Honours Final Seminar Timetable
Seminars will be held on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 15th of November 2011 in BioMed Theatre D, Ground Floor, Biological Sciences Building.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
| 8 Nov | Research Theme | Neuroscience (Session chaired by Thomas Fath) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 9.30am | Selena Hu | Relationship between Cognition and Hormone Levels in People with Schizophrenia on the Basis of ESR-1 Genotype |
| 9.50am | Samantha Owens* | Modulation of Sex Steroid Receptors and Steroidogenesis in Adolescent Male Rat Dorsal Striatum by Testosterone |
| 10.10am | Vishal Patel | Autonomic Responses in Everyday Wellbeing |
| 10.30am | Morning tea | BioMed Theatres Foyer |
| 11.00am | Reneesha Puran Singh | Optimisation of Clozapine Therapy |
| 11.20am | Christine Shiner | The Effect of Brain Priming on Wii-based Movement Therapy Post-Stroke |
| 11.40am | Jonathan Teo | Does Maternal Obesity Affect Ischemic Brain Injury in Offspring? |
| 12.00pm | Lunch |  |
| Research Theme | Cell Biology (Session chaired by Ken Ashwell) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 1.00pm | Simon Brayford* | Spatial Segregation of Tropomyosin Isoforms at the Leading Edge |
| 1.20pm | Samantha Cabrera | Tropomyosins, a Novel Regulator of Adipocyte Proliferation and Differentiation |
| 1.40pm | Sera Hartmann | The Effect of Age on Spinal Fusion in a Rabbit Model |
| 2.00pm | Paula Ordonez | Extracellular Matrix Components in Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency |
| 2.20pm | Afternoon Tea | BioMed Theatres Foyer |
| 2.50pm | Andrew Samaan* | Surgical Anatomy of the Cardinal Ligament and its Relations with Surrounding Structures and Pelvic Fascia |
| 3.10pm | Felicia Ton | Skeletal Muscle Regeneration: The Local and Systemic Role of CD31+ Cells |
| 3.30pm | Lisa Tran* | The Role of Tm5NM1 and Other Tropomyosins in Regulating the Actin Cytoskeleton during Glucose Transporter 4 Trafficking |
| 3.50pm | Joseph Xavier | Early In Vivo Host Response Following Intramuscular Implantation of Silicate-substituted Hydroxyapatite Granules: Implications for Osteoinductivity |
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
| 9 Nov | Research Theme | Molecular & Drug Discovery (Session chaired by Nicole Jones) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 9.30am | Swastika Kumar | Regulation of Expression of Connexins 43 and 45 by Female Hormones in Human Colonic Smooth Muscle |
| 9.50am | Sarah Finlayson | Investigation of Combination Therapies to Protect against UV-induced NAD+ Depletion in Primary Human Fibroblasts |
| 10.10am | Erica Diezmos | Expression and Localisation of Pannexin Hemichannels in Human Colon in Health and Disease |
| 10.30am | Morning tea | BioMed Theatres Foyer |
| 11.00am | Hassina Massudi | Age Associated Changes in Human Tissue [NAD(H)] and Oxidave Stress Markers |
| 11.20am | Hangyu Yi | The Design and Synthesis of Novel Inhibitors of the Dyrk1A Kinase |
| 11.40pm | Lunch | |
| Research Theme | Inflammation & Infection (Session chaired by Nick Di Girolamo) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 1.20pm | Linda El-Bayeh* | Immunopathogenesis of Hepatitis C Infection |
| 1.40pm | Daniel Lim* | Biochemical Studies on the Heme Peroxidase Activity of the Immune-regulatory Protein Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase |
| 2.00pm | Afternoon tea | BioMed Theatres Foyer |
| 2.30pm | Valentina Nikiforova | Effects of Anti-inflammatory Compounds on Alveolar Macrophages Alternatively Activated In Vitro |
| 2.50pm | David Williamson | T Cell Glucose Metabolism and the Outcome of Primary Hepatitis C Viral Infection |
| 3.10pm | Shima Zahrooni | Anti-Cholestrol Autoantibodes in SLE Patients |
Thursday, 10 November 2011
| 10 Nov | Research Theme | Clinical & Education (Session chaired by Karen Gibson) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 9.30am | Nadine Elias | Exhaled Breath Analysis of Respiratory Disease Using an Electronic Nose and Breath Condensate |
| 9.50am | Justin Friedman | Prospective Study of VTE Incidence in Community Based Heart Failure Patients |
| 10.10am | Samantha Jaensch | The Impact of Decision Support on Hospital Prescribing |
| 10.30am | Yuri Morgulis | An E-learning Module to Improve Medical Students’ Understanding of Leukaemia |
| 10.50am | Morning Tea | BioMed Theatres Foyer |
| Research Theme | Cancer Drug Discovery (Session chaired by Patsie Polly) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 11.20am | Victoria Cheung | The Mechanisms of MycN- and Bmi1- induced cell death resistance: Role in Neuroblastoma Initiation |
| 11.40am | Min Min Da | Investigating the Anti-leukaemia Properties of Sphingosine Analogues |
| 12.00pm | Wendi Hoang | New Inhibitors for Targeted Therapy of Mixed Lineage Leukaemia (MLL) in Children |
| 12.20pm | Alexander Swart | Opioid Dependent Persons in Pharmacotherapy: Blood Borne Viruses and Cancer Risk |
| 12.40pm | Lunch | |
| Research Theme | Cancer Mechanisms (Session chaired by Renate Griffith) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 1.40pm | Shivali Gupta | Molecular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Wasting due to Cancer Cachexia |
| 2.00pm | Yizhou Huang | Phosphorylation of ERG in Leukaemic Cells |
| 2.20pm | Shoahaib Karimi | Molecular Basis of Cardiomyopathy due to Cancer Cachexia |
| 2.40pm | Afternoon tea | BioMed Theatres Foyer |
| 3.10pm | Dougall Norris | Identification of Target Genes Regulated by a Tumour Suppressor (TRIM16) |
| 3.30pm | Nelson Russia | The Role of Pancreatic Stellate Cell Interactions in the Chemoresistance of Pancreatic Cancer |
| 3.50pm | Peter Zarzour | Discovery of Novel Somatic Mutations in Laterally Spreading Tumours of the Colorectum Using Next Generation Sequencing |
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
| 15 Nov | Research Theme | Miscellaneous (Session chaired by Patsie Polly) |
| Time | Student | Title |
| 10.00am | Samantha Guinn | Cytokines, Chemokines and Growth Factors Implicated in Angiogenesis during Muscle Regeneration |
| 10.20am | Georgia Margalit | Inflammation-related S100 Proteins in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus |
| 10.40am | Erica Leonar | Allosteric Modulation of the β₂-adrenoceptor |