QMB 2008

18th annual Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting, 2nd Sept-4th Sept 2008:
"New Technologies in Biological Research"

In response to the growth of specialist satellite symposia, this year's Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting will focus on technologies that underpin biological research across a wide range of areas. QMB 2008 will host leaders in the development and application of cutting edge technologies being applied to the functional analysis of cells and complex biological systems.

The meeting will consist of four scientific sessions, a student session, two lunchtime workshops, a poster session, and a plenary lecture.

Tuesday 2nd September
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)