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POSTERS
Posters are available for viewing in the Exhibition Hall of the National Convention Centre from 10:15 on Monday, 29 September through to 16:00 on Wednesday, 1 October. All posters are on display for three full days (Monday through to Wednesday). Posters will be attended by the presenting author at 13:15 – 14:15 on Monday, 13:15 – 14:15 on Tuesday and at 13:00 – 14:00 on Wednesday. Posters 001 - 058 Plant Biology Posters 059 - 066 Plants and Global Change Posters 067 - 101 Cell Biology Posters 102 - 117 Developmental Biology, Stem Cells and
Regeneration Posters 118 - 127 Genome Biology and Bioinformatics Posters 128 - 136 Signalling Posters 137 - 174 Protein Structure, Function and Proteomics Posters 175 - 177 Education Posters 178 - 182 Late Posters
PLANT BIOLOGY Posters 001 – 058
POS-MON-001 13:15 - 14:15 The synergistic effect of two formulated biofungicides in the
biocontrol of root and bottom rot of lettuce Alamri, S. (Saudi Arabia) POS-TUE-002 13:15 - 14:15 Improving Rubisco biogenesis in leaf chloroplasts via co-
expression of the RAF1 chaperone Birch, R.J., Kapralov, M. and Whitney, S.M. (Australia) POS-MON-003 13:15 - 14:15 RNA 5-methylcytosine is required for oxidative stress
tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana Burgess, A., David, R., Parker, B., Sibbritt, T., Jones, A.,
Preiss, T. and Searle, I. (Australia) POS-MON-004 13:15 - 14:15 Xylan biosynthesis in plants; use of a plantago model system Burton, R.A., Phan, J., Khor, S., Ma, C., Shirley, N.J. and
Tucker, M.R. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-MON-005 13:15 - 14:15 Ribosomal protein mutants affect female fertility in
Arabidopsis thaliana Campbell, G., Alford, R., and Byrne, M. (Australia) POS-WED-006 13:00 - 14:00 The role of flavonoids in the interaction between Medicago
truncatula and Meloidogyne javanica Chin, S., Hassan, S., Behm, C. and Mathesius, U. (Australia) POS-MON-007 13:15 - 14:15 Discovery of a new light-activated toxin in the wheat
pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum Chooi, Y.-H., Barrow, R.A. and Solomon, P.S. (Australia) POS-TUE-008 13:15 - 14:15 Dissecting Eucalyptus Rubisco catalytic diversity in tobacco
chloroplasts Conlan, C. and Whitney, S. (Australia) POS-MON-009 13:15 - 14:15 The role of serpins in the programmed cell death response of
the barley aleurone layer after germination Daneri Castro, S.N. and Roberts, T.H. (Australia) POS-MON-010 13:15 - 14:15 Engineering key components of Strategy II iron uptake into a
Strategy I plant: DMA biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana De Rosa, A., Bonneau, J. and Johnson, A.A.T. (Australia) POS-MON-011 13:15 - 14:15 Overgrowth mutants; development of germplasm for studying
DELLA function in wheat Derkx, A.P., Harding, C.A. and Chandler, P.M. (Australia) POS-WED-012 13:00 - 14:00 Two intracellular NHX antiporters are required for auxin
gradients and auxin efflux in the primary root in Arabidopsis thaliana
Dragwidge, J.M., Ford, B.A. and Gendall, A.R. (Australia) POS-MON-013 13:15 - 14:15 Investigating the genotypic variation of photosynthetic
efficiency in wheat Estavillo, G.M., Silva-Perez, V., Evans, J.R., Furbank, R.T.
and Condon, A.G. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-TUE-014 13:15 - 14:15 Characterisation of the CO2 and temperature dependence of
mesophyll conductance in Arabidopsis thaliana carbonic anhydrase and aquaporin PIP2;1 knockout mutants
Evans, J.R. and Von Caemmerer, S. (Australia) POS-MON-015 13:15 - 14:15 Extreme photosynthesis: cyanobacteria pushing oxygen
evolution to the upper thermal limit Fitzpatrick, D.S., Hillier, W. and Price, G.D. (Australia) POS-MON-016 13:15 - 14:15 Understanding post-translational regulation of cyanobacterial
bicarbonate transport and application in improving C3 photosynthesis
Forster, B., Du, J., Rourke, L., Howitt, S.M. and Price, G.D. (Australia)
POS-TUE-017 13:15 - 14:15 The role of NA+/H+ antiporter proteins in seed storage protein
synthesis and breakdown Ernest, J.R., Dragwidge, J.M., LeHuynh, D., Ford, B.A. and
Gendall, A.R. (Australia) POS-WED-018 13:00 - 14:00 Defining pentatricopeptide repeats in plant proteins Gutmann, B. and Small, I. (Australia) POS-MON-019 13:15 - 14:15 Characterisation of Pseuromonas syringae pv syringae isolates
causing bacterial inflorescence rot on grapevines in cool climate vineyards
Hall, S.J., Dry, I.B., Blanchard, C.L. and Whitelaw-Weckert, M.A. (Australia)
POS-MON-020 13:15 - 14:15 Distribution of a calcium and phosphorus in leaf cells or
proteaceae Hayes, P.E., Clode, P.L., Guilherme Pereira, C. and Lambers,
H. (Australia) POS-WED-021 13:00 - 14:00 Ultra-low gluten barley Howitt, C.A., Blundell, M.J., Colgrave, M.L., Goswami, H.
