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