QMB2011 Programme

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Monday 29 August (Rydges Hotel)
Noon - 6.00pm: Registration
6.30pm - 8.00pm	Opening by Rt Hon Wayne Mapp, Minister for Science and Innovation, followed by Plenary talk: Nobel prize winner Professor Barry Marshall Helicobacter pylori in the post-genomic era
8.00pm - 10pm	Mixer and Roche Wine Evening followed by Illumina Party and Chicos

Tuesday 30th August (Rydges Hotel)
Animal Genomics Chaired by John MacEwan (AgResearch)
8.30 am - 9.15 am	Michael Heaton USDA Q1. Discovery of a lentivirus susceptibility gene in sheep
9.15 am - 9.35 am	Ken Dodds AgResearch Q2. Case Studies in Gene Mapping and Genomic Selection using the Sheep SNP50 BeadChip
9.35 am - 10.00 am	Richard Spelman Livestock Improvement Q3. The application of genomic information in the New Zealand dairy industry
10.00am - 10.30 am	Morning Tea
Biological Mass Spectrometry Chaired by Associate Professor Dave Greenwood (Auckland)
10.30 am - 11.15 am	Gary Siuzdak Scripps Q4. Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics as a Unique Biochemical Approach for Therapeutic Discovery
11.15 am - 11.40 am	Bill Jordan Victoria University Q5. Characterising Membrane Proteomes
11.40 am - 12.00 pm	Jolon Dyer AgResearch Q6. Mapping oxidative degradation in proteins through application of redox proteomic approaches
12.00pm - 1.30 pm	Lunch
Science Communication Chaired by Dr Wayne Patrick (Massey University, Albany)
1.30 pm - 2.15 pm	Judith Swan Princeton University Q7. Why is scientific writing so difficult<
2.15 pm - 2.40 pm	Jean Fleming University of Otago Q8. Conversations about science: communicating the science of controversial issues
2.40 pm - 3.00 pm	Peter Griffin The Science Media Centre Q9. Why media coverage of science matters
3.00 pm - 3.30 pm	Afternoon Tea
Emerging Researchers Chaired by Dr Damien Fleetwood (Auckland University)
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm	Natalie Borg Monash University Q10. Epitope Flexibility and Dynamic Footprint Revealed by Molecular Dynamics of a pMHC-TCR complex
4.00 pm - 4.15 pm	Chris Squire University of Auckland Q11. Thalidomide v. cereblon \| nolberec v. edimodilahT
4.15 pm - 4.30 pm	Janine Copp Victoria University Q12. Seek and destroy: Engineered Nitroreductases for Cancer Gene Therapy
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm	Illumina Emerging Scientist Award Lara Shepherd Elucidating the evolution of New Zealand's biota using molecular biology tools.

6.00 pm - 8.00 pm	Posters and Mixer Session
8.00 pm - 9.00 pm	Fashionomics

Wednesday 31st August (Crowne Plaza Hotel)
RNA world Chaired by Dr Chris Brown (Otago)
8.30 am - 9.15 am	Berthold Kastner Max-Plank-Institute Gottingen Sponsored by the University of Otago Q14. From RNA to RNP world: The architecture of the spliceosome
9.15 am - 9.50 am	Sean Grimmond Queensland Q15. Mammalian RNA output at single nucleotide resolution using RA-Seq
9.50 am - 10.05 am	Paul Gardner University of Canterbury Q16. Predicting bacterial transcription terminators: RITs, TRITs and TB
10.05 am - 10.30 am	Morning Tea
Genome Evolution Chaired by Professor Barry Scott (Massey University)
10.30 am - 11.15 am	Sophien Karmoun The Sainsbury Institute Q17. Genome evolution in the Irish potato famine pathogen
11.15 am - 12.00 pm	James Sikela University of Colorado Q18. DUF1220 domains and the search for the genes that made us human
12.00pm - 1.00 pm	Lunch
Enzyme Evolution Chaired by Dr Janine Copp (Victoria University)
1.30 pm - 2.15 pm	Michael Hecht Princeton University Q19. Steps Towards Artificial Genomes: Sustaining Cell Growth With Sequences Designed de novo
2.15 pm - 2.35 pm	Vic Arcus University of Waikato Q20. Functional Enzymes from a Billion Years Ago
2.35 pm - 3.00 pm	Colin Jackson CSIRO Q21. Epistatic interactions in protein engineering and protein evolution
3.00 pm - 3.30 pm	Afternoon Tea
Awards Chaired by Dr Matt Templeton (Plant and Food Research)
3.30 pm - 4.15 pm	Life Technologies Young Scientist Award Assoc. Prof Alan Davidson :Catch of the day: Blood and kidney stem cells in zebrafish
4.15 pm - 5.00 pm	NZSBMB Life Technologies Award Prof essor Martin Kennedy

7.00 pm	Conference Dinner

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