Invited Speakers
Research and professional experience Read More... Elaine Dzierzak received her PhD from Yale University and did postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute. Her research program on the developmental origins of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) began at the NIMR London. She was appointed Professor of De Read More... Dr. Ewald earned his B.S. in Physics from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the California Institute of Technology. He completed postdoctoral training at UCSF and then joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Uni Read More... Georg Halder is Professor of Genetics at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Basel in 1996 under the guidance of Walter Gehring and was a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin, Madison with Read More... Masayuki Miura is Professor of Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo. His research interest is to reveal the physiological roles and basic mechanisms of cell death in development, growth and aging. H Read More... Dr. O’Shea is an Associate Professor and HHMI faculty scholar at the Salk Institute. Her research integrates cancer biology, virology, structural biology, advanced imaging, synthetic biology and genomics to identify critical growth regulatory targets and Read More... Li-Kun Phng is a Team Leader at RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan. Her research group investigates molecular and mechanical mechanisms controlling endothelial cell behavior and dynamics during blood vessel morphogenesis. Read More... Helen obtained her BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bath in 1998. She then moved to the University of St Andrews for her PhD, investigating the structural basis of protein hyperthermostability. In 2001, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee for a post Read More... Sara Wickström studied medicine at the University of Helsinki, Finland, receiving her MD in 2001 and PhD in 2004. After postdoctoral training with Reinhard Fässler in Munich she was appointed as Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Agei Read More... Marino Zerial graduated in biology at the University of Trieste, Italy in 1982 with a thesis on lysosomal storage disorders. He conducted post-doctoral experiences at the Institute J. Monod (Paris, France) and at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Read More...International Invited Speakers
Dr Yohanns Bellaiche
Prof Elaine Dzierzak
A/Prof Andy Ewald
Prof Georg Halder
Prof Masayuki Miura
A/Prof Clodagh O-Shea
Dr Li-Kun Phng
Prof Helen Walden
A/Prof Sara Wickström
Marino Zerial
Senthil Arumugam is a group leader at the Single Molecule Science at the University of New South Wales since Aug 2016. His current research focusses on understanding the dynamic intracellular organization of single cells using rapid volumetric microscopy. Read More... Assoc. Prof. Brett Collins is a Group leader at the University of Queensland Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. His lab is interested in understanding how molecular interactions between proteins and lipids control int Read More... Dr Andrew Cox earned his BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In 2009, Dr Cox received his PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He then undertook postdoctoral training with Prof. Wolfram Goessling at Brigham and Wo Read More... Thomas currently leads the Matrix and Metastasis Group at the Garvan Institute of Medical Researching Sydney. His group focuses on how the extracellular matrix (ECM) regulates resident cell behaviour and specifically how it contributes to cancer progressi Read More... Aleksandra Filipovska received her PhD in 2002 from the University of Otago, New Zealand. From 2003-2005 she was a NZ Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Fellow at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. Read More... I was rewarded with a PhD in Molecular Pathophysiology (Paris VI) in June 2004. In 2005, under a NHMRC & INSERM Fellowship, I moved to the Koopman Laboratory (The University of Queensland, IMB) to study the role of SOX transcription factors in lymphat Read More... Paul Gleeson is a molecular cell biologist with long term research interests in the molecular mechanisms of intracellular membrane transport and the molecular basis of organ-specific autoimmune diseases. Paul established an independent laboratory in the D Read More... I am an ARC Future Fellow and lead the Tissue Architecture and Organ function laboratory at the Centre for Cancer Biology, an alliance between SA Pathology and the University of South Australia. My lab focuses to understand the role of physical forces in Read More... Dr Emma Gordon is an IMB Fellow at The University of Queensland, where she studies blood vessel growth during development and disease. Specifically, her research is focused on unravelling the molecular signals that control endothelial cell migration and a Read More... Edna Hardeman is the Head of the Cellular and Genetic Medicine Unit and Head of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of New South Wales – Sydney, Australia. She has a track record of >30 years in the field of the actin cytoskeleton in mammals usi Read More... Professor Kieran Harvey holds dual appointments at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) and Monash University. At Peter Mac, he leads the Organogenesis and Cancer Program and at Monash he runs a laboratory in the Department of Anatomy and Develop Read More... Edwin conducted his PhD with Professor Phil Hodgkin at the WEHI where he pioneered the use of in vitro time-lapse microscopy to study lymphocyte fate commitment. In 2008, he was awarded an NHMRC early career fellowship to relocate to the Peter Mac with Pr Read More... Professor James currently holds the Leonard P Ullmann Chair in Molecular Systems Biology and he is the Domain Leader for Biology at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Professor James has made major contributions to our understanding of insu Read More... Dr Gemma Kelly is a senior post-doctoral fellow in the Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI). She undertook her PhD studies at the Cancer Research UK Institute at The University of Birmingham, UK where she inv Read More... Yeesim Khew-Goodall heads the Cell Signalling Laboratory at the Centre for Cancer Biology in Adelaide, an Alliance of SA Pathology and the University of South Australia. Her group’s research interests lie in the understanding of the mechanisms of cancer p Read More... Professor Benjamin Kile is Head of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia. An NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Ben trained at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), where he obtained his PhD in Read More... Sharad is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, a co-Director of the Centre for Cancer Biology, a Research Professor and Chair of Cancer Biology