2012 Sydney AuPS/ASB/PSNZ Meeting - 2-5 December 2012

• A vignette of TRP ion channel physiology — Organizer: Gary Housley
  • Multiple roles of TRP channels in liver function
    – Greg Barritt, Flinders University, Australia
  • Molecular makeup and physiology of TRPC channels
    – Lutz Birnbaumer, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
  • Proteolytic Regulation of TRP Channels: Implications for Pain and Neurogenic Inflammation
    – Nigel Bunnett, Monash University, Australia
  • TRPM2 channels in oxidative stress-induced cell death
    – Grigori Rychkov, University of Adelaide, Australia
  • Myoendothelial microdomains and TRPC3: anatomical links to function
    – Shaun Sandow, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • TRPC3 channels and hearing
    – Ann Chi Yan Wong, Univeristy of New South Wales, Australia
• Advances in methods for intestinal motility — Organizer: Marcello Costa
  • Modelling of enteric neural motor patterns
    – Joel Bornstein, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Spatio-temporal maps of intestinal motor patterns
    – Marcello Costa, Dept. of Human Physiology, Australia
  • Multipmodal recordings of intestinal motor activity
    – Phil Dinning, Flinders University, Australia
  • Multiscale modelling of gastrointestinal motor functions
    – Greg O’Grady, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Assessment in physiology - Changing philosophy and practice — Organizers: Lesley Ulman and Phil Poronnik
  • Keynote address
    – David Boud, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Students assessing each other- why and how?
    – Yvonne Hodgson, Monash University, Australia
  • Developing assessment as a collaborative endeavour
    – Philip Poronnik, Health Innovations Research Institute, Australia
  • Assessment- What, Why and How?
    – David Saint, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Autonomic physiology - nutrient sensing in the GI tract — Organizer: Paul Bertrand
  • Iron sensing by the intestine: A new model for iron-induced changes to GI motility
    – Paul Bertrand, Department of Physiology, Australia
  • Nutrient-sensing in the GI tract: fat, the gut microbiota and obesity
    – Christine Feinle-Bisset, University of Adelaide, Australia
  • Nutrient-sensing in the GI tract: fat, the gut microbiota and obesity
    – Helen Raybould, University of California Davis, USA
  • Dysregulation of intestinal glucose sensing and transport in critical illness
    – Richard Young, University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
• Brain dysfunction and translational neurophysiology — Organizers: Andrew Moorhouse and Arun Krishnan
  • Excitability and the action potential in human axons
    – David Burke, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Central assessment of motor dysfunction using transcranial magnetic stimulation
    – Matthew Kiernan, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Molecular mechanisms of inhibitory neurotransmitter signalling in health and disease
    – Andrew Moorhouse, School of Medical Sciences, Australia
  • Glial and Neuron interactions: role in neuronal plasticity
    – Junichi Nabekura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
  • Sensory cortical hyper-excitation to complex input after traumatic brain injury
    – Ramesh Rajan, Monash University, Australia
  • Sleep homeostasis and optogenetics
    – Akihiro Yamanaka, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, Japan
• Bridging the gap between molecular reductionism and physiology- the usefulness of ‘omics’ — Organizer: Matthew Watt
  • Muscle secretory factors- where are we at a decade later?
    – Mark Febbraio, Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Australia
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    – Timothy Koves, Duke University, USA
  • A gene expression signature for insulin resistance.
    – Ken Walder, Deakin University, Australia
  • Determining the secretory profile of the fatty liver and the metabolic impact on other tissues
    – Matthew Watt, Monash University, Australia
• Calcium signalling in microdomains essential to normal cell function — Organizer: Bradley Launikonis
  • Three-dimensional analysis of the tubular networks in mammalian and amphibian skeletal muscle fibres
    – Isuru Jayasinghe, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Specialization of the skeletal muscle junctional membranes allow rapid activation of store-operated calcium entry
    – Bradley Launikonis, School of Biomedical Sciences, Australia
  • Tunneling membrane nanotubes generate local calcium signals and may actively propagate calcium signals between cells
    – Ian Smith, University of California - Irvine, USA
  • The control of stimulus-secretion coupling in pancreatic cells
    – Peter Thorn, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology,, Australia
• Cystic fibrosis: Today and tomorrow — Organizer: Kirk Hamilton
  • Inhaled hypertonic saline as a therapy for cystic fibrosis
    – Peter Bye, University of Sydney, Australia
  • A CFTR-linked anion channel modifies CF disease severity
    – Raymond Frizzell, Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Centre, USA
  • Developing a Gene Therapy for CF Airway Disease
    – David Parsons, Women's and Children's Hospital Adelaide, Australia
  • Early lung disease in CF
    – Claire Wainwright, Royal Children's Hospital, Australia
• Developments in auditory and vestibular physiology — Organizer: Ramesh Rajan
  • Factors affecting clinical outcomes in adults and patients with cochlear implants
    – Peter Blamey, Bionics Institute, Australia
  • The other part of the ear–A ‘balanced’ view
    – Alan Brichta, University of Newcastle, Australia
  • The sensitive response of utricular irregular primary afferents to bone conducted vibration allows new safe, simple and fast clinical vestibular testing of utri
    – Ian Curthoys, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Nanomechanical mechanisms of cochlear amplification