and Tanner, G.J. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-MON-022 13:15 - 14:15 Comparative analysis of mineral micronutrient localization in
rice and wheat grain using synchrotron x-ray fluorescence microscopy
Johnson, A.A.T., Bonneau, J., Sanchez, T. and Lombi, E. (Australia)
POS-TUE-023 13:15 - 14:15 Assembly of hybrid form I Rubisco in transgenic tobacco Kapralov, M.V. and Whitney, S.M. (Australia) POS-WED-024 13:00 - 14:00 Physiological mechanisms underlying enhanced nitrogen use
efficiency in rice Kariyawasam, B.C., Zhang, S., Vithanage, U.Y., Snell, P.,
Ovenden, B., Evans, J.R., Millar, A.H. and Atkin, O.K. (Australia)
POS-MON-025 13:15 - 14:15 Analysis of the natural genetic variation of phosphite
sensitivity in Arabidopsis thaliana Kollehn, D.O., O'Brien, P.A., Hardy, G.E.StJ. and Berkowitz,
O. (Australia) POS-TUE-026 13:15 - 14:15 Divergent functioning of Proteaceae species: the South
American Embothrium coccineum displays a combination of adaptive traits to survive in high-phosphorus soils
Delgado, M., Suriyagoda, L., Zuniga-Feest, A., Borie, F. and Lambers, H. (Australia Chile and Sri Lanka)
POS-WED-027 13:00 - 14:00 Bougainvillea: blooms, biochemistry, biotechnology and
biosolar Lehmann, F.L. (Australia) POS-MON-028 13:15 - 14:15 ROS signalling pathway during cell death in grape berry Liao, S.Y. and Tyerman, S.D. (Australia) POS-TUE-029 13:15 - 14:15 Elevation of cell wall invertase activity enhances heat
tolerance and fruit set in tomato Liu, Y.H., Offler, C.E. and Ruan, Y.L. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-030 13:00 - 14:00 Stomatal and mesophyll conductances respond similarly to
VPD in cotton Loucos, K.E., Simonin, K.A., Song, X. and Barbour, M.M.
(Australia) POS-MON-031 13:15 - 14:15 Molecular characterisation of a developing Setaria viridis
internode Martin, A.P., Palmer,W.M., Lunn, J.E., Mouille, G., Stitt, M.,
Furbank, R.T. and Grof, C.P. (Australia, Germany and France) POS-TUE-032 13:15 - 14:15 Optimising expression of chloroplast made small subunits Martin Avila, E., Birch, R., Conlan, C., Lim, Y., Sharwood,
R., Orr, D. and Whitney, sS (Australia and United Kingdom) POS-WED-033 13:00 - 14:00 Fast-tracking development of homozygous transgenic cereal
lines using a simple and highly flexible real-time PCR assay Mieog, J.C., Howitt, C.A. and Ral, J.P. (Australia) POS-MON-034 13:15 - 14:15 Developing and appraising technologies used to inhibit plant
microRNA activity; molecular sponges, MIMICs and STTMs Reichel, M., Li, Y. and Millar, A.A. (Australia) POS-TUE-035 13:15 - 14:15 Sucrose loading and unloading in Sorghum: pathways to sugar
storage Milne, R.J., Offler, C.E., Patrick, J.W. and Grof, C.P.L.
(Australia) POS-WED-036 13:00 - 14:00 Sensitivity of chickpea and faba bean to elevated
concentrations of root-zone carbon dioxide Munir, R., Konnerup, D., Siddique, K.H.M. and Colmer, T.
(Australia) POS-MON-037 13:15 - 14:15 Overexpression of two types of barley ferrochelatases improve
photosynthetic performance under drought stress conditions Nagahatenna, D.S.K., Langridge, P. and Whitford, R.
(Australia)
POSTERS
POS-TUE-038 13:15 - 14:15 Growth responses of the mangrove, Avicennia marina, to
salinity: development and function of shoot hydraulic systems require saline conditions
Nguyen, H.T., Stanton, D.E., Schmitz, N., Farquhar, G.D. and Ball, M.C. (Australia and Austria)
POS-WED-039 13:00 - 14:00 Production response of Atriplex lentiformis and Medicago
arborea to saline irrigation Panta, S., Flowers, T., Lane, P., Doyle, R., Haros, G. and
Shabala, S. (Australia) POS-MON-040 13:15 - 14:15 Linking potassium homeostasis in mesophyll with salinity
tolerance Percey, W.J., Shabala, L., McMinn, A.,. Breadmore, M.C.,
Guijt, R.M. and Shabala, S. (Australia) POS-TUE-041 13:15 - 14:15 Linking chloroplast signaling and ABA signaling in stomata
and germinating seed Pogson, B.J. (Australia) POS-WED-042 13:00 - 14:00 Engineering α-amylase levels in wheat grain suggest a highly
sophisticated level of carbohydrate regulation during development
Whan, A., Dielen, A.S., Mieog, J., Bowerman, A., Robinson, H., Larkin, P., Howitt, C. and Ral, J.P. (Australia)
POS-MON-043 13:15 - 14:15 Wheat leaves are protected against leaf rust following
application of extracts from Jacaranda mimosifolia, Thevetia peruviana and Calotropis procera
Roberts, T.H., Naz, R., Bano, A., Wilson, N.L. and Guest D. (Australia and Pakistan)
POS-MON-044 13:15 - 14:15 Targeting cyanobacterial Ci transporters to the chloroplast
inner envelope membrane Rolland, V., Weber, A.P.M., Badger, M.R. and Price, G.D.
