FRONTIERS & FUTURE 2021 Summit

*Preliminary program, times and sessions are subject to change.

DAY 1 - February 24, 2021
Legacy Event


10:00 am
WELCOME EVERYONE
* Prof. Ian Smith, Governing Board Imaging CoE
* Prof. Marc Parlange, Provost and Senior Vice-President of Monash University
* Liz Visher, Director Major Investments, Australian Research Council

10:20 am FRONTIERS & FUTURE
* Prof. James Whisstock, Director Imaging CoE: Highlights, achievements and Impact

11:20 am MORNING TEA

11:40 am INVITED SPEAKER
* Prof. Abid Khan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Global Engagement), Monash University:
National and international innovation ecosystem

12:00 pm NEW GENERATION
Moderator: Prof. Dale Godfrey, The University of Melbourne
* Dr Gabby Watson, Monash University: Investigating immune receptor interactions during viral infection
* Charles Bayley-Jones, Monash University: Structural and kinetic investigation of the MACPF mechanism

12:30 pm MAKING SCIENCE ACCESSIBLE
Moderator: Prof. Jamie Rossjohn, Monash University
* Dr Erica Tandori, Monash University: Multisensory Science Book
* Rom Bouveret, UNSW Sydney: Research for what?
* Catriona Nguyen-Robertson, The University of Melbourne: Nyuroscientist

01:00 pm GROUP PHOTO

01:15 pm LUNCH

02:30 pm GOVERNING BOARD & CI MEETING - Closed meetings

STUDENT & ECR WORKSHOP - Registration Required
* A/Prof. Max Cryle, Monash University: Developing a project & one-page proposal

03.30 pm ARC WORKSHOP - Registration Required
* A/Prof. Alex de Marco, Monash University and Dr Anders Barlow, The University of Melbourne:
Introduction to Focused Ion Beam Microscopy

04:30 pm CONCLUSION

07:00 pm DINNER CELEBRATION



DAY 2 - February 25, 2021

Scientific Summit


09:00 am
PHYSICS
* Dr Andrew Martin, RMIT University: A new route to structure from x-ray diffraction
* Dr Andrew Morgan, The University of Melbourne: Advances in x-ray imaging for biological structure determination
* Open Discussion, moderated by Prof. Brian Abbey, La Trobe University

10:00 am INVITED SPEAKER
* Prof. John C.H. Spence, Director of Science for the NSF BioXFEL Science and Technology Centre: Imaging protein dynamics

10:30 am MORNING TEA

11:00 am SINGLE-MOLECULE MICROSCOPY/ STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
* Dr Dilshan Gunasinghe, UNSW Sydney: T cell receptor clustering: a mechanism of initiating signal transduction in T cells
* Bradley Spicer, Monash University: Revisiting the MAC assembly: from structures to single-molecule kinetics
* Charles Bayley-Jones, The cryo-EM structure of the neurofibromin dimer reveals the molecular basis for von Recklinghausen disease

12:00 pm INVITED SPEAKER
* Nobel Laureate Prof. Peter Doherty, The University of Melbourne: Perspectives on COVID Immunity

12:30 pm LUNCH

02:00 pm IMMUNOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
* Dr Lauren Holz, The University of Melbourne: Development of an efficacious TRM cell-mediated malaria vaccine
* Dr Jia Jia Lim, Monash University: The shared susceptibility epitope of HLA-DR4 binds citrullinated self-antigens and the TCR
* Dr Adam Uldrich, The University of Melbourne: Butyrophilins: New players in immune regulation
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Dr Jeffrey Mak, The University of Queensland: Chemical modulation of the MR1-MAIT axis - achievements and future directions
* Open Discussion, moderated by Dr Lynette Beattie, The University of Melbourne and Dr Carine Farenc, Monash University

03:40 pm CONCLUSION

03:45 pm FAREWELL DRINKS


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