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Sunday the 24th of September
10:00 am - International Symposium on Stem Cell Ageing and Regenerative Engineering
Satellite Event
12:30 pm - Registration opens
5:00 pm - PLENARY: Professor Elizabeth Blackburn
Director, Salk Institute
Roles of Telomere Biology in Human Healthspan and Disease
6:00 pm - Welcome Reception
Monday the 25th of September
8:30am - PLENARY: Professor Sam Stupp
Director, Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University
BioNanotechnology and Living-Like Soft Materials
Nanomedicine
10:00am
Mai Viu
10:15am
Danzi Song
Energy and the environment
10:15am
Hayati, Amir
Fundamentals of Nanobio
9:30am
Keynote:
Aiguo Shen
10:00am
Jing Wang
Industrial Biotechnology
10:30am
Protein Nanotechnology: approaches to generating useful materials from peptides and proteins
Juliet Gerrard
11:00am - Morning Tea
11:30am - PLENARY: Professor Geri Richmond
Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon
Mulling over Molecular Assembly at Emulsion Surfaces
12:30pm - Lunch
Special lunchtime presentations
“Sigma Free Web Toolbox - Interactive Calculators, Search Explorers, and Resources”
Speakers: Jenny McShane, Segment Marketing Specialist, Merck, Australia.
Rodman Chan, Technical Service Support Officer, Sigma, Australia.
“High resolution sizing and concentration measurements of nanoparticles using NTA”
Speaker: Dr Will Lawler, ATA Scientific
Fundamentals of Nanobio
2:00pm
Tuan Nguyen
2:15pm
Jonathan Wei
2:30pm
Vectoria Coleman
Nanomedicine
1:15pm
Keynote: Tuning nanoengineered surfaces to manipulate immune response in bone regeneration
Yin Xiao
1:45pm
Design and fabrication of nanostructured bactericidal surfaces for biomedical applications
Jafar Hasan
2:00pm
Interaction between organosilica nanoparticles and the human pathogen, Candida albicans
Vidhishri Kesarwani
Industrial Biotechnology
2:00pm
Baode Sun
2:30pm
Antibody-binding, anti-fouling surface coatings based on zwitterionic EK peptides
Julia Walker
3:00pm
Robert Flower
3:15pm
Targeting allergy immunotherapies to the epidermis, for improved allergy desensitisation
Nicole Van Der Burg
Stem Cells Science and Therapies
1:45pm
Abbas Shafiee
2:00pm
Mohammad Soheilmoghaddam
2:30pm
Transfection of large plasmids into primary human cardiac fibroblasts using non-viral approach
Bingzhao Xia
2:45pm
Nick Glass
Energy and the environment
2:15pm
Julia Fischer
3:30pm - Afternoon Tea
AEB
Auditorium
Nanomedicine
AEB
301
Stem Cells Science and Therapies
4:00pm
Christian Nefzger
4:30pm
Keynote: Human induced pluripotent cells as platform for functional neuro-genomics.
