Sunday, 11th February 39th Annual Lorne Genome Conference 2018
Conference Welcome
2:00PM - 2:10PM
Sunday, 11th February
Auditorium
Opening Lecture
2:10PM - 3:00PM
Sunday, 11th February
Auditorium
Chair: Traude Beilharz
Sponsored by:
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Sunday, 11th February
Exhibition Hall
Session 1: Nuclear Organization and Chromosome Structure
4:00PM - 6:30PM
Sunday, 11th February
Auditorium
Chairs: Tanya Soboleva & Rhys Allan
Sponsored by:
- Principles of epigenetics and chromatin in development and human disease - Ali Shilatifard
- Defining how problematic DNA replication impacts on chromosome segregation - Ian D Hickson
- Imaging chromatin dynamics during the DNA damage response by FLIM-FRET microscopy - Elizabeth Hinde
- Actin polymerization alters nuclear architecture in response to DNA replication stress to maintain genome stability - Anthony J Cesare
- Investigating the function of 5-methylcytosine in mRNA biology - Ulrike Schumann
- BRG1 maintains chromatin at active enhancers and the expression of proliferation genes in prostate cancer - Katherine A Giles
- Tools for preprocessing and benchmarking single cell RNA-sequencing data - Matthew E Ritchie
- Sequential occupation of the nuclear periphery by H2A.Zac and H3K9me2 accompanies pluripotency loss in Human embryonic stem cells - Georgia R Kafer
- Intron retention redefines post-transcriptional gene regulation in vertebrate species - Ulf Schmitz
Welcome BBQ
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Sunday, 11th February
Lorne Surf Club
Poster Session 1
8:30PM - 10:30PM
Sunday, 11th February
Louttit Bay Room
- Identifying Hepatitis B virus integration events on Mouse genome - Waruni Abeysekera
- Developing a novel embryonic lung progenitor culture system: technique and applications - Casey Ah-Cann
- RNA processing is critical for the generation of mature megakaryocytes capable of producing platelets - Tanveer Ahmad
- Visualisation of telomeres by telomere fibre-FISH - Joshua AM Allen
- Characterisation of NHL-2 in small RNA pathways of Caenorhabditis elegans. - Joshua Anderson
- Small RNA profiling of the reproductive tissues of the honeybee Apis mellifera - Alyson Ashe
- The phosphorylation of H3.3 Serine 31 and its role in heterochromatin formation - Vinod Benjamin
- Genes with human-specific features, ncRNAs and innovations in genetic and epigenetic mechanisms cooperate to brain evolution - Maina Bitar
- msgbsR: An R package for analysing methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme sequencing data - Jimmy Breen
- Viral genome analysis: bioinformatic analysis of RNA elements essential for replication - Christopher M Brown
- Links between DNA replication stress and telomere extension in cancer cells - Tracy M Bryan
- Analysis of functionally deficient variants of transcription factor SIM2 present in patients with intellectual disabilities - Emily L Button
- Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping: a potential therapeutic strategy for Marfan syndrome - Jessica Cale
- Efficient homology-directed repair using single-stranded DNA templates - Michel Cannieux
- Disrupting promoter-enhancer interaction of Bcl11b in T cell by CRISPR/Cas9 - Wing Fuk Chan
- Differential methylation analysis of reduced representation bisulfite sequencing experiments - Yunshun Chen
- Identification of ALT phenotypes in telomerase positive cancers - Eugene Choi
- Non-coding transcription and mitotic recombination of the ribosomal RNA gene repeats in cancer - Daria A. Chudakova
- Fine-mapping reveals complex genetic architecture underlying DNA methylation - Vignesh Kartik Chundru
- Long-read sequencing reveals the splicing profile of the neuropsychiatric disease gene CACNA1C in human brain - Michael B Clark
- Electron microscopy of human telomerase - Scott Cohen
- Chiron: Translating nanopore raw signal directly into nucleotide sequence using deep learning - Lachlan Coin
- Structural and functional analysis of the C. elegans TRIM protein NHL-2 - Rhys N Colson
- Mutation Analysis and Effect on Prognosis of Direct Antiglobulin Test Positivity in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma - Caitlin Coombes
- Four gene regulatory functions of oncogenic potential for NONO protein in neuroblastoma - Jack A L Cooper
- Detecting RNA Structure Heterogeneity in Cells - Vincent Corbin
- FGF9 homodimerization is required for male sex determination - Brittany Croft
- Can genomic and phenotypic analyses unravel how the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae evolves in emulsion culture? - Emelyne Cunnington
- Mechanism for RNA-mediated regulation of the histone methyltransferase Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) - Chen Davidovich
- Using in utero electroporation to model a second-hit mechanism for GATOR1-related focal epilepsy in mice - Ruby Dawson
