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
                     *
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


This is an exclusive event for Centre members only, please register through the link that has been sent to your email or contact us directly.


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