
18th annual Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting, 2nd Sept-4th Sept 2008:
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| Tuesday 2nd September | |
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| 5pm | Opening mixer and poster set up |
| 6.00-7.00pm | Plenary talk to be given by Nobel prize winner Dr Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR (sponsored by Bio-Rad). |
| 7.00pm | Roche wine evening and posters |
| Wednesday 3rd September | |
| 8.30am-12.00pm | Session1: New genetic technologies Chaired by Associate Professor Andrew Shelling (Auckland). |
| 8.30-8.35am | Introduction from chair |
| 8.35-9.20am | Jerry Taylor (USA) |
| 9.20-10.00am | Ian Campbell (Melbourne) |
| 10.00-10.20am | Tea/Coffee |
| 10.20-10.45am | Nicole Cloonan (Sydney) |
| 10.45-11.10am | Parry Guildford (Otago) |
| 11.10-11.35am | Greg Goodall (Adelaide) |
| 11.35-11.55am | Melanie McConnell (Malaghan Institute, Wellington) |
| 11.55am-12.00pm | Chair to summarise |
| 12.00-1.00pm | Lunch Millennium Science Lunchtime workshop: "Octet, Odyssey, and Ingenuity: Solutions for Protein and Biological Systems Research", Mike Yarski and Glenn Wall-Manning |
| 1.00-4.30pm | Session2: From Genotype to Phenotype Chaired by Associate Professor Martin Kennedy (Carney Centre, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago). |
| 1.00-1.05pm | Introduction from chair |
| 1.05-1.40pm | Jock Findlay, (Melbourne) |
| 1.40-2.15pm | Ming-Wei Wang (Shanghai) |
| 2.15-2.30pm | Annette Lasham (Auckland) |
| 2.30-2.50pm | Coffee/Tea |
| 2.50-3.25pm | David Huang (Melbourne) |
| 3.25-4.00pm | Roger Reddell |
| 4.00-4.15pm | Julia Horsfield (Otago) |
| 4.15-4.30pm | Lorna Johnstone (Auckland) |
| 4.30-5.00pm | Break |
| 5.00-6.00pm | Invitrogen award lecture |
| 7.30-8.30pm | Mixer and posters |
| 8.30pm | Fashionomics |
| Thursday 4th September | |
| 8:30am-12.00pm | Session3: Visualising Cellular Processes Chaired by Dr. John Taylor, University of Auckland. |
| 8.30-8.35am | Introduction from chair |
| 8.35-9.15am | Mark Ellisman (UCSD) |
| 9.15- 9.45am | Rob Parton (Brisbane) |
| 9.45-10.00am | Sabine Mueller (Auckland) |
| 10.00-10.20am | Tea/Coffee |
| 10.20-10.50am | Patrick Sexton (Melbourne) |
| 10.50-11.20am | Shiladitya Sengupta (MIT) |
| 11.20-11.40am | David Greenwood (HortResearch) |
| 11.40-11.55am | David Collings (Christchurch) |
| 11.55am-12.00pm | Chair to summarise |
| 12.00-1.00pm | Lunch Invitrogen lunch time workshop: "Introduction to Fluorescent Imaging", Dr Lavinia Taliana |
| 1.00-3.45pm | Session4: Systems Biology (supported by the Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland) Chair: by Dr Edmund Crampin (Auckland) |
| 1.00-1.05pm | Chair's introduction |
| 1.05-1.25pm | Cris Print (Auckland) |
| 1.25-1.45pm | Mik Black (Otago) |
| 1.45-2.25pm | Heather Cunliffe, (TGen) |
| 2.25-2.45pm | Coffee/Tea |
| 2.45-3.05pm | Elizabeth Musgrove (Sydney) |
| 3.05-3.25pm | Andrew Noske (Brisbane) |
| 3.25-3.45pm | Edmund Crampin (Auckland) |
| 3.45-4.00pm | Break |
| 4.00-5.30pm | Student Session Talks in this session were chosen from the submitted abstracts; |
| 4.00-4.15pm | Martina Dautel (Massey) |
| 4.15-4.30pm | Ji Eun Kim (Auckland) |
| 4.30-4.45pm | Emma Littlejohn (Waikato) |
| 4.45-5.00pm | So-Young Moon (Christchurch) |
| 5.00-5.15pm | Anita Muthukaruppan (Auckland) |
| 5.15-5.30pm | Edward Walker (Auckland) |
| 5.30-6.30pm | The QMB Society meeting |
| 7.30pm | QMB dinner (Skyline Restaurant) |
Organising committee: Andrew Shelling, Cris Print and John Taylor (University of Auckland)