2nd Northern Australia Malaria Symposium 23 April 2012 Long Tan Room, Kedron Wavell Services Club, Chermside 9.00 – 10.05am SESSION I Chair: Professor Dennis Shanks Keynote speaker: Tom Burkot The malaria eradication agenda: getting it right the second time Speaker 2 – John de Jersey Inhibitors of purine salvage as antimalarial drug candidates Speaker 3 – Robert Harley Study into the persistence of malaria antibodies in Australian blood Speaker 4 – Amber Raja
Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast
Pre-clinical development of a subpatent dose of an attenuated, blood- stage P. yoelii 17X malaria vaccine Speaker 5 – Vanida Choomuenwai
Eskitis Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane
Identification of antimalarial natural products from Australian macrofungi Speaker 6 – Marina Chavchich
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Preclinical and clinical drug evaluation at Army Malaria Institute (AMI) Speaker 7 – Louis Schofield Red cell production from stem cells as a platform technology for 10.05 – 10.45am Morning Tea 10.45 – 12.10pm SESSION 2 Chair: Professor Ron Quinn Keynote speaker: Qin Cheng Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: A process linked to dormancy? Speaker 2 – Maggy Sikulu
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Age prediction techniques for the African and the Asian malaria vectors Speaker 3 – Gillian Fisher P. falciparum carbonic anhydrase - a new antimalarial drug target Speaker 4 – Geoff Birrell
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Preclinical pharmacology, in vitro susceptibility and cytotoxicity testing of candidate antimalarial drugs at the Australian Army Malaria Institute Speaker 5 – Simone Dowd
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Malaria prevalence in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands measured by Speaker 6 – Michelle Wykes
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Rodent blood stage Plasmodium survive in dendritic cells that infect naive mice Speaker 7 – Stephen Frances
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Surveillance and personal protection for malaria vectors
Speaker 8 – Alice Butterworth
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Does the 8-aminoquinoline Tafenoquine Kill Gametocytes? Speaker 9 – Sumudu Britton
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)- progress towards a novel tool for the investigation of mixed malaria infections 12.10 – 1.30pm 1.30 – 2.55pm SESSION 3 Chair: Associate Professor Mike Edstein Keynote speaker – Jennifer Reiman
Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast
Development of a high throughput screening assay to identify novel vaccine adjuvants from natural products for malaria vaccines Speaker 2 – Simon Apte
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Pesky plasmodium parasite predomination presents perplexing paradigm problems Speaker 3 – Douglas Kerlin
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Preferential invasion by Plasmodium merozoites: implications for parasite growth rates Speaker 4 – Alyson Auliff
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Functional analysis of Plasmodium vivax dihydrofolate reductase- thymidylate synthase genes through stable transformation of Plasmodium falciparum Speaker 5 – Karen-Ann Gray
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Molecular epidemiology of Plasmodium infections in two malaria elimination settings in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands
Speaker 6 – Rachael McGeorge
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Plasmepsin IX and X and the search for new antimalarials Speaker 7 – Karryn Gresty
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum carrying chloroquine resistant mutant Pfcrt genotypes in the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands Speaker 8 – Christopher Peatey
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Detecting artemisinin induced dormant parasites
Speaker 9 – Dulangi Sumnadasa Anti-malarial activity of the anti-cancer HDAC inhibitor SB939
2.55 – 3.40pm Afternoon Tea 3.40 – 4.30pm SESSION 4 Chair: Professor Michael Good Keynote Speaker – Tina Skinner-Adams
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Saquinavir inhibits PfCRT-mediated chloroquine transport Speaker 2 – Nanhua Chen
Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane
Are artemisinin induced dormant P. falciparum parasites metabolically Speaker 3 – Veronica Zhang The characterization of plasmodium cyclin-dependent kinase, Pfmrk and the effect of mammalian cell cycle inhibitors on Plasmodium falciparum growth and development Speaker 4 – Herng Leow
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Selection and generation of high binding phage antibodies targetting Plasmodium falciparum Histidine Rich Protein 2 from human single chain variant fragment libraries
Speaker 5 – Joshua Horne-Debets
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
Chronic malaria subverts immunity by PD-1-mediated immunoinhibition 4.30 – 5.00pm SESSION 5 – Strategy versus luck - a guide for success in research 5.00 - 6.00pm Close of Symposium (Networking and drinks)
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