian Society for Immunology, 30th Annual Conference, Sydney, 10-15 December, 2000

 

Molecular Medicine

 

Baker RT

The Human Genome Project
Siemens National Science School September 2000

Board P

Invited speaker IFCC-Roche Conference.
Human genomics, the basis of medicine tomorrow. Validating and using pharmacogenomics
 16-19 April. Kyoto

Invited speaker International Conference on Glutathione S-Transferases.
19-23 May. Uppsala

Invited speaker Symposium on structure function relationships of drug metabolizing enzymes. Joint meeting of the British Pharmacological Society and the Australian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists.
25-28 April. Melbourne

Invited speaker Symposium on Xenobiotic Enzymology, Pacifichem 2000.
14-19 December. Honolulu, Hawaii

 

Goodnow C

Autoimmunity: 2000 and Beyond, Newport Beach, CA

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre meeting in honour of Dr Richar Klausner

Keystone Symposium on "Mechanisms of Immunological Tolerance and its Breakdown", Steamboat Springs, CO

Keystone "Millenium" Symposium, Keystone, CO

CSL Ltd, Melbourne

Australian Diabetes Society Annual Meeting, Cairns.

Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney

Stanford University

Eos Inc San Francisco

Australian Society for Immunology, Sydney

 


Neuroscience

Bekkers JM
Invited Speaker
Potassium channels in dendrites: What, where and Why?
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Queensland Brisbane, July 2000

Invited Speaker
Synaptic transmission and integration in the cortex and hippocampus,
Vollum Institute and Neurological Sciences Institute, Portland USA, November 2000

Hendry IA
Invited Speaker
Second messengers involved in targetting of vesicles for retrograde axonal transport Cell signalling and cell Cycle regulation,
Curtin Conference, Canberra, January 2000

Guest Speaker
The role of phosphatidylinositol kinases in neurotrophin retrograde axonal transport,
Columbia University, New York, June 2000

Guest Speaker
Neurotrophins at the nerve terminal, receptor interactions and recycling,
Department of Anatomy, Royal Free Medical School, London, July 2000

Hill CE
Invited Speaker
Heterogeneity in the distribution of vascular gap junctions and connexins
Symposium on Influence of cellular and mechanical coupling on vascular responses, Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, Annual Meeting, Melbourne

Morgans CW
Guest Speaker
Calcium channels at ribbon synapses in the retina,
University of Southhampton, UK, June 2000

Invited Speaker.
Neurotransmitter release at ribbon synapses in the retina,
Curtin Conference, Canberra

Redman SJ
Invited Speaker
Action Potentials in Motoneurone Dendrites, Symposium on Survival and Performance of Motoneurones,
Australian Neuroscience Annual Meeting, February 2000

Invited Speaker
Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus,
Karl Beyer Lecture, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 13 April 2000

Invited Speaker
Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus,
Grass Neuroscience Lecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 24 July 2000

Invited Speaker
Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus,
Federation of Asian and Oceanic Neuroscience Societies, Hong Kong Meeting, 10 December 2000

Invited Speaker
Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus,
Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology, Monash University Medical School, 20 October 2000

Sandow SL
Invited Speaker
Neuroeffector junctions, myoendothelial coupling and vascular control,
JB Pierce Laboratory, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, USA, May 2000

Sah P
Invited Speaker
Pathway specific targeting of GABA receptors in the central amygdala,
Department of Pharmacology, University College, London, 20 June 2000

Invited Speaker
LTP and LTD in the avian hippocampus,
Synaptic Plasticity Meeting at University of Bristol, UK, 22 June 2000

Invited Speaker
Novel GABA receptors in the central amygdala,
Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Instituto de Neurosciencias-CSIC, Alicante, Spain, 30 June 2000

Stuart G
Invited Speaker
Dynamics of Dendritic Signalling,
IBRO School of Brain Function, Hong Kong,. December 2000

Taylor WR
Invited Speaker
Dendritic Computation of Direction Selectivity by Retinal Ganglion Cells,
Copper Mountain, Colorado, July 2000

Invited Speaker
Dendritic Computation of Direction Selectivity by Retinal Ganglion Cells,
University of Sydney, September 2000