ASB 2000 Symposium
Friday 24 November 2000
Small Lecture Theatre, Biochemistry Department
University of Melbourne
10.00 - 10.30 Registration and Tea/Coffee - Biochemistry Foyer
10.30 - 10.35 Introduction (Cyril Curtain)
Session 1 (Frances Separovic, Chair)
10.35 - 11.25 Tony Watts (Oxford)
Resolution of structural details of membrane-embedded proteins using solid state NMR methods.
11.25 - 11.45 Danny Hatters (Melbourne)
Effect of phospholipid and macromolecular crowding on amyloid formation by an polipoprotein model system - apoC-II.
11.45-12.05 James Swarbrick (Melbourne)
The solution structure and backbone dynamics of the 19Kda diadenosine 5', 5'''-P1,P4-tetraphosphate hydrolase from Lupinus angustifolius L.
12.05 - 12.40 Cris dos Remedios (Syndey)
Motors on rails - where are they taking us?
12.40 - 13.50 Lunch - Conference Room 1 (Biochemistry)
Session 2 (Paul Pallaghy, Chair)
13.50 - 14.20 Christa Critchley (Queensland)
The JIP test of the fluoresence induction curve: a new tool for plant research?
14.20-14.40 Vannessa Masters (ANU)
Structure and dynamics of reaction cores of plant Photosystem II as studied by optical spectroscopy.
14.40 - 15.20 Bill Sawyer (Melbourne)
Dynamics and tryptophan rotamer conformations in peptide-lipid complexes.
15.20 - 15.50 Afternoon Tea - Biochemistry Foyer
Session 3 (Ray Norton, Chair)
15.30 - 15.50 Leann Tilley (LaTrobe)
Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching using the confocal microscope to study protein trafficking in erythrocytes infected with the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
15.50 - 16.10 Mick Foley (LaTrobe)
Random peptide libraries as sources of probes for protein structure function analysis in malaria proteins.
16.10 - 16.30 Boris Martinac (UWA)
Mechanosensitive channels of Bacteria and Archaea share a common ancestral origin.
16.30 - 17.00 Peter Gage (ANU)
Ion channels in viruses.
17.00 - 17. 45 AGM
19.00 Dinner (Ristorante Masani, 313 Drummond St, Carlton)