Australian Inflammation Symposium
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This event will be the first joint Australian Inflammation Symposium. The goal of this Symposium is to showcase Inflammation research across Australia, and to highlight potential opportunities for collaborations, consortia, joint grants and to network with like-minded researchers.
The inaugural joint Australian Inflammation Symposium will showcase inflammation research from across Australia, highlighting collaboration, consortia and joint grant opportunities, as well as enabling the networking of like-minded researchers.
Featured will be the latest inflammation research taking place at participating organisations that include the Centenary Institute; University of Technology Sydney; Institute for Molecular Bioscience (University of Queensland); Hudson Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases; Monash University Centre for Inflammatory Diseases; and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Program
| Session | Date | Brisbane Time | Sydney & Melbourne Time | Host | Venue |
| 1 | Thursday 11 November | 10am – 12pm | 11am – 1pm | WEHI | TBC |
| 2 | Thursday 11 November | 1pm – 3pm | 2pm – 4pm | Centenary | Centenary lecture theatre &/or virtual |
| 3 | Friday 12 November | 10am – 12pm | 11am – 1pm | Monash | TBC |
| 4 | Friday 12 November | 1pm – 3pm | 2pm – 4pm | IMB | IMB large & small seminar rooms |
Session 2: Thursday 11 November
Centenary speakers and titles listed below:
| Time | Speaker | Group | Title |
| 15 mins | Prof Phil Hansbro | Centre for Inflammation | Overview and Centre For Inflammation |
| 10 mins | Prof Phil Hogg | Cancer Research Centre | Inflammation & Cancer Research Centre |
| 10 mins | Prof Jenny Gamble | Vascular biology program | Inflammation & cardiovascular research |
| Chair | Dr Elinor Hortle | Centre for Inflammation | |
| 8 mins | Dr Annalicia Vaughan | Centre for Inflammation | Microbiomes in COPD |
| 8 mins | Ms Ridhima Wadhwa | Centre for Inflammation | Inflammation in severe asthma |
| 8 mins | Dr Gang Liu | Centre for Inflammation | Inflammation in IPF |
| 8 mins | Dr Matt Johansen | Centre for Inflammation | Cellular and animal models for SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 |
| 8 mins | Dr Jaesung Choi | Centre for Inflammation | The role of microbiome and its’ induced immune response in stroke caused by cerebral cavernous malformation |
| 8 mins | Ms Aster Pijning | Cancer research Centre | αIIbβ3 integrin functions as multiple covalent forms on human platelets |
| 8 mins | Dr Joyce Chiu | Cancer research Centre | Mechano-redox control of Mac-1 de-adhesion from endothelial ICAM-1 by protein disulfide isomerase |
| 8 mins | Dr Kathryn Wright | Tuberculosis program | Mycobacterium infection-induced miR-126 protects the host by suppressing permissive macrophages |
| 8 mins | Dr Diana Quan | Tuberculosis program | How does silicosis make TB worse |
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Dr Andrew Quattrocchi
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Vascular biology program
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Role of perivascular macrophages in blood-brain barrier dysfunction
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| 8 mins | Dr Matt Graus | Cardiovascular development | Single molecule based assay as an emerging approach in the field of genome biology |