12:30 – 13:30

LUNCH AND REGISTRATION FOR SPEAKERS IN ROBERTSON ATRIUM

WELCOME ADDRESS IN ROBERTSON ATRIUM (BLDG 46)

13:35 – 17:00

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Ecology & Evolution

Plant Science

Biomedical Sciences &

Biochemistry

Eucalyptus Room (Seats 50 during COVID)

Session chair: Adam Reddiex

Microphone runners: Piet Arnold

Robertson Room (Seats 92 during COVID)

Session chair: TBA

Microphone runner: TBA

Slatyer Room (Seats 50 during COVID)

Session chair: Jamie Robertson 

Microphone runner: TBA

13:35

Wallace's Crossing: New Insights

Audrey Prasetya (Moritz lab)

Conservation of leaf swelling

Tomás Fuenzalida (Ball lab)

How exactly does the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine work?

Andrew Almonte (Fahrer lab)

13:47

Conservation genomics of the Lord Howe Island stick insect

Ollie Stuart (Mikheyev lab)

Isolation and functional characterisation of a flax rust gene able to inhibit resistance responses in flax to specific flax rust effectors

Farhad Hossain (Jones lab)

Pulsing Xenia - an emerging soft coral model for regeneration Cuneyt Caglar (Adamska lab)

13:59

Plastic responses of the alpine herb Wahlenbergia ceracea to climate warming

Rocco Notarnicola (Nicotra lab)

The search for CEP-CEPR1 interaction partners

Katia Taylor (Djordjevic lab)

Screening inhibitors for the neutral amino acid transporter B0AT1, a Potential Target to Treat Metabolic Diseases

Aditya Yadav (Broer lab)

14:11

Does sentinel presence affect responses to alarm calls?

Natalie Tegtman (Magrath lab)

Development of a protoplast- based assay for validation of effector candidates

Salome Wilson (Schwessinger lab)

Know Guts, Know Glory: The Saproxylic Velvet Worm Gut Microbiome

Imelda Forteza (Mathesius lab)

14:23

Quantifying the costs of male reproduction: mating behaviour versus sperm traits

Joseph Chung (Jennions lab)

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

Courtney Winning (Djordjevic lab)

Lockdown Project: Unravelling the mysteries of drug-binding with docking analysis

Shaggy Iqbal (Callaghan lab)

14:35

Taxonomy of trunk-boring cycad weevils in Australia (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae)

Yun Hsiao (Rowell lab)

Characterising Nudix hydrolases secreted by pathogenic fungi

Carl McCombe (Williams lab)

Froot Loops: Toxo's breakfast of champions!

Jenni Hayward (van Dooren lab)

14:47

Vulnerability of marine plants to extreme temperature events: a mechanistic approach

Rosie Harris (Nicotra lab)

Investigating the role of photorespiration in plant immunity

Harshil Ramachandran (Rathjen

lab)

Characterisation of the Plasmodium falciparum pantothenate kinase (PanK) complex

Christine Liu (Saliba lab)

15:00 -

AFTERNOON TEA

Ecology & Evolution

Plant Science

Biomedical Sciences & Biochemistry

15:30

Why Do Some Human Associated Escherichia coli Strains Lack Antibiotic Resistance?

Veronica Alozie-chidi (Gordon lab)

Death follows: processes of drought-induced tree mortality

Cal Bryant (Ball lab)

15:42

Model selection method for detecting natural selection of nonstationary data

Yurong Tang (Huttley lab)

Some clues on maternally controlled seed germination

Ayesha Wellawatta Mudiyanselage (Masle lab)

15:54

Observing the effects of bushfires on koalas and their habitat

Murraya Lane (Foley lab)

Machine Learning for Fungal Species Identification

Tavish Eenjes (Schwessinger lab)

16:06

Phenotypic characteristics of human- associated E. coli Sequence Types ST73, ST95, ST131

Truc Nguyen (Gordon lab)

Acclimation of leaf water relations to extreme drought and flooding

Holly Beckett (Ball lab)

16:18

Using terrestrial LiDAR to quantify changes in tropical tree woody structure under experimental drought

Ingrid Coughlin (Meir lab)

Structural rearrangements and the evolution of the Eucalyptus genome

Scott Ferguson (Borevitz lab)

16:30

Traits mediate tree survival and growth in a Bornean rainforest 

Hannah Carle (Meir lab

What makes a 'normal' infection thread? Quantifying infection thread phenotypes in Medicago truncatula.

Angus Rae (Mathesius lab)

16:45

SOCIAL HOUR