Invited Presentations

 

Baker RT

Regulation of ubiquitin-dependent processes by deubiquitinating enzymes
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, USA, June 2001

Manipulation of the ubiquitin pathway in biotechnology, Lifesensors Inc.
Malvern, PA, USA, June 2001

Identification of a novel structural zinc finger motif in deubiquitinating enzymes
ComBio 2001 Conference, Canberra, October 2001

 

Board P

Invited Chair
Cracking the Code
Australian Academy of Science 4 May

International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics Meeting
Munich, 7–11 October

Speaker and session chair
ComBio 2001 Conference, Canberra, October 2001

 

Cummins PL

MOPS (Molecular Orbital Programs for Simulations) — combined semiempirical quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics methods
7th Australian Molecular Modelling Workshop (MM2001) Canberra, 4–7 October 2001

 

Dulhunty AF

International Union of Physiological Sciences
Christchurch New Zealand, August 2001

Satellite Symposium on EC Coupling
Heron Island August 2001

 

Freeman C

Sulphated oligosaccharide-based inhibitors of heparanase, a key enzyme in cell invasion
William Harvey Research Conference

Beyond Heparin, Novel Therapeutic Uses for Heparin and Related Drugs
Nice, France, July 2001.

Sulphated oligosaccharide inhibitors of inflammation, tumour growth and metastasis
53rd Harden conference — Proteoglycans St Martin s College, Ambleside, Lake District, UK, August 2001

Sulphated oligosaccharide inhibitors of inflammation, tumour growth and metastasis
Key note speaker

Matrix Biology Society of Australia and New Zealand Silver Jubilee meeting
Rydges EagleHawk, Canberra, October 2001

 

Foster PS

The American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology 57th annual meeting
New Orleans, 16–21 March 2001

Chair, Mini symposium, Tolerance vs Immunoregulation. Work Shop on Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Asthma, Similarities and Differences in Pathogenesis and Pathobiology
Las Vegas, 6–7 April 2001

11th International Congress on Immunology, IUIS and SSI, Work Shop Chair, Mechanisms of Atopy
Stockholm, Sweden, 22–28 July, 2001

11th International Congress on Immunology, IUIS and SSI, Work Shop Chair, Immunotherapy and allergy
Stockholm, Sweden 22–28 July, 2001

International Eosinophil Symposium 2001
The Rimrock Resort Hotel, Banff, Alberta Canada, 4–8 May, 2001

German Pediatric Society Annual Meeting, Immunobiology of asthma
University Childrens Hospital, Klinikum Der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg. 14–17 September, 2001

Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Federation of Biological Societies
Caxambu, Brazil, August 22–25, 2001

Annual Meeting of the Australian Society of Immunology
Chair, Allergy Symposium December, 2001

Asthma & Allergy Research Institute, University Department of Medicine, Sir Charles Gardner and QE II Hospital, University of Western Australia

Asthma Workshop
Margaret River, WA, November, 2001

 

Gage PW
Symposium, Plague Proportions, in Science Festival
Canberra, May 2001

Symposium, Brain Cell Receptor Channels, at International Union of Physiological Sciences meeting
Christchurch, NZ, September 2001

Australian Society for Biophysics meeting
Leura, NSW, September 2001

Plenary Lecturer
Australian Society of Anaesthetists National Meeting
Canberra, October 2001

 

Goodnow C
Invited Speaker
Genetic analysis of immunological tolerance and memory
2001 Keystone Symposium on Regulation of Immunity and Autoimmunity,
Keystone, Colorado 10–16 January 2001

Invited Speaker
22nd Annual Conference on the Organization and Expression of the Genome
Lorne, 11–15 February 2001

Invited Speaker
Molecular Basis of Immune Cell Activation and Immunological Disorders
San Diego, 15–18 February 2001

Invited Speaker
Australian Academy of Science — Genomic Research in the Decade 2.1.1, The impact of the human genome project on biological research
Adelaide, 4 May 2001

Invited Speaker
2001 FASEB Summer Research Conference on autoimmunity
Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vermont, 29 June–3 July 2001

Invited Speaker
Distinguished annual lecture series honouring Drs Kimi and Ishizaka, the scientific founders of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
San Diego, California, 9 October 2001

Invited Speaker
Genes and Health discovery Session, PHIMR/MIRD Reproductive genomes: symposium
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, December 2001

 

Gready JE
Simulation of enzymic reaction mechanisms using a combined methods approach
41st Sanibel Symposium, St Augustine, Florida, US, 24 Feb–2 March 2001

Implications of BSE, and variant and classical Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD and CJD) for tissue transplants
The Australian Tissue Banking Forum Meeting, Canberra, 6–7 April 2001

