AuPS 2015 Hobart - Symposia

• Age, sex and cardiovascular protection strategies — Organizer: Jim Bell
  • Susan Howlett, Dahousie University, Canada
    – Different cardioprotection strategies in ageing
  • Barbara Kemp-Harper, Monash University, Australia
    – Nitroxyl as a vasoprotective signalling molecule
  • David Saint, University of Adelaide, Australia
    – Manipulating the innate immune system as a cardioprotective strategy
  • Chris Sobey, Monash University, Australia
    – GPER pharmacotherapy in ischemic stroke
• Cardiovascular metabolo-pathology — Organizer: Lea Delbridge
  • Lea Delbridge, University of Melbourne, Australia
    – Myocardial energy mis-appropriation in metabolic stress
  • Xinli Hu, Peking University, China
    – MG53 and diabetic cardiomyopathy
  • Greg Kowalski, Deakin University, Australia
    – Dietary fuels and metabolic consequences are context specific
  • Chengxue (Helena) Qin, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Australia
    – An alternative approach to protecting the heart under ischemic stress
• Controlling the excitable heart — Organizer: Livia Hool
  • Livia Hool, School of Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology, Australia
    – Insights into adrenergic stimulation of calcium channels
  • Peter Jones, University of Otago, New Zealand
    – How much calcium is too much?
  • Derek Laver, University of Newcastle, Australia
    – Controlling internal calcium release and excitability
  • David Paterson, University of Oxford, UK
    – Recent insights into neural control of cardiac excitability
• Education symposium: What do we want our physiology graduates to know and be able to do? — Organizer: Yvonne Hodgson
  • Joel Michael, Rush University, USA
    – The core concepts of physiology: what are they and how do we know if our students understand them?
  • Ramesh Rajan, Monash University, Australia
    – Online resources to support the teaching of physiology content and practicals
  • Dianne Watters, Griffith University, Australia
    – Using online modules to develop and measure core concepts relating to diffusion across a membrane, including Nernst equation
  • Kirsten Zimbardi, University of Queensland, Australia
    – Using a concept inventory to determine scientific thinking skills
• Linking mitochondria with health and disease — Organizers: Nigel Turner and Sean McGee
  • Antony Cooper, Garvan Institute, Australia
    – Involvement of mitochondria in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease
  • David Marcinek, Washington University, USA
    – Dynamic control of mitochondrial energetics in aging skeletal muscle
  • David Thorburn, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute , Australia
    – Understanding the landscape of inherited mitochondrial diseases
  • Nigel Turner, University of New South Wales, Australia
    – Exploring mitochondrial stress signaling
• Lipid metabolism in health & disease - novel techniques to assess lipids — Organizer: Andrew Hoy
  • Clinton Bruce, Deakin University, Australia
    – Phospholipids and skeletal muscle function
  • Andrew Hoy, University of Sydney, Australia
    – Fatty acids and prostate cancer: a journey from the lab to the clinic
  • Todd Mitchell, University of Wollongong, Australia
    – What has lipidomics done for me lately: insights, advances and limitations in the application of lipidomics to the study of lipid metabolism in health and disease
  • Martin Snel, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, Australia
    – Mass spectrometric imaging, a novel way of visualising lipid distribution in tissue
• New insights into exercise-induced mitochondrial adaptations — Organizer: David Bishop
  • David Bishop, Victoria University, Australia
    – Exercise-induced changes in mitochondrial respiration (and some of the underpinning molecular mechanisms)
  • Jeff Coombes, University of Queensland, Australia
    – NRF-2 and mitochondrial biogenesis
  • Glenn Wadley, Deakin University, Australia
    – Does antioxidant supplementation reduce skeletal muscle mitochondrial biogenesis?
  • Zhen Yan, University of Virginia, USA
    – Autophagy and exercise-induced mitochondrial biogenesis
• Novel mechanisms that regulate the physiological attributes of muscle — Organizer: Paul Gregorevic
  • Karyn Esser, University of Florida, USA
    – A new role for circadian rhythm genes in muscle as a determinant of systemic health and performance
  • James Hudson, University of Queensland, Australia
    – Developing novel ex vivo platforms for studying striated muscle physiology
  • David James, University of Sydney, Australia
    – Using proteomics and systems biology to interrogate skeletal muscle physiology
  • Kristen Nowak, University of Western Australia, Australia
    – Defining determinants of muscle attributes in neuromuscular disease using the collaborative cross mouse colonies
• Physiological mechanisms controlling microvascular flow and muscle metabolism — Organizer: Stephen Rattigan
  • Renee Dwyer, University of Tasmania, Australia
    – Beneficial effects of exercise on regulation of microvascular flow
  • Ed Eringa, VU University, The Netherlands
    – Role of perivascular adipose tissue on microvascular flow
  • Michelle Keske, Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania, Australia
    – Regulation of muscle microvascular flow and metabolism: an overview
  • Kim Sjøberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    – Microvascular actions of GLP-1
• SERCA and NaK properties and regulation in skeletal muscle — Organizer: Robyn Murphy
  • Gordon Lynch, The University of Melbourne, Australia
    – SR Ca²⁺ATPase function in muscle wasting disorders
  • Michael McKenna, Victoria University, Australia
    – A focus on Na⁺-K⁺ATPase regulation and function in skeletal muscle
  • Robyn Murphy, La Trobe University, Australia
    – Methodology that furthers our insights into the ATPases in muscle
  • Russell Tupling, University of Waterloo, Canada
    – The diverse roles of phospholamban and sarcolipin in skeletal muscle: From adaptive thermogenesis to muscle myopathy
• Sex-specific effects of programming: how your gender plays a role in determining your disease risk — Organizer: Deanne Hryciw
  • Karen Moritz, Univeristy of Queensland, Australia
    – Sex, drugs and fetal programming of disease
  • Beverly Mühlhäusler, University of Adelaide, Australia
    – Maternal nutrition and the early life origins of obesity and food preferences: mechanisms and sex differences
  • Kirsty Pringle, University of Newcastle, Australia
    – Fetal sex specific differences in the maternal renin angiotensin system: implications for pregnancy outcome
  • Marianne Tare, Monash University, Australia
    – The effect of early life vitamin D deficiency on sex-specific vascular regulation
• Stem cells & regenerative medicine — Organizer: James Ryall
  • Robert Bryson-Richardson, Monash Universitry, Australia
    – Skeletal muscle development
  • Tom Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
    – Regulation of stem cell quiescence
  • Enzo Porrello, The University of Queensland, Australia
    – Cardiac regeneration in neonatal mice
  • James Ryall, The University of Melbourne, Australia
    – Metabolic reprogramming in skeletal muscle stem cells
• The sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle — Organizer: Bradley Launikonis
  • Tanya Cully, University of Queensland St Lucia QLD, Australia
    – Ryanodine receptor Ca²⁺ leak and its modification in skeletal muscle
  • Angela Dulhunty, Australian National University, Australia
    – Functional interactions within the skeletal ryanodine receptor calcium release complex
  • Stewart Head, University of New South Wales, Australia
    – α-actinin-3 and sarcoplasmic reticulum function
  • Feliciano Protasi, Università G. d'Annunzio of Chieti, Italy
    – Exercise-dependent formation of new SR-TT junctions containing STIM1 and Orai1