(Australia and Germany)
POSTERS
POS-WED-045 13:00 - 14:00 The 2HA line of the model legume Medicago truncatula has
characteristics of an epigenetic mutant that is weakly ethylene insensitive
Kurdyukov, S., Mathesius, U., Nolan, K.E., Sheahan, M.B., Goffard, N., Carroll, B.J. and Rose, R.J. (Australia and France)
POS-MON-046 13:15 - 14:15 Genome-wide analysis of invertase and related genes involved
in tomato fruit set Ru, L., Patrick, J.W. and Ruan, Y.L. (Australia) POS-TUE-047 13:15 - 14:15 Investigating the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in grasses:
analysis of genes encoding carbonic anhydrase from three Neurachne species
Saladie, M., Clayton, H., Sharwood, R.E. and Ludwig, M. (Australia)
POS-WED-048 13:00 - 14:00 Hunting for differentially methylated regions using
representational difference analysis in Thracian flax tissue cultures
Sasheva, P., Ionkova, I. and Grossniklaus, U. (Switzerland and Bulgaria)
POS-MON-049 13:15 - 14:15 Genotypic variability in mesophyll conductance among crop
legumes Shrestha, A., Buckley, T. and Barbour, M. (Australia) POS-TUE-050 13:15 - 14:15 Genetic variation in photosynthetic capacity and efficiency of
wheat for increased yield potential Silva-Perez, V., Reynonlds, M., Molero, G., Cordon, T.,
Furbank, R. and Evans, J.R. (Australia and Mexico) POS-WED-051 13:00 - 14:00 Seed oil storage in Medicago truncatula and Medicago
orbicularis: the trade off between mucilage and oil production Song, Y., Wang, X.D., Smith, N., Garg, M.L. and Rose, R.J.
(Australia)
POSTERS
POS-MON-052 13:15 - 14:15 The effects of short periods of water deficit on flower
development and pyrethrin accumulation in pyrethrum Suraweera, D.D., Groom, T., Taylor, P.W.J. and Nicolas,
M.E. (Australia) POS-TUE-053 13:15 - 14:15 Pumilio proteins: a family of post transcriptional regulators in
Arabidopsis Tung, J., Finnegan, J., Millar, T. and Helliwell, C. (Australia) POS-WED-054 13:00 - 14:00 Completing the N nutrition story: simultaneous uptake and
efflux of ~100 organic N compounds Warren, C.R. (Australia) POS-MON-055 13:15 - 14:15 Sodium and potassium nutrition in the context of the salinity
tissue tolerance in cereals Wu, H., Zhu, M., Shabala, L., Zhou, M. and Shabala, S.
(Australia) POS-MON-055A 13:15 – 14:15 Investigation and measurement of programmed cell death in
grape berries Xiao, Z., Tyerman, S.D. and Sadras, V.O. (Australia) POS-TUE-056 13:15 - 14:15 Localized calcium plumes depolymerize cortical microtubules
during wall ingrowth deposition in transfer cells Zhang, H.M., Patrick, J.W. and Offler, C.E. (Australia) POS-WED-057 13:00 - 14:00 Determining the role of RNA secondary structure in plant
microRNA regulation Zheng, Z., Reichel, M., Li, J. and Millar, A.A. (Australia) POS-MON-058 13:15 - 14:15 Linking osmotic adjustment and stomatal characteristics with
salinity stress tolerance in barley Zhu, M., Wu, H., Zhou, M., Shabala, L. and Shabala, S.
(Australia)
POSTERS
PLANTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Posters 059 – 066 POS-TUE-059 13:15 - 14:15 Fine mapping of ion exclusion and osmotic salt tolerance QTL
for salinity tolerance in bread wheat Ahsan Asif, M., Pearson, A., Fleury, D. and Roy, S.
(Australia) POS-MON-060 13:15 - 14:15 A test of triose-P limitations to photosynthesis in Eucalyptus
on a low-P soil Crous, K.Y., Osvaldsson, A. and Ellsworth, D.S. (Australia
and USA) POS-MON-061 13:15 - 14:15 Functional characterization of sodium antiporters, a first step
in fine-tuning bicarbonate transport through the chloroplast envelope
Dielen, A.S., Forster, B., Price, G.D. and Badger, M.R. (Australia)
POS-TUE-062 13:15 - 14:15 Evaluation of salinity tolerance in barley by linking stomatal
traits and the expression of two anion channel genes to grain yield
Liu X., Mak, M., Babla, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Zhou, M. and Chen Z. (Australia and China)
POS-WED-063 13:00 - 14:00 Expression of carboxysomes in chloroplasts to enhance
photosynthesis Long, B.M., Price, G.D., Badger, M.R., Rourke, L.M. and
Massey, B. (Australia) POS-MON-064 13:15 - 14:15 Abiotic stress tolerance and crop yield: a physiologist's
perspective Shabala, S., Bose, J., Shabala, L., Zeng, F., Wu, H., Zhu, M.,
Adem, G., Panta, S., Percey, W. and Zhou, M. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-MON-065 13:15 - 14:15 Development of insect resistant sugarcane plants by deploying
synthetic cry1Ac and cry2Ab genes Sohail, M.N., Ali, K., Rasul, F., Asad, S. and Mukhtar, Z.
(Pakistan and Australia) POS-WED-066 13:00 - 14:00 Physiological and genetic studies of the alternative dwarfing
gene Rht18 in wheat Tang, T., Acuna, T., Richards, R., Chandler, P., Rebetzke, G.
and Spielmeyer, W. (Australia)
CELL BIOLOGY Posters 067 - 101
POS-TUE-067 13:15 - 14:15 E3 ubiquitin ligases are involved in the post-translational
modification of the ABCG1 lipid transporter Aleidi, S., Sharpe, L.J., Rao, G., Burns, V., Brown, A.J. and
Gelissen, I.C. (Australia) POS-WED-068 13:00 - 14:00 MicroRNA profiling of human breastmilk and maternal blood
during lactation Alsaweed, M., Hartmann, P.E., Geddes, D.T. and Hassiotou,
F. (Australia) POS-TUE-069 13:15 - 14:15 To tag or not to tag? insights into the cellular properties of
tagged tropomyosin Appaduray, M.A., Masedunskas, A., Gunning, P. and
Hardeman, E. (Australia) POS-WED-070 13:00 - 14:00 Investigating the effects of pathogen attack on the miRNA
machinery Bajan, S.M. and Hutvagner, G. (Australia) POS-TUE-071 13:15 - 14:15 Understanding the role of condensin II in chromosome
structure Bakhrebah, M., Zhang, T., Kalitsis, P. and Hudson, D.