Simulation of enzymic reaction mechanisms, Identifying evolutionary protein homology using sequence consensus analysis and motif searching MD simulations of prion protein: effect of glycosylation and high temperature
Genomic Sciences Centre, RIKEN, Yokohama, May 2001

Computational challenges in biology
Fujitsu Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan, May 2001

New approaches to simulation of enzymic reaction mechanisms Modelling 2001
Annual International Meeting of Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society, Erlangen, Germany, 17–21 September 2001

 

Gustiananda M
Copper binding to the N-terminal tandem repeats of marsupial prion protein
ComBio2001, Canberra, 1–4 October 2001

 

Hendry IA
Invited Speaker
Nerve Growth Factor retrograde axonal signalling may be modified by PI3-kinase dependent protein associations at the nerve terminal
The Hunter Cellular Biology Meeting, Pokolbin 2001

Invited Speaker
Problems interpreting Genetic Interventions, Genomics and Bioinformatics in the Neurosciences: Genes to Ethics in the 21st Century
The Advanced School of Neurochemistry 2001, 5th Biennial ISN Course, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2001

 

Hill CE
Invited Speaker
Symposium on Cell-to-Cell Coupling in Resistance Networks
7th World Congress for Microcirculation, Sydney, Australia

Invited Speaker
Symposium on Smooth Muscle Function in Health and Disease
International Union of Physiological Sciences, Lorne, Australia

Invited Speaker
Symposium on Hepatic and Splanchnic Circulation in Health and Disease
International Union of Physiological Sciences, Dunedin, New Zealand

 

Holloway AF
Chromatin remodeling across the GM-CSF promoter is dependent on NF-kB proteins
ComBio 2001, Canberra, Australia. October 2001.

 

Hulett MD
Cloning, characterisation and involvement of mammalian heparanase in tumour metastasis and angiogenesis
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, May 2001

Symposium speaker
The heparan sulphate degrading enzyme heparanase is a member of the clan A glycosyl hydrolase family and has conserved active site residues
ComBio 2001/Silver Jubilee Meeting Matrix Biology Society of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, October 2001

 

Jans DA
Distinct pathways for nuclear transport of inducible and constitutive transcription factors?
Lorne Protein Meeting, Lorne, Victoria 5–8 February

Distinct nuclear import pathways for constitutive and inducible transcription factors
Hansen Centre for Cancer Research, IMVS, Adelaide, 15 March

Nuclear transport pathways for transcription factors,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 4 May

Nuclear import pathways for inducible and constitutive transcription factors
Plenary ComBio (Combined Conference of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 45th Annual Meeting, Australian and NZ Society for Cell and Developmental Biology, International Proteomics), Canberra Convention Centre, 30 September - 4 October

Sex reversal nutations in dual NLSs of sex determining factor SRY impair its nuclear import: role of importin beta-1
2nd Airlie Conference on Nucleocytoplasmic Transport, Airlie, Virginia, USA, 7–11 November

Novel and conventional signal-dependent pathways for nuclear import of polypeptide ligands
ComBio, Canberra Convention Centre, 30 September–4 October

Biological applications of the confocal microscope; use of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) to examine nucleocytoplasmic flux of proteins
Multidimensional Microscopy 2001 (MDM 2001) 3rd Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Confocal Microscopy and Related Technologies. Eden on the Park Hotel, Melbourne, 25–28 November

 

Matthaei KI

Mouse models of human disease
666 ABC Radio Canberra, 2001

Gene therapy advances, Plenary Lecture
Australian Perinatal Society Meeting, Canberra, March 2001

Monitoring eosinophil trafficking in vivo
First Symposium of the International Eosinophil Society, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2001

Caveats of Gene Targeting: Are we getting things wrong?
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA, May 2001

Caveats of Gene Targeting: Are we getting things wrong?
Molecular Medicine Research Seminar Series
Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2001

Gene targeting and Transgenics, the basics
Garvan Institute, Darlinghurst, Sydney, July 2001

Caveats of Gene Targeting: Are we getting things wrong?
Medical research graduate program seminar series

Anatomy and Structural Biology
The University of Otago, Dunedin, August 2001

Human stem cells research
Graduate Program in Epidemiology and Population Health
ANU, September 2001

The basics of human cloning
Canberra Medico-Legal Society, Canberra, November 2001

 

Mauser H
Approaches to simulating reactions in enzyme active-site environments
7th Australian Molecular Modelling Workshop (MM2001), Canberra, 4–7 October 2001

 

Morgans C
Invited Speaker
IUPS 2001 Congress: Visual Processing in Health and Disease
Manly, NSW, 26–31 August 2001