Ernst Wolvetang
Hawken
N201
Industrial Biotechnology
4:30pm
Mohamed Alfaleh
Hawken
N202
Energy and the environment
4:30pm
Zhen Jiang
4:45pm
BN/Ag nanohybrids with a petal-like BN surface as promising catalysts and antibacterial agent
Konstantin Firestein
AEB
313
Industrial Biotechnology
4:30pm
Tim McCubbin
5:00pm - PLENARY: Professor Wilhelm Huck
Professor of Physical Organic Chemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen
Building a Synthetic Cell
6:00 pm - AIBN Student Association Event
Tuesday the 26th of September
8:30am - PLENARY: Professor Ian Frazer
Professor Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland
HPV vaccines – a success story for nanobiology
Industrial Biotechnology
9:30am
Josef Jampilek
10:15am
Simon Puttick
Stem Cells Science and Therapies
9:30am
Keynote: Heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans as adjuvants for enhanced cellular therapy
Simon Cool
10:00am
Harish Padmanabhan
10:15am
Pingping Han
10:30am
Keynote: Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Promote Myelination in the Brain
Kaylene Young
Nanomedicine
9:30am
Keynote: Origami with amphiphilic polymers to create self-assembled nanoparticles for drug delivery
Martina Stenzel
10:15am
Priya Naidu
FSP
Diagnostic
10:00am
Keynote: Non-invasive Diagnostics: The Future of Personalised Medicine
Chamindie Punyadeera
11:00am - Morning Tea
11:30am - PLENARY: Professor Melissa Little
Group Leader: Kidney Development, Disease and Regeneration, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Directing pluripotent stem cells to kidney: an exemplar of the future of stem cell medicine
12:30pm - Lunch
Special lunchtime presentations
“Accelerating results with better expertise and infrastructure”
Speaker: Dr Jane Kenna, Australian National Fabrication Facility – QLD.
Nanomedicine
1:45pm
Biosensors with embedded 7-segment or dot-matrix displays powered by molecules
Joanne Macdonald
2:45pm
High density lipoprotein as a novel lymph-directing platform for immunotherapies delivery
Gracia Gracia
3:00pm
Keynote: From black-eyed peas to nanotechnology: engineering plant virus-based therapeutics
Nicole Steinmetz
Industrial
Biotechnology
1:15pm
Keynote: Mammalian surface display for the affinity maturation of complex proteins
Con Panousis
1:45pm
Mass spectrometry as a tool to study protein glycosylation of biopharmaceuticals
Cassandra Pegg
2:00pm
Natalie Trevaskis
2:15pm
Targeting Nanomaterials to Prostate Cancer Biomarkers for Theranostic Application
Andri Wardiana
2:30pm
Arghavan Golbaz
Fundamentals
of Nanobio
1:15pm
Keynote: Printing Functional Cell Scaffolds by 3D Laser Lithography
Christopher Barner-Kowollik
2:00pm
Chin Wong
2:15pm
Amal Sivaram
2:45pm
Cellulose Nanofibers with Concentrated Polymer Brushes Enhance Cell Adhesion and Function
Chiaki Yoshikawa
FSP
Implantable
1:45pm
Minimally invasive microelectrode arrays for bioimpedance characterisation in the skin
Nick Hong Seng Lee
2:30pm
Wing Tong
3:00pm
Keynote: Conceptual and technical drivers for a new inter-discipline: Mechanopharmacology
Alastair Stewart
Nanomedicine
1:30pm
Photo-responsive polymeric nanomaterials for molecular imaging and therapeutic function
Nick Westra Van Holthe
2:00pm
Naisarg Pujara
2:30pm
Fatemeh Mir Najafi Zadeh
2:45pm
Sara Ardekani
3:15pm
Quantum dot based multiplex lateral flow immunoassay applicable to sepsis diagnosis
Hans Peter Deigner
3:30pm - Afternoon Tea
Stem Cells Science and Therapies
4:00pm
Keynote: Tailoring Polymeric Network Structure And Function To Elicit Control Over Stem Cell Fate
Justin Cooper-White
Energy and the environment
4:00pm
Keynote: Nanocarbons in Novel Solar Cells
Joe Shapter
4:30pm
Yang Bai
Industrial Biotechnology
5:00pm - PLENARY: Professor Alan Mackay-Sim
Emeritus Professor, Griffith University 2017 Australian of the Year