(Australia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-072 13:00 - 14:00 Characterisation of differential splice isoforms of the
leiomodins, a protein family recently implicated in actin filament regulation
Best, H., Kreissl, M., Ilkovski, B. and Clarke, N. (Australia) POS-TUE-073 13:15 - 14:15 The plasma membrane transregulator of polyamine uptake
Agp2p regulates the antifungal activity of the plant defensin NaD1 and other cationic peptides
Bleackley, M.R., Wiltshire, J.L., van der Weerden, N.L. and Anderson, M.A. (Australia)
POS-WED-074 13:00 - 14:00 Chk1 serine/threonine protein kinase is responsible for
increased histone H3.3 serine 31 phosphorylation in human ALT cancer cells
Chang, F.T.M., Chan, F.L., McGhie, J., Udugama, M., Mayne, L., Collas, P., Mann, J. and Wong, L.H. (Australia and Norway)
POS-TUE-075 13:15 - 14:15 The role of two RNA binding proteins in miRNA biogenesis Connerty, P. and Hutvagner, G. (Australia) POS-MON-076 13:15 - 14:15 Can interference of GIP activity modulate GPCRs for
therapeutic gains? Chinkwo, K.A., Coupar, I.M., Sloan, E., Chetty, N. and
Irving, H.R. (Australia) POS-TUE-077 13:15 - 14:15 Visualization of mRNAs in vivo in Arabidopsis using a
modified MS2 system Xu, M., White, R. and Helliwell, C. (Australia) POS-WED-078 13:00 - 14:00 An unexpected role for caspase-2 in neuroblastoma Dorstyn, L., Puccini, J., Nikolic, A., Shalini, S., Wilson, C.H.,
Norris, M.D., Haber, M. and Kumar, S. (Australia) POS-TUE-079 13:15 - 14:15 Role of hnRNP A/B proteins in telomere maintenance and
telomerase activity Saig, E., Rothnagel, J. and Smith, R. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-080 13:00 - 14:00 The bile acid ursodeoxycholic acid is a regulator of UDP
glycosyltransferase 3A1 and 3A2 gene expression, facilitated by the histone deacetylase inhibitor trichostatin A
Haines, A.Z., Meech, R. and Mackenzie, P.I. (Australia) POS-TUE-081 13:15 - 14:15 High throughput analysis of intracellular localisation and
cargo trafficking using pulse shape (PulSA) flow cytometry Houghton, F.J., Toh, W.H., Chia, P.Z.C., Ramdzan, Y.M.,
Hatters, D.M. and Gleeson, P.A. (Australia) POS-WED-082 13:00 - 14:00 Two classes of transfer-RNA derived fragments are linked to
translational control in human cells Keam, S.P., Sobala, A., Suter, C.M. and Hutvagner, G.
(Australia and UK) POS-TUE-083 13:15 - 14:15 Evaluation and high-purification of individual gamma-
oryzanol components in Korean rice varieties Kim, J.B. and Kim, H.W. (South Korea) POS-WED-084 13:00 - 14:00 Liver disease results in altered glycosylation-associated gene
expression Lee, A., D'Avigdor, W.M.H., Maczurek, A.E., McLennan,
S.V. and Shackel, N.A. (Australia) POS-TUE-085 13:15 - 14:15 The role of the neural cell adhesion molecule 2 in formation of
glutamatergic synapses Leshchynska, I. and Sytnyk, V. (Australia) POS-WED-086 13:00 - 14:00 Inhibition of ABC transporters - a strategy to overcome MDR
in cancer Muthiah, D., Debono, A.J., Scammells, P.J. and Callaghan,
R. (Australia) POS-TUE-087 13:15 - 14:15 STAT3 nuclear import slows upon cytokine stimulation;
differences in basal transport between the STAT3α and STAT3β spliceforms
Ng, I.H.W., Bogoyevitch, M.A. and Jans, D.A. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-088 13:00 - 14:00 Snapshots of early actin-tropomyosin assembly intermediates Obeidy, P., Sobey, T., Whittaker, S., Pandzic, E., Nicovich,
P.R., Coster, A., Gunning, P.W. and Boecking, T. (Australia) POS-TUE-089 13:15 - 14:15 Raise innate phagocytosis by different means Ou, W., Wiley, J. and Gu, B. (Australia) POS-WED-090 13:00 - 14:00 Are mini-ferlins the ancestral synaptotagmins? Piper, A.K., Redpath, G.M.I., Woolger, N. and Cooper, S.T.