Guest Speaker
Neurological Sciences Institute
Portland, USA, March 2001

 

Parish CR
Interdependence of innate and adaptive immune responses
Tumour Immunology Meeting, Perth, 20–22 March 2001

Plenary lecturer
Novel inhibitors of cell invasion and angiogenesis
ComBio 2001, Canberra, 30 September–4 October 2001

Heparan sulfate mimetics as inhibitors of angiogenesis and tumour metastasis
Symposium on Angiogenesis and Anti-Angiogenic Therapy, Taipei, Taiwan, 25 October 2001

Heparan sulfate mimetics as inhibitors of angiogenesis and tumour metastasis
Symposium on State-of-the-Art Progress in Angiogenesis and Anti-Angiogenesis, Taipei, Taiwan, 26 October 2001

Plenary lecturer
A new approach to cancer immunotherapy
31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Australasian Society for Immunology, Canberra, 2–6 December 2001

 

Rao S
Chromatin remodeling, measured by a novel realtime PCR assay, across the proximal promoter region of the interleukin-2 gene
ComBio 2001, Canberra, October 2001.

 

Redman SJ
Invited Speaker
Symposium on New Insights on Exocytosis, Endocytosis and Vesicle Recycling for the understanding of Synaptic Plasticity
IUPS Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 2001

 

Sah P
Invited Speaker
GABA receptors in the central amygdala
Department of Physiology, University of Sydney

Invited Speaker
GABA receptors in the central amygdala
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney

Invited Speaker
Calcium dynamics and waves in hippocampal pyramidal neurons
Faculty of Medicine, Stanford University

 

Shannon MF
Targeted chromatin remodeling across cytokine gene promoters
International Cytokine Society Meeting, Hawaii, November 2001

Chromatin remodeling across cytokine gene promoters in an immune response
Hanson Institute, Adelaide, July 2001

Chromatin remodeling across cytokine gene promoters in an immune response
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, August 2001

Chromatin remodeling across cytokine gene promoters in an immune response
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, September 2001

 

Simeonovic C
Plenary presentation
Pancreatic islet xenotransplantation
The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand, 19th Annual Scientific Meeting, Canberra

Nonclassical lymphocytes in autoimmune disease: Peripheral expansion of peripheral NKT cells by QFA
7th Annual Australasian Autoimmunity Workshop
The Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Sydney

Slattery RM
Identification of a diabetes susceptibility gene
Australasian Autoimmunity Workshop, Sydney, 7–9 June

Identification of a diabetes susceptibility gene
Murdoch Institute Melbourne

Identification of a diabetes susceptibility gene
James Cook University, Townsville

Identification of a diabetes susceptibility gene
Monash University, Melbourne

 

Stuart G
Invited symposium speaker
Excitatory inhibition in the cortex,
International Union of Physiological Societies satellite symposium on Synaptic Transmission in the Central Nervous System, Heron Island (Queensland) 2–7 September, 2001

Invited symposium speaker
Dendritic coincidence detection of EPSPs and action potentials
Japanese Neuroscience Society symposium on Dendritic Integration, Kyoto, Japan, 26–28 September, 2001

Invited speaker
What distal synapses tell the soma
International Brain Research Organisation School of Neuroscience, Hong Kong, 10–12 December, 2001

 

Tremethick D
The molecular function of an essential histone variant FASEB
Meeting on Chromatin and Transcription, Snowmass, Colorado, July 2001

 

Walmsley B
Invited symposium speaker
Winter Conference on Brain Research
Colorado, USA

 

Whitworth JA
Opening address
The Future for Surgery
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress, Canberra

Guest speaker
Steroids and Hypertension
University of New South Wales School of Physiology and Pharmacology Seminar Program

Glucocorticoid Induced Hypertension: from Man to Mouse
IIIrd Franco-Australian Meeting of Hypertension, Corsica

WHO/ISH Guidelines for Hypertension, an update
First World Heart Foundation Global Conference on Cardiovascular Clinical Trials, Hong Kong

Dinner Guest speaker
Department of Health & Aged Care Senior Executive Service retreat

Speaker
Nitric Oxide in Glucocorticoid Hypertension
International Union of Physiological Sciences Satellite Workshop on Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System, Melbourne

 

Willenborg DO
Plenary lecturer
The role of nitric oxide in CNS inflammation
Matrix Biology Society of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, October 2001

 

Young IG
MRC Dum Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, UK, September 2001

Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, September 2001

Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, UK, September 2001

International Conference for Molecular Structural Biology, Vienna Austria, September 2001

Challenges and Approaches for Biomedical Research,
Ghent, Belgium, September 2001

Recent Advances in Macromolecular Crystallization
Le Bischemberg, France, September 2001