6:00 pm - Poster Session
6:30 pm - Public Lecture: The Importance of Diversity and Inclusive Leadership in Science and Innovation
Satellite Event
Wednesday the 27th of September
8:30am - PLENARY: Professor Johan Hofkens
Professor, KULeuven
Fluorocode, a superresolution optical map of DNA
Fundamentals of
Nanobio
9:30am
Qinghong Yuan
Industrial
Biotechnology
Nanomedicine
10:00am
A new interfacial bio-sensing approach for detecting aberrant protein phosphorylation in cancer
Ahmed Mostak
10:15am
Kevin Koo
Energy and the
environment
9:30am
Keynote: Structural Control of Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications
Rachel Caruso
10:00am
Xiao Mu
10:15am
Hydrogenated defective graphene and carbon nanoribbons for sodium and calcium ion batteries
Amir Farokh Niaei
11:00am - Morning Tea
AEB
Auditorium
AEB
301
11:30am
Rebecca Wood
11:45am
Screening genes associated with increased antibody yield in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
Matthew Henry
Hawken
N201
11:45am
Dual-stimuli-responsive polymeric micelles for monitoring therapeutic efficacy in vivo
Anna Gemmel
12:00pm
Biodistribution of Ultrapure Alginates in BALB/c Mice Model: An Evaluation for Two Weeks
Anitha Sudesh Kumar
Hawken
N202
11:30am
Yanchun Han
AEB
313
12:15pm - Lunch
Energy and
the environment
1:45pm
Nanocarbon-templated approach towards 3D tin based nanostructures for energy storage applications
Bin Luo
2:00pm
Crystal facet engineered photoanodes for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting
Songcan Wang
2:30pm
Alireza Hosseinmardi
2:45pm
Nanocellulose as a sustainable nanoadditive for polymer, building and construction materials
Pratheep Annamalai
Industrial
Biotechnology
2:45pm
Trevor Rapson
Nanomedicine
2:00pm
Hamidreza Maroof
2:15pm
Zachary Houston
2:30pm
Mingxia Lu
2:45pm
Fatemeh Movahedi
3:00pm
Effect of engineered nanodiamonds on the cellular structure and growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Karthika Prasad
3:15pm
Designer Silica Based Nanoparticles for Targeted Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins
Amirali Popat
Fundamentals
of Nanobio
2:00pm
Juan Li
2:45pm
Novel quantum dots for two-photon assisted cell imaging in luminescent 3D-printed scaffolds
Alireza Dehghani
Nanomedicine
1:30pm
Methylsorb: An interfacial biosensing method for quantifying DNA methylation using gold-DNA affinity
Abu Sina
2:15pm
Activatable Luminescence Nanoprobe for Highly Sensitive and Selective Sensing of Hydrogen Sulfide
Chengchen Duan
2:30pm
Modified Organosilica Core-shell Nanoparticles for Stable pH Sensing in Biological Environments
Kye Robinson
2:45pm
Luminescent Porous Silicon Microparticles for Self-Reporting Ophthalmic Drug Delivery
Tushar Kumeria
3:00pm
Target specific delivery of oligonucleotide using peptide/liposome hybrid system
Anujman Begum
3:30pm - Afternoon Tea
Nanomedicine
Fundamentals of Nanobio
4:00pm
Keynote: Oscillations in networks of organic and enzymatic reactions: towards active smart materials
Sergey Semenov
4:45pm
Rationally Designed Dendritic Mesoporous Organosilica Nanoparticles for Hyper-activation of Lipase
Mohammad Kalantari
Energy and the environment
4:00pm
Jadranka Travas-Sejdic
Industrial Biotechnology
4:00pm
Keynote: Transformation of wild type Trueperella pyogenes into a GMP production host
George Moutafis
5:00pm - PLENARY: Professor Heather Maynard
Director of the Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program, UCLA
Sweet Stabilizers: Glycopolymer Conjugates and Nanogels for Therapeutic Protein Delivery
6:00 pm - Banquet
8:30am - China-Australia-CSIRO Polymer Meeting (CAPM4)
Satellite Event
8:30am - China-Australia-CSIRO Polymer Meeting (CAPM4)
Satellite Event
8:30am National Workshop on “Biomedical Applications of Engineered Antibodies and Proteins"
Satellite Event