at the University of South Australia. His laboratory has made several seminal contributions to biomedical Read More... Heather completed her PhD at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research where she investigated hormonal control of mammary gland development and breast cancer. Her research focused on the transcription factor, Elf5, which plays key roles in breast developme Read More... Professor Frederic Meunier obtained his Masters degree in Neurophysiology at the Paris XI University, France in 1992 and completed his Ph.D in Neurobiology at the CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette, France in 1996. He was the recipient of a European Biotechnology Fel Read More... Christina Mitchell is physician scientist located in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University, Melbourne. The major research direction of her group has been to characterise the metabolic pathways that regulate the turnover Read More... Susie Nilsson received her PhD from Melbourne University before completing post-doctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts. On her return to Australia, Susie took up a position at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute where she became a laboratory Read More... Dr. Jess Nithianantharajah is an ARC Future Fellow and heads the Synapse Biology and Cognition laboratory within the Division of Behavioural Neuroscience at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne. She completed her Read More... Seán O’Donoghue is a Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO, a Laboratory Head at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, and a Conjoint Professor in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science (BABS), University of New South Wales. He rec Read More... In 2006 I obtained a BSc in Psychology from Michigan State University, focusing on behavioural neuroscience. I then worked in the field of molecular neurochemistry at Michigan State University and Macquarie University for 9 years, primarily researching ce Read More... Associate Professor Nathan Pavlos is a Group leader at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia. He received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Western Australia. From 2007-2010 he was a NHMRC CJ Martin Research Fellow at Max Read More... Roger started working with his favourite model organism Caenorhabditis elegans during his DPhil studies at the University of Oxford. After completion of his doctoral studies on the transcriptional control of embryonic development in 2004 he moved to Colum Read More... Associate Professor Jose Maria Polo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he graduated from Buenos Aires University as a Biochemist. In 2002, Jose began his graduate studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York under the supervision of Dr. Read More... Dr. Porrello received his PhD in Physiology from The University of Melbourne in 2009. He was subsequently awarded an NHMRC/NHF C.J. Martin postdoctoral fellowship, which he completed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the USA. Read More... Dr Vijay Rajagopal is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He was awarded a PhD in Bioengineering from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, NZ in 2007. Read More... Dr Sarah Russell: Head, Immune Signalling Laboratory, has a background in immune cell signalling, particularly T-cell development and function, cytokine and surface receptor signalling. Her research interest is in the control of cell fate determination an Read More... Professor Mike Ryan is a lab head in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University. After completing his PhD on molecular chaperones with Peter Hoj in 1997, Mike became a von Humboldt fellow in Klaus Pfanner’ Read More... Michael Samuel is a cancer biologist and heads the Tumour Microenvironment Laboratory at the Centre for Cancer Biology, Adelaide. His research program focuses on elucidating the interplay between the reciprocal biochemical and biomechanical signals travel Read More... Associate Professor Kate Schroder heads the Inflammasome Laboratory at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, as an NHMRC RD Wright Fellow. Kate’s graduate studies defined novel macrophage activation mechanisms, and her PhD was Read More... Kelly Smith is a Lab head at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland. Her research group investigates the early stages of heart development, seeking to identify and understand the function of novel regulators of heart form a Read More... Professor Ian Smyth is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head of the Anatomy and Developmental Biology Department at Monash University. His research interests centre on understanding the mechanisms which shape the differentiation of epithelial c Read More... Dr Natalie Spillman completed her PhD at The Australian National University in Canberra, where she investigated Na+ and pH regulation in the malaria parasite, under the supervision of Prof. Kiaran Kirk. Her interest in parasitology was sparked and she rel Read More... Dr Stojanovski is a mitochondrial biologist located in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne and the Bio21 Institute. Her team researches the mechanisms and machineries that oversee mitochondrial protein impor Read More... *content will follow shortly Read More... *content will follow shortly Read More... Jane Visvader (PhD, University of Adelaide) trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute, San Diego, before her appointment as Group Leader at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Here she established the Breast Cancer Labo Read More... Professor Christine Wells is the Founding Director of the University of Melbourne Centre for Stem Cell Systems. She is the deputy program leader for Stem Cells Australia, an ARC funded $21M special research initiative to bring together leading Australian Read More... James Whisstock is scientific director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and he is Scientific Head of EMBL Australia. Previously he held an ARC Federation Fellow. James performed his d Read More...National Invited Speakers
Dr Senthil Arumugam
A/Prof Brett Collins
Dr Andy Cox
Dr Thomas Cox
Dr Aleksandra Filipovska
Dr Mathias Francois
Prof Paul Gleeson
Dr Guillermo Gomez
Dr Emma Gordon
Prof Edna Hardeman
Prof Kieran Harvey
Dr Edwin Hawkins
Prof David James
Dr Gemma Kelly
A/Prof Yeesim Khew-Goodall
Prof Benjamin Kile
Prof Sharad Kumar
Dr Heather Lee
Prof Fred Meunier
Prof Christina Mitchell
Prof Susie Nilsson
Dr Jess Nithianantharajah
Prof Seán O’Donoghue
Dr Lindsay Parker
A/Prof Nathan Pavlos
A/Prof Roger Pocock
A/Prof Jose Polo
Dr Enzo Porrello
Dr Vijay Rajagopal
Dr Sarah Russell
Prof Mike Ryan
A/Prof Michael Samuel
A/Prof Kate Schroder
Dr Kelly Smith
Prof Ian Smyth
Dr Natalie Spillman
Dr Diana Stojanovski
Samir Taoudi
Rohan Teasdale
Prof Jane Visvader
Prof Christine Wells
Dr James Whisstock