(Australia) POS-TUE-091 13:15 - 14:15 The expensive business of cholesterol synthesis: cooperativity
in transcriptional regulation Prabhu, A.V., Sharpe, L.J. and Brown, A.J. (Australia) POS-WED-092 13:00 - 14:00 Biochemical and molecular changes in the lung, liver and
kidney of rats exposed to corn cooking oil fumes and the protective role of rosemary and sage extracts
Shati, A. (Saudi Arabia) POS-TUE-093 13:15 - 14:15 Investigating the role of phenotype switching in melanoma
progression Simmons, J.L., Pierce, C.J. and Boyle, G.M. (Australia) POS-WED-094 13:00 - 14:00 Novel targeted therapy for triple negative breast cancers based
on the use of engineered nanoparticles Sorolla, A., Singh, R., Ormonde, C., O'Mahony, J.,
Swaminathan Iyer, K. and Blancafort, P. (Australia) POS-TUE-095 13:15 - 14:15 A truncated variant of the chemokine CXCL10 influences
anti-tumour immunity in ovarian cancer Stephens, A.N., Rainczuk, A. and Jobling, T.W. (Australia) POS-WED-096 13:00 - 14:00 Anti-tropomyosin compounds targeting Tm5NM1 are
potentially an effective treatment against melanoma Swain, A., Sequeira, V.B. and Gunning, P. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-TUE-097 13:15 - 14:15 Regulation of synaptic activity of hypothalamic neurons by
neuronal growth regulator 1 Tan, A., Leshchysn'ka, I. and Sytnyk, V. (Australia) POS-WED-098 13:00 - 14:00 Unmasking GC catalytic functionality within a tyrosine
kinase, NTRK1 Vyas, J., Freihat, L.A., Manallack, D.M., Muleya, V.,
Wheeler, J.I. and Irving, H.R. (Australia) POS-TUE-099 13:15 - 14:15 microRNAs regulate UDP-glucuronosyltransferases 2B15 and
2B17 in prostate cancer cell lines Wijayakumara, D.D., Hu, D.G. and Mackenzie, P.
(Australia) POS-WED-100 13:00 - 14:00 Dipeptidyl peptidase 9: natural substrates and roles in cell
movement Zhang, H., Maqsudi, S., Stephens, A., Keane, F. and Gorrell,
M.D. (Australia) POS-TUE-101 13:15 - 14:15 Role of Rab30 in golgi trafficking Zulkefli, K.L., Houghton, F.J. and Gleeson, P.A. (Australia)
DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGY, STEM CELLS AND REGENERATION
Posters 102 - 117 POS-WED-102 13:00 - 14:00 Myelination in the central nervous system of the TTR null
mice Alshehri, B., Lee, J.Y., Petratos, S. and Richardson, S.J.
(Australia) POS-TUE-103 13:15 - 14:15 ZIC3 is a novel, in vivo inhibitor of β-catenin/TCF mediated
transcription Alzahrani, A.S., Diamand, K.E.M., Ahmed, J.N., D'Cruz, A.,
Barratt, K.S. and Arkell, R.M. (Australia and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-104 13:00 - 14:00 FGFR2 mutation in 46.XY gonadal dysgenesis with crouzon-
like syndrome Bahgeri-Fam, S., Ono, M., Lai, R., Ryan, J., Scherer, G.,
Bartsch, O., Eswarakumar, V. and Harley, V.R. (Australia, Germany and USA)
POS-TUE-105 13:15 - 14:15 Investigation of the testis as a source of pluripotent stem cells Beteramia, Y., Barriga, D., Spurling, A., Harris, T.A., Chan,
C.K. and Hart, A. (Australia) POS-WED-106 13:00 - 14:00 Retinoic acid enhances ovarian and antagonises testicular
development in mice Bowles, J., Davidson, T.-L., Feng, C.-W., Miles, K., Ineson,
J., Harley, V.R., Sinclair, A.H. and Koopman, P. (Australia) POS-TUE-107 13:15 - 14:15 Assessing copper transporters in the pre-implantation embryo
and extra-embryonic tissues Brigden, K.W.L., Day, M. and Fraser, S.T. (Australia) POS-WED-108 13:00 - 14:00 Analysis of mouse models of the Single-minded 2 gene Button, E.L., Lines, T.E.P., Thomas, P.Q. and Whitelaw,
M.L. (Australia) POS-TUE-109 13:15 - 14:15 Novel expression of microRNA (miR)-196a1 and miR-196a2
in the mammalian central nervous system Coughlan, E., Bourne, J.A. and McGlinn, E. (Australia) POS-WED-110 13:00 - 14:00 Motile cilia in the node of the tammar wallaby (Macropus
eugenii) Hansen, K.L., Frankenberg, S. and Renfree, M. (Australia) POS-WED-111 13:00 - 14:00 Not so minor after all; emerging roles for minor class splicing
in development, homeostasis and cancer Williams, B.B., Doggett, K.G., Burstroem, L., Griesbach, J.,
Markmiller, S., Lardelli, R.M., Knightley, M.C., Cloonan, N., Lieschke, G.J. and Heath, J.K. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-112 13:00 - 14:00 The RNA-binding factor ZFP36L1 is a downstream target of
Nfix during cortical development Harvey, T., Bailey, T., Gronostajski, R.M. and Piper, M.
(Australia and USA) POS-TUE-113 13:15 - 14:15 A mutant allele of inhibitor of growth protein 5 (Ing5)
identified in a mouse screen for modifiers of epigenetic function
Isbel, L., Oey, H., Ghazala, H. and Whitelaw, E. (Australia) POS-WED-114 13:00 - 14:00 Cell-autonomous and paracrine functions of Crim1 in
epicardial EMT and development of the coronary vasculature Iyer, S., Chiu, H.S., Wang, R., Porter, A., Chand, R., Chou,
F.Y. and Pennisi, D.J. (Australia) POS-TUE-115 13:15 - 14:15 Identification and analysis of a novel far-upstream enhancer of
SOX9 involved in human disorders of sex development Ohnesorg, T., Tan, J., Bowles, J., Koopman, P. and Sinclair,
A. (Australia) POS-WED-116 13:00 - 14:00 Validation of non-viral in vitro gene transfer methodologies
for effective gene expression in stromal mesenchymal cells derived from equine and canine donors
Tidd, N., Strappe, P. and Quinn, J.C. (Australia) POS-TUE-117 13:15 - 14:15 Analysis of the development of hydrocephalus in mice lacking
the transcription factor NFIX Vidovic, D., Harvey, T., Harris, L., Heng, E. and Piper, M.
