Scientific Program
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30
08:30 - 10:00 Registration (Foyer, Grand Mercure Hotel)
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome & Opening
(Conference Co-Convenor Christa Critchley & Richard John - Biosensor Group)
Session 1 Protein Structures Chair: Ray Norton
10:15 - 11:00 Steve Mayo Protein Design at the Interface of Theory, Computation, and Experiment
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 - 12:50
Bill Sawyer Distances in the TyrR Repressor DNA Complex
KateWegener Structure Studies of Citropin 1,1
Paul Pallaghy 3D Structures of cis and trans CPD-XXPXC
Brett Hambly Functional Effects of Mutations in Myosin Binding Protein C
12:50 - 14:00 LUNCH
Session 2 Biosensors I Chair: Leanne Tilley
14:00 - 14:45 Chris Lowe Biosensors: Yestertech or Tomorrowtech?
14:45 - 16:05
Ashton Partridge Conducting Polymer Sensors Incorporating Living Cells
Karen Rigby Developing the Ion Channel Switch Biosensor for Bacteria in Water
Neil Pasco Biological Oxygen Demand Monitoring Technique
Tony Larkum The Use of Microsensors with Biofilms
16:05 - 16:30 COFFEE
Session 3 Bioenergetics
Chair: Christa Critchley16:30 - 18:10
Fred Chow Grana Formation: Entropy-Assisted Local Order in Chloroplasts?
Monaz Mehta Chloroplast Grana by Laser-based Confocal Microscopy
Greg Stevens A Kinetic Model of the Redox States of Photosystem II
Anita Kishore Ca Binding Studies of PSII Using a Ca-Selective Electrode
Adam Gilmore Global Analysis of Fluorescence Quenching in Snow Gum
18:15 - 19:30+ COCKTAIL PARTY / MIXER
FRIDAY OCTOBER 1
Session 4 Biosensors II – Diagnostics
Chair: Neil Pasco08:30 - 09:00 Reinhard Renneberg Physiological and Veterinary Biosensors
09:00 - 10:20
Leanne Tilley Perylene Diones: Far-Red Fluorescent Probes for Diagnosis
Tony Collings Protein Gelation is Sticky Business
Effie Howe Surface Acoustic Wave Biosensor for Legionella and E.coli
Gert Stange Benchmark for Gas Sensors: Insect CO2 Receptors
10:20 - 11:00 COFFEE
Session 5 Posters Chair: Paul Pallaghy
11.00 - 12.30 Short talks by poster presenters & discussions
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
Session 6 Exercise Science Chair: Tony Collings
13:30 - 14:10 MartinThompson Perspectives on Muscle Fatigue and Damage
14:10 - 15:00
Pat Ruell Heat Shock Proteins and Thermotolerance
Jeff Ward Temperature Regulation in Exercise
15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE
Session 7 Membrane Transport Chair: Peter Barry
15:30 - 17:10
AlanWalker Are Auxin Transporters Redistributed or Inactivated?
Mary Beilby Modelling I/V Profiles of Lamprothamnium Papulosum
Ray Ritchie Simulation Testing of "Pump/Leak" Models of NH3 Accumulation
Kevin Barrow Effects of Singlet Oxygen on Membrane Structure and Function
Cyril Curtain Caution – Toxic Probes at Work
17:30 - 18:15 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF ASB
19:00 - ? ROMAN DINNER (POOLSIDE)
SATURDAY OCTOBER 2
Session 8 Ion Channels Chair: Simon Brown
09:00 - 09:30 David Adams Nicotinic Receptor-Channels in Autonomic Neurones
09:30 - 10:30
Ray Norton Disulfide Analogues of the Potassium Channel Blocker ShK Toxin
Peter Barry Mutations in Ligand-Gated Ion Channels That Switch Ion Selectivity
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE
Session 9 Biosensors III Chair: Ashton Partridge
11.00 - 11:30 Gordon Wallace Mimicking nature using conducting polymer sensor arrays
11:30 - 12:30
Hans-Jürgen Wirth Kinetic Binding Models for Biosensor Data
Shanging Zhang Microdisc Electrodes Based Phenol Biosensors
Huizin Zhao Membrane Based Microdisc Array Electrodes for Biosensors
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
Session 10 Biophysical Protein Studies Chair: Brett Hambly
13:30 - 14:00 Hans Freeman Mega $$ Biophysics: Australian Synchrotron Radiation Source
14:00 - 15:00
Ron Clarke Rate-Determining Steps in Na+K+-ATPase
Simon Brown Non-Invasive Measurements using near-IR spectroscopy
Andrew Terentis UV-Vis and RRS Studies of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase
15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE
Session 11 Biosensors IV Chair: Gordon Wallace
15:30 - 16:10 Masuo Aizawa Advances in Bioelectronics
16:10 - 17:30
Torsten Reda Biomimetic Molecular Switches Based on Redox-modulated Cpds
Dan Nicolau Mechanisms of Protein Adhesion in Confined Geometries
Lina Pugliano Immobilisation of Enzymes on SAMs for Biosensor Applications
Manihar Situmorang Polytyramine for the Fabrication of Enzyme Electrodes
SUNDAY OCTOBER 3
Session 12 Gramicidin and Other Channels Chair: Frances Separovic
09:00 - 09:30 Roger Koeppe Engineering Gramicidin Channels with Mutations
09:30 - 10:30
Gowri Krishna Ion Selectivity of Gramicidin Channels in Membranes
Claudia Haarmann Modulation of the Ryanodine Receptor by Mg and pH
Aphrodite Anastasiadis Interaction of Avidin with Biotinylated Gramicidin
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE
Session 13 Techniques/New Results Chair: Cris Dos Remedios
11:00 - 12:40
Guy Watson SPM for Nanoscale Characterisation & Manipulation of Biosystems
Joe Wolfe Rapid Acoustic Measurements of the Vocal Tract
Mike Whittaker Water Mobility in Hydrogel Polymers
Terry Chilcott Negative Conductance-Temp Coefficients in Glycine Crystals
Jim Pope MRI of Water Diffusion in the Human Eye Lens
12:40 - 13:00 AWARD PRESENTATIONS & CLOSURE
POSTERS
P1 Vlado Buljan Cobalt as an Acceptor for FET Studies of Myosin RLC
P2 Gerlinde Lenz Characterisation of Focal Perfusion Systems by Conductometry
P3 Hans-Jürgen Wirth HPLC on Membrane-Modified Nonporous Silica
P4 Julian Melton A Viroporin from Ross River Virus
P5 Yuen-Han Lam Determination of the Conformation of a Mellitin-Inhibitor Complex
P6 Rolla Khoury Nitric Oxide Causes an Increase in Na Current of Ventricular Myocytes
P7 Carl Gibson AFM of Treated Wool Fibre
P8 Julia Blach AFM of Treated Human Hair Fibres
P9 H-Y Lee Photoinactivation of Photosystem II in Capsicum Leaves
P10 Colm Cahill Visualization of Human Fibroblast Dynamics by AFM
P11 Joe Wolfe Frost Damage in Eucalypt Leaves
P12 Peter Schaare Real Time Assessment of Anaesthetic Titre in Blood