Session 1

(Host - Ivan Vinogradov)

Session 2

(Host- Spencer Whitney)

13:00

Automated monitoring of Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) activity and abundance using wildlife cameras

Jesse Wallace (Maleska Lab)

Diel-driven variation of respiration and metabolite levels in C3 and C4 grasses

Yuzhen Fan (Atkin Lab)

13:12

Understanding dispersal patterns of saltwater crocodiles in Australia through molecular analysis Yusuke Fukuda (Moritz lab)

Developing a nanobody platform for structural determination of Candida auris ABC transporter ‘CDR1’ by cryo-EM

Shukla Promite (Brock lab)

13:24

Inheritance in Australia's most endangered insect, Dryococelus australis

Ollie Stuart (Mikheyev lab)

Transporters: more than meets the eye

Loraine Rourke (Byrt lab)

13:36

The impact of filtering putatively recombinant loci on species tree estimation

Caitlin Cherryh (Lanfear lab)

How PfCRT binds drugs

John Tanner (Corry lab)

13:48

Where Sunda Meets Sahul: bird beta diversity and biogeography

Audrey Prasetya (Moritz lab)

Characterizing the lipid fingerprint of the mechanosensitive channel Piezo2

YC Lin (Corry lab)

14:00

Thermal tolerance of canopy-forming seaweeds - a novel approach

Rosie Harris (Nicotra lab)

The role of UmamiT amino-acid transporters in symbiotic legume nodulation

Courtney Winning (Djordjevic lab)

14:12

Floral Notes from Underground: The Scent of the Underground Orchid

James Perkins (Peakall lab)

Investigating the tumour-immune landscape following immune checkpoint blockade therapy

Andrew Almonte (Fahrer lab)

14:24

BREAK

15:00

Pangenomes and Moths - Adaptation in the lab and the wild

Andy Bachler (Stone lab)

The EVEREST Project: COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in cancer patients

George Cavic (Fahrer lab)

15:12

Rediscovering the leaf blotch miner moths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) of Australia

Ying Luo (Keogh lab)

The identification of auxin transport inhibiting flavonoids that are active during nodule formation

Cindy Wang (Mathesius lab)

15:24

A Review on Miltotranes Zimmerman, 1994 (Coleoptera Curculionidae Molytinae), the Bowenia-pollinated Cycad Weevils in Australia, with Description of a New Species and New Insights into Bowenia Systematics Yun

Hsiao (Rowell lab)

Targeting thiamine (vitamin B1) metabolism and utilisation in Plasmodium

Toni Fathoni (Saliba lab)

15:36

Blakely’s Red Gum and psyllids: a volatile relationship?

Maddie Fink (Head lab)

Characterisation of the PKS4 gene cluster of Rhynchosporium commune

Reynaldi Darma (Solomon lab)

15:48

Stemness and trans-differentiation in regeneration: mechanisms and evolution

Di Pan (Adamska lab)

The roles of Nudix hydrolases secreted by pathogenic fungi

Carl McCombe (Williams lab)

16:00

Cellular and molecular regulation of calcareous sponge wound healing

Cuneyt Caglar (Adamska lab)

Structural repertoire of Fusarium oxysporum effectors revealed by experimental and computational studies

Daniel Yu (Williams lab)