(Australia)
GENOME BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS Posters 118 - 127
POS-MON-118 13:15 - 14:15 Method validation of a laboratory developed blood test for
colorectal cancer Baker, R.T., Murray, D., Kearney, S., Lapointe, L. and
Pedersen, S. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-MON-119 13:15 - 14:15 Identification of long non-coding RNAs in early Arabidopsis
seed development Jones, A.W., Lohe, A., Qu, Z., Adelson, D., Helliwell, C. and
Searle, I. (Australia) POS-WED-120 13:00 - 14:00 Regulation of a novel inflammatory mediator in obesity Knights, A.J., Pearson, R.C.M., Funnell, A.P.W., Quinlan,
K., Bell-Anderson, K.S. and Crossley, M. (Australia) POS-MON-121 13:15 - 14:15 A new generation of designer DNA-binding proteins Lim, W.F., Funnell, A.P.W., Quinlan, K.G.R., Pearson,
R.C.M. and Crossley, M. (Australia) POS-TUE-122 13:15 - 14:15 A potential role for GF115 as a therapeutic target for sickle
cell anaemia and beta-thalassaemia Martyn, G.E., Funnell, A.P.W., Pearson, R.C.M., Quinlan,
K.G.R. and Crossley, M. (Australia) POS-MON-123 13:15 - 14:15 Deletion mutants of wheat chromosome 4B Miraghazadeh, A., Zhang, P., Harding, C., Hossain, S.,
Spielmeyer, W. and Chandler, P. (Australia) POS-MON-124 13:15 - 14:15 Analysis of bacterial arsenate reductases on diversity of
taxonomy, sequence and phylogeny Tran, A.P. and Zhang, R. (Australia) POS-TUE-125 13:15 - 14:15 Characterizing epigenetic signatures that mark transcriptional
memory responsive genes in human T lymphocytes Tu, W., Li, J., Hardy, K., Lim, C. and Rao (Australia) POS-WED-126 13:00 - 14:00 Ploidy and genomic diversity within and between populations
of native and introduced species of Brachypodium Streich, J.C., Liu, S., Wilson, P., Eichten, E., Cheng, R.,
Murray, K., Warthmann, N., Bradford, K., Catalan, P. and Borevitz, J.O. (Australia, USA and Spain)
POSTERS
POS-MON-127 13:15 - 14:15 Genetic variants in the Australian thoroughbred horse
population: why not all thoroughbreds are born champions Watson, M.A.L. (Australia)
SIGNALLING Posters 128 - 136
POS-MON-128 13:15 - 14:15 Zic3 is a novel, in vivo inhibitor of beta-catenin/TCF mediated
transcription Alzahrani, A.S., Diamand, K.E.M., Ahmed, J.N., DCruz, A.,
Barratt, K.S. and Arkell, R.M. (Australia) POS-WED-129 13:00 - 14:00 Differential expression of the serotonin 5-HT3 receptor C and
E subunits in the human colon influences electrical responses to antagonists
Yaakob, N.S., Nguyen, D.-T., Exintaris, B. and Irving, H.R. (Australia)
POS-MON-130 13:15 - 14:15 Roles of intracellular loops -2 and -3 residues in signalling
pathway selection from the calcium sensing receptor Oh, M.H.Y., Edwards, K.T., Goolam, M.A. and Conigrave,
A. (Australia) POS-TUE-131 13:15 - 14:15 The effect of antioxidants on UV-irradiated melanocyte-
derived cells Banjar, A., Feltis, B.N., Wright, P.F.A., Boyle, G.M. and
Piva, T.J. (Australia and Saudi Arabia) POS-MON-132 13:15 - 14:15 PTPN21 exerts pro-neuronal survival and neuritic elongation
via Elk-1/Nrg3 signaling Plani-Lam, J.L., Chow, T.C., Siu, K.L., Chau, W.H., Ng,
M.H.J., Ingley, E., Sham, P., Shum, D.K.Y., Jin, D.Y. and Song, Y.Q. (Australia and Hong Kong)
POSTERS
POS-MON-133 13:15 - 14:15 PSKR1 is a calcium sensitive guanylate cyclase with a role in
nectrorophic sensitivity Wheeler, J.I., Muleya, V., Ruzvidzo, O. and Irving, H.R.
