Past Meeting: ASB 99
Gold Coast - Queensland
Combined ASB 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting/3rd Asia Pacific
BioSensor Symposium
September 30th to October 3rd, Broadbeach
Click here for the detailed program.
The 23nd Annual Conference was held at the Grand Mercure,
Broadbeach QLD, from Sep 30th - Oct 3rd 1999.
There were over 80 registrants who witnessed
a varied programn of 54 talks and 12 posters covering areas including
ion channels,
protein structure and function,
new techniques/experimental results,
sports and exercise science,
membranes,
bioenergetics,
macromolecules,
protein mechanics and the special emphasis this year was on biosensors.
The invited lectures were given by
Steve Mayo (Caltech): Protein folding and design
Roger Koeppe (Arkansas): Engineering the gramacidin channel
David Adams (UQ): Ion channels
Chris Lowe (Cambridge): Biotechnology and biosensors
Reinhard Renneberg (Hong Kong): Physiological sensors
Masuo Aizawa (Tokyo Inst. Tech.): Bioelectronics
Martin Thompson (SU): Sports/exercise science
Many thanks must go to the program organisers Dr Tony Collings, Dr
Christa Chritchley and Richard John
for putting together such an excellent program that ran so smoothly. One
of the highlights of the conference was the Roman dinner (with togas and
varied musical entertainment
provided).
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The award for the Best Student Poster was won by Rolla Khoury of the John
Curtain School of Medical Research, ANU for her poster, "Nitrix Oxide causes
an increase in the persistent sodium channel current in inside-out patches of
ventricular myocytes".
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The award for the Best Student Talk was won jointly by Lina Pugliano of
UNSW for her talk on "The immobilization of enzymes onto self-assembled monolayers for
biosensor applications
" and Kate Wegener of the Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Adelaide for her talk on
"Structure studies of citropin 1.1 - A broad-spectrum antibiotic from the blue
mountains tree frog".
Contact Tony Collings
Ph: 02-9413-7148
Fax: 02-9413-7200
Email: tonyc@tip.csiro.au