    – Anthony Gummer, Tübingen University, Germany
  • Neural vs humoral mechanisms for regulating sound transduction
    – Gary Housley, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Ion flow in stria vascularis and the production and regulation of cochlear endolymph and the endolymphatic potential
    – Robert Patuzzi, University of Western Australia, Australia
• Integrative physiology of the heart — Organizers: Bruce Smaill and Jamie Vandenberg
  • Cardiac ischemia impacts – different contexts and different consequences
    – Lea Delbridge, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • GPU computing: the new frontier
    – Adam Hill, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
  • Global cardiac energetics
    – Denis Loiselle, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Myocyte group architecture and electrical activation pathways in the heart
    – Mark Trew, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Ion Channels as drug targets — Organizers: Trevor Lewis and Joe Lynch
  • Modulation of Cys-loop receptors to address CNS disorders
    – Mary Chebib, University of Sydney, Australia
  • ASIC and/or TRP channels
    – David Julius, University of California SA, USA
  • Correlating functional models of channel activation with subunit specific receptors
    – Angelo Keramidas, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia
  • Venom-derived blockers of the NaV1.7 voltage-gated sodium channel as leads for novel analgesics
    – Glenn King, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Conotoxins targeting voltage-gated sodium channels: harnessing nature’s analgesics
    – Ray Norton, Monash University, Australia
• Molecular insight via advanced fluorescence microscopy — Organizer: Till Böcking
  • Combining single molecule optofluidics and cell free expression: how fast can protein research go?
    – Yann Gambin , University of Queensland, Australia
  • New flow cytometry tricks to view protein conformations in cells and their subcellular localization
    – Danny Hatters , University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Evidence for, and function of, sub-resolution ordered membrane domains
    – Dylan Owen, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Imaging the molecular dynamic events that pattern early mammalian embryos
    – Nicolas Plachta, Monash University, Australia
• Muscular adaptations to exercise: mechanisms at play — Organizer: David Simar
  • Adaptations to exercise: the role of epigenetic changes
    – Romain Barres, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Muscle metabolism during exercise
    – John Hawley, RMIT University, Australia
  • Genes transcriptional response to exercise: role of AMPK
    – Bruce Kemp, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Australia
  • Exercise central haemodynamics: mechanisms and relation to end organ damage
    – James Sharman, Menzies Research Institute, Australia
• New insights into cardiac Ca²⁺ handling and excitability — Organizers: Yue-kun Ju and David Allen
  • Involvement of calcium in pacemaker firing
    – David Allen, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Plasma membrane calcium handling and arrhythmogenesis
    – Josh Edwards, Rush University, USA
  • Plasma membrane calcium handling and arrhythmogenesis
    – Livia Hool, University of Western Australia, Australia
  • Role of calcium stores in the sinoatrial node pacemaking
    – Mohammad Imtiaz, University of Newcastle, Australia
  • P21 activated kinase-1 as a key regulator of cardiac automaticity and excitability
    – Ming Lei, University of Manchester, UK
• Perinatal asphyxia: adaptation and consequences — Organizer: Alistair Jan Gunn
  • Maternal glucocorticoids: timing is everything for the fetal brain
    – Laura Bennet, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Making birth safer
    – Alistair Gunn, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Resuscitating the asphyxic infant at birth
    – Stuart Hooper, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Australia
  • New strategies to protect the newborn brain
    – Suzie Miller, Monash University, Australia
  • The interaction between cardiorespiratory function and brain injury at birth
    – Graeme Polglase, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Australia
• Science at the high performance computing frontier — Organizer: Adam Hill
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    – Enis Afgan, Victorian Life Science Institute (VLSCI),, Australia
  • Long timescale molecular simulations for understanding protein function
    – Ben Corry, Australian National University, Australia
  • Sharing physiological models
    – Poul Nielsen, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand
  • Massive parallelisation of cardiac simulations using GPU technology
    – Arash Sadrieh, The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
• Skeletal muscle in health and disease — Organizer: Gordon Lynch
  • Insights into and therapies for nemaline myopathy
    – Edna Hardemann, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Cancer cachexia
    – Kate Murphy, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Muscular dystrophies
    – Gianina Ravenscroft, WAIMR Centre for Medical Research, B-Block, QE II Medical Centre,, Australia
  • Mitochondrial Myopathies
    – Håkan Westerblad, Karolinska Inst, Sweden
• Spectral imaging in physiology – a highlight of techniques — Organizer: Robyn Murphy
  • Structure and dynamic insights into isoform specific carbohydrate-binding of AMP-activated protein kinase by NMR
    – Paul Gooley, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Combining microelectrode recordings from human peripheral nerves with functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain
    – Vaughan Macefield, University of Western Sydney, Australia
  • Spectral Imaging?
    – Robyn Murphy, La Trobe University, Australia
  • The how and why of the liver glycogenome – implications in disease
    – David Stapleton, Department of Physiology, Australia