(Australia and South Africa) POS-TUE-134 13:15 - 14:15 Peroxide regulates long distance cell-to-cell mobile silencing
in Arabidopsis Liang, D., Waterhouse, P.M. and White, R.G. (Australia) POS-MON-135 13:15 - 14:15 A novel actin filament population that regulates ER-to-Giolgi
trafficking Yang, L., Kee, A.J., Polishchuk, E., Polishchuk, R., Weigert,
R., Gunning, P.W. and Hardeman, E.C. (Australia and USA) POS-MON-136 13:15 - 14:15 Role for mitochondria in regulating calcium signaling in
VEGF treated endothelial cells Zhong, F., Dang, L., Thai, T., Chen, K., Keaney, J.F. and
Thomas, S.R. (Australia and USA)
PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND PROTEOMICS Posters 137 - 174
POS-TUE-137 13:15 - 14:15 His219 coordinates the binding and cleavage of MgATP in
pyruvate carboxylase Adina-Zada, A., Jitrapakdee, S., Wallace, J.C. and Attwood,
P.V. (Australia and Thailand) POS-WED-138 13:00 - 14:00 Cyanuric acid hydrolase: evolutionary innovation by
structural concatenation Peat, T.S., Balotra, S., Wilding, M., French, N., Briggs, L.,
Panjikar, S., Cowieson, N.G., Newman, J. and Scott, C. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-TUE-139 13:15 - 14:15 EcxAB is a founding member of a new family of
metalloprotease AB5 toxins with a hybrid cholera-like B subunit
Ng, N., Littler, D., Paton, A., Le Nours, J., Rossjohn, J., Paton, J. and Beddoe, T. (Australia)
POS-WED-140 13:00 - 14:00 Computationally designed aminoacyl tRNA-synthetase for the
incorporation of 2,6-dicarboxylpyridinylalanine Boon, P., Qi, R., Otting, G. and Huber, T. (Australia) POS-TUE-141 13:15 - 14:15 Engineering a native glycoside hydrolase for chemoenzymatic
synthesis of glucuronides Chan, S.A., Ma, P., McLeod, M. and Ollis, D.L. (Australia) POS-WED-142 13:00 - 14:00 Post-translational arginine methylation during yeast
quiescence Chia, S.Z., Chen, Z.L. and Wilkins, M.R. (Australia) POS-TUE-143 13:15 - 14:15 Can we target DNA replication? Chilingaryan, Z., Headey, S., Scanlon, M., Otting, G., Dixon,
N. and Oakley, A. (Australia) POS-WED-144 13:00 - 14:00 The characterisation of peptides encoded from short open
reading frames Feng, C.T.Y., Nouwens, A.S., Smith, R. and Rothnagel, J.A.
(Australia) POS-TUE-145 13:15 - 14:15 Cleavage of the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related
protein (LRP) by matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) in the CNS
Fitzsimmons, C., Johnstone, D. Conant, K. and Milward, E.A. (Australia)
POS-WED-146 13:00 - 14:00 Nucleoside phosphonate inhibitors (NPs) of the 6-oxopurine
PRTases as new antimalarial and antibacterial drug leads Guddat, L.W., Keough, D.T., Rejman, D., Naesens, L.,
Chavchich, M., Edstein, M., West, N.P. and Hockova, D. (Australia and Czech Republic)
POSTERS
POS-TUE-147 13:15 - 14:15 Mitochondrial-ER interactions in the fungal pathogen Candida
albicans Hewitt, V.L., Shingu-Vazquez, M., Nguyen, J.V., Tucey, T.,
Traven, A. and Lithgow, T. (Australia) POS-WED-148 13:00 - 14:00 Cytolytic activity of a defensin is driven by coordinated
phosphoinositide-mediated oligomerization Lay, F.T., Poon, I.K.H., Baxter, A.A., Mills, G.D., Adda,
C.G., Phan, T.K., van der Weerden, N.L., Anderson, M.A., Kvansakul, M. and Hulett, M.D. (Australia)
POS-TUE-149 13:15 - 14:15 Single-molecule replication fork dynamics using fluorescently
labelled DNA polymerase III Lewis, J.S., Jergic, S., Duderstadt, K.E., van Oijen, A.M. and
Dixon, N.E. (Australia and The Netherlands) POS-WED-150 13:00 - 14:00 Human indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is a catalyst of
physiological heme peroxidase reactions Lim, Y.J., Freewan, M., Rees, M.D., Plaza, T.S.S., Glaros, E.,
Wang, X., Yeung, A.W.S., Witting, P., Terentis, A.C. and Thomas, S.R. (Australia and USA)
POS-TUE-151 13:15 - 14:15 A determinant of protein evolvability: thermostability Lim, J.L., Chan, S.A., McLeod, M. and Ollis, D.L. (Australia) POS-WED-152 13:00 - 14:00 Functional characterisation of OsALMT1 in rice Liu, J., Delhaize, E., Shabala, S., Zhou, M.X. and Ryan, P.
(Australia) POS-TUE-153 13:15 - 14:15 Transition metal ion homeostasis: the Achilles' heel of
Streptococcus pneumomiae Ween, M.P., Counago, R.M., Begg, S.L., Bajaj, M., Zeugg, J.,
O'Mara, M.L., Cooper, M., Paton, J.C., Kobe, B. and McDevitt, C.A. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-154 13:00 - 14:00 Structural and functional studies reveal conservation of the β-
sliding clamp linear motif interaction in gram-negative bacteria
McGrath, A.E., Dawes, F.E., Jergic, S., Dixon, N.E. and Oakley, A.J. (Australia)
POS-TUE-155 13:15 - 14:15 The repeat region of ring exported protein 1 maintains
Maurer's cleft architecture and efficient virulence protein trafficking in Plasmodium flaciparum
McHugh, E., Gardiner, D., Trenholme, K., Tilley, L. and Dixon, M. (Australia)
POS-WED-156 13:00 - 14:00 NMR analysis of the transmembrane bacterial transducer
protein pHtrII reconstituted into a nanodisc Ozawa, K., Mohammed, N.I.A., Fujiwara, T. and Kojima, C.
(Japan) POS-TUE-157 13:15 - 14:15 How many subunits are needed for Rubisco activase activity? Pearce, F.G., Keown, J.R., Griffin, M. and Mertens, H.
