Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
Annual Research Symposium
McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Tuesday 15h April 2014
“At the cutting edge: New Developments in Regenerative Medicine”
8.45 – 9.00 am Registration
9.00 – 9.10 am Welcome
Professor John Challis
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Health and Medical Research, UWA
9.10 – 9.20 am Winthrop Professor Geoffrey Laurent
Director of the Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
Update on the Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
9.20 – 9.50 am Keynote Presentation
Sponsored by Life Technologies
Professor Ed Stanley
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
Pluripotent stem cell models of human development and disease
Session 1: Chair - Winthrop Professor Alan Harvey
9.50 – 10.10 am Associate Professor Jennifer Rodger
Experimental and Regenerative Neurosciences
School of Animal Biology, UWA
Electromagnetic brain stimulation in animal models: insights into mechanisms and therapeutic applications
10.10 -10.30 am Dr Julian Heng
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Melbourne
A unique gene regulatory mechanism drives the directed differentiation of CNS neurons in vivo
10.30 – 10.50 am Professor Ryan Lister
Plant Energy Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence, UWA
Natural and artificial regulation of the DNA methylome
10.50 – 11.20 am Morning Tea
Foyer of Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Sponsored by Merck Millipore
Session 2: Chair - Winthrop Professor David Mackey
11.20 – 11.40 am Winthrop Professor Fiona Wood
School of Surgery, UWA; Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, UWA
The future of skin regeneration
11.40 – 12.00 pm Winthrop Professor Minghao Zheng
Orthopaedic Research Unit, School of Surgery, UWA
Regeneration of tendon in human: from cell therapy to Bioreactor
12.00 – 12.20 pm Dr Marian Sturm
Cell and Tissue Therapies WA, Royal Perth Hospital.
Stem cell therapy in the clinical arena
12.20 -12.35 pm Anne Kramer
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Medicine and Pharmacology, UWA; CCTRM PhD Top-up Scholarship Awardee
GCTM-5 as a marker to identify liver progenitor cells in patients with liver cancer
12.35 – 12.50 pm Thomas Iosifidis
School of Paediatrics and Child Health, UWA; CCTRM PhD Top-up Scholarship Awardee
Profiling integrins, MCAM and Galectin-3 expression on asthmatic and non-asthmatic airway epithelial cells
12.50 – 1.05 pm Zoe Soffe
School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, UWA; CCTRM PhD Top-up Scholarship Awardee
Assessing the impact of voluntary resistance wheel exercise on skeletal muscle adaptation in young and old rodents
1.05 – 2.00 pm Lunch
Foyer of Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Session 3: Chair – Associate Professor Rodney Dilley
2.00 – 2.20 pm Professor Ruth Ganss
Angiogenesis and Tumor Immunology Group,
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and Centre for Medical Research, UWA
Blood vessels: gatekeepers, regulators and therapeutic targets
2.20 – 2.40 pm Associate Professor Jane Pillow
School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, UWA
A Preclinical Intensive Care Research Unit – Regenerative opportunities for neonatal diseases
2.40 – 3.00 pm Professor Fiona Pixley
Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Anaesthesiology Unit, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, UWA
CSF-1 regulated macrophage motility - a double-edged sword?
3.00 – 3.20 pm Professor John Olynyk
Head of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals
Hepatocellular carcinoma: liver regeneration gone wrong
3.20 – 3.40 pm Associate Professor Robert McLaughlin
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, UWA
Multi-modal imaging in a needle probe: combined fluorescence and optical coherence tomography
3.40 – 3.50 pm Meeting close
3.50 - 4.20 pm Afternoon Tea
Foyer of Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Sponsored by Merck Millipore