8:30 Registration
8:40 Welcome, Thomas Fath (Macquarie University, Sydney)
8:45 Zlatko Kopecki (University of South Australia, Adelaide)
Targeting an actin remodeling protein Flightless for improved healing of
blistered skin
9:05 Manuela Klingler-Hoffmann (University of South Australia, Adelaide)
The Emerging Role of Cytoskeletal Proteins as Reliable Biomarkers
9:25 Maria Lastra Cagigas (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
The Actin Binding Proteins Tropomyosin 1.8/1.9 Specifically Regulate
Lamellipodial Dynamics and Cell Adhesion in Migrating Fibroblasts
9:40 Keynote Lecture 1 – Jenny Stow (University of Queensland, Brisbane)
Macropinocytosis as an inflammation hub in microglia
10:30 Morning tea
11:00 Helen Cooper (University of Queensland, Brisbane)
Riding the WAVE: branched actin remodelling in the dendritic spine
11:30 Bill Phillips (University of Sydney)
12:00 Janet van Eersel (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Hippocampal network aberrations in tau transgenic mice is linked to
hyperexcitation
12:20 Lauren Jones (Flinders University)
Selective ablation of spinal afferent endings leads to reduced
enterchromaffin cell development
12:35 Lunch
13:25 Keynote Lecture 2 – Stephen Robertson (Otago University, Dunedin)
The Cytoskeleton in Morphogenesis; Insights from the Filaminopathies
14:25 Arne Ittner (Dementia Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney)
New insights into functions of phosphorylation of the microtubule-
associated protein tau
14:40 Rob Gasperini (University of Tasmania, Hobart)
Is the endoplasmic reticulum sessile or motile, and why does it matter?
14:55 Mona Radwan (Melbourne University)
Arginine valency in C9ORF72 polydipeptides mediates promiscuous
proteome binding that transmits multiple modes of toxicity
15:10 Barbora Fulopova (University of Tasmania, Hobart)
Decreased structural dynamics at excitatory neuronal presynaptic boutons
in APP/PS1 mouse model rescued following iTBS intervention – an in vivo
15:20 Afternoon tea
15:40 Paul Curmi (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Dynamical mechanisms for establishing intracellular patterning: Does a
reaction-diffusion system control neuronal polarity?
16:00 Jing Yang Tee (Griffith University)
Dynamical mechanisms for establishing intracellular patterning: Does a
reaction-diffusion system control neuronal polarity?
16:20 Ramon Martinez-Marmol (University of Queensland)
Neuronal architecture under the nanoscope
16:40 Igor Bonacossa Pereira (University of Queensland)
Proper coupling between the axon and its surrounding tissue is necessary
16:55 Closing remarks and prizes