(Australia) POS-WED-158 13:00 - 14:00 Cationic structural grip: an evolutionarily conserved feature of
tumourolytic defensins? Phan, T.K., Baxter, A.A., Lay, F.T., Kvansakul, M. and
Hulett, M.D. (Australia) POS-TUE-159 13:15 - 14:15 Directed evolution of improved enzyme functions using an
evolutionary intermediate and multi-directional search Porter, J.L., Collyer, C.A. and Ollis, D.L. (Australia) POS-WED-160 13:00 - 14:00 From toxicity to proliferation; effect of chemically
synthesized Aβ42 on yeast Porzoor, A., Macreadie, I.G. and Caine, J.M. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-TUE-161 13:15 - 14:15 Wheat grain proteome response to elevated CO2 varied
between cultivars: results from the Australian Grains Free Air CO2 Enrichment facility
Pramesha Madurangi, S.A., Ang, C.S., Nicolas, M., Fitzgerald, G.J., Panozzo, J., Tausz, M., Norton, R.M. and Seneweera, S.(Australia)
POS-WED-162 13:00 - 14:00 Native dipeptidyl peptidase 9 substrates and a novel cleavage
site identified by 2D Dige and Maldi-MS Rainczuk, A., Zhang, H., Maqsudi, S., Duffield, N.,
Lawrence, J., Geiss-Friedlander, R., Justa-Schuch, D., Gorrell, M.D. and Stephens, A.N. (Australia and Germany)
POS-TUE-163 13:15 - 14:15 Mutations in transmembrane domains 1 and 9 and in loop 9 of
the malaria parasite's 'chloroquine resistance transporter' alter its ability to transport chloroquine, quinine, quinidine and amantadine
Richards, S.N., Nash, M.N., Webster, M. and Martin, R.E. (Australia)
POS-WED-164 13:00 - 14:00 From enzyme to hormone distributor: tweaking the structure
to radically change the function Richardson, S.J., Hennebry, S.C., Kentaro, K., Deluca, S.,
Cromer, B., Whisstock, J. and Yamauchi, K. (Australia and Japan)
POS-TUE-165 13:15 - 14:15 Understanding how changes in the composition of chromatin
control its structure Ryan, D.P. and Tremethick, D.J. (Australia) POS-WED-166 13:00 - 14:00 Structural insights into the evolution of a catabolic pathway Scott, C., Newman, J., Balotra, S., Wilding, M. and Peat, T.S.
(Australia) POS-TUE-167 13:15 - 14:15 Discovery of novel photoactivatable GFP-type proteins from
reef corals - cellular biology and applications in bioimaging Salih, A. and Ma, Y. (Australia)
POSTERS
POS-WED-168 13:00 - 14:00 Exploring the substrate specificity of the malaria parasite's
'chloroquine resistance transporter' PfCRT Shafik, S.H. and Martin, R.E. (Australia) POS-TUE-169 13:15 - 14:15 Tuning oxygen-sensitivity in soluble guanylate cyclise Soon, G., Rapson, T.D. and Behm, C.A. (Australia) POS-WED-170 13:00 - 14:00 Improving the expression and activity of recombinant human
epidermal growth factor in Nicotiana benthamiana Thomas, D.R., Akbarzadeh, S. and Walmsley, A.M.
(Australia) POS-TUE-171 13:15 - 14:15 Pursuit of a Grb7-targeted inhibitor Watson, G.M., Gunzburg, M., Kulkarni, K., Cergol, K.,
Payne, R., Perlmutter, P., Wilce, M. and Wilce, J. (Australia) POS-WED-172 13:00 - 14:00 Construction of an arginine biosensor Whitfield, J., Clifton, B., Herde, M., Janovjak, H.,
Henneberger, C. and Jackson, C.J. (Australia and Austria) POS-TUE-173 13:15 - 14:15 Dissecting the structural topology of dysferlin through limited
proteolysis Woolger, N. and Cooper, S.T. (Australia) POS-WED-174 13:00 - 14:00 Selective binding modes and allosteric inhibitory effect of
lupane triterpenes on protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B Jin, T.T., Yu, H.B. and Huang, X.F. (Australia)
POSTERS
EDUCATION Posters 175 - 177
POS-MON-175 13:15 - 14:15 Spaces enabling change: impact of the transition to research -
and technology-enhanced learning spaces on science education
Hinton, T., Yeoman, P., Carvalho, L., Parisio, M., Bell, A., Byrne, S., Day, M., Tregloan, P., Poronnik, P. and Goodyear, P. (Australia)
POS-MON-176 13:15 - 14:15 Research skills: do staff and student perceptions align? Constantin, M. and Ridge, J. (Australia) POS-MON-177 13:15 - 14:15 Improvement in data interpretation skills through student-
centred tutorials with direct assessment Verkade, H. (Australia)
LATE POSTERS Posters 178 - 182
POS-MON-178 13:15 - 14:15 Cholesterol sensing domains in ABCG lipid half-transporters Sharpe, L.J., Rao, G., Jones, P., Glancey, E., Aleidi, S.,
George, A.M., Brown, A.J. and Gelissen, I.C. (Australia) POS-MON-179 13:15 - 14:15 The transcription factor Nerfin-1 prevents reversion of
neurons into neural stem cells Froldi, F., Szuperak, M., Weng, C., Shi, W., Papenfuss, A.T.
and Cheng, L.Y. (Australia) POS-MON-180 13:15 - 14:15 Characterization of proteins interacting with OsPHO2, a major
phosphate signaling regulator in rice Ying, Y.H., Li, S., Secco, D., Wang, C., Narsai, R., Whelan,
J. and Shou, H.X. (China and Australia)
POSTERS
POS-MON-181 13:15 - 14:15 Re-analysis of plant CO2 responses during the exponential
growth phase: interactions with light, temperature, nutrients and water availability
Kirschbaum, M.U.F. and Lambie, S.M. (New Zealand) POS-MON-182 13:15 - 14:15 Functional analysis of FT genes in pea Hecht, V., Dalmais, M., Bendahmane, A. and Weller, J.L.
(Australia and France)