- FANCM protein maintains genome stability by removing co-transcriptional R-loops - Andrew J Deans
- Hormone-mediated autophagy-dependent cell death in Drosophila - Donna Denton
- Representing the human genome with chiral DNA reference standards - Ira Deveson
- The Histone Variant H2A.Z is a Master Regulator of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition - Renae Domaschenz
- VISUALISING THE NONSENSE: Fluorescent quantitation of the nonsense mediated mRNA decay pathway during brain development - Deepti Domingo
- Genome-guided characterisation of evolved xylose metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Richard J Edwards
- MitoWisdom: An Unsupervised Mitochondrial Genome Analyser Using Deep Learning - Tansel Ersavas
- Unsupervised demultiplexing of single-cell barcodes from raw nanopore sequencing data - James M Ferguson
- Comparison of predicted and actual consequences of missense mutations - Matt Field
- The Role of Twist in Glutamate Stimulated Neuronal Apoptosis - Elizabeth A Ford
- Analysis of ATAC sequencing data - Alexandra L Garnham
- Understanding the role of cellular mosaicism in PCDH19 epilepsy and intellectual disability. - Jozef Gecz
- Mechanisms of regulation of the transcription factor Single-Minded 1 in obesity - Alexis G Gerassimou
- Expanding the repertoire of Transcription Factor Motifs - Kevin R Gillinder
- Modelling Breast Cancer Progression Using Single-cell RNA-seq - Brian S Gloss
- The Landscape Of Circular RNA Expression In The Human Brain - Akira Gokoolparsadh
- Using long-read sequencing to detect haplotype-specific differential methylation - Quentin Gouil
- The Human "Muscle-ome": Studying the skeletal muscle transcriptome to understand normal muscle biology and disease - Hayley Goullée
- atz-1 promotes meiosis to maintain germline chromosomal integrity - Taylin E Gourley
- Development of Molecular Therapies for PRPF31-associated Retinitis Pigmentosa Using Splice-switching Antisense Oligonucleotides - Janya Grainok
- Investigating the role of histone acetylation in angiogenesis - Zoe L Grant
- Improved Chemistry for NGS Library Cleanup and Size Selection - David Grasso
- Optimisation of massively parallel single cell RNA-seq method (Drop-seq) in tumour tissues - Kristina Handler
- Transcriptional complexity of non-coding genomic regions associated with cognitive function - Simon A Hardwick
- RNA splicing in mammalian sex determination - Vincent Harley
- SRY and male sex bias in Parkinson’s disease - Vincent Harley
- Confident effect sizes controlling FDR provide an ideal ranking of differentially expressed genes - Paul F Harrison
- A highly selective mechanism to discriminate transposon RNA from self-RNA in Drosophila ovaries - Rippei Hayashi
- Protein recoding by ADAR1-mediated RNA editing is not essential for normal development and homeostasis - Jacki E Heraud-Farlow
- Transcriptional Consequences of Cancer Fusion Genes - Erin E Heyer
- Therapeutic potential of antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon inclusion for Stargardt disease - Di Huang
- Genome-wide discovery of translation control mechanisms - Yoshika Janapala
- The role of Smchd1 in mediating higher order chromatin conformation - Natasha Jansz
- Whole genome sequencing is improving the identification of genetic causes of paediatric cataracts, including novel cataract genes. - Johanna L Jones
- Loss of topoisomerase III beta is associated with hallmarks of genome instability - Paul Kalitsis
- Metabolic and transcriptomic analyses of Müller glial cells of the retina - Thaksaon Kittipassorn
- Regulation of novel 'eosinokines' in the development of beige fat - Alexander Knights
- Investigating the role of mutant DNMT3A in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and other cancers - Andrew Kueh
- Mitochondrial variant calling in 15,496 individuals in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) - Kristen Laricchia
- Personalized analytics to improve diagnostic rates in clinical sequencing. - Timo Lassmann
- Elucidating the molecular signatures underlying ALT activity in tumours - Michael Lee
- Stepwise engagement of the Killer T cell function is underscored by H3K27 demethylation - Jasmine Li
- A Cross Species and Multi-omic Analysis Indicates the Exon/Intron Structure Preceding Initiation Codons Predicts their Translation Efficiency - Chun Shen Lim
- Nuclear factor one transcription factors regulate developmental enhancers during brain development: insights from motif discovery - Jonathan WC Lim
- Investigating computational analysis pipelines and genomic proximity interactions in T lymphocytes - Ning Liu
- Quantifying chromatin structure at the level of nucleosomes by correlative live cell FLIM-FRET microscopy and fixed cell single molecule localization microscopy. - Jieqiong Lou