Wednesday, 12th February The 45th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2020
Registration Opens
8:00AM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Session 12 - Neurodegeneration
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 12th February
Auditorium
Chair: Charlie Bond
- Structural basis of the zinc-induced cytoplasmic accumulation of the Alzheimer’s disease- and ALS-linked RNA-binding protein SFPQ - Mihwa Lee
- Anterograde trafficking of β-secretase (BACE1) and Amyloid Precursor Protein (app) and the production of amyloid peptides in Alzheimer's Disease - Paul Gleeson
- Conformational flexibility of the bound neurotensin peptide may drive receptor activation - Fabian Bumbak
- ALS-associated Mutations in the TDP-43 Low-Complexity Domain have Variable Effects on its Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Properties - Luke McAlary
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 12th February
Session 13 - Prokaryotes
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Auditorium
Chairs: Denisse Leyton & Stephen Bell
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Poster Session E (students)
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 12th February
- The use of natural products in the leather industry: Depilation without damage. - Yi-Hsuan Tu
- Non-activating ligands of PPARγ to drive improved drug design - Rebecca Frkic
- Characterising insult-induced protein-protein crosslinks formed during food processing - Hannah McKerchar
- Investigating how heat shock proteins prevent protein aggregation using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy - Caitlin Johnston
- Characterisation of Enterobacteriales effector proteins in complex with an innate immune DEAD Box RNA Helicase - Melissa N Sweeney
- Semi-synthesis of the tick salivary protein evasin ACA-01 reveals a critical role of tyrosine sulfation for activity - Charlotte Franck
- The structural details of the interaction of single-stranded DNA- binding protein hSSB2 (NABP1/OBFC2A) with UV-damaged DNA - Teegan Lawson
- Characterisation of the heterologous expression of the bacteriocin glycocin F - Brittany J Drummond
- Structure function studies of CetZ tubulin like cytoskeletal proteins from haloarchaea - Vinaya Shinde
- Structural characterisation of influenza epitopes presented by dominant Indigenous Australian human leukocyte antigens - Andrea T Nguyen
- Structural and biochemical studies of the karrikin signalling pathway in arabidopsis - Sabrina F Davies
- Resolving stalled replication forks in Escherichia coli at sites of nucleoprotein complexes - Kelsey S Whinn
- Aspergillus fumigatus structural genomics: an insight into promising antifungal targets - Stephanie Nguyen
- CD4+ T cell recognition of haemagglutinin epitopes - Hannah Sloane
- Understanding protein-mediated membrane fusion using the Ebola virus fusion protein - Shelley Barfoot
- Investigating the molecular mechanisms of T-cell receptor auto-reactivity towards CD1b with self-lipids - Rachel Farquhar
- The role of the DNA-binding protein RdfS in stimulating mobile genetic element excision and conjugative transfer - Callum J Verdonk
- STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHARECTERIZATION OF THE ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY OF SARM1TIR - Mohammad Kawsar Manik
- Engineering a high-expressing arginine-vasopressin receptor V1A in mammalian cells - Riley Cridge
- Developing a FRET based RNA Biosensor - Brady Johnston
- One ring to rule them all? The mechanisms underlying replisome stability during E. coli DNA replication - Richard R Spinks
- Significance of coupled folding and binding in the interaction of neurotensin with the neurotensin receptor - Kazem Asadollahi
- RNA binding studies of Drosophila Behaviour/Human Splicing proteins - Yee Seng Chong
- Structural Analysis of L and P Proteins of Rabies Virus and knowing how these proteins interact with each other - Meysam Mirzadeh
- Studies of Substrate Preference and Specificity for the Phosphatase PTP1B - Rhiannon Morris
- Identification of novel binding sites by high-concentration NMR and X-ray crystallography - Rebecca Whitehouse
- Developing a new proteomics methods for proximity-based labeling interactors of nascent Huntingtin protein - Ruohua Lyu
- Triazolopyrimidine herbicides are potent inhibitors of Aspergillus fumigatus acetohydroxyacid synthase and a potential drug lead - Yu Shang Low
- The C. elegans TRIM protein NHL-2 regulates stem cell development through let-7 miRNA pathways - Rhys Colson
- Acinetobacter baumannii employs multiple pathways for zinc and cadmium efflux - Saleh Alquethamy
- Understanding the diverse contributions of the mitochondrial Acylglycerol Kinase (AGK) to cellular metabolism in health and disease - Thomas Jackson
- Structure functions studies of the bacteriostatic bacteriocin glycocin F - Gillian E Norris
- Enhancement of metallomacrocycle-based oxygen reduction catalysis through immobilization in a tunable silk-protein scaffold - Alden Christley-Balcomb
Bruker Trade Workshop
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Auditorium
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Free Time
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Registration re-opens
4:00PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Session 15 - Import - Export
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Auditorium
Chairs: Diana Stojanovski & Brett Collins
- Peptides and protons: How pH gradients link transport and trafficking in the cell. - Simon Newstead
- Systematic knockout of Commander subunits reveals novel assembly modules and specific roles for COMMD subunits in retriever-dependent endosomal sorting - Joanna Sacharz
- CHD4 slides nucleosomes by decoupling entry- and exit-side DNA translocation - Joel Mackay
- The Staphylococcus aureus Type VII protein secretion system - Tracy Palmer
Poster Prizes and Closing Remarks
6:00PM - 6:45PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Auditorium
Chairs: Danny Hatters & Melissa Call
Conference Dinner
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Lorne Hotel
Proteins After Party
9:00PM - 11:59PM
Wednesday, 12th February
Horizons Room