Wednesday, 2nd October ANZSCDB National Scientific Meeting 2019

The short talks will be followed by 5 flash talks from 3:05 PM - 3:30 PM.

• Constructing and deconstructing the main body axis in mouse - Edwina McGlinn
• Elk1 in Congential and Late Onset Cardiac Disease: at the Heart of the Matter - Jeannette JCH Hallab
• Elevated canonical WNT signalling disrupts heart and definitive endoderm development and may underlie cases of human Heterotaxy - Kristen S Barratt
• Syndecan regulates germline stem cell development by controlling transcription of the Notch Receptor. - Roger Pocock

The short talks will be followed by 5 flash talks from 5:05 PM - 5:30 PM.

• Structural insights into the  functional specificity of the cell polarity regulator Scribble in development and disease. - Patrick Humbert
• ECR Award talk: Dietary sodium modulates kidney injury in Nedd4-2-deficient mice   - Jantina A Manning
• Targeting the cytoskeletal regulator AFAP1L1 to control sarcoma migration and invasion. - Evan Ingley
• Discovery of a novel gene required for cardiac rhythm - Kelly A Smith

• Autophagy-lysosome axis in cell death - Donna Denton
• The Adaptor Protein Alix is Involved in the Interaction Between the Ubiquitin Ligase NEDD4-1 and its Targets, ABCG1 and ABCG4 - Amjad Alrosan
• A novel mechanism regulating caspase-2 activity and function - Yoon Lim
• Atherogenic ox-LDL results in human endothelial progenitor depletion and dysfunction through pathological endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition - Jilai Zhao
• How strigolactones help plants cope with stress - Philip Brewer
• PRDM5: A Critical Transcriptional Regulator of Craniofacial Development   - Ellen Potoczky
• A research program to discover the early brain molecular changes/stresses driving Alzheimer’s disease through comparative ‘omics analyses of genome-edited zebrafish - Michael Lardelli
• Studying Gene-Environment Interactions in Embryonic Midline Formation Using Automated Embryo Phenotyping - Kyle Drover
• Targeting Y374-PKCδ phosphorylation - a novel approach to overcoming treatment resistance in TNBC - Leila Belle
• A role for Nedd4-2 in the regulation of EMT and fibrosis - Andrej Nikolic
• Revealing the function of Nr6a1 in axial elongation and body size determination - Yi-Cheng Chang
• A mechanistic insight into building the embryonic head - Riley McMahon
• Gefyrocytes: a newly identified mouse macrophage population residing on the apical surface of yolk sac visceral endoderm - Stuart T Fraser
• A molecular framework for control of cell polarity in plants - Abdul Kareem
• Investigation of how the epigenetic regulator Smchd1 regulates Hox gene expression. - Natalia Benetti
• The role of BMP signalling in mitosis-to-meiosis transition, in mice - Fiona KM Cheung
• Analysing aquaporin roles in seed development and germination - Hoai T. T. Phan
• miR-196 and retinoic acid synergy during vertebrate limb development - Jan Manent
• Defining the role of FGF9 dimerization in mammalian testicular development - Anthony D Bird
• Ubiquitination and autophagy-dependent cell death in Drosophila larval midgut - Cindy Xu
• Transcription factor kernel size and developmental timing contribute to variability in evolutionary conservation of tissue-specific enhancers - Mirana Ramialison
• Does GABA regulate gas exchange in barley? - Na Sai
• GABA Regulation of Arabidopsis Stomata - Xueying Feng