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)
