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 2015  Joint  Retreat  for  the  Centres  for  Biodiscovery  &  Molecular  Development  of  Therapeutics  (CBMDT)  and  Biosecurity  and  Tropical  Infectious  Diseases  (CBTID)  

19-­‐20  September  2015,  Pullman  Sea  Temple,  Palm  Cove    

 

     

Saturday  19th  September    1:00pm   Registrations  open:  Joint  Retreat  for  the  Centres  for  Biodiscovery  &  Molecular  

Development  of  Therapeutics    (CBMDT)  and  Biosecurity  and  Tropical  Infectious  Diseases  (CBTID)  

1:55pm   Welcome     Professor  Alex  Loukas,  James  Cook  University  Professor  Nick  Smith,  James  Cook  University  

2:00pm     Zoonoses  and  One  Health    

Assoc.  Professor  Andreas  Lopata,  James  Cook  University    Dr  Lee  Skerrat,  James  Cook  University  (TBC)  Professor  Bruce  Gummow,  James  Cook  University  

3:00pm     Workshop  Research  Agenda      

Mr  Bradley  Smith  –  Research  Performance  Model,  James  Cook  University  CBTID  &  CBMDT  Advisory  Board  Members    Professor  Kiaran  Kirk,  Australian  National  University    Professor  Malcolm  McConville,  University  of  Melbourne      Professor  Istvan  Toth,  University  of  Queensland    Professor  David  Craik,  University  of  Queensland  

4:30pm   Afternoon  tea  5:00pm   Workshop    

Getting  Your  Research  Into  The  Media    

Assoc.  Professor  Jamie  Seymour,  James  Cook  University  Ms  Linden  Woodward,  James  Cook  University  

6:00pm   ECRs/HDRs  My  Research  In  3  Minutes  7:00pm   Informal  Dinner,  Lagoon  Bar,  Sea  Temple  Sunday  20th  September    9:00am   Workshop  

Research  Careers  in  Industry  &  Partnering  with  Pharma    

10:30am   Morning  tea    11:00am  –  12.30pm   Travel  Grant  Award  Pitches  

   

                                                                                                 

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2015  Australasian  Tropical  Health  Conference  20-­‐22  September  2015,  Pullman  Sea  Temple,  Palm  Cove  

“Emerging  priorities  in  tropical  health  research”    

Sunday  20th  September    2015  Australasian  Tropical  Health  Conference  12:30pm   Lunch  1:30pm   Welcome   Professor  Louis  Schofield,  AITHM  Director  2:00pm   Plenary  1    

Chronic  infectious  and  non-­‐infectious  disease  in  the  tropics  

Professor  Hardy  Kornfeld,  University  of  Massachusetts  Medical  School  “Environmental  epigenetics  -­‐  diabetes  and  tuberculosis”    Professor  Robyn  McDermott,  James  Cook  University      

3:00pm   Afternoon  tea  3:30pm    

Symposium  1  Molecular  approaches  to  drug  design  

Professor  David  Craik,  University  of  Queensland    Professor  Richard  Keene,  James  Cook  University  and    Professor  Grant  Collins,  Australian  Defence  Force  Academy    Professor  Norelle  Daly,  James  Cook  University    

5:00pm   Drinks  6:00pm   Public  Event  Celebrating  

Research  in  AITHM  15  Minute  ECR  Feature  –  Dr  Jodie  Morris  and  Dr  Paul  Giacomin,  James  Cook  University  Fame  Labbers  –  Mr  Sandip  Kamath  and  Dr  Mic  Smout,  James  Cook  University  

Free  evening    Monday  21st  September  2015  Australasian  Tropical  Health  Conference  9:00am   Plenary  2  

Vaccine  discovery  Professor  Phil  Felgner,  University  of  California,  Irvine  “Vaccine  Discovery”    Professor  Denise  Doolan,  QIMR  Berghofer  Medical  Research  Institute  “molecular  basis  of  immunity  to  disease and  identification  of  novel  vaccine  candidates  using  immunomics  and  genome-­‐wide  screening  approaches”    Dr  Andreas  Kupz,  Max  Planck  Institute  for  Infection  Biology,  Berlin  

10:30am   Morning  tea  11:00am   Symposium  2  

Immunobiology  Dr  John  Miles,  QIMR  Berghofer  Medical  Research  Institute “Cellular  immune  processes  which  determine  the  host's  response  to  infectious  disease,  cancer  and  innocuous  agents”    Professor  Alan  Baxter,  James  Cook  University    Professor  Dianne  Campbell,  Westmead  Children’s  Hospital    Professor  Mark  Morrison,  University  of  Queensland  

   

                                                                                                 

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Diamantina  Institute  (TRI)  “Wanted  Alive  not  Dead:  Isolation  and  analyses  of  "new"  human  gut  bacteria”    

12:30pm   Lunch  1:30pm   Symposium  3  

Tropical  Public  Health  in    SE  Asia  

Speakers  TBC  

3:00     Afternoon  tea  3:30pm   Contributed  papers  

     

5:00pm   Poster  session  with  drinks    6:00pm   Conference  dinner  informal  poolside  Tuesday  22nd  September  2015  Australasian  Tropical  Health  Conference  9:00am   Plenary  3  

Vector  Biology  Professor  Cate  Hill,  Purdue  University  “discovering  next-­‐generation  insecticides  that  are  safer  for  the  environment  and  nontarget  organisms”  Assoc.  Professor  Peter  Ryan,  Monash  University    Professor  Scott  Ritchie,  James  Cook  University  

11:00am   Morning  Tea  11:30am   Symposium  4  

Tropical  Parasitology  Professor  Kiaran  Kirk,  Australian  National  University  Professor  Malcolm  McConville,  University  of  Melbourne  Dr  Javier  Sotillo,  James  Cook  University  

1:00pm   Lunch